Lives behind the library · page 2 of 46

Authors and their reading worlds.

2188 author profiles with reliable dates, concise context and a direct route to every available work.

48 authors on this page

Profiles 49–96 of 2188

James Joyce1882–1941 · Ireland · 3 works

E. M. Forster1879–1970 · England · 2 works

Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527 · Florence / Italy · 3 works

Alexandre Dumas1802–1870 · France · 8 works

Auguste Maquet1813–1888 · France · 6 works

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790 · United States · 2 works

F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940 · United States · 4 works

Virginia Woolf1882–1941 · England · 6 works

Ernest Hemingway1899–1961 · United States · 1 work

Agatha Christie1890–1976 · England · 4 works

Fyodor Dostoevsky1821–1881 · Russia · 2 works

Anne Brontë1820–1849 · England · 2 works

Victor Hugo1802–1885 · France · 3 works

Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616 · Spain · 1 work

Nella Larsen1891–1964 · United States · 1 work

Dashiell Hammett1894–1961 · United States · 1 work

Upton Sinclair1878–1968 · United States · 1 work

Leo Tolstoy1828–1910 · Russia · 4 works

Gustave Flaubert1821–1880 · France · 3 works

Ivan Turgenev1818–1883 · Russia · 1 work

Stendhal1783–1842 · France · 1 work

Kahlil Gibran1883–1931 · Lebanon / United States · 1 work

Robert W. Chambers1865–1933 · United States · 5 works

Arthur Machen1863–1947 · Wales / England · 2 works

Jean Toomer1894–1967 · United States · 1 work

William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863 · England · 5 works

Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797 · England · 4 works

Booker T. Washington1856–1915 · United States · 2 works

William Hope Hodgson1877–1918 · England · 4 works

Algernon Blackwood1869–1951 · England · 4 works

Samuel Smiles1812–1904 · Scotland / United Kingdom · 8 works

Helen Keller1880–1968 · United States · 1 work

Maria Montessori1870–1952 · Italy · 1 work

Harold Speed1872–1957 · England · 1 work

Herbert Newton Casson1869–1951 · Canada / United Kingdom · 1 work

Ernest Shackleton1874–1922 · Ireland / United Kingdom · 1 work

Kakuzo Okakura1862–1913 · Japan · 1 work

John Dewey1859–1952 · United States · 4 works

William Strunk Jr.1869–1946 · United States · 1 work

J. Berg Esenwein1867–1946 · United States · 1 work

Dale Carnegie1888–1955 · United States · 1 work

Bertrand Russell1872–1970 · United Kingdom · 2 works

William James1842–1910 · United States · 6 works

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)1858–1939 · Santee Dakota / United States · 1 work

John Muir1838–1914 · Scotland / United States · 7 works

Susan Glaspell1876–1948 · United States · 1 work

Joseph DevlinDates unknown · United States · 1 work

Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927 · United Kingdom · 2 works