Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

male, deceased (1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

male, deceased (1862)
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1947)
Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871-March 12, 1947) was an American novelist.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

male, deceased (1784)
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures : a poet,...
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

male, 84 years old (West Point, New York, United States)
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and...
Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

male, deceased (1955)
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...