Authors listed alphabetically
Abbott, Edwin A., 1838-1926
About, Edmond, 1828-1885
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE
Aesop, 620-560 BCE
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Alain-Fournier, 1886-1914
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789
Allen, James, 1864-1912
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928
Apollonius of Perga, 262 BC-ca. 190 BC
Apollonius of Rhodes, d.3rd C. BCE
Apuleius, c. 123/125-c. 180
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Archimedes, c. 287-212 BCE
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533
Aristophanes, ca.446-385 BCE
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697
Augustine of Hippo, 354-430
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Banfield, Edmund James, 1852-1923
Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. (Jules), 1808-1889
Barker, Jane, 1652-1732
Barnes, William, 1801-1886
Barrie, J. M., 1860-1937
Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Baynton, Barbara, 1857-1929
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616
Becke, Louis, 1855-1913
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Bede, the Venerable, 673-735
Beeton, Isabella, 1836-1865
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Belt, Thomas, 1832-1878
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
Besant, Walter, 1836-1901
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1913
Bird, Isabella Lucy, 1831-1904
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900
Blackstone, William, 1723-1780
Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951
Blades, William, 1824-1890
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Blaxland, Gregory, 1771-1853
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Boethius, d.d. 524
Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 41-1494
Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915
Boole, George, 1815-1864
Boothby, Guy, 1867-1905
Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Bowen, Marjorie, 1885-1952
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1915
Bragg, W. H. (William Henry), 1862-1942
Brillat–Savarin, 1755-1826
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Browne, Thomas, 1605-1682
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
Brown, George Douglas, 1869-1902
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 1857-1934
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, compte de, 1707-1788
Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940
Bulwer–Lytton, Edward, 1803-1873
Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Burke, Thomas, 1886-1945
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Burton, Isabel, 1831-1896
Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
Bury, Richard de, 1281-1345
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902
Byron, George, 1788-1824
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
Camden, William, 1551-1623
Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Cao Xueqin, ca. 1717-1763
Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Carron, William, 1821-1876
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, c.84-c.54 BCE
Cavendish, Margaret, 1623-1673
Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491
Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571
Cervantes, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ca.1343-1400
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922
Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859-1925
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
Chrétien de Troyes, d.12th cent
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE
Clarke, Marcus, 1846-1881
Cleland, John, 1709-1789
Cockerell, Douglas Bennett, 1870-1945
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Colette, 1873-1954
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Comenius, John Amos, 1592-1670
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924
Cousin, John William, 1849-1910
Cowper, William, 1731-1800
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Cridge, Annie Denton, 1825-1875
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655
Dacre, Charlotte, 1772-1825
Dampier, William, 1652-1715
Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
Dante, 1265-1321
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897
Davies, W. H. (William Henry), 1871-1940
Davis, John, 1543-1605
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James), 1876-1938
Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650
De Mille, James, 1837-1880
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665
Diogenes Laërtius, d.3rdC BCE
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881
Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848
Dixie, Florence, 1857-1905
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921
Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901
Donne, John, 1572-1631
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895
Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953
Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922
Durer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Eddison, E.R. (Eric Rücker), 1882-1945
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Epictetus, ca. 55-135
Epicurus, c340-c270BCE
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466-1536
Eschenbach, Wolfram von, 1170-1220
Euclid ca.300 BCE
Euripides, 480 or 484-406 BCE
Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901
Faraday, Michael, 1797-1867
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Fa–Hien or Fa–hsien, ca.337-ca.422
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926
Firdausi, c.934-1020
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939
Ford, John, 1586-ca.1640
Fortis, Alberto, 1741-1803
Fortune, Mary Helena, 1833-1910
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, baron, 1768-1830
France, Anatole, 1844-1924
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954
Frazer, James George, 1854-1941
Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
Freeman, R. Austin, 1862-1943
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
Furphy, Joseph, 1843-1912
Futrelle, Jacques, 1875-1912
Gaboriau, Émile, 1833-1873
Galen, 131-201
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
Gardener, Helen Hamilton, 1853-1925
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1810-1865
Gask, Arthur, 1869-1951
Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Geoffrey of Monmouth, c.1100-c.1155
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603
Giles, Ernest, 1835-1897
Gillmore, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Gogol, Nikolai, 1809-1852
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833-1870
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
Gower, John, 1325?-1408
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
Grant, James, 1822-1887
Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592?
Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
Griffith, George, 1857-1906
Griffith, Mary, 1772-1846
Grimm, Jakob, 1785-1863
Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859
Grossmith, George, 1847-1912
Grossmith, Weedon, 1852-1919
Haggard, Henry Rider, 1856-1925
Hakluyt, Richard, c.1552-1616
Hall, Radclyffe, 1880-1943
Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Harrington, James, 1611-1677
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931
Harvey, William, 1578-1657
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
Henning, Rachel, 1826-1914
Hentzner, Paul, 1558-1623
Herbert, George, 1593-1633
Herodotus, 485-420BCE
Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674
Hesiod, d.ca.700BCE
Hilton, James, 1900-1954
Hippocrates, 460-377 BCE
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918
Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Hogg, James, 1770-1835
Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Homer, d.ca.800BCE
Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933
Horace, 65-8 BCE
Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936
Howard, Ebenezer, 1850-1928
Howard, Robert E., 1906-1936
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Hudson, William Henry, 1841-1922
Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835
Hume, David, 1711-1776
Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1693
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Isola, Antonia, 1876-?
Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943
James, Henry, 1843-1916
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936
James, William, 1842-1910
Jardine, Frank and Alexander, 1841-1919
Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887
Jelihovsky, Vera, 1835-1896
Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Jerome, Jerome K., 1859-1927
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904
Jones, Alice Ilgenfritz, 1846-1905
Jonson, Ben, 1573-1637
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Keats, John, 1795-1821
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855
Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
Kingsley, Henry, 1830-1876
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
King, Jessie Marion, 1875-1949
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Kirkland, Winifred, 1872-1943
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, 1842-1921
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594
Lamarck, Jean–Baptiste, 1744-1829
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
Lamb, Horace, 1849-1934
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864
Lane, Mary E. Bradley
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Lao Tzu, d.4thC BCE
Lathom, Francis, 1774-1832
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935
Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922
La Boétie, Étienne de, 1530-1563
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
Lennox, Charlotte, 1730-1804
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Lermontov, Mikhail, 1814-1841
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873
Lindsay, David, 1876-1945
Lister, Joseph, 1827-1912
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Livy, 59 BC-AD 17
Locke, John, 1632-1704
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Longinus
Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923
Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Lucan, 39-65
Lucian of Samosata, 120-180
Lucretius, 98?-55 BCE
Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
Macpherson, Ian, 1905-1944
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
Malory, Thomas, 1430-1471
Malthus, Thomas, 1766-1834
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
Mandeville, John, d.14th C
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873
Marcus Aurelius, 121-180
Marguerite de Navarre, 1492-1549
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Marryat, Florence, 1833-1899
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848
Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948
Maturin, Charles Robert, 1782-1824
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872
Mawson, Douglas, Sir, 1882-1958
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Melville, Lewis, 1874-1932
Menander, ca. 342-291 BC
Meredith, George, 1828-1909
Merritt, Abraham, 1882-1943
Middleton, Richard, 1882-1911
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949
Mitchell, Thomas, 1792-1855
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
Molière, 1622-1673
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942
Moore, George, 1852-1933
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
More, Thomas, 1478-1535
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793
Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Moxon, Elizabeth
Murasaki Shikibu
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942
Muskett, Philip E., d.d. 1909
Nashe, Thomas, 1567-1601
Neruda, Jan, 1834-1891
Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900
Ohnet, Georges, 1848-1914
Omar Khayyám, 1048-1122
Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Ouida, 1839-1908
Ovid, 43 BCE-17 CE
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858
Oxley, John, 1783-1828
O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Park, Mungo, 1771-1806
Parsons, Eliza, 1739-1811
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895
Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866
Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
Petrarch, 1304-1374
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942
Petronius, c.27-66
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936
Plato, c.427-c.347 BCE
Pliny, the Elder, 23-79
Pliny, the Younger, 62-c.114
Plotinus, 205-270
Plutarch, 46-120
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912
Polidori, John, 1795-1821
Polo, Marco, 1254-1324
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Porter, Jane, 1776-1850
Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 1809-1865
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, 1863-1944
Rabelais, François, 1494?-1553?
Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823
Reade, Charles, 1814-1884
Reed, John, 1887-1920
Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796
Rhead, Louis John, 1857-1926
Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
Richardson, James, 1806-1851
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
Robertson, Morgan, 1861-1915
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Ross, Martin, 1862-1915
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 1712-1778
Rudd, Steele, 1868-1935
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Russell, George William, 1867-1935
Saadi, 1184-1283/1291?
Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944
Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933
Saki, 1870-1916
Sand, George, 1804-1876
Sappho
Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
Scott, Sarah, 1720-1795
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca.4 BCE-65 CE
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Shackleton, Ernest, 1874-1922
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950
Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
Smollett, Tobias, 1721-1771
Somerville, E. OE (Edith OEnone), 1858-1949
Sophocles, c.496-c.405 BCE
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Souvestre, Émile, 1806-1854
Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864
Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929
Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910
Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599
Spinoza, Benedict de, 1632-1677
Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841-1904
Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Stendhal, 1783-1842
Stephens, James, 1882-1950
Sterling, Bruce
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Stevens, Francis, 1883-1948
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866
Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869
Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.
Sun Tzu
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Synge, John Millington, 1871-1909
Tacitus, Cornelius, ca.56-ca.120 AD
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
Tegnér, Esaias, 1782-1846
Tench, Watkin, 1758-1833
Tennyson, Alfred, 1809-1892
Terence, 195 or 185-159 BC
Tey, Josephine, 1896-1952
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274
Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
Thompson, Flora, 1876-1947
Thomson, James, 1834-1882
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Thorne, Guy, 1876-1923
Thucydides, d.ca.460 BCE
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Trollope, Fanny (Frances Milton), 1780-1863
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
Tucker, James, 1803-1866
Turgenev, Ivan, 1818-1883
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929
Verga, Giovanni, 1840-1922
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
Virgil, 70-19 BCE
Voltaire, 1694-1778
Von Arnim, Elizabeth, 1866-1941
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865
Webb, Mary, 1881-1927
Webster, John, c.1580-c.1634
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Weston, Jessie Laidlay, 1850-1928
West, Nathanael, 1903-1940
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
White, John, c.1757-1832
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Williams, Charles, 1886-1945
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Wood, Ellen, 1814-1887
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Wu Cheng'en (吳承恩), ca. 1500-1582
Xenophon, 431-c.360 BCE
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902