Biographies of Authors, Writers & Poets
Latest update: October 31 2011
Authors, Writers & Poets. The list provides basic insights into the major works of these great writers, including ancient Romans and Greeks, Nobel Laureates in literature and current popular literary prize winners. It’s also integrated under the ‘Category’ section in the sidebar.
- Aeschylus
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Albee, Edward
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Amis, Kingsley
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Archer, Jeffrey
- Aristophanes
- Atwood, Margaret
- Auden, W.H.
- Austen, Jane
- Bailey, Hilary
- Baldwin, James
- Balzac, Honore de
- Barrie, J.M.
- Beaumarchais, Pierre AC
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Bellow, Saul
- Bely, Andrei
- Bennett, Arnold
- Blackmore, R.D.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Boswell, James
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Briton, André
- Bronte, Anne
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Bronte, Emily
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Buchan, John
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Bunyan, John
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burnett, Frances H.
- Burroughs, William S.
- Camus, Albert
- Capote, Truman
- Carroll, Lewis
- Cather, Willa
- Catullus, Valerius Gaius
- Cela, Camilo José
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Christie, Agatha
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Congreve, William
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Coward, Noel
- Crane, Stephen
- Crichton, Michael
- Cros, Charles
- De Maupassant, Guy
- De Vega, Lope
- Defoe, Daniel
- Deledda, Grazia
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickinson, Emily
- Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Donne, John
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Dryden, John
- Ducommun, Elie
- Dumas, Alexandre Père
- Duras, Marguerite
- Eliot, George
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
- Elytis, Odysseus
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Faulkner, William
- Ferber, Edna
- Fielding, Henry
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Ford, Ford Madox
- Forster, E.M.
- France, Anatole
- Frost, Robert
- Galsworthy, John
- Garcia, Marquez Gabriel
- Gay, John
- Genet, Jean
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Goethe, J. Wolfgang
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Golding, William
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Gorky, Maxim
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Graves, Robert
- Greene, Graham
- Grimm, The Brothers
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Hardy, Thomas
- Heine, Heinrich
- Heller, Joseph
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hoffmann, E.T.A.
- Homer
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Horace
- Hughes, Langston
- Hugo, Victor
- Huxley, Aldous
- Ibsen, Henirk
- Irving, Washington
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Jacobs-Bond, Carrie
- James, Henry
- Jonson, Ben
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Keats, John
- Kerouac, Jack
- Khayyam, Omar
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Lagerloef, Selma
- Lamb, Charles
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Lee, Harper
- Lermontov, Mikhail
- Lewis, C.S.
- Lewis, Sinclair
- London, Jack
- Longfellow, Henry W.
- Lorca, Federico Garcia
- Lord Byron
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Mann, Thomas
- Marlowe, Christopher
- McCullough, Colleen
- McCullers, Carson
- Melville, Herman
- Miller, Arthur
- Milton, John
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Montgomery, L.M.
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Neruda, Pablo
- O’Casey, Sean
- O’Neill, Eugene
- O. Henry
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Orwell, George
- Ovid
- Paine, Thomas
- Pasternak, Boris
- Plath, Sylvia
- Pope, Alexander
- Potok, Chaim
- Pound, Ezra
- Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Rand, Ayn
- Remarque, Erich Maria
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Roth, Philip
- Rowling, J.K.
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Salinger, J.D.
- Sand, George
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sappho
- Sarton, May
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Seferis, George
- Shakespeare, William
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Sophocles
- Spender, Stephen
- Spenser, Edmund
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Stoppard, Tom
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Swift, Jonathan
- Tan, Amy
- Thackeray, William M.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thurber, James
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Trollope, Anthony
- Trollope, Joanna
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Twain, Mark
- Undset, Sigrid
- Verne, Jules
- Vidal, Gore
- Virgil
- Voltaire
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wells, H.G.
- West, Rebecca
- Wharton, Edith
- White, E.B.
- White, Patrick
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wiesel, Elie
- Wilde, Oscar
- Williams, Tennessee
- Wordsworth, William
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Woolf, Virginia
- Yeats, W.B. (William Butler)
- Zola, Emile
Books We Keep Reading
(List/Links updated: October 5, 2011)
We all have our own list of favourite books. As recent booksellers catch our interest, the list is bound to undergo inevitable change. However, over time, some books stay close at heart. These are classic books in the bookshelves close by that we keep coming back to. Please note, The Holy Bible, usually in the top 5 of the “Top 100 Books” provided by various bookstores is excluded from the list due to its nature.
Alphabetically Categorized according to Authors
- Archer, Geoffrey – (Kane and Abel, As the Crow Flies)
- Albom, Mitch – (Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith)
- Alcott, Louisa May – (Little Women)
- Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace
- Austen, Jane – (Pride and Prejudice, Emma)
- Bernieres, Louis de – (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)
- Bronté, Charlotte – (Jane Eyre)
- Bronté, Emily – (Wuthering Heights)
- Christie, Agatha – (various Poirot and Miss Marple series)
- Courtenay, Bryce – (The Power of One)
- Covey, Stephen – (7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
- Dahl, Roald – (Matilda)
- Dickens, Charles – (A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist)
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – (The Great Gatsby)
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gibran, Hahlil – The Prophet
- Golden, Arthur – (Memoirs of a Geisha)
- Grisham, John – (The Partner, The Firm, The Runaway Jury, The Chamber, A Time to Kill)
- Heller, Joseph – (Catch-22)
- Hemingway, Ernest – (The Sun Also Rises)
- Hugo, Victor – (Les Misérables)
- Kingsolver, Barbara – (The Poisonwood Bible)
- James, Henry – (The Wings of the Dove)
- Joyce, James – (Ulysses)
- Lee, Harper – (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- Lewis, C.S. – (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Mandela, Nelson – Long Walk to Freedom
- Martel, Yann – (Life of Pi)
- McCullough – (Thorn Birds)
- Mitchell, Margaret – (Gone with the Wind)
- Montgomery, L.M. – (Anne of Green Gables)
- Ondaatje, Michael – The English Patient
- Peck, M Scott – The Road Less Travelled
- Pilcher, Rosamunde – (The Shell Seekers)
- Proulx, E. Annie – The Shipping News
- Rand, Ayn – (Atlas Shrugged)
- Rand, Ayn – (We, The Living)
- Roy, Arundhati – (The God of Small Things)
- Rowling, J.K. – (Harry Potter Books 1-7)
- Salinger, J.D. – Catcher in the Rye)
- Seth, Vikram – (A Suitable Boy)
- Tolkien, JRR – (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit)
- Tolstoy, Leo – (War and Peace, Anna Karenina)
- Twain, Mark – (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Twain, Mark – (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
- Woolf, Virginia – (Mrs Dalloway)
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