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Writers[edit]

This section contains 1712 articles.

Prose writers[edit]

This section contains 932 articles.

Ancient[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Vishnu Sharma

Europe[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aesop
  2. Apuleius
  3. Lucian (Level 4)
  4. Pliny the Younger

Post-classical[edit]

This section contains 17 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Bāṇabhaṭṭa
  2. Borzuya
  3. Daṇḍin
  4. Han Yu (Level 4)
  5. Ibn al-Muqaffa'
  6. Liu Zongyuan
  7. Luo Guanzhong
  8. Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
  9. Ouyang Xiu (Level 4)
  10. Sei Shōnagon
  11. Shi Nai'an
  12. Su Shi (Level 4)

Europe[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Giovanni Boccaccio (Level 4)
  2. Christine de Pizan (Level 4)
  3. Ibn Tufayl
  4. Julian of Norwich
  5. Margery Kempe

Early modern[edit]

This section contains 60 articles.

Americas[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Charles Brockden Brown
  2. William Hill Brown
  3. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
  4. Juana Inés de la Cruz
  5. Mary Rowlandson

Asia[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Asai Ryōi
  2. Cao Xueqin
  3. Ueda Akinari
  4. Wu Cheng'en
  5. Xu Zhonglin

Europe[edit]

This section contains 49 articles.

  1. Madame d'Aulnoy
  2. William Bolts
  3. James Boswell
  4. Thomas Browne
  5. John Bunyan
  6. José Cadalso
  7. Giacomo Casanova (Level 4)
  8. Baldassare Castiglione
  9. Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
  10. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
  11. John Cleland
  12. Charles Cotton
  13. Daniel Defoe (Level 4)
  14. Henry Fielding (Level 4)
  15. Antoine Galland
  16. Oliver Goldsmith
  17. Johann Peter Hebel
  18. E. T. A. Hoffmann
  19. Captain Charles Johnson
  20. Samuel Johnson (Level 4)
  21. Ivan Krylov
  22. Madame de La Fayette
  23. Jean de La Fontaine
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
  25. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  26. Walter Savage Landor
  27. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
  28. Thomas Malory
  29. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  30. Michel de Montaigne (Level 4)
  31. Thomas More (Level 4)
  32. Thomas Nashe
  33. Charles Perrault (Level 4)
  34. Johannes Pfefferkorn
  35. François Rabelais (Level 4)
  36. Alexander Radishchev
  37. Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
  38. Samuel Richardson
  39. Antoine de Rivarol
  40. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
  41. Marquis de Sade (Level 4)
  42. Germaine de Staël
  43. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  44. Laurence Sterne
  45. Jonathan Swift (Level 4)
  46. Honoré d'Urfé
  47. Pêro Vaz de Caminha
  48. Voltaire (Level 3)
  49. Horace Walpole

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Watkin Tench

Late modern[edit]

This section contains 850 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Muhammed Said Abdulla
  2. Chinua Achebe (Level 4)
  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  4. Zamenga Batukezanga
  5. J. E. Casely Hayford
  6. Mohamed Choukri
  7. J. M. Coetzee (Level 4)
  8. Buchi Emecheta
  9. Nuruddin Farah
  10. Nadine Gordimer (Level 4)
  11. Abdulrazak Gurnah
  12. Taha Hussein
  13. Kojo Laing
  14. Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
  15. Naguib Mahfouz (Level 4)
  16. Dambudzo Marechera
  17. Léonora Miano
  18. Ahlam Mosteghanemi
  19. Ben Okri (Level 4)
  20. Tayeb Salih
  21. Wilbur Smith
  22. Sony Lab'ou Tansi
  23. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Level 4)
  24. Kateb Yacine

Americas[edit]

This section contains 324 articles.

Caribbean[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Patrick Chamoiseau
  2. Maryse Condé
  3. Marlon James (novelist)
  4. Audre Lorde
US and Canada[edit]

This section contains 291 articles.

  1. Tomi Adeyemi
  2. James Agee
  3. Louisa May Alcott
  4. Lloyd Alexander
  5. Horatio Alger
  6. Nelson Algren
  7. Poul Anderson
  8. Sherwood Anderson
  9. V. C. Andrews
  10. Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
  11. Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
  12. Paul Auster
  13. James Baldwin
  14. Djuna Barnes
  15. Donald Barthelme
  16. L. Frank Baum
  17. Paul Beatty
  18. Saul Bellow (Level 4)
  19. Stan and Jan Berenstain
  20. Ambrose Bierce
  21. Earl Derr Biggers
  22. Judy Blume
  23. Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
  24. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  25. Norman Bridwell
  26. Terry Brooks
  27. Dan Brown
  28. Susan Brownmiller
  29. Pearl S. Buck
  30. Edgar Rice Burroughs
  31. William S. Burroughs (Level 4)
  32. Candace Bushnell
  33. Octavia E. Butler
  34. Meg Cabot
  35. James M. Cain
  36. Erskine Caldwell
  37. Truman Capote
  38. Orson Scott Card
  39. Eric Carle
  40. Dale Carnegie
  41. John Dickson Carr
  42. Jonathan Carroll
  43. Raymond Carver
  44. Willa Cather
  45. Michael Chabon
  46. Robert W. Chambers
  47. Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
  48. John Cheever
  49. C. J. Cherryh
  50. Kate Chopin
  51. Winston Churchill (novelist)
  52. Tom Clancy
  53. Mary Higgins Clark
  54. Beverly Cleary
  55. Robin Cook (American novelist)
  56. James Fenimore Cooper
  57. Patricia Cornwell
  58. Stephen Crane
  59. Michael Crichton
  60. Clive Cussler
  61. Janet Dailey
  62. Henry Darger
  63. Lydia Davis
  64. Varina Davis
  65. Don DeLillo
  66. Philip K. Dick
  67. Joan Didion
  68. Annie Dillard
  69. Franklin W. Dixon
  70. Thomas Dixon Jr.
  71. Mary Mapes Dodge
  72. John Dos Passos
  73. Theodore Dreiser
  74. David Eddings
  75. Bret Easton Ellis
  76. James Ellroy
  77. Harlan Ellison
  78. Ralph Ellison
  79. Louise Erdrich
  80. Jeffrey Eugenides
  81. Walter Farley
  82. James T. Farrell
  83. William Faulkner (Level 4)
  84. Raymond E. Feist
  85. Edna Ferber
  86. Tim Ferriss
  87. M. F. K. Fisher
  88. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
  89. Jonathan Franzen
  90. James Frey
  91. Diana Gabaldon
  92. William Gaddis
  93. Erle Stanley Gardner
  94. Roxane Gay
  95. William Gibson
  96. Sue Grafton
  97. John Gray (American author)
  98. John Green
  99. Robert Greene (American author)
  100. Zane Grey
  101. John Grisham
  102. Alex Haley
  103. Dashiell Hammett
  104. Daniel Handler
  105. Bret Harte
  106. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Level 4)
  107. Louise Hay
  108. Lafcadio Hearn
  109. Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
  110. Joseph Heller
  111. Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
  112. Marguerite Henry
  113. O. Henry
  114. Caroline Lee Hentz
  115. Frank Herbert
  116. Patricia Highsmith
  117. S. E. Hinton
  118. Khaled Hosseini
  119. Robert E. Howard
  120. William Dean Howells
  121. Herbert Huncke
  122. Evan Hunter
  123. Zora Neale Hurston
  124. Iceberg Slim
  125. Clifford Irving
  126. John Irving
  127. Washington Irving
  128. Shirley Jackson
  129. Henry James (Level 4)
  130. Tama Janowitz
  131. N. K. Jemisin
  132. James Jones (author)
  133. Erica Jong
  134. MacKinlay Kantor
  135. Mary Karr
  136. Susanna Kaysen
  137. Carolyn Keene
  138. Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
  139. Ken Kesey
  140. Stephen King (Level 4)
  141. Barbara Kingsolver
  142. Robert Kiyosaki
  143. Dean Koontz
  144. Judith Krantz
  145. Louis L'Amour
  146. Madeleine L'Engle
  147. Nella Larsen
  148. Margaret Laurence
  149. Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
  150. Harper Lee
  151. Jonathan Lethem
  152. Sinclair Lewis
  153. Alan Lightman
  154. Tao Lin
  155. Jeff Lindsay
  156. Hal Lindsey
  157. Jack London (Level 4)
  158. John Luther Long
  159. H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
  160. Lois Lowry
  161. Robert Ludlum
  162. Ross Macdonald
  163. Debbie Macomber
  164. Maddox (writer)
  165. Norman Mailer
  166. William Manchester
  167. Yann Martel
  168. Ann M. Martin
  169. George R. R. Martin
  170. Peter Matthiessen
  171. Tucker Max
  172. Anne McCaffrey
  173. Cormac McCarthy
  174. Mary McCarthy (author)
  175. Carson McCullers
  176. Jay McInerney
  177. Patricia A. McKillip
  178. Michelle McNamara
  179. Marijane Meaker
  180. Herman Melville (Level 4)
  181. Thomas Merton
  182. Stephenie Meyer
  183. James A. Michener
  184. Henry Miller
  185. Margaret Mitchell
  186. Lucy Maud Montgomery
  187. Toni Morrison (Level 4)
  188. Alice Munro
  189. Andrew Neiderman
  190. Anaïs Nin
  191. Larry Niven
  192. Philip Francis Nowlan
  193. Alissa Nutting
  194. Flannery O'Connor
  195. John O'Hara
  196. Joyce Carol Oates
  197. Chuck Palahniuk
  198. Katherine Paterson
  199. Gilbert Patten
  200. James Patterson
  201. Norman Vincent Peale
  202. Edmund Pearson
  203. Richard Peck (writer)
  204. Walker Percy
  205. Christopher Pike (author)
  206. Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
  207. Frederik Pohl
  208. Richard Price (writer)
  209. Mario Puzo
  210. Thomas Pynchon
  211. Ayn Rand (Level 4)
  212. Kathy Reichs
  213. H. A. Rey
  214. Anne Rice
  215. Rick Riordan
  216. Harold Robbins
  217. Tony Robbins
  218. Nora Roberts
  219. Philip Roth
  220. Patrick Rothfuss
  221. Ann Rule
  222. Damon Runyon
  223. J. D. Salinger
  224. George Saunders
  225. Richard Scarry
  226. Harold Schechter
  227. Maurice Sendak
  228. Michael Shaara
  229. Sidney Sheldon
  230. Shel Silverstein
  231. Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
  232. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  233. Frank G. Slaughter
  234. Lucy Mack Smith
  235. Susan Sontag
  236. Terry Southern
  237. Nicholas Sparks
  238. Mickey Spillane
  239. Danielle Steel
  240. William Steig
  241. Gertrude Stein
  242. John Steinbeck (Level 4)
  243. R. L. Stine
  244. Charles Warren Stoddard
  245. Rex Stout
  246. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  247. Cheryl Strayed
  248. William Styron
  249. Jacqueline Susann
  250. Amy Tan
  251. Booth Tarkington
  252. Donna Tartt
  253. Paul Theroux
  254. James Thurber
  255. Wallace Thurman
  256. John Kennedy Toole
  257. Mark Twain (Level 4)
  258. Anne Tyler
  259. John Updike
  260. Leon Uris
  261. Catherynne M. Valente
  262. Jack Vance
  263. Jeff VanderMeer
  264. Gore Vidal
  265. A. E. van Vogt
  266. William T. Vollmann
  267. Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
  268. Alice Walker
  269. Rebecca Walker
  270. David Foster Wallace
  271. Irving Wallace
  272. Jesmyn Ward
  273. Eudora Welty
  274. Dorothy West
  275. Nathanael West
  276. Edith Wharton (Level 4)
  277. E. B. White
  278. Colson Whitehead
  279. Marianne Wiggins
  280. Laura Ingalls Wilder
  281. Nathaniel Parker Willis
  282. Kathleen Winsor
  283. Gene Wolfe
  284. Thomas Wolfe
  285. Tom Wolfe
  286. Cornell Woolrich
  287. Herman Wouk
  288. Richard Wright (author)
  289. Elizabeth Wurtzel
  290. Richard Yates (novelist)
  291. Cecily von Ziegesar
Latin America[edit]

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. José de Alencar
  2. Isabel Allende
  3. Jorge Amado (Level 4)
  4. Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
  5. Machado de Assis (Level 4)
  6. Aluísio Azevedo
  7. Lima Barreto
  8. Roberto Bolaño
  9. Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
  10. Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
  11. Paulo Coelho
  12. Julio Cortázar
  13. Junot Díaz
  14. Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
  15. Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
  16. Ricardo Güiraldes
  17. Clarice Lispector
  18. Monteiro Lobato
  19. Raul Pompeia
  20. Rachel de Queiroz
  21. Graciliano Ramos
  22. José Lins do Rego
  23. João Ubaldo Ribeiro
  24. João Guimarães Rosa
  25. Juan Rulfo
  26. Ernesto Sabato
  27. Moacyr Scliar
  28. Lygia Fagundes Telles
  29. Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)

Asia[edit]

This section contains 76 articles.

  1. Kōbō Abe
  2. Khachatur Abovian
  3. Aravind Adiga
  4. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  5. Chinghiz Aitmatov (Level 4)
  6. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Level 4)
  7. Ahmed Ali (writer)
  8. Mulk Raj Anand
  9. Takeo Arishima
  10. Eileen Chang
  11. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  12. Chiung Yao
  13. Simin Daneshvar
  14. Kiran Desai
  15. Edogawa Ranpo
  16. Shūsaku Endō
  17. Gao Xingjian
  18. Goh Poh Seng
  19. Junpei Gomikawa
  20. David Grossman
  21. Gu Byeong-mo
  22. Han Kang
  23. Han Sorya
  24. Sadegh Hedayat
  25. Ichiyō Higuchi
  26. Hong Myong-hui
  27. Hong Sok-jung
  28. Yasushi Inoue
  29. Jin Yong (Level 4)
  30. Yasunari Kawabata (Level 4)
  31. Yaşar Kemal
  32. Kim Dong-in
  33. Kim Young-ha
  34. Takiji Kobayashi
  35. Chart Korbjitti
  36. Lao She (Level 4)
  37. Liu Cixin
  38. Lu Xun (Level 4)
  39. Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
  40. Ghassan Kanafani
  41. Mao Dun
  42. Yukio Mishima (Level 4)
  43. Mo Yan
  44. Mari Mori
  45. Mori Ōgai
  46. Seiichi Morimura
  47. Haruki Murakami (Level 4)
  48. R. K. Narayan
  49. Taslima Nasrin
  50. Natsume Sōseki (Level 4)
  51. Ni Kuang
  52. Kyotaro Nishimura
  53. Kenzaburō Ōe (Level 4)
  54. Mimei Ogawa
  55. Amos Oz
  56. Ozaki Kōyō
  57. Pak Kyongni
  58. Orhan Pamuk (Level 4)
  59. Park Wan-suh
  60. Premchand (Level 4)
  61. Qian Zhongshu
  62. Raja Rao
  63. Ri Ki-yong
  64. Begum Rokeya
  65. Arundhati Roy
  66. Kulap Saipradit
  67. Sanmao (writer)
  68. Shen Congwen
  69. Ryōtarō Shiba
  70. Shin Kyung-sook
  71. Khamsing Srinawk
  72. Takizawa Bakin
  73. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  74. Vũ Trọng Phụng
  75. Xiao Hong
  76. Yi Cheong-jun

Europe[edit]

This section contains 403 articles.

Eastern Europe[edit]

This section contains 33 articles.

  1. Ivo Andrić
  2. Jerzy Andrzejewski
  3. Vasil Bykaŭ
  4. Ivan Cankar
  5. Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
  6. Anton Donchev
  7. Odysseas Elytis
  8. István Fekete
  9. Géza Gárdonyi
  10. Jaroslav Hašek
  11. Bohumil Hrabal
  12. Mór Jókai
  13. Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
  14. Nikos Kazantzakis
  15. Imre Kertész
  16. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
  17. László Krasznahorkai
  18. Milan Kundera
  19. Stanisław Lem
  20. Mendele Mocher Sforim
  21. Sławomir Mrożek
  22. Božena Němcová
  23. Bolesław Prus
  24. Władysław Reymont
  25. Bruno Schulz
  26. Sholem Aleichem
  27. Andrzej Sapkowski
  28. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
  29. Magda Szabó
  30. Dimitar Talev
  31. Olga Tokarczuk
  32. Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
  33. Alki Zei
Nordic countries[edit]

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
  2. Karen Blixen (Level 4)
  3. Arne Garborg
  4. Hulda Garborg
  5. Maria Gripe
  6. Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
  7. Tove Jansson
  8. Johannes V. Jensen
  9. Thit Jensen
  10. Eyvind Johnson
  11. Alexander Kielland
  12. Aleksis Kivi
  13. Pär Lagerkvist
  14. Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
  15. Stieg Larsson
  16. Halldór Laxness (Level 4)
  17. Jonas Lie (writer)
  18. Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
  19. Väinö Linna
  20. Henrik Pontoppidan
  21. Alf Prøysen
  22. Frans Eemil Sillanpää
  23. Sjón
  24. Zachris Topelius
  25. Sigrid Undset
  26. Mika Waltari
Russia[edit]

This section contains 49 articles.

  1. Vasily Aksyonov
  2. Boris Akunin
  3. Mark Aldanov
  4. Isaac Babel
  5. Alexander Belyaev
  6. Andrei Bely
  7. Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
  8. Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
  10. Ilya Ehrenburg
  11. Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
  12. Gaito Gazdanov
  13. Dmitry Glukhovsky
  14. Ivan Goncharov
  15. Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
  16. Alexander Grin
  17. Alexander Herzen
  18. Ilf and Petrov
  19. Alexander Karasyov
  20. Arsen Kotsoyev
  21. Aleksandr I. Kuprin
  22. Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
  23. Nikolai Leskov
  24. Sergei Lukyanenko
  25. Nadezhda Mandelstam
  26. Dmitry Merezhkovsky
  27. Sergey Mikhalkov
  28. Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
  29. Nikolai Ostrovsky
  30. Victor Pelevin
  31. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
  32. Aleksey Pisemsky
  33. Andrei Platonov
  34. Zakhar Prilepin
  35. Valentin Rasputin
  36. Aleksey Remizov
  37. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  38. Varlam Shalamov
  39. Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
  40. Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
  41. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
  42. Vladimir Sorokin
  43. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  44. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  45. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
  46. Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
  47. Lyudmila Ulitskaya
  48. Eduard Uspensky
  49. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Western Europe[edit]

This section contains 119 articles.

  1. Ilse Aichinger
  2. Leopoldo Alas
  3. Bettina von Arnim
  4. Emmanuelle Arsan
  5. Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
  6. René Belbenoît
  7. Ludwig Bemelmans
  8. Georges Bernanos
  9. Aloysius Bertrand
  10. Heinrich Böll
  11. Michel Butor
  12. Dino Buzzati
  13. Italo Calvino
  14. Albert Camus (Level 4)
  15. Elias Canetti
  16. Camilo José Cela
  17. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  18. Blaise Cendrars
  19. Henri Charrière
  20. François-René de Chateaubriand
  21. Paul Claudel
  22. Albert Cohen (novelist)
  23. Colette
  24. Frédéric Dard
  25. Alphonse Daudet
  26. Grazia Deledda
  27. Alfred Döblin
  28. Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
  29. Alexandre Dumas fils
  30. Umberto Eco (Level 4)
  31. Michael Ende
  32. Elena Ferrante
  33. Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
  34. Theodor Fontane
  35. Anatole France
  36. Anne Frank (Level 4)
  37. Cornelia Funke
  38. André Gide (Level 4)
  39. Anne Golon
  40. Jules de Goncourt
  41. Julien Gracq
  42. Günter Grass
  43. Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
    1. Jacob Grimm
    2. Wilhelm Grimm
  44. Peter Handke
  45. Paul Heyse
  46. Michel Houellebecq
  47. Victor Hugo (Level 4)
  48. Elfriede Jelinek
  49. Uwe Johnson
  50. André Jullien
  51. Franz Kafka (Level 4)
  52. Charles Paul de Kock
  53. Karl Kraus (writer)
  54. J. M. G. Le Clézio
  55. Maurice Leblanc
  56. Gaston Leroux
  57. Primo Levi
  58. André Pieyre de Mandiargues
  59. Thomas Mann (Level 4)
  60. Alessandro Manzoni
  61. Roger Martin du Gard
  62. Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
  63. François Mauriac
  64. Karl May
  65. Prosper Mérimée
  66. Octave Mirbeau
  67. Frédéric Mistral
  68. Patrick Modiano
  69. Henry de Montherlant
  70. Alberto Moravia
  71. Harry Mulisch
  72. Herta Müller
  73. Multatuli
  74. Robert Musil
  75. Gérard de Nerval
  76. Georges Perec
  77. Benito Pérez Galdós
  78. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  79. Robert Pinget
  80. Abbé Prévost
  81. Marcel Proust (Level 4)
  82. Eça de Queiroz
  83. Raymond Queneau
  84. Erich Maria Remarque
  85. Gerard Reve
  86. Alain Robbe-Grillet
  87. Gianni Rodari
  88. Joseph Roth
  89. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  90. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  91. Françoise Sagan
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  93. Felix Salten
  94. George Sand
  95. José Saramago (Level 4)
  96. Bernhard Schlink
  97. Annie M.G. Schmidt
  98. W. G. Sebald
  99. Georges Simenon
  100. Claude Simon
  101. Johanna Spyri
  102. Stendhal (Level 4)
  103. Eugène Sue
  104. Patrick Süskind
  105. Italo Svevo
  106. Corín Tellado
  107. Eckhart Tolle
  108. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  109. Tomi Ungerer
  110. Giovanni Verga
  111. Jules Verne (Level 4)
  112. Gérard de Villiers
  113. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
  114. Franz Werfel
  115. Marguerite Yourcenar
  116. Émile Zola (Level 4)
  117. Stefan Zweig
UK and Ireland[edit]

This section contains 176 articles.

