Victor Hugo
French Romantic poet, playwright, and writer, a leading reference in the French language. He was also a committed and influential politician and intellectual in his country’s history and in 19th-century literature.
Authors
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist and French playwright, creator of some of the best adventure novels in history. His son, Alexandre Dumas son, was also a known writer.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell, born Patricia Carroll Daniels, is an American mystery writer, known mainly for her series of novels starring forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and novelist, one of the best known in universal literature, and the most outstanding of the Victorian era.
Virginia Woolf
She was a novelist, essayist, letter writer, editor, feminist and British story writer, considered one of the most prominent figures of literary modernism of the 20th century.
William Shakespeare
Dramaturgo, an English poet and actor. Sometimes known as the Bardo de Avon, he is considered the most important writer in English and one of the most famous of universal literature.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
He was a Spanish writer, author of several supersales books, including the shadow of the wind.
Ana María Matute
Spanish novelist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Member of the Hispanic Society of America, in 2007 she was awarded the National Prize of Letters for the whole of her work and the Cervantes Award in 2010.
Steven Saylor
American writer of historical novel. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied history and classics.
Stieg Larsson
Swedish journalist and writer who jumped to fame after his death, with the publication of the Millennium trilogy.
David Safier
David Safier is a German writer and novelist. Safier studied journalism and trained professionally on radio and television. From 1996 onwards he began to develop his facet as a television screenwriter.
Jeff Kinney
Jeffrey Patrick Kinney, better known as Jeff Kinney, is an American designer, shoe designer, producer, writer and actor, as well as head of the Poptropic website.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American writer. His best known work is Hyperion, winner of the Hugo and Locus science fiction awards.
Enyd Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton Pollock Darrell Waters, born Enid Mary Blyton, was an English writer of children's literature who signed 762 youth works, both with his maiden name Enid Blyton and his married name, Mary Pollock.
Lindsey Davis
He studied English literature at Oxford. Fascinated by archaeology, he is the author of the political-historical novels, set in ancient Rome, starring Marco Didio Flaco and his daughter, Flavia Albia.
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova is an American writer, author of the novel La historiadora, a historic adventure that narrates the search for Vlad Draculea, El Empalador, throughout the 20th century. She's married to a Bulgarian scien...
P.D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starting police command and poet Adam Dalglie...
Francisco Ibáñez
Creator of a multitude of humorous series, including Mortadelo and Philemon, an essential icon of several generations. Many other later comic artists recognize their great influence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles, adventure and historical novels, as well as lyrical and essays.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, single Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was an American writer and designer.
Ken Follet
Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, on June 5, 1949 and is the author of a great many successful novels. His greatest success was the novel "The pillars of the earth," around the construction of a cathedral in the Mi...
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton is an American writer, author of detective novels. His best known work is the series of chronological mystery novels. They are known as "the novels of the alphabet.".
Kami García
Kami Garcia studied at George Washington University, where he graduated in Education. He is a teacher and organizes reading groups for children and young people. He started writing in newspapers during his childhood.
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is a successful writer of historical novels. His career began with the book "The Blue of the Virgin" but he reached fame with his novel The young pearl, a book based on the creation of Vermeer's famous pa...
Paul C. Doherty
He was born in 1946 in Middlesbrough, England. He studied history at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford where he obtained a PhD with a thesis on Edward II and Elizabeth I.
Camilla Lackberg
Popular Swedish writer of police novels. His books are in Fjällbanka, a small city on the western Swedish coast, and his protagonists are the Patrik Hedström police and the writer Erica Falck.
Katherine Neville
Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American writer, known mainly for her novel El Ocho, which was a world-wide sales success, later ratified by the novel El Circulo Mágico.
Margaret Doody
He graduated from English Literature at Oxford University. He has been a teacher at several universities, running comparative literature courses at the University of Vanderbilt, later teaching at the University of Notre ...
Roald Dahl
Novelist and author of British stories of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for children and adults. Author of jewels such as "Charlie and the chocolate factory," "Matilda" or "The witches.".
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough was an Australian writer of romantic and historical novels. He was famous for his 1977 novel The Thorn Birds, taken to television with the title of The Bird Singing to Die or The Spine Bird.
Christian Jacq
Christian Jacq is an Egyptian and a French fiction writer. Doctorate in Egyptian in La Sorbonne, he is a great expert in the time of Pharaoh Ramses II, and founded the institute that bears the name of that Egyptian ruler...
Mary W. Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, known as Mary Shelley, was a narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher and biographer of the United Kingdom, especially as the author of the Gothic novel "Frankenstein.".
H.G. Wells
Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells (September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent - August 13, 1946 in London), 1 was a British writer, novelist, historian and philosopher.
René Descartes
Also called Renatus Cartesiu, he was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, considered the father of analytical geometry and modern philosophy, as well as one of the most prominent names of the scientific rev...
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Mertz was an American author who wrote under her own name and with the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.
J.K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at the Yate General Hospital (England) and grew up in Chepstow (Gwent), where he studied at the Wyedean Comprehensive.
Stephenie Meyer
Stephanie Meyer is a writing of fiction books for young people, well known for the romantic saga of love among Twilight vampires.
Anna Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was one of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, sadly famous after the discovery of the newspaper he wrote while living in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was a novelist known for his great sense of humor and satirical skills, and as author of the novel Tom Jones.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was a novelist, theatre writer and poet. He is considered the first modern English writer to have a true international career,
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer, widely known as one of the best American authors of the 20th century, whose work is paradigmatic of the jazz age.
Matilde Asensi
Spanish journalist and writer, who is mainly devoted to the historical and adventure novel. He has won several awards and awards throughout his career.
María Dueñas
María Dueñas is a professor of English language and literature at the University of Murcia. It became famous in 2009, with its first novel, "The time between seams.".
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and journalist was one of the main exponents of magic realism. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.