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  • Achebe, Chinua

  • Adams, Henry

  • Addison, Joseph

  • Aesop

  • Agee, James

  • Agnon, S. Y.

  • Alcott, Louisa May

  • Aldington, Richard

  • Aleichem, Sholem

  • Alger, Horatio

  • Allende, Isabel

  • Ambler, Eric

  • Amis, Martin

  • Amis, Sir Kingsley

  • Andersen, Hans Christian

  • Anderson, Sherwood

  • Angelou, Maya

  • Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

  • Auchincloss, Louis

  • Austen, Jane

  • Bagnold, Enid

  • Baldwin, James

  • Balzac, Honoré de

  • Barnes, Djuna

  • Barrie, Sir James Matthew

  • Barth, John

  • Barthelme, Donald

  • Bataille, Georges

  • Baum, Lyman Frank

  • Beauvoir, Simone de

  • Beckett, Samuel

  • Beerbohm, Sir Max

  • Behn, Aphra

  • Bellamy, Edward

  • Belloc, Hilaire

  • Bellow, Saul

  • Benét, Stephen Vincent

  • Benjamin, Walter

  • Bennett, Arnold

  • Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

  • Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird)

  • Blackmore, Richard Doddridge

  • Blume, Judy

  • Bly, Robert

  • Böll, Heinrich

  • Borges, Jorge Luis

  • Boswell, James

  • Bowen, Elizabeth

  • Bowles, Paul

  • Boyle, Kay

  • Bradbury, Ray

  • Braine, John

  • Breton, André

  • Brod, Max

  • Brooke, Fulke Greville

  • Brookner, Anita

  • Browne, Sir Thomas

  • Buchwald, Art

  • Buck, Pearl (Sydenstricker)

  • Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich

  • Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton

  • Bunyan, John

  • Burgess, Anthony

  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice

  • Burroughs, William Seward

  • Butler, Samuel

  • Byatt, A.S.

  • Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron

  • Cain, James Mallahan

  • Caldwell, Erskine

  • Caldwell, Taylor

  • Calvino, Italo

  • Camus, Albert

  • Canetti, Elias

  • Capek, Karel

  • Capote, Truman

  • Carey, Peter

  • Carleton, William

  • Carlyle, Thomas

  • Carroll, Lewis

  • Cary, Joyce

  • Cather, Willa Sibert

  • Céline, Louis Ferdinand

  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

  • Chandler, Raymond Thornton

  • Chateaubriand, François René, vicomte de

  • Cheever, John

  • Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

  • Chesnutt, Charles Waddell

  • Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

  • Chopin, Kate O’Flaherty

  • Chrétien de Troyes

  • Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

  • Churchill, Winston

  • Clarke, Arthur C.

  • Coetzee, J.M.

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  • Colette

  • Collins, Wilkie

  • Colum, Padraic

  • Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy

  • Connolly, Cyril

  • Conrad, Joseph

  • Cooper, James Fenimore

  • Cozzens, James Gould

  • Crane, Stephen

  • Cronin, A.J.

  • Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien

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  • Dahl, Roahl

  • Davies, Robertson

  • Day Lewis, Cecil

  • de la Mare, Walter

  • De Quincey, Thomas

  • Defoe, Daniel

  • Dekker, Thomas

  • DeLillo, Don

  • Díaz, Junot

  • Dickens, Charles

  • Dickey, James

  • Didion, Joan

  • Dinesen, Isak

  • Dorfman, Ariel

  • Dos Passos, John Roderigo

  • Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich

  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  • Drabble, Margaret

  • Dreiser, Theodore

  • Du Bois, W. E. B.

  • Dumas, Alexandre

  • Duras, Marguerite

  • Durrell, Lawrence

  • Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

  • Eco, Umberto

  • Edgeworth, Maria

  • Eliot, George

  • Ellison, Ralph

  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  • Fast, Howard

  • Faulkner, William

  • Ferber, Edna

  • Fielding, Henry

  • Fisher, M. F. K.

  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  • Flaubert, Gustave

  • Flynn, Gillian

  • Fo, Dario

  • Ford, Ford Madox

  • Forester, Cecil Scott

  • Forster, E.M.

  • Fossey, Dian

  • Fowles, John

  • France, Anatole

  • Franklin, Benjamin

  • Friel, Brian

  • Frisch, Max

  • Fry, Christopher

  • Fuentes, Carlos

  • Fuller, Margaret

  • Galsworthy, John

  • Gao Xingjian

  • García Lorca, Federico

  • García Márquez, Gabriel

  • Gardner, Erle Stanley

  • Gardner, John

  • Garrick, David

  • Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)

  • Gass, William H.

  • Genet, Jean

  • Gide, André

  • Glasgow, Ellen

  • Godden, Rumer

  • Godwin, William

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  • Gogarty, Oliver St. John

  • Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

  • Golding, Sir William (Gerald)

  • Goldsmith, Oliver

  • Gordimer, Nadine

  • Gorky, Maxim

  • Grahame, Kenneth

  • Grass, Günter

  • Graves, Robert Ranke

  • Green, Henry

  • Greene, Graham

  • Green, John

  • Gregory, Lady Augusta

  • Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke

  • Grey, Zane

  • Grimm, Jakob

  • Haggard, Sir Henry Rider

  • Hammett, Dashiell

  • Hamsun, Knut

  • Handke, Peter

  • Hardwick, Elizabeth

  • Hardy, Thomas

  • Harris, Frank

  • Harris, Joel Chandler

  • Harte, Bret

  • Hauptmann, Gerhart

  • Hawkes, John

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  • Hazlitt, William

  • Heinlein, Robert Anson

  • Heller, Joseph

  • Hellman, Lillian

  • Hemingway, Ernest

  • Herrick, Robert

  • Herriot, James

  • Hesse, Hermann

  • Howells, William Dean

  • Hoyle, Edmond

  • Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte

  • Hurston, Zora Neale

  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard

  • Ibsen, Henrik

  • Inge, William Ralph

  • Innes, Michael

  • Irving, John

  • Irving, Washington

  • Isherwood, Christopher

  • Jackson, Shirley

  • James, Henry

  • James, P.D.

  • Jeffers, Robinson

  • Jewett, Sarah Orne

  • Johnson, Samuel

  • Jones, James

  • Jong, Erica (Mann)

  • Jonson, Ben

  • Joyce, James

  • Joyce, William

  • Kafka, Franz

  • Keneally, Thomas

  • Kennedy, William

  • Kerouac, Jack

  • Keyes, Daniel

  • King, Stephen

  • Kingsley, Charles

  • Kipling, Rudyard

  • Kleist, Heinrich von

  • Knowles, John

  • Kosinski, Jerzy

  • Kristeva, Julia

  • Kundera, Milan

  • Kunitz, Stanley

  • Kyd, Thomas

  • Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de

  • Lamb, Charles

  • Lardner, Ring

  • Lawrence, D. H.

  • le Carré, John

  • Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber

  • Lessing, Doris

  • Levi, Primo

  • Lewis, C.S.

  • Lewis, Sinclair

  • Lewis, Wyndham

  • Lodge, David

  • Lofting, Hugh

  • London, Jack

  • Lowell, Robert

  • Lowry, Malcolm

  • Luce, Clare Boothe

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò

  • Macpherson, James

  • Mahfouz, Naguib

  • Mailer, Norman

  • Malamud, Bernard

  • Malory, Sir Thomas

  • Mamet, David

  • Mandeville, Sir John

  • Mann, Thomas

  • Mansfield, Katherine

  • Manzoni, Alessandro

  • Marlowe, Christopher

  • Marsh, Dame Ngaio

  • Marston, John

  • Maugham, William Somerset

  • Maupassant, Guy de

  • Mauriac, François

  • Maxwell, William, Jr.

  • McCarthy, Mary Therese

  • McCullers, Carson

  • Melville, Herman

  • Mencken, Henry Louis

  • Meredith, George

  • Michener, James Albert

  • Middleton, Thomas

  • Miller, Arthur

  • Miller, Henry

  • Milne, A.A.

  • Mishima, Yukio

  • Mitchell, David

  • Mitchell, Margaret

  • Mitford, Nancy

  • Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin

  • Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de

  • Montgomery, L.M.

  • Moore, Brian

  • Moore, George

  • Morante, Elsa

  • More, Sir Thomas

  • Morrison, Toni

  • Mowat, Farley

  • Munro, Alice

  • Murakami, Haruki

  • Murasaki Shikibu

  • Musil, Robert

  • Musset, Alfred de

  • Nabokov, Vladimir

  • Naipaul, V.S.

