Lives behind the library · page 5 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 193–240 of 2188

HomerDates unknown · Ancient Greece · 2 works

Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400 · England · 1 work

John Keats1795–1821 · England · 1 work

Richard Henry Dana Jr.1815–1882 · United States · 1 work

Alfred Russel Wallace1823–1913 · Wales / England · 3 works

Mungo Park1771–1806 · Scotland · 2 works

Anna Sewell1820–1878 · England · 1 work

Carlo Collodi1826–1890 · Italy · 1 work

Beatrix Potter1866–1943 · England · 3 works

Andrew Lang1844–1912 · Scotland · 14 works

Eleanor H. Porter1868–1920 · United States · 5 works

Fergus Hume1859–1932 · New Zealand / Australia / England · 2 works

Arthur Griffiths1838–1908 · England · 2 works

Edgar Wallace1875–1932 · England · 3 works

Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919 · United States · 8 works

Sojourner Truth1797–1883 · United States · 1 work

Calamity Jane1856–1903 · United States · 1 work

Walter Bagehot1826–1877 · England · 3 works

Charles Babbage1791–1871 · England · 2 works

Walter Dill Scott1869–1955 · United States · 1 work

J. A. Hobson1858–1940 · England · 2 works

J. P. Mahaffy1839–1919 · Ireland · 1 work

J. H. Gardiner1863–1913 · United States · 1 work

Lewis Worthington Smith1866–1947 · United States · 1 work

William Pittenger1840–1904 · United States · 2 works

Frederick W. Hamilton1860–1940 · United States · 1 work

Walter Pater1839–1894 · England · 4 works

John Lubbock1834–1913 · England · 1 work

E. E. Smith1890–1965 · United States · 1 work

Lee Hawkins Garby1892–1953 · United States · 1 work

Maksim Gorky1868–1936 · Russia · 1 work

Eugene O’Neill1888–1953 · United States · 2 works

Dante Alighieri1265–1321 · Italy · 2 works

Virgil71 BCE–20 BCE · Ancient Rome · 2 works

Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–1906 · United States · 1 work

Robert W. Service1874–1958 · United Kingdom / Canada · 1 work

Marie Belloc Lowndes1868–1947 · England · 1 work

Richard Marsh1857–1915 · England · 3 works

R. Austin Freeman1862–1943 · England · 1 work

E. W. Hornung1866–1921 · England · 2 works

Mary Austin1868–1934 · United States · 1 work

Isabella L. Bird1831–1904 · United Kingdom · 6 works

Mary H. Kingsley1862–1900 · England · 1 work

George Borrow1803–1881 · England · 6 works

Louis D. Brandeis1856–1941 · United States · 1 work

Woodrow Wilson1856–1924 · United States · 4 works

Marie L. Shedlock1854–1935 · England · 1 work

Goold Brown1791–1857 · United States · 1 work