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It is the name given to the aedo to which the authorship of the main Greek epic poems is traditionally attributed: the Iliad and the Odyssey. There is no single biography...
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Adventures
35 authors in this category
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs was an American novelist, visual artist, essayist and social critic. Renovator of narrative language and one of the main figures of the Beat Gene...
Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (de)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish soldier, novelist, poet and playwright. It is considered the highest figure in Spanish literature and is universally known for ...
Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known as Joseph Conrad, was a Polish novelist who adopted English as a literary language.
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist. He wrote thirty-four adventure novels, in which he recounts the life of the pioneers and their clashes with the red skins.
Chrétien de Troyes
He was a poet of the court of Champagne. He is said to be the first novelist in France and, according to some, 1-the father of the Western novel.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Foe, better known for his pseudonym Daniel Defoe, was an English writer, journalist and pamphlet, world-famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist and French playwright, creator of some of the best adventure novels in history. His son, Alexandre Dumas son, was also a known writer.
Ken Follet
Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, on June 5, 1949 and is the author of a great many successful novels. His greatest success was the novel "The pillars of the earth,...
Nikolaj Vasilevic Gogol
Russian writer, also known as a playwright, novelist and short story writer. His best known work is probably dead Souls, considered by many as the first modern Russian no...
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was an English Victorian writer of adventure novels, initiator of the "lost world" subgender.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist, and one of the leading novelists and storytellers of the 20th century.
Anthony Hope
He was a British writer famous for his adventure novels, among which the most recognized are The prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, who are "minor classics" of Engl...
Rebecca F. Kuang
Recognized author and translator, supersales of the New York Times and internationally awarded. He was born in China and moved as a child to the United States, where he g...
Jack London
He was an American writer, author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and other novels and stories.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain. Son of Nicole Perron and Emile Martel, French-Canadian. His father was appointed as a diplomat by the Canadian ...
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, known as George R. R. Martin, is an American writer and writer of fantastic literature, science fiction and terror.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American writer who, in addition to novel and story, wrote essay and poetry.
Víctor Mora
Victor Mora Pujadas was a Spanish comic writer and novelist, creator of The Captain Thunder, among many other works.
Arturo Pérez Reverte
Spanish writer and journalist, member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003. Former RTVE correspondent and a prominent reporter in various armed conflicts and wars, he ...
Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Villegas and Santibáñez Cevallos was a Spanish noble, political and writer of the Golden Century. He was a gentleman of the Order of Santiago f...
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, playwright, philosopher, historian and editor. It is considered, along with Goethe, the most important playwright i...
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was a novelist, theatre writer and poet. He is considered the first modern English writer to have a true international career,
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He was a Polish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. It is the fifth Nobel Prize in the history of the award and the first in Eastern Europe.
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of well-known novels such as Mice and Men, The grapes of anger and East ...
Robert Louis Stevenson
He was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles, adventure and historical novels, as well as lyrical and essays.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirical writer. His most well-known work, The Journey of Gulliver, is a cunning criticism of human society, in such a characteristic style t...
J.R.R. Tolkien
Writer, poet, philologist and British university professor, known mainly for being the author of the classic high-fantasy novels El hobbit and El Lord of the Rings.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, was a popular American writer, speaker and humorist.
Jules Verne
He was a French writer, poet and playwright famous for his adventure novels and for his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Lewis Wallace
He was an American lawyer, military, political, diplomat and writer, known for being the author of Ben-Hur.
H.G. Wells
Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells (September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent - August 13, 1946 in London), 1 was a British writer, novelist, historian and philo...
Rebecca Yarros
American writer, author of more than 20 novels. His most famous series brings together romance and adventures.