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A	1
B	481
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Start	720
Stub	83

Writers

This section contains 1713 articles.

Prose writers

This section contains 933 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 5 articles.

Asia

This section contains 1 article.

1. Vishnu Sharma

Europe

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Aesop
2. Apuleius
3. Lucian (Level 4)
4. Pliny the Younger

Post-classical

This section contains 17 articles.

Asia

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Bāṇabhaṭṭa
2. Borzuya
3. Daṇḍin
4. Han Yu (Level 4)
5. Ibn al-Muqaffa'
6. Liu Zongyuan
7. Luo Guanzhong
8. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
9. Ouyang Xiu (Level 4)
10. Sei Shōnagon
11. Shi Nai'an
12. Su Shi (Level 4)

Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Giovanni Boccaccio (Level 4)
2. Christine de Pizan (Level 4)
3. Ibn Tufayl
4. Julian of Norwich
5. Margery Kempe

Early modern

This section contains 60 articles.

Americas

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Charles Brockden Brown
2. William Hill Brown
3. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
4. Juana Inés de la Cruz
5. Mary Rowlandson

Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Asai Ryōi
2. Cao Xueqin
3. Ueda Akinari
4. Wu Cheng'en
5. Xu Zhonglin

Europe

This section contains 49 articles.

1. Madame d'Aulnoy
2. William Bolts
3. James Boswell
4. Thomas Browne
5. John Bunyan
6. José Cadalso
7. Giacomo Casanova (Level 4)
8. Baldassare Castiglione
9. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
10. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
11. John Cleland
12. Charles Cotton
13. Daniel Defoe (Level 4)
14. Henry Fielding (Level 4)
15. Antoine Galland
16. Oliver Goldsmith
17. Johann Peter Hebel
18. E. T. A. Hoffmann
19. Captain Charles Johnson
20. Samuel Johnson (Level 4)
21. Ivan Krylov
22. Madame de La Fayette
23. Jean de La Fontaine
24. François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
25. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
26. Walter Savage Landor
27. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
28. Thomas Malory
29. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
30. Michel de Montaigne (Level 4)
31. Thomas More (Level 4)
32. Thomas Nashe
33. Charles Perrault (Level 4)
34. Johannes Pfefferkorn
35. François Rabelais (Level 4)
36. Alexander Radishchev
37. Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
38. Samuel Richardson
39. Antoine de Rivarol
40. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
41. Marquis de Sade (Level 4)
42. Germaine de Staël
43. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
44. Laurence Sterne
45. Jonathan Swift (Level 4)
46. Honoré d'Urfé
47. Pêro Vaz de Caminha
48. Voltaire (Level 3)
49. Horace Walpole

Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

1. Watkin Tench

Late modern

This section contains 851 articles.

Africa

This section contains 24 articles.

1. Muhammed Said Abdulla
2. Chinua Achebe (Level 4)
3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. Zamenga Batukezanga
5. J. E. Casely Hayford
6. Mohamed Choukri
7. J. M. Coetzee (Level 4)
8. Buchi Emecheta
9. Nuruddin Farah
10. Nadine Gordimer (Level 4)
11. Abdulrazak Gurnah
12. Taha Hussein
13. Kojo Laing
14. Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
15. Naguib Mahfouz (Level 4)
16. Dambudzo Marechera
17. Léonora Miano
18. Ahlam Mosteghanemi
19. Ben Okri (Level 4)
20. Tayeb Salih
21. Wilbur Smith
22. Sony Lab'ou Tansi
23. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Level 4)
24. Kateb Yacine

Americas

This section contains 325 articles.

Caribbean

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Patrick Chamoiseau
2. Maryse Condé
3. Marlon James (novelist)
4. Audre Lorde

US and Canada

This section contains 292 articles.

