Dead Writers

Dead writers, playwrights and poets
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Bharathiyar
Chinnaswami Subramania Bharathi, also known as Bharathiyar, was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and a social reformer. #SubramanyaBharathi
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. #JosephConrad
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. #BanjoPaterson
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. #LawrenceDurrell
Hermann Hesse (1877-07-02-1962-08-09)
Hermann Karl Hesse ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. #HermannHesse
Joy Adamson (1910-01-20-1980-01-03)
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. #JoyAdamson
Iain Banks
Iain Banks was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. #IainBanks
C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. #CSLewis
C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S" Forester
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. #RalphWaldoEmerson
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. #AnthonyBurgess
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. #GeorgeBernardShaw
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. #MarkTwain
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century. #PGWodehouse