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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,
William Shakespeare
Dramaturgo, an English poet and actor. Sometimes known as the Bardo de Avon, he is considered the most important writer in English and one of the most...
Mary W. Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, known as Mary Shelley, was a narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher and biographer of the United Kingdom, especially ...
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American writer. His best known work is Hyperion, winner of the Hugo and Locus science fiction awards.
Betty Smith
American novelist, who achieved international fame and success with his 1943 best seller A tree grows in Brooklyn.
Art Spiegelman
From the underground, he became in the early 1980s one of the most influential alternative historians in his country, both for his own work ("Maus") a...
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 grape...
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 ...
Elizabeth Strout
She's an American fiction writer. In 2009 he won the Pulitzer Fiction Award for his novel Olive Kitteridge, a collection of stories about a woman, her...
Jesse Sutanto
Jesse Q. Suso grew up coming and going between Indonesia, Singapore and Oxford, and he considers all three places his home.
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 ch...
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is a renowned American writer, known for her well-developed novels and her distinctive literary style.
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...
Amor Towles
Novelista estadounidense conocido por sus elegantes novelas históricas y su estilo narrativo refinado. Estudió en la Universidad de Yale y posteriorme...
C. J. Tudor
C.J. Tudor is a British author whose books include The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place. He was born in Salisbury, England, but grew up in Nottingham, w...
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, was a popular American writer, speaker and humorist.
Irving Wallace
In addition to his journalistic works and his screenplays for film and television, the works that gave Irving Wallace the most fame have been his nove...
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,...
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, single Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was an American writer and designer.
Walt Whitman
He was an American poet, volunteer nurse, essayist, journalist and humanist. His work is part of the transition between transcendentalism and philosop...