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Writers

This section contains 1727 articles.

Prose writers[edit]

This section contains 944 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 5 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Vishnu Sharma

Europe[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aesop
  2. Apuleius
  3. Lucian (Level 4)
  4. Pliny the Younger

Post-classical

This section contains 17 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Bāṇabhaṭṭa
  2. Borzuya
  3. Daṇḍin
  4. Han Yu (Level 4)
  5. Ibn al-Muqaffa'
  6. Liu Zongyuan
  7. Luo Guanzhong
  8. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
  9. Ouyang Xiu (Level 4)
  10. Sei Shōnagon
  11. Shi Nai'an
  12. Su Shi (Level 4)

Europe[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Giovanni Boccaccio (Level 4)
  2. Marie de France
  3. Christine de Pizan (Level 4)
  4. Julian of Norwich
  5. Margery Kempe

Early modern

This section contains 60 articles.

Americas[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Charles Brockden Brown
  2. William Hill Brown
  3. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
  4. Juana Inés de la Cruz
  5. Mary Rowlandson

Asia[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Asai Ryōi
  2. Cao Xueqin
  3. Ueda Akinari
  4. Wu Cheng'en
  5. Xu Zhonglin

Europe[edit]

This section contains 49 articles.

  1. Madame d'Aulnoy
  2. William Bolts
  3. James Boswell
  4. Thomas Browne
  5. John Bunyan
  6. José Cadalso
  7. Giacomo Casanova (Level 4)
  8. Baldassare Castiglione
  9. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  10. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
  11. John Cleland
  12. Charles Cotton
  13. Daniel Defoe (Level 4)
  14. Henry Fielding (Level 4)
  15. Antoine Galland
  16. Oliver Goldsmith
  17. Johann Peter Hebel
  18. E. T. A. Hoffmann
  19. Captain Charles Johnson
  20. Samuel Johnson (Level 4)
  21. Ivan Krylov
  22. Madame de La Fayette
  23. Jean de La Fontaine
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
  25. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  26. Walter Savage Landor
  27. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
  28. Thomas Malory
  29. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  30. Michel de Montaigne (Level 4)
  31. Thomas More (Level 4)
  32. Thomas Nashe
  33. Charles Perrault (Level 4)
  34. Johannes Pfefferkorn
  35. François Rabelais (Level 4)
  36. Alexander Radishchev
  37. Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
  38. Samuel Richardson
  39. Antoine de Rivarol
  40. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
  41. Marquis de Sade (Level 4)
  42. Germaine de Staël
  43. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  44. Laurence Sterne
  45. Jonathan Swift (Level 4)
  46. Honoré d'Urfé
  47. Pêro Vaz de Caminha
  48. Voltaire (Level 3)
  49. Horace Walpole

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Watkin Tench

Late modern

This section contains 862 articles.

Africa

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Muhammed Said Abdulla
  2. Chinua Achebe (Level 4)
  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  4. Zamenga Batukezanga
  5. J. E. Casely Hayford
  6. Mohamed Choukri
  7. J. M. Coetzee (Level 4)
  8. Buchi Emecheta
  9. Nuruddin Farah
  10. Nadine Gordimer (Level 4)
  11. Abdulrazak Gurnah
  12. Taha Hussein
  13. Kojo Laing
  14. Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
  15. Naguib Mahfouz (Level 4)
  16. Dambudzo Marechera
  17. Léonora Miano
  18. Ahlam Mosteghanemi
  19. Ben Okri (Level 4)
  20. Tayeb Salih
  21. Wilbur Smith
  22. Sony Lab'ou Tansi
  23. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Level 4)
  24. Kateb Yacine

Americas

This section contains 326 articles.

Caribbean[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Patrick Chamoiseau
  2. Maryse Condé
  3. Marlon James (novelist)
  4. Audre Lorde
US and Canada[edit]

This section contains 293 articles.

  1. Tomi Adeyemi
  2. James Agee
  3. Louisa May Alcott
  4. Lloyd Alexander
  5. Horatio Alger
  6. Nelson Algren
  7. Cleveland Amory
  8. Poul Anderson
  9. Sherwood Anderson
  10. V. C. Andrews
  11. Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
  12. Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
  13. Paul Auster
  14. James Baldwin
  15. Djuna Barnes
  16. Donald Barthelme
  17. L. Frank Baum
  18. Paul Beatty
  19. Saul Bellow (Level 4)
  20. Stan and Jan Berenstain
  21. Ambrose Bierce
  22. Earl Derr Biggers
  23. Judy Blume
  24. Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
  25. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  26. Norman Bridwell
  27. Richard Brautigan
  28. Terry Brooks
  29. Dan Brown
  30. Susan Brownmiller
  31. Pearl S. Buck
  32. Edgar Rice Burroughs
  33. William S. Burroughs (Level 4)
  34. Candace Bushnell
  35. Octavia E. Butler
  36. Meg Cabot
  37. James M. Cain
  38. Erskine Caldwell
  39. Truman Capote
  40. Orson Scott Card
  41. Eric Carle
  42. Dale Carnegie
  43. John Dickson Carr
  44. Jonathan Carroll
  45. Raymond Carver
  46. Willa Cather
  47. Michael Chabon
  48. Robert W. Chambers
  49. Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
  50. John Cheever
  51. C. J. Cherryh
  52. Kate Chopin
  53. Winston Churchill (novelist)
  54. Tom Clancy
  55. Mary Higgins Clark
  56. Beverly Cleary
  57. Robin Cook (American novelist)
  58. James Fenimore Cooper
  59. Patricia Cornwell
  60. Stephen Crane
  61. Michael Crichton
  62. Clive Cussler
  63. Janet Dailey
  64. Henry Darger
  65. Lydia Davis
  66. Varina Davis
  67. Don DeLillo
  68. Philip K. Dick
  69. Joan Didion
  70. Annie Dillard
  71. Franklin W. Dixon
  72. Thomas Dixon Jr.
  73. Mary Mapes Dodge
  74. John Dos Passos
  75. Theodore Dreiser
  76. David Eddings
  77. Bret Easton Ellis
  78. James Ellroy
  79. Harlan Ellison
  80. Ralph Ellison
  81. Louise Erdrich
  82. Jeffrey Eugenides
  83. Walter Farley
  84. James T. Farrell
  85. William Faulkner (Level 4)
  86. Raymond E. Feist
  87. Edna Ferber
  88. Tim Ferriss
  89. M. F. K. Fisher
  90. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
  91. Jonathan Franzen
  92. James Frey
  93. Diana Gabaldon
  94. William Gaddis
  95. Erle Stanley Gardner
  96. Roxane Gay
  97. William Gibson
  98. Sue Grafton
  99. John Gray (American author)
  100. John Green
  101. Robert Greene (American author)
  102. Zane Grey
  103. John Grisham
  104. Alex Haley
  105. Dashiell Hammett
  106. Daniel Handler
  107. Bret Harte
  108. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Level 4)
  109. Louise Hay
  110. Lafcadio Hearn
  111. Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
  112. Joseph Heller
  113. Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
  114. Marguerite Henry
  115. O. Henry
  116. Caroline Lee Hentz
  117. Frank Herbert
  118. Patricia Highsmith
  119. S. E. Hinton
  120. Khaled Hosseini
  121. Robert E. Howard
  122. William Dean Howells
  123. Herbert Huncke
  124. Evan Hunter
  125. Zora Neale Hurston
  126. Iceberg Slim
  127. Clifford Irving
  128. John Irving
  129. Washington Irving
  130. Shirley Jackson
  131. Henry James (Level 4)
  132. Tama Janowitz
  133. N. K. Jemisin
  134. James Jones (author)
  135. Erica Jong
  136. MacKinlay Kantor
  137. Mary Karr
  138. Susanna Kaysen
  139. Carolyn Keene
  140. Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
  141. Ken Kesey
  142. Stephen King (Level 4)
  143. Barbara Kingsolver
  144. Robert Kiyosaki
  145. Dean Koontz
  146. Judith Krantz
  147. Louis L'Amour
  148. Madeleine L'Engle
  149. Nella Larsen
  150. Margaret Laurence
  151. Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
  152. Harper Lee
  153. Jonathan Lethem
  154. Sinclair Lewis
  155. Alan Lightman
  156. Tao Lin
  157. Jeff Lindsay
  158. Hal Lindsey
  159. Jack London (Level 4)
  160. John Luther Long
  161. H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
  162. Lois Lowry
  163. Robert Ludlum
  164. Ross Macdonald
  165. Debbie Macomber
  166. Maddox (writer)
  167. Norman Mailer
  168. William Manchester
  169. Yann Martel
  170. Ann M. Martin
  171. George R. R. Martin
  172. Peter Matthiessen
  173. Tucker Max
  174. Anne McCaffrey
  175. Cormac McCarthy
  176. Mary McCarthy (author)
  177. Carson McCullers
  178. Jay McInerney
  179. Patricia A. McKillip
  180. Michelle McNamara
  181. Marijane Meaker
  182. Herman Melville (Level 4)
  183. Thomas Merton
  184. Stephenie Meyer
  185. James A. Michener
  186. Henry Miller
  187. Margaret Mitchell
  188. Lucy Maud Montgomery
  189. Toni Morrison (Level 4)
  190. Alice Munro
  191. Andrew Neiderman
  192. Anaïs Nin
  193. Larry Niven
  194. Philip Francis Nowlan
  195. Alissa Nutting
  196. Flannery O'Connor
  197. John O'Hara
  198. Joyce Carol Oates
  199. Chuck Palahniuk
  200. Katherine Paterson
  201. Gilbert Patten
  202. James Patterson
  203. Norman Vincent Peale
  204. Edmund Pearson
  205. Richard Peck (writer)
  206. Walker Percy
  207. Christopher Pike (author)
  208. Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
  209. Frederik Pohl
  210. Richard Price (writer)
  211. Mario Puzo
  212. Thomas Pynchon
  213. Ayn Rand (Level 4)
  214. Kathy Reichs
  215. H. A. Rey
  216. Anne Rice
  217. Rick Riordan
  218. Harold Robbins
  219. Tony Robbins
  220. Nora Roberts
  221. Philip Roth
  222. Patrick Rothfuss
  223. Ann Rule
  224. Damon Runyon
  225. J. D. Salinger
  226. George Saunders
  227. Richard Scarry
  228. Harold Schechter
  229. Maurice Sendak
  230. Michael Shaara
  231. Sidney Sheldon
  232. Shel Silverstein
  233. Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
  234. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  235. Frank G. Slaughter
  236. Lucy Mack Smith
  237. Susan Sontag
  238. Terry Southern
  239. Nicholas Sparks
  240. Mickey Spillane
  241. Danielle Steel
  242. William Steig
  243. Gertrude Stein
  244. John Steinbeck (Level 4)
  245. R. L. Stine
  246. Charles Warren Stoddard
  247. Rex Stout
  248. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  249. Cheryl Strayed
  250. William Styron
  251. Jacqueline Susann
  252. Amy Tan
  253. Booth Tarkington
  254. Donna Tartt
  255. Paul Theroux
  256. James Thurber
  257. Wallace Thurman
  258. John Kennedy Toole
  259. Mark Twain (Level 4)
  260. Anne Tyler
  261. John Updike
  262. Leon Uris
  263. Catherynne M. Valente
  264. Jack Vance
  265. Jeff VanderMeer
  266. Gore Vidal
  267. A. E. van Vogt
  268. William T. Vollmann
  269. Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
  270. Alice Walker
  271. Rebecca Walker
  272. David Foster Wallace
  273. Irving Wallace
  274. Jesmyn Ward
  275. Eudora Welty
  276. Dorothy West
  277. Nathanael West
  278. Edith Wharton (Level 4)
  279. E. B. White
  280. Colson Whitehead
  281. Marianne Wiggins
  282. Laura Ingalls Wilder
  283. Nathaniel Parker Willis
  284. Kathleen Winsor
  285. Gene Wolfe
  286. Thomas Wolfe
  287. Tom Wolfe
  288. Cornell Woolrich
  289. Herman Wouk
  290. Richard Wright (author)
  291. Elizabeth Wurtzel
  292. Richard Yates (novelist)
  293. Cecily von Ziegesar
Latin America[edit]