  1. Edwin Abbott Abbott
  2. Douglas Adams
  3. William Harrison Ainsworth
  4. Richard Aldington
  5. Kingsley Amis
  6. Martin Amis
  7. Piers Anthony
  8. Jeffrey Archer
  9. Michael Arlen
  10. Jane Austen (Level 4)
  11. Wilbert Awdry
  12. J. G. Ballard
  13. Iain Banks
  14. John Banville
  15. Clive Barker
  16. Pat Barker
  17. Julian Barnes
  18. J. M. Barrie
  19. Nina Bawden
  20. Louis de Bernières
  21. Enid Blyton (Level 4)
  22. Marjorie Bowen
  23. John Braine
  24. Brontë family (Level 4)
    1. Anne Brontë
    2. Charlotte Brontë
    3. Emily Brontë
  25. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  26. Eleanor Alice Burford
  27. Anthony Burgess
  28. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  29. A. S. Byatt
  30. John le Carré
  31. Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
  32. Barbara Cartland
  33. G. K. Chesterton
  34. Erskine Childers (author)
  35. Agatha Christie (Level 4)
  36. Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
  37. Eoin Colfer
  38. Jackie Collins
  39. Wilkie Collins
  40. Catherine Cookson
  41. John Creasey
  42. Quentin Crisp
  43. Roald Dahl (Level 4)
  44. Thomas De Quincey
  45. Len Deighton
  46. Charles Dickens (Level 4)
  47. Peter Dickinson
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
  49. Roddy Doyle
  50. Lord Dunsany
  51. George Eliot (Level 4)
  52. Anne Enright
  53. Bernardine Evaristo
  54. J. G. Farrell
  55. Sebastian Faulks
  56. Helen Fielding
  57. Penelope Fitzgerald
  58. Ian Fleming
  59. Ken Follett
  60. Ford Madox Ford
  61. E. M. Forster
  62. Dick Francis
  63. John Galsworthy
  64. Elizabeth Gaskell
  65. William Golding (Level 4)
  66. Kenneth Grahame
  67. Graham Greene
  68. Arthur Hailey
  69. Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
  70. Roger Hargreaves
  71. Frank Harris
  72. Jack Higgins
  73. James Hogg
  74. Alan Hollinghurst
  75. Aldous Huxley
  76. Christopher Isherwood
  77. Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
  78. Howard Jacobson
  79. E. L. James
  80. P. D. James
  81. Jerome K. Jerome
  82. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  83. Penny Jordan
  84. James Joyce (Level 4)
  85. James Kelman
  86. Dick King-Smith
  87. Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
  88. Arthur Koestler
  89. Edward William Lane
  90. D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
  91. Sheridan Le Fanu
  92. Edward Lear
  93. Doris Lessing
  94. C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
  95. Wyndham Lewis
  96. Penelope Lively
  97. Hugh Lofting
  98. Malcolm Lowry
  99. George MacDonald
  100. Compton Mackenzie
  101. Alistair MacLean
  102. Hilary Mantel
  103. Frederick Marryat
  104. W. Somerset Maugham
  105. Daphne du Maurier
  106. Ian McEwan
  107. George Meredith
  108. Stanley Middleton
  109. A. A. Milne
  110. David Mitchell (author)
  111. Naomi Mitchison
  112. Nancy Mitford
  113. Michael Moorcock
  114. Iris Murdoch
  115. V. S. Naipaul (Level 4)
  116. E. Nesbit
  117. P. H. Newby
  118. Edna O'Brien
  119. Amelia Opie
  120. E. Phillips Oppenheim
  121. George Orwell (Level 4)
  122. Thomas Love Peacock
  123. Mervyn Peake
  124. Anne Perry
  125. John William Polidori
  126. Beatrix Potter
  127. Anthony Powell
  128. Terry Pratchett
  129. J. B. Priestley
  130. Philip Pullman
  131. Ann Radcliffe
  132. Derek Raymond
  133. Mary Renault
  134. Louise Rennison
  135. Jean Rhys
  136. Denise Robins
  137. Sally Rooney
  138. William Roughead
  139. J. K. Rowling
  140. Bernice Rubens
  141. Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
  142. Dorothy L. Sayers
  143. Paul Scott (novelist)
  144. Walter Scott (Level 4)
  145. Anna Sewell
  146. Margery Sharp
  147. Mary Shelley (Level 4)
  148. Nevil Shute
  149. The Sitwells
    1. Osbert Sitwell
  150. Zadie Smith
  151. Muriel Spark
  152. Olaf Stapledon
  153. Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
  154. Bram Stoker
  155. Graham Swift
  156. William Makepeace Thackeray
  157. Colm Tóibín
  158. J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
  159. P. L. Travers
  160. Anthony Trollope
  161. Barry Unsworth
  162. Edgar Wallace
  163. Evelyn Waugh
  164. H. G. Wells (Level 4)
  165. Irvine Welsh
  166. Rebecca West
  167. T. H. White
  168. Margery Williams
  169. Jacqueline Wilson
  170. P. G. Wodehouse
  171. Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
  172. Benjamin Zephaniah

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 23 articles.

Australia[edit]

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Thea Astley
  2. Peter Carey (novelist)
  3. Marcus Clarke
  4. Albert Facey
  5. Richard Flanagan
  6. Miles Franklin
  7. Joseph Furphy
  8. Helen Garner
  9. Thomas Keneally
  10. David Malouf
  11. Colleen McCullough
  12. Alan Moorehead
  13. Ruth Park
  14. DBC Pierre
  15. Ethel Turner
  16. Patrick White (Level 4)
  17. Tim Winton
New Zealand[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Eleanor Catton
  2. Alan Duff
  3. Janet Frame
  4. Keri Hulme
  5. Katherine Mansfield
Other[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Meralda Warren

Poets[edit]

This section contains 571 articles.

Ancient[edit]

This section contains 42 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Aśvaghoṣa
  2. Bao Zhao
  3. Bhartṛhari
  4. Cao Zhi
  5. Enheduanna
  6. Kalidasa (Level 4)
  7. Qu Yuan (Level 4)
  8. Sima Xiangru
  9. Song Yu
  10. Tao Yuanming (Level 4)
  11. Xie Lingyun

Europe[edit]

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Lucius Accius
  2. Alcaeus of Mytilene
  3. Alcman
  4. Anacreon
  5. Apollonius of Rhodes
  6. Aratus
  7. Archilochus
  8. Bacchylides
  9. Julia Balbilla
  10. Caecilius Statius
  11. Callimachus
  12. Catullus (Level 4)
  13. Ennius
  14. Hesiod (Level 4)
  15. Hipponax
  16. Homer (Level 3)
  17. Horace (Level 4)
  18. Ibycus
  19. Martial
  20. Gnaeus Naevius
  21. Ovid (Level 4)
  22. Pacuvius
  23. Pindar
  24. Sappho (Level 4)
  25. Semonides of Amorgos
  26. Shen Yue
  27. Simonides of Ceos
  28. Stesichorus
  29. Sulpicia (satirist)
  30. Theocritus
  31. Virgil (Level 3)

Post-classical[edit]

This section contains 83 articles.

Asia[edit]

This section contains 59 articles.

  1. Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
  2. Abu al-Atahiya
  3. Abu Nuwas (Level 4)
  4. Abu Tammam
  5. Adi ibn Zayd
  6. Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
  7. Ali-Shir Nava'i
  8. Amr ibn Kulthum
  9. Antarah ibn Shaddad
  10. Ariwara no Narihira
  11. Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
  12. Bai Juyi (Level 4)
  13. Bilhana
  14. Buhturi
  15. Du Fu (Level 4)
  16. Du Mu
  17. Al-Farazdaq
  18. Ferdowsi (Level 4)
  19. Fujiwara no Shunzei
  20. Fujiwara no Teika
  21. Gao Ming
  22. Hafez (Level 4)
  23. Han Wo
  24. Hanshan (poet)
  25. Al-Hariri of Basra
  26. Ibn al-Farid
  27. Imru' al-Qais
  28. Jami (Level 4)
  29. Jarir ibn Atiyah
  30. Jayadeva
  31. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
  32. Omar Khayyam (Level 4)
  33. Amir Khusrau (Level 4)
  34. Ki no Tsurayuki
  35. Labid
  36. Li Bai (Level 3)
  37. Li He
  38. Li Qingzhao
  39. Li Shangyin
  40. Lu You
  41. Al-Ma'arri
  42. Al-Mutanabbi
  43. Al-Nabigha
  44. Namdev
  45. Nizami Ganjavi (Level 4)
  46. Ono no Komachi
  47. Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
  48. Ōtomo no Yakamochi
  49. Rudaki (Level 4)
  50. Rumi (Level 3)
  51. Saadi Shirazi (Level 4)
  52. Saigyō
  53. Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah
  54. Wang Wei (Tang dynasty) (Level 4)
  55. Yu Wuling
  56. Yuan Zhen
  57. Zhang Hu (poet)
  58. Zhou Bangyan
  59. Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma

Europe[edit]

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Bertran de Born
  2. Cædmon
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer (Level 4)
  4. Chrétien de Troyes (Level 4)
  5. Cynewulf
  6. Dafydd ap Gwilym
  7. Arnaut Daniel
  8. Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
  9. Gawain Poet
  10. Gottfried von Strassburg
  11. John Gower
  12. Jean de Meun
  13. William Langland
  14. John Lydgate
  15. Marie de France
  16. Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
  17. Petrarch (Level 4)
  18. Qul Ghali
  19. Rutebeuf
  20. Tannhäuser
  21. François Villon (Level 4)
  22. Walther von der Vogelweide
  23. William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
  24. Wolfram von Eschenbach

Early modern[edit]

This section contains 87 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

America[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Anne Bradstreet
  2. Phillis Wheatley

Asia[edit]

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
  2. Huseng Sisiw
  3. Fukuda Chiyo-ni
  4. Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
  5. Ihara Saikaku
  6. Kabir (Level 4)
  7. Kobayashi Issa
  8. Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
  9. Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
  10. Mirabai (Level 4)
  11. Santō Kyōden
  12. Ramprasad Sen
  13. Surdas
  14. Tukaram (Level 4)
  15. Tulsidas (Level 4)
  16. Yosa Buson

Europe[edit]

This section contains 68 articles.

