Honoré de Balzac
novelist, writer, playwright, La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy)
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist, writer, author of Madame Bovary, pioneer in literary realism
1821-1880 (59)
James Baldwin
Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, writer, black activist
1924-1987 (63)
Leo Tolstoy
novelist, writer, bestselling author of War & Peace (1867), Anna Karenina (1878), How Much Land Does A Man Need?
1828-1910 (82)
Noel Coward
Playwright of Blithe Spirit, writer, poet, socialite, novelist
Percy Shelley
Playwright, writer of The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound, Hellas, The Necessity of Atheism
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Joan of Arc, The Robbers, Maria Stuart, Wallenstein, poet, writer of Ode to Joy, Song of the Bell, The Pledge, Der Handschuh, Kallias Letters, On Grace and Dignity, Good Samaritan, Der Geisterseher ("The Ghost Seer"), philosopher
1759-1805 (46)
plato.stanford.edu
Seneca the Younger
Stoic philosopher, playwright, dramatist, statesman, satyrist, author of Natural Questions on the shortness of life and living a happy life
4 BC-65 AD
William Shakespeare
Renaissance poet, playwright, writer, actor
shakespeare.mit.edu
Thespis
Dramatic artist, where the word Thespian originated, theatre dramatist, playwright
Walter Scott
Novelist, poet, playwright, historian, lecturer, Scottish King's seal society the Writers of the Signet, author of Ivanhoe
1771-1832 (61)
historic-uk.com
W.B. Yeats
senator of the Irish Free State, poet, playwright, writer, dramatist, founded the Abbey Theatre
1865-1939 (74)
poetryfoundation.org