Famous Authors and Their Works

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William Shakespeare

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English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Works: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.

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Homer

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Little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached in antiquity by the Greeks themselves to the poems. Works: Iliad, Odyssey.

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Charles Dickens

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English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. Works: A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book and his richly inventive epic fantasy. Works: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings.

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Victor Hugo

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He was the third son of a major and, later, general in Napoleon’s army. He is regarded in France as one of the country’s greatest poets. Works: Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. Work: Don Quixote.

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Jane Austen

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English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Works: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.

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Ernest Hemingway

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American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing. Works: The Old Man and the Sea, Farewell to Arms.

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Mark Twain

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Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives. Works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s). Works: The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.