The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with C
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why Agatha Christie lives here under C, not under A.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1600–1681 · Spain
Baroque drama of honor, dream, and power where stagecraft tests fate and choice.
Dale Carnegie
1888–1955 · United States
Practical people skills for trust, influence, and clear communication.
Lewis Carroll
1832–1898 · United Kingdom
Logic turned into play: dream worlds and word games that train flexible thinking, humor, and attention.
Willa Cather
1873–1947 · United States
Plain spoken beauty of land work and becoming; art and home in balance.
Margaret Cavendish
1623–1673 · United Kingdom
Bold philosophy and visionary fiction that test science, gender, and imagination ahead of their time.
Miguel de Cervantes
1547–1616 · Spain
Comedy and compassion that invent the modern novel and the problem of reality and role.
Robert W. Chambers
1865–1933 · United States
Elegant unease and art world dread that seeded modern weird fiction.
Geoffrey Chaucer
1340–1400 · United Kingdom
A road of voices; lively mosaic of medieval life where humor meets prayer and trade.
Anton Chekhov
1860–1904 · Russia
Short forms of human truth; restraint, detail, and sudden light.
Charles W. Chesnutt
1858–1932 · United States
African American realism and folklore; law, color, and conscience in exact prose.
G. K. Chesterton
1874–1936 · United Kingdom
Paradox as flashlight; essays, fables, and mysteries that defend sanity with play.
Kate Chopin
1850–1904 · United States
Desire marriage and selfhood in exact clear prose; modern before the label.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
A road of voices; lively mosaic of medieval life where humor meets prayer and trade.
Agatha Christie
1890–1976 · United Kingdom
Ingenious plots and fair play clues that set the standard for mystery with crisp comedy.
John Cleland
1709–1789 · United Kingdom
Eighteenth century erotic narrative notable for voice, censorship history, and the rise of modern prose.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772–1834 · United Kingdom
Imagination and argument entwined; lyric sea, symbol, and sharp criticism.
Wilkie Collins
1824–1889 · United Kingdom
Mystery architecture and sensation fiction; law family and identity under pressure.
Carlo Collodi
1826–1890 · Italy
Playful moral tales for children; quick humor and consequence in a wooden world.
Richard Connell
1893–1949 · United States
High concept short fiction with crisp suspense, clean design, and social bite.
Joseph Conrad
1857–1924 · Poland – United Kingdom
Sea, empire, and conscience in a prose that listens to ambiguity and cost.
Russell H. Conwell
1843–1925 · United States
Popular lectures on effort and opportunity; simple steps toward enterprise and service.
James Fenimore Cooper
1789–1851 · United States
Frontier myths under clear sky; nation nature and risk in motion.
Stephen Crane
1871–1900 · United States
Impressionistic realism of war and city life; lean style that makes fear courage and class immediate.
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