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Writers and journalists
[edit]This section contains 1870 articles.
Writers
[edit]This section contains 1580 articles.
Prose writers
[edit]This section contains 834 articles.
Ancient prose writers
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Post-classical prose writers
[edit]This section contains 21 articles.
Post-classical prose writers from Asia
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Bāṇabhaṭṭa
Borzuya
Daṇḍin
Han Yu (Level 4)
Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Jia Yi
Liu Zongyuan
Luo Guanzhong
Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
Ouyang Xiu (Level 4)
Sei Shōnagon
Shi Nai'an
Su Shi (Level 4)
Post-classical prose writers from Europe
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Early modern prose writers
[edit]This section contains 50 articles.
Early modern prose writers from the Americas
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Early modern prose writers from Asia
[edit]This section contains 4 articles.
Early modern prose writers from Europe
[edit]This section contains 42 articles.
Early modern prose writers from France
[edit]This section contains 16 articles.
Madame d'Aulnoy
Antoine Galland
Madame de La Fayette
Jean de La Fontaine
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Michel de Montaigne (Level 4)
Charles Perrault (Level 4)
Abbé Prévost
François Rabelais (Level 4)
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
Antoine de Rivarol
Marquis de Sade (Level 4)
Germaine de Staël
Honoré d'Urfé
Voltaire (Level 3)
Early modern prose writers from Great Britain and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
James Boswell
Thomas Browne
John Bunyan
Charles Cotton
Daniel Defoe (Level 4)
Henry Fielding
Olaudah Equiano
Oliver Goldsmith
Samuel Johnson (Level 4)
Walter Savage Landor
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Thomas More (Level 4)
Thomas Nashe
Ann Radcliffe
Samuel Richardson
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Swift (Level 4)
Horace Walpole
Early modern prose writers from other parts of Europe
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Giacomo Casanova (Level 4)
Baldassare Castiglione
Miguel de Cervantes (Level 4)
Johann Peter Hebel
Ivan Krylov
Johannes Pfefferkorn
Alexander Radishchev
Early modern prose writers from Oceania
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Modern prose writers
[edit]This section contains 759 articles.
Modern prose writers from Africa
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
Muhammed Said Abdulla
Chinua Achebe (Level 4)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ama Ata Aidoo
Zamenga Batukezanga
J. E. Casely Hayford
Mohamed Choukri
J. M. Coetzee (Level 4)
Buchi Emecheta
Nuruddin Farah
Nadine Gordimer (Level 4)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Taha Hussein
Kojo Laing
Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
Naguib Mahfouz (Level 4)
Dambudzo Marechera
Léonora Miano
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Ben Okri (Level 4)
Alan Paton
Tayeb Salih
Wilbur Smith
Sony Lab'ou Tansi
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Level 4)
Kateb Yacine
Modern prose writers from the Americas
[edit]This section contains 250 articles.
Modern prose writers from the Caribbean
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern prose writers from the US and Canada
[edit]This section contains 216 articles.
Tomi Adeyemi
James Agee
Louisa May Alcott
Horatio Alger
Nelson Algren
Sherwood Anderson
V. C. Andrews
Maya Angelou (Level 4)
Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
James Baldwin
Djuna Barnes
L. Frank Baum
Saul Bellow (Level 4)
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ambrose Bierce
Judy Blume
Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Norman Bridwell
Dan Brown
Susan Brownmiller
Pearl S. Buck
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Candace Bushnell
Octavia E. Butler
James M. Cain
Erskine Caldwell
Truman Capote
Orson Scott Card
Dale Carnegie
John Dickson Carr
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon
Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
John Cheever
Kate Chopin
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Beverly Cleary
James Fenimore Cooper
Patricia Cornwell
Stephen Crane
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Janet Dailey
Lydia Davis
Don DeLillo
Philip K. Dick
Joan Didion
Mary Mapes Dodge
John Dos Passos
Theodore Dreiser
Bret Easton Ellis
James Ellroy
Harlan Ellison
Ralph Ellison
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
William Faulkner (Level 4)
Edna Ferber
M. F. K. Fisher
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
Jonathan Franzen
Diana Gabaldon
William Gaddis
Erle Stanley Gardner
Roxane Gay
William Gibson
Sue Grafton
John Green
Zane Grey
John Grisham
Alex Haley
Dashiell Hammett
Daniel Handler
Bret Harte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lafcadio Hearn
Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
O. Henry
Frank Herbert
Patricia Highsmith
S. E. Hinton
Khaled Hosseini
Robert E. Howard
William Dean Howells
Herbert Huncke
Zora Neale Hurston
Iceberg Slim
John Irving
Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson
Henry James (Level 4)
