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A
edit- Abd-Ru-Shin (Bernhardt, Oskar Ernst)
- Muhammad Abduh
- Kōbō Abe
- Peter Abelard
- Abunaser or Farabi (Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Awzalagh Al Farabi)
- Chinua Achebe
- Peter Ackroyd
- Gilbert Adair
- Henry Adams
- Jane Addams
- Joseph Addison
- Alfred Adler
- Jeremy Adler
- Mortimer Jerome Adler
- Adomnan of Io
- Theodor Lambert Zuidervaart Adorno
- Endre Ady
- Aelfric
- Aeneas Tacticus
- Aeschines
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Aetna
- Giorgio Agamben
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes)
- Heinrich Cornelius von Nettsheim Agrippa
- August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist
- Juhani Aho (until 1907 Brofeldt)
- Miles Keaton Andrew
- Ai (Florence Anthony)
- Conrad Potter Aiken
- Armas Äikiä (Ami Aarto, Viljo Veijo, Liukas Luikku)
- Akazome Emon
- Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Anna Gorenko)
- Akhnaten (Amenhotep IV)
- Vasily Aksyonov
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Abu Al Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf Al Amiri
- Jamal Al Din Al Afghani
- Abd Al Wahhab Al Bayyati
- Al Biruni (Alberuni)
- Jalal Al Din Al Dawani
- Fakhruddin Iraqi Umar Ibn Al Farid
- Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Al Ghazali
- Abu Ali Al Husayn
- Al Idrisi (Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idris al-Qurtubi al-Hasani)
- Abu Al Ma`ali Al Jawayni
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Al Sabbah Al Kindi
- Nazik Al Mala'ika
- Imam Al Qurtubi (Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Ansari Al Qurtubi)
- Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al Razi
- Fakhr Al Din Al Razi
- Al Hajj Mulla Hadi Al Sabzawari
- Abu Sulayman Muhammad Al Sijistani
- Shihab Al Din Yahya Al Suhrawardi
- Abu Hayyan Al Tawhidi
- Khwajah Nasir Al Tusi
- Alain (Chartier, Emile-Auguste)
- Alain-Fournier (Alban, Henri)
- Edward Albee
- Albert of Saxony
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Alcaeus
- Alciphron
- Alcmaen of Croton
- Alcman
- Louisa May Alcott
- Aldhelm
- Ciro Alegría
- Sholom Aleichem
- Vicente Aleixandre
- Alexander of Alexandria
- Alexander of Cappadocia
- Alexander of Lycopolis
- Michael Alexander
- Alfred the Great
- Horatio Alger
- Nelson Algren
- Tawfiq Al-Hakim
- Dante Alighieri
- Christopher Allen
- Woody Allen
- Louis Althusser
- Juan de Yepes y Alvarez
- Robert Alyngton
- Elechi Amadi
- Ambrose
- Yehuda Amichai
- Kingsley Amis
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Anacreon
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- Anaxarhos
- Anaximander of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Alfred Andersch
- Hans Christian Andersen
- J. J. Anderson
- Sherwood Anderson
- Andocides
- Lou Andreas-Salomé
- Ivo Andrić
- Innokenty Annensky
- Jean Anouilh
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Antiphon
- Antisthenes
- Antonio Lobo Antunes
- Aphrahat (Aphraates)
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Apollodorus
- Apollonius Rhodius
- Aharon Appelfeld
- Anne Marie Appelgren
- Appian
- Lucius Apuleius
- Thomas Aquinas
- Louis Aragon
- Aratus
- Arcesilaus
- Archelaus of Athens
- Archilochus
- Archimedes
- Hannah Arendt
- Arhytas
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Aristides the Philosopher
- Aristippus
- Ariston
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Ariwara No Narihira
- Ayi Kwei Armah
- Simon Armitage
- Achim von Arnim
- Arnobius
- Matthew Arnold
- Jean Arp
- Arrian
- William Arrowsmith
- Antonin Artaud
- Aryabhata
- Asclepiodotus
- Ashariyya
- John Ashbery
- Asser
- Machado de Assis
- Miguel Angel Asturias
- Athanasius
- Athenaeus
- Athenagoras
- Farid Ud-Din Attar
- József Attila
- Margaret Atwood
- Wystan Hughes Auden
- Hartmann von Aue
- Émile Augier
- Augustine of Hippo
- Marcus Aurelius
- Sri Aurobindo
- Ausonius
- Jane Austen
- John Langshaw Austin
- Averroës (Abu Al Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd)
- Avianus
- Avicebron (Salamo Ben Jehuda Ben Gebirol/Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol)
- Avicenna (Abu Ali Al Husain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina)
- Nizam Ad-Din Awliya
- Francisco Ayala
