CZ:Literature Workgroup

Writers

Ancient writers

Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ^[e]

Aeschylus: (525–456 BCE) Earliest great Greek tragic dramatist; only 7 plays survive, including the trilogy the Oresteia (about the House of Atreus). ^[e]

Aristophanes: (ca 450 - 388? BC) Greek comic dramatist; wrote The Clouds and Lysistrata. ^[e]

Euripides: Greek tragic dramatist (c.480–c.406 BC), one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece. Works include Medea, The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. ^[e]

Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. ^[e]

Ovid: (43BC-AD17) (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet, author of Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria. ^[e]

Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. ^[e]

Medieval writers

Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. ^[e]

Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. ^[e]

Gottfried von Straßburg: German poet of the early thirteenth century, considered one of the masters of the high courtly literature of the era, famous as the author of the epic poem Tristan and Isolde. ^[e]

Hartmann von Aue: (c. 1160/65 – c. 1210) was a German medieval author of epic poetry, one of the three most important poets of German courtly literature of the Middle Ages (with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg) ^[e]

Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet who died in 1131. ^[e]

Petrarch: (1304–74) Italian poet, humanist and essayist, and one of the most important intellectual figures of the early Renaissance. ^[e]

Chrétien de Troyes: Add brief definition or description

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Add brief definition or description

Children's and young adult literature

Dr. Seuss: (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-91) Extremely popular American writer of children's books, including books designed to teach reading. ^[e]

Hans Christian Andersen: (1805-75) Danish author of fairy tales. ^[e]

Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. ^[e]

Lewis Carroll: The pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), British mathematician and author of children's books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark). ^[e]

Brüder Grimm: (Brothers Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm, German linguists, famous for their collection of fairy tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 1812-1815) and their German dictionary ^[e]

Science-fiction writers

Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. ^[e]

Arthur C. Clarke: (1917-2008) British author of science fiction. ^[e]

Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. ^[e]

Ursula Le Guin: (born October 21, 1929) Science-fiction author whose works address themes from sociology and anthropology. ^[e]

Stanisław Lem: (1921-2006) Polish science-fiction author (Solaris) ^[e]

Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description

Jack Vance: (1916 – 2013) American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries who achieved cult-like status. ^[e]

Jules Verne: (1828-1905) French author and science-fiction pioneer, some of whose novels involved travel through outer space and under water before technology had made these possible, and whose work has been widely translated and made into a number of films. ^[e]

New H.G. Wells: (1866–1946) English author best known for his pioneering science-fiction novels; wrote The Time Machine. ^[e]

Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) American author of science-fiction stories and novels ^[e]

American writers

Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. ^[e]

James Fenimore Cooper: (1789-1851) The first major American novelist, most famous for his adventuresome Leather-Stocking Tales set in the American frontier. ^[e]

Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-82) American poet, essayist, and lecturer; leading exponent of New England transcendentalism. ^[e]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: (1807-82) US poet and essayist whose ballads and verses made him the best-loved American poet of the 19th century. ^[e]

Henry David Thoreau: (1817-62) New England transcendentalist philosopher, naturalist, and writer; one of key inspirations for the modern conservation movement. ^[e]

Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-64) American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. ^[e]

Herman Melville: (1819-91) American fiction writer, author of Moby Dick, one of the masterpieces of world literature. ^[e]

New Louisa May Alcott: (1832-88) American writer known for the novel Little Women that has been adapted for film, television and stage many times. ^[e]

Emily Dickinson: (1830-86) American poet whose poetry, exhibiting great originality in thought and form, has been a major influence on modern poetry. ^[e]

Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. ^[e]

Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description

Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description

New Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description

Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description

John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description

William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description

Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description

Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description

Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description

Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description

John Updike: Add brief definition or description

Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description

English writers

Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description

William Blake: Add brief definition or description

Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description

Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description

Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description

John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description

Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description

Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description

John Donne: Add brief definition or description

T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description

Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description

Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description

John Keats: Add brief definition or description

Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. ^[e]

John Milton: Add brief definition or description

George Orwell: Add brief definition or description

William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description

George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description

Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description

Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description

William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description