1. Tomi Adeyemi
2. James Agee
3. Louisa May Alcott
4. Lloyd Alexander
5. Horatio Alger
6. Nelson Algren
7. Poul Anderson
8. Sherwood Anderson
9. V. C. Andrews
10. Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
11. Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
12. Paul Auster
13. James Baldwin
14. Djuna Barnes
15. Donald Barthelme
16. L. Frank Baum
17. Paul Beatty
18. Saul Bellow (Level 4)
19. Stan and Jan Berenstain
20. Ambrose Bierce
21. Earl Derr Biggers
22. Judy Blume
23. Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
24. Marion Zimmer Bradley
25. Norman Bridwell
26. Richard Brautigan
27. Terry Brooks
28. Dan Brown
29. Susan Brownmiller
30. Pearl S. Buck
31. Edgar Rice Burroughs
32. William S. Burroughs (Level 4)
33. Candace Bushnell
34. Octavia E. Butler
35. Meg Cabot
36. James M. Cain
37. Erskine Caldwell
38. Truman Capote
39. Orson Scott Card
40. Eric Carle
41. Dale Carnegie
42. John Dickson Carr
43. Jonathan Carroll
44. Raymond Carver
45. Willa Cather
46. Michael Chabon
47. Robert W. Chambers
48. Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
49. John Cheever
50. C. J. Cherryh
51. Kate Chopin
52. Winston Churchill (novelist)
53. Tom Clancy
54. Mary Higgins Clark
55. Beverly Cleary
56. Robin Cook (American novelist)
57. James Fenimore Cooper
58. Patricia Cornwell
59. Stephen Crane
60. Michael Crichton
61. Clive Cussler
62. Janet Dailey
63. Henry Darger
64. Lydia Davis
65. Varina Davis
66. Don DeLillo
67. Philip K. Dick
68. Joan Didion
69. Annie Dillard
70. Franklin W. Dixon
71. Thomas Dixon Jr.
72. Mary Mapes Dodge
73. John Dos Passos
74. Theodore Dreiser
75. David Eddings
76. Bret Easton Ellis
77. James Ellroy
78. Harlan Ellison
79. Ralph Ellison
80. Louise Erdrich
81. Jeffrey Eugenides
82. Walter Farley
83. James T. Farrell
84. William Faulkner (Level 4)
85. Raymond E. Feist
86. Edna Ferber
87. Tim Ferriss
88. M. F. K. Fisher
89. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
90. Jonathan Franzen
91. James Frey
92. Diana Gabaldon
93. William Gaddis
94. Erle Stanley Gardner
95. Roxane Gay
96. William Gibson
97. Sue Grafton
98. John Gray (American author)
99. John Green
100. Robert Greene (American author)
101. Zane Grey
102. John Grisham
103. Alex Haley
104. Dashiell Hammett
105. Daniel Handler
106. Bret Harte
107. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Level 4)
108. Louise Hay
109. Lafcadio Hearn
110. Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
111. Joseph Heller
112. Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
113. Marguerite Henry
114. O. Henry
115. Caroline Lee Hentz
116. Frank Herbert
117. Patricia Highsmith
118. S. E. Hinton
119. Khaled Hosseini
120. Robert E. Howard
121. William Dean Howells
122. Herbert Huncke
123. Evan Hunter
124. Zora Neale Hurston
125. Iceberg Slim
126. Clifford Irving
127. John Irving
128. Washington Irving
129. Shirley Jackson
130. Henry James (Level 4)
131. Tama Janowitz
132. N. K. Jemisin
133. James Jones (author)
134. Erica Jong
135. MacKinlay Kantor
136. Mary Karr
137. Susanna Kaysen
138. Carolyn Keene
139. Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
140. Ken Kesey
141. Stephen King (Level 4)
142. Barbara Kingsolver
143. Robert Kiyosaki
144. Dean Koontz
145. Judith Krantz
146. Louis L'Amour
147. Madeleine L'Engle
148. Nella Larsen
149. Margaret Laurence
150. Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
151. Harper Lee
152. Jonathan Lethem
153. Sinclair Lewis
154. Alan Lightman
155. Tao Lin
156. Jeff Lindsay
157. Hal Lindsey
158. Jack London (Level 4)
159. John Luther Long
160. H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
161. Lois Lowry
162. Robert Ludlum
163. Ross Macdonald
164. Debbie Macomber
165. Maddox (writer)
166. Norman Mailer
167. William Manchester
168. Yann Martel
169. Ann M. Martin
170. George R. R. Martin
171. Peter Matthiessen
172. Tucker Max
173. Anne McCaffrey
174. Cormac McCarthy
175. Mary McCarthy (author)
176. Carson McCullers
177. Jay McInerney
178. Patricia A. McKillip
179. Michelle McNamara
180. Marijane Meaker
181. Herman Melville (Level 4)
182. Thomas Merton
183. Stephenie Meyer
184. James A. Michener
185. Henry Miller
186. Margaret Mitchell
187. Lucy Maud Montgomery
188. Toni Morrison (Level 4)
189. Alice Munro
190. Andrew Neiderman
191. Anaïs Nin
192. Larry Niven
193. Philip Francis Nowlan
194. Alissa Nutting
195. Flannery O'Connor
196. John O'Hara
197. Joyce Carol Oates
198. Chuck Palahniuk
199. Katherine Paterson
200. Gilbert Patten
201. James Patterson
202. Norman Vincent Peale
203. Edmund Pearson
204. Richard Peck (writer)
205. Walker Percy
206. Christopher Pike (author)
207. Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
208. Frederik Pohl
209. Richard Price (writer)
210. Mario Puzo
211. Thomas Pynchon
212. Ayn Rand (Level 4)
213. Kathy Reichs
214. H. A. Rey
215. Anne Rice
216. Rick Riordan
217. Harold Robbins
218. Tony Robbins
219. Nora Roberts
220. Philip Roth
221. Patrick Rothfuss
222. Ann Rule
223. Damon Runyon
224. J. D. Salinger
225. George Saunders
226. Richard Scarry
227. Harold Schechter
228. Maurice Sendak
229. Michael Shaara
230. Sidney Sheldon
231. Shel Silverstein
232. Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
233. Isaac Bashevis Singer
234. Frank G. Slaughter
235. Lucy Mack Smith
236. Susan Sontag
237. Terry Southern
238. Nicholas Sparks
239. Mickey Spillane
240. Danielle Steel
241. William Steig
242. Gertrude Stein
243. John Steinbeck (Level 4)
244. R. L. Stine
245. Charles Warren Stoddard
246. Rex Stout
247. Harriet Beecher Stowe
248. Cheryl Strayed
249. William Styron
250. Jacqueline Susann
251. Amy Tan
252. Booth Tarkington
253. Donna Tartt
254. Paul Theroux
255. James Thurber
256. Wallace Thurman
257. John Kennedy Toole
258. Mark Twain (Level 4)
259. Anne Tyler
260. John Updike
261. Leon Uris
262. Catherynne M. Valente
263. Jack Vance
264. Jeff VanderMeer
265. Gore Vidal
266. A. E. van Vogt
267. William T. Vollmann
268. Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
269. Alice Walker
270. Rebecca Walker
271. David Foster Wallace
272. Irving Wallace
273. Jesmyn Ward
274. Eudora Welty
275. Dorothy West
276. Nathanael West
277. Edith Wharton (Level 4)
278. E. B. White
279. Colson Whitehead
280. Marianne Wiggins
281. Laura Ingalls Wilder
282. Nathaniel Parker Willis
283. Kathleen Winsor
284. Gene Wolfe
285. Thomas Wolfe
286. Tom Wolfe
287. Cornell Woolrich
288. Herman Wouk
289. Richard Wright (author)
290. Elizabeth Wurtzel
291. Richard Yates (novelist)
292. Cecily von Ziegesar

Latin America

This section contains 29 articles.

1. José de Alencar
2. Isabel Allende
3. Jorge Amado (Level 4)
4. Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
5. Machado de Assis (Level 4)
6. Aluísio Azevedo
7. Lima Barreto
8. Roberto Bolaño
9. Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
10. Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
11. Paulo Coelho
12. Julio Cortázar
13. Junot Díaz
14. Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
15. Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
16. Ricardo Güiraldes
17. Clarice Lispector
18. Monteiro Lobato
19. Raul Pompeia
20. Rachel de Queiroz
21. Graciliano Ramos
22. José Lins do Rego
23. João Ubaldo Ribeiro
24. João Guimarães Rosa
25. Juan Rulfo
26. Ernesto Sabato
27. Moacyr Scliar
28. Lygia Fagundes Telles
29. Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)

Asia

This section contains 76 articles.

1. Kōbō Abe
2. Khachatur Abovian
3. Aravind Adiga
4. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
5. Chinghiz Aitmatov (Level 4)
6. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Level 4)
7. Ahmed Ali (writer)
8. Mulk Raj Anand
9. Takeo Arishima
10. Eileen Chang
11. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
12. Chiung Yao
13. Simin Daneshvar
14. Kiran Desai
15. Edogawa Ranpo
16. Shūsaku Endō
17. Gao Xingjian
18. Goh Poh Seng
19. Junpei Gomikawa
20. David Grossman
21. Gu Byeong-mo
22. Han Kang
23. Han Sorya
24. Sadegh Hedayat
25. Ichiyō Higuchi
26. Hong Myong-hui
27. Hong Sok-jung
28. Yasushi Inoue
29. Jin Yong (Level 4)
30. Yasunari Kawabata (Level 4)
31. Yaşar Kemal
32. Kim Dong-in
33. Kim Young-ha
34. Takiji Kobayashi
35. Chart Korbjitti
36. Lao She (Level 4)
37. Liu Cixin
38. Lu Xun (Level 4)
39. Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
40. Ghassan Kanafani
41. Mao Dun
42. Yukio Mishima (Level 4)
43. Mo Yan
44. Mari Mori
45. Mori Ōgai
46. Seiichi Morimura
47. Haruki Murakami (Level 4)
48. R. K. Narayan
49. Taslima Nasrin
50. Natsume Sōseki (Level 4)
51. Ni Kuang
52. Kyotaro Nishimura
53. Kenzaburō Ōe (Level 4)
54. Mimei Ogawa
55. Amos Oz
56. Ozaki Kōyō
57. Pak Kyongni
58. Orhan Pamuk (Level 4)
59. Park Wan-suh
60. Premchand (Level 4)
61. Qian Zhongshu
62. Raja Rao
63. Ri Ki-yong
64. Begum Rokeya
65. Arundhati Roy
66. Kulap Saipradit
67. Sanmao (writer)
68. Shen Congwen
69. Ryōtarō Shiba
70. Shin Kyung-sook
71. Khamsing Srinawk
72. Takizawa Bakin
73. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
74. Vũ Trọng Phụng
75. Xiao Hong
76. Yi Cheong-jun

Europe

This section contains 403 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 33 articles.

1. Ivo Andrić
2. Jerzy Andrzejewski
3. Vasil Bykaŭ
4. Ivan Cankar
5. Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
6. Anton Donchev
7. Odysseas Elytis
8. István Fekete
9. Géza Gárdonyi
10. Jaroslav Hašek
11. Bohumil Hrabal
12. Mór Jókai
13. Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
14. Nikos Kazantzakis
15. Imre Kertész
16. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
17. László Krasznahorkai
18. Milan Kundera
19. Stanisław Lem
20. Mendele Mocher Sforim
21. Sławomir Mrożek
22. Božena Němcová
23. Bolesław Prus
24. Władysław Reymont
25. Bruno Schulz
26. Sholem Aleichem
27. Andrzej Sapkowski
28. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
29. Magda Szabó
30. Dimitar Talev
31. Olga Tokarczuk
32. Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
33. Alki Zei

Nordic countries

This section contains 26 articles.

1. Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
2. Karen Blixen (Level 4)
3. Arne Garborg
4. Hulda Garborg
5. Maria Gripe
6. Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
7. Tove Jansson
8. Johannes V. Jensen
9. Thit Jensen
10. Eyvind Johnson
11. Alexander Kielland
12. Aleksis Kivi
13. Pär Lagerkvist
14. Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
15. Stieg Larsson
16. Halldór Laxness (Level 4)
17. Jonas Lie (writer)
18. Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
19. Väinö Linna
20. Henrik Pontoppidan
21. Alf Prøysen
22. Frans Eemil Sillanpää
23. Sjón
24. Zachris Topelius
25. Sigrid Undset
26. Mika Waltari

Russia

This section contains 49 articles.

1. Vasily Aksyonov
2. Boris Akunin
3. Mark Aldanov
4. Isaac Babel
5. Alexander Belyaev
6. Andrei Bely
7. Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
8. Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
9. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
10. Ilya Ehrenburg
11. Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
12. Gaito Gazdanov
13. Dmitry Glukhovsky
14. Ivan Goncharov
15. Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
16. Alexander Grin
17. Alexander Herzen
18. Ilf and Petrov
19. Alexander Karasyov
20. Arsen Kotsoyev
21. Aleksandr I. Kuprin
22. Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
23. Nikolai Leskov
24. Sergei Lukyanenko
25. Nadezhda Mandelstam
26. Dmitry Merezhkovsky
27. Sergey Mikhalkov
28. Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
29. Nikolai Ostrovsky
30. Victor Pelevin
31. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
32. Aleksey Pisemsky
33. Andrei Platonov
34. Zakhar Prilepin
35. Valentin Rasputin
36. Aleksey Remizov
37. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
38. Varlam Shalamov
39. Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
40. Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
41. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
42. Vladimir Sorokin
43. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
44. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
45. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
46. Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
47. Lyudmila Ulitskaya
48. Eduard Uspensky
49. Yevgeny Zamyatin

Western Europe

This section contains 119 articles.

1. Ilse Aichinger
2. Leopoldo Alas
3. Bettina von Arnim
4. Emmanuelle Arsan
5. Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
6. René Belbenoît
7. Ludwig Bemelmans
8. Georges Bernanos
9. Aloysius Bertrand
10. Heinrich Böll
11. Michel Butor
12. Dino Buzzati
13. Italo Calvino
14. Albert Camus (Level 4)
15. Elias Canetti
16. Camilo José Cela
17. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
18. Blaise Cendrars
19. Henri Charrière
20. François-René de Chateaubriand
21. Paul Claudel
22. Albert Cohen (novelist)
23. Colette
24. Frédéric Dard
25. Alphonse Daudet
26. Grazia Deledda
27. Alfred Döblin
28. Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
29. Alexandre Dumas fils
30. Umberto Eco (Level 4)
31. Michael Ende
32. Elena Ferrante
33. Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
34. Theodor Fontane
35. Anatole France
36. Anne Frank (Level 4)
37. Cornelia Funke
38. André Gide (Level 4)
39. Anne Golon
40. Jules de Goncourt
41. Julien Gracq
42. Günter Grass
43. Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
    1. Jacob Grimm
    2. Wilhelm Grimm
44. Peter Handke
45. Paul Heyse
46. Michel Houellebecq
47. Victor Hugo (Level 4)
48. Elfriede Jelinek
49. Uwe Johnson
50. André Jullien
51. Franz Kafka (Level 4)
52. Charles Paul de Kock
53. Karl Kraus (writer)
54. J. M. G. Le Clézio
55. Maurice Leblanc
56. Gaston Leroux
57. Primo Levi
58. André Pieyre de Mandiargues
59. Thomas Mann (Level 4)
60. Alessandro Manzoni
61. Roger Martin du Gard
62. Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
63. François Mauriac
64. Karl May
65. Prosper Mérimée
66. Octave Mirbeau
67. Frédéric Mistral
68. Patrick Modiano
69. Henry de Montherlant
70. Alberto Moravia
71. Harry Mulisch
72. Herta Müller
73. Multatuli
74. Robert Musil
75. Gérard de Nerval
76. Georges Perec
77. Benito Pérez Galdós
78. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
79. Robert Pinget
80. Abbé Prévost
81. Marcel Proust (Level 4)
82. Eça de Queiroz
83. Raymond Queneau
84. Erich Maria Remarque
85. Gerard Reve
86. Alain Robbe-Grillet
87. Gianni Rodari
88. Joseph Roth
89. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
90. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
91. Françoise Sagan
92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
93. Felix Salten
94. George Sand
95. José Saramago (Level 4)
96. Bernhard Schlink
97. Annie M.G. Schmidt
98. W. G. Sebald
99. Georges Simenon
100. Claude Simon
101. Johanna Spyri
102. Stendhal (Level 4)
103. Eugène Sue
104. Patrick Süskind
105. Italo Svevo
106. Corín Tellado
107. Eckhart Tolle
108. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
109. Tomi Ungerer
110. Giovanni Verga
111. Jules Verne (Level 4)
112. Gérard de Villiers
113. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
114. Franz Werfel
115. Marguerite Yourcenar
116. Émile Zola (Level 4)
117. Stefan Zweig

UK and Ireland

This section contains 176 articles.

