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| Espècimens | A. A. Milne, A.A. Milne, Alan Alexander Milne | English writer of stories for children (1882-1956) |
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| Agatha Christie | prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976) |
| Alan Paton | South African writer (1903-1988) |
| Albert Camus, Camus | French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated / isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) |
| Aldous Huxley | English writer |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) |
| Alessandro Manzoni, Manzoni | Italian novelist and poet (1785-1873) |
| Alex Haley, Haley | United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back / back to Africa (1921-1992) |
| Alexandre Dumas, Dumas | French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870) |
| Alfred de Musset | French poet and writer (1810-1857) |
| Alice B. Toklas | United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967) |
| Alice Walker, Walker | United States writer (born in 1944) |
| Ambrose Bierce | United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914) |
| Anatole France | French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924) |
| Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen | A Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875) |
| Anderson, Sherwood Anderson | United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941) |
| Andre Gide | French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) |
| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt | wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962) |
| Anthony Burgess | English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993) |
| Anthony Trollope | English writer of novels (1815-1882) |
| Arthur Conan Doyle, Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930) |
| Arthur Koestler | British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983) |
| Austen, Jane Austen | English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817) |
| Ayn Rand | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) |
| Baldwin, James Baldwin | United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism / racism (1924-1987) |
| Beatrice Webb | English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943) |
| Beckett, Samuel Beckett | A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France |
| Ben Hecht | United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946) |
| Benet | United States writer |
| Benjamin Franklin | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics |
| Bernard Malamud | United States writer (1914-1986) |
| Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, Shaw | British playwright (born in Ireland) |
| Boris Pasternak, Pasternak | Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published / published abroad (1890-1960) |
| Boyle | United States writer (1902-1992) |
| Bram Stoker | Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) |
| Bret Harte | United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902) |
| Calvino, Italo Calvino | Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987) |
| Carl Sandburg | United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967) |
| Carlos Fuentes Macías, Carlos Fuentes | Mexican novelist (born in 1928) |
| Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll | English author |
| Carson McCullers | United States novelist (1917-1967) |
| Cecil Scott Forester | English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) |
| Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) |
| Chandler, Raymond Chandler | United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959) |
| Charles Dickens, Dickens | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) |
| Charles Percy Snow, Snow | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) |
| Chateaubriand | French statesman and writer |
| Cheever, John Cheever | United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982) |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton | Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion |
| Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison | United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931) |
| Chopin, Kate Chopin | United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904) |
| Christopher Isherwood | United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986) |
| Churchill, Winston Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II |
| Clive Staples Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Lewis | English critic and novelist |
| Cocteau, Jean Cocteau | French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963) |
| Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | French writer of novels about women (1873-1954) |
| Collins, Wilkie Collins | English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889) |
| Conrad, Joseph Conrad | English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924) |
| Conrad Aiken | United States writer (1889-1973) |
| Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper | United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) |
| Daniel Defoe | English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731) |
| Daphne du Maurier | English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989) |
| Dashiell Hammett | United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961) |
| David Herbert Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence | English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) |
| Donald Barthelme | United States author of sometimes surrealistic stories (1931-1989) |
| Doris Lessing | English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957) |
| Dorothy Parker, Parker | United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967) |
| Dostoevski, Dostoyevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Fiódor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881) |
| Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel | United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) |
| E. L. Doctorow | United States novelist (born in 1931) |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Poe | United States writer and poet (1809-1849) |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) |
| Edgar Wallace, Wallace | English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932) |
| Edith Wharton | United States novelist (1862-1937) |
| Edmond Hoyle | English writer on card games (1672-1769) |
| Edna Ferber | United States novelist |
| Edna O'Brien, O'Brien | Irish writer (born in 1932) |
| Elias Canetti | English writer born in Germany (1905-1994) |
| Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel | United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865) |
| Elmore Leonard, Leonard | United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925) |
| Elwyn Brooks White | United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson | United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882) |
| Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell, Orwell | imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) |
| Erica Jong | United States writer (born in 1942) |
| Erle Stanley Gardner, Gardner | writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970) |
| Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway | An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) |
| Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann | German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) |
| Erskine Caldwell | United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) |
| Esteve, Stephen | English writer (1832-1904) |
| Eudora Welty | United States writer about rural southern life (1909-2001) |
| Evelyn Waugh | English author of satirical novels (1903-1966) |
| Ezra Pound | United States writer who lived in Europe |
| Farrell | United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) |
| Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald | United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940) |
| Flannery O'Connor, O'Connor | United States writer (1925-1964) |
| Ford Madox Ford | English writer and editor (1873-1939) |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | United States writer (born in England) remembered for her novels for children (1849-1924) |
| Francois Mauriac | French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire and religious belief (1885-1970) |
| Frank Harris | Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) |
