Virginia Woolf
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
modernist writers
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism
Italo Svevo
Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno , a work that had a profound effect on the movement.
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
Jean Rhys
British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time , originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Boris Pasternak
Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator