William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (The Bard of Avon)

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…chronology of the plays, authorship of the works attributed to him, The Bard, The Bard of Avon, The Phoenix and the Turtle
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...
Jules Verne

Jules Verne

male, deceased (1905)
Around the World in Eighty Days, science-fiction, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, author, science fiction…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828-March 24 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such...
H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

male, deceased (1937) (Rhode Island, United States)
pessimism, horror, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos writer, Horror fiction, necronomicon…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for...
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

male, deceased (1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Freemasonry, From st. louis, missouri, Autobiographer, San Francisco…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

male, deceased (1593)
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, Kingdom of England, elizabethan, English Renaissance theatre, tragedy, tragedian…Pederasty in the Renaissance, the passionate shepherd to his love, Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William...
Carrie Williams Clifford

Carrie Williams Clifford

female, deceased (1934)
African American, writer, American women's rights activist, activist, author, Civil Rights…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Carrie Williams Clifford (born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1862; died 1934) was an author and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements...

Harry Graham

male, deceased (1936)
Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham, operetta, coldstream guard, English, Humorous poet, The Maid of the Mountains…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain
Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (1874-1936) was an English writer of humorous verse in a tradition of grotesquerie and black humor also...

Daniel Dulany Addison

male, deceased (1936)
Union College, writer, liberia, Episcopalian, rector, American…Authorswhoseworksareinthepublicdomain, The Clergy in American Life and Letters, The Episcopalian
Daniel Dulany Addison (1863-1936) was an American clergyman and writer, born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He graduated from Union College in 1883,...