N. K. Jemisin
James Jones (author)
Erica Jong
Mary Karr
Carolyn Keene
Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
Ken Kesey
Stephen King (Level 4)
Barbara Kingsolver
Dean Koontz
Judith Krantz
Louis L'Amour
Nella Larsen
Margaret Laurence
Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
Harper Lee
Jonathan Lethem
Sinclair Lewis
Alan Lightman
Jack London (Level 4)
H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
Lois Lowry
Robert Ludlum
Ross Macdonald
Debbie Macomber
Norman Mailer
Yann Martel
Ann M. Martin
George R. R. Martin
Peter Matthiessen
Anne McCaffrey
Cormac McCarthy
Mary McCarthy (author)
Carson McCullers
Michelle McNamara
Marijane Meaker
Herman Melville (Level 4)
Stephenie Meyer
James A. Michener
Henry Miller
Margaret Mitchell
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Toni Morrison (Level 4)
Alice Munro
Anaïs Nin
Flannery O'Connor
John O'Hara
Joyce Carol Oates
Chuck Palahniuk
Katherine Paterson
James Patterson
Norman Vincent Peale
Walker Percy
Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Kathy Reichs
Anne Rice
Rick Riordan
Harold Robbins
Nora Roberts
Philip Roth
Ann Rule
Damon Runyon
J. D. Salinger
George Saunders
Sidney Sheldon
Shel Silverstein
Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Susan Sontag
Nicholas Sparks
Mickey Spillane
Danielle Steel
William Steig
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck (Level 4)
R. L. Stine
Rex Stout
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cheryl Strayed
William Styron
Jacqueline Susann
Amy Tan
Booth Tarkington
Donna Tartt
James Thurber
Wallace Thurman
Mark Twain (Level 4)
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Leon Uris
Catherynne M. Valente
Jack Vance
Gore Vidal
A. E. van Vogt
Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
Alice Walker
Rebecca Walker
David Foster Wallace
Jesmyn Ward
Eudora Welty
Dorothy West
Nathanael West
Edith Wharton (Level 4)
E. B. White
Colson Whitehead
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Kathleen Winsor
Gene Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Herman Wouk
Richard Wright (author)
Richard Yates (novelist)
Cecily von Ziegesar
Modern prose writers from Latin America
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
José de Alencar
Isabel Allende
Jorge Amado (Level 4)
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Machado de Assis (Level 4)
Aluísio Azevedo
Lima Barreto
Roberto Bolaño
Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
Paulo Coelho
Julio Cortázar
Junot Díaz
Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
Ricardo Güiraldes
Clarice Lispector
Monteiro Lobato
Raul Pompeia
Rachel de Queiroz
Graciliano Ramos
José Lins do Rego
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
João Guimarães Rosa
Juan Rulfo
Ernesto Sabato
Moacyr Scliar
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)
Modern prose writers from Asia
[edit]This section contains 77 articles.
Modern prose writers from Central Asia
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Modern prose writers from Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 48 articles.
Kōbō Abe
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Level 4)
Takeo Arishima
Ba Jin
Eileen Chang
Chiung Yao
Edogawa Ranpo
Shūsaku Endō
Gao Xingjian
Junpei Gomikawa
Gu Byeong-mo
Han Kang
Han Sorya
Ichiyō Higuchi
Hong Sok-jung
Yasushi Inoue
Jin Yong (Level 4)
Yasunari Kawabata (Level 4)
Kim Dong-in
Kim Young-ha
Takiji Kobayashi
Lao She (Level 4)
Liu Cixin
Lu Xun (Level 4)
Mao Dun
Yukio Mishima (Level 4)
Mo Yan
Mari Mori
Mori Ōgai
Seiichi Morimura
Haruki Murakami (Level 4)
Natsume Sōseki (Level 4)
Ni Kuang
Kenzaburō Ōe (Level 4)
Mimei Ogawa
Ozaki Kōyō
Pak Kyongni
Park Wan-suh
Qian Zhongshu
Ri Ki-yong
Sanmao (writer)
Shen Congwen
Ryōtarō Shiba
Shin Kyung-sook
Takizawa Bakin
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Xiao Hong
Yi Cheong-jun
Modern prose writers from Southeastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Modern prose writers from Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Aravind Adiga
Ahmed Ali (writer)
Mulk Raj Anand
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kiran Desai
R. K. Narayan
Taslima Nasrin
Premchand (Level 4)
Raja Rao
Begum Rokeya
Arundhati Roy
Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 10 articles.
Modern prose writers from Europe
[edit]This section contains 383 articles.
Modern prose writers from Eastern Europe
[edit]This section contains 32 articles.
Ivo Andrić
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Vasil Bykaŭ
Ivan Cankar
Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
Anton Donchev
Odysseas Elytis
Géza Gárdonyi
Jaroslav Hašek
Bohumil Hrabal
Mór Jókai
Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
Nikos Kazantzakis
Imre Kertész
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
László Krasznahorkai
Milan Kundera
Stanisław Lem
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Sławomir Mrożek
Božena Němcová
Bolesław Prus
Władysław Reymont
Bruno Schulz
Sholem Aleichem
Andrzej Sapkowski
Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
Magda Szabó
Dimitar Talev
Olga Tokarczuk
Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
Alki Zei
Modern prose writers from France
[edit]This section contains 56 articles.
Emmanuelle Arsan
Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
René Belbenoît
Georges Bernanos
Aloysius Bertrand
Michel Butor
Albert Camus (Level 4)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Blaise Cendrars
Henri Charrière
François-René de Chateaubriand
Albert Cohen (novelist)
Colette
Frédéric Dard
Alphonse Daudet
Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
Alexandre Dumas fils
Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
Anatole France
André Gide
Anne Golon
Jules de Goncourt
Julien Gracq
Michel Houellebecq
Victor Hugo (Level 4)
Charles Paul de Kock
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Maurice Leblanc
Gaston Leroux
Roger Martin du Gard
Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
François Mauriac
Prosper Mérimée
Octave Mirbeau
Frédéric Mistral
Patrick Modiano
Henry de Montherlant
Gérard de Nerval
Georges Perec
Robert Pinget
Marcel Proust (Level 4)
Raymond Queneau
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Françoise Sagan
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
George Sand
Georges Simenon
Claude Simon
Stendhal (Level 4)
Eugène Sue
Tomi Ungerer
Jules Verne (Level 4)
Gérard de Villiers
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Marguerite Yourcenar
Émile Zola (Level 4)
Modern prose writers from Germany and Austria
[edit]This section contains 33 articles.
Ilse Aichinger
Bettina von Arnim
Heinrich Böll
Elias Canetti
Alfred Döblin
Michael Ende
Theodor Fontane
Günter Grass
Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
Peter Handke
Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
Paul Heyse
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Elfriede Jelinek
Uwe Johnson
Franz Kafka (Level 4)
Karl Kraus (writer)
Thomas Mann (Level 4)
Karl May
Herta Müller
Robert Musil
Erich Maria Remarque
Joseph Roth
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Felix Salten
Bernhard Schlink
W. G. Sebald
Johanna Spyri
Patrick Süskind
Franz Werfel
Stefan Zweig
Modern prose writers from Nordic countries
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
Karen Blixen (Level 4)
Arne Garborg
Hulda Garborg
Maria Gripe
Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
Tove Jansson
Johannes V. Jensen
Thit Jensen
Eyvind Johnson
Alexander Kielland
Aleksis Kivi
Pär Lagerkvist
Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
Stieg Larsson
Halldór Laxness
Jonas Lie (writer)
Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
Väinö Linna
Henrik Pontoppidan
Alf Prøysen
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Sjón
Zachris Topelius
Sigrid Undset
Mika Waltari
Modern prose writers from Russia
[edit]This section contains 48 articles.
Vasily Aksyonov
Boris Akunin
Mark Aldanov
Isaac Babel
Alexander Belyaev
Andrei Bely
Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
Ilya Ehrenburg
Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
Gaito Gazdanov
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
Ivan Goncharov
Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
Alexander Grin
Alexander Herzen
Ilf and Petrov
Aleksandr Karasyov (writer)
Arsen Kotsoyev
Aleksandr I. Kuprin
Nikolai Leskov
Sergei Lukyanenko
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Sergey Mikhalkov
Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Victor Pelevin
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Aleksey Pisemsky
Andrei Platonov
Valentin Rasputin
Aleksey Remizov
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Varlam Shalamov
Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
Vladimir Sorokin
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Eduard Uspensky
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Modern prose writers from Western Europe
[edit]This section contains 26 articles.
Leopoldo Alas
Dino Buzzati
Italo Calvino
Camilo José Cela
Grazia Deledda
Umberto Eco (Level 4)
Elena Ferrante
Anne Frank (Level 4)
Willem Frederik Hermans
Primo Levi
Alessandro Manzoni
Alberto Moravia
Harry Mulisch
Multatuli
Benito Pérez Galdós
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Eça de Queiroz
Gerard Reve
Gianni Rodari
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
José Saramago (Level 4)
Annie M.G. Schmidt
Italo Svevo
Corín Tellado
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giovanni Verga
Modern prose writers from UK and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 162 articles.
Douglas Adams
William Harrison Ainsworth
Richard Aldington
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
Jeffrey Archer
Michael Arlen
Jane Austen (Level 4)
Wilbert Awdry
J. G. Ballard
Iain Banks
John Banville
Clive Barker
Pat Barker
Julian Barnes
J. M. Barrie
Enid Blyton (Level 4)
Brontë family (Level 4)
Flann O'Brien
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Eleanor Alice Burford
Anthony Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A. S. Byatt
John le Carré
Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
Barbara Cartland
G. K. Chesterton
Erskine Childers (author)
Agatha Christie (Level 4)
Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
Jackie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Catherine Cookson
John Creasey
Quentin Crisp
Roald Dahl (Level 4)
Thomas De Quincey
Len Deighton
Charles Dickens (Level 4)
Peter Dickinson
Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
Roddy Doyle
Lord Dunsany
George Eliot (Level 4)
Anne Enright
Bernardine Evaristo
J. G. Farrell
Sebastian Faulks
Helen Fielding
Penelope Fitzgerald
Ian Fleming
Ken Follett
Ford Madox Ford
E. M. Forster
Dick Francis
John Galsworthy
Elizabeth Gaskell
William Golding (Level 4)
Kenneth Grahame
Graham Greene
Arthur Hailey
Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
Roger Hargreaves
Frank Harris
Georgette Heyer
Jack Higgins
James Hogg
Alan Hollinghurst
Aldous Huxley
Christopher Isherwood
Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
Howard Jacobson
E. L. James
P. D. James
Jerome K. Jerome
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Penny Jordan
James Joyce (Level 4)
Dick King-Smith
Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
Arthur Koestler
Edward William Lane
D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Doris Lessing
C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
Wyndham Lewis
Penelope Lively
Hugh Lofting
Malcolm Lowry
George MacDonald
Compton Mackenzie
Alistair MacLean
Hilary Mantel
Frederick Marryat
W. Somerset Maugham
Daphne du Maurier
Ian McEwan
George Meredith
A. A. Milne
David Mitchell (author)
Naomi Mitchison
Nancy Mitford
Michael Moorcock
Iris Murdoch
E. Nesbit
Edna O'Brien
Amelia Opie
E. Phillips Oppenheim
George Orwell (Level 4)
Thomas Love Peacock
Mervyn Peake
Anne Perry
John William Polidori
Beatrix Potter
Anthony Powell
Terry Pratchett
J. B. Priestley
Philip Pullman
Mary Renault
Louise Rennison
Jean Rhys
Denise Robins
Sally Rooney
J. K. Rowling
Bernice Rubens
Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Paul Scott (novelist)
Walter Scott (Level 4)
Anna Sewell
Margery Sharp
Mary Shelley (Level 4)
Nevil Shute
The Sitwells
Zadie Smith
Muriel Spark
Olaf Stapledon
Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
Bram Stoker
Graham Swift
William Makepeace Thackeray
Colm Tóibín
J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
P. L. Travers
Anthony Trollope
Barry Unsworth
Edgar Wallace
Evelyn Waugh
H. G. Wells (Level 4)
Irvine Welsh
Rebecca West
T. H. White
Margery Williams
Jacqueline Wilson
P. G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
Modern prose writers from Oceania
[edit]This section contains 23 articles.
Modern prose writers from Australia
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Thea Astley
Peter Carey (novelist)
Marcus Clarke
Albert Facey
Richard Flanagan
Miles Franklin
Joseph Furphy
Helen Garner
Thomas Keneally
David Malouf
Colleen McCullough
Alan Moorehead
Ruth Park
DBC Pierre
Ethel Turner
Patrick White (Level 4)
Tim Winton
Modern prose writers from New Zealand
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern prose writers from other parts of Oceania
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Poets
[edit]This section contains 544 articles.
Ancient poets
[edit]This section contains 42 articles.
Ancient poets from Asia
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Aśvaghoṣa
Bao Zhao
Bhartṛhari
Cao Zhi
Enheduanna (Level 4)
Kalidasa (Level 4)
Qu Yuan (Level 4)
Shen Yue
Sima Xiangru
Song Yu
Tao Yuanming (Level 4)
Xie Lingyun
Ancient poets from Europe
[edit]This section contains 30 articles.
Poets from Ancient Greece
[edit]This section contains 18 articles.
Alcaeus
Alcman
Anacreon
Apollonius of Rhodes
Aratus
Archilochus
Bacchylides
Callimachus
Hesiod (Level 4)
Hipponax
Homer (Level 3)
Ibycus
Pindar
Sappho (Level 4)
Semonides of Amorgos
Simonides of Ceos
Stesichorus
Theocritus
Poets from Ancient Rome
[edit]This section contains 12 articles.
Post-classical poets
[edit]This section contains 80 articles.
Post-classical poets from Asia
[edit]This section contains 60 articles.
Post-classical poets from Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 25 articles.
Ariwara no Narihira
Bai Juyi (Level 4)
Du Fu (Level 4)
Du Mu
Fujiwara no Shunzei
Fujiwara no Teika
Gao Ming
Han Wo
Hanshan (poet)
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Ki no Tsurayuki
Li Bai (Level 3)
Li He
Li Qingzhao
Li Shangyin
Lu You
Ono no Komachi
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Saigyō
Wang Bo (poet)
Wang Wei (Level 4)
Yuan Zhen
Zhang Hu (poet)
Zhou Bangyan
Post-classical poets from Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Post-classical poets from Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
Abu al-Atahiya
Abu Nuwas (Level 4)
Abu Tammam
Adi ibn Zayd
Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
Amr ibn Kulthum
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
Buhturi
Al-Farazdaq
Ferdowsi (Level 4)
Hafez (Level 4)
Al-Hariri of Basra
Ibn al-Farid
Imru' al-Qais
Jami (Level 4)
Jarir ibn Atiyah
Omar Khayyam (Level 4)
Labid
Al-Ma'arri
Al-Mutanabbi
Al-Nabigha
Nizami Ganjavi (Level 4)
Rudaki (Level 4)
Rumi (Level 3)
Saadi Shirazi (Level 4)
Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah
Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma
Post-classical poets from Europe
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Cædmon
Geoffrey Chaucer (Level 4)
Chrétien de Troyes (Level 4)
Cynewulf
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
Gawain Poet
Gottfried von Strassburg
John Gower
Robert Henryson
Jean de Meun
Walter Kennedy (poet)
William Langland
John Lydgate
Marie de France
Petrarch (Level 4)
Qul Ghali
François Villon (Level 4)
Walther von der Vogelweide
Early modern poets
[edit]This section contains 80 articles.
Early modern poets from Africa
[edit]This section contains 1 article.
Early modern poets from America
[edit]This section contains 2 articles.
Early modern poets from Asia
[edit]This section contains 17 articles.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
Huseng Sisiw
Kaga no Chiyo
Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
Hồ Xuân Hương
Ihara Saikaku
Kobayashi Issa
Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
Mirabai (Level 4)
Nguyễn Du
Santō Kyōden
Ramprasad Sen
Surdas
Tukaram (Level 4)
Tulsidas (Level 4)
Yosa Buson
Early modern poets from Europe
[edit]This section contains 60 articles.
Early modern poets from France
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Agrippa d'Aubigné
Joachim du Bellay
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
André Chénier
Louise Labé
François de Malherbe
Clément Marot
Pierre de Ronsard
Paul Scarron
Maurice Scève
Pontus de Tyard
Théophile de Viau
Early modern poets from Great Britain and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 38 articles.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
James Beattie (poet)
William Blake (Level 4)
Samuel Butler (poet)
Robert Burns (Level 4)
Thomas Chatterton
Abraham Cowley
William Cowper
George Crabbe
Richard Crashaw
John Donne (Level 4)
John Dryden (Level 4)
John Dyer
Laurence Eusden
Robert Fergusson
Thomas Gray
George Herbert
Robert Herrick (poet)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Andrew Marvell
John Milton (Level 4)
John Owen (epigrammatist)
Katherine Philips
Alexander Pope (Level 4)
Matthew Prior
Allan Ramsay (poet)
Thomas Shadwell
Philip Sidney
Christopher Smart
Robert Southwell (priest)
Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
Thomas Traherne
Henry Vaughan
William Whitehead (poet)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Thomas Wyatt (poet)
Early modern poets from other parts of Europe
[edit]This section contains 9 articles.
Modern poets
[edit]This section contains 342 articles.
Modern poets from Africa
[edit]This section contains 21 articles.
Kofi Awoonor
Breyten Breytenbach
Syl Cheney-Coker
Birago Diop
Dox (poet)
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
Salah Jahin
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Jack Mapanje
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Christopher Okigbo
Lenrie Peters
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Jacques Rabemananjara
Elie Rajaonarison
Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
Esther Razanadrasoa
Shaaban bin Robert
Mongane Wally Serote
Bayram al-Tunisi
Modern poets from Americas
[edit]This section contains 104 articles.
Modern poets from Caribbean
[edit]This section contains 6 articles.
Modern poets from the US and Canada
[edit]This section contains 70 articles.
Rae Armantrout
John Ashbery
Amiri Baraka
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
John Berryman
Elizabeth Bishop
Gwendolyn Brooks
Charles Bukowski
Thomas Holley Chivers
Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
Ina Coolbrith
Hart Crane
Countee Cullen
E. E. Cummings
H.D.
Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Duncan (poet)
T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
Robert Frost (Level 4)
Allen Ginsberg
Louise Glück
Hedwig Gorski
Barbara Guest
Sarah Josepha Hale
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Langston Hughes (Level 4)
James Weldon Johnson
Rupi Kaur
Vachel Lindsay
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Level 4)
Audre Lorde
Amy Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell
Daphne Marlatt
John McCrae
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Clement Clarke Moore
Marianne Moore
Robin Morgan
Ogden Nash
Lorine Niedecker
Frank O'Hara
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Michael Ondaatje
George Oppen
Frances Sargent Osgood
Dorothy Parker
Bob Perelman
Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
Ezra Pound (Level 4)
James Whitcomb Riley
Theodore Roethke
Carl Sandburg
James Schuyler
Gil Scott-Heron
Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
Anne Sexton
William Gilmore Simms
John Sinclair (poet)
Gary Snyder
Wallace Stevens
Sara Teasdale
Margaret Walker
Robert Penn Warren
Walt Whitman (Level 4)
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Carlos Williams
Modern poets from Latin America
[edit]This section contains 28 articles.
