Authors
Ordered by date of birth. Order by name
Alphabetical list
Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922) -- American author who was also a diplomat.
Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911) -- American writer and illustrator, famous for his contributions to Harper's magazine.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) -- playwright, poet, novelist and critic born in Ireland, famous for his wit..
F. Marion Crawford (1854 - 1909) -- American writer, whose novels drew on his experience in Italy.
Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920) -- South African writer and political activist.
Frank Harris (1856 - 1931) -- Irish-born American journalist and writer.
H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) -- prolific English novelist and colonial administrator, whose writings are set in exotic regions of the world.
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) -- American educator and writer, who urged for African American economic independence.
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 - 1923) -- American educator and writer, famous for her children's works.
L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) -- American writer, famous for his The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) -- Anglo-Irish playwright and critic.
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) -- novelist and short story writer, one of the first of the Modernist movement; Polish-born.
Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) -- British writer, primarily of children's books.
Arthur C. Doyle (1859 - 1930) -- novelist chiefly remembered for his amateur detective character, Sherlock Holmes.
Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) -- writer of children's stories, most famous for his The Wind in the Willows.
Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938) -- German philosopher; founder of phenomenology.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927) -- English novelist, playwright.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) -- Scottish dramatist and novelist whose work is characterised by his unique view of life..
Ralph Connor (1860 - 1937) -- Canadian novelist, whose writing represents the views of middle-class Canadians in the early 20th century.
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) -- Russian writer; a great dramatist whose plays and short stories have been immensely influential.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) -- British mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated on his master work, Principia Mathematica, with his former student Bertrand Russell.
Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913) -- popular turn-of-the-century Canadian novelist and entertainer.
O Henry (1862 - 1910) -- American short story writer, whose ingenious and often humourous stories about everyday life made him enormously popular in the nineteenth century.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society.
Gilbert Parker (1862 - 1932) -- Canadian-born author and politician.
