Authors
Ordered by date of birth. Order by name
Alphabetical list
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) -- British mathematician and logician, who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was a leading civil-rights activist.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) -- Controversial American poet famous for poems depicting nature and his use of colloquial American speech..
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) -- Edwardian era novelist, essayist and poet.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942) -- Canadian writer, famous for her Anne of Green Gables.
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) -- leading poet of the imagist school and a literary critic.
Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) -- English writer of characteristically stylistic novels and short stories.
Edgar R. Burroughs (1875 - 1950) -- science fiction author, remembered best for his Tarzan of the Apes.
John Buchan (1875 - 1940) -- Scottish politician and writer.
Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) -- English writer of mystery stories.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875 - 1935) -- American writer, most famously of short stories.
Zane Grey (1875 - 1939) -- American novelist, many of whose works are set in the American West.
Jack London (1876 - 1916) -- American author of realistic fiction.
Willa Sibert Cather (1876 - 1947) -- novelist, who memorably portrayed the life of American settlers.
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1958) -- American writer of mystery stories.
James Curwood (1878 - 1927) -- American novelist, who most of his life in Owosso, Michigan.
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) -- American novelist, journalist, remembered for his contribution to economic reform.
Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- notable English novelist.
Arthur B. Reeve (1880 - 1936) -- American author of mystery fiction.
P.G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) -- Anglo-American author, remembered best for his humourous fictional characters such as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves.
James Joyce (1882 - 1941) -- the most influential novelist of the 20th century.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) -- notable novelist and feminist critic.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) -- Kafka's hugely influential novels and short stories prefigured existentialism and set the tone for much 20th century fiction.
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) -- American poet of personal lyrics.
David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) -- influential 20th century American poet and critic.
