Authors and Playwrights
This is where you can find Edited Entries on the above Category
- 'Grit', by Horatio Alger: Ambition and Exploitation
- 'Streets': A Memoir by Bella Cohen Spewack, Author of 'Kiss Me, Kate'
- 'The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes' by Philip Ardagh
- Brief Introduction to the Life and Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Brief Introduction to the Life and Works of John Milton
- Philip K Dick-tionary, Not Wrapped in Wub Fur
- Aesop and his Fables
- Alan Dean Foster - Author
- Alan Hollinghurst - Author
- Aleister Crowley - Author and Occultist
- Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein
- Ambrose Bierce - Lucifer's Lexicographer
- Anne McCaffrey - Author
- Astrid Lindgren - Author
- Barry Humphries - Comedian
- Beatrix Potter - Children's Author
- Believe It or Not, Mr Ripley: Norbert Pearlroth Spent 52 Years in the Library
- Benjamin Zephaniah - Poet, Novelist, Playwright and Activist
- Bertolt Brecht - Playwright
- Beverly Cleary, Children's Author
- Bram Stoker - Author
- CS Lewis
- Can We Ever Forgive Her? Lee Israel and Her Literary Forgeries
- Candide and Other Stories - Voltaire's Oeuvre and Magnum Opus
- Charles Bukowski - Poet and Novelist
- Charles Dickens - Author
- Charles Hoy Fort
- Charlotte Yonge - Author
- Christopher Nolan - Author and Disabled Person
- Clive Barker - Author, Filmmaker
- Clive Cussler - The Grand Master of Adventure
- Dante Alighieri - Poet
- Dashiell Hammett - Author
- David and Leigh Eddings - Authors
- Diana Wynne Jones - Author
- Doris Lessing - Author
- Douglas Adams - His Life and Worlds
- Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters) - Author
- Emily Dickinson - Poet
- Favourite Children's Authors
- Francois Rabelais - His Bawdy Parts and Naughty Bits
- Frank Patrick Herbert Jr - Author
- Franklin W Dixon - Author
- Fritz Muhlenweg - Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Novelist
- George Orwell - Author
- Gerald Durrell - Animal Collector, Conservationist and Author
- Glad Day - The Life and Works of William Blake
- Grey Owl - Early Environmentalist
- HP Lovecraft
- Hans Christian Andersen - Author
- Hart Crane - American Poet
- Helene Hanff - Author
- Herge's Adventures of Tintin
- Homer
- Hugh Laurie - Actor and Comedian
- Hunter S Thompson
- Ian Fleming - Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Ivor Cutler - Writer and Humourist
- JK Rowling - Author
- JRR Tolkien's 'Father Christmas Letters'
- Jack Kerouac
- Jane Austen - Author
- Jeremy Hardy - Comedian, Writer and Political Activist
- John Bellairs - Author
- John Creasey [12]
- John Muir - Conservationist
- John Updike - a Character Study
- John Wyndham - Writer
- Jorge Luis Borges - Argentinian Writer
- Kaffe Fassett - Artist, Knitter, Stitcher
- Kahlil Gibran - The Author of 'The Prophet'
- Katherine Anne Porter - Author
- Kurt Vonnegut - Author
- Langston Hughes - Poet
- Lewis Carroll - Logician, Nonsense Writer, Mathematician and Photographer
- Lois McMaster Bujold - Author
- Lord Byron - poet [4]
- Lord Dunsany - Author
- Love Must Advertise: The Sayers/Cournos Romance
- Luke Rhinehart - Author
- Major John Richardson
- Margaret Atwood - Writer
- Mary Shelley [7]
- Michael Moore - Multi-media Polemicist
- Michael Morpurgo - Children's Author
- Michel de Montaigne
- Necronomicon
- Nelle Harper Lee - Context, Influence, Controversy
- Niall Williams - Author
- Nick Hornby - the Author
- Nora Waln: A Tourist in Nazi Germany, and What She Found There
- Notes on the Lunatic Fringe: Art, Hair, and Emancipated Children
- Oscar Wilde - Playwright and Wit
- Ouida - Author
- PG Wodehouse - Humorist
- Pen Names
- Percy Bysshe Shelley [3]
- Peter Pan
- Quentin Crisp - Artist, Author, Actor, Raconteur
- Raymond E Feist - Fantasy Author
- Raymond Queneau - Poet and Mathematician
- Reading the Poetry of John Donne
- Robert Burns - The Ploughman Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Rankin - Author
- Roger Lancelyn Green - Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Samuel Beckett's 'Ping'
- Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
- Sholom Aleichem - Author
- Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate
- Sir Terry Pratchett - Author
- Stephen Fry - Comedian, Actor and Writer
- Stephen King - Author and Scriptwriter
- Stephen R Lawhead
- Sven Hassel - Writer
- Terry Pratchett and Discworld [19]
- Adventures of Richard Hannay - books by John Buchan
- Battle of Brunanburh, 937 AD
- Books of Neal Stephenson
- Dortmunder Comic Crime Novels of Donald E Westlake
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Encyclopedia Galactica
- Horror Fiction of Graham Masterton
- Life and Works of Anne Bronte
- Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte
- Life and Works of Emily Bronte
- Life and Works of Enid Blyton
- Life and Works of JRR Tolkien
- Life of the Marquis de Sade - Author
- Love Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Taste and Aftertaste
- Other Side of Roald Dahl
- Other Side of Roald Dahl - Part Three
- Other Side of Roald Dahl - Part Two
- Red Needle: The Drink that Leonard Cohen Made
- Romantic Novels of Georgette Heyer
- Unusual Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
- Venerable Bede - Historian and Theologian
- Works of Terry Goodkind
- Works of Terry Pratchett
- Theodore Sturgeon - Writer
- Thomas the Tank Engine - The Works of WV Awdry
- Thoreau-ly Original: Henry David Thoreau and the New England Pencil
- Tolkien's Mystery Element: Where True Powers Dwelt
- Trees in JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth
- Victor Hugo - Writer
- WB Yeats - Irish Writer
- WJ Linton - Victorian Geezer, with Beard
- William Cullen Bryant - American Poet
- William McGonagall - Poet
- William Shakespeare [13]
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