Authors that begin with H

Herbert George Wells was an English writer who wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography an... [View more]

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos and h... [View more]

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world lite... [View more]

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy... [View more]

French born lawyer and author. [View more]

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best kno... [View more]

Harriet Jacobs was an African-American writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Lin... [View more]

Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of the 1851... [View more]

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the... [View more]

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a... [View more]

Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist considered one of the founders of the traditional English novel.

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Henry James OM was an American author who became a British citizen in the last year of his life. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between l... [View more]

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known... [View more]

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick .... [View more]

Hermann Karl Hesse was a poet, novelist, and painter who was born in Germany.

Hesse's works explore the individual's spirituality and self-... [View more]

Homer was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Many accounts ... [View more]

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French l... [View more]

James Hume Nisbet was a Scottish-born novelist and artist. Many of his thrillers are set in Australia. [View more]