Authors that begin with A

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previou... [View more]

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist. [View more]

Adam Smith FRSA was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. A... [View more]

Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were... [View more]

Agatha Christie was an English writer who excelled mainly in the detective novel genre, publishing more than 60 novels of this type throughout her ... [View more]

Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas... [View more]

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered the founder of modern Russian literat... [View more]

Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where père is French for 'father', thus 'the elder/senior'), was a French writer. His works have... [View more]

Alexis Henri Charles de Clérel, better known as Alexis de Tocqueville, was a French politician, jurist, thinker and historian.[View more]

Alfred William Lawson was a professional baseball player, aviator and utopian philosopher. He was a baseball player, manager, and league promoter from... [View more]

George Allen Upward was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher british. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes,... [View more]

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran.

A prolific and versatile writer, Bi... [View more]

Andy Adams was born in Indiana. He began writing at the age of 43. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending... [View more]

Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten best s... [View more]

Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. [View more]

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. He wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other to... [View more]

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history... [View more]

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer, He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 differ... [View more]

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and medical doctor.

He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in S... [View more]

Arthur George Morrison was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, ... [View more]

Arthur Stringer was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 othe... [View more]

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal exp... [View more]