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Quota 2,000 articles.

Total 2,072 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 52
GA 90
A 2
B 486
C 681
FFA 18
DGA 20
Start 687
Stub 75

Writers

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This section contains 1692 articles.

Prose writers

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This section contains 911 articles.

Ancient

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This section contains 5 articles.

Asia

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This section contains 1 article.

  1. Vishnu Sharma

Europe

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This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aesop
  2. Apuleius
  3. Lucian (Level 4)
  4. Pliny the Younger

Post-classical

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This section contains 17 articles.

Early modern

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This section contains 60 articles.

Modern

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This section contains 829 articles.

Africa

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This section contains 24 articles.

Americas

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This section contains 305 articles.

Caribbean
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This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Patrick Chamoiseau
  2. Maryse Condé
  3. Marlon James (novelist)
  4. Audre Lorde
  5. Paulette Nardal
US and Canada
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This section contains 271 articles.

  1. Tomi Adeyemi
  2. James Agee
  3. Louisa May Alcott
  4. Lloyd Alexander
  5. Horatio Alger
  6. Nelson Algren
  7. Poul Anderson
  8. Sherwood Anderson
  9. V. C. Andrews
  10. Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
  11. Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
  12. Paul Auster
  13. James Baldwin
  14. Djuna Barnes
  15. Donald Barthelme
  16. L. Frank Baum
  17. Paul Beatty
  18. Saul Bellow (Level 4)
  19. Stan and Jan Berenstain
  20. Ambrose Bierce
  21. Earl Derr Biggers
  22. Judy Blume
  23. Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
  24. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  25. Norman Bridwell
  26. Terry Brooks
  27. Dan Brown
  28. Susan Brownmiller
  29. Pearl S. Buck
  30. Edgar Rice Burroughs
  31. William S. Burroughs (Level 4)
  32. Candace Bushnell
  33. Octavia E. Butler
  34. Meg Cabot
  35. James M. Cain
  36. Erskine Caldwell
  37. Truman Capote
  38. Orson Scott Card
  39. Dale Carnegie
  40. John Dickson Carr
  41. Raymond Carver
  42. Willa Cather
  43. Michael Chabon
  44. Robert W. Chambers
  45. Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
  46. John Cheever
  47. C. J. Cherryh
  48. Kate Chopin
  49. Winston Churchill (novelist)
  50. Tom Clancy
  51. Mary Higgins Clark
  52. Beverly Cleary
  53. Robin Cook (American novelist)
  54. James Fenimore Cooper
  55. Patricia Cornwell
  56. Stephen Crane
  57. Michael Crichton
  58. Clive Cussler
  59. Janet Dailey
  60. Henry Darger
  61. Lydia Davis
  62. Varina Davis
  63. Don DeLillo
  64. Philip K. Dick
  65. Joan Didion
  66. Annie Dillard
  67. Thomas Dixon Jr.
  68. Mary Mapes Dodge
  69. John Dos Passos
  70. Theodore Dreiser
  71. David Eddings
  72. Bret Easton Ellis
  73. James Ellroy
  74. Harlan Ellison
  75. Ralph Ellison
  76. Louise Erdrich
  77. Jeffrey Eugenides
  78. Walter Farley
  79. William Faulkner (Level 4)
  80. Raymond E. Feist
  81. Edna Ferber
  82. Tim Ferriss
  83. M. F. K. Fisher
  84. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
  85. Jonathan Franzen
  86. James Frey
  87. Diana Gabaldon
  88. William Gaddis
  89. Erle Stanley Gardner
  90. Roxane Gay
  91. William Gibson
  92. Sue Grafton
  93. John Gray (American author)
  94. John Green
  95. Robert Greene (American author)
  96. Zane Grey
  97. John Grisham
  98. Alex Haley
  99. Dashiell Hammett
  100. Daniel Handler
  101. Bret Harte
  102. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Level 4)
  103. Louise Hay
  104. Lafcadio Hearn
  105. Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
