John Donne British poet and priset Famous for his metaphysics writing Famous work: A Valediction. Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets, Anniversaries A secret marriage Converted from Catholicism

John Milton ┼ Poet and hymn writer Paradise Lost Lycidas Became blind 1652

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) Essayist, poet, critic and satirist An essay on criticism, Essay on man and The temple of fame Third most frequently quoted writer and the greatest poet of the 18th century

Scottish poet Halloween, The holy fair ”Burns’s Night”, January every year Robert Burns

Sir Walter Scott ( ) Wrote novels and poetry Wrote Ivanhoe Born in Scottland

Jane Austen She wrote romantic novels. Pride and prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. She did not use her name when she published her works.

John Keats ( ) John Keats wrote poems Bright Star, La belle dame sans merci He is one of the most famous poet during the Romanticism

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley She wrote short stories and novels Frankenstein The Last Man She died in London from a brain tumor at age 53. She was buried between her mother and father.

Edgar Allan Poe  Famous for his short horror stories  One of the fathers of the science fiction genre  He wrote during the Romanticism Famous works  The black cat  The raven  The murders in Rue Morgue Interesting Facts  It’s said that he was a gambler and that it led to alcoholism

Charles Dickens English novelist The greatest during the victorian era Emphasized injustice, social evil Comical inputs Famous work: Oliver Twist David Copperfield The Pickwick Papers Interesting facts: Chapters published in periodicals Subscribers died due to addiction Changed orphanages in London

Charlotte Brontë C-Charlotte Brontë wrote novels under her false name ”Currer Bell” - Her most famous novel is called ”Jane Eyre” - The professor wasen’t approved by the publishier - In her novel ”Shirley” she revealed that she was a woman

Emily Brontë Wrote poems and novels Wuthering Heights, A Death-Scene, Walterclough Hall She had 2 sisters which wrote stories. She died 30 years old She is also noted for her remarkable force of character

Walt Whitman American poet, He wrote poems Famous work: - Leaves of Grass (collection of poems) Beat! Beat! Drums! O Captain! My Captain! Interesting facts: -Death and sexuality. -America’s Shakespeare -Drunk while he wrote a novel

Emily Dickinson Born 1830 in Amherst American poet Wrote 1700 poems Died in Nefrit 1886 in Amherst She wrote short and impure novels, and the local publishers was afraid to publish her poems. Her sister published them after her death, against her will. She wanted her sister to burn them when she died. Her most famous poem is "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?”

Lewis Caroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) His works are sometimes called literary nonsense. Means they use sensical, nonsensical elements to defy language conversations or logical reasoning. Alice’s adventure in wonderland (1865) Through the Looking-Glass (1871) Accused of pedophilia Måns Boström TE09B

Robert Louis Stevenson Essayist, Novelist, Poet and travel writer. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Treasure Island. One of the 30 most translated authors.

Oscar Wilde British/Irish playwright Famous plays - The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Decay of Lying - The Importance of Being Earnest Got thrown into prison

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet and writer. The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous and Kim. Kipling recieved the Nobel Price for Literature in He was born in Bombay, India where he got the influence to write The Jungle Book.

James Joyce Irish Novelist & Poet Born 1882 Dead 1941 Most famous Work Ulysses His life & Work is celibrated 16 June in Dublin every year

Virginia Woolf An experimental author The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room,Mrs Dalloway Mental illness and suicide to an Oscar movie, Bloomsburygroup,

Agatha Christie She wrote crimefiction novels. Famous works: –And then there were none –Evil under sun –Murder on the orient express. She is the only crime writer to have created 2 equally famous and much loved characters - Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Ernest Hemingway ( ) He wrote novels & Short stories The sun also rises, A farewell to arms & The old man and the sea He won the Nobel prize 1954, The Iceberg theory, Influence from the War

John Steinbeck American author - wrote novels and plays - realistic and naturalistic - The Grapes of Wrath - East of Eden Famous work: - Of Mice and Men Nobel prize in literature, Pulitzer prize - The Grapes of Wrath The National Steinbeck Center

George Orwell Novel writer Partially schizophrenic Real name Erik Blair Famous work Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four Interesting Facts With “1984” he laid the foundation to our reality- show “Big Brother”

Samuel Beckett Irish Writer/Dramatist Waiting for Godot, Fin de partie and Happy days Other facts. -Nobel prize Absurd plays

William Golding ( ) He wrote novels and poets His most famous works are Lord of the flies and Rites of Passage He got the nobel prize for Literature in 1983 He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980