The A-Z of Great Writers; The World's Leading Authors and Their Works

• ISBN13: 9781858683225
• ISBN10: 185868322X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-28
• Publisher: Carlton Books
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Summary

Written by Daily Express New Names award winner Tom Payne, this definitive illustrated encyclopedia features 389 writers in every genre from every age.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	6	(1)
INTRODUCTION	7	(1)
Aeschylus	8	(1)
Akhmatova, Anna	9	(1)
Alain-Fournier, Henri-Alban	10	(1)
Alcott, Louisa May	11	(1)
Amis, Kingsley	12	(1)
Andersen, Hans Christian	13	(1)
Andric, Ivo	14	(1)
Angelou, Maya	15	(1)
Anouilh, Jean	16	(1)
Appollinaire, Guillaume	17	(1)
Aragon, Louis	18	(1)
Aristophanes	19	(1)
Asimov, Isaac	20	(1)
Atwood, Margaret	21	(1)
Auden, W.H.	22	(1)
Austen, Jane	23	(1)
Auster, Paul	24	(1)
Babel, Isaak	25	(1)
Baldwin, James	26	(1)
Ballard, J.G.	27	(1)
Balzac, Honore de	28	(1)
Barrie, J.M.	29	(1)
Bataille, Georges	30	(1)
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre	31	(1)
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de	32	(1)
Beauvoir, Simone de	33	(1)
Beckett, Samuel	34	(1)
Behan, Brendan	35	(1)
Behn, Aphra	36	(1)
Belloc, Hilaire	37	(1)
Bellow, Saul	38	(1)
Bennett, Arnold	39	(1)
Betjeman, John	40	(1)
Blake, William	41	(1)
Blixen, Karen	42	(1)
Blunden, Edmund	43	(1)
Boccaccio, Giovanni	44	(1)
Boll, Heinrich	45	(1)
Borges, Jorge Luis	46	(1)
Bowen, Elizabeth	47	(1)
Boyd, William	48	(1)
Bradbury, Ray	49	(1)
Brecht, Bertolt	50	(1)
Breton, Andre	51	(1)
Bronte, Anne	52	(1)
Bronte, Charlotte	53	(1)
Bronte, Emily	54	(1)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett	55	(1)
Browning, Robert	56	(1)
Buck, Pearl	57	(1)
Bulgakov, Mikhail	58	(1)
Bunyan, John	59	(1)
Burgess, Anthony	60	(1)
Burns, Robert	61	(1)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice	62	(1)
Burroughs, William	63	(1)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord	64	(1)
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro	65	(1)
Callimachus	66	(1)
Calvino, Italo	67	(1)
Camus, Albert	68	(1)
Capote, Truman	69	(1)
Carroll, Lewis	70	(1)
Carver, Raymond	71	(1)
Cather, Willa	72	(1)
Catullus, Gaius Valerius	73	(1)
Cavafy, Constantine	74	(1)
Celan, Paul	75	(1)
Cervantes, Miguel de	76	(1)
Chandler, Raymond	77	(1)
Chateaubriand, Vicomte Francois-Rene de	78	(1)
Chaucer, Geoffrey	79	(1)
Cheever, John	80	(1)
Chekhov, Anton	81	(1)
Christie, Agatha	82	(1)
Churchill, Caryl	83	(1)
Clare, John	84	(1)
Cocteau, Jean	85	(1)
Coetzee, J.M.	86	(1)
Cohen, Leonard	87	(1)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	88	(1)
Colette	89	(1)
Compton-Burnett, Ivy	90	(1)
Congreve, William	91	(1)
Conrad, Joseph	92	(1)
Cooper, James Fenimore	93	(1)
Corneille, Pierre	94	(1)
Crane, Hart	95	(1)
cummings, e.e.	96	(1)
Dante Alighieri	97	(1)
Davies, Robertson	98	(1)
Defoe, Daniel	99	(1)
DeLillo, Don	100	(1)
Desai, Anita	101	(1)
Dickens, Charles	102	(1)
Dickinson, Emily	103	(1)
Donne, John	104	(1)
Dos Passos, John	105	(1)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	106	(1)
Doyle, Arthur Conan	107	(1)
Dryden, John	108	(1)
Dumas, Alexandre (pere et fils)	109	(1)
Du Maurier, Daphne	110	(1)
Duras, Marguerite	111	(1)
Durrell, Lawrence	112	(1)
Eco, Umberto	113	(1)
Eliot, George	114	(1)
Eliot, T.S.	115	(1)
Ellison, Ralph Waldo	116	(1)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	117	(1)
Erasmus, Desiderius	118	(1)
Euripides	119	(1)
Faulkner, William	120	(1)
Ferber, Edna	121	(1)
Fielding, Henry	122	(1)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	123	(1)
