Famous Writers Throughout History
100 curated profiles of notable writers across eras.
Charles Dickens
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George Orwell
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Leo Tolstoy
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Roald Dahl
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Isaac Asimov
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Jonathan Swift
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Elie Wiesel
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Larry David
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Thomas Hardy
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Ray Bradbury
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Kahlil Gibran
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Rod Serling
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Milan Kundera
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Mike White
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Nikolai Gogol
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Khaled Hosseini
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William Golding
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Thomas Mann
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Victor Hugo
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Robert Kirkman
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Jon Krakauer
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Joss Whedon
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Stephen Chbosky
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Armando Iannucci
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Buck Henry
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David Mamet
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William Styron
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Aaron Sorkin
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Alex Haley
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Leigh Whannell
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Mark Gatiss
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Stephen Dillane
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Ralph Ellison
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Diego Torres
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John Irving
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Haruki Murakami
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Ian McEwan
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Ken Follett
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Khalil Gibran
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Yukio Mishima
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Robert Towne
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Jeffrey Archer
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Joseph Campbell
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William Peter Blatty
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Evelyn Waugh
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Gore Vidal
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Philip Roth
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Sterling Hayden
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John Updike
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Martin Amis
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Peter Handke
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Elmore Leonard
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Reza Aslan
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George Plimpton
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Jean Shepherd
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Carlos Fuentes
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Charlie Kaufman
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Jonathan Franzen
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Paul Haggis
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Fernando Pessoa
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Patrick White
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Jean-Claude Carrière
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Jean Genet
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David Foenkinos
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Jay McInerney
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Jorge Amado
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Timothy West
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Eldridge Cleaver
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Paul Auster
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Robert Penn Warren
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William Burroughs
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Alexandre Astier
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Thomas Wolfe
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Christopher Isherwood
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David Koepp
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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Michael Ondaatje
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Hugo Claus
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James Frey
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John Mortimer
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William Saroyan
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Harvey Pekar
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Quentin Crisp
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Armistead Maupin
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Fernando Arrabal
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George Saunders
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Thomas Merton
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Irwin Shaw
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Robert Benchley
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Rufus Jones
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Colum McCann
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Alexandre Jardin
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Colin Thubron
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