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This list features renowned authors and their significant works across various literary genres and periods. It's a valuable resource for literature students, offering a concise overview of key figures and their contributions to the literary landscape. The list includes authors like J.D. Salinger, Margaret Mitchell, Homer, John Steinbeck, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Agatha Christie, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Burney, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, G.K. Chesterton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Daniel Defoe, Maya Angelou, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, John Keats, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry includes the author's name, a brief description of their work, and their most notable literary contributions.
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J.D. Salinger ✔✔American writer The Catcher in the Rye
Margaret Mitchell ✔✔Gone With the Wind
Homer ✔✔Iliad Odyssey
John Steinbeck ✔✔Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath
J.R.R. Tolkien ✔✔The Hobbit
Jane Austen ✔✔Pride and Prejudice Emma
Sense and Sensibility English Novelist Romantic Fiction
Mary Shelley ✔✔English novelist Gothic novel - Frankenstein
Jonathon Swift ✔✔Gulliver's Travels
Upton Sinclair ✔✔The Jungle
Jack London ✔✔The Call of the Wild
Agatha Christie ✔✔Murder on the Orient Express
Herman Melville ✔✔Moby Dick American Novelist
Daniel DeFoe ✔✔Robinson Crusoe
Maya Angelou ✔✔Poet - I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing and Still I Rise
Edgar Allen Poe ✔✔American writer, poet, editor and literary critic The Raven
Ray Bradbury ✔✔American fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery Fahrenheit 451
Willa Cather ✔✔American Author of Novels of Frontier life on the Great Plains 1918 My Antonia 1913 O Pioneers
Stephen Crane ✔✔American author Realist tradition 1895 The Red Badge of Courage
1893 Maggie - A Girls of the Streets
Emily Dickinson ✔✔American Poet I Heard a Fly Buzz Wild Nights
Ralph Waldo Emerson ✔✔An American essayist, lecturer, poet Led the transcendulist movement Wrote Self Reliance Nature Representative Men
Robert Frost ✔✔American Poet Highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of colliquial speech 1923 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening 1914 North of Boston
Zora Neale Hurston ✔✔American folklorist
Hamlett The Tempest MacBeth A Mid Summer Night's Dream
Percy Bysshe Shelley ✔✔Major English Romantic Poet Finest Lyric Poet The Masque of Anarchy - a political poem following the Peterloo Masssacre - the first modern statement of nonviolent resistance written
Amy Tan ✔✔American Writer works explore mother and daughter relationships Wrote the Joy Luck Club
Alice Walker ✔✔American author and activist 1982 The Color Purple - focuses on the life of women of color in the south of the US addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in America and social culture
Walt Whitman ✔✔American Poet 1855 Leaves of Grass A humanist - part of the transcendialism and realism - called the Father of Free Verse
