586 authors across 17 traditions
A. A. Milne
1882 – 1956
English · Early 20th Century
3 in library
A. E. W. Mason
·
2 in library
A. N. Afanasyev
1 in library
A. P. Herbert
A. W. Tozer
Ada Elizabeth Chesterton
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Smith
1723 – 1790
Scottish · Enlightenment
Aeschylus
-525 – -456
Greek · Ancient
Aesop
Agatha Christie
1890 – 1976
12 in library
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
Alain-René Lesage
Aldous Huxley
1894 – 1963
4 in library
Aleksandr Kuprin
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Pushkin
Alexandre Dumas
1802 – 1870
French · Modern
6 in library
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Algernon Blackwood
Ambrose Bierce
Ameen Rihani
Anatole France
André Gide
Andre Norton
11 in library
Anita Loos
Ann Radcliffe
Anna Julia Cooper
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Sewell
Anne Brontë
Anonymous
Various · Various
Anthony Berkeley
Anthony Hope
Anthony Trollope
1815 – 1882
English · 19th Century
20 in library
Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904
Russian · Modern
Apollonius of Rhodes
-295 – -215
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apuleius
124 – 170
Roman · Ancient
Aristotle
-384 – -322
Arnold Bennett
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859 – 1930
British · 19th Century
Arthur Machen
Arthur Ransome
Arthur W. Pinero
August Strindberg
Augustine
354 – 430
Berber-Roman · Medieval
Augustine of Hippo
Banjo Paterson
Barbara Newhall Follett
Baroness Orczy
Barry Goldwater
Beatrix Potter
Ben Jonson
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Bertha von Suttner
Bertrand Russell
Black Hawk
Boethius
Booker T. Washington
Booth Tarkington
Bram Stoker
1847 – 1912
Irish · 19th Century
C. E. Montague
C. S. Forester
C. S. Lewis
Calvin Coolidge
Carey Rockwell
Carlo Collodi
1826 – 1890
Italian · 19th Century
Carolyn Keene
Carolyn Wells
Charles Beaumont
Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882
Charles Dickens
1812 – 1870
15 in library
Charles Kingsley
Charles Maturin
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charlotte Brontë
1816 – 1855
British · Modern
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Christopher Marlowe
1564 – 1593
English · Renaissance
Christopher Morley
Cicely Hamilton
Cicero
-106 – -43
Clara Reeve
Clark Ashton Smith
Claude McKay
Clifford D. Simak
Compton Mackenzie
Constance Holme
Cordwainer Smith
D. H. Lawrence
1885 – 1930
5 in library
Daisy Ashford
Daniel Defoe
1660 – 1731
English · Enlightenment
Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321
Italian · Medieval
Daphne du Maurier
Dashiell Hammett
David Garnett
David Hume
David Lindsay
Denis Diderot
Diogenes Laërtius
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Day
Dorothy L. Sayers
1893 – 1957
Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace
Dorothy M. Richardson
E. C. Bentley
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Smith
E. F. Benson
E. F. Knight
E. H. Young
E. M. Forster
1879 – 1970
E. Nesbit
1858 – 1924
10 in library
E. Pauline Johnson
E. Phillips Oppenheim
E. R. Eddison
E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. W. Hornung
Earl Derr Biggers
Edgar Allan Poe
1809 – 1849
American · 19th Century
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 in library
Edgar Saltus
Edgar Wallace
Edith Wharton
1862 – 1937
American · Early 20th Century
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Edmund Spenser
1552 – 1599
Edna Ferber
Edward Bellamy
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Eggleston
Edward Gibbon
1737 – 1794
Edward Lear
Edward Payson Roe
Edward Thomas
Edward Whymper
Edwin A. Abbott
Eleanor H. Porter
Elias Lönnrot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Gaskell
1810 – 1865
Elizabeth von Arnim
Ella Cheever Thayer
Ellery Queen
Émile Gaboriau
Émile Zola
1840 – 1902
French · 19th Century
Emily Brontë
1818 – 1848
Emma Goldman
Epictetus
Erich Maria Remarque
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Poole
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Thompson Seton
Erskine Childers
Ethel Voynich
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Eugene O'Neill
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Waugh
1903 – 1966
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 – 1940
Fanny Burney
Felix Salten
Fergus Hume
Fernando Pessoa
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Ford Madox Ford
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1849 – 1924
British-American · 19th Century
Frances Noyes Hart
Francis La Flesche
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Frank Norris
Franklin W. Dixon
8 in library
Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924
Czech · Early 20th Century
Frédéric Mistral
Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895
Frederick Rolfe
Frederik Pohl
Freeman Wills Crofts
7 in library
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
German · 19th Century
Friedrich Spielhagen
Fritz Leiber
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881
Russian · 19th Century
Fyodor Sologub
G. D. H. Cole
G. E. Moore
G. K. Chesterton
1874 – 1936
Gaston Leroux
Gene Stratton-Porter
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 – 1400
English · Medieval
Geoffrey Dennis
George Barr McCutcheon
George Bernard Shaw
1856 – 1950
17 in library
George Borrow
George Dilnot
George du Maurier
George Eliot
1819 – 1880
George Gissing
George Grey
George MacDonald
1824 – 1905
Scottish · 19th Century
George S. Schuyler
George Sand
George William Russell
Georgette Heyer
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Geronimo
Gertrude Stein
Giovanni Boccaccio
Godfrey R. Benson
Graham Greene
Grazia Deledda
Gustave Flaubert
1821 – 1880
Gustave Le Bon
Guy de Maupassant
H. Beam Piper
H. C. McNeile
H. de Vere Stacpoole
H. G. Wells
1866 – 1946
13 in library
H. P. Lovecraft
1890 – 1937
H. Rider Haggard
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Harold Frederic
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811 – 1896
Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet Jacobs
Harry Harrison
Helen Herron Taft
Helen Keller
Henrik Ibsen
1828 – 1906
Norwegian · 19th Century
Henry Adams
Henry Blake Fuller
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Fielding
1707 – 1754
Henry George
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry James
1843 – 1916
American-British · 19th Century
Henry Kuttner
Henry Lawson
Henry van Dyke Jr.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Herman Melville
1819 – 1891
Hermann Hesse
1877 – 1962
German-Swiss · Early 20th Century
Herodotus
-484 – -425
Hilaire Belloc
Hjalmar Söderberg
Homer
-800 – -701
Honoré de Balzac
1799 – 1850
14 in library
Hope Mirrlees
Horace Walpole
1717 – 1797
Horatio Alger Jr.
Hugh Lofting
Isaac Asimov
Israel Zangwill
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Turgenev
1818 – 1883
Ivy Compton-Burnett
J. B. Priestley
J. J. Connington
J. M. Barrie
J. M. Synge
J. P. Jacobsen
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Storer Clouston
J. W. von Goethe
J.-K. Huysmans
Jack London
1876 – 1916
9 in library
Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm
Jacob Riis
James Branch Cabell
James Fenimore Cooper
1789 – 1851
James Hogg
James Joyce
1882 – 1941
Irish · Early 20th Century
James Stephens
James Weldon Johnson
Jane Addams
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817
Jean Grave
Jean Toomer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 – 1778
Genevan-French · Enlightenment
Jerome K. Jerome
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Joel Barlow
Johann David Wyss
Johanna Spyri
John A. Lomax
John Buchan
John Bunyan
1628 – 1688
John Cowper Powys
John Dewey
John Dos Passos
John Galsworthy
John Henry Newman
John Locke
1632 – 1704
John Maynard Keynes
John Meade Falkner
John Milton
1608 – 1674
John Muir
John Reed
John Ruskin
John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873
John W. Campbell
John Webster
Johnston McCulley
Jonas Lie
Jonathan Swift
1667 – 1745
Irish · Enlightenment
Jorge Isaacs
José Rizal
Joseph Conrad
1857 – 1924
Polish-British · Modern
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Jacobs
Josephine Tey
1896 – 1952
Scottish · Early 20th Century
Josiah Henson
Jules Verne
19 in library
Julia Peterkin
Julius Caesar
-100 – -44
Karel Čapek
Karl Gjellerup
Karl Marx
Kate Chopin
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Kenneth Grahame
Khalil Gibran
Knut Hamsun
L. Frank Baum
L. M. Montgomery
L. T. Hobhouse
Lady Gregory & W. B. Yeats
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston
Laozi
Laurence Sterne
1713 – 1768
Irish-English · Enlightenment
Leo Tolstoy
1828 – 1910
Leonid Andreyev
Lew Wallace
Lewis Carroll
1832 – 1898
Lewis Mumford
Liam O'Flaherty
Lloyd C. Douglas
Lord Byron
Lord Dunsany
Louis Bromfield
Louis H. Sullivan
Louis Hémon
Louis Joseph Vance
Louisa May Alcott
1832 – 1888
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luigi Pirandello
Luís de Camões
Lysander Spooner
Lytton Strachey
M. E. Braddon
M. G. Lewis
M. P. Shiel
M. R. James
Mack Reynolds
Mahatma Gandhi
Manly Wade Wellman
Marcel Proust
1871 – 1922
French · Early 20th Century
Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Wilson
Margery Allingham
Maria Bochkareva
Maria Edgeworth
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Marie de France
Mark Rutherford
Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Marmaduke Pickthall
Martin Andersen Nexø
Mary Austin
Mary Parker Follett
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Seacole
Mary Shelley
1797 – 1851
Mary Weston Fordham
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Henson
Maurice Leblanc
Max Beerbohm
May Sinclair
Metta Victor
Michael Arlen
Mignon G. Eberhart
Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616
Spanish · Renaissance
Mikhail Artsybashev
Miles Franklin
Mina Loy
Molière
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 – 1864
Natsume Sōseki
Nella Larsen
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469 – 1527
Italian · Renaissance
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Noël Coward
Norbert Jacques
O. Henry
Octave Mirbeau
Okakura Kakuzō
Olaf Stapledon
Olaudah Equiano
1745 – 1797
British-African · Enlightenment
Oliver Goldsmith
1728 – 1774
Oliver La Farge
Omar Khayyám
Oscar Wilde
1854 – 1900
Ovid
-43 – 18
Owen Johnson
Owen Wister
P. G. Wodehouse
22 in library
P. T. Barnum
Paul Dukes
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pearl S. Buck
Pedro Carolino
Percy Marks
Peter Kropotkin
1842 – 1921
Philip Francis Nowlan
Philip Gibbs
Philip K. Dick
Philip MacDonald
Philip Wylie
Phillis Wheatley
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pindar
Plato
-428 – -348
Poul Anderson
Procopius
R. A. Lafferty
R. Austin Freeman
R. D. Blackmore
R. H. Tawney
R. M. Ballantyne
Rabindranath Tagore
Radclyffe Hall
Rafael Sabatini
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ray Bradbury
René Descartes
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard F. Burton
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Richard Hughes
Richard Jefferies
Richard Marsh
Richard Steele
Richmal Crompton
Ring Lardner
Robert Derby Holmes
Robert E. Howard
Robert Frost
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 – 1894
Robert Sheckley
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Service
Rolf Boldrewood
Romain Rolland
Ronald A. Knox
Rose Macaulay
Rose Wilder Lane
Roswitha of Gandersheim
Rudyard Kipling
1865 – 1936
Rufus King
Russell Thorndike
S. Fowler Wright
S. M. Mitra
S. S. Van Dine
Saki
Samuel Butler
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Pepys
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Richardson
1689 – 1761
Sarah Orne Jewett
Selma Lagerlöf
Seneca
-4 – 65
Sheridan Le Fanu
1814 – 1873
Sherwood Anderson
Siegfried Sassoon
Sigrid Undset
Sinclair Lewis
1885 – 1951
Solomon Northup
Sophocles
-496 – -406
Stella Benson
Stendhal
Stephen Crane
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Vincent Benét
Suetonius
Sun Tzu
Susanna Rowson
Sylvia Townsend Warner
T. E. Lawrence
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
Taras Shevchenko
The Beowulf Poet
Anglo-Saxon · Medieval
Thea von Harbou
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Roosevelt
Thiruvalluvar
Thomas à Kempis
Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
1840 – 1928
Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679
Thomas Hughes
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Malory
1415 – 1471
Thomas Mann
1875 – 1955
German · Early 20th Century
Thomas More
Thomas Paine
1737 – 1809
English-American · Enlightenment
Thomas Wolfe
Thornton W. Burgess
Thornton Wilder
Thorstein Veblen
Thucydides
-460 – -400
Tom Taylor
Ulysses S. Grant
Unknown
Upton Sinclair
Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
Virgil
-70 – -19
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Korolenko
Voltaire
1694 – 1778
French · Enlightenment
Voltairine de Cleyre
W. B. Yeats
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963
W. H. Hudson
W. N. P. Barbellion
W. R. Burnett
W. Somerset Maugham
Wallace Thurman
Walt Whitman
1819 – 1892
Walter Bagehot
Walter de la Mare
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Walter Noble Burns
Walter Pater
Walter S. Masterman
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Wilkie Collins
1824 – 1889
Willa Cather
1873 – 1947
William Beckford
William Carlos Williams
William Congreve
William Craft
William Dean Howells
William F. Cody
William Faulkner
1897 – 1962
William Gerhardie
William Hazlitt
William Hope Hodgson
William James
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811 – 1863
William Morris
William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616
39 in library
William Wells Brown
William Wordsworth
William Wycherley
Winston Churchill
Władysław Reymont
Woodrow Wilson
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Zane Grey
Zeami Motokiyo
Zitkála-Šá