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. José de Alencar
  2. Isabel Allende
  3. Jorge Amado (Level 4)
  4. Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
  5. Machado de Assis (Level 4)
  6. Aluísio Azevedo
  7. Lima Barreto
  8. Roberto Bolaño
  9. Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
  10. Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
  11. Paulo Coelho
  12. Julio Cortázar
  13. Junot Díaz
  14. Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
  15. Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
  16. Ricardo Güiraldes
  17. Clarice Lispector
  18. Monteiro Lobato
  19. Raul Pompeia
  20. Rachel de Queiroz
  21. Graciliano Ramos
  22. José Lins do Rego
  23. João Ubaldo Ribeiro
  24. João Guimarães Rosa
  25. Juan Rulfo
  26. Ernesto Sabato
  27. Moacyr Scliar
  28. Lygia Fagundes Telles
  29. Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)

Asia

This section contains 75 articles.

  1. Kōbō Abe
  2. Khachatur Abovian
  3. Aravind Adiga
  4. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  5. Chinghiz Aitmatov (Level 4)
  6. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Level 4)
  7. Ahmed Ali (writer)
  8. Mulk Raj Anand
  9. Takeo Arishima
  10. Eileen Chang
  11. Chiung Yao
  12. Simin Daneshvar
  13. Kiran Desai
  14. Edogawa Ranpo
  15. Shūsaku Endō
  16. Gao Xingjian
  17. Goh Poh Seng
  18. Junpei Gomikawa
  19. David Grossman
  20. Gu Byeong-mo
  21. Han Kang
  22. Han Sorya
  23. Sadegh Hedayat
  24. Ichiyō Higuchi
  25. Hong Myong-hui
  26. Hong Sok-jung
  27. Yasushi Inoue
  28. Jin Yong (Level 4)
  29. Yasunari Kawabata (Level 4)
  30. Yaşar Kemal
  31. Kim Dong-in
  32. Kim Young-ha
  33. Takiji Kobayashi
  34. Chart Korbjitti
  35. Lao She (Level 4)
  36. Liu Cixin
  37. Lu Xun (Level 4)
  38. Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
  39. Ghassan Kanafani
  40. Mao Dun
  41. Yukio Mishima (Level 4)
  42. Mo Yan
  43. Mari Mori
  44. Mori Ōgai
  45. Seiichi Morimura
  46. Haruki Murakami (Level 4)
  47. R. K. Narayan
  48. Taslima Nasrin
  49. Natsume Sōseki (Level 4)
  50. Ni Kuang
  51. Kyotaro Nishimura
  52. Kenzaburō Ōe (Level 4)
  53. Mimei Ogawa
  54. Amos Oz
  55. Ozaki Kōyō
  56. Pak Kyongni
  57. Orhan Pamuk (Level 4)
  58. Park Wan-suh
  59. Premchand (Level 4)
  60. Qian Zhongshu
  61. Raja Rao
  62. Ri Ki-yong
  63. Begum Rokeya
  64. Arundhati Roy
  65. Kulap Saipradit
  66. Sanmao (writer)
  67. Shen Congwen
  68. Ryōtarō Shiba
  69. Shin Kyung-sook
  70. Khamsing Srinawk
  71. Takizawa Bakin
  72. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  73. Vũ Trọng Phụng
  74. Xiao Hong
  75. Yi Cheong-jun

Europe

This section contains 403 articles.

Eastern Europe[edit]

This section contains 33 articles.

  1. Ivo Andrić
  2. Jerzy Andrzejewski
  3. Vasil Bykaŭ
  4. Ivan Cankar
  5. Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
  6. Anton Donchev
  7. Odysseas Elytis
  8. István Fekete
  9. Géza Gárdonyi
  10. Jaroslav Hašek
  11. Bohumil Hrabal
  12. Mór Jókai
  13. Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
  14. Nikos Kazantzakis
  15. Imre Kertész
  16. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
  17. László Krasznahorkai
  18. Milan Kundera
  19. Stanisław Lem
  20. Mendele Mocher Sforim
  21. Sławomir Mrożek
  22. Božena Němcová
  23. Bolesław Prus
  24. Władysław Reymont
  25. Bruno Schulz
  26. Sholem Aleichem
  27. Andrzej Sapkowski
  28. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
  29. Magda Szabó
  30. Dimitar Talev
  31. Olga Tokarczuk
  32. Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
  33. Alki Zei
Nordic countries[edit]

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
  2. Karen Blixen (Level 4)
  3. Arne Garborg
  4. Hulda Garborg
  5. Maria Gripe
  6. Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
  7. Tove Jansson
  8. Johannes V. Jensen
  9. Thit Jensen
  10. Eyvind Johnson
  11. Alexander Kielland
  12. Aleksis Kivi
  13. Pär Lagerkvist
  14. Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
  15. Stieg Larsson
  16. Halldór Laxness (Level 4)
  17. Jonas Lie (writer)
  18. Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
  19. Väinö Linna
  20. Henrik Pontoppidan
  21. Alf Prøysen
  22. Frans Eemil Sillanpää
  23. Sjón
  24. Zachris Topelius
  25. Sigrid Undset
  26. Mika Waltari
Russia[edit]

This section contains 49 articles.

  1. Vasily Aksyonov
  2. Boris Akunin
  3. Mark Aldanov
  4. Isaac Babel
  5. Alexander Belyaev
  6. Andrei Bely
  7. Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
  8. Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
  10. Ilya Ehrenburg
  11. Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
  12. Gaito Gazdanov
  13. Dmitry Glukhovsky
  14. Ivan Goncharov
  15. Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
  16. Alexander Grin
  17. Alexander Herzen
  18. Ilf and Petrov
  19. Alexander Karasyov
  20. Arsen Kotsoyev
  21. Aleksandr I. Kuprin
  22. Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
  23. Nikolai Leskov
  24. Sergei Lukyanenko
  25. Nadezhda Mandelstam
  26. Dmitry Merezhkovsky
  27. Sergey Mikhalkov
  28. Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
  29. Nikolai Ostrovsky
  30. Victor Pelevin
  31. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
  32. Aleksey Pisemsky
  33. Andrei Platonov
  34. Zakhar Prilepin
  35. Valentin Rasputin
  36. Aleksey Remizov
  37. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  38. Varlam Shalamov
  39. Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
  40. Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
  41. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
  42. Vladimir Sorokin
  43. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  44. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  45. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
  46. Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
  47. Lyudmila Ulitskaya
  48. Eduard Uspensky
  49. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Western Europe[edit]

This section contains 119 articles.

  1. Ilse Aichinger
  2. Leopoldo Alas
  3. Bettina von Arnim
  4. Emmanuelle Arsan
  5. Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
  6. René Belbenoît
  7. Ludwig Bemelmans
  8. Georges Bernanos
  9. Aloysius Bertrand
  10. Heinrich Böll
  11. Michel Butor
  12. Dino Buzzati
  13. Italo Calvino
  14. Albert Camus (Level 4)
  15. Elias Canetti
  16. Camilo José Cela
  17. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  18. Blaise Cendrars
  19. Henri Charrière
  20. François-René de Chateaubriand
  21. Paul Claudel
  22. Albert Cohen (novelist)
  23. Colette
  24. Frédéric Dard
  25. Alphonse Daudet
  26. Grazia Deledda
  27. Alfred Döblin
  28. Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
  29. Alexandre Dumas fils
  30. Umberto Eco (Level 4)
  31. Michael Ende
  32. Elena Ferrante
  33. Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
  34. Theodor Fontane
  35. Anatole France
  36. Anne Frank (Level 4)
  37. Cornelia Funke
  38. André Gide (Level 4)
  39. Anne Golon
  40. Jules de Goncourt
  41. Julien Gracq
  42. Günter Grass
  43. Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
    1. Jacob Grimm
    2. Wilhelm Grimm
  44. Peter Handke
  45. Paul Heyse
  46. Michel Houellebecq
  47. Victor Hugo (Level 4)
  48. Elfriede Jelinek
  49. Uwe Johnson
  50. André Jullien
  51. Franz Kafka (Level 4)
  52. Charles Paul de Kock
  53. Karl Kraus (writer)
  54. J. M. G. Le Clézio
  55. Maurice Leblanc
  56. Gaston Leroux
  57. Primo Levi
  58. André Pieyre de Mandiargues
  59. Thomas Mann (Level 4)
  60. Alessandro Manzoni
  61. Roger Martin du Gard
  62. Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
  63. François Mauriac
  64. Karl May
  65. Prosper Mérimée
  66. Octave Mirbeau
  67. Frédéric Mistral
  68. Patrick Modiano
  69. Henry de Montherlant
  70. Alberto Moravia
  71. Harry Mulisch
  72. Herta Müller
  73. Multatuli
  74. Robert Musil
  75. Gérard de Nerval
  76. Georges Perec
  77. Benito Pérez Galdós
  78. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  79. Robert Pinget
  80. Abbé Prévost
  81. Marcel Proust (Level 4)
  82. Eça de Queiroz
  83. Raymond Queneau
  84. Erich Maria Remarque
  85. Gerard Reve
  86. Alain Robbe-Grillet
  87. Gianni Rodari
  88. Joseph Roth
  89. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  90. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  91. Françoise Sagan
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  93. Felix Salten
  94. George Sand
  95. José Saramago (Level 4)
  96. Bernhard Schlink
  97. Annie M.G. Schmidt
  98. W. G. Sebald
  99. Georges Simenon
  100. Claude Simon
  101. Johanna Spyri
  102. Stendhal (Level 4)
  103. Eugène Sue
  104. Patrick Süskind
  105. Italo Svevo
  106. Corín Tellado
  107. Eckhart Tolle
  108. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  109. Tomi Ungerer
  110. Giovanni Verga
  111. Jules Verne (Level 4)
  112. Gérard de Villiers
  113. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
  114. Franz Werfel
  115. Marguerite Yourcenar
  116. Émile Zola (Level 4)
  117. Stefan Zweig
UK and Ireland[edit]

This section contains 176 articles.

  1. Edwin Abbott Abbott
  2. Douglas Adams
  3. William Harrison Ainsworth
  4. Richard Aldington
  5. Kingsley Amis
  6. Martin Amis
  7. Piers Anthony
  8. Jeffrey Archer
  9. Michael Arlen
  10. Jane Austen (Level 4)
  11. Wilbert Awdry
  12. J. G. Ballard
  13. Iain Banks
  14. John Banville
  15. Clive Barker
  16. Pat Barker
  17. Julian Barnes
  18. J. M. Barrie
  19. Nina Bawden
  20. Louis de Bernières
  21. Enid Blyton (Level 4)
  22. Marjorie Bowen
  23. John Braine
  24. Brontë family (Level 4)
    1. Anne Brontë
    2. Charlotte Brontë
    3. Emily Brontë
  25. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  26. Eleanor Alice Burford
  27. Anthony Burgess
  28. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  29. A. S. Byatt
  30. John le Carré
  31. Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
  32. Barbara Cartland
  33. G. K. Chesterton
  34. Erskine Childers (author)
  35. Agatha Christie (Level 4)
  36. Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
  37. Eoin Colfer
  38. Jackie Collins
  39. Wilkie Collins
  40. Catherine Cookson
  41. John Creasey
  42. Quentin Crisp
  43. Roald Dahl (Level 4)
  44. Thomas De Quincey
  45. Len Deighton
  46. Charles Dickens (Level 4)
  47. Peter Dickinson
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
  49. Roddy Doyle
  50. Lord Dunsany
  51. George Eliot (Level 4)
  52. Anne Enright
  53. Bernardine Evaristo
  54. J. G. Farrell
  55. Sebastian Faulks
  56. Helen Fielding
  57. Penelope Fitzgerald
  58. Ian Fleming
  59. Ken Follett
  60. Ford Madox Ford
  61. E. M. Forster
  62. Dick Francis
  63. John Galsworthy
  64. Elizabeth Gaskell
  65. William Golding (Level 4)
  66. Kenneth Grahame
  67. Graham Greene
  68. Arthur Hailey
  69. Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
  70. Roger Hargreaves
  71. Frank Harris
  72. Jack Higgins
  73. James Hogg
  74. Alan Hollinghurst
  75. Aldous Huxley
  76. Christopher Isherwood
  77. Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
  78. Howard Jacobson
  79. E. L. James
  80. P. D. James
  81. Jerome K. Jerome
  82. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  83. Penny Jordan
  84. James Joyce (Level 4)
  85. James Kelman
  86. Dick King-Smith
  87. Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
  88. Arthur Koestler
  89. Edward William Lane
  90. D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
  91. Sheridan Le Fanu
  92. Edward Lear
  93. Doris Lessing
  94. C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
  95. Wyndham Lewis
  96. Penelope Lively
  97. Hugh Lofting
  98. Malcolm Lowry
  99. George MacDonald
  100. Compton Mackenzie
  101. Alistair MacLean
  102. Hilary Mantel
  103. Frederick Marryat
  104. W. Somerset Maugham
  105. Daphne du Maurier
  106. Ian McEwan
  107. George Meredith
  108. Stanley Middleton
  109. A. A. Milne
  110. David Mitchell (author)
  111. Naomi Mitchison
  112. Nancy Mitford
  113. Michael Moorcock
  114. Iris Murdoch
  115. V. S. Naipaul (Level 4)
  116. E. Nesbit
  117. P. H. Newby
  118. Edna O'Brien
  119. Amelia Opie
  120. E. Phillips Oppenheim
  121. George Orwell (Level 4)
  122. Thomas Love Peacock
  123. Mervyn Peake
  124. Anne Perry
  125. John William Polidori
  126. Beatrix Potter
  127. Anthony Powell
  128. Terry Pratchett
  129. J. B. Priestley
  130. Philip Pullman
  131. Ann Radcliffe
  132. Derek Raymond
  133. Mary Renault
  134. Louise Rennison
  135. Jean Rhys
  136. Denise Robins
  137. Sally Rooney
  138. William Roughead
  139. J. K. Rowling
  140. Bernice Rubens
  141. Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
  142. Dorothy L. Sayers
  143. Paul Scott (novelist)
  144. Walter Scott (Level 4)
  145. Anna Sewell
  146. Margery Sharp
  147. Mary Shelley (Level 4)
  148. Nevil Shute
  149. The Sitwells
    1. Osbert Sitwell
  150. Zadie Smith
  151. Muriel Spark
  152. Olaf Stapledon
  153. Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
  154. Bram Stoker
  155. Graham Swift
  156. William Makepeace Thackeray
  157. Colm Tóibín
  158. J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
  159. P. L. Travers
  160. Anthony Trollope
  161. Barry Unsworth
  162. Edgar Wallace
  163. Evelyn Waugh
  164. H. G. Wells (Level 4)
  165. Irvine Welsh
  166. Rebecca West
  167. T. H. White
  168. Margery Williams
  169. Jacqueline Wilson
  170. P. G. Wodehouse
  171. Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
  172. Benjamin Zephaniah

Oceania

This section contains 34 articles.

Australia[edit]

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Thea Astley
  2. Thomas Alexander Browne
  3. Peter Carey (novelist)
  4. Marcus Clarke
  5. Albert Facey
  6. Richard Flanagan
  7. Miles Franklin
  8. Joseph Furphy
  9. Helen Garner
  10. Bradley Trevor Greive
  11. David Ireland (author)
  12. Paul Jennings (Australian author)
  13. Thomas Keneally
  14. David Malouf
  15. Colleen McCullough
  16. Alan Moorehead
  17. Liane Moriarty
  18. Ruth Park
  19. DBC Pierre
  20. Matthew Reilly
  21. Henry Handel Richardson
  22. Steele Rudd
  23. Christina Stead
  24. Colin Thiele
  25. Ethel Turner
  26. Morris West
  27. Patrick White (Level 4)
  28. Tim Winton
New Zealand[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Eleanor Catton
  2. Alan Duff
  3. Janet Frame
  4. Keri Hulme
  5. Katherine Mansfield
Other[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Meralda Warren

Poets[edit]

This section contains 575 articles.

Ancient

This section contains 37 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Aśvaghoṣa
  2. Bhartṛhari
  3. Enheduanna
  4. Kalidasa (Level 4)
  5. Qu Yuan (Level 4)
  6. Sima Xiangru
  7. Song Yu

Europe[edit]

This section contains 30 articles.

  1. Lucius Accius
  2. Alcaeus of Mytilene
  3. Alcman
  4. Anacreon
  5. Apollonius of Rhodes
  6. Aratus
  7. Archilochus
  8. Bacchylides
  9. Julia Balbilla
  10. Caecilius Statius
  11. Callimachus
  12. Catullus (Level 4)
  13. Ennius
  14. Hesiod (Level 4)
  15. Hipponax
  16. Homer (Level 3)
  17. Horace (Level 4)
  18. Ibycus
  19. Martial
  20. Gnaeus Naevius
  21. Ovid (Level 4)
  22. Pacuvius
  23. Pindar
  24. Sappho (Level 4)
  25. Semonides of Amorgos
  26. Simonides of Ceos
  27. Stesichorus
  28. Sulpicia (satirist)
  29. Theocritus
  30. Virgil (Level 3)

Post-classical

This section contains 90 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 65 articles.

  1. Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
  2. Abu al-Atahiya
  3. Abu Nuwas (Level 4)
  4. Abu Tammam
  5. Adi ibn Zayd
  6. Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
  7. Ali-Shir Nava'i
  8. Amr ibn Kulthum
  9. Antarah ibn Shaddad
  10. Ariwara no Narihira
  11. Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
  12. Bai Juyi (Level 4)
  13. Bilhana
  14. Bao Zhao
  15. Buhturi
  16. Cao Zhi
  17. Du Fu (Level 4)
  18. Du Mu
  19. Al-Farazdaq
  20. Ferdowsi (Level 4)
  21. Fujiwara no Shunzei
  22. Fujiwara no Teika
  23. Gao Ming
  24. Hafez (Level 4)
  25. Han Wo
  26. Hanshan (poet)
  27. Al-Hariri of Basra
  28. Ibn al-Farid
  29. Imru' al-Qais
  30. Jami (Level 4)
  31. Jarir ibn Atiyah
  32. Jayadeva
  33. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
  34. Omar Khayyam (Level 4)
  35. Amir Khusrau (Level 4)
  36. Ki no Tsurayuki
  37. Labīd
  38. Li Bai (Level 3)
  39. Li He
  40. Li Qingzhao
  41. Li Shangyin
  42. Lu You
  43. Al-Ma'arri
  44. Al-Mutanabbi
  45. Al-Nabigha
  46. Namdev
  47. Nizami Ganjavi (Level 4)
  48. Ono no Komachi
  49. Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
  50. Ōtomo no Yakamochi
  51. Rudaki (Level 4)
  52. Rumi (Level 3)
  53. Saadi Shirazi (Level 4)
  54. Saigyō
  55. Shen Yue
  56. Tao Yuanming (Level 4)
  57. Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah
  58. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty) (Level 4)
  59. Xie Lingyun
  60. Xu Ling
  61. Yu Wuling
  62. Yuan Zhen
  63. Zhang Hu (poet)
  64. Zhou Bangyan
  65. Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma

Europe[edit]

This section contains 25 articles.

  1. Bertran de Born
  2. Cædmon
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer (Level 4)
  4. Cynewulf
  5. Dafydd ap Gwilym
  6. Arnaut Daniel
  7. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
  8. Wolfram von Eschenbach
  9. Gawain Poet
  10. Gillebríghde Albanach
  11. John Gower
  12. William Langland
  13. Guillaume de Lorris
  14. John Lydgate
  15. Jean de Meun
  16. Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
  17. Petrarch (Level 4)
  18. Qul Ghali
  19. Rutebeuf
  20. Gottfried von Strassburg
  21. Tannhäuser
  22. Chrétien de Troyes (Level 4)
  23. François Villon (Level 4)
  24. Walther von der Vogelweide
  25. William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Early modern

This section contains 86 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

America[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Anne Bradstreet
  2. Phillis Wheatley

Asia[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
  2. Huseng Sisiw
  3. Fukuda Chiyo-ni
  4. Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
  5. Ihara Saikaku
  6. Kabir (Level 4)
  7. Kobayashi Issa
  8. Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
  9. Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
  10. Mirabai (Level 4)
  11. Santō Kyōden
  12. Surdas
  13. Tukaram (Level 4)
  14. Tulsidas (Level 4)
  15. Yosa Buson

Europe[edit]

This section contains 68 articles.

  1. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
  2. Ludovico Ariosto
  3. Agrippa d'Aubigné
  4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  5. Ivan Barkov
  6. James Beattie (poet)
  7. Joachim du Bellay
  8. Matteo Maria Boiardo
  9. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
  10. Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
  11. Anna Bunina
  12. Samuel Butler (poet)
  13. Robert Burns (Level 4)
  14. Luís de Camões (Level 4)
  15. Thomas Chatterton
  16. André Chénier
  17. John Clare
  18. Abraham Cowley
  19. William Cowper
  20. George Crabbe
  21. Richard Crashaw
  22. Gavrila Derzhavin
  23. John Donne (Level 4)
  24. John Dryden (Level 4)
  25. John Dyer
  26. Laurence Eusden
  27. Robert Fergusson
  28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Level 4)
  29. Thomas Gray
  30. Robert Henryson
  31. George Herbert
  32. Robert Herrick (poet)
  33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  34. Walter Kennedy (poet)
  35. Louise Labé
  36. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  37. François de Malherbe
  38. Clément Marot
  39. Andrew Marvell
  40. John Milton (Level 4)
  41. Novalis
  42. Thomas Overbury
  43. John Owen (epigrammatist)
  44. Katherine Philips
  45. Alexander Pope (Level 4)
  46. Matthew Prior
  47. Henry James Pye
  48. Francis Quarles
  49. Allan Ramsay (poet)
  50. Samuel Rogers
  51. Pierre de Ronsard
  52. Paul Scarron
  53. Maurice Scève
  54. Thomas Shadwell
  55. Philip Sidney
  56. Christopher Smart
  57. Robert Southwell (priest)
  58. Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
  59. Torquato Tasso
  60. Nahum Tate
  61. James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
  62. Thomas Traherne
  63. Pontus de Tyard
  64. Henry Vaughan
  65. Théophile de Viau
  66. William Whitehead (poet)
  67. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  68. Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Late modern

This section contains 362 articles.

Africa

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Kofi Awoonor
  2. Syl Cheney-Coker
  3. Birago Diop
  4. Dox (poet)
  5. Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
  6. Keorapetse Kgositsile
  7. Jack Mapanje
  8. Christopher Okigbo
  9. Lenrie Peters
  10. Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
  11. Jacques Rabemananjara
  12. Elie Rajaonarison
  13. Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
  14. Esther Razanadrasoa
  15. Shaaban bin Robert
  16. Mongane Wally Serote

Americas

This section contains 116 articles.

Caribbean[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aimé Césaire
  2. Léon Damas
  3. Claude McKay
  4. Derek Walcott
US and Canada[edit]

This section contains 85 articles.

  1. Maya Angelou (Level 4)
  2. Rae Armantrout
  3. John Ashbery
  4. Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  5. Charles Bernstein (poet)
  6. John Berryman
  7. Elizabeth Bishop
  8. Paul Blackburn (poet)
  9. Gwendolyn Brooks
  10. Charles Bukowski
  11. Thomas Holley Chivers
  12. Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
  13. Ina Coolbrith
  14. Hart Crane
  15. Robert Creeley
  16. Countee Cullen
  17. E. E. Cummings
  18. H.D.
  19. Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
  20. Ed Dorn
  21. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  22. Robert Duncan (poet)
  23. Larry Eigner
  24. T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
  25. Louis-Honoré Fréchette
  26. Robert Frost (Level 4)
  27. Allen Ginsberg (Level 4)
  28. Louise Glück
  29. Barbara Guest
  30. Sarah Josepha Hale
  31. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  32. Susan Howe
  33. Langston Hughes (Level 4)
  34. James Weldon Johnson
  35. Rupi Kaur
  36. Francis Scott Key
  37. Denise Levertov
  38. Vachel Lindsay
  39. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  40. Amy Lowell
  41. James Russell Lowell
  42. Robert Lowell
  43. Jackson Mac Low
  44. Daphne Marlatt
  45. Don Marquis
  46. John McCrae
  47. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  48. Clement Clarke Moore
  49. Marianne Moore
  50. Robin Morgan
  51. Ogden Nash
  52. Lorine Niedecker
  53. Frank O'Hara
  54. Sharon Olds
  55. Michael Ondaatje
  56. George Oppen
  57. Frances Sargent Osgood
  58. Dorothy Parker
  59. Bob Perelman
  60. Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
  61. Ezra Pound (Level 4)
  62. Charles Reznikoff
  63. James Whitcomb Riley
  64. Stephen Rodefer
  65. Theodore Roethke
  66. Carl Sandburg
  67. James Schuyler
  68. Gil Scott-Heron
  69. Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
  70. Anne Sexton
  71. Karl Shapiro
  72. William Gilmore Simms
  73. John Sinclair (poet)
  74. Gary Snyder
  75. Wallace Stevens
  76. Sara Teasdale
  77. Ernest Thayer
  78. Margaret Walker
  79. Robert Penn Warren
  80. Lew Welch
  81. Philip Whalen
  82. Walt Whitman (Level 4)
  83. John Greenleaf Whittier
  84. William Carlos Williams
  85. Yvor Winters
Latin America[edit]

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. Mário de Andrade
  2. Oswald de Andrade
  3. Augusto dos Anjos
  4. Miguel Ángel Asturias
  5. Mario Benedetti
  6. Olavo Bilac
  7. Julia de Burgos
  8. Raimundo Correia
  9. Rubén Darío
  10. Menotti Del Picchia
  11. Esteban Echeverría
  12. Luís Gama
  13. Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
  14. José Hernández (writer)
  15. Lêdo Ivo
  16. Leopoldo Lugones
  17. José Mármol
  18. José Martí (Level 4)
  19. Cecília Meireles
  20. Gabriela Mistral
  21. Vinicius de Moraes
  22. Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
  23. Alberto de Oliveira
  24. Octavio Paz
  25. Guillermo Prieto
  26. Alfonsina Storni
  27. César Vallejo

Asia

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. Adunis
  2. Amir Hamzah
  3. Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
  4. Cho Ki-chon
  5. Parvin E'tesami
  6. Forugh Farrokhzad
  7. Ghalib (Level 4)
  8. Kahlil Gibran (Level 4)
  9. Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
  10. Daigaku Horiguchi
  11. Muhammad Iqbal (Level 4)
  12. Iraj Mirza
  13. Salah Jahin
  14. Kazi Nazrul Islam
  15. Yusuf al-Khal
  16. Ko Un
  17. Masaoka Shiki
  18. Ahmed Fouad Negm
  19. Sunthorn Phu
  20. Nobutsuna Sasaki
  21. Sohrab Sepehri
  22. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
  23. Edwin Thumboo
  24. Bayram al-Tunisi
  25. Nima Yooshij
  26. Yosano Akiko
  27. Isamu Yoshii
  28. Tekkan Yosano
  29. Mahmoud Darwish

Europe

This section contains 186 articles.

Eastern Europe[edit]

This section contains 23 articles.

  1. Endre Ady
  2. Mateiu Caragiale
  3. Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
  4. Attila József
  5. József Katona
  6. Dragotin Kette
  7. Edvard Kocbek
  8. Srečko Kosovel
  9. Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
  10. Czesław Miłosz
  11. Josip Murn
  12. Jan Neruda
  13. Cyprian Norwid
  14. Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
  15. France Prešeren
  16. Jaroslav Seifert
  17. Giorgos Seferis
  18. Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
  19. Juliusz Słowacki
  20. Wisława Szymborska
  21. Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
  22. Ivan Vazov
  23. Oton Župančič
Nordic countries[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  2. Steen Steensen Blicher
  3. Janus Djurhuus
  4. Gunnar Ekelöf
  5. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
  6. Paavo Haavikko
  7. Verner von Heidenstam
  8. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
  9. Eino Leino
  10. Elias Lönnrot
  11. Harry Martinson
  12. Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  13. Nelly Sachs
  14. Edith Södergran
  15. Tomas Tranströmer
Russia[edit]

This section contains 38 articles.

  1. Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
  2. Innokenty Annensky
  3. Konstantin Balmont
  4. Yevgeny Baratynsky
  5. Demyan Bedny
  6. Olga Bergholz
  7. Alexander Blok
  8. Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
  9. Valery Bryusov
  10. David Burliuk
  11. Sergei Chavain
  12. Sasha Chorny
  13. Korney Chukovsky
  14. Afanasy Fet
  15. Rasul Gamzatov
  16. Zinaida Gippius
  17. Nikolai Gumilev
  18. Antiochus Kantemir
  19. Daniil Kharms
  20. Velimir Khlebnikov
  21. Kosta Khetagurov
  22. Aleksei Kruchyonykh
  23. Mikhail Kuzmin
  24. Osip Mandelstam
  25. Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
  26. Nikolay Nekrasov
  27. Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
  28. Dmitri Prigov
  29. Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
  30. Igor Severyanin
  31. Fyodor Sologub
  32. Vasily Trediakovsky
  33. Marina Tsvetaeva
  34. Ğabdulla Tuqay
  35. Fyodor Tyutchev
  36. Maximilian Voloshin
  37. Sergei Yesenin
  38. Vasily Zhukovsky
Western Europe[edit]

This section contains 52 articles.

  1. Vicente Aleixandre
  2. Guillaume Apollinaire
  3. Louis Aragon
  4. Achim von Arnim
  5. Théodore de Banville
  6. Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
  7. Willem Bilderdijk
  8. Clemens Brentano
  9. André Breton
  10. Giosuè Carducci
  11. Alice de Chambrier
  12. René Char
  13. Tristan Corbière
  14. Gabriele D'Annunzio
  15. Robert Desnos
  16. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
  17. Paul Éluard
  18. Carlo Favetti
  19. Paul Fort
  20. Ugo Foscolo
  21. Théophile Gautier
  22. Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
  23. Willem Frederik Hermans
  24. Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
  25. Juan Ramón Jiménez
  26. Alphonse de Lamartine
  27. Else Lasker-Schüler
  28. Comte de Lautréamont
  29. Leconte de Lisle
  30. Giacomo Leopardi
  31. Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
  32. Pierre Louÿs
  33. Antonio Machado
  34. Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
  35. Henri Michaux
  36. Eugenio Montale
  37. Charles Péguy
  38. Saint-John Perse
  39. Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
  40. Francis Ponge
  41. Jacques Prévert
  42. Sully Prudhomme
  43. Salvatore Quasimodo
  44. Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
  45. Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
  46. Carl Spitteler
  47. Jules Supervielle
  48. Giuseppe Ungaretti
  49. Paul Valéry
  50. Émile Verhaeren
  51. Paul Verlaine
  52. Alfred de Vigny
UK and Ireland[edit]

This section contains 58 articles.

  1. William Allingham
  2. Simon Armitage
  3. Matthew Arnold
  4. W. H. Auden
  5. Alfred Austin
  6. John Betjeman
  7. William Blake (Level 4)
  8. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  9. Robert Bridges
  10. Branwell Brontë
  11. Rupert Brooke
  12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  13. Robert Browning
  14. Basil Bunting
  15. Lord Byron (Level 4)
  16. Thomas Campbell (poet)
  17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
  18. Cecil Day-Lewis
  19. Carol Ann Duffy
  20. Charlotte Elliott
  21. Edward Faragher
  22. Edward FitzGerald (poet)
  23. Robert Graves
  24. Geoffrey Grigson
  25. Seamus Heaney
  26. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  27. A. E. Housman
  28. Ted Hughes
  29. John Keats (Level 4)
  30. Philip Larkin
  31. Mina Loy
  32. Hugh MacDiarmid
  33. Sorley MacLean
  34. Louis MacNeice
  35. John Masefield
  36. William McGonagall
  37. Thomas Moore
  38. Andrew Motion
  39. William Neill (poet)
  40. Alfred Noyes
  41. Wilfred Owen
  42. Adelaide Anne Procter
  43. Tom Raworth
  44. Isaac Rosenberg
  45. Christina Rossetti
  46. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  47. Siegfried Sassoon
  48. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
  49. Edith Sitwell
  50. Robert Southey
  51. Stephen Spender
  52. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Level 4)
  53. Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
  54. James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
  55. Edward Thomas (poet)
  56. Vernon Watkins
  57. William Wordsworth (Level 4)
  58. W. B. Yeats (Level 4)

Oceania

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bruce Dawe
  2. C. J. Dennis
  3. Mary Gilmore
  4. Adam Lindsay Gordon
  5. A. D. Hope
  6. Henry Lawson
  7. Louisa Lawson
  8. Dorothea Mackellar
  9. Les Murray (poet)
  10. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
  11. Banjo Paterson (Level 4)
  12. Peter Porter (poet)
  13. Kenneth Slessor
  14. Albert Wendt
  15. Judith Wright

Playwrights[edit]

This section contains 161 articles.

Ancient and post-classical[edit]

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Aeschylus (Level 4)
  2. Aristophanes (Level 4)
  3. Bhāsa
  4. Bhavabhuti (Level 4)
  5. Epicharmus of Kos
  6. Euphorion (playwright)
  7. Euripides (Level 4)
  8. Guan Hanqing
  9. Kan'ami
  10. Livius Andronicus
  11. Ma Zhiyuan
  12. Menander (Level 4)
  13. Phormis
  14. Plautus (Level 4)
  15. Pratinas
  16. Sophocles (Level 4)
  17. Shudraka
  18. Terence (Level 4)
  19. Wang Shifu
  20. Zeami Motokiyo

Early modern[edit]

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Vittorio Alfieri
  2. Pierre Beaumarchais
  3. Francis Beaumont
  4. Aphra Behn
  5. Cyrano de Bergerac
  6. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
  7. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
  8. Susanna Centlivre
  9. George Chapman
  10. Colley Cibber
  11. Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  12. William Congreve
  13. Pierre Corneille (Level 4)
  14. Thomas Dekker (writer)
  15. John Fletcher (playwright)
  16. Denis Fonvizin
  17. John Ford (dramatist)
  18. John Gay
  19. Carlo Goldoni
  20. Carlo Gozzi
  21. Ben Jonson (Level 4)
  22. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
  23. George Lillo
  24. Pierre de Marivaux
  25. Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
  26. John Marston (playwright)
  27. Molière (Level 4)
  28. Tirso de Molina
  29. Juan Pérez de Montalbán
  30. Jean Racine (Level 4)
  31. Jean-François Regnard
  32. Nicholas Rowe (writer)
  33. Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
  34. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  35. Alexander Sumarokov
  36. Tang Xianzu
  37. Lope de Vega (Level 4)
  38. Joost van den Vondel
  39. John Webster
  40. William Wycherley

Late modern[edit]

This section contains 101 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Athol Fugard
  2. Ebrahim Hussein
  3. Mbongeni Ngema
  4. Wole Soyinka (Level 4)

America[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Edward Albee
  2. Maxwell Anderson
  3. David Belasco
  4. Lee Blessing
  5. Marc Connelly
  6. Eve Ensler
  7. Lorraine Hansberry
  8. Moss Hart
  9. Dorothy Heyward
  10. DuBose Heyward
  11. Lillian Hellman
  12. William M. Hoffman
  13. William Inge
  14. Georgia Douglas Johnson
  15. George S. Kaufman
  16. Larry Kramer
  17. Tony Kushner
  18. Martyna Majok
  19. David Mamet
  20. Terrence McNally
  21. Arthur Miller (Level 4)
  22. Eugene O'Neill
  23. Clifford Odets
  24. Elmer Rice
  25. Morrie Ryskind
  26. Sam Shepard
  27. Robert E. Sherwood
  28. Neil Simon
  29. Theodore Ward
  30. Wendy Wasserstein
  31. Thornton Wilder
  32. Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
  33. August Wilson
  34. Lanford Wilson

Asia[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mirza Fatali Akhundov
  2. Agha Hashar Kashmiri
  3. Junji Kinoshita
  4. Imtiaz Ali Taj
  5. Wu Zuguang

Europe[edit]

This section contains 55 articles.

