| Name | Lifespan | Also Known As | |
|---|
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | |  |
| Aesop | c. 620-560 BC | | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | (Alan, Alexander) | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1884-1963 | | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | (Alexander) | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | (Alexander) | |
| Alfons De Ridder "Willem Elsschot" | 1882-1960 | (Willem) | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | (Andrew) | |
| Anna Sewell | 1820-1878 | | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | | |
| Anne Rice | 1941- | | |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt | 1911-1995 | (Maria, Geertruida) | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-388 BC | | |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971- | | |
| Arthur C. Clark | 1917-2008 | (Charles) | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | | |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | | |
| Bart Chabot | 1954- | | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | (Benjamin) | |
| Boudewijn Büch | 1948-2002 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | | |
| Carry Slee | 1949- | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | (Kit) | |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983- | | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | (Clive, Staples) | |
| Connie Palmen | 1955- | | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Daniel Handler "Lemony Snicket" | 1970- | | |
| Daniel Defoe | 1660-1731 | | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | (Durante) | |
| Daphne Deckers | 1968- | | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | (David, Herbert) | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552-1599 | | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | (Edward, Morgan) | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | (Elwyn, Brooks) | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | (Miller) | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | (Ferdinand) | |
| Flora Thompson | 1876-1947 | (Jane) | |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | (Fanny) | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | (Francis, Key) | |
| François Rabelais | 1494-1553 | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821-1881 | (Theodore) | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-1155 | | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| Lord George Gordon Byron | 1788-1824 | | |
| George Eliot | 1819-1880 | (Mary) | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Eric) | |
| George Sand | 1804-1876 | (Amandine) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | | |
| Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| Gerrit Komrij | 1944-2012 | | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | (John) | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805 | (John) | |
| Harper Lee | 1926- | (Nelle) | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Heleen van Royen | 1965- | | |
| Hella Haasse | 1918-2011 | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (Heinrich) | |
| Henk Marsman "J. Bernlef" | 1937-2012 | | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | (Henry) | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | (Herbert, George) | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| Homer | c. 700 BC | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | (Howard, Phillips) | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | (James, Matthew) | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | (John) | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | (John) | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | (John) | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | (John) | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | (Jerome, David) | |
| Jessica Durlacher | 1961- | | |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965- | (Joanne, Kathleen) | |
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe | 1749-1832 | (John) | |
| John Grisham | 1955- | | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | (Ernst) | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | (John, Ronald, Reuel) | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977- | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Joost Zwagerman | 1963- | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| Jules Deelder | 1944- | | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Karel Glastra van Loon | 1962-2005 | | |
| Katherine Paterson | 1932- | | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954- | | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | (Lyman) | |
| Maarten 't Hart | 1944- | | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900-1949 | (Munnerlyn) | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1930-1999 | | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Samuel) | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | | |
| Mestrius Plutarchus | 46-127 | (Plutarch) | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | (Michael) | |
| Midas Dekkers | 1946- | | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | (Michael) | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960- | | |
| Noam Chomsky | 1928- | | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | (Kingsley) | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | (Umar) | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Paul van Loon | 1955- | | |
| Paulo Coelho | 1947- | | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | (Pelham, Grenville) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | (Kindred) | |
| Philip Pullman | 1946- | | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | (Peter) | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Publius Ovidius Naso | 43 BC-17 | (Ovid) | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro | 70-19 BC | (Virgil) | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus | 65-8 BC | (Horace) | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun" | 1964- | | |
| Remco Campert | 1929- | | |
| Renate Dorrestein | 1954- | | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | (Rabbie) | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | (Anson) | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| Ronald Giphart | 1965- | | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1963 | | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | | |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947- | | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Sappho | c. 620-570 BC | | |
| Sara Menco "Marga Minco" | 1920- | (Marga) | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | (Harry) | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1178-1241 | | |
| Sophocles | 495-406 BC | | |
| Stephenie Meyer | 1973- | | |
| Stieg Larsson | 1954-2004 | | |
| Susan Cooper | 1935- | | |
| Susan Hill | 1942- | | |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962- | | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | | |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948- | | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | (Theodore) | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | (Thomas, Stearns) | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Tom Clancy | 1947- | | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | (William) | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
