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A

‘Abdu’l-Bahá   (1844–1921)   [aka Abdu'l-Baha, Abdul-Baha, Abdul Baha, 'Abdul-Baha, Abdu'l Baha, Abdulbaha]

Hunter “Patch” Adams   (*1945)

Conrad Aiken   (1889–1973)

James Agee   (1909–1955)

James Allen

Kingsley Amis   (*1922)

Alfred Andersch   (*1914)

Sherwood Anderson   (1876–1941)

Angelus Silesius   (1624–1677)

Ludovico Ariosto   (1474–1533)

Aristoteles   (384–322 bce)   [aka Aristotle, Aristote, Aristotélēs]

H. C. Artmann   (1921–2000)

Margaret Atwood   (*1939)

Marcus Aurelius = Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen   (1775–1817)

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B

Ingeborg Bachmann   (1926–1973)

Bahá’u’lláh   (1817–1892)   [aka Bahaullah, Baha'u'llah; Bahai, Baha'i, Baháí]

James Baldwin   (1924–1987)

Max Beerbohm   (1872–1956)

Ludwig Bemelmans   (1898–1963)

Stephen Vincent Benét   (1898–1943)

Gottfried Benn   (1886–1956)

E. C. Bentley   (1875–1956)   [aka Edmund Clerihew Bentley]

Jürgen Berg   (*19..)

Thomas Bernhard   (1831–1990)

Anton Bernolák   (1762–1813)

Biblia   [aka Bible, Bibel]

Peter Bichsel   (*1935)

Manfred Bieler   (*1934)

Horst Bienek   (1930–1990)

Ambrose Bierce   (1842–1914)

Ernst Bloch   (1885–1977)

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux   (1636–1711)

Heinrich Böll   (1917–1985)

Kay Boyle   (1902–1992)

Ray Bradbury   (*1920)

Bertolt Brecht   (1898–1956)

Peter Breiner   (*19..)

Max Brod   (1884–1968)

Hugh Brogan

Albín Brunovský   [aka Albin Brunovsky]

Buddha   (560?–480? bce)

Igor Bukovský   (*19..)

Charles Bukowski   (1920–1994)

Kir Bulychov   [Кир Булычев]   (1934–2003; see author’s homepage in Russian / in English)   [aka Bulychev, Kiril Bulyčov]

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C

James M. Cain   (1892–1977)

Meg Campbell

Truman Capote   (1924–1984)

Dale Carnegie   (18..–19..)

E. H. Carr   (18..–19..)

Lewis Carroll   (1832–1898)

Jiří Černý   (*19..)

Anton Čechov = Anton Chekhov

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort   (1741–1794)

Raymond Chandler   (1888–1959)

James Hadley Chase   (1906–1985)

John Cheever   (1912–1982)

Anton Chekhov   [Антон Чехов]   (1860–1904)   [aka Čechov, Cechov, Tschechow]

G. K. Chesterton   (1874–1936)

Kate Chopin   (1851–1904)

Agatha Christie   (1890–1976)

Robert M. Coates   (1897–1973)

Matt Cohen   (*1942)

Comenius = Jan Amos Komenský

Arthur Conan Doyle = Arthur Conan Doyle

Joseph Conrad   (1857–1924)

Russel H. Conwell   (18..–1...)

Stephen Crane   (1871–1900)

David Crystal   (*1941)

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D

Clarence Day   (1874–1935)

Daniel Defoe   (1660–1731)

Jenny Diski

Alfred Döblin   (1878–1957)

John Donne   (1572?–1631)

Fiodor M. Dostoyevskiy   [Федор М. Достоевский]   (1821–1881)   [aka Dostoyevsky, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevski, Dostoevskij, Dostojewski, Dostojewskij, Dostojewsky, Dostojevskij, Dostojevský, Dostoïevski, Dostoievski]

Arthur Conan Doyle   (1859–1930)

Theodore Dreiser   (1871–1945)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt   (1921–1990)

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E

Johann Peter Eckermann   (1792–1854)

Walter D. Edmonds

Herbert Eisenreich   (1925–1986)

T. S. Eliot   (1888–1965)

Ralph Waldo Emerson   (1803–1882)

Epictetus   (60?–>100)   [aka Épictète, Epiktet, Epiktetos]

Paul Ernst   (1866–1933)

John E. Esslemont   (1874–1925)

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F

Kara Fall

William Faulkner   (1897–1962)

›Die Feder‹

Ľubomír Feldek   (*1936)

Lion Feuchtwanger   (1884–1958)

Henry Fielding   (1707–1754)

F. Scott Fitzgerald   (1896–1940)

Pavol Flajžík

Otto Flake

Theodor Fontane   (1819–1898)

E. M. Forster   (1879–1970)

Dick Francis   (*1920)

Leonhard Frank   (1882–1961)

Benjamin Franklin   (1706–1790)

Seymour Freedgood

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman   (1852–1930)

Erich Fried   (1821–1990)

Max Frisch   (1911–1991)

Franz Fühmann   (1922–1984)

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G

Jostein Gaarder   (*19..)

Erle Stanley Gardner   (1889–1970)

Henry A. Giroux   (*19..)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   (1749–1832)

Oliver Goldsmith   (1730?–1774)

Günter Grass   (*1927)

Robert Graves   (1895–1985)

Sidney Greenbaum

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H

Karl Hugo Haase   (1827–1873)

Dashiell Hammett   (1894–1961)

Moss Hart   (1904–1961)

Francis Bret Harte   (1836–1902)

Nathaniel Hawthorne   (1804–1864)

Herbert Heckman

Claude Adrien Helvétius   (1715–1771)

Ernest Hemingway   (1899–1961)

O. Henry   (1862–1910)

Stephan Hermlin   (*1915)

Hesiod   (≈ 700 bce)   [aka Hesiodos, Hésiodos, Hēsíodos, Hésiode]

Hermann Hesse   (1877–1962)

Georg Heym   (1887–1912)

Stefan Heym   (*1913)

Paul Heyse   (1830–1914)

Wolfgang Hildesheimer   (*1916)

Rolf Hochhuth   (*1931)

Robert Hochner   (19..–200.)

Michal Miloslav Hodža   (1811–1870)

Milan Hodža   (18..–19..)

Hugo von Hofmannsthal   (1874–1929)

Richard Hoggart   (1918–19..)

Franz Hohler

Harry Holzheu   (*19..)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus   (65–8 bce)   [aka Horace, Horaz, Horác]

Elbert Hubbard

Ricarda Huch   (1864–1947)

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I

Il’ya Il’f   [Илья Ильф]   (1897–1937)   &   Yevgeniy Petrov   [Евгений Петров]   (1903–1942)   [aka Ilya Ilf, Ilja Ilf, Iľja Iľf; Yevgeny Petrov, Jewgeni Petrow, Jevgenij Petrov]

Washington Irving   (1783–1859)

Christopher Isherwood   (1904–1986)

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J

Shirley Jackson   (1919–1965)

Henry James   (1843–1916)

William James   (1842–1910)

Karl Jaspers   (1883–1969)

Walter Jens   (*1923)

Sarah Orne Jewett   (1849–1909)

Johannes Jørgensen   (1866–1956)

Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy   (1764–1846)

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K

Franz Kafka   (1883–1924)

Ján Kamenistý   (*19..)

Immanuel Kant   (1724–1804)

Hellmuth Karasek   (*1934)

Marie Luise Kaschnitz   (1901–1974)

George S. Kaufman   (1889–1961)

Eduard von Keyserling   (1855–1918)

Larry King   (*19..; see author’s homepage)

Martin Luther King   (1929–1968)

Rudyard Kipling   (1865–1936)

Egon Erwin Kisch   (1885–1948)

Heinrich von Kleist   (1777–1811)

Alexander Kluge   (*1932)

Wolfgang Koeppen   (1906–19..)