Mário de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade
Augusto dos Anjos
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Mario Benedetti
Olavo Bilac
Julia de Burgos
Raimundo Correia
Rubén Darío
Menotti Del Picchia
Esteban Echeverría
Luís Gama
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
José Hernández (writer)
Lêdo Ivo
Leopoldo Lugones
José Mármol
José Martí (Level 4)
Cecília Meireles
Gabriela Mistral
Vinicius de Moraes
Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
Alberto de Oliveira
Octavio Paz
Guillermo Prieto
Alfonsina Storni
César Vallejo
Ernesto Cardenal
Modern poets from Asia
[edit]This section contains 29 articles.
Modern poets from Eastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.
Cho Ki-chon
Daigaku Horiguchi
Ko Un
Masaoka Shiki
Nobutsuna Sasaki
Yosano Akiko
Tekkan Yosano
Isamu Yoshii
Modern poets from Southeastern Asia
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern poets from Southern Asia
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern poets from Western Asia
[edit]This section contains 11 articles.
Modern poets from Europe
[edit]This section contains 174 articles.
Modern poets from Eastern Europe
[edit]This section contains 22 articles.
Endre Ady
Mateiu Caragiale
Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
Attila József
Dragotin Kette
Srečko Kosovel
Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
Czesław Miłosz
Ivan Franko
Jan Neruda
Cyprian Norwid
Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
France Prešeren
Jaroslav Seifert
Giorgos Seferis
Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
Juliusz Słowacki
Wisława Szymborska
Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
Lesya Ukrainka
Ivan Vazov
Oton Župančič
Modern poets form France
[edit]This section contains 27 articles.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Louis Aragon
Théodore de Banville
Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
André Breton
René Char
Tristan Corbière
Robert Desnos
Paul Éluard
Paul Fort
Théophile Gautier
Comte de Lautréamont
Leconte de Lisle
Pierre Louÿs
Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
Henri Michaux
Charles Péguy
Saint-John Perse
Francis Ponge
Jacques Prévert
Sully Prudhomme
Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
Jules Supervielle
Paul Valéry
Émile Verhaeren
Paul Verlaine
Alfred de Vigny
Modern poets from Germany and Austria
[edit]This section contains 7 articles.
Achim von Arnim
Clemens Brentano
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
Else Lasker-Schüler
Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
Carl Spitteler
Modern poets from Nordic countries
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Janus Djurhuus
Gunnar Ekelöf
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Paavo Haavikko
Verner von Heidenstam
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Eino Leino
Elias Lönnrot
Harry Martinson
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Nelly Sachs
Edith Södergran
Tomas Tranströmer
Modern poets from Russia
[edit]This section contains 36 articles.
Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
Innokenty Annensky
Konstantin Balmont
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Demyan Bedny
Olga Berggolts
Alexander Blok
Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
Valery Bryusov
Anna Bunina
Sasha Chorny
Korney Chukovsky
Afanasy Fet
Rasul Gamzatov
Zinaida Gippius
Nikolai Gumilev
Daniil Kharms
Velimir Khlebnikov
Kosta Khetagurov
Aleksei Kruchyonykh
Mikhail Kuzmin
Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
Osip Mandelstam
Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
Nikolay Nekrasov
Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
Dmitri Prigov
Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
Igor Severyanin
Fyodor Sologub
Marina Tsvetaeva
Gabdulla Tukay
Fyodor Tyutchev
Maximilian Voloshin
Sergei Yesenin
Vasily Zhukovsky
Modern poets from Western Europe
[edit]This section contains 15 articles.
Vicente Aleixandre
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Giosuè Carducci
Carlo Favetti
Ugo Foscolo
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Giacomo Leopardi
Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
Antonio Machado
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Eugenio Montale
Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
Salvatore Quasimodo
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Modern poets from UK and Ireland
[edit]This section contains 53 articles.
Matthew Arnold
W. H. Auden
Alfred Austin
John Betjeman
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Robert Bridges
Rupert Brooke
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Basil Bunting
Lord Byron (Level 4)
Thomas Campbell (poet)
John Clare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
Cecil Day-Lewis
Carol Ann Duffy
Charlotte Elliott
Edward Faragher
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Robert Graves
Seamus Heaney
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A. E. Housman
Ted Hughes
John Keats (Level 4)
Philip Larkin
Edward Lear
Mina Loy
Hugh MacDiarmid
Sorley MacLean
Louis MacNeice
John Masefield
Thomas Moore
Andrew Motion
William Neill (poet)
Alfred Noyes
Wilfred Owen
Adelaide Anne Procter
Tom Raworth
Isaac Rosenberg
Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Siegfried Sassoon
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
Edith Sitwell
Robert Southey
Stephen Spender
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
Vernon Watkins
William Wordsworth (Level 4)
W. B. Yeats (Level 4)
Modern poets from Oceania
[edit]This section contains 14 articles.
Playwrights
[edit]This section contains 158 articles.
Ancient and post-classical playwrights
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
Aeschylus (Level 4)
Aristophanes (Level 4)
Bhāsa
Bhavabhuti
Epicharmus of Cos
Euripides (Level 4)
Guan Hanqing
Hrotsvitha
Kan'ami
Livius Andronicus
Ma Zhiyuan
Menander
Plautus (Level 4)
Pratinas
Sophocles (Level 4)
Shudraka
Terence (Level 4)
Wang Shifu
Zeami Motokiyo
Early modern playwrights
[edit]This section contains 39 articles.
Vittorio Alfieri
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
Aphra Behn
Cyrano de Bergerac
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Susanna Centlivre
George Chapman
Colley Cibber
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
William Congreve
Pierre Corneille
Thomas Dekker (writer)
John Fletcher (playwright)
Denis Fonvizin
John Ford (dramatist)
John Gay
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Gozzi
Ben Jonson (Level 4)
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Pierre de Marivaux
Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
John Marston (playwright)
Molière (Level 4)
Tirso de Molina
Juan Pérez de Montalbán
Jean Racine (Level 4)
Jean-François Regnard
Nicholas Rowe (writer)
Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
William Shakespeare (Level 3)
Alexander Sumarokov
Tang Xianzu
Lope de Vega (Level 4)
Joost van den Vondel
John Webster
William Wycherley
Modern playwrights
[edit]This section contains 100 articles.
Modern playwrights from Africa
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern playwrights from America
[edit]This section contains 32 articles.
Edward Albee
Maxwell Anderson
David Belasco
Marc Connelly
Eve Ensler
Lorraine Hansberry
Dorothy Heyward
DuBose Heyward
Lillian Hellman
William M. Hoffman
William Inge
Georgia Douglas Johnson
George S. Kaufman
Larry Kramer
Tony Kushner
Martyna Majok
David Mamet
Terrence McNally
Arthur Miller (Level 4)
Eugene O'Neill
Clifford Odets
Elmer Rice
Morrie Ryskind
Sam Shepard
Robert E. Sherwood
Neil Simon
Theodore Ward
Wendy Wasserstein
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Modern playwrights from Asia
[edit]This section contains 5 articles.
Modern playwrights from Europe
[edit]This section contains 55 articles.
Leonid Andreyev
Jean Anouilh
Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
Émile Augier
Alan Ayckbourn
Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
Brendan Behan
Jacinto Benavente
Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
Elbazduko Britayev
Georg Büchner
Karel Čapek
Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
Caryl Churchill
Paul Claudel
Giles Cooper (playwright)
Noël Coward
Dimitar Dimov
José Echegaray
Georges Feydeau
Dario Fo
Christopher Fry
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Alexander Griboyedov
Àngel Guimerà
Antonio García Gutiérrez
Gerhart Hauptmann
Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
Alfred Jarry
Sarah Kane
Maurice Maeterlinck
Martin McDonagh
Ferenc Molnár
Alfred de Musset
Seán O'Casey
Joe Orton
John Osborne
Alexander Ostrovsky
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
Stanisława Przybyszewska
Romain Rolland
Edmond Rostand
Victorien Sardou
Eugène Scribe
George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
R. C. Sherriff
Tom Stoppard
David Storey
August Strindberg (Level 4)
John Millington Synge
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Oscar Wilde (Level 4)
Modern playwrights from Oceania
[edit]This section contains 3 articles.
Comics writers and graphic novelists
[edit]This section contains 20 articles.
Librettists
[edit]This section contains 24 articles.
Giuseppe Adami
Arrigo Boito
Salvadore Cammarano
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Richard Genée
Antonio Ghislanzoni
Giuseppe Giacosa
W. S. Gilbert
Ludovic Halévy
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Luigi Illica
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
Henri Meilhac
Guido Menasci
Pietro Metastasio
Francesco Maria Piave
Ottavio Rinuccini
Emanuel Schikaneder
Renato Simoni
Temistocle Solera
Cesare Sterbini
Alessandro Striggio the Younger
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Journalists
[edit]This section contains 290 articles.
Journalists: General
[edit]This section contains 60 articles.
Shireen Abu Akleh
Svetlana Alexievich (Level 4)
Chris Anyanwu
François-Noël Babeuf
Isabella Beeton
Alexander Berkman
Carl Bernstein
Nellie Bly (Level 4)
Louise Bryant
Ann Coulter
Euclides da Cunha
Kamel Daoud
Oriana Fallaci
Ronan Farrow
Robert Fisk
Margaret Fuller
Eduardo Galeano
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Malcolm Gladwell
Veronica Guerin
Maximilian Harden
Michael Hastings (journalist)
Seymour Hersh
Christopher Hitchens
Hedda Hopper
Khadija Ismayilova
Ryszard Kapuściński
Jamal Khashoggi
Egon Kisch
Charles Krauthammer
Walter Lippmann (Level 4)
Graciano López Jaena
H. L. Mencken
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Piers Morgan
Douglas Murray (author)
Nizar Nayyouf
Nikolay Novikov
Louella Parsons
Daniel Pearl
Marcelo H. del Pilar
John Pilger
Anna Politkovskaya
Ernie Pyle
John Reed (journalist)
Cornelius Ryan
Yaqub Sanu
Daniel Schneidermann
Michael Shermer
I. F. Stone
Neil Strauss
Gay Talese
Ida Tarbell (Level 4)
Helen Thomas
Hunter S. Thompson (Level 4)
Gary Webb
George Will
Walter Winchell
Michael Wolff (journalist)
Bob Woodward (Level 4)
Broadcast journalists, presenters and commentators
[edit]This section contains 70 articles.
