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Famous People By
This section of famous people presents the biographies of some of the greatest writers and authors ever.
Writers
A. A. Milne “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” Does this quote remind you of someone? Of course, of the cute ...
A. N. Wilson Born in Staffordshire England, Andrew Norman Wilson is a illustrious novelist and award winning biographer who made a name for himself in the ...
A.P. Herbert A. P. Herbert played various roles in his lifetime and excelled in each of them. From being a playwright to a law reformist to Member of ...
Aaron McGruder Who knew that a satirical comic strip created for a student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park would not only bring its ...
Abbie Hoffman A political and social activist and the co-founder the Youth International Party, Abbie Hoffman earned himself popularity for his successful ...
Ada Cambridge Ada Cambridge was a prolific and gifted author. Reading her works, one can get terrific insights into the sensibilities and styles of the then ...
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie, known as the ‘Queen of Crime’, was a renowned English writer who wrote over 66 detective novels. She is best known as the ...
Alan Coren Alan Coren was a humorist, writer, journalist and satirist of British origin. He was the former editor of Punch magazine and served there for ...
Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia was a renowned Italian novelist and journalist. He authored novels which explored modern sexuality, social alienation and ...
Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley was a well-known writer, essayist and screenwriter. He wrote his fist novel at the age of 17, the novel was never ...
Alexander Berkman Alexander Berkman was a well-known anarchist who led an avant-garde movement in the U.S. He was a part of a principal Jewish anarchist group, ...
Alexandra Ripley Alexandra Ripley was a prominent American writer. She was best known for her novel “Scarlet”, the sequel to the famous novel “Gone with the ...
Alice Munro Alice Munro, born as Alice Ann Laidlaw, is a Canadian writer who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. ...
Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka is an African-American writer, essayist, playwright and music critic, known for his abstruse writing style which has often been ...
Anais Nin Anais Nin was a renowned writer who is famous for her journals written for a period spanning six decades. Nin was born French-Cuban but lived in ...
Anne Frank Anne frank was one of the million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. She was well-acclaimed for her style of writing in her diary, which ...
Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler was a British author and journalist of Hungarian origins who was best known for his political novel ‘Darkness at Noon.’ He was ...
Audre Lorde Audre Lorde was a famous Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist, mostly remembered for being a great warrior poet who bravely fought ...
Ayn Rand Ayn Rand is famous for her hugely popular novels, ‘The Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged’. Besides writing novels Rand also worked as a ...
Barbara Cartland Barbara Cartland was one of the prominent British authors of the 20th century. After her marriage, she used to write under her married name, ...
C. L. R. James C. L. R. James was a renowned Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist, who was also a popular cricket writer. ...
Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was a famous American writer and editor, much acclaimed for his poetry. During his lifetime, he won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for ...
Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican diplomat, novelist, scholar and critic famous for his experimental novels. He was one of Mexico’s most celebrated ...
Charles Kingsley Charles Kinsley was an English priest of the Church of English who was also a university professor, novelist, historian and amateur naturalist ...
David Simon David Simon, the former investigative reporter of Maryland’s largest general-circulation newspaper, ‘The Baltimore Sun’, is also the producer of ...
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, who was also associated with the American Romantic Movement. He was ...
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke is a great name in the field of British politics mainly remembered for his role in supporting the cause of American ...
Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is a Jewish Romanian-American writer, professor and the author of the bestselling book "Night" as well as many other books dealing ...
Franz Kafka Franz Kafka was an influential German-language novelist whom critics considered as one of the best writers of the 20th century. His writings ...
George Elliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, more popular by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. Her ...
Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, the Pulitzer-prize winning poet from the Midwest, is one name that needs no introduction. Revered as the ‘patron ...
H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft is greatly known as an American horror fiction writer. Lovecraft started generating a trend in fantasy, science fiction (sci-fi) ...
Harriet Beecher Stow... Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and social reformer. She was born at a time when the United States was experiencing a great deal of ...
Helen Keller Helen Keller is an iconic name that finds a starry place in history. There is possibly no one on this earth who has never heard of her name even ...
Henry Van Dyke A multitalented personality, Henry Van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman, known for his works which included short stories, ...
Hermann Hesse Celebrated as one of the finest and most influential writers, Hermann Hesse belonged to the set of writers who were largely disillusioned by ...
Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov is best known as the most successful writer of science fiction and popular science books. Asimov opened the doors for the new age ...
Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac was a novelist who had broken all literary conventions and traditions. He was popularly known literary iconoclast and is placed ...
Jane Austen Jane Austen is possibly the most well known and widely referred female novelist on earth. Austen’s brilliantly created novels include ‘Sense and ...
Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome was a renowned English writer and humorist. He is best known for his humorous and comic masterpiece “Three Men in a Boat”, ...
John Ruskin Born in London, John Ruskin is mainly known for his magnificent work in the field of art, literature and architecture. A fervent art critic, ...
Ken Kesey One of America’s most critically acclaimed and controversial authors, Ken Kesey’s rise to literary and cultural prominence was the result of his ...
Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese American artist, writer, philosopher and the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi. Born ...
Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten was a Polish-born American author, teacher and researcher. He is branded as a comedian in the sphere of screenwriting, ...
Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy was a Russia born writer and poet and is regarded as the world's greatest poet and novelist. The one of the legacies of the poet is ...
Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician and photographer, who authored the ...
Lin Yutang Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer who worked efficiently towards bridging the cultural gap between east and west through his effective writing ...
Mario Puzo The author of the world’s bestseller book Godfather, Mario Puzo was an Italian-American author and screenwriter who introduced and acquired fame ...
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author, essayist, lecturer and humorist who wrote a series of ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft was a famous, eighteenth-century British writer who is best known for her work, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’. She ...
Munshi Premchand Dhanpat Rai, better known by his pseudonym Munshi Premchand, was a famous Indian author and poet who ushered into the Modern Hindi and Urdu ...
Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer, better known by his pen name Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screen writer, essayist and ...
Octavio Paz Octavio Paz was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat. A Nobel Prize laureate, his works were translated into English by many writers which ...
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, better known as Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, author and one of the most successful playwrights of the ...
P G Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English satirist, author and a comic novelist who created the famous fictional characters of Bertie ...
Pearl Buck Pearl S. Buck, born as Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, was an American writer most famous as the author of the best selling novel, ‘The Good Earth’ ...
Primo Levi Primo Levi is known for his essays, short stories, poems and novels. Originally a chemist, Levi later became popular as a writer. He is popular ...
Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author, journalist and poet who wrote the famous fiction The Jungle Book. Born in the British India, ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doy... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish doctor, author and poet, and is most notably remembered for his stories about the detective ...
Stephen Edwin King Stephen Edwin King is an American author, novelist, actor, director, producer and screenwriter, but most of all, he is noted for his excellence ...
Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock was an English-born Canadian writer, teacher, political scientist and humorist. He was a polyglot having proficiency in ...
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English author, novelist and poet, who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement. Though he always ...
Thomas Merton Thomas Merton was a very famous American Catholic author of the twentieth century who is greatly known for writing classics like ‘The Seven ...
Victor Hugo Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist and playwright and a leading supporter of the Romantic Movement in France. He was also a visual artist, ...
Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was an English writer, author and novelist and a pioneer of modernism in English literature. Among her most famous work are ...
William Makepeace Th... William Makepeace Thackeray was an English author, novelist and satirist who gained international fame and popularity for his novel Vanity Fair. ...
William Maugham William Somerset Maugham was a famous English author, novelist and playwright. His popularity lies in the fact that by early 1930's, he had ...
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer and poet ever known in the English language who authored world’s greatest poems, drama ...
Wole Soyinka One of Africa’s greatest writers, Wole Soyinka is the first African to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature. He is regarded as ...