67 authors

Timeless voices

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🇫🇷 French · 1913–1960

🇺🇸 American · 1947–

B

🇿🇦 South African · 1937–1986

Bobbie Ann Mason

🇺🇸 American · 1940–

C

Charles Dickens

🇬🇧 British · 1812–1870

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

🇺🇸 American · 1860–1935

🇺🇸 American · 1928–

D

🇬🇧 British · 1885–1930

E

Edgar Allan Poe

🇺🇸 American · 1809–1849

Ernest Hemingway

🇺🇸 American · 1899–1961

🇺🇸 American · 1909–2001

F

F. Scott Fitzgerald

🇺🇸 American · 1896–1940

Flannery O'Connor

🇺🇸 American · 1925–1964

🇨🇿 Czech · 1883–1924

G

Guy de Maupassant

🇫🇷 French · 1850–1893

H

🇺🇸 American · 1843–1916

Herman Melville

🇺🇸 American · 1819–1891

I

🇷🇺 Russian · 1894–1940

J

🇺🇸 American · 1924–1987

🇮🇪 Irish · 1882–1941

🇺🇸 American · 1894–1961

🇺🇸 American · 1912–1982

🇺🇸 American · 1932–2009

🇬🇧 British · 1857–1924

Joyce Carol Oates

K

🇺🇸 American · 1850–1904

Katherine Mansfield

L

🇷🇺 Russian · 1828–1910

M

Margaret Atwood

🇨🇦 Canadian · 1939–

Margaret Laurence

🇨🇦 Canadian · 1926–1987

N

Nathaniel Hawthorne

🇺🇸 American · 1804–1864

O

R

🇺🇸 American · 1938–1988

Richard Connell

S

🇬🇧 British · 1870–1916

Sarah Orne Jewett

Sherwood Anderson

🇺🇸 American · 1876–1941

Shirley Jackson

🇺🇸 American · 1871–1900

🇺🇸 American · 1876–1948

T

Tadeusz Borowski

🇵🇱 Polish · 1922–1951

🇺🇸 American · 1945–

W

Washington Irving

🇺🇸 American · 1873–1947

William Faulkner

🇺🇸 American · 1897–1962

William Howells

🇺🇸 American · 1837–1920

William Shakespeare

Z

Zora Neale Hurston

Romanticism & Victorian

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickens

Herman Melville

Realism & Naturalism

William Howells

Guy de Maupassant

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Modernism

Sherwood Anderson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

Postwar & Contemporary

Tadeusz Borowski

Flannery O'Connor

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Atwood

Bobbie Ann Mason

Albert Camus1913–19601 Alice Walker1 Ambrose Bierce1 Ann Beattie1947–1 Anton Chekhov5 Bessie Head1937–19862 Bobbie Ann Mason1940–1 Bram Stoker1 Charles Dickens1812–18704 Charlotte Bronte1 Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–19352 Cynthia Ozick1928–1 D.H. Lawrence1885–19305 Edgar Allan Poe1809–18499 Emily Bronte1 Ernest Hemingway1899–196110 Eudora Welty1909–20012 F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–19404 Flannery O'Connor1925–19644 Frank Stockton1 Franz Kafka1883–19244 Guy de Maupassant1850–18933 Henry James1843–19161 Herman Melville1819–18912 Homer1 Isaac Babel1894–19401 Jack London1 James Baldwin1924–19873 James Hurst1 James Joyce1882–19415 James Thurber1894–19614 Jane Austen1 John Cheever1912–19821 John Updike1932–20092 Joseph Conrad1857–19242 Joyce Carol Oates1 Kate Chopin1850–19044 Katherine Mansfield3 Kurt Vonnegut1 Leo Tolstoy1828–19103 Margaret Atwood1939–2 Margaret Laurence1926–19872 Mark Twain3 Mary Shelley1 Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–18647 Nikolai Gogol2 O. Henry5 Oscar Wilde1 Ray Bradbury1 Raymond Carver1938–19882 Richard Connell1 Saki1870–19163 Sarah Orne Jewett1 Sherwood Anderson1876–19411 Shirley Jackson1 Stephen Crane1871–19004 Susan Glaspell1876–19482 Tadeusz Borowski1922–19511 Tobias Wolff1945–1 W.D. Howells1 W.W. Jacobs1 Washington Irving1 Willa Cather1873–19472 William Faulkner1897–19623 William Howells1837–19202 William Shakespeare6 Zora Neale Hurston1

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British literature

4 authors

Charles Dickens

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French literature

2 authors

Guy de Maupassant

🇷🇺

Russian literature

2 authors

🇨🇦

Canadian literature

2 authors

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Atwood

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Irish literature

1 authors

🇨🇿

Czech literature

1 authors

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South African literature

1 authors

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Polish literature

1 authors

Tadeusz Borowski

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