Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems...
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai , he is best known for his works The Jungle Book and Just So...
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written...
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American mainstream, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and 1950's The Martian...
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. His children's books included Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor...
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. Best known for his novels that could broadly be described as suspense thrillers, Koontz also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science...
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views...
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen,...
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism,...
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss (often pronounced /ˈsuːs/ or /ˈsjuːs/,...
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry,...
John Michael Crichton, M.D. pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/ , is an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known for his science fiction...
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of...
Ann Hart Coulter is an American political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio and as a speaker at public and...
William Joyce is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Newsweek has called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the new millennium. His illustrations have appeared...
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international...
Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that...
Thomas Lanier Williams III , better known as Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in...
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's...
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer,...
David "Dave" Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005 and bestselling American author. He...
Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment,...
Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning...
Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as...