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Class #Articles
FA 52
GA 88
A 1
B 481
C 680
FFA 18
DGA 19
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.

Early modern

This section contains 60 articles.

Late modern

This section contains 851 articles.

Africa

This section contains 24 articles.

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.

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.

Poets

This section contains 571 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 42 articles.

Post-classical

This section contains 83 articles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Librettists

This section contains 26 articles.

Journalists

This section contains 391 articles.

Journalists: General

This section contains 79 articles.

Broadcast journalists and commentators

This section contains 80 articles.

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.

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.

Web journalists

This section contains 11 articles.