George Macaulay Trevelyan
British historian and academic
British historian and academic
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 18 March 1768), an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric, wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly …
Canadian artist and writer
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer
American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang
Homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado
American author
Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula