Ordered by name. Order by date of birth
Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901) -- Swiss author of children's stories.
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) -- American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California..
Robert L. Stevenson (1850 - 1894) -- author of fiction works that have become legendary in children's literature..
Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) -- Irish author of well-known gothic horror fantasy novels.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) -- American writer, who wrote an unmatched powerful indictment of slavery, <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>.
Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) -- American feminist and writer.
Francisco Suarez (1548 - 1617) -- metaphysician whose original theories challenged dominant traditional scholastic doctrine.
Sun Tzu (500 - 320) -- Sun Tzu is the name given to the authors of the famous treatise The Art of War.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) -- satirist and champion of the Irish people.
J.M. Synge (1871 - 1909) -- Irish poet and dramatist, who wrote about the bleak lives of many of the Irish people.
Bayard Taylor (1828 - 1898) -- U.S. statesman and writer.
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) -- American poet of personal lyrics.
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Victorian poet.
William Makepiece Thackeray (1811 - 1863) -- nineteenth century British novelist.
Thales (500 - 500) -- reputedly living in the sixth century BC, Thales is traditionally regarded as the first ever philosopher.
Theophrastus (371 - 287) -- successor of Aristotle, who developed the latter's philosophy in important respects.
Dylan M. Thomas (1914 - 1953) -- controversial Welsh poet, playwright and short-story writer whose work elicited strong emotional responses..
Henry D. Thoreau (1817 - 1862) -- American writer and philosopher, remembered for his autobiographic Walden, and his naturalist style.
John R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) -- the acclaimed master of classic fantasy.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) -- one of the greatest of all novelists; Russian author of realistic fiction..
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) -- nineteenth century British novelist.
Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) -- American writer and humourist, whose adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer won him worldwide acclaim.
Lorenzo Valla (1407 - 1457) -- Italian humanist who was critical of medieval scholasticism.
Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) -- American clergyman and writer.