1. British writers

2. William Shakespeare Shakespeare is Britain’s greatest playwright. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays, although few were published in his lifetime.

3. Jane Austen Jane Austen spent her short life in Hampshire, near the south coast of England. Her novels describe the everyday life of people in the middle upper-class circle, she knew best.

4. Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was the most popular novelist in the 19 th century in the English literature. His novels often tell the stories of young children who work hard to escape a life of poverty.

5. Robert Burns Robert Burns, a well- known and popular Scottish poet, was born in 1759. At the age of 15 he began to write poems. He wrote about people and about everyday things.

6. Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle was one of the first to start the fashion of the detective stories. Conan Doyle created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in 1885.

7. Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer. She wrote 79 novels and several plays. Many of her novels and short stories have been filmed.

8. John Ronald Tolkien The author of the famous book “The Lord of Rings” was born in 1892 in south Africa and grew up in a village near Birmingham.