Authors by Clue

He is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era

He is a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time

His work typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments

He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned

In 2008, The Times ranked him second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"

He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists

He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp

She is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans

He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers

He is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers

Her UK sales total in excess of £238 million, making her the best-selling living author in Britain

Her novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children

The New York Times called him "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream"

He was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance"

She is a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations