Murasaki Shikibu			JP			c978-1031?		novelist. The Tale of Genji.
Omar Khayyam			IR			c1028-1122		poet. Rubaiyat.
Murasaki Shikibu			JP			c978-1031?
Omar Khayyam			IR			c1028-1122
Dante Alighieri			IT			1265-1321		poet. The Divine Comedy.
Francesco Petrarca			IT			1304-1374		poet. Africa, Trionfi, Canzoniere, On Solitude.
Giovanni Boccaccio			IT			1313-1375		poet, storyteller. Decameron, Filostrato.
Dante Alighieri			IT			1265-1321
Geoffrey Chaucer			GB			c1340-1400		poet. The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde.
Francesco Petrarca			IT			1304-1374
Giovanni Boccaccio			IT			1313-1375
Geoffrey Chaucer			GB			c1340-1400
Thomas Malory			GB			?-1471		writer. Morte d'Arthur.
Frangois Villon			FR			1431-1463?		poet. The Lays, The Grand Testament.
Frangois Villon			FR			1431-1463?
Niccolr Machiavelli			IT			1469-1527		writer, statesman. The Prince, Discourses on Livy.
Thomas Malory			GB			?-1471
Thomas More			GB			1478-1535		writer. Utopia.
Frangois Rabelais			FR			1495-1553		writer. Gargantua.
Pierre de Ronsard			FR			1524-1585		poet. Sonnets pour Hilhne, La Franciade.
Niccolr Machiavelli			IT			1469-1527
Michel de Montaigne			FR			1533-1592		essayist. Essais.
Thomas More			GB			1478-1535
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra			ES			1547-1616		novelist, dramatist, poet. Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Edmund Spenser			GB			1552-1599		poet. The Faerie Queen.
Frangois Rabelais			FR			1495-1553
Christopher Marlowe			GB			1564-1593		dramatist, poet. Tamburlaine the Great, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta.
William Shakespeare			GB			4/23/1564-1616		dramatist, poet. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, sonnets.
Ben Jonson			GB			1572-1637		dramatist, poet. Volpone.
John Donne			GB			1573-1631		poet. Songs and Sonnets.
Pierre de Ronsard			FR			1524-1585
Michel de Montaigne			FR			1533-1592
Christopher Marlowe			GB			1564-1593
Edmund Spenser			GB			1552-1599
Pierre Corneille			FR			1606-1684		dramatist. Medei, Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte.
John Milton			GB			1608-1674		poet. Paradise Lost.
Anne Bradstreet			US			c1612-9/16/1672		poet. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra			ES			1547-1616
William Shakespeare			GB			4/23/1564-1616
Jean de la Fontaine			FR			1621-1695		poet. Fables choisies.
Jean Baptiste Molihre			FR			1622-1673		dramatist. Le Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
John Bunyan			GB			1628-1688		writer. Pilgrim's Progress.
Charles Perrault						1/12/1628
John Donne			GB			1573-1631
John Dryden			GB			1631-1700		poet, dramatist, critic. All for Love, Mac Flecknoe, Absalom and Achitopel.
Samuel Pepys			GB			1633-1703		public official, diarist.
Ben Jonson			GB			1572-1637
Jean Racine			FR			1639-1699		dramatist. Andromaque, Phhdre, Birinice, Britannicus.
Daniel Defoe			GB			1660-1731		writer. Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Journal of the Plague Year.
Jonathan Swift			GB			11/30/1667-1745		writer. Gulliver's Travels.
Alain-Reni Lesage			FR			1668-1747		novelist. Gil Blas de Santillane.
Richard Steele			GB			1672-1729		essayist, playwright, began the Tatler and Spectator. The Conscious Lovers.
Anne Bradstreet	First Burial Ground	North Andover	MA			c1612-9/16/1672
Jean Baptiste Molihre			FR			1622-1673
John Milton			GB			1608-1674
Pierre Corneille			FR			1606-1684
Alexander Pope			GB			1688-1744		poet. The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man.
John Bunyan			GB			1628-1688
Samuel Richardson			GB			1689-1761		novelist. Clarissa Harlowe, Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
Jean de la Fontaine			FR			1621-1695
Jean Racine			FR			1639-1699
John Dryden			GB			1631-1700
Samuel Pepys			GB			1633-1703
Henry Fielding			GB			1707-1754		novelist. Tom Jones.
Samuel Johnson			GB			1709-1784		author, scholar, critic. Dictionary of the English Language.
Laurence Sterne			GB			1713-1768		novelist. Tristram Shandy.
John Newberry						7/19/1713
Thomas Gray			GB			1716-1771		poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "The Progress of Poesy."
Giacomo Casanova			IT			1725-1798		adventurer, memoirist.
Gotthold Lessing			DE			1729-1781		dramatist, philosopher, critic. Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm.
Richard Steele			GB			1672-1729
Oliver Goldsmith			GB/IE			1730?-1774		writer. The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer.
Daniel Defoe			GB			1660-1731
Thomas (Tom) Paine			US			1737-1809		writer, political theorist. Common Sense.
James Boswell			Scot			1740-1795		biographer. The Life of Samuel Johnson, A Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides.
Alexander Pope			GB			1688-1744
Jonathan Swift			GB			11/30/1667-1745
Alain-Reni Lesage			FR			1668-1747
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe			DE			1749-1832		poet, dramatist, novelist. Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Richard B. Sheridan			GB			1751-1816		dramatist. The Rivals, School for Scandal.
Henry Fielding			GB			1707-1754
William Blake			GB			1757-1827		poet, artist. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Noah Webster			US			1758-5/28/1843		Lexicographer and philologist, noted for his dictionary(1828).
Robert Burns			Scot			1759-1796		poet. "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," "My Heart's in the Highlands," "Auld Lang Syne."
Friedrich von Schiller			DE			1759-1805		dramatist, poet, historian. Don Carlos, Maria Stuart, Wilhelm Tell.
Samuel Richardson			GB			1689-1761
Laurence Sterne			GB			1713-1768
William Wordsworth			GB			1770-1850		poet. "Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," The Prelude.
Sir Walter Scott			Scot			1771-1832		novelist, poet. Ivanhoe.
Thomas Gray			GB			1716-1771
Samuel Taylor Coleridge			GB			1772-1834		poet, critic. "Kubla Khan," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Oliver Goldsmith			GB/IE			1730?-1774
Jane Austen			GB			1775-1817		novelist. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park.
Charles Lamb			GB			2/10/1775-1834		essayist. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Essays of Elia.
Francis Scott Key			US			1779-1/11/1843		Author of the words to "The Star-spangled Banner,"
Clement Clarke Moore			US			7/15/1779-7/10/1863		poet, educator. "A Visit From Saint Nicholas(1823)."
Gotthold Lessing			DE			1729-1781
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle)			FR			1783-1842		novelist. The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma.
Washington Irving			US			4/2/1783-11/28/1859		writer. "Rip Van Winkle(1820)," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(1820)."
Samuel Johnson			GB			1709-1784
Jakob Grimm			DE			1/4/1785-1863		philologist, folklorist. German Methodology, Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Wilhelm Grimm			DE			2/24/1786-1859		philologist, folklorist. Grimm's Fairy Tales.
George Gordon Byron			GB			Lord Byron, 1788-1824		poet. Don Juan, Childe Harold, Manfred, Cain.
James Fenimore Cooper			US			9/15/1789-9/14/1851		novelist. Leatherstocking Tales.
Alphonse de Lamartine			FR			1790-1869		poet, novelist, statesman. Miditations poitiques.
Percy Bysshe Shelley			GB			1792-1822		poet. Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark."
Frederick Marryat						7/10/1792		?
William Cullen Bryant			US			1794-6/12/1878		New England nature poet, known particularly for his early poems "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl," and "The Yellow Violet"; later a journalist.
James Boswell			Scot			1740-1795
John Keats			GB			1795-1821		poet. "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."
Robert Burns			Scot			1759-1796
Heinrich Heine			DE			1797-1856		poet. Book of Songs.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley			GB			8/30/1797-1851		novelist, feminist. Frankenstein, The Last Man.