  1. Leonid Andreyev
  2. Jean Anouilh
  3. Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
  4. Émile Augier
  5. Alan Ayckbourn
  6. Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
  7. Brendan Behan
  8. Jacinto Benavente
  9. Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
  10. Elbazduko Britayev
  11. Georg Büchner
  12. Karel Čapek
  13. Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
  14. Caryl Churchill
  15. Giles Cooper (playwright)
  16. Noël Coward
  17. Dimitar Dimov
  18. José Echegaray
  19. Georges Feydeau
  20. Dario Fo
  21. Paul Foucher
  22. Christopher Fry
  23. Jean Genet
  24. Jean Giraudoux
  25. Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
  26. Alexander Griboyedov
  27. Àngel Guimerà
  28. Antonio García Gutiérrez
  29. Gerhart Hauptmann
  30. Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
  31. Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
  32. Alfred Jarry
  33. Sarah Kane
  34. Maurice Maeterlinck
  35. Martin McDonagh
  36. Ferenc Molnár
  37. Alfred de Musset
  38. Seán O'Casey
  39. Joe Orton
  40. John Osborne
  41. Alexander Ostrovsky
  42. Harold Pinter
  43. Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
  44. Stanisława Przybyszewska
  45. Romain Rolland
  46. Edmond Rostand
  47. Victorien Sardou
  48. Eugène Scribe
  49. George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
  50. R. C. Sherriff
  51. David Storey
  52. August Strindberg (Level 4)
  53. John Millington Synge
  54. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  55. Oscar Wilde (Level 4)

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Barry Dickins
  2. Nick Enright
  3. David Williamson

Comics writers[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Mitsuru Adachi
  2. Gosho Aoyama
  3. Hirohiko Araki
  4. Brian Michael Bendis
  5. Warren Ellis
  6. Bill Finger
  7. Neil Gaiman
  8. Steve Gerber
  9. René Goscinny
  10. Stan Lee (Level 4)
  11. Jun Maeda
  12. William Moulton Marston
  13. Scott McCloud
  14. Mark Millar
  15. Frank Miller
  16. Alan Moore
  17. Grant Morrison
  18. Marjane Satrapi
  19. Jerry Siegel
  20. Joe Simon
  21. Art Spiegelman

Librettists[edit]

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Giuseppe Adami
  2. Hippolyte Bis
  3. Arrigo Boito
  4. Salvadore Cammarano
  5. Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
  6. Lorenzo Da Ponte
  7. Louis Gallet
  8. Richard Genée
  9. Antonio Ghislanzoni
  10. Giuseppe Giacosa
  11. W. S. Gilbert
  12. Ludovic Halévy
  13. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  14. Luigi Illica
  15. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
  16. Henri Meilhac
  17. Guido Menasci
  18. Pietro Metastasio
  19. Francesco Maria Piave
  20. Ottavio Rinuccini
  21. Emanuel Schikaneder
  22. Renato Simoni
  23. Temistocle Solera
  24. Cesare Sterbini
  25. Alessandro Striggio the Younger
  26. Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Journalists

This section contains 399 articles.

Journalists: General[edit]

This section contains 79 articles.

  1. Svetlana Alexievich (Level 4)
  2. Chris Anyanwu
  3. François-Noël Babeuf
  4. Isabella Beeton
  5. Alexander Berkman
  6. Carl Bernstein
  7. Nellie Bly (Level 4)
  8. Heywood Broun
  9. Louise Bryant
  10. John Fisher Burns
  11. Alexander Cockburn
  12. Claud Cockburn
  13. Ann Coulter
  14. Euclides da Cunha
  15. Kamel Daoud
  16. Maureen Dowd
  17. Dominick Dunne
  18. Oriana Fallaci
  19. Ronan Farrow
  20. Robert Fisk
  21. Margaret Fuller
  22. Eduardo Galeano
  23. Daphne Caruana Galizia
  24. Malcolm Gladwell
  25. Stephen Glass
  26. Veronica Guerin
  27. Maximilian Harden
  28. Michael Hastings (journalist)
  29. Seymour Hersh
  30. Christopher Hitchens
  31. Hedda Hopper
  32. Khadija Ismayilova
  33. Ryszard Kapuściński
  34. Jamal Khashoggi
  35. Dorothy Kilgallen
  36. Paul Krassner
  37. Charles Krauthammer
  38. Bill Kristol
  39. A. J. Liebling
  40. Walter Lippmann (Level 4)
  41. Graciano López Jaena
  42. H. L. Mencken
  43. Judith Miller
  44. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  45. Piers Morgan
  46. Douglas Murray (author)
  47. Nizar Nayyouf
  48. Robert Novak
  49. Nikolay Novikov
  50. Louella Parsons
  51. Daniel Pearl
  52. Westbrook Pegler
  53. Marcelo H. del Pilar
  54. John Pilger
  55. Anna Politkovskaya
  56. Ernie Pyle
  57. John Reed (journalist)
  58. Edith Rosenbaum
  59. Mike Royko
  60. Cornelius Ryan
  61. Yaqub Sanu
  62. Dan Savage
  63. Daniel Schneidermann
  64. Michael Shermer
  65. Randy Shilts
  66. Lincoln Steffens
  67. I. F. Stone
  68. Neil Strauss
  69. Andrew Sullivan
  70. Gay Talese
  71. Ida Tarbell (Level 4)
  72. Helen Thomas
  73. Hunter S. Thompson (Level 4)
  74. Gary Webb
  75. Gene Weingarten
  76. George Will
  77. Walter Winchell
  78. Michael Wolff (journalist)
  79. Bob Woodward (Level 4)

Broadcast journalists and commentators[edit]

This section contains 80 articles.

  1. Kate Adie
  2. Martin Agronsky
  3. George Alagiah
  4. Christiane Amanpour
  5. Carmen Aristegui
  6. Martin Bashir
  7. Glenn Beck
  8. Shereen Bhan
  9. Wolf Blitzer
  10. Gloria Borger
  11. Ed Bradley
  12. David Brinkley
  13. Tom Brokaw
  14. Ned Brooks
  15. Mika Brzezinski
  16. Gretchen Carlson
  17. Tucker Carlson
  18. Christine Chubbuck
  19. Anderson Cooper
  20. Katie Couric
  21. Walter Cronkite (Level 4)
  22. Ann Curry
  23. James Dibble
  24. Melissa Doyle
  25. Linda Ellerbee
  26. Stephanie Flanders
  27. Sandy Gall
  28. Bernard Goldberg
  29. Sean Hannity
  30. Brit Hume
  31. Chet Huntley
  32. Laura Ingraham
  33. Peter Jennings
  34. Megyn Kelly
  35. Larry King
  36. Yevgeny Kiselyov
  37. David Koch (television presenter)
  38. Ted Koppel
  39. Hoda Kotb
  40. Matt Lauer
  41. Jim Lehrer
  42. Rush Limbaugh
  43. Vladislav Listyev
  44. Rachel Maddow
  45. Bill Monroe (journalist)
  46. Herbert Morrison (journalist)
  47. Bill Moyers
  48. Edward R. Murrow (Level 4)
  49. Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
  50. Jeremy Paxman
  51. Dan Rather
  52. Joy Reid
  53. Geraldo Rivera
  54. Cokie Roberts
  55. Charlie Rose
  56. Ian Ross (newsreader)
  57. Martha Rountree
  58. Tim Russert
  59. Pierre Salinger
  60. Jessica Savitch
  61. Diane Sawyer
  62. Joe Scarborough
  63. Ed Schultz
  64. William L. Shirer
  65. Margarita Simonyan
  66. Howard K. Smith
  67. Ksenia Sobchak
  68. Svetlana Sorokina
  69. Lawrence Spivak
  70. Karl Stefanovic
  71. George Stephanopoulos
  72. John Stossel
  73. Mélissa Theuriau
  74. Chuck Todd
  75. Meredith Vieira
  76. Mike Wallace
  77. Barbara Walters
  78. Lisa Wilkinson
  79. Brian Williams
  80. Muntadhar al-Zaidi

Critics, arts journalists, and food journalists[edit]

This section contains 71 articles.

