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Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881 – 1938) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Achebe, Chinua (1930 – ) by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Acker, Kathy (1947 – 1997) by Diane Fare, University of Central Lancashire
Ackroyd, Peter (1949 – ) by Paul Smethurst, University of Hong Kong
Adams, Henry (1838 – 1918) by William Merrill Decker, Oklahoma State University
Adorno, Theodor (1903 – 1969) by Andrew Edgar, Cardiff University
Ælfric (955 (?) – 1010 (?)) by Stuart Lee, OUCS, University of Oxford
Aeschylus (525 BCE – 456 BCE) by John Lewis, Ashland University
Agee, James (1909 – 1955) by Jeffrey J. Folks, Doshisha University
Aidoo, Ama Ata (1942 – ) by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Aiken, Conrad (1889 – 1972) by David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805 – 1882) by Stephen Carver, Fukui University
Albee, Edward (1928 – ) by Lincoln Konkle, The College of New Jersey
Alcott, Louisa May (1832 – 1888) by Helena Maragou, American College of Greece
Aldington, Richard (1892 – 1962) by Patrick Quinn, University College Northampton
Alexander of Hales (1185 (?) – 1245) by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Alexie, Sherman (1966 – ) by Susan Forsyth, Independent Scholar
Alger, Horatio (1834 – 1899) by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
Algren, Nelson (1909 – 1981) by James A. Lewin, Shepherd University
Ali, Ahmed (1908 – 1994) by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar
Allen, Grant (1848 – 1899) by Lyssa Randolph, University College Worcester
Alleyn, Edward (1566 – 1626) by The Editors ,
Ambler, Eric (1909 – 1993) by R. Gordon Kelly, University of Maryland
Amis, Kingsley (1922 – 1995) by Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University
Amis, Martin (1949 – ) by Richard Todd, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anderson, Jessica (1916 – ) by Dorothy Jones, University of Wollongong
Apess, William (1798 – 1839) by Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Arendt, Hannah (1906 – 1975) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE) by John Phillips, National University of Singapore
Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732 – 1792) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Arnold, Matthew (1822 – 1888) by Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Ascham, Roger (1515 (?) – 1568) by Thomas Olsen, State University of New York, New Paltz
Ashbery, John (1927 – ) by Daniel Kane, University of East Anglia
Asimov, Isaac (1920 – 1992) by Donald M. Hassler, Kent State University
Asturias, Miguel Angel (1899 – 1974) by Anahí Ramírez, University of East Anglia
Atwood, Margaret (1939 – ) by Faye Hammill, Cardiff University
Auden, W. H. (1907 – 1973) by Michael O'Neill, Durham University
Austin, J. L. (1911 – 1960) by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool
Austin, Mary (1868 – 1934) by Mark Hoyer, University of California, Davis
Ayckbourn, Alan (1939 – ) by Paul Allen, University of Sheffield
Bacon, Francis (1561 – 1626) by Julie Robin Solomon , American University
Bacon, Roger (1210 (?) – 1292 (?)) by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Bage, Robert (1720 – 1801) by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Baillie, Joanna (1762 – 1851) by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Bakhtin, Mikhail (1895 – 1975) by Simon Dentith, University of Gloucestershire
Baldwin, James (1924 – 1987) by Magdalena J. Zaborowska, University of Michigan
Bale, John (1495 – 1563) by Nicoletta Caputo, University of Florence
Ballantyne, David (1924 – 1986) by Bryan Reid, Independent Scholar
Ballard, J. G. (1930 – ) by Jeannette Baxter, University of East Anglia
Banks, Iain (1953 – ) by Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull and Lucie Arnitt, University of Wales, Bangor
Banville, John (1945 – ) by Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex
Barbour, John (1320 (?) – 1395) by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Barker, Lady Mary Anne (1831 (?) – 1911) by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Barnes, Djuna (1892 – 1982) by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham
Barnes, Julian (1946 – ) by Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina
Barrie, J. M. (1860 – 1937) by Andrew Nash, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Barth, John (1930 – ) by Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University
Barthelme, Donald (1931 – 1989) by William Warde, University of North Texas
Barthes, Roland (1915 – 1980) by Graham Allen, University College Cork
Bartram, William (1739 – 1823) by Amie C. Fletcher, Auburn University
Bataille, Georges (1897 – 1962) by Paul Hegarty, University College Cork
Baudrillard, Jean (1929 – ) by Paul Hegarty, University College Cork
Baxter, Richard (1615 – 1691) by Neil Keeble, University of Stirling
Beaumont, Sir Francis (1584 – 1616) by Sandra Clark, Birkbeck College, University of London
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908 – 1986) by Felicia Gordon, University of Cambridge
Beccaria, Cesare (1738 – 1794) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Beckett, Samuel (1906 – 1989) by Paul Davies, University of Ulster at Coleraine
Beckford, William (1760 – 1844) by Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803 – 1849) by Shelley S. Rees, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Bede (673 – 735) by Scott De Gregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 – 1827) by Ruth Starkman, University of San Francisco
Behn, Aphra (1640 – 1689) by Jennifer Donald, University of Glasgow
Bellamy, Edward (1850 – 1898) by Alex Macdonald, University of Regina
Bellow, Saul (1915 – 2005) by Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University
Benet, Stephen Vincent (1898 – 1943) by David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina
Benjamin, Walter (1892 – 1940) by Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London
Bentham, Jeremy (1748 – 1832) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Berger, John (1926 – ) by Duncan O’Connor, University of Cambridge
Berryman, John Allyn Smith McAlpin (1914 – 1972) by Ernest J. Smith, University of Central Florida
Bierce, Ambrose (1842 – 1914 (?)) by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911 – 1979) by David C. Dougherty, Loyola College, Maryland
Bishop, John Peale (1892 – 1944) by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Bizet, Georges (1838 – 1875) by Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Blake, William (1757 – 1827) by David Punter, University of Bristol
Blanchot, Maurice (1907 – ) by Timothy Clark, Durham University
Blaser, Robin (1925 – ) by Miriam Nichols, University College of the Fraser Valley
Bloch, Ernst (1885 – 1977) by Ruth Starkman, University of San Francisco
Bloom, Harold (1930 – ) by Graham Allen, University College Cork
Blunden, Edmund (1896 – 1974) by Carol Acton, University of Waterloo
Bly, Robert (1926 – ) by William V. Davis, Baylor University
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313 – 1375) by Michael Papio, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bohr, Niels (1885 – 1962) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Bolt, Carol (1941 – 2000) by Shelley Scott, University of Lethbridge
Booth, William (1829 – 1912) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899 – 1986) by Gerardo Pina, University of East Anglia
Borrow, George Henry (1803 – 1881) by George Hyde, University of East Anglia
Bottomley, Gordon (1874 – 1948) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930 – 2002) by Mary Eagleton, Leeds Metropolitan University
Bowen, Elizabeth (1899 – 1973) by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
Bowen, Marjorie (1885 – 1952) by Frances M. Malpezzi, Arkansas State University
Bowles, Paul (1910 – 1999) by David Espey, University of Pennsylvania
Boyle, Robert, first Earl of Cork (1627 – 1691) by John Young, Imperial College, London
Bradbury, Sir Malcolm (1932 – 2000) by Nicolas Tredell, University of Sussex
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835 – 1915) by Chris Willis, formerly of London Metropolitan University
Bradley, David (1950 – ) by Helen Lock, University of Louisiana, Monroe
Bradstreet, Anne (1612 (?) – 1672) by Kathleen De Grave, Pittsburgh State University
Brahms, Johannes (1833 – 1897) by Mark E. Bell, Lake Erie College
Brecht, Bertolt (1898 – 1956) by Steven W. Lawrie, University of Aberdeen
Brink, André (1935 – ) by Sue Kossew, University of New South Wales
Brome, Richard (1590 (?) – 1652) by Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University
Bromfield, Louis (1896 – 1956) by Jayne Waterman, University of Leeds
Brontë, Anne (1820 – 1849) by Susan R. Bauman, Campion College, University of Regina
Brontë, Charlotte (1816 – 1855) by Judy Giles, York St John University College
Brontë, Emily (1818 – 1848) by Steven Vine, University of Wales, Swansea
Brooke, Frances (1724 – 1789) by Laura Moss, University of British Columbia
Brooke, Rupert (1887 – 1915) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917 – 2000) by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Brown, Charles Brockden (1771 – 1810) by Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick
Brown, Sterling A. (1901 – 1989) by John Edgar Tidwell, University of Kansas
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682) by Claire Preston, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 – 1861) by Mary Pollock, Stetson University
Browning, Robert (1812 – 1889) by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London
Brutus, Dennis Vincent (1924 – ) by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841 – 1901) by Andrew Nash, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Buck, Pearl S. (1892 – 1973) by Peter Conn, University of Pennsylvania
Buckle, Henry Thomas (1821 – 1862) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Buckler, Ernest (1908 – 1984) by Andrew Lesk, University of Toronto
Bukowski, Charles (1920 – 1994) by Gary Blohm, Independent Scholar
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803 – 1873) by Juliet John, University of Liverpool
Bunting, Basil (1900 – 1985) by Glyn Pursglove, University of Wales, Swansea
Bunyan, John (1628 – 1688) by Roger Pooley, Keele University
Wilson, Anthony (1917 – 1993) by Rob Spence, Edge Hill University
Burgoyne, Sir John (1722 – 1792) by Lois Potter, University of Delaware
Burke, Edmund (1729 – 1797) by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Burney, Fanny (1752 – 1840) by Justine Crump, King's College, University of Cambridge
Burns, Robert (1759 – 1796) by J. Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen
Burroughs, William (1914 – 1997) by Timothy S. Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Butler, Judith (1956 – ) by Catherine Rottenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Byatt, A. S. (1936 – ) by Richard Todd, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Byrd, William (1674 – 1744) by Michael A. Lofaro, University of Tennessee
Byron, Lord (George Gordon) (1788 – 1824) by Malcolm Kelsall, Cardiff University
Caedmon (600 (?) – 680 (?)) by Paul Cavill, University of Nottingham
Camus, Albert (1913 – 1960) by Amanda Crawley-Jackson, University of Sheffield
Candelaria, Nash (1928 – ) by Heiner Bus , Universität Bamberg
Canetti, Elias (1905 – 1994) by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago
Carew, Thomas (1594 (?) – 1640) by Glyn Pursglove, University of Wales, Swansea
Carey, Peter (1943 – ) by Bruce Woodcock, University of Hull
Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801 – 1866) by Nathan Uglow, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds
Carlyle, Thomas (1795 – 1881) by Nathan Uglow, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds
Carman, Bliss (1861 – 1929) by Thomas Hodd, University of Ottawa
Carr, Emily (1871 – 1945) by Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Carson, Anne (1950 – ) by Ian Rae, University of British Columbia
Carter, Angela Olive (1940 – 1992) by Linden Peach, University of Gloucestershire
Carter, Elizabeth (1717 – 1806) by Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of London
Carver, Raymond (1938 – 1988) by Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee
Cassirer, Ernst (1874 – 1945) by Roger Stephenson, Paul Bishop, Stephanie Hoelscher, University of Glasgow
Cather, Willa (1873 – 1947) by Susie Thomas, University of Sussex
Catlin, George (1796 – 1872) by Joshua Bellin, La Roche College
Caxton, William (1424 (?) – 1492) by David Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast
Celan, Paul (1920 – 1970) by Derek Hillard, Kansas State University
Centlivre, Susannah (1669 – 1723) by Laura Favero Carraro, University of Padua
Chandler, Raymond (1888 – 1959) by Lee Horsley, University of Lancaster
Chappell, Fred (1936 – ) by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd University
Charlemagne (747 (?) – 814) by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Chatterton, Thomas (1752 – 1770) by Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire
Chatwin, Bruce (1940 – 1989) by Richard Utz, University of Northern Iowa
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343 (?) – 1400) by Gillian Rudd, University of Liverpool
Chávez Denise (1948 – ) by Cristina Herrera, Claremont Graduate University
Chekhov, Anton (1860 – 1904) by John Reid, University of the West of England
Chesnut, Mary Boykin (1823 – 1886) by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
Chesnutt, C. W. (1858 – 1932) by Heather Sowards, Ohio University
Chesterton, G. K. (1874 – 1936) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Childress, Alice (1916 – 1994) by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Chinodya, Shimmer (1957 – ) by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Chomsky, Noam (1928 – ) by Neil Smith, University College London
Chopin, Kate (1850 – 1904) by Val Scullion, Open University