Kate Adie
Martin Agronsky
George Alagiah
Christiane Amanpour
Carmen Aristegui
David Attenborough (Level 4)
Martin Bashir
Shereen Bhan
Wolf Blitzer
Ed Bradley
David Brinkley
Tom Brokaw
Mika Brzezinski
Gretchen Carlson
Tucker Carlson
Suicide of Christine Chubbuck
Anderson Cooper
Katie Couric
Walter Cronkite (Level 4)
Ann Curry
Sandy Gall
Sean Hannity
Brit Hume
Chet Huntley
Peter Jennings
Megyn Kelly
Larry King
Yevgeny Kiselyov
David Koch (television presenter)
Ted Koppel
Matt Lauer
Jim Lehrer
Rush Limbaugh
Vladislav Listyev
Rachel Maddow
Patrick Moore
Herbert Morrison (journalist)
Bill Moyers
Edward R. Murrow (Level 4)
Bill Nye
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Jeremy Paxman
Dan Rather
Joy Reid
Geraldo Rivera
Cokie Roberts
Charlie Rose
Martha Rountree
Tim Russert
Pierre Salinger
Jessica Savitch
Diane Sawyer
Ed Schultz
William L. Shirer
Margarita Simonyan
Howard K. Smith
Ksenia Sobchak
Svetlana Sorokina
Lawrence Spivak
Karl Stefanovic
George Stephanopoulos
Louis Theroux
Mélissa Theuriau
Chuck Todd
Meredith Vieira
Mike Wallace
Barbara Walters
Lisa Wilkinson
Brian Williams
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
Critics
[edit]This section contains 40 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.
Joan Acocella
Brooks Atkinson
Vissarion Belinsky
Eric Bentley
Claudia Cassidy
Robert Christgau
Bosley Crowther
Roger Ebert
Anthony Fantano
Leonard Feather
Ralph J. Gleason
Jonathan Gold
Robert Hughes (critic)
Ada Louise Huxtable
Michael Jackson (writer)
Clive James
André Jullien
Pauline Kael
Mark Kermode
Alan M. Kriegsman
John Leonard (critic)
Leonard Maltin
Greil Marcus
Legs McNeil
Elliot Norton
Emily Nussbaum
Robert Parker (wine critic)
Ann Powers
Rex Reed
Simon Reynolds
Richard Roeper
Alex Ross (music critic)
A. O. Scott
Gilbert Seldes
Gene Siskel
James Suckling
Peter Travers
Kenneth Tynan
Ellen Willis
Alexander Woollcott
Photojournalists
[edit]This section contains 13 articles.
Publishers and editors
[edit]This section contains 80 articles.
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Joseph Addison
Rudolf Augstein
Martin Baron
Clarence W. Barron
James Gordon Bennett Sr.
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
Hubert Beuve-Méry
Conrad Black
Edward Bok
Stewart Brand
Samuel Brannan
Rebekah Brooks
William F. Buckley Jr.
John W. Campbell
Johann Carolus
Lucien Carr
Graydon Carter
Edward Cave
Edna Woolman Chase
Paul Dacre
Alberto Dines
Hrant Dink
John Fairfax
Jessie R. Fauset
Larry Flynt
B. C. Forbes
Timothy Thomas Fortune
William Gaines
Al Goldstein
Katharine Graham
Horace Greeley (Level 4)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
Bob Guccione
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
Hugh Hefner
James Augustus Hicky
Lars Johan Hierta
Hu Shuli
Stilson Hutchins
George Jones (publisher)
Douglas Kenney
Mark Lemon
Joseph Moses Levy
Henry Luce
Elizabeth Mallet
Henry Mayhew
Gavin McInnes
John Newbery
Roberto Noble
Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Paul Raymond (publisher)
William Rees-Mogg
Paul Reuter
Pearl Rivers
Harold Ross
C. P. Scott
E. W. Scripps
Franca Sozzani
Axel Springer
W. T. Stead
Richard Steele
Julius Streicher
Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
John Edward Taylor
Agness Underwood
Diana Vreeland
Thomas Wakley
DeWitt Wallace
Lila Acheson Wallace
John Walter (publisher)
Jann Wenner
William R. Wilkerson
Anna Wintour
M. H. de Young
John Peter Zenger
Sports journalists, sportswriters, commentators and sports announcers
[edit]This section contains 19 articles.
Web journalists
[edit]This section contains 8 articles.