  1. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
  2. Ludovico Ariosto
  3. Agrippa d'Aubigné
  4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  5. Ivan Barkov
  6. James Beattie (poet)
  7. Joachim du Bellay
  8. Matteo Maria Boiardo
  9. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
  10. Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
  11. Anna Bunina
  12. Samuel Butler (poet)
  13. Robert Burns (Level 4)
  14. Luís de Camões (Level 4)
  15. Thomas Chatterton
  16. André Chénier
  17. John Clare
  18. Abraham Cowley
  19. William Cowper
  20. George Crabbe
  21. Richard Crashaw
  22. Gavrila Derzhavin
  23. John Donne (Level 4)
  24. John Dryden (Level 4)
  25. John Dyer
  26. Laurence Eusden
  27. Robert Fergusson
  28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Level 4)
  29. Thomas Gray
  30. Robert Henryson
  31. George Herbert
  32. Robert Herrick (poet)
  33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  34. Walter Kennedy (poet)
  35. Louise Labé
  36. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  37. François de Malherbe
  38. Clément Marot
  39. Andrew Marvell
  40. John Milton (Level 4)
  41. Novalis
  42. Thomas Overbury
  43. John Owen (epigrammatist)
  44. Katherine Philips
  45. Alexander Pope (Level 4)
  46. Matthew Prior
  47. Henry James Pye
  48. Francis Quarles
  49. Allan Ramsay (poet)
  50. Samuel Rogers
  51. Pierre de Ronsard
  52. Paul Scarron
  53. Maurice Scève
  54. Thomas Shadwell
  55. Philip Sidney
  56. Christopher Smart
  57. Robert Southwell (priest)
  58. Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
  59. Torquato Tasso
  60. Nahum Tate
  61. James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
  62. Thomas Traherne
  63. Pontus de Tyard
  64. Henry Vaughan
  65. Théophile de Viau
  66. William Whitehead (poet)
  67. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  68. Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Late modern[edit]

This section contains 359 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Kofi Awoonor
  2. Syl Cheney-Coker
  3. Birago Diop
  4. Dox (poet)
  5. Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
  6. Keorapetse Kgositsile
  7. Jack Mapanje
  8. Christopher Okigbo
  9. Lenrie Peters
  10. Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
  11. Jacques Rabemananjara
  12. Elie Rajaonarison
  13. Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
  14. Esther Razanadrasoa
  15. Shaaban bin Robert
  16. Mongane Wally Serote

Americas[edit]

This section contains 114 articles.

Caribbean[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aimé Césaire
  2. Léon Damas
  3. Claude McKay
  4. Derek Walcott
US and Canada[edit]

This section contains 83 articles.

  1. Maya Angelou (Level 4)
  2. Rae Armantrout
  3. John Ashbery
  4. Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  5. Charles Bernstein (poet)
  6. John Berryman
  7. Elizabeth Bishop
  8. Paul Blackburn (poet)
  9. Gwendolyn Brooks
  10. Charles Bukowski
  11. Thomas Holley Chivers
  12. Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
  13. Ina Coolbrith
  14. Hart Crane
  15. Robert Creeley
  16. Countee Cullen
  17. E. E. Cummings
  18. H.D.
  19. Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
  20. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  21. Robert Duncan (poet)
  22. Larry Eigner
  23. T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
  24. Louis-Honoré Fréchette
  25. Robert Frost (Level 4)
  26. Allen Ginsberg (Level 4)
  27. Louise Glück
  28. Barbara Guest
  29. Sarah Josepha Hale
  30. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  31. Susan Howe
  32. Langston Hughes (Level 4)
  33. James Weldon Johnson
  34. Rupi Kaur
  35. Francis Scott Key
  36. Denise Levertov
  37. Vachel Lindsay
  38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  39. Amy Lowell
  40. James Russell Lowell
  41. Robert Lowell
  42. Daphne Marlatt
  43. Don Marquis
  44. John McCrae
  45. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  46. Clement Clarke Moore
  47. Marianne Moore
  48. Robin Morgan
  49. Ogden Nash
  50. Lorine Niedecker
  51. Frank O'Hara
  52. Sharon Olds
  53. Michael Ondaatje
  54. George Oppen
  55. Frances Sargent Osgood
  56. Dorothy Parker
  57. Bob Perelman
  58. Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
  59. Ezra Pound (Level 4)
  60. Charles Reznikoff
  61. James Whitcomb Riley
  62. Stephen Rodefer
  63. Theodore Roethke
  64. Carl Sandburg
  65. James Schuyler
  66. Gil Scott-Heron
  67. Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
  68. Anne Sexton
  69. Karl Shapiro
  70. William Gilmore Simms
  71. John Sinclair (poet)
  72. Gary Snyder
  73. Wallace Stevens
  74. Sara Teasdale
  75. Ernest Thayer
  76. Margaret Walker
  77. Robert Penn Warren
  78. Lew Welch
  79. Philip Whalen
  80. Walt Whitman (Level 4)
  81. John Greenleaf Whittier
  82. William Carlos Williams
  83. Yvor Winters
Latin America[edit]

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. Mário de Andrade
  2. Oswald de Andrade
  3. Augusto dos Anjos
  4. Miguel Ángel Asturias
  5. Mario Benedetti
  6. Olavo Bilac
  7. Julia de Burgos
  8. Raimundo Correia
  9. Rubén Darío
  10. Menotti Del Picchia
  11. Esteban Echeverría
  12. Luís Gama
  13. Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
  14. José Hernández (writer)
  15. Lêdo Ivo
  16. Leopoldo Lugones
  17. José Mármol
  18. José Martí (Level 4)
  19. Cecília Meireles
  20. Gabriela Mistral
  21. Vinicius de Moraes
  22. Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
  23. Alberto de Oliveira
  24. Octavio Paz
  25. Guillermo Prieto
  26. Alfonsina Storni
  27. César Vallejo

Asia[edit]

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. Adonis (poet)
  2. Amir Hamzah
  3. Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
  4. Cho Ki-chon
  5. Parvin E'tesami
  6. Forugh Farrokhzad
  7. Ghalib (Level 4)
  8. Kahlil Gibran (Level 4)
  9. Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
  10. Daigaku Horiguchi
  11. Muhammad Iqbal (Level 4)
  12. Iraj Mirza
  13. Salah Jahin
  14. Kazi Nazrul Islam
  15. Yusuf al-Khal
  16. Ko Un
  17. Masaoka Shiki
  18. Ahmed Fouad Negm
  19. Sunthorn Phu
  20. Nobutsuna Sasaki
  21. Sohrab Sepehri
  22. Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
  23. Edwin Thumboo
  24. Bayram al-Tunisi
  25. Nima Yooshij
  26. Yosano Akiko
  27. Isamu Yoshii
  28. Tekkan Yosano
  29. Mahmoud Darwish

Europe[edit]

This section contains 185 articles.

Eastern Europe[edit]

This section contains 23 articles.

  1. Endre Ady
  2. Mateiu Caragiale
  3. Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
  4. Attila József
  5. József Katona
  6. Dragotin Kette
  7. Edvard Kocbek
  8. Srečko Kosovel
  9. Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
  10. Czesław Miłosz
  11. Josip Murn
  12. Jan Neruda
  13. Cyprian Norwid
  14. Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
  15. France Prešeren
  16. Jaroslav Seifert
  17. Giorgos Seferis
  18. Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
  19. Juliusz Słowacki
  20. Wisława Szymborska
  21. Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
  22. Ivan Vazov
  23. Oton Župančič
Nordic countries[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  2. Steen Steensen Blicher
  3. Janus Djurhuus
  4. Gunnar Ekelöf
  5. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
  6. Paavo Haavikko
  7. Verner von Heidenstam
  8. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
  9. Eino Leino
  10. Elias Lönnrot
  11. Harry Martinson
  12. Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  13. Nelly Sachs
  14. Edith Södergran
  15. Tomas Tranströmer
Russia[edit]

This section contains 37 articles.

  1. Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
  2. Innokenty Annensky
  3. Konstantin Balmont
  4. Yevgeny Baratynsky
  5. Demyan Bedny
  6. Olga Bergholz
  7. Alexander Blok
  8. Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
  9. Valery Bryusov
  10. Sergei Chavain
  11. Sasha Chorny
  12. Korney Chukovsky
  13. Afanasy Fet
  14. Rasul Gamzatov
  15. Zinaida Gippius
  16. Nikolai Gumilev
  17. Antiochus Kantemir
  18. Daniil Kharms
  19. Velimir Khlebnikov
  20. Kosta Khetagurov
  21. Aleksei Kruchyonykh
  22. Mikhail Kuzmin
  23. Osip Mandelstam
  24. Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
  25. Nikolay Nekrasov
  26. Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
  27. Dmitri Prigov
  28. Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
  29. Igor Severyanin
  30. Fyodor Sologub
  31. Vasily Trediakovsky
  32. Marina Tsvetaeva
  33. Ğabdulla Tuqay
  34. Fyodor Tyutchev
  35. Maximilian Voloshin
  36. Sergei Yesenin
  37. Vasily Zhukovsky
Western Europe[edit]

This section contains 52 articles.

  1. Vicente Aleixandre
  2. Guillaume Apollinaire
  3. Louis Aragon
  4. Achim von Arnim
  5. Théodore de Banville
  6. Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
  7. Willem Bilderdijk
  8. Clemens Brentano
  9. André Breton
  10. Giosuè Carducci
  11. Alice de Chambrier
  12. René Char
  13. Tristan Corbière
  14. Gabriele D'Annunzio
  15. Robert Desnos
  16. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
  17. Paul Éluard
  18. Carlo Favetti
  19. Paul Fort
  20. Ugo Foscolo
  21. Théophile Gautier
  22. Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
  23. Willem Frederik Hermans
  24. Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
  25. Juan Ramón Jiménez
  26. Alphonse de Lamartine
  27. Else Lasker-Schüler
  28. Comte de Lautréamont
  29. Leconte de Lisle
  30. Giacomo Leopardi
  31. Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
  32. Pierre Louÿs
  33. Antonio Machado
  34. Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
  35. Henri Michaux
  36. Eugenio Montale
  37. Charles Péguy
  38. Saint-John Perse
  39. Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
  40. Francis Ponge
  41. Jacques Prévert
  42. Sully Prudhomme
  43. Salvatore Quasimodo
  44. Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
  45. Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
  46. Carl Spitteler
  47. Jules Supervielle
  48. Giuseppe Ungaretti
  49. Paul Valéry
  50. Émile Verhaeren
  51. Paul Verlaine
  52. Alfred de Vigny
UK and Ireland[edit]

This section contains 58 articles.

  1. William Allingham
  2. Simon Armitage
  3. Matthew Arnold
  4. W. H. Auden
  5. Alfred Austin
  6. John Betjeman
  7. William Blake (Level 4)
  8. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  9. Robert Bridges
  10. Branwell Brontë
  11. Rupert Brooke
  12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  13. Robert Browning
  14. Basil Bunting
  15. Lord Byron (Level 4)
  16. Thomas Campbell (poet)
  17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
  18. Cecil Day-Lewis
  19. Carol Ann Duffy
  20. Charlotte Elliott
  21. Edward Faragher
  22. Edward FitzGerald (poet)
  23. Robert Graves
  24. Geoffrey Grigson
  25. Seamus Heaney
  26. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  27. A. E. Housman
  28. Ted Hughes
  29. John Keats (Level 4)
  30. Philip Larkin
  31. Mina Loy
  32. Hugh MacDiarmid
  33. Sorley MacLean
  34. Louis MacNeice
  35. John Masefield
  36. William McGonagall
  37. Thomas Moore
  38. Andrew Motion
  39. William Neill (poet)
  40. Alfred Noyes
  41. Wilfred Owen
  42. Adelaide Anne Procter
  43. Tom Raworth
  44. Isaac Rosenberg
  45. Christina Rossetti
  46. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  47. Siegfried Sassoon
  48. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
  49. Edith Sitwell
  50. Robert Southey
  51. Stephen Spender
  52. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Level 4)
  53. Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
  54. James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
  55. Edward Thomas (poet)
  56. Vernon Watkins
  57. William Wordsworth (Level 4)
  58. W. B. Yeats (Level 4)

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bruce Dawe
  2. C. J. Dennis
  3. Mary Gilmore
  4. Adam Lindsay Gordon
  5. A. D. Hope
  6. Henry Lawson
  7. Louisa Lawson
  8. Dorothea Mackellar
  9. Les Murray (poet)
  10. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
  11. Banjo Paterson (Level 4)
  12. Peter Porter (poet)
  13. Kenneth Slessor
  14. Albert Wendt
  15. Judith Wright

Playwrights[edit]

This section contains 162 articles.

Ancient and post-classical[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Aeschylus (Level 4)
  2. Aristophanes (Level 4)
  3. Bhāsa
  4. Bhavabhuti (Level 4)
  5. Epicharmus of Kos
  6. Euphorion (playwright)
  7. Euripides (Level 4)
  8. Guan Hanqing
  9. Hrotsvitha
  10. Kan'ami
  11. Livius Andronicus
  12. Ma Zhiyuan
  13. Menander (Level 4)
  14. Phormis
  15. Plautus (Level 4)
  16. Pratinas
  17. Sophocles (Level 4)
  18. Shudraka
  19. Terence (Level 4)
  20. Wang Shifu
  21. Zeami Motokiyo

Early modern[edit]

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Vittorio Alfieri
  2. Pierre Beaumarchais
  3. Francis Beaumont
  4. Aphra Behn
  5. Cyrano de Bergerac
  6. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
  7. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
  8. Susanna Centlivre
  9. George Chapman
  10. Colley Cibber
  11. Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  12. William Congreve
  13. Pierre Corneille (Level 4)
  14. Thomas Dekker (writer)
  15. John Fletcher (playwright)
  16. Denis Fonvizin
  17. John Ford (dramatist)
  18. John Gay
  19. Carlo Goldoni
  20. Carlo Gozzi
  21. Ben Jonson (Level 4)
  22. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
  23. George Lillo
  24. Pierre de Marivaux
  25. Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
  26. John Marston (playwright)
  27. Molière (Level 4)
  28. Tirso de Molina
  29. Juan Pérez de Montalbán
  30. Jean Racine (Level 4)
  31. Jean-François Regnard
  32. Nicholas Rowe (writer)
  33. Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
  34. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  35. Alexander Sumarokov
  36. Tang Xianzu
  37. Lope de Vega (Level 4)
  38. Joost van den Vondel
  39. John Webster
  40. William Wycherley

Late modern[edit]

This section contains 101 articles.

