Authors

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Alphabetical list



Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) -- American novelist and nobel laureate, whose naturalistic style was very influential.

Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933) -- popular American humourist and writer.

Siegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist.

Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968) -- American writer, remembered for her depictions of early 20th century life.

Thomas S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) -- American-born poet, playwright and critic whose poems established new techniques and whose unique perspective became a foundation of modern literature..

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923) -- New Zealand-born British short-story writer.

Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) -- German philosopher, who was influential in the development of existentialism.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) -- influential twentieth century analytical philosopher.

Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) -- Agatha Christie was a poet and authoress of detective mysteries..

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) -- American writer of novels, essays and poems.

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) -- first American Nobel Prizewinner whose writings reflected the 40 years she spent in China..

John R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) -- the acclaimed master of classic fantasy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) -- American poet, promoter of traditional verse.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) -- Playwright, poetess remembered for her wit..

Tse-tung Mao (1893 - 1976) -- Founder and first leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose writings have world significance..

Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) -- great British anti-war poet of the First World War..

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- famous for novels with strong, sociological theories, British-born..

e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962) -- American poet, who experimented extensively with language and form..

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) -- American novelist who captured the moral decadance of the 1930 post-war Jazz Age..

John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) -- American post-War writer.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) -- Nobel Laureate and a storyteller of startling originality and power..

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) -- German poet and playwright whose theories of a relationship of alienation between audience and theatre had a marked inpact on the development of drama..

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) -- composer of unique, succinct novels and short stories with an individuality and style that would shape American writing..

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) -- Russian-American author, translator, lepidopterist whose linguistic faculty has been compared to that of James Joyce.

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) -- American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California..

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