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Alfred Jules Ayer
B
edit- Charles Babbage
- Isaac Babel (or Baabel)
- Babrius
- Bacchylides
- Gaston Bachelard
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Francis Bacon
- Roger Bacon
- Walter Bagehot
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Béla Balázs
- James Baldwin
- J. G. Ballard (James Graham Ballard)
- Honoré de Balzac
- John Banville
- Imanu Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones)
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Bardesanes
- Alessandro Baricco
- Ernst Barlach
- Barnabas
- Djuna Chappell Barnes
- Jonathan Barnes
- Julian Barnes
- Willis Barnstone
- John Barth
- Karl Barth
- Dona Barthe
- Donald Barthelme
- Roland Barthes
- Basavanna
- A. L. Basham
- Matsuo Bashō
- Basil the Great
- Giorgio Bassani
- Georges Bataille
- Gregory Bateson
- Charles Baudelaire
- Jean Baudrillard
- Bruno Bauer
- James Keir Baxter
- John Baxter
- Carl F. Bayerschmidt
- Pierre Bayle
- André Bazin
- Germain Bazin
- Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Francis Beaumont
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jurek Becker
- Samuel Beckett
- William Beckford
- Henri Becque
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Bede
- Max Beerbohm
- Brendan Francis Behan
- Aphra Behn
- Count Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinskii
- Robert Bellarmine
- Joachim du Bellay
- Carl Michael Bellman
- Hilaire Belloc
- David Bellos
- Saul Bellow
- Andrei (Andrey) Bely (Biely)
- Jacinto Benavente (y Martinez)
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
- Franklin Benjamin
- Walter Benjamin
- Enoch Arnold Bennett
- Jeremy Bentham
- Janetta Rebold Benton
- Kaarlo Bergbom
- Thomas Goddard Bergin
- Ingmar Bergman
- Henri Bergson
- George Berkeley
- Isaiah Berlin
- Georges Bernanos
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Thomas Bernhard
- Beroul
- Wendell Berry
- Annie Besant
- Pierre Berton
- John Betjeman
- Bettelheim Bruno
- Bhibuthibhashan Bhandōpaday
- Hayyim Nahman (Chayim Nachman) Bialik
- Ambrose Bierce
- Liu Binyan
- Wilfred Bion
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Anne Birrell
- Andrei Bitov
- Gunnar Björling
- Jens Bjørneboe
- Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
- William Blake
- August Theodor Blanche
- Maurice Blanchot
- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
- Ernst Bloch
- Lawrence Block
- Alexander Blok
- Harold Bloom
- Leonard Bloomfield
- Léon Bloy
- Robert Bly
- John Boardman
- Franz Boas
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Jacob Boehme
- Boethius
- Boetius of Dacia
- Matteo Maria Boiardo
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
- Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
- Heinrich Böll
- Robert Bolt
- Peter Bondanella
- Wolfgang Borchert
- Johan Borgen
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Jacques Bossuet
- James Boswell
- Pierre Boulle
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Louise Bourgeois
- Jane Bowles
- Paul Bowles
- Robert Boyle
- Svetlana Boym
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Charles Bradlaugh
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- John Braine
- Charles Brandt
- Bertolt Brecht
- Lenni Brenner
- Franz Clemens Brentano
- Robert Bresson
- André Breton
- George B. Bridgman
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Charlie Dunbar Broad
- Hermann Broch
- Max Brod
- Joseph Brodsky
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Rupert Chawner Brooke
- Charles Bockden Brown
- Josie Brown
- Nicholas J. Brown
- Thomas Browne
- Elizabeth Barret Browning
- Robert Browning
- Yakov Bruk
- Giordano Bruno
- Thomas Brussig
- William Cullen Bryant
- Jan Brzechwa
- Martin Buber
- John Buchan
- Georg Büchner
- Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
- Gesualdo Bufalino
- Charles Bukowski
- Thomas Bulfinch
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Rudolph Bultmann
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
- Luis Buñuel
- John Bunyan
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Anthony Burgess
- Glyn Burgess
- Edmund Burke
- Fanny Burney
- Robert Burns
- William Seward Burroughs
- Richard Burton
- Robert Burton
- Taniguchi Yosa Buson
- Marco Bussagli
- Alban Butler
- Joseph Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Michel Marie François Butor
- Caroline Walker Bynum
- Lord George Gordon Byron
C
edit- James Cable
- Massimo Cacciari
- Marc Carl
- Statius Caecilius
- Cædmon
- Gaius Julius Caesar
- Caius
- Callicles
- Callimachus
- Callistratus
- Calpurnius Siculus
- John Calvin
- Italo Calvino
- Luis de Camoens
- Tommaso Campanella
- Thomas Campion
- Albert Camus
- Elias Canetti
- Georg Cantor
- Karel Čapek
- Truman Capote
- Abraham Miguel Cardozo
- Giosuè Carducci
- Thomas Carew
- Peter Carey
- Thomas Carlyle
- Rudolf Carnap
- Marcel Carné
- Alejo Carpentier
- Brian J. Carroll
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Robert Carroll
- Howard Carter
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Carolyn Joyce Carty
- Joyce Cary
- Giacomo Casanova
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- John Cassian
- Ernst Cassirer
- Conte di Novilara Baldassare Castiglione
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Willa Cather
- Catullus
- Gaius Valerius Catullus
- Constantin P. Cavafy (Konstantin Kavafis)
- Camilo José Cela (y Trulock)
- Paul Celan (b. Paul Antschel)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Celsus
- Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
- Cercidas
- Michel de Certeau
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Aimé Césaire
- Dillon Chadwick
- Charles Chaplin
- George Chapman
- René Char
- Chariton
- François-René de Chateaubriand
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Mei Yao Ch'en
- Wu Cheng'en
- Vladimir Chernov
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Fang Ch'iao
- Ssu-ma Ch'ien
- Erskine Childers
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Kamo no Chomei
- Noam Chomsky
- Christine de Pizan
- Chrysippus
- Lydia Chukovskaya
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Po Chu-yi
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Emile Michel Cioran
- Hélène Cixous
- Pierre Clastres
- Paul Claudel
- Claudian
- Hugo Claus
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Cleanthes
- Brian Cleeve
- Brian Clegg
- Clement of Alexandria
- Clement of Rome
- John Cleveland
- Jean Cocteau
- Andrei Codrescu
- J. M. Coetzee
- Leonard Cohen
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
- Wilkie Collins
- Colluthus
- Francesco Paolo Colonna
- Christopher Columbus
- Columella
- Philippe de Commines
- Commodianus
- Anna Comnena
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Auguste Comte
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Confucius
- William Congreve
- Cyril Vernon Connoly (Palinarus)
- Joseph Conrad
- Benjamin Constant
- Edward Conze
- James Cook
- Charles Horton Cooley
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Nicolas Copernicus
- Trewin Copplestone
- Jim Corbett
- Corinna
- Pierre Corneille
- Nepos Cornelius
- Julio Cortázar
- Louis Couperus
- Noel Coward
- Abraham Cowley
- William Cowper
- Hart Crane
- Stephen Crane
- Richard Crashaw
- Crates
- Robert Creeley
- John Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur)
- René Crevel
- Quentin Crisp
- Benedetto Croce
- Athony Cronin
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Géza Csáth
- Jonathan Culler
- Edward Estlin Cummings
- Michael Cunningham
- Quintus Curtius
- Astolphe de Custine
- Cynewulf
- Cyprian of Carthage
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Cyril of Jerusalem
D
edit- Jean D'Alembert
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Stig Dagerman
- Salvador Dalí
- Samuel Daniel
- Alain Danielou
- Gabriel D'Annunzio
- Dante Alighieri
- ei Dao (Zhao Zhengkai)
- Dēvasa Dāsimayya
- Alphonse Daudet
- Jean-Luc Daval
- Donald Davie
- Nigel Davies
- Norman Davies
- Robertson Davies
- N. J. Dawood
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Osamu Dazai (Tsushima Shuji)
- Martí Joan de Galba
- Paul De Man
- Thomas De Quincey
- Vittorio De Sica
- Guy Debord
- Daniel Defoe
- Grazia Deledda
- Gilles Deleuze
- Demades
- Demetrius
- Democritus
- Demosthenes
- Maya Deren
- Jacques Derrida
- René Descartes
- Dom Robert Desgabets
- Kevin J. H. Dettmar
- Paul Deussen
- William F. DeVault
- John Dewey
- I. A. L. Diamond
- Bernal Díaz
- Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickinson
- Dicta Catonis
- Didache
- Denis Diderot
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Nick DiMartino