1. Edwin Abbott Abbott
2. Douglas Adams
3. William Harrison Ainsworth
4. Richard Aldington
5. Kingsley Amis
6. Martin Amis
7. Piers Anthony
8. Jeffrey Archer
9. Michael Arlen
10. Jane Austen (Level 4)
11. Wilbert Awdry
12. J. G. Ballard
13. Iain Banks
14. John Banville
15. Clive Barker
16. Pat Barker
17. Julian Barnes
18. J. M. Barrie
19. Nina Bawden
20. Louis de Bernières
21. Enid Blyton (Level 4)
22. Marjorie Bowen
23. John Braine
24. Brontë family (Level 4)
    1. Anne Brontë
    2. Charlotte Brontë
    3. Emily Brontë
25. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
26. Eleanor Alice Burford
27. Anthony Burgess
28. Frances Hodgson Burnett
29. A. S. Byatt
30. John le Carré
31. Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
32. Barbara Cartland
33. G. K. Chesterton
34. Erskine Childers (author)
35. Agatha Christie (Level 4)
36. Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
37. Eoin Colfer
38. Jackie Collins
39. Wilkie Collins
40. Catherine Cookson
41. John Creasey
42. Quentin Crisp
43. Roald Dahl (Level 4)
44. Thomas De Quincey
45. Len Deighton
46. Charles Dickens (Level 4)
47. Peter Dickinson
48. Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
49. Roddy Doyle
50. Lord Dunsany
51. George Eliot (Level 4)
52. Anne Enright
53. Bernardine Evaristo
54. J. G. Farrell
55. Sebastian Faulks
56. Helen Fielding
57. Penelope Fitzgerald
58. Ian Fleming
59. Ken Follett
60. Ford Madox Ford
61. E. M. Forster
62. Dick Francis
63. John Galsworthy
64. Elizabeth Gaskell
65. William Golding (Level 4)
66. Kenneth Grahame
67. Graham Greene
68. Arthur Hailey
69. Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
70. Roger Hargreaves
71. Frank Harris
72. Jack Higgins
73. James Hogg
74. Alan Hollinghurst
75. Aldous Huxley
76. Christopher Isherwood
77. Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
78. Howard Jacobson
79. E. L. James
80. P. D. James
81. Jerome K. Jerome
82. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
83. Penny Jordan
84. James Joyce (Level 4)
85. James Kelman
86. Dick King-Smith
87. Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
88. Arthur Koestler
89. Edward William Lane
90. D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
91. Sheridan Le Fanu
92. Edward Lear
93. Doris Lessing
94. C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
95. Wyndham Lewis
96. Penelope Lively
97. Hugh Lofting
98. Malcolm Lowry
99. George MacDonald
100. Compton Mackenzie
101. Alistair MacLean
102. Hilary Mantel
103. Frederick Marryat
104. W. Somerset Maugham
105. Daphne du Maurier
106. Ian McEwan
107. George Meredith
108. Stanley Middleton
109. A. A. Milne
110. David Mitchell (author)
111. Naomi Mitchison
112. Nancy Mitford
113. Michael Moorcock
114. Iris Murdoch
115. V. S. Naipaul (Level 4)
116. E. Nesbit
117. P. H. Newby
118. Edna O'Brien
119. Amelia Opie
120. E. Phillips Oppenheim
121. George Orwell (Level 4)
122. Thomas Love Peacock
123. Mervyn Peake
124. Anne Perry
125. John William Polidori
126. Beatrix Potter
127. Anthony Powell
128. Terry Pratchett
129. J. B. Priestley
130. Philip Pullman
131. Ann Radcliffe
132. Derek Raymond
133. Mary Renault
134. Louise Rennison
135. Jean Rhys
136. Denise Robins
137. Sally Rooney
138. William Roughead
139. J. K. Rowling
140. Bernice Rubens
141. Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
142. Dorothy L. Sayers
143. Paul Scott (novelist)
144. Walter Scott (Level 4)
145. Anna Sewell
146. Margery Sharp
147. Mary Shelley (Level 4)
148. Nevil Shute
149. The Sitwells
     1. Osbert Sitwell
150. Zadie Smith
151. Muriel Spark
152. Olaf Stapledon
153. Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
154. Bram Stoker
155. Graham Swift
156. William Makepeace Thackeray
157. Colm Tóibín
158. J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
159. P. L. Travers
160. Anthony Trollope
161. Barry Unsworth
162. Edgar Wallace
163. Evelyn Waugh
164. H. G. Wells (Level 4)
165. Irvine Welsh
166. Rebecca West
167. T. H. White
168. Margery Williams
169. Jacqueline Wilson
170. P. G. Wodehouse
171. Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
172. Benjamin Zephaniah

Oceania

This section contains 23 articles.

Australia

This section contains 17 articles.

1. Thea Astley
2. Peter Carey (novelist)
3. Marcus Clarke
4. Albert Facey
5. Richard Flanagan
6. Miles Franklin
7. Joseph Furphy
8. Helen Garner
9. Thomas Keneally
10. David Malouf
11. Colleen McCullough
12. Alan Moorehead
13. Ruth Park
14. DBC Pierre
15. Ethel Turner
16. Patrick White (Level 4)
17. Tim Winton

New Zealand

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Eleanor Catton
2. Alan Duff
3. Janet Frame
4. Keri Hulme
5. Katherine Mansfield

Other

This section contains 1 article.

1. Meralda Warren

Poets

This section contains 571 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 42 articles.

Asia

This section contains 11 articles.

1. Aśvaghoṣa
2. Bao Zhao
3. Bhartṛhari
4. Cao Zhi
5. Enheduanna
6. Kalidasa (Level 4)
7. Qu Yuan (Level 4)
8. Sima Xiangru
9. Song Yu
10. Tao Yuanming (Level 4)
11. Xie Lingyun

Europe

This section contains 31 articles.

1. Lucius Accius
2. Alcaeus of Mytilene
3. Alcman
4. Anacreon
5. Apollonius of Rhodes
6. Aratus
7. Archilochus
8. Bacchylides
9. Julia Balbilla
10. Caecilius Statius
11. Callimachus
12. Catullus (Level 4)
13. Ennius
14. Hesiod (Level 4)
15. Hipponax
16. Homer (Level 3)
17. Horace (Level 4)
18. Ibycus
19. Martial
20. Gnaeus Naevius
21. Ovid (Level 4)
22. Pacuvius
23. Pindar
24. Sappho (Level 4)
25. Semonides of Amorgos
26. Shen Yue
27. Simonides of Ceos
28. Stesichorus
29. Sulpicia (satirist)
30. Theocritus
31. Virgil (Level 3)

Post-classical

This section contains 83 articles.

Asia

This section contains 59 articles.

1. Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
2. Abu al-Atahiya
3. Abu Nuwas (Level 4)
4. Abu Tammam
5. Adi ibn Zayd
6. Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
7. Ali-Shir Nava'i
8. Amr ibn Kulthum
9. Antarah ibn Shaddad
10. Ariwara no Narihira
11. Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
12. Bai Juyi (Level 4)
13. Bilhana
14. Buhturi
15. Du Fu (Level 4)
16. Du Mu
17. Al-Farazdaq
18. Ferdowsi (Level 4)
19. Fujiwara no Shunzei
20. Fujiwara no Teika
21. Gao Ming
22. Hafez (Level 4)
23. Han Wo
24. Hanshan (poet)
25. Al-Hariri of Basra
26. Ibn al-Farid
27. Imru' al-Qais
28. Jami (Level 4)
29. Jarir ibn Atiyah
30. Jayadeva
31. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
32. Omar Khayyam (Level 4)
33. Amir Khusrau (Level 4)
34. Ki no Tsurayuki
35. Labid
36. Li Bai (Level 3)
37. Li He
38. Li Qingzhao
39. Li Shangyin
40. Lu You
41. Al-Ma'arri
42. Al-Mutanabbi
43. Al-Nabigha
44. Namdev
45. Nizami Ganjavi (Level 4)
46. Ono no Komachi
47. Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
48. Ōtomo no Yakamochi
49. Rudaki (Level 4)
50. Rumi (Level 3)
51. Saadi Shirazi (Level 4)
52. Saigyō
53. Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah
54. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty) (Level 4)
55. Yu Wuling
56. Yuan Zhen
57. Zhang Hu (poet)
58. Zhou Bangyan
59. Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma

Europe

This section contains 24 articles.

1. Bertran de Born
2. Cædmon
3. Geoffrey Chaucer (Level 4)
4. Chrétien de Troyes (Level 4)
5. Cynewulf
6. Dafydd ap Gwilym
7. Arnaut Daniel
8. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
9. Gawain Poet
10. Gottfried von Strassburg
11. John Gower
12. Jean de Meun
13. William Langland
14. John Lydgate
15. Marie de France
16. Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
17. Petrarch (Level 4)
18. Qul Ghali
19. Rutebeuf
20. Tannhäuser
21. François Villon (Level 4)
22. Walther von der Vogelweide
23. William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
24. Wolfram von Eschenbach

Early modern

This section contains 87 articles.