  106. Joseph Heller
  107. Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
  108. Marguerite Henry
  109. O. Henry
  110. Frank Herbert
  111. Patricia Highsmith
  112. S. E. Hinton
  113. Khaled Hosseini
  114. Robert E. Howard
  115. William Dean Howells
  116. Herbert Huncke
  117. Evan Hunter
  118. Zora Neale Hurston
  119. Iceberg Slim
  120. Clifford Irving
  121. John Irving
  122. Washington Irving
  123. Shirley Jackson
  124. Henry James (Level 4)
  125. N. K. Jemisin
  126. James Jones (author)
  127. Erica Jong
  128. Mary Karr
  129. Susanna Kaysen
  130. Carolyn Keene
  131. Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
  132. Ken Kesey
  133. Stephen King (Level 4)
  134. Barbara Kingsolver
  135. Robert Kiyosaki
  136. Dean Koontz
  137. Judith Krantz
  138. Louis L'Amour
  139. Madeleine L'Engle
  140. Nella Larsen
  141. Margaret Laurence
  142. Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
  143. Harper Lee
  144. Jonathan Lethem
  145. Sinclair Lewis
  146. Alan Lightman
  147. Jeff Lindsay
  148. Jack London (Level 4)
  149. H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
  150. Lois Lowry
  151. Robert Ludlum
  152. Ross Macdonald
  153. Debbie Macomber
  154. Maddox (writer)
  155. Norman Mailer
  156. William Manchester
  157. Yann Martel
  158. Ann M. Martin
  159. George R. R. Martin
  160. Peter Matthiessen
  161. Anne McCaffrey
  162. Cormac McCarthy
  163. Mary McCarthy (author)
  164. Carson McCullers
  165. Jay McInerney
  166. Patricia A. McKillip
  167. Michelle McNamara
  168. Marijane Meaker
  169. Herman Melville (Level 4)
  170. Stephenie Meyer
  171. James A. Michener
  172. Henry Miller
  173. Margaret Mitchell
  174. Lucy Maud Montgomery
  175. Toni Morrison (Level 4)
  176. Alice Munro
  177. Anaïs Nin
  178. Larry Niven
  179. Philip Francis Nowlan
  180. Flannery O'Connor
  181. John O'Hara
  182. Joyce Carol Oates
  183. Chuck Palahniuk
  184. Katherine Paterson
  185. James Patterson
  186. Norman Vincent Peale
  187. Richard Peck (writer)
  188. Walker Percy
  189. Christopher Pike (author)
  190. Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
  191. Frederik Pohl
  192. Richard Price (writer)
  193. Mario Puzo
  194. Thomas Pynchon
  195. Ayn Rand (Level 4)
  196. Kathy Reichs
  197. H. A. Rey
  198. Anne Rice
  199. Rick Riordan
  200. Harold Robbins
  201. Tony Robbins
  202. Nora Roberts
  203. Philip Roth
  204. Patrick Rothfuss
  205. Ann Rule
  206. Damon Runyon
  207. J. D. Salinger
  208. George Saunders
  209. Michael Shaara
  210. Sidney Sheldon
  211. Shel Silverstein
  212. Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
  213. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  214. Frank G. Slaughter
  215. Lucy Mack Smith
  216. Susan Sontag
  217. Terry Southern
  218. Nicholas Sparks
  219. Mickey Spillane
  220. Danielle Steel
  221. William Steig
  222. Gertrude Stein
  223. John Steinbeck (Level 4)
  224. R. L. Stine
  225. Charles Warren Stoddard
  226. Rex Stout
  227. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  228. Cheryl Strayed
  229. William Styron
  230. Jacqueline Susann
  231. Amy Tan
  232. Booth Tarkington
  233. Donna Tartt
  234. Paul Theroux
  235. James Thurber
  236. Wallace Thurman
  237. John Kennedy Toole
  238. Mark Twain (Level 4)
  239. Anne Tyler
  240. John Updike
  241. Leon Uris
  242. Catherynne M. Valente
  243. Jack Vance
  244. Jeff VanderMeer
  245. Gore Vidal
  246. A. E. van Vogt
  247. William T. Vollmann
  248. Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
  249. Alice Walker
  250. Rebecca Walker
  251. David Foster Wallace
  252. Irving Wallace
  253. Jesmyn Ward
  254. Eudora Welty
  255. Dorothy West
  256. Nathanael West
  257. Edith Wharton (Level 4)
  258. E. B. White
  259. Colson Whitehead
  260. Laura Ingalls Wilder
  261. Nathaniel Parker Willis
  262. Kathleen Winsor
  263. Gene Wolfe
  264. Thomas Wolfe
  265. Tom Wolfe
  266. Cornell Woolrich
  267. Herman Wouk
  268. Richard Wright (author)
  269. Elizabeth Wurtzel
  270. Richard Yates (novelist)
  271. Cecily von Ziegesar
Latin America
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This section contains 29 articles.

  1. José de Alencar
  2. Isabel Allende
  3. Jorge Amado (Level 4)
  4. Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
  5. Machado de Assis (Level 4)
  6. Aluísio Azevedo
  7. Lima Barreto
  8. Roberto Bolaño
  9. Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
  10. Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
  11. Paulo Coelho
  12. Julio Cortázar
  13. Junot Díaz
  14. Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
  15. Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
  16. Ricardo Güiraldes
  17. Clarice Lispector
  18. Monteiro Lobato
  19. Raul Pompeia
  20. Rachel de Queiroz
  21. Graciliano Ramos
  22. José Lins do Rego
  23. João Ubaldo Ribeiro
  24. João Guimarães Rosa
  25. Juan Rulfo
  26. Ernesto Sabato
  27. Moacyr Scliar
  28. Lygia Fagundes Telles
  29. Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)

Asia

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This section contains 76 articles.

Europe

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This section contains 401 articles.

Eastern Europe
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This section contains 33 articles.

  1. Ivo Andrić
  2. Jerzy Andrzejewski
  3. Vasil Bykaŭ
  4. Ivan Cankar
  5. Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
  6. Anton Donchev
  7. Odysseas Elytis
  8. István Fekete
  9. Géza Gárdonyi
  10. Jaroslav Hašek
  11. Bohumil Hrabal
  12. Mór Jókai
  13. Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
  14. Nikos Kazantzakis
  15. Imre Kertész
  16. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
  17. László Krasznahorkai
  18. Milan Kundera
  19. Stanisław Lem
  20. Mendele Mocher Sforim
  21. Sławomir Mrożek
  22. Božena Němcová
  23. Bolesław Prus
  24. Władysław Reymont
  25. Bruno Schulz
  26. Sholem Aleichem
  27. Andrzej Sapkowski
  28. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
  29. Magda Szabó
  30. Dimitar Talev
  31. Olga Tokarczuk
  32. Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
  33. Alki Zei
Nordic countries
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This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
  2. Karen Blixen (Level 4)
  3. Arne Garborg
  4. Hulda Garborg
  5. Maria Gripe
  6. Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
  7. Tove Jansson
  8. Johannes V. Jensen
  9. Thit Jensen
  10. Eyvind Johnson
  11. Alexander Kielland
  12. Aleksis Kivi
  13. Pär Lagerkvist
  14. Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
  15. Stieg Larsson
  16. Halldór Laxness (Level 4)
  17. Jonas Lie (writer)
  18. Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
  19. Väinö Linna
  20. Henrik Pontoppidan
  21. Alf Prøysen
  22. Frans Eemil Sillanpää
  23. Sjón
  24. Zachris Topelius
  25. Sigrid Undset
  26. Mika Waltari
Russia
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This section contains 49 articles.

  1. Vasily Aksyonov
  2. Boris Akunin
  3. Mark Aldanov
  4. Isaac Babel
  5. Alexander Belyaev
  6. Andrei Bely
  7. Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
  8. Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
  10. Ilya Ehrenburg
  11. Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
  12. Gaito Gazdanov
  13. Dmitry Glukhovsky
  14. Ivan Goncharov
  15. Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
  16. Alexander Grin
  17. Alexander Herzen
  18. Ilf and Petrov
  19. Alexander Karasyov
  20. Arsen Kotsoyev
  21. Aleksandr I. Kuprin
  22. Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
  23. Nikolai Leskov
  24. Sergei Lukyanenko
  25. Nadezhda Mandelstam
  26. Dmitry Merezhkovsky
  27. Sergey Mikhalkov
  28. Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
  29. Nikolai Ostrovsky
  30. Victor Pelevin
  31. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
  32. Aleksey Pisemsky
  33. Andrei Platonov
  34. Zakhar Prilepin
  35. Valentin Rasputin
  36. Aleksey Remizov
  37. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  38. Varlam Shalamov
  39. Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
  40. Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
  41. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
  42. Vladimir Sorokin
  43. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  44. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  45. Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
  46. Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
  47. Lyudmila Ulitskaya
  48. Eduard Uspensky
  49. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Western Europe
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This section contains 119 articles.

  1. Ilse Aichinger
  2. Leopoldo Alas
  3. Bettina von Arnim
  4. Emmanuelle Arsan
  5. Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
  6. René Belbenoît
  7. Ludwig Bemelmans
  8. Georges Bernanos
  9. Aloysius Bertrand
  10. Heinrich Böll
  11. Michel Butor
  12. Dino Buzzati
  13. Italo Calvino
  14. Albert Camus (Level 4)
  15. Elias Canetti
  16. Camilo José Cela
  17. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  18. Blaise Cendrars
  19. Henri Charrière
  20. François-René de Chateaubriand
  21. Paul Claudel
  22. Albert Cohen (novelist)
  23. Colette
  24. Frédéric Dard
  25. Alphonse Daudet
  26. Grazia Deledda
  27. Alfred Döblin
  28. Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
  29. Alexandre Dumas fils
  30. Umberto Eco (Level 4)
  31. Michael Ende
  32. Elena Ferrante
  33. Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
  34. Theodor Fontane
  35. Anatole France
  36. Anne Frank (Level 4)
  37. Cornelia Funke
  38. André Gide (Level 4)
  39. Anne Golon
  40. Jules de Goncourt
  41. Julien Gracq
  42. Günter Grass
  43. Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
    1. Jacob Grimm
    2. Wilhelm Grimm
  44. Peter Handke
  45. Paul Heyse
  46. Michel Houellebecq
  47. Victor Hugo (Level 4)
  48. Elfriede Jelinek
  49. Uwe Johnson
  50. André Jullien
  51. Franz Kafka (Level 4)
  52. Charles Paul de Kock
  53. Karl Kraus (writer)
  54. J. M. G. Le Clézio
  55. Maurice Leblanc
  56. Gaston Leroux
  57. Primo Levi
  58. André Pieyre de Mandiargues
  59. Thomas Mann (Level 4)
  60. Alessandro Manzoni
  61. Roger Martin du Gard
  62. Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
  63. François Mauriac
  64. Karl May
  65. Prosper Mérimée
  66. Octave Mirbeau
  67. Frédéric Mistral
  68. Patrick Modiano
  69. Henry de Montherlant
  70. Alberto Moravia
  71. Harry Mulisch
  72. Herta Müller
  73. Multatuli
  74. Robert Musil
  75. Gérard de Nerval
  76. Georges Perec
  77. Benito Pérez Galdós
  78. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  79. Robert Pinget
  80. Abbé Prévost
  81. Marcel Proust (Level 4)
  82. Eça de Queiroz
  83. Raymond Queneau
  84. Erich Maria Remarque
  85. Gerard Reve
  86. Alain Robbe-Grillet
  87. Gianni Rodari
  88. Joseph Roth
  89. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  90. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  91. Françoise Sagan
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  93. Felix Salten
  94. George Sand
  95. José Saramago (Level 4)
  96. Bernhard Schlink
  97. Annie M.G. Schmidt
  98. W. G. Sebald
  99. Georges Simenon
  100. Claude Simon
  101. Johanna Spyri
  102. Stendhal (Level 4)
  103. Eugène Sue
  104. Patrick Süskind
  105. Italo Svevo
  106. Corín Tellado
  107. Eckhart Tolle
  108. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  109. Tomi Ungerer
  110. Giovanni Verga
  111. Jules Verne (Level 4)
  112. Gérard de Villiers
  113. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
  114. Franz Werfel
  115. Marguerite Yourcenar
  116. Émile Zola (Level 4)
  117. Stefan Zweig
UK and Ireland
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This section contains 174 articles.