- Dinarchus
- Dio Cassius
- Dio Chrysostom
- Diodorus Siculus
- Diogenes Laërtius
- Diogenes of Apolonnia
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
- Dionysius of Rome
- St. Dionysius the Areopagite
- Dionysius the Great
- Birago Diop
- Carl Djerassi
- Alfred Döblin
- Leonid Dobychin
- Heimito von Doderer
- Yury Dombrovsky
- Dominic
- John Donne
- Jörn Johan Donner
- Hilda Doolittle
- John Dos Passos
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Frederick Douglass
- Apostolos K. Doxiades
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodore Dreiser
- James Drought
- John Dryden
- William Edward Burghardt Dubois
- Georges Duby
- John Dufresne
- Gerry Dukes
- Alexandre Dumas, père
- Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Georges Dumezil
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- James Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Robert Edward Duncan (b. Edward Howard Duncan)
- Thomas G. Duncan
- Stephen Dunn
- Marguerite Duras
- Émile Durkheim
- Lawrence Durrell
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Debórah Dwork
- Thomas Dylan
E
edit- Terry Eagleton
- Scott Eastham
- Michael Eaton
- Roger Ebert
- Baronin Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- José Maria Eça de Queirós
- José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- Meister Eckhart
- Umberto Eco
- Eddius
- Leon Edel
- Paul Edwards
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Joseph von Eichendorff
- Eikei
- Einhard
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Gunnar Ekelöf
- Ekfantos
- Ekkehard
- Mircea Eliade
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Elizabeth I
- Ralph Waldo Ellison
- Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo
- Paul Eluard
- Odysseus Elytis (Odysseas Alepoudelis)
- Marcellus Emants
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Empedocles of Acragas
- William Empson
- Rabbe Enckell
- Friedrich Engels
- Enheduanna
- Ennius
- Pär (or Per) Olov Enquist
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Nora Ephron
- Epictetus
- Epicurus
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Eratosthenes
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
- Loula Grace Erdman
- Louise Erdrich
- John Scotus Erigena
- Venedikt Erofeev
- Victor Erofeev
- Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Maurits Cornelis Escher
- Antonio Escobar y Mendoza
- Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (/Yesenin)
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Leonhard Euler
- Eunapius
- Euripides
- Eusebius
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
F
edit- Robert Fagles
- Frantz Fanon
- John Fante
- John Fante
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- William Faulkner
- Elaine Feinstein
- Federico Fellini
- François de Fénelon
- Sandor Ferenczi
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Paul Feyerabend
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Jerzy Ficowski
- D. M. Field
- Henry Fielding
- Timothy Findley
- Norman G. Finkelstein
- Moses I. Finley
- Ronald Firbank
- Firdausi (Abu Ol-Qasem Mansur)
- Max Harold Fisch
- Evelyn Fishburn & Psiche Hughes
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Gustave Flaubert
- Florus
- Dario Fo
- Henri Focillon
- Jean Follain
- Maurice Fombeure
- Theodor Fontane
- Manuel De Costa Fontes
- Brian J. Ford
- Ford Madox Ford
- John Ford
- Edward Morgan Forster
- Michel Foucault
- Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
- Anne Frank
- Viktor E. Frankl
- James George Frazer
- John Freely
- Gottlob Frege
- André Frénaud
- Peter Freuchen
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Olga Friedenberg
- Saul Friedlander
- Jakob Friedrich Fries
- Max Frisch
- Gustaf Fröding
- Jean Froissart
- Erich Fromm
- Frontinus
- Fronto
- Robert Frost
- Northrop Frye
- Shen Fu
- Tu Fu
- Carlos Fuentes
- Fujiwara No Atsutada
- Fujiwara No Go-kyogoku
- Fujiwara No Kanesuke
- Fujiwara No Kintsune
- Fujiwara No Kiyosuke
- Fujiwara No Masatsune
- Fujiwara No Michinobu
- Fujiwara No Mototoshi
- Fujiwara No Sadayori
- Fujiwara No Sanesada
- Fujiwara No Tadamichi
- Fujiwara No Teika
- Fujiwara No Toshinara
- Fujiwara No Toshiyuki
- Fu-lin
- Samuel Fuller
- Fumiya No Yasuhide
- Paul Fussell
- Milán Füst