Famous Writers
Famous novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists whose words changed minds and moved hearts.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
b. 1469 — d. 1527
Nicholas P. Dallis
b. 1911
Nick Cave
b. 1957
Nicole Krauss
b. 1974
Norman Vincent Peale
b. 1898 — d. 1993
Oskar Rosenfeld
b. 1884
P. F. Strawson
b. 1919
Parvin E'tesami
b. 1907
Patrick Hemingway
b. 1928
Paul Heyse
b. 1830
Paul Pope
b. 1970
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
b. 1827
Pedro Almodóvar
b. 1949
Penelope Fitzgerald
b. 1916
Peter Frederik Suhm
b. 1728
Philip Kotler
b. 1931 — d. 2024
Phyllis Pearsall
b. 1906
Pierre Falardeau
b.
Polly Adler
b. 1900
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
b. 1943
Rajanikanta Sen
b. 1865
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. 1803 — d. 1882
Randall Munroe
b. 1984
Raul Hilberg
b. 1926
Rebecca Gablé
b. 1964
Reece Shearsmith
b. 1969
Renée Vivien
b. 1877 — d. 1909
Richard de Bury
b. 1287
Richard Proenneke
b. 1916
Rick Riordan
b. 1964
Ring Lardner
b. 1885
Rob Schmidt
b. 1965
Robert Laxalt
b. 1923
Robert MacNeil
b. 1931
Rodney Crowell
b. 1950
Roger Ebert
b. 1942 — d. 2013
Roman Jakobson
b. 1896
Ross Lockridge Jr.
b. 1914
Rupert Brooke
b. 1887
Samuel Beckett
b. 1906 — d. 1989
Savitribai Phule
b. 1831
Seamus Heaney
b. 1939 — d. 2013
Shel Silverstein
b. 1930
Sir Henry Taylor
b. 1800
Sloan Wilson
b. 1920
Stephanie Tyrell
b.
Tanya Savicheva
b. 1930
Ted Sorensen
b. 1928 — d. 2010