Writers & Poets 1-24
24 entries in the Writers & Poets compendium.
Writers & Poets 1-24 — Era Chart
GhalibIndian poet and letter writer of the Mughal Empire.Gotthold Ephraim LessingGerman Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, and first dramaturg.Gustave FlaubertFrench novelist and leading exponent of literary realism.Guy de Maupassant19th-century French short story master and naturalist author.HafezPersian lyric poet whose works are a pinnacle of Persian literature.Han YuTang dynasty essayist and Confucian scholar who shaped Neo-Confucianism.Haruki MurakamiJapanese author of best-selling, genre-blending novels.Heinrich HeineGerman poet and satirist whose works were banned and later became prophetic.Henrik IbsenNorwegian playwright considered father of modern drama.Henry JamesAmerican-British novelist, key figure between realism and modernism.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmerican poet and educator, fireside poet from New England.Hermann HesseGerman-Swiss poet and novelist, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.Honoré de BalzacFrench novelist and playwright, founder of realism.Hunter S. ThompsonAmerican journalist and author who popularized gonzo journalism.Ivan BuninFirst Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.Ivan TurgenevRussian novelist and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian novelist, Nobel laureate, and two-time Booker winner.J. R. R. TolkienEnglish author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.Jack KerouacAmerican novelist and poet, Beat Generation pioneer.Jack LondonAmerican novelist, journalist, activist, and pioneer of commercial fiction.James JoyceIrish modernist writer known for Ulysses and stream of consciousness.Jane AustenEnglish novelist whose six major novels have inspired nearly two centuries of adaptations.Jean CocteauAvant-garde artist whose work spanned poetry, theatre, and film.Jean RacineFrench dramatist, master of neoclassical tragedy and the alexandrine.
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