"Also appears under the title of Masterplots cyclopedia of world authors." Includes bibliographies.

"Also appears under the title of Masterplots cyclopedia of world authors."

Pierre Abélard; Edmond François About; Henry Adams; John Adams; Joseph Addison; Aeschylus; Aesop; William Harrison Ainsworth; Alain-Fournier (Henri Alain Fournier); Pedro Antonio De Alarcón; Louisa May Alcott; Richard Aldington; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Ciro Alegría; Mateo Alemán; Hervey Allen; Ignacio Manuel Altamirano; Jorge Amado; Edmondo De Amicis; Johanna Van Ammers-Küller; Hans Christian Andersen; Maxwell Anderson; Sherwood Anderson; Leonid Andreyev; Jean Anouilh; Lucius Apuleius; Thomas Aquinas; Pietro Aretino; Arihara No Narihira; Ludovico Ariosto; Aristophanes; Aristotle; Matthew Arnold; Mikhail Artsybashev; Sholem Asch; W.H. Auden; St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus); Jane Austen; Mariano Azuela; Riccardo Bacchelli; Sir Francis Bacon; John Bale; Honoré De Balzac; Henri Barbusse; John Barclay; Pío Baroja Y Nessi; Sir James Matthew Barrie; Matsuo Bashô; Charles Baudelaire; Vicki Baum; Rex Beach; Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; Samuel Beckett; William Beckford; Sir Max Beerbohm; Aphra Behn; Henry Bellamann; Edward Bellamy; Hilaire Belloc; Jacinto Benavente Y Martínez; Stephen Vincent Benét; Arnold Bennett; Georges Bernanos; Ambrose Bierce; Robert Montgomery Bird; Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; R.D. Blackmore; William Blake; Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; Giovanni Boccaccio; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius; Matteo Maria Boiardo; Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux; Johan Bojer; George Henry Borrow; James Boswell; Paul Bourget; Elizabeth Bowen; James Boyd; Hugh Henry Brackenridge; Bertolt Brecht; Hermann Broch; Richard Brome; Louis Bromfield; The Brontës; Henry Brooke; Charles Brockden Brown; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; William Cullen Bryant; John Buchan; Georg Büchner; Pearl S. Buck; Frank Thomas Bullen; Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton; Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin; John Bunyan; Edmund Burke; Fanny Burney; Robert Burns; Robert Burton; Samuel Butler (1612-1680); Samuel Butler (1835-1902); Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne); George Gordon, Lord Byron; James Branch Cabell; George Washington Cable; Gaius Julius Caesar; Pedro Calderón De La Barca; Erskine Caldwell; Luis De Camoëns; Albert Camus; Karel Čapek; Giosuè Carducci; William Carleton; Thomas Carlyle; Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); Joyce Cary; Giovanni Jacopo Casanova De Seingalt; Willa Cather; Gaius Valerius Catullus; Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis Fuch Destouches); Benvenuto Cellini; Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; George Chapman; François René De Chateaubriand; Geoffrey Chaucer; Anton Chekhov; Charles Waddell Chesnutt; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield; G.K. Chesterton; Chikamatsu Monzaemon; Chrétien De Troyes; Winston Churchill; Sir Winston Churchill; Colley Cibber; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Jean Cocteau; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Colette; Wilkie Collins; William Congreve; Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski); Hendrik Conscience; Benjamin Constant; John Esten Cooke; James Fenimore Cooper; Pierre Corneille; Charles De Coster; Louis Couperus; Noel Coward; Abraham Cowley; William Cowper; James Gould Cozzens; George Crabbe; Hart Crane; Stephen Crane; Prosper Jolyot De Crébillon; Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crévecœur; David Crockett; E.E. Cummings; Richard Henry Dana; Gabriele D'Annunzio; Dante Alighieri; Charles Darwin; Alphonse Daudet; Sir William Davenant; H.L. Davis; Clarence Day; Thomas Day. Daniel Defoe; John William De Forest; Thomas Dekker; Walter De La Mare; Mazo De La Roche; Grazia Deledda; Thomas Deloney; William De Morgan; Demosthenes; Thomas De Quincey; Charles Dickens; Emily Dickinson; Denis Diderot; Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke); Benjamin Disraeli; John Donne; John Dos Passos; Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; Charles M. Doughty; George Douglas (George Douglas Brown); Lloyd C. Douglas; Norman Douglas; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Michael Drayton; Theodore Dreiser; John Dryden; Alexandre Dumas, père; Alexandre Dumas, fils; Daphne Du Maurier; George Du Maurier; Olav Duun; José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre; Maria Edgeworth; Walter D. Edmonds; Jonathan Edwards; Pierce Egan; Edward Eggleston; George Eliot (Marian or Mary Ann Evans); T.S. Eliot; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Desiderius Erasmus; Sir George Etherege; Euripides; John Evelyn; George Farquhar; James T. Farrell; William Faulkner; José Joaquín Fernández De Lizardi; António Ferreira; Lion Feuchtwanger; Henry Fielding; Vardis Fisher; Edward Fitzgerald; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Gustave Flaubert; Antonio Fogazzaro; Theodor Fontane; Esther Forbes; Ford Madox Ford; John Ford; C.S. Forester; E.M. Forster; Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault); Benjamin Franklin; Harold Frederic; Douglas Southall Freeman; Philip Freneau; Sigmund Freud; Gustav Freytag; Jean Froiossart; Eugène Fromentin; Robert Frost; Christopher Fry; Émile Gaboriau; Rómulo Gallegos; John Galsworthy; John Galt; Federico García Lorca; Hamlin Garland; David Garnett; Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell; Théophile Gautier; John Gay; Stefan George; Edward Gibbon; André Gide; Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; Jean Giono; Jean Giraudoux; George Gissing; Ellen Glasgow; William Godwin; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; Carlo Goldoni; Oliver Goldsmith; Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov; The Goncourts (Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt and Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt); Caroline Gordon; Maxim Gorky (Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov); Gottfried Von Strassburg; Remy De Gourmont; Kenneth Grahame; Harley Granville-Barker; Robert Graves; Thomas Gray; Henry Green (Henry Vincent Yorke); Julian Green; Graham Greene; Robert Greene; Lady Augusta Gregory; Gerald Griffin; Franz Grillparzer; J.J.C. Von Grimmelshausen; Guillaume De Lorris and Jean De Meung; Ricardo Güiraldes; Gunnar Gunnarsson; A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; Hāfiz; H. Rider Haggard; Richard Hakluyt; Edward Everett Hale; Ludovic Halévy; Alexander Hamilton; Dashiell Hammett; Knut Hamsun; Thomas Hardy; Joel Chandler Harris; Bret Harte; Hartmann Von Aue; Gerhart Hauptmann; Nathaniel Hawthorne; William Hazlitt; Lafcadio Hearn; Friedrich Hebbel; Thomas O. Heggen; Verner Von Heidenstam; Heinrich Heine; Lillian Hellman; Ernest Hemingway; Louis Hémon; O. Henry (William Sydney Porter); George Herbert; Joseph Hergesheimer; José Hernández; Herodotus; Robert Herrick; John Hersey; Hesiod; Hermann Hesse; Dubose Heyward; Thomas Heywood; James Hilton; Thomas Hobbes; Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Homer; Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins); Gerard Manley Hopkins; Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus); A.E. Housman; E.W. Howe; William Dean Howells; W.H. Hudson; Richard Hughes; Thomas Hughes; Victory Hugo; David Hume; A.S.M. Hutchinson; Aldous Huxley; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joris-Karl Huysmans (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans); Ibara Saikaku; Henrik Ibsen; Jorge Icaza. Washington Irving; Charles Jackson; Jens Peter Jacobsen; Henry James; William James; John Jay; Robinson Jeffers; Thomas Jefferson; Johannes V. Jensen; Jerome K. Jerome; Sarah Orne Jewett; Juan Ramón Jiménez; Jippensha Ikku; Samuel Johnson; Mary Johnston; Maurus Jókai; Henry Arthur Jones; Ben Jonson; James