HomeAuthors Authors (166) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. Robert W. Chambers BORN THIS WEEK IN 1865 There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there Find out more Victor Hugo DIED YESTERDAY IN 1885 Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Find out more Eleanor H. Porter DIED THIS WEEK IN 1920 Just breathing isn’t living! Find out more FILTERS NATIONALITY American Australian Austrian British Canadian Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Indian Irish Italian Lebanese New Zealander Roman Russian Scottish Spanish Swiss USA Welsh CENTURY BC 11TH CENTURY12TH CENTURY13TH CENTURY14TH CENTURY15TH CENTURY16TH CENTURY17TH CENTURY18TH CENTURY19TH CENTURY20TH CENTURY A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y RESET FILTERS Aesop Louisa May Alcott Abdullah Yusuf Ali Hans Christian Andersen Aristotle Jane Austen J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum E. F. Benson R.D. Blackmore Algernon Blackwood William Blake Giovanni Boccaccio Mary Elizabeth Braddon Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Buchan John Bunyan Frances Hodgson Burnett Robert Burns Lord Byron Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Robert W. Chambers Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton Kate Chopin Carl von Clausewitz Wilkie Collins Carlo Collodi Joseph Conrad Susan Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper Aleister Crowley Dante Alighieri Charles Darwin David Stuart Davies Daniel Defoe Rene Descartes Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Fyodor Dostoevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas George Eliot Friedrich Engels J. Meade Falkner Henry Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Ford Madox Ford Sigmund Freud John Galsworthy Elizabeth Gaskell Edward Gibbon Kahlil Gibran Henry Gilbert Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Kenneth Grahame Rosemary Gray The Brothers Grimm George and Weedon Grossmith Sir Henry Rider Haggard Radclyffe Hall Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway O. Henry Herodotus Thomas Hobbes Homer Thomas Hughes Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Jerome K. Jerome James Joyce Franz Kafka John Keats John Maynard Keynes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Charles and Mary Lamb Andrew Lang D.H. Lawrence T.E. Lawrence Sheridan Le Fanu Edward Lear Gaston Leroux Matthew Lewis John Locke Jack London H.P. Lovecraft Terry Lynch George MacDonald Arthur Machen Niccolò Machiavelli Sir Thomas Malory Katherine Mansfield Marcus Aurelius Captain Frederick Marryat Karl Marx Guy de Maupassant Henry Mayhew Herman Melville Lucy Montgomery Sir Thomas More Hector Hugh Munro E. Nesbit Friedrich Nietzsche George Orwell Thomas Paine Plato Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor H. Porter Beatrix Potter Arthur Rackham Ann Radcliffe Christina Rossetti Jean-Jacques Rousseau James Malcolm Rymer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sir Walter Scott Anna Sewell William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Adam Smith Benedict Spinoza Johanna Spyri Flora Annie Steel Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Harriet Beecher Stowe Jonathan Swift Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Dylan Thomas Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Robert Tressell Anthony Trollope Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Mark Twain Lao Tzu Sun Tzu Jules Verne Virgil Voltaire Lew Wallace H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Margery Williams Bianco Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Shang Yang W.B. Yeats Articles related to Authors Jun16 David Stuart Davies takes a look at The Wind in the Willows With a musical version opening in London, David Stuart Davies takes a look at this perennially popular children’s classic. Poop-Poop! Read More Oct19 Empire ‘I shall try to fly by those nets’: Sally Minogue offers a final reflection on literature and Empire. If we needed a reminder of the ability of the British to… Read More Apr6 Shakespeare: Still Relevant? To start our commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Cedric Watts considers the playwright’s place in our cultural heritage. Read More Oct7 Writings dark as a raven’s wing David Stuart Davies on the master of terror and pioneer of detective fiction – Edgar Allan Poe Read More Jul8 David Stuart Davies looks at The Awakening David Stuart Davies looks at Kate Chopin’s influential novel, first published in 1899. Read More Jan23 David Ellis on Lost Masterpieces David Ellis looks at the literary ones that got away Read More
