HomeAuthors Authors (163) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. Thomas Hughes BORN THIS WEEK IN 1822 Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts Find out more Friedrich Nietzsche BORN TOMORROW IN 1844 There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Find out more Jonathan Swift DIED THIS WEEK IN 1745 A wise person should have money in their head but not in their heart. Find out more Oscar Wilde BORN THIS WEEK IN 1854 It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. 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 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 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 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 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 Dec23 Nicola Bradbury looks at Dombey and Son To coincide with the screening of ‘Dickensian’, guest writers select their favourite Dickens’ novel. Nicola Bradbury starts us off with ‘Dombey and Son’. Read More Apr7 William Wordsworth 250 ‘Trailing clouds of glory do we come’: Sally Minogue salutes William Wordsworth on his 250th birthday. Read More Aug30 How Shelley broke new ground with Frankenstein Not only in gothic story-telling, but also in the form of the novel – David Stuart Davies looks at her work. Read More Oct7 Sally Minogue looks at The Canterbury Tales On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue salutes the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, and his seminal work, ‘The Canterbury Tales’. Read More Sep23 Steven Carver looks at The Island of Dr. Moreau ‘Are we not Men?’ – Evolution and Degeneration on ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ Read More Sep3 Sally Minogue assesses Sanditon ‘A little higher up, the Modern began’: Sally Minogue assesses Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel ‘Sanditon’, a venture into a new world. Read More
