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A comprehensive list of renowned authors and their significant works, spanning various genres and literary periods. It serves as a valuable resource for students of literature, offering a concise overview of key figures and their contributions to the literary landscape. The list includes authors such as jane austen, william shakespeare, and f. Scott fitzgerald, highlighting their most influential works, such as 'pride and prejudice', 'hamlet', and 'the great gatsby', respectively.
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Alice Walker ✔✔Fiction "The Color Purple"
Amy Tan ✔✔Fiction "The Joy Luck Club" "The Kitchen G-ds Wife" "The Hundred Secret Senses"
Anne Frank ✔✔Autobiography "The Diary of Anne Frank"
C.S. Lewis ✔✔Fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy) "Chronicles of Narnia" "Screwtape Letters" "Space Trilogy"
Emily Dickenson ✔✔Poet Transcendentalist "I heard a fly buzz"
Daniel Defoe ✔✔"Robinson Crusoe"
Edgar Allen Poe ✔✔Romance (Gothic poetry) "The Raven" "Bells" "Annabelle Lee" "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Ernest Hemingway ✔✔"The Sun Also Rises"
F. Scott Fitzgerald ✔✔Fiction American author of novels and short stories of the jazz age "The Great Gatsby" "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Jack London ✔✔"The Call of the Wild"
Jane Austen ✔✔Romantic Fiction "Pride and Prejudice" "Emma" "Mansfield Park" "Sense and Sensibility"
John Keats ✔✔English Romantic Poet
Mark Twain ✔✔Fiction (Satire) "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
John Steinbeck ✔✔"Of Mice and Men" "The Grapes of Wrath"
Jonathon Swift ✔✔"Gullivers Travels"
Margaret Mitchell ✔✔"Gone with the Wind"
Mary Shelley ✔✔English Novelist (gothic) Frankenstein
Maya Angelou ✔✔Autobiographical "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Percy Bysshe Shelley ✔✔Romantic Poet, Lyric poet :Ode To the West Wind" "The Masque of Anarchy"
Ralph Waldo Emerson ✔✔Transcendentalist / Individualist Essayist: poet, nature
Ray Bradbury ✔✔Fantasy, Sci-Fi
"Romeo and Juliet" "Macbeth" "Henry V" "Richard III" "Hamlet"
Zora Neale Hurston ✔✔Folklore/Plays "Their Eyes are Watching G-d"
William Faulkner ✔✔One of the greatest authors of Southern Lit in America Plays, poems, essays, screenplays, novels, short stories
Geoffrey Chaucer ✔✔Medieval Poet "Father of English Literature" Canterbury Tales The Parlement of Foules
