(1899–1961)
Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, renowned for his distinctive, economical prose style and adventurous life.
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(1920–1994)
Bukowski, a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his gritty, direct writing style and focus on the lives of society’s outsiders.
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(1859–1930)
Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective featured in four novels and 56 short stories.
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(1892-1973)
J.R.R. Tolkien was a renowned English writer, philologist, and academic, best known for creating the epic fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was a professor at Oxford and a leading scholar in Old and Middle English.
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(1882-1941)
Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of artists and intellectuals, and co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf, which published much of her work. Her novels broke conventions with their nonlinear narratives and deep psychological insight, while her essays—especially on women and literature—remain foundational texts for feminist criticism.
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(1914-1997)
Burroughs’ writing is famous for its nontraditional, erratic style and its graphic examination of drug culture, sexuality, and the underworld. He was instrumental in the development of the “cut-up technique,” a method of text collage, and greatly influenced countercultural and postmodern literature.
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(1903-1950)
Orwell’s most prominent works, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), are celebrated for their satirical and prophetic critique of authoritarianism, propaganda, and the corruption inherent in political systems. inspiring readers to challenge societal and political complacency.
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(1854-1900)
Playwright, novelist, poet, and critic, regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. Born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland, Wilde was known for his wit, flamboyance, and his association with the Aesthetic movement, which promoted “art for art’s sake.”
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(1924-1987)
American novelist, essayist, playwright, and civil rights activist whose eloquent works confronted race, sexuality, and identity in 20th-century America. Born in Harlem, New York, he rose from poverty to become one of the most influential voices for social justice, challenging oppression through his clear, fiercely passionate prose.
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(1898–1963)
A brilliant academic and imaginative thinker, Lewis was an Irish-born writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series. He served in World War I before studying and later teaching English literature at Oxford College.
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(1812–1870)
An English novelist, journalist, and social critic who became the defining literary voice of the Victorian era. Dickens experienced a difficult childhood marked by poverty, forced to work in a shoe-blacking factory at age twelve—a trauma that later inspired much of his writing about social injustice.
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(1809–1849)
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who became one of the most influential figures in 19th-century literature. Poe is widely recognized as a master of the macabre and a pioneer of Gothic fiction, detective fiction, and early science fiction.
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(1835–1910)
An American writer, humorist, and lecturer often hailed as the father of American literature. He grew up in the river town of Hannibal, which inspired the settings for his most famous works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
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(1894-1964)
Hecht was an American screenwriter, playwright, director, producer, journalist, and -novelist. Starting his career as a journalist and foreign correspondent, he became known for his influential play “The Front Page” (1928) and for writing or contributing to many classic Hollywood screenplays, including “Scarface,” “Gone with the Wind,” and “Wuthering Heights.
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