The 100 most influential writers of all time
By: edited by J.E. Luebering
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people; Britannica guide to the world's most influential people
Publisher: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781615300969
Subjects: Literature; TRAVEL; Special Interest; Bio-bibliography; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM; Authors; General; Biography
Other titles: One hundred most influential writers of all time
Description: "There are few tools more powerful than the written word. Writers who finely hone their craft possess the ability to spread messages, change minds, or merely create something beautiful. As shown in the pages of this volume, masterful writers through the ages have run the gamut from early dramatists and poets such as Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Shakespeare to successful modern-day novelists, including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and J.K. Rowling."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-333) and index.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Homer; title: Aeschylus; title: Sophocles; title: Aristophanes; title: Gaius Valerius Catullus; title: Virgil; title: Imru' al-Qays; title: Du Fu; title: al-Mutanabbī; title: Ferdowsī; title: Murasaki Shikibu; title: Rūmī; title: Dante; title: Petrarch; title: Geoffrey Chaucer; title: Luís de Camões; title: Michel de Montaigne; title: Miguel de Cervantes; title: Edmund Spenser; title: Lope de Vega; title: Christopher Marlowe; title: William Shakespeare; title: John Donne; title: John Milton; title: Jean Racine; title: Aphra Behn; title: Bashō; title: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; title: Daniel Defoe; title: Jonathan Swift; title: Voltaire; title: Henry Fielding; title: Samuel Johnson; title: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; title: Robert Burns; title: William Wordsworth; title: Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Jane Austen; title: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron; title: Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: John Keats; title: Aleksandr Pushkin; title: Victor Hugo; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Edgar Allan Poe; title: Charles Dickens; title: Robert Browning; title: Charlotte Brontë; title: Henry David Thoreau; title: Emily Brontë; title: Walt Whitman; title: Herman Melville; title: George Eliot; title: Charles Baudelaire; title: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; title: Gustave Flaubert; title: Henrik Ibsen; title: Lio Tolstoy; title: Emily Dickinson; title: Lewis Carroll; title: Mark Twain; title: Émile Zola; title: Henry James; title: August Strindberg; title: Oscar Wilde; title: Arthur Rimbaud; title: George Bernard Shaw; title: Anton Chekhov; title: Rabindranath Tagore; title: William Butler Yeats; title: Luigi Pirandello; title: Marcel Proust; title: Robert Frost; title: Thomas Mann; title: Lu Xun; title: Virginia Woolf; title: James Joyce; title: Franz Kafka; title: T.S. Eliot; title: Eugene O'Neill; title: Anna Akhmatova; title: William Faulkner; title: Vladimir Nabokov; title: Ernest Hemingway; title: John Steinbeck; title: George Orwell; title: Pablo Neruda; title: Samuel Beckett; title: Richard Wright; title: Eudora Welty; title: Naguib Mahfouz; title: Albert Camus; title: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; title: Jack Kerouac; title: Flannery O'Connor; title: Toni Morrison; title: Wole Soyinka; title: Sir Salman Rushdie; title: J.K. Rowling.