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Birthyear
|
Birthplace
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Most Famous Work
|
Name
|
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1265
|
Florence, Italy
|
The Divine Comedy
|
Dante Alighieri
|
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1313
|
Certaldo, Italy
|
The Decameron
|
Giovanni Boccaccio
|
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1364
|
Venice, Italy
|
The City of Ladies
|
Christine De Pizan
|
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1469
|
Florence, Italy
|
The Prince
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Niccolo Machiavelli
|
|
1564
|
Stratford, England
|
Julius Caesar
|
William Shakespeare
|
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1667
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Gulliver's Travels
|
Jonathan Swift
|
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1749
|
Frankfurt, Germany
|
Faust
|
Wolfgang Von Goethe
|
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1775
|
Steventon, England
|
Pride & Prejudice
|
Jane Austen
|
|
1785
|
Milan, Italy
|
The Betrothed
|
Alessandro Manzoni
|
|
1797
|
London, England
|
Frankenstein
|
Mary Shelley
|
|
1799
|
Moscow, Russia
|
Eugene Onegin
|
Alexander Pushkin
|
|
1802
|
Besancon, France
|
Les Miserables
|
Victor Hugo
|
|
1802
|
Aisne, France
|
The Three Musketeers
|
Alexandre Dumas
|
|
1804
|
Salem, Massachusetts
|
The Scarlet Letter
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
|
1805
|
Odense, Denmark
|
The Little Mermaid
|
Hans Christian Andersen
|
|
1809
|
Boston, Massachusetts
|
The Tell Tale Heart
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
|
1809
|
Poltava, Ukraine
|
The Overcoat
|
Nikolai Gogol
|
|
1811
|
Litchfield, Connecticut
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
|
1812
|
Portsmouth, England
|
A Tale of Two Cities
|
Charles Dickens
|
|
1814
|
Moscow, Russia
|
A Hero of Our Time
|
Mikhail Lermontov
|
|
1815
|
London, England
|
Barchester Towers
|
Anthony Trollope
|
|
1816
|
Thornton, England
|
Jane Eyre
|
Charlotte Bronte
|
|
1817
|
Concord, Massachusetts
|
Walden
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
|
1818
|
Thornton, England
|
Wuthering Heights
|
Emily Bronte
|
|
1818
|
Oryol, Russia
|
Fathers and Sons
|
Ivan Turgenev
|
|
1819
|
Manhattan, New York
|
Moby Dick
|
Herman Melville
|
|
1819
|
Long Island, New York
|
Leaves of Grass
|
Walt Whitman
|
|
1821
|
Rouen, France
|
Madame Bovary
|
Gustave Flaubert
|
|
1821
|
Paris, France
|
The Flowers of Evil
|
Charles Baudelaire
|
|
1821
|
Moscow, Russia
|
Crime & Punishment
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
|
1824
|
London, England
|
The Woman in White
|
Wilkie Collins
|
|
1828
|
Tula, Russia
|
Anna Karenina
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
|
1828
|
Skien, Norway
|
A Doll's House
|
Henrik Ibsen
|
|
1828
|
Nantes, France
|
Around the World in Eighty Days
|
Jules Verne
|
|
1832
|
Daresbury, England
|
Through the Looking Glass
|
Lewis Carroll
|
|
1835
|
Florida, Missouri
|
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
|
Mark Twain
|
|
1840
|
Paris, France
|
Germinal
|
Emile Zola
|
|
1840
|
Stinsford, England
|
Jude the Obscure
|
Thomas Hardy
|
|
1843
|
Manhattan, New York
|
The Portrait of a Lady
|
Henry James
|
|
1847
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Dracula
|
Bram Stoker
|
|
1849
|
Stockholm, Sweden
|
