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A

‘Abdu’l Baha   (1844–1921)

Conrad Aiken   (1889–1973)

James Agee   (1909–1955)

James Allen

Kingsley Amis   (*1922)

Alfred Andersch   (*1914)

Sherwood Anderson   (1876–1941)

Angelus Silesius   (1624–1677)

H. C. Artmann     (1921–2000)

Margaret Atwood   (*1939)

Marcus Aurelius = Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen   (1775–1817)

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B

Ingeborg Bachmann   (1926–1973)

Baha’u’llah   (1817–1892)

James Baldwin   (1924–1987)

Max Beerbohm   (1872–1956)

Ludwig Bemelmans   (1898–1963)

Stephen Vincent Benét   (1898–1943)

Gottfried Benn   (1886–1956)

Thomas Bernhard   (1831–1990)

Biblia

Peter Bichsel   (*1935)

Manfred Bieler   (*1934)

Horst Bienek   (1830–1990)

Ambrose Bierce   (1842–1914)

Ernst Bloch   (1885–1977)

Heinrich Böll   (1917–1985)

Kay Boyle   (1902–1992)

Ray Bradbury   (*1920)

Bertolt Brecht   (1898–1956)

Peter Breiner   (*19..)

Max Brod   (1884–1968)

Hugh Brogan

Albín Brunovský

Buddha   (560?–480? bce)

Charles Bukowski   (1920–1994)

Kir Bulychov   (*1934)

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C

James M. Cain   (1892–1977)

Meg Campbell

Truman Capote   (1924–1984)

Dale Carnegie   (18..–19..)

E. H. Carr   (18..–19..)

Lewis Carroll   (1832–1898)

Anton Čechov = Anton Chekhov

Raymond Chandler   (1888–1959)

James Hadley Chase   (1906–1985)

John Cheever   (1912–1982)

Anton Chekhov   (1860–1904)

G. K. Chesterton   (1874–1936)

Kate Chopin   (1851–1904)

Agatha Christie   (1890–1976)

Robert M. Coates   (1897–1973)

Matt Cohen   (*1942)

Comenius = Jan Amos Komenský

Arthur Conan Doyle = Arthur Conan Doyle

Joseph Conrad   (1857–1924)

Russel H. Conwell   (18..–1...)

Stephen Crane   (1871–1900)

David Crystal   (*1941)

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D

Clarence Day   (1874–1935)

Daniel Defoe   (1660–1731)

Jenny Diski

Alfred Döblin   (1878–1957)

John Donne   (1572?–1631)

Fiodor M. Dostoyevskiy   (1821–1881)

Arthur Conan Doyle   (1859–1930)

Theodore Dreiser   (1871–1945)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt   (1921–1990)

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E

Walter D. Edmonds

Herbert Eisenreich   (1825–1986)

T. S. Eliot   (1888–1965)

Ralph Waldo Emerson   (1803–1882)

Epictetus   (60?–>100)

Paul Ernst   (1866–1933)

John E. Esslemont   (1874–1925)

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F

William Faulkner   (1897–1962)

Ľubomír Feldek   (*1936)

Lion Feuchtwanger   (1884–1958)

Henry Fielding   (1707–1754)

F. Scott Fitzgerald   (1896–1940)

Otto Flake

Theodor Fontane   (1819–1898)

E. M. Forster   (1879–1970)

Dick Francis   (*1920)

Leonhard Frank   (1882–1961)

Benjamin Franklin   (1706–1790)

Seymour Freedgood

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman   (1852–1930)

Erich Fried   (1821–1990)

Max Frisch   (1911–1991)

Franz Fühmann   (1922–1984)

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G

Jostein Gaarder   (*19..)

Erle Stanley Gardner   (1889–1970)

Henry A. Giroux   (*19..)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   (1749–1832)

Oliver Goldsmith   (1730?–1774)

Günter Grass   (*1927)

Robert Graves   (1895–1985)

Sidney Greenbaum

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H

Karl Hugo Haase   (1827–1873)

Dashiell Hammett   (1894–1961)

Moss Hart   (1904–1961)

Francis Bret Harte   (1836–1902)

Nathaniel Hawthorne   (1804–1864)

Herbert Heckman

Ernest Hemingway   (1899–1961)

O. Henry   (1862–1910)

Stephan Hermlin   (*1915)

Hermann Hesse   (1877–1962)

Georg Heym   (1887–1912)

Stefan Heym   (*1913)

Paul Heyse   (1830–1914)

Wolfgang Hildesheimer   (*1916)

Rolf Hochhuth   (*1931)

Hugo von Hofmannsthal   (1874–1929)

Richard Hoggart   (1918–19..)

Franz Hohler

Harry Holzheu   (*19..)

Elbert Hubbard

Ricarda Huch   (1864–1947)

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I

Il’ya Il’f   (1897–1937)   &   Yevgeniy Petrov   (1903–1942)

Washington Irving   (1783–1859)

Christopher Isherwood   (1904–1986)

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J

Shirley Jackson   (1919–1965)

Henry James   (1843–1916)

William James   (1842–1910)

Karl Jaspers   (1883–1969)

Walter Jens   (*1923)

Sarah Orne Jewett   (1849–1909)

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K

Franz Kafka   (1883–1924)

Ján Kamenistý   (*19..)

Immanuel Kant   (1724–1804)

Marie Luise Kaschnitz   (1901–1974)

George S. Kaufman   (1889–1961)

Eduard von Keyserling   (1855–1918)

Martin Luther King   (1929–1968)

Rudyard Kipling   (1865–1936)

Heinrich von Kleist   (1777–1811)

Alexander Kluge   (*1932)

Wolfgang Koeppen   (1906–19..)

Jan Amos Komenský   (1592–1670)

Friedrich Salomon Krauss

Kurt Kusenberg

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L

Oliver La Farge   (1901–1963)

John Lame Deer

Ring Lardner   (1885–1933)

Milan Lasica   (*1940)

D. H. Lawrence   (1885–1930)

B. F. Lazar   (*19..)

Stephen Leacock   (1869–1944)

F. R. Leavis   (1895–1978)

John Le Carré   (*1931)

Siegfried Lenz   (*1926)

Mikail Y. Lermontov   (1814–1841)

Abraham Lincoln   (1809–1965)

David Lodge   (*1935)

Jack London   (1876–1916)

Martin Luther   (1483–1546)

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M

Ross Macdonald   (1915–1983)

Golo Mann   (1909–1994)

Heinrich Mann   (1871–1950)

Thomas Mann   (1875–1955)

Katherine Mansfield   (1888–1923)

Marcus Aurelius   (121–80 bce)

Mark Twain = Mark Twain

Juan Mascaró

Alexander Matuška   (1910–1975)

William Somerset Maugham   (1874–1965)

William Maxwell   (*1908)

Karl May   (1842–1912; view special bio page)

John McAleer

Ed McBain   (*1926)

Mary McCarthy   (1912–1989)

Carson McCullers   (1917–1967)

Ross McDonald = Ross Macdonald

Herman Melville   (1819–1891)

Arthur Miller   (*1915)

Joseph Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell   (1900–1949)

George Moore   (1852–1933)

Farley Mowat

Adolf Muschg   (*1934)

Robert Musil   (1880–1942)

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N

Friedrich Nietzsche   (1844–1900)

Frank Norris   (1870–1902)

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O

Fitz-James O’Brien   (1828–1862)

Eugene O’Neill   (1888–1953)

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P

Dorothy Parker   (1893–1967)

Blaise Pascal   (1623–1662)

Norman Vincent Peale   (18..–19..)

Yevgeniy Petrov = Il’ya Il’f & Yevgeniy Petrov

Rosamunde Pilcher   (*1924)

Plato   (427–348/7 bce)

Heiner Plaul   (*19..)