  1. Douglas Adams
  2. William Harrison Ainsworth
  3. Richard Aldington
  4. Kingsley Amis
  5. Martin Amis
  6. Piers Anthony
  7. Jeffrey Archer
  8. Michael Arlen
  9. Jane Austen (Level 4)
  10. Wilbert Awdry
  11. J. G. Ballard
  12. Iain Banks
  13. John Banville
  14. Clive Barker
  15. Pat Barker
  16. Julian Barnes
  17. J. M. Barrie
  18. Nina Bawden
  19. Louis de Bernières
  20. Enid Blyton (Level 4)
  21. Marjorie Bowen
  22. John Braine
  23. Brontë family (Level 4)
    1. Anne Brontë
    2. Charlotte Brontë
    3. Emily Brontë
  24. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  25. Eleanor Alice Burford
  26. Anthony Burgess
  27. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  28. A. S. Byatt
  29. John le Carré
  30. Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
  31. Barbara Cartland
  32. G. K. Chesterton
  33. Erskine Childers (author)
  34. Agatha Christie (Level 4)
  35. Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
  36. Eoin Colfer
  37. Jackie Collins
  38. Wilkie Collins
  39. Catherine Cookson
  40. John Creasey
  41. Quentin Crisp
  42. Roald Dahl (Level 4)
  43. Thomas De Quincey
  44. Len Deighton
  45. Charles Dickens (Level 4)
  46. Peter Dickinson
  47. Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
  48. Roddy Doyle
  49. Lord Dunsany
  50. George Eliot (Level 4)
  51. Anne Enright
  52. Bernardine Evaristo
  53. J. G. Farrell
  54. Sebastian Faulks
  55. Helen Fielding
  56. Penelope Fitzgerald
  57. Ian Fleming
  58. Ken Follett
  59. Ford Madox Ford
  60. E. M. Forster
  61. Dick Francis
  62. John Galsworthy
  63. Elizabeth Gaskell
  64. William Golding (Level 4)
  65. Kenneth Grahame
  66. Graham Greene
  67. Arthur Hailey
  68. Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
  69. Roger Hargreaves
  70. Frank Harris
  71. Jack Higgins
  72. James Hogg
  73. Alan Hollinghurst
  74. Aldous Huxley
  75. Christopher Isherwood
  76. Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
  77. Howard Jacobson
  78. E. L. James
  79. P. D. James
  80. Jerome K. Jerome
  81. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  82. Penny Jordan
  83. James Joyce (Level 4)
  84. James Kelman
  85. Dick King-Smith
  86. Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
  87. Arthur Koestler
  88. Edward William Lane
  89. D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
  90. Sheridan Le Fanu
  91. Doris Lessing
  92. C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
  93. Wyndham Lewis
  94. Penelope Lively
  95. Hugh Lofting
  96. Malcolm Lowry
  97. George MacDonald
  98. Compton Mackenzie
  99. Alistair MacLean
  100. Hilary Mantel
  101. Frederick Marryat
  102. W. Somerset Maugham
  103. Daphne du Maurier
  104. Ian McEwan
  105. George Meredith
  106. Stanley Middleton
  107. A. A. Milne
  108. David Mitchell (author)
  109. Naomi Mitchison
  110. Nancy Mitford
  111. Michael Moorcock
  112. Iris Murdoch
  113. V. S. Naipaul (Level 4)
  114. E. Nesbit
  115. P. H. Newby
  116. Edna O'Brien
  117. Amelia Opie
  118. E. Phillips Oppenheim
  119. George Orwell (Level 4)
  120. Thomas Love Peacock
  121. Mervyn Peake
  122. Anne Perry
  123. John William Polidori
  124. Beatrix Potter
  125. Anthony Powell
  126. Terry Pratchett
  127. J. B. Priestley
  128. Philip Pullman
  129. Ann Radcliffe
  130. Derek Raymond
  131. Mary Renault
  132. Louise Rennison
  133. Jean Rhys
  134. Denise Robins
  135. Sally Rooney
  136. William Roughead
  137. J. K. Rowling
  138. Bernice Rubens
  139. Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
  140. Dorothy L. Sayers
  141. Paul Scott (novelist)
  142. Walter Scott (Level 4)
  143. Anna Sewell
  144. Margery Sharp
  145. Mary Shelley (Level 4)
  146. Nevil Shute
  147. The Sitwells
    1. Osbert Sitwell
  148. Zadie Smith
  149. Muriel Spark
  150. Olaf Stapledon
  151. Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
  152. Bram Stoker
  153. Graham Swift
  154. William Makepeace Thackeray
  155. Colm Tóibín
  156. J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
  157. P. L. Travers
  158. Anthony Trollope
  159. Barry Unsworth
  160. Edgar Wallace
  161. Evelyn Waugh
  162. H. G. Wells (Level 4)
  163. Irvine Welsh
  164. Rebecca West
  165. T. H. White
  166. Margery Williams
  167. Jacqueline Wilson
  168. P. G. Wodehouse
  169. Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
  170. Benjamin Zephaniah

Oceania

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This section contains 23 articles.

Poets

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This section contains 571 articles.

Ancient

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This section contains 42 articles.

Post-classical

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This section contains 83 articles.

Early modern

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This section contains 87 articles.

Africa

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This section contains 1 article.

  1. Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

America

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This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Anne Bradstreet
  2. Phillis Wheatley

Asia

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This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
  2. Huseng Sisiw
  3. Fukuda Chiyo-ni
  4. Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
  5. Ihara Saikaku
  6. Kabir (Level 4)
  7. Kobayashi Issa
  8. Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
  9. Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
  10. Mirabai (Level 4)
  11. Santō Kyōden
  12. Ramprasad Sen
  13. Surdas
  14. Tukaram (Level 4)
  15. Tulsidas (Level 4)
  16. Yosa Buson

Europe

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This section contains 68 articles.

  1. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
  2. Ludovico Ariosto
  3. Agrippa d'Aubigné
  4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  5. Ivan Barkov
  6. James Beattie (poet)
  7. Joachim du Bellay
  8. Matteo Maria Boiardo
  9. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
  10. Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
  11. Anna Bunina
  12. Samuel Butler (poet)
  13. Robert Burns (Level 4)
  14. Luís de Camões (Level 4)
  15. Thomas Chatterton
  16. André Chénier
  17. John Clare
  18. Abraham Cowley
  19. William Cowper
  20. George Crabbe
  21. Richard Crashaw
  22. Gavrila Derzhavin
  23. John Donne (Level 4)
  24. John Dryden (Level 4)
  25. John Dyer
  26. Laurence Eusden
  27. Robert Fergusson
  28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Level 4)
  29. Thomas Gray
  30. Robert Henryson
  31. George Herbert
  32. Robert Herrick (poet)
  33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  34. Walter Kennedy (poet)
  35. Louise Labé
  36. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  37. François de Malherbe
  38. Clément Marot
  39. Andrew Marvell
  40. John Milton (Level 4)
  41. Novalis
  42. Thomas Overbury
  43. John Owen (epigrammatist)
  44. Katherine Philips
  45. Alexander Pope (Level 4)
  46. Matthew Prior
  47. Henry James Pye
  48. Francis Quarles
  49. Allan Ramsay (poet)
  50. Samuel Rogers
  51. Pierre de Ronsard
  52. Paul Scarron
  53. Maurice Scève
  54. Thomas Shadwell
  55. Philip Sidney
  56. Christopher Smart
  57. Robert Southwell (priest)
  58. Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
  59. Torquato Tasso
  60. Nahum Tate
  61. James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
  62. Thomas Traherne
  63. Pontus de Tyard
  64. Henry Vaughan
  65. Théophile de Viau
  66. William Whitehead (poet)
  67. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  68. Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Modern

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This section contains 359 articles.

Africa

[edit]

This section contains 16 articles.

Americas

[edit]

This section contains 113 articles.

Caribbean
[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Aimé Césaire
  2. Léon Damas
  3. Claude McKay
  4. Derek Walcott
US and Canada
[edit]

This section contains 82 articles.

  1. Maya Angelou (Level 4)
  2. Rae Armantrout
  3. John Ashbery
  4. Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  5. Charles Bernstein (poet)
  6. John Berryman
  7. Elizabeth Bishop
  8. Paul Blackburn (poet)
  9. Gwendolyn Brooks
  10. Charles Bukowski
  11. Thomas Holley Chivers
  12. Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
  13. Ina Coolbrith
  14. Hart Crane
  15. Robert Creeley
  16. Countee Cullen
  17. E. E. Cummings
  18. H.D.
  19. Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
  20. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  21. Robert Duncan (poet)
  22. Larry Eigner
  23. T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
  24. Louis-Honoré Fréchette
  25. Robert Frost (Level 4)
  26. Allen Ginsberg (Level 4)
  27. Louise Glück
  28. Barbara Guest
  29. Sarah Josepha Hale
  30. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  31. Susan Howe
  32. Langston Hughes (Level 4)
  33. James Weldon Johnson
  34. Rupi Kaur
  35. Francis Scott Key
  36. Denise Levertov
  37. Vachel Lindsay
  38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  39. Amy Lowell
  40. James Russell Lowell
  41. Robert Lowell
  42. Daphne Marlatt
  43. Don Marquis
  44. John McCrae
  45. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  46. Clement Clarke Moore
  47. Marianne Moore
  48. Robin Morgan
  49. Ogden Nash
  50. Lorine Niedecker
  51. Frank O'Hara
  52. Sharon Olds
  53. Michael Ondaatje
  54. George Oppen
  55. Frances Sargent Osgood
  56. Dorothy Parker
  57. Bob Perelman
  58. Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
  59. Ezra Pound (Level 4)
  60. Charles Reznikoff
  61. James Whitcomb Riley
  62. Theodore Roethke
  63. Carl Sandburg
  64. James Schuyler
  65. Gil Scott-Heron
  66. Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
  67. Anne Sexton
  68. Karl Shapiro
  69. William Gilmore Simms
  70. John Sinclair (poet)
  71. Gary Snyder
  72. Wallace Stevens
  73. Sara Teasdale
  74. Ernest Thayer
  75. Margaret Walker
  76. Robert Penn Warren
  77. Lew Welch
  78. Philip Whalen
  79. Walt Whitman (Level 4)
  80. John Greenleaf Whittier
  81. William Carlos Williams
  82. Yvor Winters
Latin America
[edit]