For critics chiefly known for their analysis of the arts as a whole, see Art historians, theorists and critics and Musicologists and music theorists.
  1. Joan Acocella
  2. Jack Anderson (dance critic)
  3. Brooks Atkinson
  4. Lester Bangs
  5. Vissarion Belinsky
  6. Eric Bentley
  7. Richard Blackwell
  8. Jon Caramanica
  9. Claudia Cassidy
  10. Robert Christgau
  11. Irwin Chusid
  12. Bosley Crowther
  13. Jim DeRogatis
  14. Roger Ebert
  15. Whitwell Elwin
  16. Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  17. Anthony Fantano
  18. Leonard Feather
  19. Emily Genauer
  20. Wolcott Gibbs
  21. A. A. Gill
  22. Ralph J. Gleason
  23. Jonathan Gold
  24. Dave Hickey
  25. Robert Hilburn
  26. Robert Hughes (critic)
  27. Paul Hume (music critic)
  28. Ada Louise Huxtable
  29. Michael Jackson (writer)
  30. Clive James
  31. Pauline Kael
  32. Mark Kermode
  33. Walter Kerr
  34. Harry Knowles
  35. Cub Koda
  36. Alan M. Kriegsman
  37. Bob Lefsetz
  38. John Leonard (critic)
  39. Leonard Maltin
  40. Greil Marcus
  41. Dave Marsh
  42. Legs McNeil
  43. Daniel Mendelsohn
  44. Paul Morley
  45. George Jean Nathan
  46. Elliot Norton
  47. Emily Nussbaum
  48. Henry Taylor Parker
  49. Robert Parker (wine critic)
  50. Frank Peters Jr.
  51. Ann Powers
  52. Rex Reed
  53. Simon Reynolds
  54. Richard Roeper
  55. James Rolfe
  56. Howard Rosenberg
  57. Alex Ross (music critic)
  58. Frank Rutter
  59. Leo Schofield
  60. Harold C. Schonberg
  61. A. O. Scott
  62. Gilbert Seldes
  63. Gene Siskel
  64. Ashton Stevens
  65. James Suckling
  66. TotalBiscuit
  67. Peter Travers
  68. Kenneth Tynan
  69. Ellen Willis
  70. Alexander Woollcott
  71. Sam Zolotow

Publishers and editors[edit]

This section contains 124 articles.

  1. Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
  2. Joseph Addison
  3. Suroosh Alvi
  4. Rudolf Augstein
  5. Margaretha van Bancken
  6. Thomas Barnes (journalist)
  7. Martin Baron
  8. Clarence W. Barron
  9. Samuel Orchart Beeton
  10. James Gordon Bennett Sr.
  11. James Gordon Bennett Jr.
  12. Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
  13. William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
  14. Hubert Beuve-Méry
  15. Conrad Black
  16. Edward Bok
  17. Andrew Bradford
  18. Stewart Brand
  19. Samuel Brannan
  20. Rebekah Brooks
  21. William F. Buckley Jr.
  22. John Bushell
  23. Nathaniel Butter
  24. John W. Campbell
  25. Johann Carolus
  26. Lucien Carr
  27. Graydon Carter
  28. Edward Cave
  29. Edna Woolman Chase
  30. Cho Gab-je
  31. Nathan Cole Jr.
  32. Paul Dacre
  33. Geoffrey Dawson
  34. John Thadeus Delane
  35. Alberto Dines
  36. Hrant Dink
  37. John Fairfax
  38. Jessie R. Fauset
  39. Larry Flynt
  40. B. C. Forbes
  41. Malcolm Forbes
  42. Timothy Thomas Fortune
  43. James Franklin (printer)
  44. William Gaines
  45. Thomas Gardiner (publisher)
  46. Al Goldstein
  47. Katharine Graham
  48. Jane Grant
  49. Horace Greeley (Level 4)
  50. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
  51. Bob Guccione
  52. William Peter Hamilton
  53. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
  54. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
  55. Benjamin Harris (publisher)
  56. William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
  57. Andrew Heiskell
  58. Hugh Hefner
  59. James Augustus Hicky
  60. Lars Johan Hierta
  61. Roy W. Howard
  62. Hu Shuli
  63. Stilson Hutchins
  64. Michael Jackson (journalist)
  65. George Jones (publisher)
  66. Samuel Keimer
  67. Douglas Kenney
  68. C. L. Knight
  69. John S. Knight
  70. Ebenezer Landells
  71. Mark Lemon
  72. Joseph Moses Levy
  73. Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
  74. Gordon Lish
  75. Henry Luce
  76. Elizabeth Mallet
  77. Henry Mayhew
  78. James McClatchy
  79. Gavin McInnes
  80. William McGarvie
  81. Andrew Miller (publisher)
  82. John Ames Mitchell
  83. Henry Muddiman
  84. Eugene M. O'Neill
  85. John Newbery
  86. Roberto Noble
  87. Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
  88. Henry Jarvis Raymond
  89. Paul Raymond (publisher)
  90. William Rees-Mogg
  91. Paul Reuter
  92. Pearl Rivers
  93. Edward Rosewater
  94. Harold Ross
  95. Denis de Sallo
  96. C. P. Scott
  97. E. W. Scripps
  98. Will Shortz
  99. Charles Emory Smith
  100. Shane Smith (journalist)
  101. Franca Sozzani
  102. Axel Springer
  103. W. T. Stead
  104. Richard Steele
  105. Guglielmo Stefani
  106. Paul Steiger
  107. Julius Streicher
  108. Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
  109. John Edward Taylor
  110. Agness Underwood
  111. Diana Vreeland
  112. Thomas Wakley
  113. DeWitt Wallace
  114. Lila Acheson Wallace
  115. Arthur Fraser Walter
  116. John Walter (editor, born 1776)
  117. John Walter (editor, born 1818)
  118. John Walter (publisher)
  119. Jann Wenner
  120. William R. Wilkerson
  121. Frederick Wimble
  122. Anna Wintour (Level 4)
  123. M. H. de Young
  124. John Peter Zenger

Sports journalists, sportswriters, commentators and sports announcers[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Erin Andrews
  2. Richie Benaud
  3. Bruce Buffer
  4. Michael Buffer
  5. Henry Chadwick (writer)
  6. Howard Cosell
  7. Bob Costas
  8. Frank Deford
  9. Peter FitzSimons
  10. Peter Gammons
  11. Jacques Goddet
  12. Bryant Gumbel
  13. W. A. Hewitt
  14. Edmond Hoyle
  15. Bill James
  16. John Madden
  17. Lou Marsh
  18. Jim McKay
  19. Jim Nantz
  20. Jacqui Oatley
  21. George Plimpton
  22. Grantland Rice
  23. Helen Rollason
  24. Jim Rome
  25. Jim Ross
  26. Stuart Scott
  27. Vin Scully
  28. Bill Simmons
  29. Doreen Simmons
  30. Sjokz
  31. Bert Sugar
  32. Sid Waddell
  33. Murray Walker
  34. Ray Warren

Web journalists[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Julian Assange
  2. Steve Bannon
  3. Andrew Breitbart
  4. Glenn Greenwald
  5. Arianna Huffington
  6. Ezra Klein
  7. Jonah Peretti
  8. Maria Ressa
  9. Ben Shapiro
  10. Ben Smith (journalist)
  11. Cenk Uygur


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