novelist

Voltaire

French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianityespecially the Roman Catholic Churchas well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state

John Kennedy Toole

American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Jean Toomer

American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism

Flora Thompson

English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.