Flaubert, Gustave	124	(1)
Ford, Ford Madox	125	(1)
Forster, E.M.	126	(1)
Fowles, John	127	(1)
Frost, Robert	128	(1)
Gaddis, William	129	(1)
Galsworthy, John	130	(1)
Gaskell, Elizabeth	131	(1)
Gay, John	132	(1)
Genet, Jean	133	(1)
George, Stefan	134	(1)
Gide, Andre	135	(1)
Ginsberg, Allen	136	(1)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	137	(1)
Gogol, Nikolai	138	(1)
Golding, William	139	(1)
Goldsmith, Oliver	140	(1)
Goll, Yvan	141	(1)
Gorky, Maxim	142	(1)
Grass, Gunther	143	(1)
Graves, Robert	144	(1)
Greene, Graham	145	(1)
Grimm, the Brothers	146	(1)
Gunn, Thom	147	(1)
Hammett, Dashiell	148	(1)
Hamsun, Knut	149	(1)
Hardy, Thomas	150	(1)
Harrison, Tony	151	(1)
Hartley, L.P.	152	(1)
Hasek, Jaroslav	153	(1)
Havel, Vaclav	154	(1)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	155	(1)
HD	156	(1)
Heaney, Seamus	157	(1)
Heine, Heinrich	158	(1)
Heller, Joseph	159	(1)
Hemingway, Ernest	160	(1)
Henry, O.	161	(1)
Herbert, George	162	(1)
Herodotus	163	(1)
Hesse, Hermann	164	(1)
Highsmith, Patricia	165	(1)
Hoffman, E.T.A.	166	(1)
Holderlin, Friedrich	167	(1)
Holtby, Winifred	168	(1)
Holub, Miroslaw	169	(1)
Homer	170	(1)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley	171	(1)
Horace	172	(1)
Housman, A.E.	173	(1)
Hugo, Victor	174	(1)
Huxley, Aldous	175	(1)
Ibsen, Henrik	176	(1)
Ionesco, Eugene	177	(1)
Isherwood, Christopher	178	(1)
Ishiguro, Kazuo	179	(1)
Jacobson, Dan	180	(1)
James, Henry	181	(1)
Jean Paul	182	(1)
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer	183	(1)
Johnson, Samuel	184	(1)
Jonson, Ben	185	(1)
Joyce, James	186	(1)
Juvenal	187	(1)
Kafka, Franz	188	(1)
Kastner, Erich	189	(1)
Kawabata, Yasumari	190	(1)
Kazantzakis, Nikos	191	(1)
Keats, John	192	(1)
Keneally, Thomas	193	(1)
Kerouac, Jack	194	(1)
Kesey, Ken	195	(1)
Kipling, Rudyard	196	(1)
Koestler, Arthur	197	(1)
Kundera, Milan	198	(1)
Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de	199	(1)
La Fayette, Comtesse de	200	(1)
La Fontaine, Jean de	201	(1)
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di Tomasi	202	(1)
Lawrence, D.H.	203	(1)
Laxness, Halldor	204	(1)
Lear, Edward	205	(1)
Lee, Harper	206	(1)
Lehmann, Rosamond	207	(1)
Lermontov, Mikhail	208	(1)
Lessing, Doris	209	(1)
Levi, Primo	210	(1)
Lewis, C.S.	211	(1)
Lewis, Sinclair	212	(1)
Lewis, Wyndham	213	(1)
Lochhead, Liz	214	(1)
Lodge, David	215	(1)
London, Jack	216	(1)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	217	(1)
Loos, Anita	218	(1)
Lope de Vega	219	(1)
Lorca, Federico Garcia	220	(1)
Lowell, Robert	221	(1)
Lucretius	222	(1)
McCarthy, Mary	223	(1)
McCullers, Carson	224	(1)
Maeterlinck, Maurice	225	(1)
Mailer, Norman	226	(1)
Mallarme, Stephane	227	(1)
Malraux, Andre	228	(1)
Mandelshtam, Osip	229	(1)
Mann, Heinrich	230	(1)
Mann, Thomas	231	(1)
Mansfield, Katherine	232	(1)
Manzoni, Alessandro	233	(1)
Marivaux, Pierre	234	(1)
Markandaya, Kamala	235	(1)
Marlowe, Christopher	236	(1)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia	237	(1)
Marvell, Andrew	238	(1)
Maugham, Somerset	239	(1)
Maupassant, Guy de	240	(1)
Mauriac, Francois	241	(1)
Maurois, Andre	242	(1)
Mayakovsky, Vladimir	243	(1)
Melville, Herman	244	(1)
Meredith, George	245	(1)
Metastasio, Pietro	246	(1)
Miller, Arthur	247	(1)
Miller, Henry	248	(1)
Milne, A.A.	249	(1)
Milosz, Czeslaw	250	(1)
Milton, John	251	(1)
Mishima, Yukio	252	(1)
Mitchell, Margaret	253	(1)
Mitford, Nancy	254	(1)
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin	255	(1)
Montaigne, Michel de	256	(1)
Moravia, Alberto	257	(1)
Morrison, Toni	258	(1)
Murdoch, Iris	259	(1)
Musil, Robert	260	(1)
Musset, Alfred de	261	(1)
Nabokov, Vladimir	262	(1)
Naipaul, V.S.	263	(1)
Narayan, R.K.	264	(1)
Nash, Ogden	265	(1)
Neruda, Pablo	266	(1)
Nietzsche, Friedrich	267	(1)
Novalis	268	(1)
Oates, Joyce Carol	269	(1)
O'Brien, Edna	270	(1)
O'Brien, Flann	271	(1)
O'Casey, Sean	272	(1)
O'Hara, Frank	273	(1)
'Omar Khayyam	274	(1)
O'Neill, Eugene	275	(1)
Orwell, George	276	(1)
Ossian	277	(1)
Ovid	278	(1)
Owen, Wilfred	279	(1)
Parker, Dorothy	280	(1)
Pasternak, Boris	281	(1)
Pavese, Cesare	282	(1)
Paz, Octavio	283	(1)
Peake, Mervyn	284	(1)
Perec, Georges	285	(1)
Perelman, S.J.	286	(1)
Petrarch, Francesco	287	(1)
Petronius	288	(1)
Pinter, Harold	289	(1)
Pirandello, Luigi	290	(1)
Plath, Sylvia	291	(1)
Plato	292	(1)
Plautus	293	(1)
Po, Li	294	(1)
Poe, Edgar Allen	295	(1)
Pope, Alexander	296	(1)
Pound, Ezra	297	(1)
Powell, Anthony	298	(1)
Priestley, J.B.	299	(1)
Pritchett, V.S.	300	(1)
Propertius, Sextus	301	(1)
Proulx, E. Annie	302	(1)
Proust, Marcel	303	(1)
Pushkin, Aleksandr	304	(1)
Pynchon, Thomas	305	(1)
Queneau, Raymond	306	(1)
Rabelais, Francois	307	(1)
Racine, Jean	308	(1)
Ratushinskaya, Irina	309	(1)
Rhys, Jean	310	(1)
Richardson, Samuel	311	(1)
Rilke, Rainer Maria	312	(1)
Rimbaud, Arthur	313	(1)
Rostand, Edmond	314	(1)
Roth, Philip	315	(1)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	316	(1)
Roussel, Raymond	317	(1)
Runyon, Damon	318	(1)
Salinger, J.D.	319	(1)
Sand, George	320	(1)
Sappho	321	(1)
Sarraute, Nathalie	322	(1)
Sartre, Jean-Paul	323	(1)
Schiller, Friedrich von	324	(1)
Schnitzler, Arthur	325	(1)
Scott, Sir Walter	326	(1)
Seth, Vikram	327	(1)
Shakespeare, William	328	(1)
Shaw, George Bernard	329	(1)
Shelley, Mary	330	(1)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe	331	(1)
Sholokov, Mikhail	332	(1)
Sidney, Sir Philip	333	(1)
Simenon, Georges	334	(1)
Sinclair, Upton	335	(1)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis	336	(1)
Sinyavsky, Andrei	337	(1)
Snow, C.P.	338	(1)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr	339	(1)
Sophocles	340	(1)
Soyinka, Wole	341	(1)
Spark, Muriel	342	(1)
Spenser, Edmund	343	(1)
Stael, Mme de	344	(1)
Stead, Christina	345	(1)
Stein, Gertrude	346	(1)
Steinbeck, John	347	(1)
Stendhal	348	(1)
Sterne, Laurence	349	(1)
Stevens, Wallace	350	(1)
Stevenson, Robert Louis	351	(1)
Stoppard, Tom	352	(1)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	353	(1)
Strindberg, August	354	(1)
Styron, William	355	(1)
Swift, Jonathan	356	(1)
Tagore, Rabindranath	357	(1)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord	358	(1)
Thackeray, William Makepeace	359	(1)
Thomas, Dylan	360	(1)
Thoreau, Henry David	361	(1)
Thurber, James	362	(1)
Tolkien, J.R.R.	363	(1)
Tolstoy, Leo	364	(1)
Trollope, Anthony	365	(1)
Tsvetayeva, Marina	366	(1)
Tucholsky, Kurt	367	(1)
Turgenev, Ivan	368	(1)
Twain, Mark	369	(1)
Undset, Sigrid	370	(1)
Updike, John	371	(1)
Verlaine, Paul	372	(1)
Verne, Jules	373	(1)
Vidal, Gore	374	(1)
Virgil	375	(1)
Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet	376	(1)
Vonnegut Jr, Kurt	377	(1)
Walcott, Derek	378	(1)
Warner, Sylvia Townsend	379	(1)
Waugh, Evelyn	380	(1)
Wells, H.G.	381	(1)
Welty, Eudora	382	(1)
West, Nathanael	383	(1)
Wharton, Edith	384	(1)
White, Patrick	385	(1)
Whitman, Walt	386	(1)
Wilde, Oscar	387	(1)
Wilder, Thornton	388	(1)
Williams, Tennessee	389	(1)
Williams, William Carlos	390	(1)
Wodehouse, P.G.	391	(1)
Wolfe, Tom	392	(1)
Woolf, Virginia	393	(1)
Wordsworth, William	394	(1)
Yeats, W.B.	395	(1)
Zola, Emile	396	(1)
INDEX	397

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