The Red Room
|
August Strindberg
|
|
1850
|
Tourville, France
|
The Necklace
|
Guy De Maupassant
|
|
1850
|
St. Louis, Missouri
|
The Awakening
|
Kate Chopin
|
|
1850
|
Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Treasure Island
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
|
1854
|
Ardennes, France
|
The Drunken Boat
|
Arthur Rimbaud
|
|
1854
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray
|
Oscar Wilde
|
|
1857
|
Berdychiv, Ukraine
|
Heart of Darkness
|
Joseph Conrad
|
|
1859
|
Lom, Norway
|
Hunger
|
Knut Hamsun
|
|
1860
|
Taganrog, Russia
|
The Cherry Orchard
|
Anton Chekhov
|
|
1861
|
Trieste, Italy
|
Zeno's Conscience
|
Italo Svevo
|
|
1862
|
Manhattan, New York
|
The Age of Innocence
|
Edith Wharton
|
|
1868
|
Marseille, France
|
Cyrano De Bergerac
|
Edmond Rostand
|
|
1869
|
Paris, France
|
The Counterfeiters
|
Andre Gide
|
|
1871
|
Newark, New Jersey
|
The Red Badge of Courage
|
Stephen Crane
|
|
1871
|
Paris, France
|
In Search of Lost Time
|
Marcel Proust
|
|
1873
|
Gore, Virginia
|
My Antonia
|
Willa Cather
|
|
1874
|
New London, Canada
|
Anne of Green Gables
|
Lucy Maud Montgomery
|
|
1875
|
Lubeck, Germany
|
The Magic Mountain
|
Thomas Mann
|
|
1875
|
Prague, Czechia
|
Letters to a Young Poet
|
Rainer Maria Rilke
|
|
1876
|
San Francisco, California
|
The Call of the Wild
|
Jack London
|
|
1877
|
Calw, Germany
|
Siddhartha
|
Hermann Hesse
|
|
1878
|
Baltimore, Maryland
|
The Jungle
|
Upton Sinclair
|
|
1878
|
Szczecin, Poland
|
Berlin Alexanderplatz
|
Alfred Doblin
|
|
1879
|
London, England
|
A Passage to India
|
E.M. Forster
|
|
1880
|
Klagenfurt, Austria
|
The Man Without Qualities
|
Robert Musil
|
|
1882
|
London, England
|
To The Lighthouse
|
Virginia Woolf
|
|
1882
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Ulysses
|
James Joyce
|
|
1883
|
Prague, Czechia
|
The Metamorphosis
|
Franz Kafka
|
|
1883
|
Prague, Czechia
|
The Good Soldier
|
Jaroslav Hasek
|
|
1883
|
Heraklion, Greece
|
Zorba the Greek
|
Nikos Kazantzakis
|
|
1885
|
Rungsted, Denmark
|
Out of Africa
|
Isak Dinesen
|
|
1888
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
The Book of Disquiet
|
Fernando Pessoa
|
|
1890
|
Torquay, England
|
And Then There Were None
|
Agatha Christie
|
|
1890
|
Moscow, Russia
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
Boris Pasternak
|
|
1891
|
Kyiv, Ukraine
|
The Master and Margarita
|
Mikhail Bulgakov
|
|
1891
|
Notasulga, Alabama
|
Their Eyes Were Watching God
|
Zora Neale Hurston
|
|
1892
|
Belgrade, Serbia
|
The Bridge on the Drina
|
Ivo Andric
|
|
1892
|
Hillsboro, West Virginia
|
The Good Earth
|
Pearl S. Buck
|
|
1892
|
Blomfontein, South Africa
|
The Lord of the Rings
|
J.R.R. Tolkien
|
|
1894
|
Godalming, England
|
Brave New World
|
Aldous Huxley
|
|
1896
|
St. Paul, Minnesota
|
The Great Gatsby
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
|
1897
|
New Albany, Mississippi
|
The Sound and the Fury
|
William Faulkner
|
|
1898
|
Osnabruck, Germany
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
Erich Maria Remarque
|
|
1899
|
Chicago, Illinois
|
The Sun Also Rises
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
|
1899
|
St. Petersburg, Russia
|
Lolita
|
Vladimir Nabokov
|
|
1899
|
The Bronx, New York
|
Charlotte's Web
|
E.B. White
|
|
1900
|
Atlanta, Georgia
|
Gone With the Wind
|
Margaret Mitchell
|
|
1902
|
Salinas, California
|
Of Mice and Men
|
John Steinbeck
|
|
1902
|
London, England
|
Cold Comfort Farm
|
Stella Gibbons
|
|
1902
|
Leoncin, Poland
|
The Family Moskat
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
|
1903
|
Motihari, India
|
Nineteen Eighty Four
|
George Orwell
|
|
1903
|
Brussels, Belgium
|
Memoirs of Hadrian
|
Marguerite Yourcenar
|
|
1903
|
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
|
Cry, the Beloved Country
|
Alan Paton
|
|
1905
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Darkness at Noon
|
Arthur Koestler
|
|
1905
|
Rostov, Russia
|
And Quiet Flows the Don
|
Mikhail Sholokhov
|
|
1905
|
Paris, France
|
Nausea
|
Jean Paul Sartre
|
|
1906
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Waiting for Godot
|
Samuel Beckett
|
|
1907
|
London, England
|
Rebecca
|
Daphne Du Maurier
|
|
1907
|
Vimmerby, Sweden
|
Pippi Longstocking
|
Astrid Lindgren
|
|
1908
|
Paris, France
|
The Second Sex
|
Simone De Beauvoir
|
|
1909
|
Slatina, Romania
|
The Bald Soprano
|
Eugene Ionesco
|
|
1911
|
Newquay, England
|
Lord of the Flies
|
William Golding
|
|
1911
|
Cairo, Egypt
|
Palace Walk
|
Naguib Mahfouz
|
|
1913
|
Drean, Algeria
|
The Stranger
|
Albert Camus
|
|
1914
|
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
Invisible Man
|
Ralph Ellison
|
|
1915
|
Harlem, New York
|
Death of a Salesman
|
Arthur Miller
|
|
1917
|
Manchester, England
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Anthony Burgess
|
|
1918
|
Kislovodsk, Russia
|
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
|
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
|
1919
|
Manhattan, New York
|
The Catcher in the Rye
|
J.D. Salinger
|
|
1920
|
Smolensk, Russia
|
The Foundation
|
Isaac Asimov
|
|
1920
|
Tacoma, Washington
|
Dune
|
Frank Herbert
|
|
1920
|
Chicago, Illinois
|
Fahrenheit 451
|
Ray Bradbury
|
|
1920
|
Manhattan, New York
|
The Godfather
|
Mario Puzo
|
|
1922
|
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
Slaughterhouse Five
|
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
|
|
1922
|
Lowell, Massachusetts
|
On the Road
|
Jack Kerouac
|
|
1923
|
Havana, Cuba
|
Invisible Cities
|
Italo Calvino
|
|
1923
|
Coney Island, New York
|
Catch 22
|
Joseph Heller
|
|
1924
|
Harlem, New York
|
Giovanni's Room
|
James Baldwin
|
|
1924
|
New Orleans, Louisiana
|
In Cold Blood
|
Truman Capote
|
|
1926
|
Monroeville, Alabama
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Harper Lee
|
|
1927
|
Gdansk, Poland
|
The Tin Drum
|
Gunter Grass
|
|
1927
|
Aracataca, Colombia
|
One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
|
|
1928
|
Sighetu, Romania
|
Night
|
Elie Wiesel
|
|
1928
|
St. Louis, Missouri
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
|
Maya Angelou
|
|
1929
|
Frankfurt, Germany
|
The Diary of a Young Girl
|
Anne Frank
|
|
1929
|
San Francisco, California
|
The Left Hand of Darkness
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
|
1929
|
Brno, Czechia
|
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
Milan Kundera
|
|
1930
|
Ogidi, Nigeria
|
Things Fall Apart
|
Chinua Achebe
|
|
1931
|
Lorain, Ohio
|
Beloved
|
Toni Morrison
|
|
1932
|
Boston, Massachusetts
|
The Bell Jar
|
Sylvia Plath
|
|
1932
|
Chaguanas, Trinidad
|
A House For Mrs. Biswas
|
V.S. Naipaul
|
|
1934
|
Sacramento, California
|
The White Album
|
Joan Didion
|
|
1947
|
Portland, Maine
|
The Shining
|
Stephen King
|
|
1966
|
Nesconset, New York
|
My Sister's Keeper
|
Jodi Picoult
|
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