A list of all authors' biographies, stories about their lives, their hobbies, writing careers, and other information we find valuable for our students to know. It's how you will get to know beyond the pages of the book you're reading. Read your way into the literary biographies of some of the most famous writers in history from all around the world.
A
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Agatha Christie
- Alan Alexander Milne
- Alan Paton
- Albert Camus
- Aldous Huxley
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Pushkin
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Alice Sebold
- Alice Walker
- Alphonse Daudet
- Amy Tan
- Anne Frank
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Anton Chekhov
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Golden
- Arthur Miller
- Art Spiegelman
- Astrid Lindgren
- Augustine of Hippo
- Ayn Rand
B
C
D
E
- E. B. White
- E.L. Doctorow
- E.M. Forster
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Hamilton
- Edith Wharton
- Edmond Rostand
- Elias Lönnrot
- Elie Wiesel
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Emile Zola
- Emily Brontë
- Ephraim Kishon
- Erich Kästner
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Eric Knight
- Ernest Hemingway
- Esther Forbes
- Eugene Ionesco
- Euripides
- Eva Janikovszky
F
G
H
J
- J.K. Rowling
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack London
- James Agee
- James Baldwin
- James Fenimore Cooper
- James Hilton
- James Jones
- James Joyce
- James Matthew Barrie
- James W. Loewen
- Jane Austen
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
- Jean Racine
- Jens Sigsgaard
- Jerome David Salinger
- Jerome Lawrence
- Jerry Spinelli
- Johanna Spyri
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Anthony Burgess Wilson
- John Boyne
- John Chaplin Gardner
- John Ernst Steinbeck
- John Fowles
- John Green
- John Hersey
- John Knowles
- John Milton
- John Steinbeck
- John Wyndham
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jonathan Swift
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Heller
- Jules Verne