Africa[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Athol Fugard
  2. Ebrahim Hussein
  3. Mbongeni Ngema
  4. Wole Soyinka (Level 4)

America[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Edward Albee
  2. Maxwell Anderson
  3. David Belasco
  4. Lee Blessing
  5. Marc Connelly
  6. Eve Ensler
  7. Lorraine Hansberry
  8. Moss Hart
  9. Dorothy Heyward
  10. DuBose Heyward
  11. Lillian Hellman
  12. William M. Hoffman
  13. William Inge
  14. Georgia Douglas Johnson
  15. George S. Kaufman
  16. Larry Kramer
  17. Tony Kushner
  18. Martyna Majok
  19. David Mamet
  20. Terrence McNally
  21. Arthur Miller (Level 4)
  22. Eugene O'Neill
  23. Clifford Odets
  24. Elmer Rice
  25. Morrie Ryskind
  26. Sam Shepard
  27. Robert E. Sherwood
  28. Neil Simon
  29. Theodore Ward
  30. Wendy Wasserstein
  31. Thornton Wilder
  32. Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
  33. August Wilson
  34. Lanford Wilson

Asia[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mirza Fatali Akhundov
  2. Agha Hashar Kashmiri
  3. Junji Kinoshita
  4. Imtiaz Ali Taj
  5. Wu Zuguang

Europe[edit]

This section contains 55 articles.

  1. Leonid Andreyev
  2. Jean Anouilh
  3. Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
  4. Émile Augier
  5. Alan Ayckbourn
  6. Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
  7. Brendan Behan
  8. Jacinto Benavente
  9. Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
  10. Elbazduko Britayev
  11. Georg Büchner
  12. Karel Čapek
  13. Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
  14. Caryl Churchill
  15. Giles Cooper (playwright)
  16. Noël Coward
  17. Dimitar Dimov
  18. José Echegaray
  19. Georges Feydeau
  20. Dario Fo
  21. Paul Foucher
  22. Christopher Fry
  23. Jean Genet
  24. Jean Giraudoux
  25. Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
  26. Alexander Griboyedov
  27. Àngel Guimerà
  28. Antonio García Gutiérrez
  29. Gerhart Hauptmann
  30. Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
  31. Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
  32. Alfred Jarry
  33. Sarah Kane
  34. Maurice Maeterlinck
  35. Martin McDonagh
  36. Ferenc Molnár
  37. Alfred de Musset
  38. Seán O'Casey
  39. Joe Orton
  40. John Osborne
  41. Alexander Ostrovsky
  42. Harold Pinter
  43. Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
  44. Stanisława Przybyszewska
  45. Romain Rolland
  46. Edmond Rostand
  47. Victorien Sardou
  48. Eugène Scribe
  49. George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
  50. R. C. Sherriff
  51. David Storey
  52. August Strindberg (Level 4)
  53. John Millington Synge
  54. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  55. Oscar Wilde (Level 4)

Oceania[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Barry Dickins
  2. Nick Enright
  3. David Williamson

Comics writers[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Mitsuru Adachi
  2. Gosho Aoyama
  3. Hirohiko Araki
  4. Brian Michael Bendis
  5. Warren Ellis
  6. Bill Finger
  7. Neil Gaiman
  8. Steve Gerber
  9. René Goscinny
  10. Stan Lee (Level 4)
  11. Jun Maeda
  12. William Moulton Marston
  13. Scott McCloud
  14. Mark Millar
  15. Frank Miller
  16. Alan Moore
  17. Grant Morrison
  18. Marjane Satrapi
  19. Jerry Siegel
  20. Joe Simon
  21. Art Spiegelman

Librettists[edit]

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Giuseppe Adami
  2. Hippolyte Bis
  3. Arrigo Boito
  4. Salvadore Cammarano
  5. Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
  6. Lorenzo Da Ponte
  7. Louis Gallet
  8. Richard Genée
  9. Antonio Ghislanzoni
  10. Giuseppe Giacosa
  11. W. S. Gilbert
  12. Ludovic Halévy
  13. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  14. Luigi Illica
  15. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
  16. Henri Meilhac
  17. Guido Menasci
  18. Pietro Metastasio
  19. Francesco Maria Piave
  20. Ottavio Rinuccini
  21. Emanuel Schikaneder
  22. Renato Simoni
  23. Temistocle Solera
  24. Cesare Sterbini
  25. Alessandro Striggio the Younger
  26. Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Journalists[edit]

This section contains 391 articles.

Journalists: General[edit]

This section contains 79 articles.

  1. Svetlana Alexievich (Level 4)
  2. Chris Anyanwu
  3. François-Noël Babeuf
  4. Isabella Beeton
  5. Alexander Berkman
  6. Carl Bernstein
  7. Nellie Bly (Level 4)
  8. Heywood Broun
  9. Louise Bryant
  10. John Fisher Burns
  11. Alexander Cockburn
  12. Claud Cockburn
  13. Ann Coulter
  14. Euclides da Cunha
  15. Kamel Daoud
  16. Maureen Dowd
  17. Dominick Dunne
  18. Oriana Fallaci
  19. Ronan Farrow
  20. Robert Fisk
  21. Margaret Fuller
  22. Eduardo Galeano
  23. Daphne Caruana Galizia
  24. Malcolm Gladwell
  25. Stephen Glass
  26. Veronica Guerin
  27. Maximilian Harden
  28. Michael Hastings (journalist)
  29. Seymour Hersh
  30. Christopher Hitchens
  31. Hedda Hopper
  32. Khadija Ismayilova
  33. Ryszard Kapuściński
  34. Jamal Khashoggi
  35. Dorothy Kilgallen
  36. Paul Krassner
  37. Charles Krauthammer
  38. Bill Kristol
  39. A. J. Liebling
  40. Walter Lippmann (Level 4)
  41. Graciano López Jaena
  42. H. L. Mencken
  43. Judith Miller
  44. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  45. Piers Morgan
  46. Douglas Murray (author)
  47. Nizar Nayyouf
  48. Robert Novak
  49. Nikolay Novikov
  50. Louella Parsons
  51. Daniel Pearl
  52. Westbrook Pegler
  53. Marcelo H. del Pilar
  54. John Pilger
  55. Anna Politkovskaya
  56. Ernie Pyle
  57. John Reed (journalist)
  58. Edith Rosenbaum
  59. Mike Royko
  60. Cornelius Ryan
  61. Yaqub Sanu
  62. Dan Savage
  63. Daniel Schneidermann
  64. Michael Shermer
  65. Randy Shilts
  66. Lincoln Steffens
  67. I. F. Stone
  68. Neil Strauss
  69. Andrew Sullivan
  70. Gay Talese
  71. Ida Tarbell (Level 4)
  72. Helen Thomas
  73. Hunter S. Thompson (Level 4)
  74. Gary Webb
  75. Gene Weingarten
  76. George Will
  77. Walter Winchell
  78. Michael Wolff (journalist)
  79. Bob Woodward (Level 4)

Broadcast journalists and commentators[edit]

This section contains 80 articles.

  1. Kate Adie
  2. Martin Agronsky
  3. George Alagiah
  4. Christiane Amanpour
  5. Carmen Aristegui
  6. Martin Bashir
  7. Glenn Beck
  8. Shereen Bhan
  9. Wolf Blitzer
  10. Gloria Borger
  11. Ed Bradley
  12. David Brinkley
  13. Tom Brokaw
  14. Ned Brooks
  15. Mika Brzezinski
  16. Gretchen Carlson
  17. Tucker Carlson
  18. Christine Chubbuck
  19. Anderson Cooper
  20. Katie Couric
  21. Walter Cronkite (Level 4)
  22. Ann Curry
  23. James Dibble
  24. Melissa Doyle
  25. Linda Ellerbee
  26. Stephanie Flanders
  27. Sandy Gall
  28. Bernard Goldberg
  29. Sean Hannity
  30. Brit Hume
  31. Chet Huntley
  32. Laura Ingraham
  33. Peter Jennings
  34. Megyn Kelly
  35. Larry King
  36. Yevgeny Kiselyov
  37. David Koch (television presenter)
  38. Ted Koppel
  39. Hoda Kotb
  40. Matt Lauer
  41. Jim Lehrer
  42. Rush Limbaugh
  43. Vladislav Listyev
  44. Rachel Maddow
  45. Bill Monroe (journalist)
  46. Herbert Morrison (journalist)
  47. Bill Moyers
  48. Edward R. Murrow (Level 4)
  49. Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
  50. Jeremy Paxman
  51. Dan Rather
  52. Joy Reid
  53. Geraldo Rivera
  54. Cokie Roberts
  55. Charlie Rose
  56. Ian Ross (newsreader)
  57. Martha Rountree
  58. Tim Russert
  59. Pierre Salinger
  60. Jessica Savitch
  61. Diane Sawyer
  62. Joe Scarborough
  63. Ed Schultz
  64. William L. Shirer
  65. Margarita Simonyan
  66. Howard K. Smith
  67. Ksenia Sobchak
  68. Svetlana Sorokina
  69. Lawrence Spivak
  70. Karl Stefanovic
  71. George Stephanopoulos
  72. John Stossel
  73. Mélissa Theuriau
  74. Chuck Todd
  75. Meredith Vieira
  76. Mike Wallace
  77. Barbara Walters
  78. Lisa Wilkinson
  79. Brian Williams
  80. Muntadhar al-Zaidi

Critics[edit]

This section contains 63 articles.

