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Ion Minulescu
Born	January 6, 1881(1881-01-06) Bucharest
Died	April 11, 1944 (aged 63) Bucharest
Pen name	I. M. Nirvan Koh-i-Noor
Occupation	poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, civil servant
Nationality	Romanian
Writing period	1904–1944
Genres	lyric poetry, drama, memoir, satire
Literary movement	Symbolism Avant-garde Sburătorul
Influences Charles Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertand, Tristan Corbière, Charles Guérin, Jules Laforgue, Comte de Lautréamont, Eugen Lovinescu, Maurice Maeterlinck, Jean Moréas, Gérard de Nerval, Henri de Régnier, Jehan Rictus, Arthur Rimbaud, Albert Samain, Emil Verhaeren
Influenced George Bacovia, N. Davidescu, Benjamin Fondane, Al. Gherghel, Claudia Millian, Al. T. Stamatiad, Tristan Tzara

Ion Minulescu
Pseudonym	I. M. Nirvan Koh-i-Noor
Born	January 6, 1881(1881-01-06) Bucharest
Died	April 11, 1944 (aged 63) Bucharest
Occupation	poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, civil servant
Nationality	Romanian
Writing period	1904–1944
Genres	lyric poetry, drama, memoir, satire
Literary movement	Symbolism Avant-garde Sburătorul
Influences Charles Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertand, Tristan Corbière, Charles Guérin, Jules Laforgue, Comte de Lautréamont, Eugen Lovinescu, Maurice Maeterlinck, Jean Moréas, Gérard de Nerval, Henri de Régnier, Jehan Rictus, Arthur Rimbaud, Albert Samain, Emil Verhaeren
Influenced George Bacovia, N. Davidescu, Benjamin Fondane, Al. Gherghel, Claudia Millian, Al. T. Stamatiad, Tristan Tzara

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Image:Nobel Prize.png
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Occupation	Novelist

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Born	December 11, 1918 (1918-12-11) (age 89) Kislovodsk, Russia
Occupation	Novelist
Notable award(s)	Image:Nobel Prize.png Nobel Prize

Margaret Benson
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Pen name	Maggie Shayne
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	U.S.
Genres	romance, paranormal
Official website http://www.maggieshayne.com

Margaret Benson
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Pseudonym	Maggie Shayne
Born	New York (U.S.)
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	U.S.
Genres	romance, paranormal
Official website

Richard Gary Brautigan
Occupation	Poet, Novelist
Genres	Beat
Literary movement	Counterculture
Influences e.e. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, William Carlos Williams
Influenced W. P. Kinsella, Haruki Murakami, William Michaelian

Richard Gary Brautigan
Born	January 30, 1935(1935-01-30) Tacoma, Washington, USA
Died	September, 1984 (aged 49) Bolinas, California USA
Occupation	Poet, Novelist
Genres	Beat
Literary movement	Counterculture
Influences e.e. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, William Carlos Williams
Influenced W. P. Kinsella, Haruki Murakami, William Michaelian

Franz Kafka
Photograph of Franz Kafka taken in 1906
Occupation	insurance officer, factory manager, novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Jewish-Bohemian (Austria-Hungary)
Genres	novel, short story
Literary movement	modernism, existentialism, Surrealism, precursor to magical realism
Influences Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Walser
Influenced Vladimir Nabokov, Albert Camus, Federico Fellini, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Milan Kundera, Drago Jančar, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, Chanwook Park, Jhonen Vasquez, Amanda Filipacchi, Jerome David Salinger

Franz Kafka
Photograph of Franz Kafka taken in 1906
Born	July 3, 1883(1883-07-03) Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	June 3, 1924 (aged 40) Kierling near Vienna, Austria
Occupation	insurance officer, factory manager, novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Jewish-Bohemian (Austria-Hungary)
Genres	novel, short story
Literary movement	modernism, existentialism, Surrealism, precursor to magical realism
Influences Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Walser
Influenced Vladimir Nabokov, Albert Camus, Federico Fellini, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Milan Kundera, Drago Jančar, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, Chanwook Park, Jhonen Vasquez, Amanda Filipacchi, Jerome David Salinger

J. K. Rowling
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Influences Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Elizabeth Goudge, C. S. Lewis, Jessica Mitford, E. Nesbit, William Shakespeare, T. H. White
[www.jkrowling.com Official website] www.jkrowling.com

J. K. Rowling
Born	31 July 1965 (1965-07-31) (age 42) Yate, South Gloucestershire, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Influences Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Elizabeth Goudge, C. S. Lewis, Jessica Mitford, E. Nesbit, William Shakespeare, T. H. White
[www.jkrowling.com Official website]

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Occupation	Dramatist
Influences Planché; Robertson
Influenced Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Hammerstein

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Born	18 November 1836(1836-11-18), London
Died	29 May 1911 (aged 74), Grim's Dyke
Occupation	Dramatist
Influences Planché; Robertson
Influenced Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Hammerstein

Stephen King
Stephen King
Pen name	Richard Bachman, John Swithen
Occupation	Novelist, Short story writer, Screenwriter, Columnist, Actor, Producer, Director
Genres	Horror fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction
Influences Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, William Golding, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, John D. MacDonald, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Dreiser, John Fowles, Edgar Allan Poe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Browning (Dark Tower Series), Daphne du Maurier (Bag of Bones), Alexandre Dumas, père (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
Influenced Bentley Little, Scott Sigler, Sarah Pinborough
Signature	Image:SKingSignature.png
StephenKing.com Official website http://www.stephenking.com StephenKing.com

Stephen King
Stephen King
Pseudonym	Richard Bachman, John Swithen
Born	September 21, 1947 (1947-09-21) (age 60) Portland, Maine, United States
Occupation	Novelist, Short story writer, Screenwriter, Columnist, Actor, Producer, Director
Genres	Horror fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction
Influences Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, William Golding, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, John D. MacDonald, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Dreiser, John Fowles, Edgar Allan Poe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Browning (Dark Tower Series), Daphne du Maurier (Bag of Bones), Alexandre Dumas, père (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
Influenced Bentley Little, Scott Sigler, Sarah Pinborough
Signature	Image:SKingSignature.png
StephenKing.com Official website

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
Occupation	Playwright and director
Nationality	British
Writing period	1959 – present

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
Born	April 12, 1939 (1939-04-12) (age 69) Hampstead, London
Occupation	Playwright and director
Nationality	British
Writing period	1959 – present

Arthur Miller
Occupation	Playwright, Essayist
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Mary Slattery (1940-1956) Marilyn Monroe (1956-1961) Inge Morath (1962-2002)

Arthur Miller
Born	October 17, 1915(1915-10-17) New York City, New York
Died	February 10, 2005 (aged 89) Roxbury, Connecticut
Occupation	Playwright, Essayist
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Mary Slattery (1940-1956) Marilyn Monroe (1956-1961) Inge Morath (1962-2002)

Alan Moore
Moore at a signing in London, October 2006
Pen name	Curt Vile, Jill de Ray
Occupation	comics writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, musician, artist, magician
Nationality	British
Genres	comic book, science fiction, fiction, non-fiction
Literary movement	comic books as serious literature[1]
Influences William Burroughs,[2] Thomas Pynchon, Will Eisner,[3] Jack Kirby[4]
Influenced Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Joss Whedon,[5] Kurt Busiek, Brian Azzarello, Brian K. Vaughan, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Damon Lindelof[5]

Alan Moore
Moore at a signing in London, October 2006
Pseudonym	Curt Vile, Jill de Ray
Born	November 18, 1953 (1953-11-18) (age 54) Northampton, England
Occupation	comics writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, musician, artist, magician
Nationality	British
Genres	comic book, science fiction, fiction, non-fiction
Literary movement	comic books as serious literature[1]
Influences William Burroughs,[2] Thomas Pynchon, Will Eisner,[3] Jack Kirby[4]
Influenced Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Joss Whedon,[5] Kurt Busiek, Brian Azzarello, Brian K. Vaughan, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Damon Lindelof[5]

Антон Павлович Чехов Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, by Osip Braz, 1898
Occupation	Physician, short story writer, playwright
Nationality	Russian
Influenced John Cheever, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, Frank O'Connor, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan

Антон Павлович Чехов Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, by Osip Braz, 1898
Born	29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860 Taganrog, Russian Empire
Died	15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904 Badenweiler, German Empire
Occupation	Physician, short story writer, playwright
Nationality	Russian
Influenced John Cheever, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, Frank O'Connor, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan