Legendary Authors
Famed and awarded authors and poets, shaping the view on literature, creating heroes and legends. Find a selection of books from and about the unforgettable creators of fictions, fantasies, and memories.
Born Solomon Bellows (Jun. 10, 1915 - Apr. 5, 2005). Acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the... (more)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Sept. 1, 1875 – Mar. 19, 1950), Chicago born author, best known for his... (more)
Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English... (more)
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best... (more)
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second... (more)
Gabriel García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo", was born on March 6, 1928.
García Márquez would... (more)
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and... (more)
Doris Lessing, born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, October 22, 1919 is a British writer and... (more)
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was considered one of America's greatest playwrights... (more)
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V.S." Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, August 17, 1932. In 1971... (more)
Harold Pinter (Oct.10, 1930 - Dec. 24, 2008), is a world-renowned English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet... (more)
Philip Pullman (born October 19, 1946 in Norwich, England), British writer and best-selling author of His Dark... (more)
Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 19, 1933. He began publishing short stories... (more)
John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902—December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known of the 20th century. He... (more)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist... (more)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), pen name Mark Twain, was American humorist... (more)
John Hoyer Updike (Mar. 18, 1932 - Jan. 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story... (more)
Elie Wiesel, born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928 in Romania, Jewish writer, professor, political activist and... (more)
