Sigrid Undset
Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old
roman catholic writers
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet, writer, and soldier
Francois Rabelais
French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar
Erich Maria Remarque
German novelist
Kathleen Norris
American novelist and newspaper columnist
Walter M. Miller Jr.
American science fiction writer
Halldor Laxness
Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature