Famous Writers
Famous novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists whose words changed minds and moved hearts.
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Adam Smith
b. 1723 — d. 1790
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
b. 1868 — d. 1960
Alexander Pope
b. 1688 — d. 1744
Alice Munro
b. 1931 — d. 2024
Anna Sewell
b. 1820 — d. 1878
Anne Frank
b. 1929 — d. February 1945
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans
b. 1627 — d. 1693
Arthur Conan Doyle
b. 1859 — d. 1930
Assia Djebar
b. 1936 — d. 2015
August Strindberg
b. 1849 — d. 1912
Bertrand Russell
b. 1872 — d. 1970
Bob Dylan
b. 1941
Booker T. Washington
b. 1856 — d. 1915
Carlos Monsiváis
b. 1938 — d. 2010
Charles Krauthammer
b. 1950 — d. 2018
Christopher Marlowe
b. 1564 — d. 1593
Corrie ten Boom
b. 1892 — d. 1983
Elena Poniatowska
b. 1932
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. 1806 — d. 1861
Eudora Welty
b. 1909 — d. 2001
Frances Burney
b. 1752 — d. 1840
Franz Kafka
b. 1883 — d. 1924
Frederick Crews
b. 1933 — d. 2024
George Meredith
b. 1828 — d. 1909
Giacomo Leopardi
b. 1798 — d. 1837
Graham Greene
b. 1904 — d. 1991
Hans Christian Andersen
b. 1805 — d. 1875
Harper Lee
b. 1926 — d. 2016
Harry Browne
b. 1933 — d. 2006
Heinrich Harrer
b. 1912 — d. 2006
Henrik Ibsen
b. 1828 — d. 1906
Honoré de Balzac
b. 1799 — d. 1850
Ian Fleming
b. 1908 — d. 1964
John Ralston Saul
b. 1947
Jorge Luis Borges
b. 1899 — d. 1986
José Martí
b. 1853 — d. 1895
Karl Marx
b. 1818 — d. 1883
L. Frank Baum
b. 1856 — d. 1919
M. F. K. Fisher
b. 1908 — d. 1992
M. Karunanidhi
b. 1924 — d. 2018
Mary McCarthy
b. 1912 — d. 1989
Max Brand
b. 1892 — d. 1944
Maya Angelou
b. 1928 — d. 2014
Michel Foucault
b. 1926 — d. 1984
Mihai Eminescu
b. 1850 — d. 1889
Milan Kundera
b. 1929 — d. 2023
Mordecai Manuel Noah
b. 1785 — d. 1851
Niccolò Machiavelli
b. 1469 — d. 1527