William Plomer   (1903–1973)

Edgar Allan Poe   (1809–1849)

Alexander Pope   (1688–1744)

Karl Popper   (1902–1994)

V. S. Pritchett   (*1900)

Aleksandr S. Pushkin   (1799–1837)

Ellery Queen   (1905–1982)   &   (1905–1971)

Randolph Quirk   (*19..)

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R

Stefan Raab   (*19..)

Marcel Reich-Ranicki   (*1920)

Ludwig Reiners   (1896–1957)

Ruth Rendell   (*1930)

I. A. Richards   (1893–1979)

Rainer Maria Rilke   (1875–1926)

Peter Roach   (*19..)

Herbert Rosendorfer

Christina Rossetti   (1830–1894)

Eva Ružičková   (*19..)

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S

Gustav Sack

Saki   (1870–1916)

J. D. Salinger   (*1919)

William Saroyan   (1908–1981)

Július Satinský   (*1941)

Dorothy L. Sayers   (1893–1957)

Paul Scheerbart

Friedrich von Schiller   (1759–1805)

Arno Schmidt   (1914–1979)

Rolf Schneider   (*1932)

Sascha Schneider   (1870–1927; siehe Kommentar)

Wolf Schneider   (*1925)

Arthur Schnitzler   (1862–1931)

Karl Schönherr   (1867–1943)

Arthur Schopenhauer   (1788–1860)

Robert Schuller   (*19..)

Anna Seghers   (1800–1983)

Judy & Jim Sellner

Seneca   (4? bce–65 ce)

William Shakespeare   (1564–1616)

George Bernard Shaw   (1856–1950)

Irvin Shaw   (1913–1984)

Jane Smiley   (*1949)

Logan Pearsall Smith   (1865–1946)

Socrates   (469–399 bce)

Wilbur Daniel Steele   (1886–1970)

Wallace Stegner   (1909–1993)

John Steinbeck   (1902–1968)

Stanislav Štepka   (*1944)

Carl Sternheim   (1878–1942)

Robert Louis Stevenson   (1850–1894)

Hans Joachim Störig

Rex Stout   (1886–1975; view special bio page)

August Stramm   (1874–1915)

Erwin Strittmatter   (1912–19..)

William Strunk Jr.   (18..–19..)

Ján Sucháň   (*19..)

Hermann Sudermann   (1857–1928)

Jonathan Swift   (1667–1745)

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T

Dominik Tatarka   (1913–198.)

Alfred Tennyson   (1809–1892)

Henry David Thoreau   (1817–1862)

James Thurber   (1894–1961)

Timrava   (1867–1951)

Alexis de Tocqueville   (1805–1859)

Leo Tolstoy   (1828–1910)

G. W. Turner   (*1921)

Mark Twain   (1835–1910)

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U

John Updike   (*1932)

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V

Voltaire   (1694–1778)

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W

Alice Walker   (*1944)

Martin Walser   (*1927)

Robert Walser   (1878–1956)

Austin Warren

Robert Penn Warren   (1905–1989)

Evelyn Waugh   (1903–1966)

Frank Wedekind   (1864–1918)

Peter Weiß   (1916–1982)

René Wellek   (1903–19..)

H. G. Wells   (1866–1946)

Franz Werfel   (1890–1945)

Edith Wharton   (1862–1937)

E. B. White   (1899–1985)

Walt Whitman   (1819–1892)

Oscar Wilde   (1854–1900)

Thornton Wilder   (1897–1975)

Joy Williams   (*19..)

Tennessee Williams   (1911–1983)

William Carlos Williams   (1883–1963)

P. G. Wodehouse   (1881–1975)

Gabriele Wohmann   (*1932)

Herman Wouk   (*1915)

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X   Y   Z

Arnold Zweig   (1887–1968)

Stefan Zweig   (1881–1942)

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