Christie, Agatha (1890 – 1976) by Chris Willis, formerly of London Metropolitan University
Church, Richard William (1815 – 1890) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Churchill, Caryl (1938 – ) by Elaine Aston, University of Lancaster
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 BCE – 43 BCE) by Abdool-Hack Mamoojee, Lakehead University
Cixous, Hélène (1937 – ) by Morag Shiach, Queen Mary, University of London
Clampitt, Amy (1920 – 1994) by Celeste Goodridge, Bowdoin College
Clanvowe, Sir John (1341 (?) – 1391) by Jill Havens, Texas Christian University
Clare, John (1793 – 1864) by Eric Miller, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Clark, Walter van Tilburg (1909 – 1971) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Clarke, Marcus (1846 – 1881) by Andrew McCann, University of Melbourne
Cleland, John (1709 – 1789) by Peter Byrne, University of California, Irvine
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819 – 1861) by Jane Wright, University of Leeds
Cobbe, Frances Power (1822 – 1908) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Coetzee, J. M. (1940 – ) by Dominic Head, Brunel University
Coleridge, Mary (1861 – 1907) by Simon Avery, University of Hertfordshire
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 – 1834) by Seamus Perry, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Colette (1873 – 1954) by Alison Fell, University of Lancaster
Collins, William (1721 – 1759) by Bran Nicol, University College Chichester
Collins, Wilkie (1824 – 1889) by Bianca Tredennick, Gonzaga University
Congreve, William (1670 – 1729) by Brian Corman, University of Toronto
Cook, Ebenezer (1667 (?) – 1732) by Richard J. Ring, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Cook, James (1728 – 1779) by Carol Percy, University of Toronto
Cook, Michael (1933 – 1994) by Craig Walker, Queen’s University
Coolbrith, Ina (1841 – 1928) by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
Cooley, Peter (1940 – ) by Caroline King Hall, Pennsylvania State University
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789 – 1851) by Leonardo Buonomo, University of Trieste
Corelli, Marie (1855 – 1924) by Annette Federico, James Madison University
Coryate, Thomas (1577 (?) – 1617) by Katharine Craik, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Coulter, John (1888 – 1980) by David Gardner, University of Toronto
Coverdale, Miles (1488 – 1569) by David Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast
Coward, Noel (1899 – 1973) by Hélène Catsiapis, Ecole Centrale de Lille
Cowley, Abraham (1618 – 1667) by Robert Cummings, University of Glasgow
Cowley, Hannah (1743 – 1809) by Antje Blank, University of Glasgow
Cowper, William (1731 – 1800) by Joseph Musser, Ohio Wesleyan University
Craik, Dinah (1826 – 1887) by Sarah Brown, University of Cambridge
Crane, Hart (1899 – 1932) by Ernest J. Smith, University of Central Florida
Crane, Stephen (1871 – 1900) by Donald Vanouse, State University of New York, Oswego
Crashaw, Richard (1612 (?) – 1649) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Crawford, Isabella Valancy (1850 – 1887) by Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta
Creeley, Robert (1926 – 2005) by Alastair Wisker, formerly of Ruskin College
Creighton, Mandell (1843 – 1901) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Crews, Harry (1935 – ) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Cummings, e. e. (1894 – 1962) by Misty McGinnis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Curll, Edmund (1683 – 1747) by Peter Heaney, Staffordshire University
Curnow, Allen (1911 – 2001) by Mark Williams, University of Canterbury, NZ
Dahlberg, Edward (1900 – 1977) by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Dallas, Ruth (1919 – ) by Anna Jackson, Victoria University
Dangarembga, Tsitsi (1959 – ) by Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) by John Took, University College London
Darley, George (1795 – 1846) by Michael Bradshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University
Darwin, Charles (1809 – 1882) by Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds
Darwin, Erasmus (1731 – 1802) by Matthew J. A. Green, University of Nottingham
Davis, H.L. (1896 – 1960) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831 – 1910) by Kathleen L. Nichols, Pittsburg State University
De La Mare, Walter (1873 – 1956) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Defoe, Daniel (1660 – 1731) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Dekker, Thomas (1570 (?) – 1632) by David Stymeist, Queen’s University
DeLillo, Donald (1936 – ) by Stephen Burn, Northern Michigan University
Derrida, Jacques (1930 – 2004) by Timothy Clark, Durham University
Dhondy, Farrukh (1944 – ) by Florence Dsouza, University of Lille III
Dickens, Charles (1812 – 1870) by Grahame Smith, University of Stirling
Dickinson, Emily (1830 – 1886) by Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
Diderot, Denis (1713 – 1784) by David J. Adams, University of Manchester
Didion, Joan (1934 – ) by Krista Comer, Rice University
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804 – 1881) by Marjorie Bloy, Independent Scholar
Domett, Alfred (1811 – 1887) by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797 – 1848) by Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Donne, John (1572 – 1631) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Dorn, Ed (1929 – 1999) by Alastair Wisker, formerly of Ruskin College
Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821 – 1881) by Richard Peace, University of Bristol
Douglass, William (1691 (?) – 1752) by
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859 – 1930) by Rosmary Jann, George Mason University
Drabble, Margaret (1939 – ) by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd University
Drayton, Michael (1563 (?) – 1631) by Angus Vine, University of Cambridge
Dreiser, Theodore (1871 – 1945) by Jude Davies, King Alfred's College
Drinkwater, John (1882 – 1937) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Drummond of Hawthornden, William (1585 – 1649) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Dryden, John (1631 – 1700) by Anne Barbeau Gardiner, CUNY, John Jay College
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868 – 1963) by Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
Dubus, Andre (1936 – 1999) by Elizabeth Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University
Dudek, Louis (1918 – 2001) by Medrie Purdham , McGill University
Duggan, Maurice (1922 – 1974) by Joel Gwynne, University of Hull
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872 – 1906) by Jonathan Daigle, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dunbar, William (1460 (?) – 1520 (?)) by Karen Elaine Smyth, University of Nottingham
Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861 – 1922) by Anna Snaith, Anglia Ruskin University
Dunne, Finley Peter (1867 – 1936) by John Lowe, Louisiana State University
