John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one ... [View more]
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best kn... [View more]
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American lif... [View more]
James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickna... [View more]
James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a... [View more]
Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic who contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement.
He is regarde... [View more]
James Weldon Johnson was an American writer and civil rights activist. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Har... [View more]
Jane Barlow was an Irish writer, noted for her novels and poems describing the lives of the Irish peasantry, chiefly about Lisconnel and Ballyhoy, ... [View more]
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was a French author and diplomat. He was the French Ambassador to the United States 1903-1925 and played a maj... [View more]
Jean Racine, baptized Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and ... [View more]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throug... [View more]
Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement... [View more]
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist.
He is best kwown for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the B... [View more]
Jesse Lynch Williams was an American author and dramatist. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Why Marry?. He was a journalist f... [View more]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. He is consider... [View more]
Johanna Louise Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as ... [View more]
John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher who wrote mainly expanded sermons.
His most kwown work is The Pilgrim's Progress, a... [View more]
John Cleland was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, o... [View more]
John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Cha... [View more]
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, though... [View more]
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as... [View more]
John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He wrote at a time of religious flux a... [View more]
John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as m... [View more]
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who ... [View more]
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of ... [View more]
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English langua... [View more]
Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a ... [View more]
Joseph Smith was an American religious leader known for founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the intention of restoring th... [View more]
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and mos... [View more]
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