Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

female, deceased (1910)
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (1831-1910; born Rebecca Blaine Harding) was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary...
George Washington Cable

George Washington Cable

male, deceased (1925)
George Washington Cable (12 October, 1844 - 31 January, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in...
Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane

male, deceased (1898)
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.
Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

male, deceased (1922)
Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially...
George Moore

George Moore

male, deceased (1933)
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed...

Benito Pérez Galdós

male, deceased (1920)
Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Considered by many second only to Cervantes in stature, Pérez Galdós was the greatest Span...

György Lukács

male, deceased (1971)
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Ma...
Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray

male, 74 years old
Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel "Lanark", published in 1981 and...
Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes

male, deceased (1927)
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927) was a Danish Jewish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

male, deceased (1908)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, pron., often known as "Machado de Assis" or "Machado", (June 21 1839, Rio de Janeiro-September 29 1908, Rio de...