Writers by Wikipedia description

He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey of best-loved novels, The Big Read.

He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris, which was attended by over two million people, the largest in French history.

[writer] is best known for ... his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.

Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.

Her works are implicit critiques of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.

During his lifetime, [writer] was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.

His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.

An early innovator of jazz poetry, [writer] is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

He has been called the "father of English literature", or alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with Lewes, who was married.

Virginia Woolf called [writer] "the greatest of all novelists", and Gary Saul Morson referred to War and Peace as the greatest of all novels

[writer] was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell [surname].

Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.