novelist

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist

English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction

American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer

American writer

French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic

Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children’s book author

American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.

American novelist and short story writer

American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer