Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

female, 90 years old
Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

female, deceased (1937) (New York, New York, United States)
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

male, deceased (1966)
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 - April 10 1966) was a British writer, best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as...
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

male, deceased (1930)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...
Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

male, 60 years old
is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" as "easily accessible, yet...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

male, deceased (1982)
Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to his published novels, Dick wrote...
James Patterson

James Patterson

male, 62 years old
James B. Patterson is an award-winning American author. Formerly the chairman of advertising company J. W. Thompson in the early 1990s, Patterson...
Alice Walker

Alice Walker

female, 65 years old
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her...
E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

male, deceased (1970)
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ir...