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Ancient literature: Add brief definition or description
Medieval literature: Add brief definition or description
American literature: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the American people, from Colonial times to the present. ^[e]
English literature: Literature of the British isles written in English. ^[e]
French literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the French language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
German literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9^th century) until the present day ^[e]
Japanese literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Japanese language from the earliest years until the present. ^[e]
Russian literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Russian language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
Women in literature: Add brief definition or description

Writers

Ancient writers

Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ^[e]
Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. ^[e]

Medieval writers

Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. ^[e]
Petrarch: (1304–74) Italian poet, humanist and essayist, and one of the most important intellectual figures of the early Renaissance. ^[e]

Science-fiction writers

Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. ^[e]
Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. ^[e]

American writers

Robert Frost: (1874-1963) American lyric poet who drew his inspiration from nature and the New England countryside. ^[e]
Ernest Hemingway: (1899-1961) American writer, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms. and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ^[e]
Toni Morrison: (1931- ) US writer, winner of Nobel Prize, whose writings focus on the African-American experience; wrote Song of Solomon. ^[e]
Eugene O'Neill: (1888-1953) US playwright; wrote Long Day's Journey into Night and won Nobel Prize for literature. ^[e]
Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. ^[e]
Mark Twain: (1835-1910) Pen name of Samuel Clemens, a leading American novelist and humorist of the late 19th century. ^[e]
Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' ^[e]

English writers

Jane Austen: English novelist (1775-1817), author of Pride and Prejudice and other novels. ^[e]
William Blake: (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist, posthumously seen as one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement. ^[e]
Charlotte Bronte: Add brief definition or description
Emily Bronte: Add brief definition or description
Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. ^[e]
Charles Dickens: (1812-70) English novelist and social critic; wrote the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. ^[e]
T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
John Milton: Add brief definition or description
William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

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