Lives behind the library · page 3 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 97–144 of 2188

Emily Dickinson1830–1886 · United States · 2 works

Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941 · Bengal / India · 2 works

Camille Flammarion1842–1925 · France · 1 work

Frederick Winslow Taylor1856–1915 · United States · 2 works

Ida Pfeiffer1797–1858 · Austria · 2 works

J. M. Synge1871–1909 · Ireland · 4 works

Thomas Paine1737–1809 · Britain / United States / France · 1 work

Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859 · France · 2 works

Michael Faraday1791–1867 · United Kingdom · 1 work

Robert Stawell Ball1840–1913 · Ireland / United Kingdom · 1 work

Nellie Bly1864–1922 · United States · 1 work

Maurice Maeterlinck1862–1949 · Belgium / France · 1 work

Henry Adams1838–1918 · United States · 2 works

Grenville Kleiser1868–1953 · United States · 4 works

Herbert Spencer1820–1903 · England · 1 work

Sherwin Cody1868–1959 · United States · 1 work

Clarence Stratton1880–1951 · United States · 1 work

Edgar Rice Burroughs1875–1950 · United States · 31 works

Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861 · England · 2 works

Edgar Lee Masters1868–1950 · United States · 1 work

T. S. Eliot1888–1965 · United States / England · 1 work

Anton Chekhov1860–1904 · Russia · 4 works

A. A. Milne1882–1956 · England · 1 work

J. S. Fletcher1863–1935 · England · 1 work

John Buchan1875–1940 · Scotland · 5 works

Baroness Orczy1865–1947 · Hungary / England · 1 work

Gaston Leroux1868–1927 · France · 2 works

Frank A. Fetter1863–1949 · United States · 1 work

John Maynard Keynes1883–1946 · England · 1 work

Henry George1839–1897 · United States · 1 work

Henry Ford1863–1947 · United States · 1 work

Samuel Crowther1880–1947 · United States · 1 work

Andrew Carnegie1835–1919 · Scotland / United States · 1 work

Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885 · United States · 1 work

Olaudah Equiano1745–1797 · West Africa / England · 1 work

Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928 · England · 1 work

Anna Howard Shaw1847–1919 · England / United States · 1 work

Francis Parkman1823–1893 · United States · 4 works

Thomas Carlyle1795–1881 · Scotland · 6 works

John Reed1887–1920 · United States · 1 work

Thucydides460 BCE–400 BCE · Ancient Greece · 1 work

Hendrik Willem van Loon1882–1944 · Netherlands / United States · 1 work

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882 · United States · 3 works

Jonathan Swift1667–1745 · Ireland · 6 works

John Ruskin1819–1900 · England · 9 works

Marcus Aurelius121–180 · Roman Empire · 1 work

Aristotle384 BCE–322 BCE · Ancient Greece · 1 work

LaoziDates unknown · Ancient China · 1 work