Authors

Arthur Michell Ransome CBE (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created ...

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a ...

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who ...

Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis ...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best ...

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an ...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances ...

Henry Canova Vollam Morton FRSL (known as H. V. Morton), (26 July 1892 – 18 June 1979) was a journalist ...

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist, irony writer, and dramatist known for earthy ...

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, ...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, ...

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the ...

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ...

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the ...

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most ...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was ...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of ...

Born: November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Died: December 3, 1894, Vailima, Apia, Samoa Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel ...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He ...

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury ...

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded ...

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White ...