William Shakespeare
1564-1616
William Shakespeare wan an English poet, actor and playwright known as the most famous British authors of the world. He is famous for his tragedies like Romeo and Juliet (1597), his comedies like Much ado about nothing (1612) and his historical plays like Henry V (1599).
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
Poe was an American writer, poet, critic, and newspaper editor. He is famous for his atmospheres of mystery and macabre. He is famous for the Raven (1845), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).
Charlotte Bronte
1816-1855
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist famous for Jane Eyre (1847) which is one of the most celebrated examples of Victorian fiction.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, famous for his novels Treasure Island (1881) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
Virginia Woolf
1882-1941
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist who wrote many "modernist classics" like Mrs Dalloway (1925) or To the Light House (1928). In her work, she created a new writing style: "the stream of consciousness" and she dealt with many issues like feminism, madness and homosexuality.
Norman Rockwell
1894- 1978
Norman Rockwell was an American illustrator famous for his covers for the journal The Saturday Evening Post or Look Magazine.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940
Fitzgerald was an American writer and novelist famous for his stories set in the Jazz Age (the Roaring 1920s), his most famous novel is The Great Gatsby (1925).
Harper Lee
1926-2016
Harper Lee was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) which was based on her own childhood in Alabama.