Famous Writers & Their Works in English Literature

Famous Writers & Their Works in English Literature

William Shakespeare

(1564–1616), British dramatist. Total number of plays: 37,
including Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of
Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Tempest.

John Milton

(1608–74), British poet. Paradise Lost.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797–1851), British novelist. Frankenstein.

James Joyce

(1882–1941), Irish novelist and short-story writer. Ulysses
and Dubliners.
 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804–64), American novelist and short-story writer.
The Scarlet Letter.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809–49), American poet and short-story writer. “The
Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Charles Dickens

(1812–70), British novelist. Oliver Twist, A Christmas
Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.

Emily Dickinson

(1830–86), American poet. “When Roses Cease to
Bloom, Dear,” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,”
and “There Is a Word”.

Mark Twain

(1835–1910; Samuel Clemens), American novelist and
short-story writer. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

(1872–1906), American poet and novelist. Lyrics of Love
and Laughter and Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow.

Virginia Woolf

(1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, and short-story
writer. A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and
To the Lighthouse.

Zora Neale Hurston

(1891–1960), American novelist.
Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mules and Men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896–1940), American novelist and short-story writer.
The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961), American novelist and short- story writer.
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and
The Old Man and the Sea.

John Steinbeck

(1902–68), American novelist. Of Mice and Men and
The Grapes of Wrath.

Toni Morrison

(1931–present), American novelist. Beloved and
Song of Solomon.

Joyce Carol Oates

(1938–present), American novelist and short-story
writer. Them, Blonde, and Black Water.

Stephen King

(1947–present), American novelist, essayist, and shortstory
writer. The Shining, It, and The Stand.