British Literature
Alice books
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
redefined children's fantasy logic
Oxford math professor
Created the Three Laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Shaped modern sci-fi; predicted AI ethics debates
British naval intelligence
Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
Created modern spy thriller tropes
Riverboat pilot before writing
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Real name Samuel Clemens
First major American voice
WWII fighter pilot
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Invented 500+ words
Dark humor revolutionized children's stories
Comes from an abolitionist family
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Wrote Little Women in 2 months
Editor of Westminster Review
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Real name Mary Ann Evans
Middlemarch considered greatest Victorian novel
Wrote only one novel
Won Pulitzer 1937
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
Gone With the Wind shaped Southern nostalgia
Imprisoned for political satire
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Pioneered realistic fiction; Crusoe became archetype for survival narratives
"The little woman who started the big war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
Born in Connecticut; daughter of a prominent preacher.
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in response to the Fugitive Slave Act (1850).