| Name | Years | Also Known As |
|---|
| Homer | c 700 BC | |
| Sappho | c 620-570 BC | |
| Aesop | c 620-560 BC | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | |
| Sophocles | 495-406 BC | |
| Euripides | c 480-406 BC | |
| Aristophanes | c 446-388 BC | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro | 70-19 BC | (Virgil) |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus | 65-8 BC | (Horace) |
| Publius Ovidius Naso | 43 BC-17 | (Ovid) |
| Mestrius Plutarchus | 46-127 | (Plutarch) |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | (Umar) |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c 1100-1155 | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1178-1241 | |
| Dante Alighieri | c 1265-1321 | (Durante) |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | (John) |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | |
| François Rabelais | 1494-1553 | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | (Michael) |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | (Michael) |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552-1599 | |
| Sir Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | (Kit) |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | (Benjamin) |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | (Peter) |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | (John) |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | (John) |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | (John) |
| Daniel Defoe | 1660-1731 | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | |
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe | 1749-1832 | (John) |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | (Fanny) |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | (Rabbie) |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | |
| Sir Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | (William) |
| Lord George Gordon Byron | 1788-1824 | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | (Alexander) |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | (Alexander) |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | |
| George Sand (Amandine Dupin) | 1804-1876 | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 18051875 | (John) |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | |
| George Eliot (Mary Evans) | 1819-1880 | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821-1881 | (Theodore) |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | (Henry) |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) | 1835-1910 | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | |
| Sir James M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1963 | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | |
| Herbert G. Wells | 1866-1946 | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | |
| Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970 | |
| Sir Pelham G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | |
| Alan A. Milne | 1882-1956 | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1884-1963 | |
| David H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | |
| Thomas S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | |
| Howard P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | |
| John R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | |
| Clive S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | |
| Elwyn B. White | 1899-1985 | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | |
| George Orwell (Eric Blair) | 1903-1950 | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | (Theodore) |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | |
| Sir William Golding | 1911-1993 | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | |
| Arthur C. Clark | 1917- | |
| Jerome D. Salinger | 1919- | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922- | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923- | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | |
| Harper Lee | 1926- | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | |
