Authors

Distinguished Authors

The brilliant minds behind our cherished collection

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 — 1940

American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age.

Notable Works:

  • The Great Gatsby
  • Tender Is the Night
  • This Side of Paradise
  • The Beautiful and Damned
4 Books 4.5 Avg
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George Orwell

1903 — 1950

English novelist and essayist known for his lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.

Notable Works:

  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
  • Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Homage to Catalonia
6 Books 4.8 Avg
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Jane Austen

1775 — 1817

English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Notable Works:

  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Emma
  • Persuasion
6 Books 4.9 Avg
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J.R.R. Tolkien

1892 — 1973

English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Notable Works:

  • The Hobbit
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King
  • The Silmarillion
8 Books 5.0 Avg
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Stephen King

1947 — Present

American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies.

Notable Works:

  • The Shining
  • It
  • The Stand
  • Misery
  • Doctor Sleep (Sequel)
12 Books 4.6 Avg
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Charlotte Brontë

1816 — 1855

English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Notable Works:

  • Jane Eyre
  • Shirley
  • Villette
  • The Professor
4 Books 4.5 Avg