Durrell, Lawrence (1912 – 1990) by Grove Koger, Boise Public Library, Idaho
Dwight, Timothy (1752 – 1817) by Colin Wells, St Olaf College
Dylan, Robert (1941 – ) by Richard Marggraf Turley, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Eddy, Mary Baker Glover (1821 – 1910) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Edgeworth, Maria (1768 – 1849) by Laura McGrane, Haverford College
Edwards, Richard (1524 (?) – 1566) by Ros King, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Egan, Pierce (1772 – 1849) by Stephen Carver, Fukui University
Einstein, Albert (1879 – 1955) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Eliot, George (1819 – 1880) by Nathan Uglow, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds
Eliot, John (1604 – 1690) by Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth
Eliot, T. S. (1888 – 1965) by Marianne Thormahlen, University of Lund
Elkin, Stanley (1930 – 1995) by David C. Dougherty, Loyola College, Maryland
Ellison, Ralph (1913 – 1994) by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Emecheta, Buchi (1944 – ) by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803 – 1882) by Joseph Thomas, Caldwell College
Empson, William (1906 – 1984) by Matthew Bevis, University of Sheffield
Equiano, Olaudah (1745 (?) – 1797) by Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
Everson, William (1912 – 1994) by Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach
Ewing, Juliana Horatia (1841 – 1885) by Jenny Litster, University of Edinburgh
Faber, Frederick William (1814 – 1863) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Farrar, Frederic William (1831 – 1903) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Faulkner, William (1897 – 1962) by John Lowe, Louisiana State University
Fennario, David (1947 – ) by Robert Nunn, Brock University (Retired)
Fergusson, Robert (1750 – 1774) by Alan McKenzie, Purdue University
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919 – ) by Alastair Wisker, formerly of Ruskin College
Fernando, Lloyd (1926 – ) by Mohammad Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone (1782 – 1854) by Donna Heddle, Orkney College
Feuchtwanger, Lion (1884 – 1958) by Ian Wallace, Emeritus Professor of German, University of Bath
Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804 – 1872) by Rodney F. Taylor, Truman State University
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762 – 1814) by Rodney F. Taylor, Truman State University
Field, Michael (1846 – 1914) by Simon Avery, University of Hertfordshire
Fielding, Henry (1707 – 1754) by Thomas R. Cleary, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Fielding, Sarah (1710 – 1768) by Linda Bree, University of Cambridge
Filmer, Sir Robert (1588 (?) – 1653) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Finch, Anne (1661 – 1720) by Jennifer Donald, University of Glasgow
Fisher, Vardis (1895 – 1968) by Joseph M. Flora, University of North Carolina
FitzGerald, Edward (1809 – 1883) by A.D.P. Briggs, University of Bristol
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896 – 1940) by Anne M Daniel, Princeton University
Flaubert, Gustave (1821 – 1880) by T. A. Unwin, University of Bristol
Fletcher, John (1579 – 1625) by Sandra Clark, Birkbeck College, University of London
Forché , Carolyn (1950 – ) by Amy Kepple Strawser, Otterbein College
Ford, Ford Madox (1873 – 1939) by Sara Haslam, Open University
Ford, John (1586 – 1639 (?)) by Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Forester, C. S. (1899 – 1966) by Sanford Sternlicht, Syracuse University
Foster, David (1944 – ) by Narelle Shaw, University of Tasmania
Foucault, Michel (1926 – 1984) by Andrew Thacker, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Fowles, John (1926 – 2005) by William Stephenson, University of Chester
Foxe, John (1516 – 1587) by Adrian Streete, Queen’s University Belfast
Frame, Janet (1924 – 2004) by Jenny Lawn, Massey University
Franklin, Benjamin (1706 – 1790) by Alberto Lena, University of Exeter
The Great, Frederick (1712 – 1786) by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Freeman, Edward Augustus (1823 – 1892) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Frémont, John Charles (1813 – 1890) by Douglas J Canfield, University of Arizona
Freneau, Philip (1752 – 1832) by Richard J. Ring, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Freud, Sigmund (1856 – 1939) by Scott Brewster, The University of Salford
Frisch, Max (1911 – 1991) by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Fromm, Erich (1900 – 1980) by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
Frost, Robert (1874 – 1963) by Jonathan N. Barron, University of Southern Mississippi
Froude, James Anthony (1818 – 1894) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Frye, Northrop (1912 – 1991) by Darrell Dobson, University of Toronto
Fugard, Athol (1932 – ) by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900 – 2002) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Gaddis, William (1922 – 1998) by Peter Dempsey, University of Sunderland
Gale, Zona (1874 – 1938) by Deborah Williams, Iona College
Galsworthy, John (1867 – 1933) by Sanford Sternlicht, Syracuse University
Galt, John (1779 – 1839) by Hans B. de Groot, University of Toronto
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829 – 1902) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Gardner, John (1933 – 1982) by Robert Daly, State University of New York, Buffalo
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810 – 1865) by Josie Billington, University of Liverpool
Gay, John (1685 – 1732) by I. R. F. Gordon, Emeritus, Anglia Ruskin University
Gee, Maurice (1931 – ) by Peter Beatson, Massey University
Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090 (?) – 1155) by Judith Weiss, Robinson College, University of Cambridge
Ghose, Zulfikar (1935 – ) by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar
Ghosh, Amitav (1956 – ) by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
Gibbon, Edward (1737 – 1794) by Robert Mankin, Université de Paris VII
Gildas (497 (?) – 570) by Hugh Magennis, Queen’s University Belfast
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860 – 1935) by Denise Knight, State University of New York, Cortland
Gilpin, William (1724 – 1804) by Zoë Kinsley, Liverpool Hope University College
Ginsberg, Allen (1926 – 1997) by Alastair Wisker, formerly of Ruskin College
Gissing, George (1857 – 1903) by David Grylls, University of Oxford
Glasgow, Ellen (1874 – 1945) by Catherine Rainwater, St. Edward's University
Glaspell, Susan Keating (1876 – 1948) by Barbara Ozieblo, University of Malaga
Glyn, Elinor (1864 – 1943) by Louise Harrington, Cardiff University
Godwin, William (1756 – 1836) by Andrew McCann, University of Melbourne
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749 – 1832) by Ellis Dye, Macalester College
Golding, William (1911 – 1993) by William Stephenson, University of Chester
Goldoni, Carlo (1707 – 1793) by Laura Favero Carraro, University of Padua
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730 (?) – 1774) by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Gookin, Daniel (1612 – 1687) by Louise A. Breen, Kansas State University
Goonewardene, James (1921 – 1997) by Prashani Rambukwella, Independent Scholar
Gordimer, Nadine (1923 – ) by Dominic Head, Brunel University
Grand, Sarah (1854 – 1943) by Lyssa Randolph, University College Worcester
Grass, Günter (1927 – ) by Sigrid Mayer, Professor Emirata, University of Wyoming
Green, Henry (1905 – 1973) by Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick
Green, John Richard (1837 – 1883) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Greene, Graham (1904 – 1991) by Joe Nordgren, Lamar University
Greene, Robert (1558 – 1592) by Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia
Greville, Sir Fulke (1554 – 1628) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Grice, Paul (1913 – 1988) by Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool
Grimmelshausen, Johannes Jacob Christoffel von (1621 (?) – 1676) by Alfred D. White, Cardiff University
Grove, Frederick Philip (1879 – 1948) by Colin Hill, University of Toronto
Gunning, Susannah (1740 (?) – 1800) by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Jürgen Habermas (1929 – ) by Andrew Edgar, Cardiff University
Hakluyt, Richard (1552 – 1616) by Patrick McHenry, Columbus State University
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796 – 1865) by Richard Atterbury Davies, Acadia University
Hamidul Haq, Kaiser (1950 – ) by Mohammad Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia
Novalis (1772 – 1801) by Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont
Hardy, Thomas (1840 – 1928) by Jane Thomas, University of Hull
Harris, Wilson (1921 – ) by Hena Maes-Jellinek, Université de Liège
Harrison, Frederic (1831 – 1923) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Harrison, Tony (1937 – ) by Ian Copestake, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Harte, Bret (1836 – 1902) by Axel Nissen, University of Oslo
Hartlib, Samuel (1600 (?) – 1662) by John Young, Imperial College, London
Hass, Robert (1941 – ) by Terrence Doody, Rice University
Hastings, Warren (1732 – 1818) by Andrew McCann, University of Melbourne
Hauptmann, Gerhart (1862 – 1946) by Raleigh Whitinger, University of Alberta
Hawkes, John (1925 – 1998) by Rita Ferrari, Independent Scholar
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804 – 1864) by Robert Daly, State University of New York, Buffalo
Hazlitt, William (1778 – 1830) by James Mulvihill, University of Alberta
Hazzard, Shirley (1931 – ) by Karen Brooks, University of the Sunshine Coast
Head, Bessie (1937 – 1986) by Hershini Bhana, University of California Riverside
Heaney, Seamus (1939 – ) by Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770 – 1831) by Patricia Simpson, Montana State University
Heidegger, Martin (1889 – 1976) by Timothy Clark, Durham University
Heine, Heinrich (1797 – 1856) by Paul Reitter, Ohio State University
Heisenberg, Werner (1901 – 1976) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
Hemingway, Ernest (1899 – 1961) by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Henley, W. E. (1849 – 1903) by Joseph M. Flora, University of North Carolina
Henryson, Robert (1425 (?) – 1500 (?)) by Karen Elaine Smyth, University of Nottingham
Herbert, George (1593 – 1633) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Herbert, Henry William (1807 – 1858) by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
Herbert, John (1926 – 2001) by Robert Wallace, York University, Canada
Herbst, Josephine (1892 – 1969) by Angela E. Hubler, Kansas State University
Herrick, Robert (1591 – 1674) by Glyn Pursglove, University of Wales, Swansea
Hesse, Hermann (1877 – 1962) by Gunther Gottschalk, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Heyer, Georgette (1902 – 1974) by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Heywood, John (1497 (?) – 1580 (?)) by Nicoletta Caputo, University of Florence
Highway, Tomson (1951 – ) by Laura Moss, University of British Columbia
Hill, Errol (1921 – 2003) by The Editors ,
Hill, Geoffrey (1932 – ) by Andrew M Roberts, University of Dundee
Hoban, Russell (1925 – ) by Alida Allison, San Diego State University and Yvonne Studer, Independent Scholar
Hobbes, John Oliver (1867 – 1906) by Ariel Gunn, The University of Florida
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874 – 1929) by Thomas A. Kovach, University of Arizona
Hogarth, William (1697 – 1764) by I. R. F. Gordon, Emeritus, Anglia Ruskin University
Holcroft, M. H. (1902 – 1993) by James Smithies, University of Canterbury, NZ
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809 – 1894) by Bryce Traister, University of Western Ontario
Holtby, Winifred (1898 – 1935) by Chris Willis, formerly of London Metropolitan University
Home, John (1722 – 1806) by Jim Owen, Columbus State University
Homer (750 BCE (?) – 650 BCE (?)) by Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844 – 1889) by Frank Fennell, Jr., Loyola University, Chicago
Horkheimer, Max (1895 – 1973) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Hosain, Attia (1913 – 1998) by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar
Hove, Chenjerai (1956 – ) by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Howe, Julia Ward (1819 – 1910) by Leonardo Buonomo, University of Trieste
Howells, William Dean (1837 – 1920) by Michael Anesko, Pennsylvania State University
Hudson, W. H. (1841 – 1922) by Patrick Early, Independent Scholar
Hughes, Langston (1902 – 1967) by Matthew R. Hofer, University of New Mexico
Hughes, Ted (1930 – 1998) by Carol Bere, Independent Scholar
Hulme, Keri (1947 – ) by Margery Fee, University of British Columbia
Hume, David (1711 – 1776) by Robert Mankin, Université de Paris VII
Hurston, Zora Neale (1891 – 1960) by Yvonne Johnson, Central Missouri State University
Husserl, Edmund (1859 – 1938) by Roy Elveton, Carleton College
Hutcheson, Francis (1694 – 1746) by Daniel Floyd, University of Aberdeen
Huxley, T. H. (1825 – 1895) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Inchbald, Mrs Elizabeth (1753 – 1821) by Mary Waters, University of California, Davis
Irving, John Winslow (1942 – ) by Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University
Iser, Wolfgang (1926 – ) by Tom Van Imschoot, Ghent University
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830 – 1885) by Mary Briscoe, University of Pittsburgh
Jackson, Shirley (1916 – 1965) by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
Jacobs, Harriett (1813 – 1897) by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
James, Henry (1843 – 1916) by Kate Campbell, University of East Anglia
James, Henry (1811 – 1882) by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
James, P. D. (1920 – ) by Lindsay Sullivan, Cardiff University
James, William (1842 – 1910) by Linda Simon, Skidmore College
Jameson, Storm (1891 – 1986) by Ashlie Sponenberg, University of Pittsburgh
Jarman, Mark (1952 – ) by William Thompson, Troy University
Jeffers, Robinson (1887 – 1962) by Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach
Jeffrey, Francis (1773 – 1850) by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (1927 – ) by Ralph Crane, University of Waikato
John of Salisbury (1120 (?) – 1180) by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Johnson, James Weldon (1871 – 1938) by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Johnson, Samuel (1709 – 1784) by Philip Smallwood, University of Central England
Jones, David (1895 – 1974) by Christine Pagnoulle, Université de Liège
Joshi, Arun (1939 – 1993) by Pier Paolo Piciucco, University of Turin
Joyce, James (1882 – 1941) by Dirk Van Hulle, James Joyce Centre, University of Antwerp
Julian of Norwich (1342 (?) – 1416 (?)) by Elizabeth Spearing, Independent Scholar
Kafka, Franz (1883 – 1924) by William J. Dodd, University of Birmingham
Kaiser, Georg (1878 – 1945) by Rhys W. Williams, University of Wales, Swansea
Kant, Immanuel (1724 – 1804) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Kavanagh, Julia (1824 – 1877) by Amanda J. Collins, University of Sydney
Keats, John (1795 – 1821) by Sarah Wootton, Durham University
Keble, John (1792 – 1866) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Kee Thuan Chye (1954 (?) – ) by Mohammad Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia
Kennedy, Walter (1460 (?) – 1508 (?)) by Donna Heddle, Orkney College
Kesey, Ken (1935 – 2001) by Bennett Huffman, Concordia University, Portland
Killens, John Oliver (1916 – 1987) by Harish Chander, Shaw University
Kincaid, Jamaica (1949 – ) by Emilia Ippolito, University of Strasbourg
King, Stephen (1947 – ) by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
King, Thomas (1943 – ) by Elizabeth Maurer, University of British Columbia
Kingsley, Charles (1819 – 1875) by Robert Fraser, Open University
Kingsolver, Barbara (1955 – ) by Kimberly Koza, Central College, Iowa
Kipling, Rudyard (1865 – 1936) by Douglas Kerr, University of Hong Kong
Kirkland, Caroline M. (1801 – 1864) by Nancy A. Walker, formerly of Vanderbilt University
Klein, A. M. (1909 – 1972) by Zailig Pollock, Trent University
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (1724 – 1803) by Kevin Hilliard, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
Knister, Raymond (1899 – 1932) by Colin Hill, University of Toronto
Knox, John (1514 (?) – 1572) by David Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast
Koch, Christopher John (1932 – ) by Jean-François Vernay, University of New Caledonia, Noumea
Koch, Kenneth (1925 – 2002) by Jordan Sanderson, University of Southern Mississippi
Kotzebue, August von (1761 – 1819) by John Osborne, University of Warwick
Kristeva, Julia (1941 – ) by Margaret Atack , University of Leeds
Kundera, Milan (1929 – ) by Cristina Sandru, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Kureishi, Hanif (1954 – ) by Bart Moore-Gilbert, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Kureishi, Maki (1927 – 1995) by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar
Lacan, Jacques (1901 – 1981) by Charles Shepherdson, State University of New York, Albany
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de (1741 – 1803) by Simon Davies, Queen’s University Belfast
Lamb, Charles (1775 – 1834) by Joseph Riehl, University of Louisiana
Lamb, Lady Caroline (1795 – 1828) by Paul Douglass, San José State University
Lambert, Betty (1933 – 1983) by Rosalind Kerr, University of Alberta
Landor, Walter Savage (1775 – 1864) by Michael Bradshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University
Langland, William (1330 (?) – 1386 (?)) by Stephen Kelly, Queen’s University Belfast
Larkin, Philip (1922 – 1985) by Stephen Regan, Durham University
Laurence, Margaret (1926 – 1987) by Tanya Butler, Queen’s University
Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741 – 1801) by Matthew J. A. Green, University of Nottingham
Lawrence, D. H. (1885 – 1930) by Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire
Lazarus, Emma (1849 – 1887) by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
John Le Carré (1931 – ) by Lynn-Dianne Beene, University of New Mexico
Lear, Edward (1812 – 1888) by James Williams, University of Cambridge
Lee, Chang-rae (1965 – ) by The Editors ,
Lee, John Alexander (1891 – 1982) by James Smithies, University of Canterbury, NZ
Lehmann, Rosamond (1901 – 1990) by Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 – 1716) by Pauline Phemister, University of Liverpool
Leskov, Nikolai Semenovich (1831 – 1895) by Faith Wigzell, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Lessing, Doris May (1919 – ) by Val Scullion, Open University
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729 – 1781) by Eva Parra Membrives, University of Seville
Levi, Primo (1919 – 1987) by Jeannette Baxter, University of East Anglia
Levinas, Emmanuel (1906 – 1995) by Emily Brooker Langston, St John’s College, Annapolis
Lewes, George Henry (1817 – 1878) by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, University of East Anglia
Lewis, Henry Clay (1825 – 1850) by Edwin T. Arnold, Appalachian State University
Lewis, Wyndham (1882 – 1957) by Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham
Lewis, Sinclair (1885 – 1951) by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Lim, Catherine (1942 – ) by Amy Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lim, Suchen Christine (1948 – ) by Amy Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lincoln, Abraham (1809 – 1865) by Christopher Hager, Northwestern University
Lindsay, Vachel (1879 – 1931) by Lisa Woolley, Wilson College
Livesay, Dorothy (1909 – 1996) by Peggy Kelly, University of Ottawa
Lodge, David (1935 – ) by Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin (1790 – 1870) by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
Lonsdale, Frederick (1881 – 1954) by Hélène Catsiapis, Ecole Centrale de Lille
Loos, Anita (1893 (?) – 1981) by Faye Hammill, Cardiff University
Lovecraft, H. P. (1890 – 1937) by Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin
Lovelace, Richard (1618 – 1657 (?)) by Robert Cummings, University of Glasgow
Lowell, Robert (1917 – 1977) by Steven Axelrod, University of California Riverside
Lowry, Malcolm (1909 – 1957) by Christine Pagnoulle, Université de Liège
Lukács, Georg (1885 – 1971) by Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London
Lummis, Charles F. (1859 – 1928) by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Luther, Martin (1483 – 1546) by Albert Labriola, Duquesne University
Lydgate, John (1370 (?) – 1449) by Claire Sponsler, University of Iowa
Lyly, John (1554 (?) – 1606) by Leah Scragg, University of Manchester
MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892 – 1978) by Kirsten Matthews, University of Glasgow
Ross MacDonald (1915 – 1983) by David C. Dougherty, Loyola College, Maryland
Macherey, Pierre (1938 – ) by Neil Badmington, Cardiff University
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469 – 1527) by Andrew Mousley, De Montfort University
