Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647  – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer.
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Pío Baroja y Nessi

Pío Baroja y Nessi (December 28, 1872 – October 30, 1956) was a Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of ‘98. He was a member of an illustrious family, one of his relatives was a painter and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja was a well known anthropologist.
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Alfonso Reyes Ochoa

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889, Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959, Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, and diplomat.
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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous “boom” period. He was among the first practitioners of magical realism and exerted a decisive influence on the works of younger Latin American writers.
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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, Nobel Laureate (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was a world-renowned English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, political activist, and president of the Central School of Speech and Drama, a constituent college of the University of London. After publishing poetry as a teenager and acting in school plays, Pinter began his theatrical career in the mid-1950s as a rep actor using the stage name David Baron. During a writing career spanning over half a century, beginning with his first play, The Room (1957), Pinter wrote 29 stage plays; 26 screenplays; many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays; poetry; some short fiction; a novel; and essays, speeches, and letters.
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Kipling Joseph Rudyard

Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936), English writer and Nobel laureate, who wrote novels, poems, and short stories, mostly set in India and Burma during the time of British rule.
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Miller Henry

Miller, Henry (1891-1980), American writer, whose antipuritanical books did much to free the discussion of sexual subjects in American writing from both legal and social restrictions. Born in New York City, Miller tried a variety of jobs and attended the City College of New York briefly before going to Paris in 1930. He lived there for almost ten years, leading a bohemian existence that he wrote about in three loosely autobiographical erotic novels, Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). These books, prohibited in the United States on grounds of obscenity, were frequently smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation. In 1940 he returned to the United States settling at Big Sur, California. There he continued to produce his vividly written, semiphilosophical, and often ribald works, which attacked contemporary American cultural values and moral attitudes. His books include The Colossus of Maroussi (1941); The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945-1947); a trilogy, The Rosy Crucifixion, comprising Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), and Nexus (1960); Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957); and the critical work The World of Lawrence (1980).
The publication of Miller’s two “Tropics” novels in the United States led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography and ended, in 1964, in a victory for him when the Supreme Court overruled state court findings of obscenity. Miller also earned recognition as a watercolorist.

Austen Jane

Austen, Jane (1775-1817), major English novelist, whose brilliantly witty, elegantly structured satirical fiction marks the transition in English literature from 18th-century neoclassicism to 19th-century romanticism.
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Musset Alfred Louis Charles de

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d’un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.
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Flaubert Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-80), French novelist of the realist school, noted for his objective approach and painstaking perfection of style, characteristics of Madame Bovary, his most famous work.
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