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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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Daniel JacksonAmerican novelist
Gabrielle E. JacksonAmerican children's writer
Caroline E. JacobsAmerican children's writer
Harriet Ann JacobsAmerican autobiographer and abolitionist
Joseph JacobsAustralian folklorist and historian
W. W. JacobsEnglish humorist and fiction writer
Jens Peter JacobsenDanish novelist and poet
Norbert JacquesLuxembourgish novelist and screenwriter
G. P. R. JamesEnglish historical novelist
Grace JamesEnglish folklorist and children's writer
Henry JamesAmerican British novelist
James IScottish and English king
M. R. JamesEnglish ghost story writer
William JamesAmerican philosopher and psychologist
Laurence M. JaniferAmerican science fiction writer
Thomas A. JanvierAmerican writer and historian
Morris JastrowAmerican orientalist
John JayAmerican statesman and jurist
Jean d'ArrasMedieval French writer
Jean PaulGerman Romantic novelist
Richard JefferiesEnglish nature writer
Thomas JeffersonAmerican president and political writer
Walter JekyllCompiler
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