Africa

This section contains 1 article.

1. Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

America

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Anne Bradstreet
2. Phillis Wheatley

Asia

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
2. Huseng Sisiw
3. Fukuda Chiyo-ni
4. Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
5. Ihara Saikaku
6. Kabir (Level 4)
7. Kobayashi Issa
8. Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
9. Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
10. Mirabai (Level 4)
11. Santō Kyōden
12. Ramprasad Sen
13. Surdas
14. Tukaram (Level 4)
15. Tulsidas (Level 4)
16. Yosa Buson

Europe

This section contains 68 articles.

1. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
2. Ludovico Ariosto
3. Agrippa d'Aubigné
4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
5. Ivan Barkov
6. James Beattie (poet)
7. Joachim du Bellay
8. Matteo Maria Boiardo
9. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
10. Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
11. Anna Bunina
12. Samuel Butler (poet)
13. Robert Burns (Level 4)
14. Luís de Camões (Level 4)
15. Thomas Chatterton
16. André Chénier
17. John Clare
18. Abraham Cowley
19. William Cowper
20. George Crabbe
21. Richard Crashaw
22. Gavrila Derzhavin
23. John Donne (Level 4)
24. John Dryden (Level 4)
25. John Dyer
26. Laurence Eusden
27. Robert Fergusson
28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Level 4)
29. Thomas Gray
30. Robert Henryson
31. George Herbert
32. Robert Herrick (poet)
33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
34. Walter Kennedy (poet)
35. Louise Labé
36. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
37. François de Malherbe
38. Clément Marot
39. Andrew Marvell
40. John Milton (Level 4)
41. Novalis
42. Thomas Overbury
43. John Owen (epigrammatist)
44. Katherine Philips
45. Alexander Pope (Level 4)
46. Matthew Prior
47. Henry James Pye
48. Francis Quarles
49. Allan Ramsay (poet)
50. Samuel Rogers
51. Pierre de Ronsard
52. Paul Scarron
53. Maurice Scève
54. Thomas Shadwell
55. Philip Sidney
56. Christopher Smart
57. Robert Southwell (priest)
58. Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
59. Torquato Tasso
60. Nahum Tate
61. James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
62. Thomas Traherne
63. Pontus de Tyard
64. Henry Vaughan
65. Théophile de Viau
66. William Whitehead (poet)
67. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
68. Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Late modern

This section contains 359 articles.

Africa

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Kofi Awoonor
2. Syl Cheney-Coker
3. Birago Diop
4. Dox (poet)
5. Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
6. Keorapetse Kgositsile
7. Jack Mapanje
8. Christopher Okigbo
9. Lenrie Peters
10. Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
11. Jacques Rabemananjara
12. Elie Rajaonarison
13. Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
14. Esther Razanadrasoa
15. Shaaban bin Robert
16. Mongane Wally Serote

Americas

This section contains 114 articles.

Caribbean

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Aimé Césaire
2. Léon Damas
3. Claude McKay
4. Derek Walcott

US and Canada

This section contains 83 articles.

1. Maya Angelou (Level 4)
2. Rae Armantrout
3. John Ashbery
4. Gwendolyn B. Bennett
5. Charles Bernstein (poet)
6. John Berryman
7. Elizabeth Bishop
8. Paul Blackburn (poet)
9. Gwendolyn Brooks
10. Charles Bukowski
11. Thomas Holley Chivers
12. Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
13. Ina Coolbrith
14. Hart Crane
15. Robert Creeley
16. Countee Cullen
17. E. E. Cummings
18. H.D.
19. Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
20. Paul Laurence Dunbar
21. Robert Duncan (poet)
22. Larry Eigner
23. T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
24. Louis-Honoré Fréchette
25. Robert Frost (Level 4)
26. Allen Ginsberg (Level 4)
27. Louise Glück
28. Barbara Guest
29. Sarah Josepha Hale
30. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
31. Susan Howe
32. Langston Hughes (Level 4)
33. James Weldon Johnson
34. Rupi Kaur
35. Francis Scott Key
36. Denise Levertov
37. Vachel Lindsay
38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
39. Amy Lowell
40. James Russell Lowell
41. Robert Lowell
42. Daphne Marlatt
43. Don Marquis
44. John McCrae
45. Edna St. Vincent Millay
46. Clement Clarke Moore
47. Marianne Moore
48. Robin Morgan
49. Ogden Nash
50. Lorine Niedecker
51. Frank O'Hara
52. Sharon Olds
53. Michael Ondaatje
54. George Oppen
55. Frances Sargent Osgood
56. Dorothy Parker
57. Bob Perelman
58. Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
59. Ezra Pound (Level 4)
60. Charles Reznikoff
61. James Whitcomb Riley
62. Stephen Rodefer
63. Theodore Roethke
64. Carl Sandburg
65. James Schuyler
66. Gil Scott-Heron
67. Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
68. Anne Sexton
69. Karl Shapiro
70. William Gilmore Simms
71. John Sinclair (poet)
72. Gary Snyder
73. Wallace Stevens
74. Sara Teasdale
75. Ernest Thayer
76. Margaret Walker
77. Robert Penn Warren
78. Lew Welch
79. Philip Whalen
80. Walt Whitman (Level 4)
81. John Greenleaf Whittier
82. William Carlos Williams
83. Yvor Winters

Latin America

This section contains 27 articles.

1. Mário de Andrade
2. Oswald de Andrade
3. Augusto dos Anjos
4. Miguel Ángel Asturias
5. Mario Benedetti
6. Olavo Bilac
7. Julia de Burgos
8. Raimundo Correia
9. Rubén Darío
10. Menotti Del Picchia
11. Esteban Echeverría
12. Luís Gama
13. Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
14. José Hernández (writer)
15. Lêdo Ivo
16. Leopoldo Lugones
17. José Mármol
18. José Martí (Level 4)
19. Cecília Meireles
20. Gabriela Mistral
21. Vinicius de Moraes
22. Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
23. Alberto de Oliveira
24. Octavio Paz
25. Guillermo Prieto
26. Alfonsina Storni
27. César Vallejo

Asia

This section contains 29 articles.

1. Adonis (poet)
2. Amir Hamzah
3. Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
4. Cho Ki-chon
5. Parvin E'tesami
6. Forugh Farrokhzad
7. Ghalib (Level 4)
8. Kahlil Gibran (Level 4)
9. Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
10. Daigaku Horiguchi
11. Muhammad Iqbal (Level 4)
12. Iraj Mirza
13. Salah Jahin
14. Kazi Nazrul Islam
15. Yusuf al-Khal
16. Ko Un
17. Masaoka Shiki
18. Ahmed Fouad Negm
19. Sunthorn Phu
20. Nobutsuna Sasaki
21. Sohrab Sepehri
22. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
23. Edwin Thumboo
24. Bayram al-Tunisi
25. Nima Yooshij
26. Yosano Akiko
27. Isamu Yoshii
28. Tekkan Yosano
29. Mahmoud Darwish

Europe

This section contains 185 articles.

Eastern Europe

This section contains 23 articles.

1. Endre Ady
2. Mateiu Caragiale
3. Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
4. Attila József
5. József Katona
6. Dragotin Kette
7. Edvard Kocbek
8. Srečko Kosovel
9. Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
10. Czesław Miłosz
11. Josip Murn
12. Jan Neruda
13. Cyprian Norwid
14. Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
15. France Prešeren
16. Jaroslav Seifert
17. Giorgos Seferis
18. Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
19. Juliusz Słowacki
20. Wisława Szymborska
21. Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
22. Ivan Vazov
23. Oton Župančič

Nordic countries

This section contains 15 articles.

1. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
2. Steen Steensen Blicher
3. Janus Djurhuus
4. Gunnar Ekelöf
5. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
6. Paavo Haavikko
7. Verner von Heidenstam
8. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
9. Eino Leino
10. Elias Lönnrot
11. Harry Martinson
12. Johan Ludvig Runeberg
13. Nelly Sachs
14. Edith Södergran
15. Tomas Tranströmer

Russia

This section contains 37 articles.

1. Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
2. Innokenty Annensky
3. Konstantin Balmont
4. Yevgeny Baratynsky
5. Demyan Bedny
6. Olga Bergholz
7. Alexander Blok
8. Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
9. Valery Bryusov
10. Sergei Chavain
11. Sasha Chorny
12. Korney Chukovsky
13. Afanasy Fet
14. Rasul Gamzatov
15. Zinaida Gippius
16. Nikolai Gumilev
17. Antiochus Kantemir
18. Daniil Kharms
19. Velimir Khlebnikov
20. Kosta Khetagurov
21. Aleksei Kruchyonykh
22. Mikhail Kuzmin
23. Osip Mandelstam
24. Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
25. Nikolay Nekrasov
26. Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
27. Dmitri Prigov
28. Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
29. Igor Severyanin
30. Fyodor Sologub
31. Vasily Trediakovsky
32. Marina Tsvetaeva
33. Ğabdulla Tuqay
34. Fyodor Tyutchev
35. Maximilian Voloshin
36. Sergei Yesenin
37. Vasily Zhukovsky

Western Europe

This section contains 52 articles.

1. Vicente Aleixandre
2. Guillaume Apollinaire
3. Louis Aragon
4. Achim von Arnim
5. Théodore de Banville
6. Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
7. Willem Bilderdijk
8. Clemens Brentano
9. André Breton
10. Giosuè Carducci
11. Alice de Chambrier
12. René Char
13. Tristan Corbière
14. Gabriele D'Annunzio
15. Robert Desnos
16. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
17. Paul Éluard
18. Carlo Favetti
19. Paul Fort
20. Ugo Foscolo
21. Théophile Gautier
22. Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
23. Willem Frederik Hermans
24. Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
25. Juan Ramón Jiménez
26. Alphonse de Lamartine
27. Else Lasker-Schüler
28. Comte de Lautréamont
29. Leconte de Lisle
30. Giacomo Leopardi
31. Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
32. Pierre Louÿs
33. Antonio Machado
34. Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
35. Henri Michaux
36. Eugenio Montale
37. Charles Péguy
38. Saint-John Perse
39. Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
40. Francis Ponge
41. Jacques Prévert
42. Sully Prudhomme
43. Salvatore Quasimodo
44. Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
45. Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
46. Carl Spitteler
47. Jules Supervielle
48. Giuseppe Ungaretti
49. Paul Valéry
50. Émile Verhaeren
51. Paul Verlaine
52. Alfred de Vigny

UK and Ireland

This section contains 58 articles.

1. William Allingham
2. Simon Armitage
3. Matthew Arnold
4. W. H. Auden
5. Alfred Austin
6. John Betjeman
7. William Blake (Level 4)
8. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
9. Robert Bridges
10. Branwell Brontë
11. Rupert Brooke
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. Robert Browning
14. Basil Bunting
15. Lord Byron (Level 4)
16. Thomas Campbell (poet)
17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
18. Cecil Day-Lewis
19. Carol Ann Duffy
20. Charlotte Elliott
21. Edward Faragher
22. Edward FitzGerald (poet)
23. Robert Graves
24. Geoffrey Grigson
25. Seamus Heaney
26. Gerard Manley Hopkins
27. A. E. Housman
28. Ted Hughes
29. John Keats (Level 4)
30. Philip Larkin
31. Mina Loy
32. Hugh MacDiarmid
33. Sorley MacLean
34. Louis MacNeice
35. John Masefield
36. William McGonagall
37. Thomas Moore
38. Andrew Motion
39. William Neill (poet)
40. Alfred Noyes
41. Wilfred Owen
42. Adelaide Anne Procter
43. Tom Raworth
44. Isaac Rosenberg
45. Christina Rossetti
46. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
47. Siegfried Sassoon
48. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
49. Edith Sitwell
50. Robert Southey
51. Stephen Spender
52. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Level 4)
53. Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
54. James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
55. Edward Thomas (poet)
56. Vernon Watkins
57. William Wordsworth (Level 4)
58. W. B. Yeats (Level 4)

Oceania

This section contains 15 articles.

1. Bruce Dawe
2. C. J. Dennis
3. Mary Gilmore
4. Adam Lindsay Gordon
5. A. D. Hope
6. Henry Lawson
7. Louisa Lawson
8. Dorothea Mackellar
9. Les Murray (poet)
10. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
11. Banjo Paterson (Level 4)
12. Peter Porter (poet)
13. Kenneth Slessor
14. Albert Wendt
15. Judith Wright

Playwrights

This section contains 162 articles.

Ancient and post-classical

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Aeschylus (Level 4)
2. Aristophanes (Level 4)
3. Bhāsa
4. Bhavabhuti (Level 4)
5. Epicharmus of Kos
6. Euphorion (playwright)
7. Euripides (Level 4)
8. Guan Hanqing
9. Hrotsvitha
10. Kan'ami
11. Livius Andronicus
12. Ma Zhiyuan
13. Menander (Level 4)
14. Phormis
15. Plautus (Level 4)
16. Pratinas
17. Sophocles (Level 4)
18. Shudraka
19. Terence (Level 4)
20. Wang Shifu
21. Zeami Motokiyo

Early modern

This section contains 40 articles.

1. Vittorio Alfieri
2. Pierre Beaumarchais
3. Francis Beaumont
4. Aphra Behn
5. Cyrano de Bergerac
6. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
7. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
8. Susanna Centlivre
9. George Chapman
10. Colley Cibber
11. Chikamatsu Monzaemon
12. William Congreve
13. Pierre Corneille (Level 4)
14. Thomas Dekker (writer)
15. John Fletcher (playwright)
16. Denis Fonvizin
17. John Ford (dramatist)
18. John Gay
19. Carlo Goldoni
20. Carlo Gozzi
21. Ben Jonson (Level 4)
22. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
23. George Lillo
24. Pierre de Marivaux
25. Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
26. John Marston (playwright)
27. Molière (Level 4)
28. Tirso de Molina
29. Juan Pérez de Montalbán
30. Jean Racine (Level 4)
31. Jean-François Regnard
32. Nicholas Rowe (writer)
33. Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
34. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
35. Alexander Sumarokov
36. Tang Xianzu
37. Lope de Vega (Level 4)
38. Joost van den Vondel
39. John Webster
40. William Wycherley

Late modern

This section contains 101 articles.

Africa

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Athol Fugard
2. Ebrahim Hussein
3. Mbongeni Ngema
4. Wole Soyinka (Level 4)

America

This section contains 34 articles.

