Notable Writers
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the literary world. Included are novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists. However, those who are primarily considered to be philosophers or academic writers can be found on the lists of thinkers.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamiluddin Aali | 1925-2015 | (Khan) |  |
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | 1906-1954 | | |
| Abiola Abrams | 1976- | | |
| Douglas Adams | 1952-2001 | | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | | |
| Aesop | c. 620-c. 564 BC | | |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889-1966 | | |
| Gülten Akın | 1933-2015 | | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | | |
| Claribel Alegría | 1924-2018 | (Vides) | |
| Rochelle Alers | 1963- | | |
| Sabahattin Ali | 1907-1948 | | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | | |
| Muhsin al-Ramli | 1967- | | |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922-1995 | | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | | |
| Maya Angelou | 1928- | | |
| Reyer Anslo | 1622-1669 | | |
| Süreyya Aylin Antmen | 1981- | | |
| Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-2018 | | |
| Codrin Ţapu | 1973- | | |
| Apuleius | c. 125-180 | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-c. 386 BC | | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | (Jordán) | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | | |
| Salih Saeed Ba-Amer | 1925- | | |
| Rachel Tzvia Back | 1960- | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| Tristan Bancks | 1974- | | |
| Leanne Banks | 1959- | | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | | |
| Enis Batur | 1952- | | |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908-1986 | | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| J. Bernlef | 1937-2012 | (Marsman) | |
| Eddy C. Bertin | 1944- | | |
| Inoslav Bešker | 1950- | | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| Şakir Bilgin | 1951- | | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| William Blake | 1757-1827 | | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Dyzma Bończa-Tomaszewski | 1749-1825 | | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920-2012 | | |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898-1956 | | |
| Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | | |
| Barbu Brezianu | 1909-2008 | | |
| Otokar Březina | 1868-1929 | (Jebavý) | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | | |
| Demetra Kenneth Brown | 1877-1946 | | |
| Dixie Browning | 1930- | | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| Dick Bruna | 1927-2017 | | |
| Boudewijn Büch | 1948-2002 | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973 | | |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| Shirlee Busbee | 1941- | | |
| Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | | |
| Matei Călinescu | 1934-2009 | | |
| Remco Campert | 1929- | | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725-1798 | | |
| P. C. Cast | 1960- | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Catullus | 84-54 BC | (Valerius) | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | | |
| Bart Chabot | 1954- | | |
| Chemmanam Chacko | 1926-2018 | | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | | |
| Lydia Chukovskaya | 1907-1996 | | |
| Korney Chukovsky | 1882-1969 | | |
| Tom Clancy | 1947-2013 | | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-2008 | | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963 | | |
| Paulo Coelho | 1947- | | |
| Lela Cole Kitson | 1891-1970 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Jackie Collins | 1937-2015 | | |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962- | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| Susan Cooper | 1935- | | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Gwyn Cready | 1962- | | |
| Tanya Anne Crosby | 1962- | | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Idris Davies | 1905-1953 | | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | | |
| Vahagn Davtyan | 1922-1996 | | |
| Daphne Deckers | 1968- | | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | | |
| Jules Deelder | 1944- | | |
| Daniel Defoe | c. 1660-1731 | | |
| Midas Dekkers | 1946- | | |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1503-1566 | | |
| Germaine de Staël | 1766-1817 | | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Jude Deveraux | 1947- | (Gilliam) | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| Blaga Dimitrova | 1922-2003 | | |
| Diogenes Laertius | ?-2xx | | |
| Renate Dorrestein | 1954- | | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1821-1881 | (Dostoevsky) | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | (Multatuli) | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Imme Dros | 1936- | | |
| Delphine Dryden | 1967- | | |
| Du Fu | 712-770 | (Tu) | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | | |
| Carola Dunn | 1946- | | |
| Jessica Durlacher | 1961- | | |
| Umberto Eco | 1932- | | |
| Halide Edip Adıvar | 1884-1964 | | |
| George Eliot | 1819-1880 | (Evans) | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | | |
| Willem Elsschot | 1882-1960 | (De Ridder) | |
| Elswyth Thane | 1900-1984 | (Ricker, Beebe) | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Süreyyya Evren | 1972- | | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1885-1968 | | |
| Ferdowsi | 940-1020 | | |
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867-1915 | | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| Kjartan Fløgstad | 1944- | | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977- | | |
| Moderata Fonte | 1555-1592 | (di Pozzo di Forzi) | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | | |
| Anatole France | 1844-1924 | | |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | | |
| Jeaniene Frost | 1974- | | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960- | | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898-1936 | | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014 | | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | (Seuss) | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Zarah Ghahramani | 1981- | | |
| Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931 | | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Ronald Giphart | 1965- | | |
| Karel Glastra van Loon | 1962-2005 | | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | | |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809-1852 | | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707-1793 | | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | (Peshkov) | |
| René Goscinny | 1926-1977 | | |
| Shelia Goss | 1968- | | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Germaine Greer | 1939- | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | | |
| John Grisham | 1955- | | |
| Ruth Gruber | 1911-2016 | | |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971- | | |
| Gaja Grzegorzewska | 1980- | | |
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1889-1956 | | |
| Danai Gurira | 1978- | | |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar | 1864-1944 | | |
| Hella Haasse | 1918-2011 | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| Adena Halpern | 1968- | | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Václav Havel | 1936-2011 | | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856 | | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923-1999 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | | |
| Shirl Henke | 1942- | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| Hesiod | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962 | | |
| Susan Hill | 1942- | | |
| Peretz Hirschbein | 1880-1948 | | |
| Tami Hoag | 1959- | (Mikkelson) | |
| Cheris F. Hodges | 1977- | | |
| Homer | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Horace | 65-8 BC | | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954- | | |
| Jacqui Jacoby | 1963- | | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Marlon James | 1970- | | |
| Maureen Jennings | 1939- | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| Juvenal | ?-1xx | (Iunius, Iuvenalis) | |
| Ain Kaalep | 1926- | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| Kaie Kellough | 1975- | | |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923- | (Gökçeli) | |
| Sherrilyn Kenyon | 1965- | | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | | |
| Philip Kerr | 1956-2018 | | |
| Jack Ketchum | 1946-2018 | (Mayr) | |
| Naseem Kharal | 1939-1978 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | | |
| Stephen King | 1947- | | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | | |
| Reşat Ekrem Koçu | 1905-1975 | | |
| Gerrit Komrij | 1944-2012 | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Ferdo Kozak | 1894-1957 | | |
| Juš Kozak | 1892-1964 | | |
| Primož Kozak | 1929-1981 | | |
| Betina Krahn | 19xx- | | |
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | 1882-1954 | | |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-1981 | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-2018 | (Kroeber) | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929- | | |
| Dick Laan | 1894-1973 | | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | | |
| Arnette Lamb | 1947-1998 | | |
| Leonida Lari | 1949-2011 | | |
| Stieg Larsson | 1954-2004 | | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | | |
| Harper Lee | 1926- | | |
| Stan Lee | 1922- | | |
| Lutfi Lepaja | 1945- | | |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814-1841 | | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | | |
| Li Bai | 701-762 | | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | | |
| Rosina Lippi | 1956- | (Green) | |
| Cvetka Lipuš | 1966- | | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | | |
| Lucian of Samosata | c. 125-c. 180 | | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | | |
| Mahmut Makal | 1930-2018 | | |
| Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | | |
| Ranko Marinković | 1913-2001 | | |
| Peretz Markish | 1895-1952 | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | | |
| Catherine Marshall | 1914-1983 | (Wood, LeSourd) | |
| Martial | 40-102 | (Valerius, Martialis) | |
| George R. R. Martin | 1948- | | |
| Antonio Martínez Menchén | 1930- | | |
| Matsuo Basho | 1644-1694 | | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933- | | |
| Cheyenne McCray | 1965- | | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| Menander | 342-291 BC | | |
| Melinda Metz | 1962- | | |
| Stephenie Meyer | 1973- | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Serena B. Miller | 1950- | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| Marga Minco | 1920- | (Menco) | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900-1949 | | |
| Albert Mol | 1917-2004 | | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | (Eyquem) | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1931- | (Wofford) | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| Mikha'il Na'ima | 1889-1988 | | |
| Nazım Hikmet | 1902-1963 | (Ran) | |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | | |
| Munir Niazi | 1928-2006 | | |
| Fan Noli | 1882-1965 | | |
| Enn Nõu | 1933- | | |
| Winston Ntshona | 1941-2018 | | |
| Halide Nusret Zorlutuna | 1901-1984 | | |
| Jef Nys | 1927-2009 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | 1906-1970 | | |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire | 1882-1928 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Direáin | 1910-1988 | | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Blair) | |
| Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha | 1883-1964 | | |
| Ovid | 43 BC-17 | | |
| Connie Palmen | 1955- | | |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983- | | |
| Vesna Parun | 1922-2010 | | |
| Katherine Paterson | 1932- | | |
| James Patterson | 1947- | | |
| Donita K. Paul | 1950- | | |
| Bernardin Pavlović | 17xx | | |
| Cass Pennant | 1958- | | |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | | |
| Ela Peroci | 1922-2001 | | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Francesco Petrarca | 1304-1374 | | |
| Petronius | c. 27-66 | (Arbiter) | |
| Pindar | c. 522-443 BC | | |
| Nélida Piñon | 1937- | | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | | |
| Plautus | 254-184 BC | (Maccius) | |
| Pliny the Younger | 61-c. 113 | (Plinius, Caecilius, Secundus) | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | (Molière) | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | | |
| Adélia Prado | 1935- | (de Freitas) | |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948- | | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Luigi Pulci | 1432-1484 | | |
| Philip Pullman | 1946- | | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | | |
| Quintilian | 35-100 | (Fabius, Quintilianus) | |
| François Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | | |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898-1970 | | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | (van het Reve) | |
| Anne Rice | 1941- | | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891 | | |
| Francine Rivers | 1947- | | |
| Hallie Erminie Rives | 1874-1956 | | |
| Lynda Suzanne Robinson | 1951- | | |
| Michael Scott Rohan | 1951-2018 | | |
| Philip Roth | 1933-2018 | | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | 1973- | | |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965- | | |
| Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | 1207-1273 | | |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947- | | |
| John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | | |
| Gerri Russell | 1962- | (Garding) | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740-1814 | (de Sade) | |
| Lilith Saintcrow | 1976- | | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | | |
| George Sand | 1804-1876 | (Dupin) | |
| Sappho | c. 620-570 BC | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | | |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | | |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt | 1911-1995 | | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| Saken Seifullin | 1894-1939 | | |
| Meša Selimović | 1910-1982 | | |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928-2012 | | |
| Raivo Seppo | 1973- | | |
| Anna Sewell | 1820-1878 | | |
| Ikbal Ali Shah | 1894-1969 | | |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1943-2017 | (Rogers) | |
| Gena Showalter | 1975- | | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| Linnea Sinclair | 1954- | | |
| Nalini Singh | 1977- | | |
| Carry Slee | 1949- | | |
| Bertrice Small | 1937- | | |
| Lemony Snicket | 1970- | | |
| Sophocles | c. 497-c. 406 BC | | |
| LaVyrle Spencer | 1943- | | |
| Edmund Spenser | c. 1552-1599 | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | | |
| Stendhal | 1783-1842 | (Beyle) | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | | |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 | | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179-1241 | | |
| Derviš Sušić | 1925-1990 | | |
| Matthew Sweeney | 1952-2018 | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| Madelon Szekely-Lulofs | 1899-1958 | | |
| Titsian Tabidze | 1895-1937 | | |
| Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan | 1976- | | |
| Janelle Taylor | 1944- | | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Terence | 195-159 BC | (Terentius, Afer) | |
| Marcus Terentius Varro | 116-27 BC | | |
| Maarten 't Hart | 1944- | | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | | |
| Flora Thompson | 1876-1947 | | |
| Colm Tóibín | 1955- | | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | | |
| Zdena Tomin | 1941- | | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| Haunani-Kay Trask | 1949- | | |
| J. Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Clemens) | |
| Şadi Üçüncü | 1948-2004 | | |
| John Updike | 1932-2009 | | |
| Eduard Uspensky | 1937-2018 | | |
| Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun" | 1964- | (Kluun) | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Willy Vandersteen | 1913-1990 | | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | | |
| Paul van Loon | 1955- | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| Heleen van Royen | 1965- | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (von Veldeke) | |
| Hovik Vardoumian | 1940- | | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| Enn Vetemaa | 1936- | | |
| Emanuil A. Vidinski | 1978- | | |
| Heiki Vilep | 1960- | | |
| Virgil | 70-19 BC | | |
| Milovan Vitezović | 1944- | | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| Mihály Vörösmarty | 1800-1855 | | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| Robert James Waller | 1939-2017 | | |
| Neale Donald Walsch | 1943- | | |
| Elsie B. Washington | 1942-2009 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | | |
| Edith Wharton | 1862-1937 | | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | | |
| August Wilson | 1945-2005 | | |
| Robley Wilson | 1930-2018 | | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| Sherryl Woods | 1944- | | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1930-1999 | | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Joost Zwagerman | 1963-2015 | |
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