For critics chiefly known for their analysis of the arts as a whole, see Art historians, theorists and critics and Musicologists and music theorists.
  1. Joan Acocella
  2. Jack Anderson (dance critic)
  3. Brooks Atkinson
  4. Lester Bangs
  5. Vissarion Belinsky
  6. Eric Bentley
  7. Richard Blackwell
  8. Claudia Cassidy
  9. Robert Christgau
  10. Irwin Chusid
  11. Bosley Crowther
  12. Jim DeRogatis
  13. Roger Ebert
  14. Anthony Fantano
  15. Leonard Feather
  16. Wolcott Gibbs
  17. A. A. Gill
  18. Ralph J. Gleason
  19. Jonathan Gold
  20. Dave Hickey
  21. Robert Hilburn
  22. Robert Hughes (critic)
  23. Ada Louise Huxtable
  24. Michael Jackson (writer)
  25. Clive James
  26. Pauline Kael
  27. Mark Kermode
  28. Walter Kerr
  29. Harry Knowles
  30. Alan M. Kriegsman
  31. Bob Lefsetz
  32. John Leonard (critic)
  33. Leonard Maltin
  34. Greil Marcus
  35. Dave Marsh
  36. Legs McNeil
  37. Daniel Mendelsohn
  38. Paul Morley
  39. George Jean Nathan
  40. Elliot Norton
  41. Emily Nussbaum
  42. Henry Taylor Parker
  43. Robert Parker (wine critic)
  44. Frank Peters Jr.
  45. Ann Powers
  46. Rex Reed
  47. Simon Reynolds
  48. Richard Roeper
  49. James Rolfe
  50. Howard Rosenberg
  51. Alex Ross (music critic)
  52. Frank Rutter
  53. Leo Schofield
  54. Harold C. Schonberg
  55. A. O. Scott
  56. Gilbert Seldes
  57. Gene Siskel
  58. James Suckling
  59. TotalBiscuit
  60. Peter Travers
  61. Kenneth Tynan
  62. Ellen Willis
  63. Alexander Woollcott

Publishers and editors[edit]

This section contains 124 articles.

  1. Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
  2. Joseph Addison
  3. Suroosh Alvi
  4. Rudolf Augstein
  5. Margaretha van Bancken
  6. Thomas Barnes (journalist)
  7. Martin Baron
  8. Clarence W. Barron
  9. Samuel Orchart Beeton
  10. James Gordon Bennett Sr.
  11. James Gordon Bennett Jr.
  12. Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
  13. William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
  14. Hubert Beuve-Méry
  15. Conrad Black
  16. Edward Bok
  17. Andrew Bradford
  18. Stewart Brand
  19. Samuel Brannan
  20. Rebekah Brooks
  21. William F. Buckley Jr.
  22. John Bushell
  23. Nathaniel Butter
  24. John W. Campbell
  25. Johann Carolus
  26. Lucien Carr
  27. Graydon Carter
  28. Edward Cave
  29. Edna Woolman Chase
  30. Cho Gab-je
  31. Nathan Cole Jr.
  32. Paul Dacre
  33. Geoffrey Dawson
  34. John Thadeus Delane
  35. Alberto Dines
  36. Hrant Dink
  37. John Fairfax
  38. Jessie R. Fauset
  39. Larry Flynt
  40. B. C. Forbes
  41. Malcolm Forbes
  42. Timothy Thomas Fortune
  43. James Franklin (printer)
  44. William Gaines
  45. Thomas Gardiner (publisher)
  46. Al Goldstein
  47. Katharine Graham
  48. Jane Grant
  49. Horace Greeley (Level 4)
  50. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
  51. Bob Guccione
  52. William Peter Hamilton
  53. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
  54. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
  55. Benjamin Harris (publisher)
  56. William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
  57. Andrew Heiskell
  58. Hugh Hefner
  59. James Augustus Hicky
  60. Lars Johan Hierta
  61. Roy W. Howard
  62. Hu Shuli
  63. Stilson Hutchins
  64. Michael Jackson (journalist)
  65. George Jones (publisher)
  66. Samuel Keimer
  67. Douglas Kenney
  68. C. L. Knight
  69. John S. Knight
  70. Ebenezer Landells
  71. Mark Lemon
  72. Joseph Moses Levy
  73. Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
  74. Gordon Lish
  75. Henry Luce
  76. Elizabeth Mallet
  77. Henry Mayhew
  78. James McClatchy
  79. Gavin McInnes
  80. William McGarvie
  81. Andrew Miller (publisher)
  82. John Ames Mitchell
  83. Henry Muddiman
  84. Eugene M. O'Neill
  85. John Newbery
  86. Roberto Noble
  87. Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
  88. Henry Jarvis Raymond
  89. Paul Raymond (publisher)
  90. William Rees-Mogg
  91. Paul Reuter
  92. Pearl Rivers
  93. Edward Rosewater
  94. Harold Ross
  95. Denis de Sallo
  96. C. P. Scott
  97. E. W. Scripps
  98. Will Shortz
  99. Charles Emory Smith
  100. Shane Smith (journalist)
  101. Franca Sozzani
  102. Axel Springer
  103. W. T. Stead
  104. Richard Steele
  105. Guglielmo Stefani
  106. Paul Steiger
  107. Julius Streicher
  108. Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
  109. John Edward Taylor
  110. Agness Underwood
  111. Diana Vreeland
  112. Thomas Wakley
  113. DeWitt Wallace
  114. Lila Acheson Wallace
  115. Arthur Fraser Walter
  116. John Walter (editor, born 1776)
  117. John Walter (editor, born 1818)
  118. John Walter (publisher)
  119. Jann Wenner
  120. William R. Wilkerson
  121. Frederick Wimble
  122. Anna Wintour (Level 4)
  123. M. H. de Young
  124. John Peter Zenger

Sports journalists, sportswriters, commentators and sports announcers[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Erin Andrews
  2. Richie Benaud
  3. Bruce Buffer
  4. Michael Buffer
  5. Henry Chadwick (writer)
  6. Howard Cosell
  7. Bob Costas
  8. Frank Deford
  9. Peter FitzSimons
  10. Peter Gammons
  11. Jacques Goddet
  12. Bryant Gumbel
  13. W. A. Hewitt
  14. Edmond Hoyle
  15. Bill James
  16. John Madden
  17. Lou Marsh
  18. Jim McKay
  19. Jim Nantz
  20. Jacqui Oatley
  21. George Plimpton
  22. Grantland Rice
  23. Helen Rollason
  24. Jim Rome
  25. Jim Ross
  26. Stuart Scott
  27. Vin Scully
  28. Bill Simmons
  29. Doreen Simmons
  30. Sjokz
  31. Bert Sugar
  32. Sid Waddell
  33. Murray Walker
  34. Ray Warren

Web journalists[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Julian Assange
  2. Steve Bannon
  3. Andrew Breitbart
  4. Glenn Greenwald
  5. Arianna Huffington
  6. Ezra Klein
  7. Jonah Peretti
  8. Maria Ressa
  9. Ben Shapiro
  10. Ben Smith (journalist)
  11. Cenk Uygur


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