The Latin American Boom
This Chilean author, famous for his surrealist poetry and the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
This writer named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote under a pen name a book about a girl named Alice who goes down a rabbit hole into a land of tea parties and talking cats.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
This author originally published her debut novel, Sense and Sensibility, under the simple and mysterious pseudonym "A Lady.
Who is Jane Austein?
This count and philosopher wrote the massive historical epic War and Peace, as well as the tragic romance Anna Karenina
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
He spent decades crafting the languages, history, and lore of Middle-earth for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Who is J.J.R Tolkien?
This Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner is best known for his book One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Marquez?
He is widely regarded as the greatest playwright in history, known for works like A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Known as the "Queen of Crime," she is the creator of the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
Who is Agatha Christie?
This author spent four years in a Siberian labor camp before writing the psychological masterpiece Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
A close friend of Tolkien, he is best known for the Christian allegory and fantasy found in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Who is C.S Lewis?
This Peruvian writer won the Nobel Prize in 2010 and is famous for works like The Time of the Hero or The Feast of the Goat.
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?
Born Theodor Geisel, this author revolutionized children's books with simple rhymes about green eggs, ham, and a cat in a hat.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
She was only 18 when she began writing about a scientist who brings a creature to life; the first edition was published anonymously in 1818.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84. Is the most famous living Asian writer.
Who is Haruki Murakami?
Uses the pseudonym "Richard Bachman", he has written novels like The Stand, The Shining and the Dark Tower series.
Who is Stephen King?
This Argentine master of the short story wrote Hopscotch, a novel that famously allows the reader to follow multiple sequences of chapters.
Who is Julio Cortázar?
This "Jazz Age" author captured the glitter and gloom of the American Dream in his 1925 masterpiece, The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A pioneer of the "stream of consciousness" style, this member of the Bloomsbury Group gave us masterpieces like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Who is Virginia Wolf?
Considered the father of Russian realism, this Ukrainian-born author is famous for novels like Dead Souls and the short story The Nose.
Who is Nikolai Gogol?
This author gave us a chilling vision of a future where books are burned in Fahrenheit 451, as well as a collection of stories about colonizing the Red Planet in The Martian Chronicles.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This Mexican diplomat and author wrote the ambitious novel The Death of Artemio Cruz.
Who is Carlos Fuentes?
This Czech-born author is famous for the surreal nightmare of The Metamorphosis, in which a man wakes up transformed into a giant insect.
Who is Franz Kafka?
This author won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel about racial injustice and the loss of innocence in the fictional town of Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird was the name.
Who is Harper Lee? (Nelle Harper Lee)
Born in Nagasaki but raised in England, this writer is famous for The Remains of the Day and the sci-fi heartbreak of Never Let Me Go.
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
This author is famous for his "Three Laws of Robotics" and for his books "Foundation" and "I, robot".
Who is Isaac Asimov?