  • Nemerov, Howard

  • Nin, Anaïs

  • Norris, Frank

  • O. Henry

  • Oates, Joyce Carol

  • O’Brien, Conor Cruise

  • O’Brien, Flann

  • O’Casey, Sean

  • O’Connor, Flannery

  • O’Connor, Frank

  • Odets, Clifford

  • O’Faoláin, Seán

  • O’Flaherty, Liam

  • O’Hara, John

  • O’Neill, Eugene (Gladstone)

  • Ortega y Gasset, José

  • Orwell, George

  • Otway, Thomas

  • Oz, Amos

  • Paine, Thomas

  • Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild)

  • Pater, Walter Horatio

  • Paton, Alan

  • Peacock, Thomas Love

  • Percy, Walker

  • Petronius

  • Phaedrus

  • Pinter, Harold

  • Pirandello, Luigi

  • Plautus

  • Plutarch

  • Poe, Edgar Allan

  • Pohl, Frederik

  • Potter, Beatrix

  • Powell, Anthony

  • Powys, John Cowper

  • Priestley, J.B.

  • Proulx, E. Annie

  • Proust, Marcel

  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich

  • Pynchon, Thomas

  • Rabelais, François

  • Racine, Jean

  • Radcliffe, Ann (Ward)

  • Rand, Ayn

  • Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

  • Remarque, Erich Maria

  • Renault, Mary

  • Rhys, Jean

  • Rice, Elmer

  • Richardson, Henry Handel

  • Richler, Mordecai

  • Rinehart, Mary Roberts

  • Rølvaag, Ole Edvart

  • Rostand, Edmond

  • Roth, Philip

  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques

  • Runyon, Damon

  • Rushdie, Salman

  • Russell, George William

  • Sackville-West, Vita

  • Sagan, Françoise

  • Saint Exupéry, Antoine de

  • Salinger, J.D.

  • Sand, George

  • Saramago, José

  • Saroyan, William

  • Sarton, May

  • Sartre, Jean-Paul

  • Sayers, Dorothy Leigh

  • Schiller, Friedrich von

  • Schnitzler, Arthur

  • Schulberg, Budd

  • Schweitzer, Albert

  • Scott, Sir Walter

  • Sendak, Maurice Bernard

  • Seuss, Dr.

  • Sewell, Anna

  • Shadwell, Thomas

  • Shakespeare, William

  • Shaw, George Bernard

  • Sheldon, Sidney

  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Shepard, Sam

  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

  • Sherwood, Robert Emmet

  • Shute, Nevil

  • Simenon, Georges

  • Sinclair, Upton

  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis

  • Sitwell

  • Smith, Zadie

  • Smollett, Tobias George

  • Snow, C.P.

  • Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

  • Sontag, Susan

  • Sophocles

  • Soyinka, Wole

  • Spark, Dame Muriel

  • Spyri, Johanna

  • Stafford, Jean

  • Steele, Wilbur Daniel

  • Steffens, Lincoln

  • Stein, Gertrude

  • Steinbeck, John

  • Stendhal

  • Stephen, Sir Leslie

  • Stephens, James

  • Sterne, Laurence

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis

  • Stoker, Bram

  • Stout, Rex

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  • Strindberg, Johan August

  • Styron, William

  • Swift, Jonathan

  • Synge, John Millington

  • Tarkington, Booth

  • Lord Tennyson, Alfred

  • Thackeray, William Makepeace

  • Thompson, Hunter S.

  • Thompson, Jim

  • Thoreau, Henry David

  • Thurber, James

  • Tocqueville, Alexis de

  • Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel

  • Tolstoy, Leo, Count

  • Toomer, Jean

  • Traven, B.

  • Trilling, Lionel

  • Trollope, Anthony

  • Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich

  • Twain, Mark

  • Tyler, Anne

  • Tzara, Tristan

  • Undset, Sigrid

  • Updike, John

  • Uris, Leon

  • Vargas Llosa, Mario

  • Verne, Jules

  • Vidal, Gore

  • Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Philippe Auguste Mathias, comte de

  • Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de

  • Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

  • Wain, John

  • Walker, Alice

  • Walpole, Horace

  • Walton, Izaak

  • Warren, Robert Penn

  • Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John

  • Webster, John

  • Wells, Herbert George

  • Welty, Eudora

  • West, Dame Rebecca

  • West, Nathanael

  • Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones

  • White, E.B.

  • White, Edmund

  • White, Patrick

  • Whitehead, Colson

  • Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith)

  • Wilde, Oscar

  • Wilder, Thornton Niven

  • Williams, Tennessee

  • Wilson, August

  • Wilson, Edmund

  • Wister, Owen

  • Wodehouse, P.G.

  • Wolf, Christa

  • Wolfe, Thomas Clayton

  • Wolfe, Tom

  • Wollstonecraft, Mary

  • Woolf, Virginia (Stephen)

  • Wouk, Herman

  • Wright, Richard

  • Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

  • Yan, Mo

  • Yourcenar, Marguerite

  • Zola, Émile

  • Zweig, Stefan

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