Joyce; Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis); Franz Kafka; Kalidasa; Immanuel Kant; Kao Tse-Ch'eng (Kao Ming); Sheila Kaye-Smith; John Keats; Gottfried Keller; John Pendleton Kennedy; Søren Kierkegaard; Charles Kingsley; Henry Kingsley; Rudyard Kipling; Heinrich Von Kleist; Eric Knight; Arthur Koestler; Thomas Kyd; Pierre Choderlos De Laclos; Madame Marie De La Fayette; Jean De La Fontaine; Pär Lagerkvist; Selma Lagerlöf; Charles Lamb; Friedrich De La Motte-Fouqué; Walter Savage Landor; William Langland; Sidney Lanier; Ring Lardner; François La Rochefoucauld; D.H. Lawrence; T.E. Lawrence; Halldór Kiljan Laxness; Layamon; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov; Alain René Le Sage; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Charles James Lever; Cecil Day Lewis; Matthew Gregory Lewis; Sinclair Lewis; Wyndham Lewis; Jonas Lie; Abraham Lincoln; Vachel Lindsay; José Lins Do Rêgo; Titus Livius; Richard Llewellyn (Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd); Lo Kuan-Chung; Vasco De Lobeira; John Locke; Ross Lockridge, Jr.; Jack London; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet; Longus; Elias Lönnrot; Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud); Richard Lovelace; Samuel Lover; James Russell Lowell; Lucian; Titus Lucretius Carus; John Lyly; Andrew Lytle; Thomas Babington Macaulay; Carson McCullers; William McFee; Joaquim Maria Machado De Assís; Arthur Machen; Niccolò Machiavelli; Henry Mackenzie; Archibald MacLeish; James Madison; Maurice Maeterlinck; Stéphane Mallarmé; Eduardo Mallea; Sir Thomas Malory; André Malraux; Thomas Mann; Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp); Alessandro Manzoni; René Maran; Marcus Aurelius; Pierre De Marivaux; Christopher Marlowe; John Phillips Marquand; Frederick Marryat; John Marston; Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis); Roger Martin Du Gard; Gregorio Martínez Sierra; Andrew Marvell; Karl Marx; Philip Massinger; Edgar Lee Masters; Cotton Mather; Charles Robert Maturin; W. Somerset Maugham; Guy De Maupassant; François Mauriac; Herman Melville; Menander; H.L. Mencken; George Meredith; Dmitri Merejkowski; Prosper Mérimée; Thomas Middleton; Kálmán Mikszáth; John Stuart Mill; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Arthur Miller; John Milton; Margaret Mitchell; S. Weir Mitchell; Mary Russell Mitford; Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin); Ferenc Molnar; Michel Eyquem De Montaigne; Charles De Montesquieu; George Moore; Thomas Moore; Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle); Sir Thomas More; James Justinian Morier; Dinah Maria Mulock; Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker); Lady Murasaki Shikibu; Henri Murger; Alfred De Musset; Thomas Nash; John Henry Newman; Sir Isaac Newton; Martin Andersen Nexö; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Ippolito Nievo; Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall ; Frank Norris; Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville; Kate O'Brien; Sean O'Casey; Clifford Odets; Seán O'Faoláin; Liam O'Flaherty; John O'Hara; Eugene O'Neill; José Ortega Y Gasset; George Orwell (Eric Hugh Blair); Thomas Otway; Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée); Publius Ovidius Naso; Thomas Nelson Page; Thomas Paine; Francis Parkman; Blaise Pascal; Walter Pater; Alan Paton; Thomas Love Peacock; George Peele. Samuel Pepys; José María De Pereda; Benito Pérez Galdós; St.-John Perse; Francesco Petrarch; Gaius Petronius Arbiter; Boris Pilnyak (Boris Andreyevich Vogau); Pindar; Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; Luigi Pirandello; Plato; Titus Maccius Plautus; Plutarch; Edgar Allan Poe; Politian (Angelo Ambrogini); Marco Polo; Henrik Pontoppidan; Alexander Pope; Jane Porter; Katherine Anne Porter; Ezra Pound; John Cowper Powys; Llewelyn Powys; T.F. Powys; William Hickling Prescott; The Abbé Prévost; J.B. Priestley; Frederic Prokosch; Marcel Proust; P'U Sung-Ling; Alexander Pushkin; François Rabelais; Jean Baptiste Racine; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz; John Crowe Ransom; Rudolph Erich Raspe; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Charles Reade; Forrest Reid; Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark); Alfonso Reyes; Ladislas Reymont; Elmer Rice; Dorothy M. Richardson; Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Richardson Robertson); Samuel Richardson; Conrad Richter; Lynn Riggs; Rainer Maria Rilke; Arthur Rimbaud; Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Thomas William Robertson; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Fernando De Rojas; Romain Rolland; O.E. Rölvaag; Pierre De Ronsard; Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Edmond Rostand; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Juan Ruiz De Alarcón; John Ruskin; W. Clark Russell; Viktor Rydberg; Hans Sachs; Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve; Antoine De Saint-Exupéry; Saki (Hector Hugh Munro); Felix Salten (Siegmund Salzmann); Florencio Sánchez; George Sand (Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant); Carl Sandburg; George Santayana; Santô Kyôden; Sappho; William Saroyan; Jean-Paul Sartre; Siegfried Sassoon; Friedrich Schiller; Arthur Schopenhauer; Olive Schreiner; Michael Scott; Sir Walter Scott; Madeleine De Scudéry; Lucius Annaeus Seneca; William Shakespeare; Bernard Shaw; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Robert C. Sherriff; Robert E. Sherwood; Shih Nai-an; James Shirley; Mikhail Sholokhov; Joseph Henry Shorthouse; Shudraka; Sir Philip Sidney; Henryk Sienkiewicz; Frans Eemil Sillanpää; Ignazio Silone; William Gilmore Simms; May Sinclair; Upton Sinclair; Israel Joshua Singer; Elsie Singmaster; Adam Smith; Betty Smith; Tobias Smollett; Snorri Sturluson; Socrates; Sophocles; Robert Southey; Stephen Spender; Edmund Spenser; Benedictus De Spinoza; Madame De Staël; Publius Papinius Statius; Sir Richard Steele; John Steinbeck; Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle); James Stephens; Laurence Sterne; James Stevens; Wallace Stevens; Robert Louis Stevenson; James Still; Bram Stoker; Phil Stong; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Lytton Strachey; August Stringberg; L.A.G. Strong; Jesse Stuart; Hermann Sudermann; Eugène Sue; Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; Robert Smith Surtees; Emanuel Swedenborg; Jonathan Swift; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Frank Swinnerton; John Millington Synge; Cornelius Tacitus; Hippolyte Taine; Booth Tarkington; Torquato Tasso; Edward Taylor; Esaias Tegnér; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Terence; William Makepeace Thackeray; Theocritus; Dylan Thomas; Thomas À Kempis; Daniel Pierce Thompson; Henry David Thoreau; Thucydides; James Thurber; Count Leo Tolstoy; H.M. Tomlinson; Cyril Tourneur; Arnold Toynbee; Anthony Trollope; John Townsend Trowbridge; Ivan Turgenev; Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens); Nicholas Udall (Woodall); Sigrid Undset; Juan Valera Y Alcalá Galiano; Valmiki; Sir John Vanbrugh; Carl Van Vechten; Ivan Vazov; Lope De Vega; Giovanni Verga; Publius Vergilius Maro; Paul Verlaine; Jules Verne; Alfred De Vigny; François Villon; François Marie Arouet De Voltaire; Lewis Wallace; Horace Walpole; Sir Hugh Walpole; Izaak Walton; Robert Penn Warren; Jakob Wassermann; Hugo Wast (Gustavo Martínez Zuviría); Evelyn Waugh; Mary Webb; John Webster; Frank Wedekind; H.G. Wells; Eudora Welty; Franz Werfel; Glenway Wescott; Nathanael West; Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield); Edward Noyes Westcott; Edith Wharton; Walt Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier; George J. Whyte-Melville; Oscar Wilde; Thornton Wilder; Tennessee Williams; William Carlos Williams; Owen Wister; Thomas Wolfe; Wolfram Von Eschenbach; Virginia Woolf; William Wordsworth; Richard Wright; William Wycherley; Elinor Wylie; Johann Rudolf Wyss; Xenophon; Agustín Yáñez; William Butler Yeats; Stark Young; Israel Zangwill; Stefan Żeromski; Émile Zola; José Zorrilla Y Moral; Arnold Zweig.