| Frank Norris | United States writer (1870-1902) |
| Franz Kafka, Kafka | Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) |
| Franz Werfel, Werfel | United States writer (1890-1945) |
| François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire | French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778) |
| Gai Petroni, Petroni | Roman satirist (died in 66) |
| Gaius Plinius Secundus, Plini el Vell, Plini, Pliny | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history |
| George Eliot | British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) |
| George Sand | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876) |
| George William Russell | Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935) |
| Georges Simenon | French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989) |
| Gertrude Stein | experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) |
| Gore Vidal, Vidal | United States writer (born in 1925) |
| Gorki, Maxim Gorki | Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories |
| Graham Greene, Greene | English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991) |
| Grey, Zane Grey | United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939) |
| Gustave Flaubert | French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880) |
| Hardy, Thomas Hardy | English novelist and poet (1840-1928) |
| Harold Nicolson, Sir Harold George Nicolson | English diplomat and author (1886-1968) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) |
| Hector Hugh Munro, Munros | British writer of short stories (1870-1916) |
| Heinrich Boell | German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust / unjust / unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885) |
| Helen Keller, Keller | United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months |
| Henry David Thoreau | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) |
| Henry Fielding | English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754) |
| Henry James, James | writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916) |
| Henry Miller | United States novelist whose novels were originally / originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980) |
| Herbert George Wells, H. G. Wells | prolific English writer / writer best known for his science-fiction novels |
| Herman Melville, Melville | United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891) |
| Herman Wouk | United States writer (born in 1915) |
| Hermann Hesse, Hesse | Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962) |
| Higginson | United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911) |
| Hilaire Belloc | English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953) |
| Horace Walpole | English writer and historian |
| Horatio Alger | United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys |
| Howard Pyle | United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911) |
| Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming | British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964) |
| Iris Murdoch | British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999) |
| Irving, John Irving | United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942) |
| Irving, Washington Irving | United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859) |
| Isaac Asimov | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992) |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) |
| Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen | Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962) |
| Israel Zangwill | English writer (1864-1926) |
| Ivan Turgenev | Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883) |
| Izaac Walton, Izaak Walton | English writer remember for his treatise on fishing / fishing (1593-1683) |
| J. D. Salinger, Jerome David Salinger | United States writer (born 1919) |
| Jack Kerouac | United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) |
| Jack London, John Griffith Chaney | United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) |
| James Boswell | Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) |
| James Branch Cabell | United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) |
| James Joyce, Joyce | influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations / innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) |
| James Michener | United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) |
| Jane Jacobs | United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916) |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau | French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland |
| Jean de La Fontaine, La Fontaine | French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695) |
| Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) |
| Jessica Mitford | United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996) |
| Joan Didion | United States writer (born in 1934) |
| Joel Chandler Harris | United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908) |
| John Addington Symonds | English writer (1840-1893) |
| John Barth | United States novelist (born in 1930) |
| John Bunyan | English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688) |
| John Cowper Powys | British writer of novels about nature |
| John Dos Passos | United States novelist remembered for his portrayal of life in the United States (1896-1970) |
| John Galsworthy | English novelist (1867-1933) |
| John Lyly | English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606) |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien | British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) |
| John Steinbeck | United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968) |
| John Updike | United States author (born 1932) |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986) |
| Joseph Heller | United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999) |
| Joyce Carol Oates | United States writer (born in 1938) |
| Jules Verne, Verne | French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905) |
| Karl Gjellerup | Danish novelist (1857-1919) |
| Katherine Anne Porter, Porter | United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980) |
| Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923) |
| Ken Kesey | United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) |
| Kenneth Grahame | English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) |
| Knut Hamsun, Knut Pedersen | Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952) |
| Kurt Vonnegut | United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922) |
| L. Ron Hubbard | A United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986) |
| La Rochefoucauld | French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680) |
| Langston Hughes | United States writer (1902-1967) |
| Laurence Sterne | English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766) |
| Lawrence Durrell | English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990) |
| Leigh Hunt | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) |
| Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoi, Lleó Tolstoy, Tolstoy | Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910) |
| Lermontov | Russian writer (1814-1841) |
| Liam O'Flaherty | Irish writer of short stories (1896-1984) |
| Louis Aragon | French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982) |
| Louis Auchincloss | United States writer (born in 1917) |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Canadian novelist (1874-1942) |
| Malcolm Lowry | English novelist (1909-1957) |
| Malraux | French novelist (1901-1976) |
| Margaret Mitchell | United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949) |
| Mario Vargas Llosa, Vargas Llosa | Peruvian writer (born in 1936) |
| Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens | United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) |
| Marqués de Sade, Sade | French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term 'sadism' (1740-1814) |
| Marshall McLuhan | Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980) |
| Mary McCarthy, McCarthy | United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989) |
| Mary Shelley | English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women |
| Maupassant | French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893) |
| Maurois | French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967) |
| Max Beerbohm | English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956) |
| Michael Ondaatje | Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943) |
| Mickey Spillane | United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918) |
| Montaigne | French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592) |
| Mordecai Richler | Canadian novelist (born in 1931) |
| Muriel Spark | Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918) |
| Nadine Gordimer | South African novelist and short-story writer / writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923) |
| Nancy Mitford | English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) |
| Nash, Ogden Nash | United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971) |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864) |
| Nelson Algren | United States writer (1909-1981) |
| Nevil Shute | English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) |
| Ngaio Marsh | New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982) |
| Norman Mailer | United States writer (born in 1923) |
| O. Henry, Porter | United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910) |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774) |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894) |
| Oscar Wilde, Wilde | Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) |
| Owen Wister | United States writer (1860-1938) |
| P. G. Wodehouse | English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975) |
| Patrick Victor Martindale White, Patrick White | Australian writer (1912-1990) |
| Paul Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | German writer (1830-1914) |
| Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China / China (1892-1973) |
| Percy, Walker Percy | United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990) |
| Philip Roth | United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933) |
| Plini el Jove | Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder |
| Rabindranath Tagore, Tagore | Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941) |
| Radclyffe Hall | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) |
| Ralph Ellison | United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994) |
| Ray Bradbury | United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) |
| Rebecca West | British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) |
| Richard Wright, Wright | United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression / oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) |
| Ring Lardner | United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933) |
| Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein | United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988) |
| Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley | United States humorist (1889-1945) |
| Robert Graves | English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985) |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Scottish author (1850-1894) |
| Robert Penn Warren, Warren | United States writer and poet (1905-1989) |
| Rudyard Kipling | English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936) |
| S. S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright | United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) |
| Salman Rushdie | British writer of novels who was born in India |
| Samuel Butler | English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902) |
| Samuel Johnson | English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784) |
| Saul Bellow | United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005) |
| Schiller | German romantic writer (1759-1805) |
| Sholem Asch | United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957) |
| Sigrid Undset | Norwegian novelist (1882-1949) |
| Sinclair Lewis | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) |
| Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham | English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965) |
| Steele | English writer (1672-1729) |
| Stefan Zweig | Austrian writer (1881-1942) |
| Stephen Crane | United States writer (1871-1900) |
| Stockton | United States writer (1834-1902) |
| Susan Sontag | United States writer (born in 1933) |
| Sylvia Plath | United States writer and poet (1932-1963) |
| T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence | Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks |
| Theodore Dreiser | United States novelist (1871-1945) |
| Thomas De Quincey | English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859) |
| Thomas Malory | English writer who published a translation of romances / romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471) |
| Thomas Mann | German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) |
| Thomas Merton | United States religious and writer (1915-1968) |
| Thomas More | English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded |
| Thomas Nelson Page | United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) |
| Thomas Pynchon | United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937) |
| Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe | United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931) |
| Thomas Wolfe | United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938) |
| Thornton Niven Wilder, Thornton Wilder | United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) |
| Tobias Smollett | Scottish writer of adventure novels (1721-1771) |
| Upton Sinclair | United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968) |
| Virginia Woolf | English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue |
| Vladimir Nabokov | United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977) |
| Walter Scott | British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832) |
| Ward | English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) |
| Wilhelm Grimm | The younger of the two Grimm / Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) |
| Willa Cather | United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947) |
| William Dean Howells | United States writer and editor (1837-1920) |
| William Golding | English novelist (1911-1993) |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | English writer (born in India) (1811-1863) |
| William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs | United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) |
| William Saroyan | United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981) |
| William Styron | United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) |
| Witold Gombrowicz | Polish author (1904-1969) |
| Específic | assagista | A writer of literary works |
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| autora, escriptora | A woman author |
| biògraf | someone who writes an account of a person's life |
| coautor | A writer who collaborates with others in writing something |
| comediógraf, dramàtic, dramaturg | someone who writes plays |
| comentarista | A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day |
| delineant | A writer of a draft |
| enciclopedista | A person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) |
| escriptor fantasma | A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else |
| guionista | someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas |
| guionista | A writer of screenplays |
| lletrista | A person who writes the words for songs |
| llibretista | author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta |
| novel·lista | One who writes novels |
| pamfletaire, pamfletista, panfletista | A writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) |
| periodista | A writer for newspapers and magazines |
| poeta, versificador | A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) |
| polemista | A writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) |
| tràgic | A writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies |
| General | comunicador, comunicant | A person who communicates with others |
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| Anglès | writer, author |
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| Espanyol | autora, autor, escritora, escritor |
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| Noms | composició, escriptura | The act of creating written works |
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| Verbs | compondre, escriure, integrar, redactar | produce a literary work |
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