Louisa May Alcott
author of Little Women
Hans Christian Anderson
fairy tale writer
Margaret Atwood
Canadian novelist, poet
Jane Austen
English novelist
Susan Wise Bauer
The Story of the World series
Fawn M. Brodie
biographer
Robert Browning
English poet
Pearl S. Buck
Nobel prize-winning author
William F. Buckley, Jr.
conservative writer
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Willa Cather
American novelist
Agatha Christie
mystery author
Samuel Clemens
a.k.a. Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
English novelist
Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
early feminist writer
Alex Haley
African-American novelist
Sharlot Hall
poet, writer, Arizona historian
Joshua Harris
pastor and author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Bret Harte
frontier California journalist
L. Ron Hubbard
science fiction writer
Helen Keller
blind and deaf author and lecturer
Jonathan Krohn
child political prodigy and teen author of Define Conservatism
Rose Wilder Lane
journalist, ghostwriter, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder
C.S. Lewis
Christian writer and apologist
Amy Lowell
Modernist poet
Gabriela Mistral
Nobel-prize winning Latin American poet
Sean O'Casey
Irish author
Thomas Paine
political writer during the American Revolution, author of Common Sense
Christopher Paolini
teen author of Eragon
Isabel Paterson
conservative political author
Alexander Pope
English essayist
Eleanor H. Porter
author of Pollyanna
Beatrix Potter
author of Peter Rabbit Tales
Jedediah Purdy
author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Kenneth Rexroth
poet, translator, critical essayist
Carl Sandburg
American poet
George Bernard Shaw
Irish-born playwright
Mary Shelley
best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein which she wrote at age 18
Mattie J. T. Stepanek
11-year-old author of Heartsongs
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Rosemary Sutcliff
historical novels for children
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, essayist, dramatist, songwriter
J.R.R. Tolkien
author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer
Mark Twain
American writer and satirist
Mercy Warren
American Revolution eyewitness
Phillis Wheatley
African-American poet
Walt Whitman
American poet
Laura Ingalls Wilder
children’s book author
Virginia Woolf
English novelist
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