Famous Writers
Famous novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists whose words changed minds and moved hearts.
44 biography pages
Adam Smith
b. 1723 — d. 1790
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
Arthur Conan Doyle
b. 1859 — d. 1930
August Strindberg
b. 1849 — d. 1912
Bertrand Russell
b. 1872 — d. 1970
Bob Dylan
b. 1941
Booker T. Washington
b. 1856 — d. 1915
Christopher Marlowe
b. 1564 — d. 1593
Corrie ten Boom
b. 1892 — d. 1983
Eudora Welty
b. 1909 — d. 2001
Frances Burney
b. 1752 — d. 1840
Franz Kafka
b. 1883 — d. 1924
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
Henrik Ibsen
b. 1828 — d. 1906
Honoré de Balzac
b. 1799 — d. 1850
Ian Fleming
b. 1908 — d. 1964
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. Karunanidhi
b. 1924 — d. 2018
Maya Angelou
b. 1928 — d. 2014
Milan Kundera
b. 1929 — d. 2023
Niccolò Machiavelli
b. 1469 — d. 1527
Norman Vincent Peale
b. 1898 — d. 1993
Philip Kotler
b. 1931 — d. 2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. 1803 — d. 1882
Rick Riordan
b. 1964
Roger Ebert
b. 1942 — d. 2013
Samuel Beckett
b. 1906 — d. 1989
Seamus Heaney
b. 1939 — d. 2013
Ted Sorensen
b. 1928 — d. 2010
Thomas Jefferson
b. 1743 — d. 1826
Tina Fey
b. 1970
Tom Clancy
b. 1947 — d. 2013
Tom Wolfe
b. 1930 — d. 2018
W. B. Yeats
b. 1865 — d. 1939
William Shakespeare
b. 1564 — d. 1616