Jan Amos Komenský   (1592–1670)   [aka Comenius, Komensky]

Friedrich Salomon Krauss

Štefan Krčméry   (1892–1955)

Kurt Kusenberg

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L

Jean de La Bruyère   (1645–1696)

Oliver La Farge   (1901–1963)

John Lame Deer

Ring Lardner   (1885–1933)

Milan Lasica   (*1940)

D. H. Lawrence   (1885–1930)

B. F. Lazar   (*19..)

Stephen Leacock   (1869–1944)

F. R. Leavis   (1895–1978)

John Le Carré   (*1931)

Siegfried Lenz   (*1926)

Mikail Y. Lermontov   [Михаил Ю. Лермонтов]   (1814–1841)   [aka Michail J. Lermontow]

C. S. Lewis   (1898–1963)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg   (1742–1799)

Abraham Lincoln   (1809–1965)

David Lodge   (*1935)

Sigrid Löffler   (*1942)

Jack London   (1876–1916)

Martin Luther   (1483–1546)

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M

Ross Macdonald   (1915–1983)

Golo Mann   (1909–1994)

Heinrich Mann   (1871–1950)

Thomas Mann   (1875–1955)

Katherine Mansfield   (1888–1923)

Marcus Aurelius   (121–80 bce)   [aka Mark Aurel, Marc Aurèle, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Marko Aurélius]

Mark Twain = Mark Twain

Juan Mascaró

Alexander Matuška   (1910–1975)

William Somerset Maugham   (1874–1965)

William Maxwell   (*1908)

  Karl May   (1842–1912; view special bio page [30 KB])

John McAleer

Ed McBain   (*1926)   [aka Evan Hunter]

Mary McCarthy   (1912–1989)

Carson McCullers   (1917–1967)

Ross McDonald = Ross Macdonald

Herman Melville   (1819–1891)

Valér Mikula   (*19..)

Arthur Miller   (*1915)

Henry Miller   (1891–1980)

Joseph Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell   (1900–1949)

George Moore   (1852–1933)

Farley Mowat

Adolf Muschg   (*1934)

Robert Musil   (1880–1942)

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N

Jozef Dado Nagy   (*19..)

Friedrich Nietzsche   (1844–1900)

Frank Norris   (1870–1902)

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O

Fitz-James O’Brien   (1828–1862)

Eugene O’Neill   (1888–1953)

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P

Dorothy Parker   (1893–1967)

Blaise Pascal   (1623–1662)

Daniel Pastirčák   (*19..)

Norman Vincent Peale   (18..–19..)

Francesco Petrarca   (1304–1374)   [aka Petrarch, Pétrarque]

Yevgeniy Petrov = Il’ya Il’f & Yevgeniy Petrov

Rosamunde Pilcher   (*1924)

Platon   (427–348/7 bce)   [aka Plato, Platón, Plátōn]

Heiner Plaul   (*19..)

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus “the Younger”   (62?–113?)   [aka Pliny the Younger; Plinius d. J., der Jüngere; Pline le Jeune]

Gaius Plinius Secundus “the Elder”   (23?–79)   [aka Pliny the Elder; Plinius d. Ä., der Ältere; Pline l’Ancien]

William Plomer   (1903–1973)

Edgar Allan Poe   (1809–1849)

Alexander Pope   (1688–1744)

Karl Popper   (1902–1994)

V. S. Pritchett   (*1900)

proverbs

Aleksandr S. Pushkin   [Александр С. Пушкин]   (1799–1837)   [aka Alexander Puškin, Alexandr Puschkin, Alexandre Pouchkine]

Ellery Queen   (1905–1982)   &   (1905–1971)

Randolph Quirk   (*19..)

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R

Stefan Raab   (*19..)

Marcel Reich-Ranicki   (*1920)

Ludwig Reiners   (1896–1957)

Jan Rejžek   (*19..)

Ruth Rendell   (*1930)

I. A. Richards   (1893–1979)

Rainer Maria Rilke   (1875–1926)

Peter Roach   (*19..)

Herbert Rosendorfer

Christina Rossetti   (1830–1894)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau   (1712–1778)

Eva Ružičková   (*19..)

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S

Gustav Sack

Saki   (1870–1916)

J. D. Salinger   (*1919)

William Saroyan   (1908–1981)

Július Satinský   (1941–2002)   [aka Julius Satinsky]

Dorothy L. Sayers   (1893–1957)

Paul Scheerbart

Friedrich von Schiller   (1759–1805)

Arno Schmidt   (1914–1979)

Rolf Schneider   (*1932)

Sascha Schneider   (1870–1927; siehe Kommentar)

Wolf Schneider   (*1925)

Arthur Schnitzler   (1862–1931)

Karl Schönherr   (1867–1943)

Arthur Schopenhauer   (1788–1860)

Robert Schuller   (*19..)

Anna Seghers   (1800–1983)

Judy & Jim Sellner

Seneca   (4? bce–65 ce)   [aka Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger; d. J., der Jüngere]

William Shakespeare   (1564–1616)

George Bernard Shaw   (1856–1950)

Irvin Shaw   (1913–1984)

Jane Smiley   (*1949)

Logan Pearsall Smith   (1865–1946)

Socrates   (470–399 bce)   [aka Sokrates, Socrate]

Steve Solomon   (*19..; see author’s homepage)

Anton Srholec   (*19..)

Wilbur Daniel Steele   (1886–1970)

Wallace Stegner   (1909–1993)

John Steinbeck   (1902–1968)

Stanislav Štepka   (*1944)

Carl Sternheim   (1878–1942)

Robert Louis Stevenson   (1850–1894)

Hans Joachim Störig

  Rex Stout   (1886–1975; view special bio page [100 KB])

August Stramm   (1874–1915)

Erwin Strittmatter   (1912–19..)

William Strunk Jr.   (18..–19..)

Ján Sucháň     (*19..)

Hermann Sudermann   (1857–1928)

Jonathan Swift   (1667–1745)

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T

Dominik Tatarka   (1913–198.)

Friedrich Taubmann   (1565–1613)

Sir John Tenniel   (1820–1914)

Alfred Tennyson   (1809–1892)

Henry David Thoreau   (1817–1862)

James Thurber   (1894–1961)

Timrava   (1867–1951)   [aka Božena Slančíková]

Alexis de Tocqueville   (1805–1859)

Leo Tolstoy   [Лев Толстой]   (1828–1910)   [aka Lev Tolstoj, Lew Tolstoi, Léon Tolstoï; Nikolajevič, Nikolayevich, Nikolaevich, Nikolajewitsch]

Anton Tschechow = Anton Chekhov

G. W. Turner   (*1921)

Mark Twain   (1835–1910)   [aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

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U

John Updike   (*1932)

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V

Josef Vlček   (*19..)

Robert Voigtländer

Voltaire   (1694–1778)   [aka Françoise Marie Arouet]

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W

Alice Walker   (*1944)

Neale Donald Walsch   (*19..; see author’s homepage)

Martin Walser   (*1927)

Robert Walser   (1878–1956)

Austin Warren

Robert Penn Warren   (1905–1989)

Evelyn Waugh   (1903–1966)

Frank Wedekind   (1864–1918)

Peter Weiß   (1916–1982)

René Wellek   (1903–19..)

H. G. Wells   (1866–1946)

Franz Werfel   (1890–1945)

Edith Wharton   (1862–1937)

E. B. White   (1899–1985)

Walt Whitman   (1819–1892)

Oscar Wilde   (1854–1900)

Billy Wilder   (1906–2002)

Thornton Wilder   (1897–1975)

Joy Williams   (*19..)

Tennessee Williams   (1911–1983)

William Carlos Williams   (1883–1963)

P. G. Wodehouse   (1881–1975)

Gabriele Wohmann   (*1932)

Herman Wouk   (*1915)

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X   Y   Z

Ivan Žežula   (*19..; see author’s homepage)

Arnold Zweig   (1887–1968)

Stefan Zweig   (1881–1942)

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