Mark Twain30 November 1835, American
Author and Humorist
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894, British, American
Writer
Robert Louis Stevenson13 November 1850, Scottish
Novelist, Poet
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
John Ruskin08 February 1819, British
Art Critic and Painter
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
E. M. Forster01 January 1879, British
Writer
Thomas Mann06 June 1875, Swiss, German
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Matthew Arnold24 December 1822, British
Poet
Henri Bergson18 October 1859, French
Philosopher and Writer
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
Nikos Kazantzakis18 February 1883, Greek
Philosopher and Writer
Knut Hamsun04 August 1859, Norwegian
Writer
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890, American
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Henry Lawson17 June 1867, Australian
Writer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.29 August 1809, American
Writer, Physician
Giuseppe Ungaretti08 February 1888, Italian
Poet, Essayist
A. C. Benson24 April 1862, British
English essayist
Amy Levy10 November 1861, British
Poet, Novelist, Essayist
Abraham Valdelomar27 April 1888, Peruvian
Narrator
Maksim Bahdanovič09 December 1891, Belarusian
Poet
Alfred Doblin10 August 1878, German
Writer, Doctor
Thomas Babington Macaulay25 October 1800, British
Historian
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Lu Xun25 September 1881, Chinese
Writer, Essayist, Poet, Literary critic,
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855, German, British
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
Jean Rhys24 August 1890, Dominican, British
Writer
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu13 September 1899, Romanian
Politician, Essayist
Joyce Kilmer06 December 1886, American
Writer
Hermann Oberth25 June 1894, Austrian, Romanian
Physicist, Engineer, Essayist, Screenwriter
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
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Romain Rolland29 January 1866, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Harriet Martineau12 June 1802, British
Linguist, Journalist, Economist, Historian,
Lysander Spooner19 January 1808, American
Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Robert Musil06 November 1880, Austrian
Writer, Librarian, Novelist, Playwright,
Edmond Rostand01 April 1868, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
Osip Mandelstam15 January 1891, Polish, Russian
Poet, Writer, Translator, Literary critic,
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
John Burroughs03 April 1837, American
Naturalist
William Dean Howells01 March 1837, American
Novelist
Curzio Malaparte09 June 1898, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Max Beerbohm24 August 1872, British
Essayist
Charles W. Chesnutt20 June 1858, American
Author
Emilia Pardo Bazán16 September 1851, Spanish
Essayist, Literary critic, Novelist, Journalist,
Sholem Asch01 November 1880, Polish
Novelist
Sully Prudhomme16 March 1839, French
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Diarist
Benjamin Jowett15 April 1817, British
Tutor
Charles Péguy07 January 1873, French
Poet
Pierre Loti14 January 1850, French
Writer, Q3349700, Novelist, Essayist, Diarist,
Gottfried Benn02 May 1886, German
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Novelist
José Carlos Mariátegui14 June 1894, Peruvian
Sociologist
Wilhelm Busch15 April 1832, German
Poet, Painter, Essayist, Writer, Autobiographer
John Crowe Ransom30 April 1888, American
Educator
Pär Lagerkvist23 May 1891, Swedish
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter
Léon Bloy11 July 1846, French
Writer, Poet, Essayist, Journalist, Novelist,
Miroslav Krleža07 July 1893, Croatian
Croatian author
Henry de Montherlant20 April 1895, French
Essayist
Mordecai Kaplan11 June 1881, Lithuanian, American
Rabbi
Gilbert Murray02 January 1866, Australian
Scholar
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle03 January 1893, French
Writer
Eugene Field02 September 1850, American
Writer
Korney Chukovsky31 March 1882, Russian
Poet
Jean Giraudoux29 October 1882, French
Playwright, Screenwriter, Diplomat, Novelist,
Giovanni Papini09 January 1881, Italian
Journalist
Cornelia Otis Skinner30 May 1899, American
Author
Camilo Castelo Branco16 March 1825, Portuguese
Writer
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
John Middleton Murry06 August 1889, British
Writer
Charlotte Forten Grimké17 August 1837, American
Poet
Mao Dun04 July 1896, Chinese
Essayist
Cyprian Norwid24 September 1821, Polish
Poet
Vernon Lee14 October 1856, French, British
Writer
Benjamin Fondane14 November 1898, French, Romanian
Linguist, Poet, Librarian, Film director,
Arthur Symons28 February 1865, Welsh
Poet
Francis Ponge27 March 1899, French
Essayist
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz20 February 1894, Polish
Writer
Leopoldo Lugones13 June 1874, Argentinian
Poet
William Edward Hartpole Lecky26 March 1838, Irish
Historian
Louis-Sébastien Mercier06 June 1740, French
Author
Edgar Quinet17 February 1803, French
Historian
José Enrique Rodó15 July 1871, Uruguayan
Essayist
Michael Arlen16 November 1895, British, American
Author
Fanny Fern09 July 1811, American
Journalist, Writer, Novelist, Children's writer,
Hamlin Garland14 September 1860, American
Novelist
Paul Morand13 March 1888, French
Author
Clarence Day18 November 1874, American
Author
Carlo Emilio Gadda14 November 1893, Italian
Writer
José Martínez Ruiz08 June 1873, Spanish
Novelist
Étienne Pivert de Senancour16 November 1770, French
Essayist
Edmund Clarence Stedman08 October 1833, American
Poet
Léon Daudet16 November 1867, French
Journalist
Takeo Arishima04 March 1878, Japanese
Novelist