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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

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time

Bram Stoker

Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula

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.

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub , An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity , Gulliver’s Travels , and A Modest Proposal . He is regarded by the Encyclopdia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry

Amy Tan

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