1. Edward Albee
2. Maxwell Anderson
3. David Belasco
4. Lee Blessing
5. Marc Connelly
6. Eve Ensler
7. Lorraine Hansberry
8. Moss Hart
9. Dorothy Heyward
10. DuBose Heyward
11. Lillian Hellman
12. William M. Hoffman
13. William Inge
14. Georgia Douglas Johnson
15. George S. Kaufman
16. Larry Kramer
17. Tony Kushner
18. Martyna Majok
19. David Mamet
20. Terrence McNally
21. Arthur Miller (Level 4)
22. Eugene O'Neill
23. Clifford Odets
24. Elmer Rice
25. Morrie Ryskind
26. Sam Shepard
27. Robert E. Sherwood
28. Neil Simon
29. Theodore Ward
30. Wendy Wasserstein
31. Thornton Wilder
32. Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
33. August Wilson
34. Lanford Wilson

Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Mirza Fatali Akhundov
2. Agha Hashar Kashmiri
3. Junji Kinoshita
4. Imtiaz Ali Taj
5. Wu Zuguang

Europe

This section contains 55 articles.

1. Leonid Andreyev
2. Jean Anouilh
3. Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
4. Émile Augier
5. Alan Ayckbourn
6. Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
7. Brendan Behan
8. Jacinto Benavente
9. Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
10. Elbazduko Britayev
11. Georg Büchner
12. Karel Čapek
13. Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
14. Caryl Churchill
15. Giles Cooper (playwright)
16. Noël Coward
17. Dimitar Dimov
18. José Echegaray
19. Georges Feydeau
20. Dario Fo
21. Paul Foucher
22. Christopher Fry
23. Jean Genet
24. Jean Giraudoux
25. Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
26. Alexander Griboyedov
27. Àngel Guimerà
28. Antonio García Gutiérrez
29. Gerhart Hauptmann
30. Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
31. Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
32. Alfred Jarry
33. Sarah Kane
34. Maurice Maeterlinck
35. Martin McDonagh
36. Ferenc Molnár
37. Alfred de Musset
38. Seán O'Casey
39. Joe Orton
40. John Osborne
41. Alexander Ostrovsky
42. Harold Pinter
43. Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
44. Stanisława Przybyszewska
45. Romain Rolland
46. Edmond Rostand
47. Victorien Sardou
48. Eugène Scribe
49. George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
50. R. C. Sherriff
51. David Storey
52. August Strindberg (Level 4)
53. John Millington Synge
54. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
55. Oscar Wilde (Level 4)

Oceania

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Barry Dickins
2. Nick Enright
3. David Williamson

Comics writers

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Mitsuru Adachi
2. Gosho Aoyama
3. Hirohiko Araki
4. Brian Michael Bendis
5. Warren Ellis
6. Bill Finger
7. Neil Gaiman
8. Steve Gerber
9. René Goscinny
10. Stan Lee (Level 4)
11. Jun Maeda
12. William Moulton Marston
13. Scott McCloud
14. Mark Millar
15. Frank Miller
16. Alan Moore
17. Grant Morrison
18. Marjane Satrapi
19. Jerry Siegel
20. Joe Simon
21. Art Spiegelman

Librettists

This section contains 26 articles.

1. Giuseppe Adami
2. Hippolyte Bis
3. Arrigo Boito
4. Salvadore Cammarano
5. Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
6. Lorenzo Da Ponte
7. Louis Gallet
8. Richard Genée
9. Antonio Ghislanzoni
10. Giuseppe Giacosa
11. W. S. Gilbert
12. Ludovic Halévy
13. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
14. Luigi Illica
15. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
16. Henri Meilhac
17. Guido Menasci
18. Pietro Metastasio
19. Francesco Maria Piave
20. Ottavio Rinuccini
21. Emanuel Schikaneder
22. Renato Simoni
23. Temistocle Solera
24. Cesare Sterbini
25. Alessandro Striggio the Younger
26. Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Journalists

This section contains 391 articles.

Journalists: General

This section contains 79 articles.

1. Svetlana Alexievich (Level 4)
2. Chris Anyanwu
3. François-Noël Babeuf
4. Isabella Beeton
5. Alexander Berkman
6. Carl Bernstein
7. Nellie Bly (Level 4)
8. Heywood Broun
9. Louise Bryant
10. John Fisher Burns
11. Alexander Cockburn
12. Claud Cockburn
13. Ann Coulter
14. Euclides da Cunha
15. Kamel Daoud
16. Maureen Dowd
17. Dominick Dunne
18. Oriana Fallaci
19. Ronan Farrow
20. Robert Fisk
21. Margaret Fuller
22. Eduardo Galeano
23. Daphne Caruana Galizia
24. Malcolm Gladwell
25. Stephen Glass
26. Veronica Guerin
27. Maximilian Harden
28. Michael Hastings (journalist)
29. Seymour Hersh
30. Christopher Hitchens
31. Hedda Hopper
32. Khadija Ismayilova
33. Ryszard Kapuściński
34. Jamal Khashoggi
35. Dorothy Kilgallen
36. Paul Krassner
37. Charles Krauthammer
38. Bill Kristol
39. A. J. Liebling
40. Walter Lippmann (Level 4)
41. Graciano López Jaena
42. H. L. Mencken
43. Judith Miller
44. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
45. Piers Morgan
46. Douglas Murray (author)
47. Nizar Nayyouf
48. Robert Novak
49. Nikolay Novikov
50. Louella Parsons
51. Daniel Pearl
52. Westbrook Pegler
53. Marcelo H. del Pilar
54. John Pilger
55. Anna Politkovskaya
56. Ernie Pyle
57. John Reed (journalist)
58. Edith Rosenbaum
59. Mike Royko
60. Cornelius Ryan
61. Yaqub Sanu
62. Dan Savage
63. Daniel Schneidermann
64. Michael Shermer
65. Randy Shilts
66. Lincoln Steffens
67. I. F. Stone
68. Neil Strauss
69. Andrew Sullivan
70. Gay Talese
71. Ida Tarbell (Level 4)
72. Helen Thomas
73. Hunter S. Thompson (Level 4)
74. Gary Webb
75. Gene Weingarten
76. George Will
77. Walter Winchell
78. Michael Wolff (journalist)
79. Bob Woodward (Level 4)

Broadcast journalists and commentators

This section contains 80 articles.

1. Kate Adie
2. Martin Agronsky
3. George Alagiah
4. Christiane Amanpour
5. Carmen Aristegui
6. Martin Bashir
7. Glenn Beck
8. Shereen Bhan
9. Wolf Blitzer
10. Gloria Borger
11. Ed Bradley
12. David Brinkley
13. Tom Brokaw
14. Ned Brooks
15. Mika Brzezinski
16. Gretchen Carlson
17. Tucker Carlson
18. Christine Chubbuck
19. Anderson Cooper
20. Katie Couric
21. Walter Cronkite (Level 4)
22. Ann Curry
23. James Dibble
24. Melissa Doyle
25. Linda Ellerbee
26. Stephanie Flanders
27. Sandy Gall
28. Bernard Goldberg
29. Sean Hannity
30. Brit Hume
31. Chet Huntley
32. Laura Ingraham
33. Peter Jennings
34. Megyn Kelly
35. Larry King
36. Yevgeny Kiselyov
37. David Koch (television presenter)
38. Ted Koppel
39. Hoda Kotb
40. Matt Lauer
41. Jim Lehrer
42. Rush Limbaugh
43. Vladislav Listyev
44. Rachel Maddow
45. Bill Monroe (journalist)
46. Herbert Morrison (journalist)
47. Bill Moyers
48. Edward R. Murrow (Level 4)
49. Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
50. Jeremy Paxman
51. Dan Rather
52. Joy Reid
53. Geraldo Rivera
54. Cokie Roberts
55. Charlie Rose
56. Ian Ross (newsreader)
57. Martha Rountree
58. Tim Russert
59. Pierre Salinger
60. Jessica Savitch
61. Diane Sawyer
62. Joe Scarborough
63. Ed Schultz
64. William L. Shirer
65. Margarita Simonyan
66. Howard K. Smith
67. Ksenia Sobchak
68. Svetlana Sorokina
69. Lawrence Spivak
70. Karl Stefanovic
71. George Stephanopoulos
72. John Stossel
73. Mélissa Theuriau
74. Chuck Todd
75. Meredith Vieira
76. Mike Wallace
77. Barbara Walters
78. Lisa Wilkinson
79. Brian Williams
80. Muntadhar al-Zaidi

Critics

This section contains 63 articles.

