Author

**Authors** are a class of writers who work in prose--either fiction or book-length nonfiction (as opposed to the shorter pieces of journalists).

In the Here Be Dragons context, fiction writers often write fictionalized versions of real people and events.

## Individuals

### United States

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Horatio Alger (1832-1899)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Henry James  (1843-1916)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

HP Lovecraft (1890-1937)

Henry Miller (1891-1980)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

John Steinbeck (1902-1967)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991)

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

JD Salinger (1918-2010)

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

Toni Morrison (1931- )

Stephen King (1947- )

### Mexico

Carlos Fuentes

Octavio Paz

### Britain

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

HG Wells (1866-1946)

EM Forster (1879-1970)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

DH Lawrence (1885-1930)

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

JRR Tolkien (1892-1973)

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

CS Lewis (1898-1963)

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

Graham Green (1904-1991)

Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

Roald Dahl (1916-1990)

John Le Carre (1931- )

JK Rowling (1965- )

### Ireland

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

Bram Stoker (1847 –1912)

James Joyce (1882–1941)

### France

Francois Rabelais (1494-1553)

Charles Perrault (1628-1703)

Voltaire (1694-1778)

Stendhal (1783-1842)

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

George Sand (1804-1876)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Jules Verne (1829-1905)

Émile Zola (1840-1902)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Colette (1873-1954)

Jean Genet (1910-1986)

### Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

Gunter Grass (1927–2015)

### Italy

Italo Calvino

Umberto Eco

Primo Levi

### Russia

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Turgenev

Alexander Pushkin (1797-1837)

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

### Japan

Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)

Haruki Murakami

### Others

Margaret Atwood (born 1939)

Isabel Allende (born 1942)

Gabriel García Márquez (born 1927)

Milan Kundera (born 1929)

Isak Dinesen(1885–1962)

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie (born 1947)

Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)

J.M. Coetzee (born 1940)

Nadine Gordimer (born 1923)

Mary Renault (1905-1983)

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

VS Naipaul (born 1932)