Giacomo Casanova			IT			1725-1798
Honori de Balzac			FR			1799-1850		novelist. Le Phre Goriot, Cousine Bette, Euginie Grandet, The Human Comedy.
Aleksandr Pushkin			SU			1799-1837		poet, prose writer. Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman.
Alexandre Dumas			FR			1802-1870		novelist, dramatist. The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Victor Hugo			FR			1802-1885		poet, dramatist, novelist. Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misirables.
Prosper Mirimie			FR			1803-1870		author. Carmen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson			US			1803-4/27/1882		poet, essayist. "Brahma," "Nature," "The Over-Soul," "Self-Reliance."
George Sand (Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin)			FR			1804-1876		novelist. Consuelo, The Haunted Pool, The Master Bell-Ringer.
Nathaniel Hawthorne			US			7/4/1804-5/18 or 19/1864		novelist, short-story writer. The Scarlet Letter, "The Artist of the Beautiful."
Friedrich von Schiller			DE			1759-1805
Hans Christian Andersen			DK			4/2/1805-1875		author of fairy tales. The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning			GB			1806-1861		poet. Sonnets From the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh.
John Greenleaf Whittier			US			1807-9/7/1892		poet, journalist. Snow-Bound(1866).
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow			US			2/27/1807-3/24/1882		poet. Evangeline(1847), The Song of Hiawatha(1855).
Alfred Lord Tennyson			GB			1809-1892		poet. Idylls of the King, In Memoriam, "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Nikolai Gogol			SU			1809-1852		short-story writer, dramatist, novelist. Dead Souls, The Inspector General.
Oliver Wendell Holmes			US			1809-10/7/1894		poet, novelist. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table..
Thomas (Tom) Paine			US			1737-1809
Edgar Allan Poe			US			1/19/1809-10/7/1849		poet, short-story writer, critic. "Annabel Lee," "The Raven," "The Purloined Letter."
Alfred de Musset			FR			1810-1857		poet, dramatist. La Confession d'un Enfant du Sihcle.
William Makepeace Thackeray			GB			1811-1863		novelist. Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Pendennis.
Harriet Beecher Stowe			US			6/14/1811-7/1/1896		novelist. Uncle Tom's Cabin.(1852)
Charles Dickens			GB			1812-1870		novelist. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Pickwick Papers.
Robert Browning			GB			1812-1889		poet. "My Last Duchess," "Fra Lippo Lippi," The Ring and The Book.
Charles Dickens						2/7/1812		?
Edward Lear						5/12/1812		?
Mikhail Lermontov			SU			1814-1841		novelist, poet. "Demon," Hero of Our Time.
Anthony Trollope			GB			1815-1882		novelist. The Warden, Barchester Towers, The Palliser novels.
Charlotte Brontk			GB			1816-1855		novelist. Jane Eyre.
Richard B. Sheridan			GB			1751-1816
Jane Austen			GB			1775-1817
Henry David Thoreau			US			1817-5/6/1962		author. Walden(1854).
Emily Bronte			GB			1818-1848		novelist. Wuthering Heights.
Ivan Turgenev			SU			1818-1883		novelist, short-story writer. Fathers and Sons, First Love, A Month in the Country.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans or Marian Evans)			GB			1819-1880		novelist. Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss.
John Ruskin			GB			1819-1900		critic, social theorist. Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Herman Melville			US			1819-9/28/1891		novelist, poet. Moby Dick(1851), Typee, Billy Budd, Omoo.
James Russell Lowell			US			1819-1891		poet, editor. Poems, The Biglow Papers.
Walt Whitman			US			1819-3/26/1892		poet. Leaves of Grass(1855).
Charles Kingsley						6/12/1819		?
Sir John Tenniel						2/28/1820		?
Anna Sewell						3/30/1820		?
Lucretia Hale						9/2/1820		?
Charles Baudelaire			FR			1821-1867		symbolist poet. Les Fleurs du Mal.
Gustave Flaubert			FR			1821-1880		novelist. Madame Bovary.
John Keats			GB			1795-1821
Fyodor Dostoyevsky			SU			1821-1881		novelist. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed.
Matthew Arnold			GB			1822-1888		poet, critic. "Thrysis," "Dover Beach," "The Gypsy Scholar"; "Culture and Anarchy."
Percy Bysshe Shelley			GB			1792-1822
Edward Everett Hale			US			1822-6/10/1909		Novelist, clergyman, published Man Without a Country(1863) anonymously.
Charlotte Yonge						8/13/1823		?
Alexandre Dumas (fils)			FR			1824-1895		dramatist, novelist. La Dame aux Camilias, Le Demi-Monde.
George Gordon Byron			GB			Lord Byron, 1788-1824
George MacDonald						12/10/1824		?
Dinah Craik						4/20/1826		?
Carlo Collodi						11/24/1826		?
William Blake			GB			1757-1827
Johanna Spyri						7/12/1827		?
George Meredith			GB			1828-1909		novelist, poet. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The Egoist.
Henrik Ibsen			NO			1828-1906		dramatist, poet. A Doll's House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler.
Leo Tolstoy			SU			1828-1910		novelist, short-story writer. War and Peace, Anna Karenina, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich."
Jules Verne			FR			2/8/1828-1905		novelist. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Christina Rossetti						12/5/1830		?
Emily Dickinson			US			12/10/1830-5/15/1886		poet.
Mary Mapes Dodge						1/26/1831		?
Sir Walter Scott			Scot			1771-1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe			DE			1749-1832
Horatio Alger, Jr.			US			1/13/1832-7/18/1899		"rags-to-riches" books.
Lewis Carroll			GB			1/27/1832-1898		writer, mathematician. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass.
Louisa May Alcott			US			11/29/1832-3/6/1888		novelist. Little Women(1868).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge			GB			1772-1834
Charles Lamb			GB			2/10/1775-1834
Frank Stockton						4/5/1834		?
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)			US			11/30/1835-4/21/1910		novelist, humorist. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885), Tom Sawyer(1876).
Bret Harte			US			1836-1902		short-story writer, poet. The Luck of Roaring Camp.
Algernon C. Swinburne			GB			1837-1909		writer. Atalanta in Calydon.
Aleksandr Pushkin			SU			1799-1837
William Dean Howells			US			1837-1920		novelist, critic. The Rise of Silas Lapham.
Henry Adams			US			1838-3/28/1918		Adams, the writer and historian known for The Education of Henry Adams(1906)
Mary L. Molesworth						5/29/1839		?
Imile Zola			FR			1840-1902		novelist. Nana, The Dram Shop.
Thomas Hardy			GB			1840-1928		novelist, poet. The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure.
Mikhail Lermontov			SU			1814-1841
Juliana Horatio Ewing						8/3/1841		?
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle)			FR			1783-1842
Stiphane Mallarmi			FR			1842-1898		poet. Poisies.
Ambrose Bierce			US			1842-1914		short-story writer, journalist. In the Midst of Life, The Devil's Dictionary.
Henry James			US			1843-2/28/1916		novelist, short-story writer, critic. The Portrait of a Lady(1881), The American, Daisy Miller.
Francis Scott Key	Mount Olivet Cemetery	Frederick	MD			1779-1/11/1843
Noah Webster	Grove Street Cemetery	New Haven	CT			1758-5/28/1843
Anatole France			FR			1844-1924		writer. Penguin Island, My Friend's Book, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.
Andrew Lang						3/31/1844		?
Margaret Sidney						6/22/1844		?
Walter Crane						8/13/1845		?
Kate Greenaway						3/17/1846		?
Randolph Caldecott						3/22/1846		?
Bram Stoker						11/8/1847		?
Emily Bronte			GB			1818-1848
James Otis						3/19/1848		?
Joel Chandler Harris			US			12/9/1848-1908		short-story writer. Uncle Remus series.
August Strindberg			SE			1849-1912		dramatist, novelist. The Father, Miss Julie, The Creditors.
Edgar Allan Poe	Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard	Baltimore	MD			1/19/1809-10/7/1849
James Whitcomb Riley			US			10/7/1849-7/22/1916		Hoosier poet
Frances H. Burnett						11/24/1849		?