For critics chiefly known for their analysis of the arts as a whole, see Art historians, theorists and critics and Musicologists and music theorists.

1. Joan Acocella
2. Jack Anderson (dance critic)
3. Brooks Atkinson
4. Lester Bangs
5. Vissarion Belinsky
6. Eric Bentley
7. Richard Blackwell
8. Claudia Cassidy
9. Robert Christgau
10. Irwin Chusid
11. Bosley Crowther
12. Jim DeRogatis
13. Roger Ebert
14. Anthony Fantano
15. Leonard Feather
16. Wolcott Gibbs
17. A. A. Gill
18. Ralph J. Gleason
19. Jonathan Gold
20. Dave Hickey
21. Robert Hilburn
22. Robert Hughes (critic)
23. Ada Louise Huxtable
24. Michael Jackson (writer)
25. Clive James
26. Pauline Kael
27. Mark Kermode
28. Walter Kerr
29. Harry Knowles
30. Alan M. Kriegsman
31. Bob Lefsetz
32. John Leonard (critic)
33. Leonard Maltin
34. Greil Marcus
35. Dave Marsh
36. Legs McNeil
37. Daniel Mendelsohn
38. Paul Morley
39. George Jean Nathan
40. Elliot Norton
41. Emily Nussbaum
42. Henry Taylor Parker
43. Robert Parker (wine critic)
44. Frank Peters Jr.
45. Ann Powers
46. Rex Reed
47. Simon Reynolds
48. Richard Roeper
49. James Rolfe
50. Howard Rosenberg
51. Alex Ross (music critic)
52. Frank Rutter
53. Leo Schofield
54. Harold C. Schonberg
55. A. O. Scott
56. Gilbert Seldes
57. Gene Siskel
58. James Suckling
59. TotalBiscuit
60. Peter Travers
61. Kenneth Tynan
62. Ellen Willis
63. Alexander Woollcott

Publishers and editors

This section contains 124 articles.

1. Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
2. Joseph Addison
3. Suroosh Alvi
4. Rudolf Augstein
5. Margaretha van Bancken
6. Thomas Barnes (journalist)
7. Martin Baron
8. Clarence W. Barron
9. Samuel Orchart Beeton
10. James Gordon Bennett Sr.
11. James Gordon Bennett Jr.
12. Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
13. William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
14. Hubert Beuve-Méry
15. Conrad Black
16. Edward Bok
17. Andrew Bradford
18. Stewart Brand
19. Samuel Brannan
20. Rebekah Brooks
21. William F. Buckley Jr.
22. John Bushell
23. Nathaniel Butter
24. John W. Campbell
25. Johann Carolus
26. Lucien Carr
27. Graydon Carter
28. Edward Cave
29. Edna Woolman Chase
30. Cho Gab-je
31. Nathan Cole Jr.
32. Paul Dacre
33. Geoffrey Dawson
34. John Thadeus Delane
35. Alberto Dines
36. Hrant Dink
37. John Fairfax
38. Jessie R. Fauset
39. Larry Flynt
40. B. C. Forbes
41. Malcolm Forbes
42. Timothy Thomas Fortune
43. James Franklin (printer)
44. William Gaines
45. Thomas Gardiner (publisher)
46. Al Goldstein
47. Katharine Graham
48. Jane Grant
49. Horace Greeley (Level 4)
50. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
51. Bob Guccione
52. William Peter Hamilton
53. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
54. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
55. Benjamin Harris (publisher)
56. William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
57. Andrew Heiskell
58. Hugh Hefner
59. James Augustus Hicky
60. Lars Johan Hierta
61. Roy W. Howard
62. Hu Shuli
63. Stilson Hutchins
64. Michael Jackson (journalist)
65. George Jones (publisher)
66. Samuel Keimer
67. Douglas Kenney
68. C. L. Knight
69. John S. Knight
70. Ebenezer Landells
71. Mark Lemon
72. Joseph Moses Levy
73. Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
74. Gordon Lish
75. Henry Luce
76. Elizabeth Mallet
77. Henry Mayhew
78. James McClatchy
79. Gavin McInnes
80. William McGarvie
81. Andrew Miller (publisher)
82. John Ames Mitchell
83. Henry Muddiman
84. Eugene M. O'Neill
85. John Newbery
86. Roberto Noble
87. Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
88. Henry Jarvis Raymond
89. Paul Raymond (publisher)
90. William Rees-Mogg
91. Paul Reuter
92. Pearl Rivers
93. Edward Rosewater
94. Harold Ross
95. Denis de Sallo
96. C. P. Scott
97. E. W. Scripps
98. Will Shortz
99. Charles Emory Smith
100. Shane Smith (journalist)
101. Franca Sozzani
102. Axel Springer
103. W. T. Stead
104. Richard Steele
105. Guglielmo Stefani
106. Paul Steiger
107. Julius Streicher
108. Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
109. John Edward Taylor
110. Agness Underwood
111. Diana Vreeland
112. Thomas Wakley
113. DeWitt Wallace
114. Lila Acheson Wallace
115. Arthur Fraser Walter
116. John Walter (editor, born 1776)
117. John Walter (editor, born 1818)
118. John Walter (publisher)
119. Jann Wenner
120. William R. Wilkerson
121. Frederick Wimble
122. Anna Wintour (Level 4)
123. M. H. de Young
124. John Peter Zenger

Sports journalists, sportswriters, commentators and sports announcers

This section contains 34 articles.

1. Erin Andrews
2. Richie Benaud
3. Bruce Buffer
4. Michael Buffer
5. Henry Chadwick (writer)
6. Howard Cosell
7. Bob Costas
8. Frank Deford
9. Peter FitzSimons
10. Peter Gammons
11. Jacques Goddet
12. Bryant Gumbel
13. W. A. Hewitt
14. Edmond Hoyle
15. Bill James
16. John Madden
17. Lou Marsh
18. Jim McKay
19. Jim Nantz
20. Jacqui Oatley
21. George Plimpton
22. Grantland Rice
23. Helen Rollason
24. Jim Rome
25. Jim Ross
26. Stuart Scott
27. Vin Scully
28. Bill Simmons
29. Doreen Simmons
30. Sjokz
31. Bert Sugar
32. Sid Waddell
33. Murray Walker
34. Ray Warren

Web journalists

This section contains 11 articles.

1. Julian Assange
2. Steve Bannon
3. Andrew Breitbart
4. Glenn Greenwald
5. Arianna Huffington
6. Ezra Klein
7. Jonah Peretti
8. Maria Ressa
9. Ben Shapiro
10. Ben Smith (journalist)
11. Cenk Uygur