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class="right-col main-content"> <div class="sub-page-links-bar"> <a href="/people" class="sub-page-link ">Home</a> <a href="/people/Thinkers" class="sub-page-link ">Thinkers</a> <a href="/people/Writers" class="sub-page-link selected">Writers</a> <a href="/people/Scientists" class="sub-page-link ">Scientists</a> <a href="/people/Artists" class="sub-page-link ">Artists</a> <a href="/people/Political_Figures" class="sub-page-link ">Political Figures</a> <a href="/people/Religious_Figures" class="sub-page-link ">Religious Figures</a> </div> <div class="main-content-section sub-page"> <div class="sub-page-headline">Writers</div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/l/le/leo_tolstoy.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Leo_Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works,...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/w/wi/william_shakespeare.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/c/ch/charles_dickens.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/g/ge/george_orwell.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/George_Orwell">George Orwell</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/h/ho/homer.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Homer">Homer</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/o/os/oscar_wilde.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Oscar_Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/e/er/ernest_hemingway.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Ernest_Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/jo/john_steinbeck.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/John_Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/w/wi/william_faulkner.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/William_Faulkner">William Faulkner</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/h/he/herman_melville.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Herman_Melville">Herman Melville</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/v/vo/voltaire.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Voltaire">Voltaire</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties,...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/jo/john_milton.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/John_Milton">John Milton</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/e/em/emily_dickinson.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Emily_Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/r/ro/robert_frost.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Robert_Frost">Robert Frost</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/h/he/henry_david_thoreau.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Henry_David_Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/r/ra/ralph_waldo_emerson.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/f/fy/fyodor_dostoevsky.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Fyodor_Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/e/ed/edgar_allan_poe.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-sub-page go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/m/ma/mark_twain.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2024. 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