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Novelist Biographies
Every archived life recorded as novelist, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
Moses Nagamootoo
b. November 30, 1947
Guyanese politician and novelist
Modern era
P. V. Narasimha Rao
June 28, 1921 – December 23, 2004
Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
Modern era
Isaac Asimov
January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
Modern era
Jimmy Carter
October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
Modern era
Benjamin Disraeli
December 21, 1804 – April 19, 1881
British statesman (1804–1881)
Modern era
Carl Sagan
November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Contemporary era
Robert Goddard
b. November 13, 1954
English novelist
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Early Modern era
Miguel de Cervantes
September 29, 1547 – April 22, 1616
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
Early Modern era
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Early Modern era
Mary Wollstonecraft
April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Modern era
Soren Kierkegaard
May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
Early Modern era
Mary Shelley
August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851
English writer (1797–1851)
Modern era
Jane Austen
December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817
English novelist whose social comedies never left print
Modern era
Hans Christian Andersen
April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
Modern era
Victor Hugo
February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Modern era
Alexandre Dumas
July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
Early Modern era
Honore de Balzac
May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
Modern era
Gustave Flaubert
December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880
French novelist (1821–1880)
Modern era
Nikolai Gogol
March 19, 1809 – February 21, 1852
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Modern era
Fyodor Dostoevsky
November 11, 1821 – January 28, 1881
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Modern era
Leo Tolstoy
August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910
Russian novelist of War and Peace and moral philosopher
Modern era
Anton Chekhov
January 17, 1860 – July 2, 1904
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Modern era
Charles Dickens
February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
Modern era
Charlotte Bronte
April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
Modern era
Emily Bronte
July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
Modern era
George Eliot
November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
Modern era
Thomas Hardy
June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
Modern era
Bram Stoker
November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912
Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
Modern era
Robert Louis Stevenson
November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
Modern era
Arthur Conan Doyle
May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Modern era
Rudyard Kipling
December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Modern era
Jules Verne
February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905
French writer (1828–1905)
Modern era
Nathaniel Hawthorne
July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864
American author (1804–1864)
Modern era
Mark Twain
November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Modern era
Louisa May Alcott
November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888
American novelist (1832–1888)
Modern era
Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
Modern era
James Joyce
February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
Modern era
Virginia Woolf
January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Modern era
Franz Kafka
July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Modern era
Marcel Proust
July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Modern era
Thomas Mann
June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Modern era
Hermann Hesse
July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
Modern era
Jean-Paul Sartre
June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Modern era
Simone de Beauvoir
January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Modern era
Albert Camus
November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Modern era
Aldous Huxley
July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Modern era
C. S. Lewis
November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
Modern era
Agatha Christie
September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
Modern era
Roald Dahl
September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Modern era
Ernest Hemingway
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Modern era
F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
American writer (1896–1940)
Modern era
John Steinbeck
February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968
American writer (1902–1968)
Modern era
William Faulkner
September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962
American writer (1897-1962)
Modern era
Tennessee Williams
March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983
American playwright (1911–1983)
Modern era
Vladimir Nabokov
April 10, 1899 – July 2, 1977
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Modern era
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Modern era
Harper Lee
April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
American novelist (1926–2016)
Modern era
James Baldwin
August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987
American writer (1924–1987)
Modern era
Langston Hughes
February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)