Mackay, Jessie (1864 – 1938) by Jenny Robin Jones, Independent Scholar
Mackenzie, Henry (1745 – 1831) by Jim Owen, Columbus State University
MacLennan, Hugh (1907 – 1990) by Colin Hill, University of Toronto
MacLeod, Alistair (1936 – ) by Colin Nicholson, University of Edinburgh
MacNeice, Louis (1907 – 1963) by Michael O'Neill, Durham University
Macpherson, James (1736 – 1796) by Dafydd Moore, University of Plymouth
Mailer, Norman (1923 – ) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Maitland, Frederic William (1850 – 1906) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Malory, Sir Thomas (1420 (?) – 1471) by Karen Elaine Smyth, University of Nottingham
Mangan, James Clarence (1803 – 1849) by Derek Littlewood, University of Central England
Mann, Heinrich (1871 – 1950) by Stephen Grollman, Concordia College, Minnesota
Mann, Thomas (1875 – 1955) by Hannelore G. Mundt, University of Wyoming
Manning, Henry Edward (1808 – 1892) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Mansfield, Katherine (1888 – 1923) by Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Mapanje, Jack (1945 – ) by Fiona Johnson Chalamanda, University of Stirling
Marachera, Dambudzo (1952 – 1987) by Ranka Primorac, University of New York in London
Marcuse, Herbert (1898 – 1979) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Marie de France (1130 (?) – 1200 (?)) by Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Marivaux, Pierre (1688 – 1763) by Martial Poirson, Université Paris X Nanterre
Markandaya, Kamala (1924 – 2004) by Claire Chambers, Leeds Metropolitan University
Marlowe, Christopher (1564 – 1593) by Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Marston, John (1576 – 1634) by David Stymeist, Queen’s University
Martineau, Harriet (1802 – 1876) by Valerie Sanders, University of Hull
Marvell, Andrew (1621 – 1678) by Claire Warwick, University College London
Marx, Karl (1818 – 1883) by Kelsey Wood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Mary Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587) by Sarah Dunnigan, University of Edinburgh
Masefield, John (1878 – 1967) by James Bridges, Independent Scholar
Masters, Olga (1919 – 1986) by Dorothy Jones, University of Wollongong
Mather, Cotton (1663 – 1728) by Alan J. Silva, Hamline University
Mather, Increase (1639 – 1723) by Alan J. Silva, Hamline University
Matthews, Brander (1852 – 1929) by Lawrence Oliver, Texas A&M University
Maupassant, Guy de (1850 – 1893) by Peter Cogman, University of Southampton
Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893 – 1930) by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
Mayer, Bernadette (1945 – ) by Rodney Phillips, Librarian, University of Arizona Poetry Center
Mayhew, Henry (1812 – 1887) by Anne Humphreys, CUNY, Graduate Centre
McBain, Ed (1926 – 2005) by The Editors ,
McCarthy, Justin (1830 – 1912) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
McClung, Nellie (1873 – 1951) by Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta
McCullers, Carson (1917 – 1967) by Sue B. Walker, University of South Alabama
McElroy, Joseph (1930 – ) by Steffen Hantke, Sogang University
McEwan, Ian (1948 – ) by Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire
McGahern, John (1934 – 2006) by Liam Harte, University of Manchester
McIlvanney, William (1936 – ) by Ken Newton, University of Dundee
McKay, Claude (1899 – 1948) by Jacob A. Zumoff, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Catarina
Melville, Herman (1819 – 1891) by A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Japan
Mencken, H.L. (1880 – 1956) by Karen Leick, Ohio State University
Meredith, George (1828 – 1909) by Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University
Merrill, James (1926 – 1995) by Timothy Materer, University of Missouri
Mill, John Stuart (1806 – 1873) by G. F. Scarre, Durham University
Millay, Edna St Vincent (1892 – 1950) by Joel Van Valin, Independent Scholar
Miller, Henry (1891 – 1980) by James M. Decker, Illinois Central College
Miller, Hugh (1802 – 1856) by Lyndsay Lunan, University of Glasgow
Milton, John (1608 – 1674) by Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia
Mirikitani, Janice (1941 – ) by Masami Usui, Doshisha University, Japan
Mistry, Rohinton (1952 – ) by John Eustace, Acadia University
Mitchison, Naomi (1897 – 1999) by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Mitford, Nancy (1904 – 1973) by Maroula Joannou, Anglia Ruskin University
Mo, Timothy (1950 – ) by Elaine Ho, University of Hong Kong
Molière (1622 – 1673) by Julia Prest, Yale University
Montagu, Elizabeth (1720 – 1800) by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Taylor University College
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689 – 1762) by Alison Winch, University of Liverpool
Montaigne, Michel de (1533 – 1592) by Max Gauna, University of Sheffield
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689 – 1755) by David Williams, University of Sheffield
Montgomery, L. M. (1874 – 1942) by Jenny Litster, University of Edinburgh
Moodie, Susanna (1803 – 1885) by Faye Hammill, Cardiff University
Moore, John (1729 – 1802) by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
Moore, Julia A. (1847 – 1920) by David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute
Moore, Marianne (1887 – 1972) by Peter Wilson, London Metropolitan University
More, Sir Thomas (1477 – 1535) by A. D. Cousins, Macquarie University
Morgan, Robert (1944 – ) by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd University
Morley, John (1838 – 1923) by Mark Nixon, University of Stirling
Morrieson, Ronald Hugh (1922 – 1972) by Jenny Lawn, Massey University
Morris, William (1834 – 1896) by Richard Pearson, University College Worcester
Morris, Wright (1910 – 1998) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Morrison, Toni (1931 – ) by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Motley, Willard (1909 – 1965) by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 – 1791) by Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Muir, John (1838 – 1914) by Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno
Munro, Alice (1931 – ) by Robert James McGill, University of East Anglia
Murdoch, Iris (1919 – 1999) by Frances White, Kingston University
Murray, Judith Sargent (1751 – 1820) by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Murray, Les (1938 – ) by Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University
Myers, Walter Dean (1937 – ) by Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899 – 1977) by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
Nekrasov, N. A. (1821 – 1878) by Michael Ransome, Bristol Grammar School
Nennius (800 (?) – 850 (?)) by Hugh Magennis, Queen’s University Belfast
Newman, John Henry (1801 – 1890) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642 – 1727) by Robert Iliffe, The Newton Project, Imperial College London
Nightingale, Florence (1820 – 1910) by Janet Todd, University of Aberdeen
Nin, Anais (1903 – 1977) by Heather Darcy, Independent Scholar
Norris, Frank (1870 – 1902) by Jude Davies, King Alfred's College
Nortje, Arthur Kenneth (1942 – 1970) by Craig McLuckie and Ross Tyner, Okanagan University College
Nwapa, Flora (1931 – 1993) by Femi Nzegwu, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
O'Connor, Mary Flannery (1925 – 1964) by Robert James McGill, University of East Anglia
O'Hara, John (1905 – 1970) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938 – ) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Ober, Frederick Albion (1849 – 1913) by Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Okigbo, Christopher (1932 – 1967) by Herbert Ekwe Ekwe, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar
Okri, Ben (1959 – ) by Robert Fraser, Open University
Olds, Sharon (1942 – ) by John Parras, William Paterson University
Oliphant, Margaret (1828 – 1897) by Lis Jay, Oxford Brookes University
Ondaatje, Michael (1943 – ) by Peter Easingwood, University of Dundee
Orton, Joe (1933 – 1967) by Kate Dorney, University of Sheffield
Orwell, George (1903 – 1950) by Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Osborne, Dorothy (1627 – 1695) by Kenneth Parker, Emeritus, University of East London
Ostenso, Martha (1900 – 1963) by Alison Calder, University of Manitoba
Overton, Richard (1620 (?) – 1680 (?)) by Roger Pooley, Keele University
Ovid (43 BCE – 17) by Mandy Green, Durham University
Page, P. K. (1916 – ) by Medrie Purdham , McGill University
Parker, Dorothy (1893 – 1967) by Bernadette Geyer, Independent Scholar
Parnell, Thomas (1679 – 1718) by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Pascal, Blaise (1623 – 1662) by The Editors ,
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785 – 1866) by James Mulvihill, University of Alberta
Penn, William (1644 – 1718) by Philip Gould, Brown University
Percy, Thomas (1729 – 1811) by Nick Groom, University of Bristol
Percy, Walker (1916 – 1990) by Susan Donaldson, College of William and Mary
Petrarch, Francesco (1304 – 1374) by Gerhart Hoffmeister, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Petronius (1 (?) – 66) by Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin
Petry, Ann Lane (1911 – 1997) by A. Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Philips, Katherine (1632 – 1664) by Frances M. Malpezzi, Arkansas State University
Phillips, Caryl (1958 – ) by Paul Smethurst, University of Hong Kong
Piercy, Marge (1936 – ) by Sue B. Walker, University of South Alabama
Pinter, Harold (1930 – ) by Andrew Wyllie, University of the West of England
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho (1876 – 1932) by Elleke Boehmer, Royal Holloway, University of London
Plath, Sylvia (1932 – 1963) by Steven Axelrod, University of California Riverside
Pollock, Mary Sharon (1936 – ) by Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia
Pope, Alexander (1688 – 1744) by I. R. F. Gordon, Emeritus, Anglia Ruskin University
Porter, Katherine Anne (1890 – 1980) by Darlene Harbour Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Pound, Ezra (1885 – 1972) by Peter Wilson, London Metropolitan University
Proust, Marcel (1871 – 1922) by Marion Schmid, University of Edinburgh
Puccini, Giacomo (1858 – 1924) by Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Purcell, Henry (1659 – 1695) by Roger Savage, University of Edinburgh
Purdy, James (1923 – ) by Martin Kich, Wright State University
Pusey, Edward (1800 – 1882) by Marion Spies, Bergische Universität-GHS Wuppertal
Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799 – 1837) by A.D.P. Briggs, University of Bristol
François Rabelais (1494 (?) – 1553) by Max Gauna, University of Sheffield
Rafat, Taufiq (1927 – 1998) by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554 (?) – 1618) by Katharine Craik, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Rand, Ayn (1905 – 1982) by John Lewis, Ashland University
Rao, Raja (1908 – ) by Satish Aikant, Garhwal University
Rastell, John (1475 (?) – 1536) by Janette Dillon, University of Nottingham
Reed, Ishmael (1938 – ) by Samuel Ludwig, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse
Remarque, Erich Maria (1898 – 1970) by Alfred D. White, Cardiff University
Renault, Mary (1905 – 1983) by Diana Wallace, University of Glamorgan
Rendell, Ruth (1930 – ) by Susan A. Rowland, University of Greenwich
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas (1734 – 1806) by Peter Wagstaff, University of Bath
Rexroth, Kenneth (1905 – 1982) by Herbie Butterfield, University of Essex
Reznikoff, Charles (1894 – 1976) by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
Rhys, Jean (1890 – 1979) by Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Richardson, Dorothy (1748 – 1819) by Zoë Kinsley, Liverpool Hope University College
Richardson, Samuel (1689 – 1761) by Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent
Richler, Mordecai (1931 – 2001) by Linda Morra, University of British Columbia
Ridge, John Rollin (1827 – 1867) by James W. Parins, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Riding, Laura (1901 – 1991) by David Reid, University of Stirling
Riley, Joan (1959 – ) by Wendy Rountree, North Carolina Central University
Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875 – 1926) by Alfred D. White, Cardiff University
Ringwood, Gwen Pharis (1910 – 1984) by Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan
Roberts, Sir Charles (1860 – 1943) by Thomas Hodd, University of Ottawa
Robinson, Mary Perdita (1758 – 1800) by Claire Brock, University of Warwick
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858 – 1919) by James H. Meredith, USAF Academy, Colorado
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890 – 1918) by Steven Connor, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ross, Sinclair (1908 – 1996) by Alison Calder, University of Manitoba
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 – 1868) by Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Roth, Henry (1906 – 1995) by Stacy Mulder, Ball State University, Davenport University and University of Phoenix
Roth, Philip (1933 – ) by Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami
Rowley, William (1585 (?) – 1626) by David Stymeist, Queen’s University
Rushdie, Salman (1947 – ) by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Universität des Saarlandes
Salinger, J. D. (1919 – ) by John Wenke, Salisbury University
Salverson, Laura Goodman (1890 – 1970) by Daisy Neijmann, University College London
Sand, George (1804 – 1876) by Felicia Gordon, University of Cambridge
Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1941 – 1995) by Craig McLuckie, Okanagan University College
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905 – 1980) by Andrew Leak, University College London
Sayers, Dorothy L. (1893 – 1957) by Chris Willis, formerly of London Metropolitan University
Scalapino, Leslie (1947 – ) by Laura Hinton, CUNY, City College
Schelling, Friedrich (1775 – 1854) by Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross
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