THORNTON WILDER: American author best known for play Our Town OSCAR WILDE: Irish/English author. The Picture of Dorian Gray, etc WALT WHITMAN: American poet. Leaves of Grass, etc H G WELLS: English author. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, etc JULES VERNE: French. A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, etc MARK TWAIN: aka Samuel Clemens. American. Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc LEO TOLSTOY: Russian. War and Peace, Anna Karenina, etc J R R TOLKIEN: Best known for The Hobbit and the trilogy The Lord of the Rings JONATHAN SWIFT: English author best known for Gulliver's Travels JOHN STEINBECK: American author. Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, etc WILLIAM SAROYAN: The Human Comedy, etc AYN RAND: American. Best known for Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, etc EDGAR ALLAN POE: American author/poet. The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, etc THOMAS PAINE: Best known for Common Sense and The Age of Reason, etc GEORGE ORWELL: English author. Animal Farm, 1984, etc OGDEN NASH: American author. "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker" JOHN MILTON: English. Paradise Lost. "They also serve who only stand and wait." A A MILNE: English author best known for Winnie-The-Pooh HERMAN MELVILLE: American author best known for novel Moby Dick THOMAS MANN: German. Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, etc JACK LONDON: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Sea-Wolf, etc SINCLAIR LEWIS: American author. Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, etc D H LAWRENCE: English author. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love, etc RUDYARD KIPLING: English author. The Jungle Book, Gunga Din, Kim, etc JOHN KEATS: English poet. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." JAMES JOYCE: Irish author. Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, etc HENRY JAMES: American author best known for The Turn of the Screw ALDOUS HUXLEY: English author best known for Brave New World VICTOR HUGO: French. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, etc LANGSTON HUGHES: American. The Ways of White Folks, Shakespeare in Harlem, etc HERMANN HESSE: German. Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, etc ERNEST HEMINGWAY: American. The Sun Also Rises. The Old Man and the Sea, etc LILLIAN HELLMAN: Best known for An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, etc WILHELM GRIMM: German. Best known for Grimm's Fairy Tales (with Jakob) JAKOB GRIMM: German. Best known for Grimm's Fairy Tales (with Wilhelm) ROBERT FROST: American poet. "And miles to go before I sleep" E M FORSTER: English. A Room with a View, Howard's End, A Passage to India GUSTAVE FLAUBERT: French. Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education, etc HENRY FIELDING: English author best known for novel Tom Jones WILLIAM FAULKNER: American author. The Sound and the Fury, etc T S ELIOT: English author/poet. The Waste Land, etc ALEXANDRE DUMAS: French. The Count of Monte-Cristo, The Three Musketeers, etc JOHN DONNE: English. The Anniversaries, Songs and Sonnets Karamazov EMILY DICKINSON: American poet. CHARLES DICKENS: English author. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, etc DANIEL DEFOE: English. Best known for Robinson Crusoe E E CUMMINGS: More often known as e e cummings STEPHEN CRANE: Best known for The Red Badge of Courage JOSEPH CONRAD: British author. Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, etc SAMUEL CLEMENS: aka Mark Twain. American. Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc AGATHA CHRISTIE: English author best known for murder mysteries ANTON CHEKHOV: Russian. Motley Tales, The Duel, Uncle Vanya GEOFFREY CHAUCER: Early English poet. The Canterbury Tales, etc WILLA CATHER: American author best known for novels of frontier life LEWIS CARROLL: English author. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc ALBERT CAMUS: French. The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel, Caligula, etc PEARL BUCK: Best known for novel The Good Earth ROBERT BROWNING: English poet. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, etc ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." WILLIAM BLAKE: English author/artist. Songs of Innocence, etc SAMUEL BECKETT: French author. Waiting for Godot, etc JAMES BALDWIN: American. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, etc JANE AUSTEN: English. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, etc