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. Mário de Andrade
  2. Oswald de Andrade
  3. Augusto dos Anjos
  4. Miguel Ángel Asturias
  5. Mario Benedetti
  6. Olavo Bilac
  7. Julia de Burgos
  8. Raimundo Correia
  9. Rubén Darío
  10. Menotti Del Picchia
  11. Esteban Echeverría
  12. Luís Gama
  13. Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
  14. José Hernández (writer)
  15. Lêdo Ivo
  16. Leopoldo Lugones
  17. José Mármol
  18. José Martí (Level 4)
  19. Cecília Meireles
  20. Gabriela Mistral
  21. Vinicius de Moraes
  22. Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
  23. Alberto de Oliveira
  24. Octavio Paz
  25. Guillermo Prieto
  26. Alfonsina Storni
  27. César Vallejo

Asia

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This section contains 29 articles.

Europe

[edit]

This section contains 186 articles.

Eastern Europe
[edit]

This section contains 23 articles.

  1. Endre Ady
  2. Mateiu Caragiale
  3. Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
  4. Attila József
  5. József Katona
  6. Dragotin Kette
  7. Edvard Kocbek
  8. Srečko Kosovel
  9. Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
  10. Czesław Miłosz
  11. Josip Murn
  12. Jan Neruda
  13. Cyprian Norwid
  14. Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
  15. France Prešeren
  16. Jaroslav Seifert
  17. Giorgos Seferis
  18. Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
  19. Juliusz Słowacki
  20. Wisława Szymborska
  21. Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
  22. Ivan Vazov
  23. Oton Župančič
Nordic countries
[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  2. Steen Steensen Blicher
  3. Janus Djurhuus
  4. Gunnar Ekelöf
  5. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
  6. Paavo Haavikko
  7. Verner von Heidenstam
  8. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
  9. Eino Leino
  10. Elias Lönnrot
  11. Harry Martinson
  12. Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  13. Nelly Sachs
  14. Edith Södergran
  15. Tomas Tranströmer
Russia
[edit]

This section contains 37 articles.

  1. Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
  2. Innokenty Annensky
  3. Konstantin Balmont
  4. Yevgeny Baratynsky
  5. Demyan Bedny
  6. Olga Bergholz
  7. Alexander Blok
  8. Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
  9. Valery Bryusov
  10. Sergei Chavain
  11. Sasha Chorny
  12. Korney Chukovsky
  13. Afanasy Fet
  14. Rasul Gamzatov
  15. Zinaida Gippius
  16. Nikolai Gumilev
  17. Antiochus Kantemir
  18. Daniil Kharms
  19. Velimir Khlebnikov
  20. Kosta Khetagurov
  21. Aleksei Kruchyonykh
  22. Mikhail Kuzmin
  23. Osip Mandelstam
  24. Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
  25. Nikolay Nekrasov
  26. Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
  27. Dmitri Prigov
  28. Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
  29. Igor Severyanin
  30. Fyodor Sologub
  31. Vasily Trediakovsky
  32. Marina Tsvetaeva
  33. Ğabdulla Tuqay
  34. Fyodor Tyutchev
  35. Maximilian Voloshin
  36. Sergei Yesenin
  37. Vasily Zhukovsky
Western Europe
[edit]

This section contains 52 articles.

  1. Vicente Aleixandre
  2. Guillaume Apollinaire
  3. Louis Aragon
  4. Achim von Arnim
  5. Théodore de Banville
  6. Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
  7. Willem Bilderdijk
  8. Clemens Brentano
  9. André Breton
  10. Giosuè Carducci
  11. Alice de Chambrier
  12. René Char
  13. Tristan Corbière
  14. Gabriele D'Annunzio
  15. Robert Desnos
  16. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
  17. Paul Éluard
  18. Carlo Favetti
  19. Paul Fort
  20. Ugo Foscolo
  21. Théophile Gautier
  22. Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
  23. Willem Frederik Hermans
  24. Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
  25. Juan Ramón Jiménez
  26. Alphonse de Lamartine
  27. Else Lasker-Schüler
  28. Comte de Lautréamont
  29. Leconte de Lisle
  30. Giacomo Leopardi
  31. Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
  32. Pierre Louÿs
  33. Antonio Machado
  34. Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
  35. Henri Michaux
  36. Eugenio Montale
  37. Charles Péguy
  38. Saint-John Perse
  39. Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
  40. Francis Ponge
  41. Jacques Prévert
  42. Sully Prudhomme
  43. Salvatore Quasimodo
  44. Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
  45. Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
  46. Carl Spitteler
  47. Jules Supervielle
  48. Giuseppe Ungaretti
  49. Paul Valéry
  50. Émile Verhaeren
  51. Paul Verlaine
  52. Alfred de Vigny
UK and Ireland
[edit]

This section contains 59 articles.

  1. William Allingham
  2. Simon Armitage
  3. Matthew Arnold
  4. W. H. Auden
  5. Alfred Austin
  6. John Betjeman
  7. William Blake (Level 4)
  8. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  9. Robert Bridges
  10. Branwell Brontë
  11. Rupert Brooke
  12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  13. Robert Browning
  14. Basil Bunting
  15. Lord Byron (Level 4)
  16. Thomas Campbell (poet)
  17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
  18. Cecil Day-Lewis
  19. Carol Ann Duffy
  20. Charlotte Elliott
  21. Edward Faragher
  22. Edward FitzGerald (poet)
  23. Robert Graves
  24. Geoffrey Grigson
  25. Seamus Heaney
  26. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  27. A. E. Housman
  28. Ted Hughes
  29. John Keats (Level 4)
  30. Philip Larkin
  31. Edward Lear
  32. Mina Loy
  33. Hugh MacDiarmid
  34. Sorley MacLean
  35. Louis MacNeice
  36. John Masefield
  37. William McGonagall
  38. Thomas Moore
  39. Andrew Motion
  40. William Neill (poet)
  41. Alfred Noyes
  42. Wilfred Owen
  43. Adelaide Anne Procter
  44. Tom Raworth
  45. Isaac Rosenberg
  46. Christina Rossetti
  47. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  48. Siegfried Sassoon
  49. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
  50. Edith Sitwell
  51. Robert Southey
  52. Stephen Spender
  53. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Level 4)
  54. Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
  55. James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
  56. Edward Thomas (poet)
  57. Vernon Watkins
  58. William Wordsworth (Level 4)
  59. W. B. Yeats (Level 4)

Oceania

[edit]

This section contains 15 articles.

Playwrights

[edit]

This section contains 163 articles.

Ancient and post-classical

[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Aeschylus (Level 4)
  2. Aristophanes (Level 4)
  3. Bhāsa
  4. Bhavabhuti (Level 4)
  5. Epicharmus of Kos
  6. Euphorion (playwright)
  7. Euripides (Level 4)
  8. Guan Hanqing
  9. Hrotsvitha
  10. Kan'ami
  11. Livius Andronicus
  12. Ma Zhiyuan
  13. Menander (Level 4)
  14. Phormis
  15. Plautus (Level 4)
  16. Pratinas
  17. Sophocles (Level 4)
  18. Shudraka
  19. Terence (Level 4)
  20. Wang Shifu
  21. Zeami Motokiyo

Early modern

[edit]

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Vittorio Alfieri
  2. Pierre Beaumarchais
  3. Francis Beaumont
  4. Aphra Behn
  5. Cyrano de Bergerac
  6. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
  7. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
  8. Susanna Centlivre
  9. George Chapman
  10. Colley Cibber
  11. Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  12. William Congreve
  13. Pierre Corneille (Level 4)
  14. Thomas Dekker (writer)
  15. John Fletcher (playwright)
  16. Denis Fonvizin
  17. John Ford (dramatist)
  18. John Gay
  19. Carlo Goldoni
  20. Carlo Gozzi
  21. Ben Jonson (Level 4)
  22. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
  23. George Lillo
  24. Pierre de Marivaux
  25. Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
  26. John Marston (playwright)
  27. Molière (Level 4)
  28. Tirso de Molina
  29. Juan Pérez de Montalbán
  30. Jean Racine (Level 4)
  31. Jean-François Regnard
  32. Nicholas Rowe (writer)
  33. Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
  34. William Shakespeare (Level 3)
  35. Alexander Sumarokov
  36. Tang Xianzu
  37. Lope de Vega (Level 4)
  38. Joost van den Vondel
  39. John Webster
  40. William Wycherley

Modern

[edit]

This section contains 102 articles.

Africa

[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Athol Fugard
  2. Ebrahim Hussein
  3. Mbongeni Ngema
  4. Hubert Ogunde
  5. Wole Soyinka (Level 4)

America

[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Edward Albee
  2. Maxwell Anderson
  3. David Belasco
  4. Lee Blessing
  5. Marc Connelly
  6. Eve Ensler
  7. Lorraine Hansberry
  8. Moss Hart
  9. Dorothy Heyward
  10. DuBose Heyward
  11. Lillian Hellman
  12. William M. Hoffman
  13. William Inge
  14. Georgia Douglas Johnson
  15. George S. Kaufman
  16. Larry Kramer
  17. Tony Kushner
  18. Martyna Majok
  19. David Mamet
  20. Terrence McNally
  21. Arthur Miller (Level 4)
  22. Eugene O'Neill
  23. Clifford Odets
  24. Elmer Rice
  25. Morrie Ryskind
  26. Sam Shepard
  27. Robert E. Sherwood
  28. Neil Simon
  29. Theodore Ward
  30. Wendy Wasserstein
  31. Thornton Wilder
  32. Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
  33. August Wilson
  34. Lanford Wilson

Asia

[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mirza Fatali Akhundov
  2. Agha Hashar Kashmiri
  3. Junji Kinoshita
  4. Imtiaz Ali Taj
  5. Wu Zuguang

Europe

[edit]

This section contains 55 articles.

  1. Leonid Andreyev
  2. Jean Anouilh
  3. Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
  4. Émile Augier
  5. Alan Ayckbourn
  6. Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
  7. Brendan Behan
  8. Jacinto Benavente
  9. Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
  10. Elbazduko Britayev
  11. Georg Büchner
  12. Karel Čapek
  13. Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
  14. Caryl Churchill
  15. Giles Cooper (playwright)
  16. Noël Coward
  17. Dimitar Dimov
  18. José Echegaray
  19. Georges Feydeau
  20. Dario Fo
  21. Paul Foucher
  22. Christopher Fry
  23. Jean Genet
  24. Jean Giraudoux
  25. Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
  26. Alexander Griboyedov
  27. Àngel Guimerà
  28. Antonio García Gutiérrez
  29. Gerhart Hauptmann
  30. Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
  31. Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
  32. Alfred Jarry
  33. Sarah Kane
  34. Maurice Maeterlinck
  35. Martin McDonagh
  36. Ferenc Molnár
  37. Alfred de Musset
  38. Seán O'Casey
  39. Joe Orton
  40. John Osborne
  41. Alexander Ostrovsky
  42. Harold Pinter
  43. Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
  44. Stanisława Przybyszewska
  45. Romain Rolland
  46. Edmond Rostand
  47. Victorien Sardou
  48. Eugène Scribe
  49. George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
  50. R. C. Sherriff
  51. David Storey
  52. August Strindberg (Level 4)
  53. John Millington Synge
  54. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  55. Oscar Wilde (Level 4)

Oceania

[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Barry Dickins
  2. Nick Enright
  3. David Williamson

Comics writers

[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

Librettists

[edit]

This section contains 26 articles.

Journalists

[edit]

This section contains 380 articles.

Journalists: General

[edit]

This section contains 79 articles.

Broadcast journalists, presenters and commentators

[edit]

This section contains 81 articles.

Critics

[edit]

This section contains 61 articles.

For critics chiefly known for their analysis of the arts as a whole, see Art historians, theorists and critics and Musicologists and music theorists.

Publishers and editors

[edit]

This section contains 114 articles.

  1. Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
  2. Joseph Addison
  3. Suroosh Alvi
  4. Rudolf Augstein
  5. Martin Baron
  6. Clarence W. Barron
  7. Samuel Orchart Beeton
  8. James Gordon Bennett Sr.
  9. James Gordon Bennett Jr.
  10. Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
  11. William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
  12. Hubert Beuve-Méry
  13. Conrad Black
  14. Edward Bok
  15. Andrew Bradford
  16. Stewart Brand
  17. Samuel Brannan
  18. Rebekah Brooks
  19. William F. Buckley Jr.
  20. John Bushell
  21. Nathaniel Butter
  22. John W. Campbell
  23. Johann Carolus
  24. Lucien Carr
  25. Graydon Carter
  26. Edward Cave
  27. Edna Woolman Chase
  28. Cho Gab-je
  29. Nathan Cole Jr.
  30. Paul Dacre
  31. Geoffrey Dawson
  32. Alberto Dines
  33. Hrant Dink
  34. John Fairfax
  35. Jessie R. Fauset
  36. Larry Flynt
  37. B. C. Forbes
  38. Malcolm Forbes
  39. Timothy Thomas Fortune
  40. James Franklin (printer)
  41. William Gaines
  42. Thomas Gardiner (publisher)
  43. Al Goldstein
  44. Katharine Graham
  45. Jane Grant
  46. Horace Greeley (Level 4)
  47. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
  48. Bob Guccione
  49. William Peter Hamilton
  50. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
  51. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
  52. Benjamin Harris (publisher)
  53. William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
  54. Andrew Heiskell
  55. Hugh Hefner
  56. James Augustus Hicky
  57. Lars Johan Hierta
  58. Roy W. Howard
  59. Hu Shuli
  60. Stilson Hutchins
  61. George Jones (publisher)
  62. Samuel Keimer
  63. Douglas Kenney
  64. John S. Knight
  65. Ebenezer Landells
  66. Mark Lemon
  67. Joseph Moses Levy
  68. Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
  69. Gordon Lish
  70. Henry Luce
  71. Elizabeth Mallet
  72. Henry Mayhew
  73. Gavin McInnes
  74. William McGarvie
  75. Andrew Miller (publisher)
  76. John Ames Mitchell
  77. Henry Muddiman
  78. John Newbery
  79. Roberto Noble
  80. Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
  81. Henry Jarvis Raymond
  82. Paul Raymond (publisher)
  83. William Rees-Mogg
  84. Paul Reuter
  85. Pearl Rivers
  86. Harold Ross
  87. Denis de Sallo
  88. C. P. Scott
  89. E. W. Scripps
  90. Will Shortz
  91. Charles Emory Smith
  92. Shane Smith (journalist)
  93. Franca Sozzani
  94. Axel Springer
  95. W. T. Stead
  96. Richard Steele
  97. Paul Steiger
  98. Julius Streicher
  99. Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
  100. John Edward Taylor
  101. Agness Underwood
  102. Diana Vreeland
  103. Thomas Wakley
  104. DeWitt Wallace
  105. Lila Acheson Wallace
  106. John Walter (editor, born 1776)
  107. John Walter (editor, born 1818)
  108. John Walter (publisher)
  109. Jann Wenner
  110. William R. Wilkerson
  111. Frederick Wimble
  112. Anna Wintour (Level 4)
  113. M. H. de Young
  114. John Peter Zenger

Sports journalists, sportswriters, commentators and sports announcers

[edit]

This section contains 34 articles.

Web journalists

[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.