300+ Literary Biographies: Major Poets, Novelists & Playwrights in English Literature

Literary Biographies

Discover the lives of renowned authors and their contributions to literature.

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Agatha Christie Albert Camus Aldous Huxley Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Alexander Hamilton Alexander Dumas Alfred Edward Housman Alfred Tennyson Alice Walker Alicia Elsbeth Amber Flora Thomas Anne Bradstreet Anne Frank Art Spiegelman Arthur Conan Doyle Audre Lord Ayn Rand

B

Barbara Kingsolver Benjamin Franklin Ben Johnson Betty Smith Bram Stoker

C

C.S Lewis Carson McCullers Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Gilman Chinua Achebe Christina Rossetti Christopher Marlowe Claude McKay

D

Dan Brown Deniel Defoe Dorothy Parker

E

E.E. Cummings Edgar Allan Poe Edith Hamilton Edith Wharton Elie Wiesel Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ellen Bryant Voigt Emily Bronte Emily Dickinson Erich Maria Remarque Ernest Hemingway Eugene Field Ezra Pound

F

F. Scott Fitzgerald Frank Herbert Franz Kafka Fyodor Dostoevsky

G

Gabriel García Márquez Geoffrey Chaucer George Bernard Shaw George Eliot George Gordon Byron George Orwell Gerard Manley Hopkins

H

Harold Bloom Helen Hoyt Henrik Ibsen Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Hermann Hesse

J

J. K. Rowling J. R. R. Tolkien J.B. Priestley Jack London James Fenimore Cooper James Joyce Jane Austen Jeannette Walls J. D Salinger John Donne John Green John Keats John Masefield John Milton John Steinbeck Jon Krakauer Jonathan Swift

K

Kate Chopin Khaled Hosseini Kurt Vonnegut

L

Langston Hughes Leo Tolstoy Lewis Caroll Lorraine Hansberry

M

Margaret Mitchell Mark Twain Mary Shelley

N

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nelle Harper Lee Nikki Giovanni

O

Oscar Wilde

P

Paulo Coelho Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip Larkin

R

Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Emerson Randall Mann Ray Bradbury Raymond A. Foss Richard Adams Robert Burns Robert Browning Robert Frost Robert Louis Stevenson Robert W. Service Rudyard Kipling Rupert Brooke Ray Bradbury

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Sandra Cisneros Shirley Jackson Sir Walter Scott Stephen Foster Suzanne Collins

T

Ted Hughes Tennessee Williams Thomas Hardy Thomas Hood Thomas Stearns Eliot Thornton Niven Wilder Tim O’Brien Tom Stoppard Tony Morrison Truman Capote

W

Walt Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams