It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn’t what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the lives and life’s work of hundreds of leading individuals from an assortment of disciplines. Readers will get to know the foremost minds within science, art, writing, music, invention, politics and philosophy. Each valuable compendium offers a comprehensive index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes details that reveal the very human nature behind world-changing personalities.
The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time: Homer Aeschylus Sophocles Aristophanes Gaius Valerius Catullus Virgil Imru’ al-Qays Du Fu al-Mutanabbī Ferdowsī Murasaki Shikibu Rūmī Dante Petrarch Geoffrey Chaucer Luís de Camões Michel de Montaigne Miguel de Cervantes Edmund Spenser Lope de Vega Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare John Donne John Milton Jean Racine Aphra Behn Bashō Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Voltaire Henry Fielding Samuel Johnson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Robert Burns William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jane Austen George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Aleksandr Pushkin Victor Hugo Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens Robert Browning Charlotte Brontë Henry David Thoreau Emily Brontë Walt Whitman Herman Melville George Eliot Charles Baudelaire Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gustave Flaubert Henrik Ibsen Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Mark Twain Émile Zola Henry James August Strindberg Oscar Wilde Arthur Rimbaud George Bernard Shaw Anton Chekhov Rabindranath Tagore William Butler Yeats Luigi Pirandello Marcel Proust Robert Frost Thomas Mann Lu Xun Virginia Woolf James Joyce Franz Kafka T. S. Eliot Eugene O’Neill Anna Akhmatova William Faulkner Vladimir Nabokov Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck George Orwell Pablo Neruda Samuel Beckett Richard Wright Eudora Welty Naguib Mahfouz Albert Camus Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jack Kerouac Flannery O’Connor Toni Morrison Wole Soyinka Sir Salman Rushdie J. K. Rowling
