Alphabetical Authors

[bazarov]

Wilde Oscar

[BlueSkyGB]

Gao Xingjian wrote the novel 'Soul Mountain"

[Niamh]

Yong, Charlotte.M.

[barbara0207]

Zuckmayer, Carl

[toni]

Augustine, Saint

[bazarov]

Belinsky, Visarion

[Niamh]

Coelho, Paulo

[vheissu]

Duncan, David

[bazarov]

Engels

[toni]

Frost, Robert

[bazarov]

Gogol, Nikolai

[toni]

Hardy, Thomas

[barbara0207]

Immermann, Karl Leberecht

[vheissu]

John Fante

[barbara0207]

Keller, Gottfried

[BlueSkyGB]

Ludlum, Robert

[barbara0207]

Musil, Robert

[bazarov]

Norris, Frank

[barbara0207]

Ovid ...

[thelastmelon]

Palmqvist, Conny.

[barbara0207]

Quintilian

[thelastmelon]

Rignér Lundgren, Ester
Bet you haven't heard of her before. :)

[barbara0207]

Rignér Lundgren, Ester
Bet you haven't heard of her before. :)

No, I haven't. Is she good? What does she write?

It's a good thing you post Swedish authors. I like to post German writers (Q was a bit difficult, though :) ). But for you there's a Swedish author I know:

Selma Lagerlöf

[thelastmelon]

She wrote books for children, and she's the creator of two of my favorite characters. Two little trolls named Kvirre & Hoppsan. Very cute books. I still read them from time to time. :)

Thornberg, Robert

[barbara0207]

Uhland, Ludwig

[Shalot]

Virgil

[barbara0207]

Xenophon (disciple of Socrates)

[BlueSkyGB]

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

[Niamh]

zaddie smith

[vheissu]

Andre' Gide

[Niamh]

Barry, Sebastian

[barbara0207]

Coetzee, J.M.

[Domer121]

Deats, John

[thelastmelon]

Ehn, Billy. :D

[RoCKiTcZa]

Forbes, Esther

[thelastmelon]

Gaiman, Neil.

[vheissu]

Harold Pinter

[Whifflingpin]

Ionesco

[Shalot]

oops I posted in the wrong thread :lol:

hang on I'll be back in a second with an author

Annie Fellows Johnston (straight from the Lit Net list)

[vheissu]

Khaled Hosseini

[Niamh]

la Carre, John

[barbara0207]

Mann, Thomas

[Niamh]

Nick Laird

[vheissu]

Ondaatje, Michael

[BlueSkyGB]

Pratchett, Terry.....:lol:

[barbara0207]

Quevedo, F. G. de

[glenn71]

stephen spender

[thelastmelon]

You forgot R, so here's one: Rushdie, Salman :)

And I'll continue the game with: Thornberg, Robert.

[vheissu]

Umberto Eco

[Niamh]

Vickers, Sally?

[barbara0207]

Wohmann, Gabriele

[Logos]

Xenophon (c.431 BC-350 BC)

[Pendragon]

York, Robert

[Niamh]

zola, Emile

[vheissu]

Angela Carter

[Dori]

Boris Pasternak

[vheissu]

Coe, Jonathan

[thegreenthing]

Doyle, Arthur Conan

[vheissu]

Extebarria, Lucia

[Pendragon]

Frost. Robert

[Niamh]

Gallagher, Mia

[thegreenthing]

Hesse, Herman

[Niamh]

Irvine, John

[thelastmelon]

Johansson, Elsie :)

[AuntShecky]

Kennedy, X. J.

(use this poet's again, whoever draws the "x"!_

[Niamh]

London, Jack

[vheissu]

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

[AuntShecky]

Vladimir Nabokov.

(Remember the first name whoever draws the "V")

[thescholar]

Orwell, George

[vheissu]

Priest, Christopher

[AuntShecky]

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

[Dori]

Turgenev, Ivan

[AuntShecky]

Hey, where are "R" and the "S"?

[vheissu]

Philip Roth
.
.
.
Samuel Beckett

;)

[Logos]

(since Dori did "T" :) )

Umberto Eco

[amalia1985]

Victor Hugo

[barbara0207]

Wilhelm Grimm

[amalia1985]

Xavier Herbert

barbara2007, the avatar is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

[barbara0207]

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Thanks, amalia! :)

[THX-1138]

Brave new world - Aldous Huxley

[vheissu]

Caute, David

[amalia1985]

Dumas, Alexandre

[Niamh]

Ernest Hemmingway

[vheissu]

Francoise Sagan

[Shalot]

Gustave Flaubert

[vheissu]

Harper Lee

[Niamh]

Irvine, John

[barbara0207]

Jonathan Swift

[Niamh]

King, Stephen

[AuntShecky]

C. S. Lewis

[_JadeRain_]

Mary Shelly

[Niamh]

nora roberts

[NikolaiI]

Orwell, George

[Niamh]

pamuk, orhan

[bazarov]

Rilke, Reiner Maria

[thescholar]

Stephen King

[bazarov]

Leo Tolstoy

[Niamh]

Umberto Eco

[bazarov]

Virgil

[vheissu]

William Golding

[ESHQUIA]

Yalom

[vheissu]

I see the X was inconspicuously overlooked! ;)

Zadie Smith

[Niamh]

Aesop

[Dori]

Boswell, James (known for his Life of Johnson)

As for the overlooked X: Xenophon

[vheissu]

Crichton, Michael

[ESHQUIA]

David Kaufmann

[vheissu]

Eoin Colfer

[Wyoecho]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ESHQUIA]

G. Garcia Marquez

[bazarov]

Hesse Herman

[Niamh]

Ingle, Stephen

[BlueSkyGB]

James Joyce

[*Classic*Charm*]

Kafka!!

[ESHQUIA]

Leo Tolstoy

[aeroport]

Melville, Herman

[toni]

Norris, Frank

[AimusSage]

Orwell, George (How unimaginative of me)

[Niamh]

Padrig Collum

[Dori]

Quintus of Smyrna

[Niamh]

Robert Burns

[aeroport]

Steinbeck, John

[vheissu]

Tanizaki, Junichiro

[OnyxRose]

Upfield, Arthur

[crazefest456]

Vonnegut, Kurt

[toni]

Wharton, Edith

[OnyxRose]

Xiao Hong

[DickZ]

Abraham Yarmolinsky, author of The Gentlemen From San Francisco

[vheissu]

Barth, John

[Hira]

Conrad, Joseph

[vheissu]

Dawkins, Richard

[DickZ]

Erle Stanley Gardner, the Perry Mason series of mysteries

[Hira]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[vheissu]

Gide, Andre

[DickZ]

Harte, Bret: The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat

[Hira]

Ibsen, Henrik.

[DickZ]

Jules Verne, the father of science fiction

[Hira]

Kerouac, Jack.

[Bakiryu]

Lindgren, Astrid

[Hira]

Mitch Albom

[vheissu]

Nabokov, Vladimir

[Hira]

Orhan Pamuk

[mmanuelap]

Picoult, Jodi

[BlueSkyGB]

Quarles, Heather.

[Niamh]

Roth, Philip

[vheissu]

Roth, Philip

[Niamh]

Jinx!

Stephen King

[vheissu]

Jinx indeed!!

Tolkien, JRR

[BlueSkyGB]

Yoshiko Uchida.

[Niamh]

zadie smith

[vheissu]

Albom, Mitch

[Niamh]

Barry, Sebastian

[vheissu]

I thought you'd gone to sleep, Niamh! :p

Christopher Priest

[Hira]

David Herbert Lawrence

[aeroport]

Eagleton, Terry (I assume we can count distinguished critics...)

[Niamh]

francis, Dick.

[Hira]

Goethe

[Goodfella]

Herman Radniz

[Remarkable]

Ismail Kadare

[aeroport]

James, Henry!

[Niamh]

Kerouac, Jack

[Hira]

Lawrence, D.H.

[Niamh]

Somerset Maugham

[thelastmelon]

Nabokov, Vladimir

[Niamh]

O' Brien, Patrick

[thelastmelon]

Paasilinna, Arto

[Niamh]

Francesco De Quevado

[thelastmelon]

Reynolds, Alastair

[Niamh]

Stoker, Bram

[thelastmelon]

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

[Hira]

Umberto Eco

[Dori]

Verne, Jules

[Hira]

William Dalrymple

[Logos]

Xie Lingyun, Chinese poet

[DesireKnowledge]

Yamin Muhammad

[littlelit]

Zola, Emile

[DanielBenoit]

Are we starting over again?

Asimov, Issac

[toni]

Blake , William

[AmericanEagle]

Charles Dickens

[Janine]

Dostoyevski, Fyodor

[crystalmoonshin]

Eddings, David

[Logos]

John Fowles

[Janine]

Graham Greene

[DanielBenoit]

Hofstander, Douglas

[Janine]

Henrik Ibsen

[crystalmoonshin]

Julian Marias

[toni]

King, Stephen

[DanielBenoit]

Lyotard, Jean

[toni]

Maupassant, Guy de

[DanielBenoit]

Nietzsche, Friedrich

[toni]

Orwell, George

[DanielBenoit]

Plato

[toni]

Quiller-Couch, Arthur

[DanielBenoit]

Racine, Jean

[toni]

Shakespeare, William :banana:

[DanielBenoit]

Tolstoy, Leo

[rimbaud]

verlaine, paul ok, he's a poet, but could not resist

[ESHQUIA]

Wilhelm Reich..