Literary History - Birth and Death Year

Identify these famous people based on their initials and birth/death dates. The aim of this quiz is to improve a sense of literary and historical knowledge through knowing when notable literary individuals were living.

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	Years Alive	Initials	Answer
14th century	1343 - 1400	GC	Geoffrey Chaucer
15th century	1469 - 1527	NM	Niccolo Machiavelli
16th century	1547 - 1616	MdC	Miguel De Cervantes
	1564 - 1593	CM	Christopher Marlowe
	1564 - 1616	WS	William Shakespeare
17th century	1608 - 1674	JM	John Milton
17th century	1667 - 1745	JS	Jonathan Swift
18th century	1689 - 1761	SR	Samuel Richardson
	1688 - 1744	AP	Alexander Pope
	1749 - 1832	JWG	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19th century	1775 - 1817	JA	Jane Austen
	1788 - 1824	LB	Lord Byron
	1795 - 1821	JK	John Keats
	1797 - 1851	MS	Mary Shelley
	1799 - 1837	AP	Alexander Pushkin
	1802 - 1870	AD	Alexandre Dumas
	1802 - 1885	VH	Victor Hugo
	1809 - 1849	EAP	Edgar Allan Poe
	1809 - 1852	NG	Nikolai Gogol
	1812 - 1870	CD	Charles Dickens
	1819 - 1880	GE	George Eliot
	1819 - 1891	HM	Herman Melville
	1821 - 1881	FD	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
	1828 - 1910	LT	Leo Tolstoy
	1816 - 1855	CB	Charlotte Bronte
	1817 - 1862	HDT	Henry David Thoreau
	1818 - 1848	EB	Emily Bronte
	1819 - 1892	WW	Walt Whitman
	1821 - 1880	GF	Gustave Flaubert
	1860 - 1904	AC	Anton Chekhov
	1830 - 1886	ED	Emily Dickinson
	1835 - 1910	MT	Mark Twain
	1850 - 1894	RLS	Robert Louis Stevenson
	1854 - 1900	OW	Oscar Wilde
20th century	1857 - 1924	JC	Joseph Conrad
	1859 - 1930	ACD	Arthur Conan Doyle
	1862 - 1937	EW	Edith Wharton
	1866 - 1946	HGW	H.G Wells
	1874 - 1963	RF	Robert Frost
	1875 - 1955	TM	Thomas Mann
	1882 - 1941	JJ	James Joyce
	1896 - 1940	FSF	F. Scott Fitzgerald
	1897 - 1962	WF	William Faulkner
	1894 - 1963	AH	Aldous Huxley
	1899 - 1961	EH	Ernest Hemingway
	1882 - 1941	VW	Virginia Woolf
	1888 - 1965	TSE	T.S. Eliot
	1883 - 1924	FK	Franz Kafka
	1892 - 1973	JRRT	J.R.R. Tolkien
	1898 - 1956	BB	Bertolt Brecht
	1891 - 1960	ZNH	Zora Neale Hurston
	1901 - 1967	LH	Langston Hughes
	1902 - 1968	JS	John Steinbeck
	1903 - 1950	GO	George Orwell
	1906 - 1989	SB	Samuel Beckett
	1916 - 1990	RD	Roald Dahl
	1919 - 2010	JDS	J.D. Salinger
	1920 - 1992	IA	Isaac Asimov
	1920 - 2012	RB	Ray Bradbury
	1924 - 1987	JB	James Baldwin
	1922 - 2007	KV	Kurt Vonnegut
	1925 - 1964	FC	Flanney O'Connor
	1927 - 2014	GGM	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	1932 - 1963	SP	Sylvia Plath
21st century	1962 - 2008	DFW	David Foster Wallace
21st century	1958 -	GS	George Saunders

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