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Fyodor DostoyevskyRussian novelist
Charles DickensEnglish novelist
William ShakespeareEnglish playwright and poet
Jane AustenEnglish novelist
Emily BrontëEnglish novelist and poet
HomerAncient Greek epic poet
Oscar WildeIrish playwright and poet
Alexandre DumasFrench novelist and playwright
Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist and poet
Lewis CarrollEnglish children's writer and mathematician
Leo TolstoyRussian novelist and moral philosopher
MolièreFrench playwright and actor
Jules VerneFrench adventure novelist
Mark TwainAmerican humorist and novelist
John MiltonEnglish poet
Edgar Allan PoeAmerican poet and fiction writer
Arthur Conan DoyleBritish detective novelist
F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican novelist
Washington IrvingAmerican writer and historian
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman poet and novelist
Victor HugoFrench novelist, poet and playwright
Jack LondonAmerican novelist and journalist
Frances Hodgson BurnettEnglish-American novelist and playwright
Mary ShelleyEnglish Gothic novelistAuthors A to Z
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S. F. AaronAmerican entomologist and author
Edwin Abbott AbbottEnglish theologian and novelist
Jacob AbbottAmerican children's writer
John S. C. AbbottAmerican historian and author
Peter AbelardFrench scholastic philosopher
Edmond AboutFrench novelist and critic
Achilles TatiusAncient Greek novelist
Henry AdamsAmerican historian and novelist
C. G. AddisonEnglish legal writer
Joseph AddisonEnglish essayist and poet
Max AdelerAmerican humorist
AeschylusAncient Greek playwright
AesopAncient Greek fabulist
Alexander AfanasyevRussian folklorist
Jean AicardFrench poet and novelist
Albert W. AikenAmerican novelist and playwright
Gustave AimardFrench adventure novelist
AinajushiChinese writer
William Harrison AinsworthEnglish historical novelist
Alain-FournierFrench novelist
Pedro Antonio de AlarcónSpanish novelist
Adolfo AlbertazziItalian writer
Louisa May AlcottAmerican novelist
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