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Mark Twain (Smuel Langhorne Clemens)
11/30/1835 - 04/21/1910
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great America...
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03/14/1916 - 03/04/2009
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film...
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10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Tod...
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08/02/1854 - 04/09/1909
Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.
01/25/1919 - 08/13/2010
Edwin Harold Newman (January 25, 1919 – August 13, 2010) was an American newscaster, journalist and author.
01/26/1918 - 02/25/2009
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.
Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
01/27/1832 - 01/14/1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures...
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11/25/1899 - 04/25/1982
  William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first o...
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nationa...
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11/01/1923 - 01/31/2001
Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Kn...
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07/10/1867 - 04/24/1936
Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867 — April 24, 1936) was a Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. He published Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches, in 1898.
09/15/1890 - 01/12/1976
Dame Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels...
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Frank McCourt (Francis McCourt)
08/19/1930 - 07/19/2009
Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes. His brothers Malachy McCourt and Alphie McCourt are al...
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06/10/1952 - 01/31/2010
Kage Baker (June 10, 1952 – January 31, 2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
06/03/1963 - 07/09/2004
Paul Klebnikov (June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist of Russian descent. He worked for Forbes Magazine for over 10 years and at the time of his death was Chief editor of the Russian edition. H...
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