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O
edit- Flann O'Brien
- Sean O'Casey
- Flannery O'Connor
- Frank O'Connor
- Oe No Chisato
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Frank O'Hara (Francis Russell)
- Dorothea Olkowski
- Jacqueline Ollivier
- Charles Olson
- Onakatomi No Yoshinobu Ason
- Onasander
- Michael Ondaatje
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- Onesicritus
- Ono No Komachi
- Oppian
- Baroness Emmuska Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josepha Barbara Orczy
- Origen
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Julio Ortega
- George Orwell (Blair, Eric Arthur)
- John Osborne
- Oshikochi No Mitsune
- Oshima Ryota
- Otomo No Kuronushi
- Otomo No Yakamochi
- Otomo Of Sakanoe
- Ovid
- Wilfred Owen
P
edit- Eduardo Paz-Martinez
- Pacuvius
- Camille Paglia
- Pai Hsien-yung
- Thomas Paine
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- Hermann Palsson
- Pamphilus
- Orhan Pamuk
- Erwin Panofsky
- Papias
- Papyri
- Paracelsus (Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim)
- Sergei Paradjanov
- Ambroise Paré
- Marquis Vilfredo Frederico Damaso Pareto
- Robert Ezra Park
- Francis Parkman
- Parmenides of Elea
- Stan Parry
- A. Parthasarathy
- Parthenius
- Eric Partridge
- Blaise Pascal
- Fernando del Paso
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Boris Pasternak
- Walter Pater
- Jean Paul Richter
- Pellaeus Paulinus
- Pausanias
- Konstantin Paustovsky
- Cesare Pavese
- Milorad Pavic
- Octavio Paz
- Thomas Love Peacock
- George Peele
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- William Penn
- Samuel Pepys
- Georges Perec
- Benjamin Peret
- Ramon Pérez De Ayala
- Charles Perrault
- Saint-John Marie René Auguste Alexis Saint-Léger Perse
- Persius
- Leo Perutz
- Fernando Pessoa
- Peter of Alexandria
- Sándor Petőfi
- Petrarch (Petrarca Francesco)
- Petronius
- Evgeny Petrov
- Phaedrus
- Phileas
- Philo
- Philolaus
- Philostratus The Elder
- Philostratus The Younger
- Phoenix
- Jean Piaget
- Pierius of Alexandria
- Boris Pilnyak
- Pindar
- Virgilio Piñera
- Robert Pinsky
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Max Planck
- Sylvia Plath
- Plato
- Andrey Platonov
- Plautus
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Pliny The Elder
- Pliny The Younger
- Plotinus
- Plutarch
- Li Po
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Jules Henri Poincaré
- Marco Polo
- Polybius
- Polycarp
- Juan García Ponce
- Giuseppe Pontiggia
- Henrik Pontoppidan
- Alexander Pope
- Dumitru Radu Popescu
- Yevgeny Popov
- Karl Popper
- Porphyry
- Dorothy Porter
- Jan Potocki
- Chaim Potok
- Ezra Pound
- Michail Yu Preister
- William Hickling Prescott
- Jacques Prévert
- Abbé Prévost
- Abbé Antoine-François Prévost
- Caradog Prichard
- Stephen Prickett
- John Boynton Priestley
- Proclus
- Procopius
- Propertius
- Protagoras of Abdera
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Marcel Proust
- Prudentius
- Boleslaw Prus
- Michael Psellus
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Ptolemy
- Publilius Syrus
- Manuel Puig
- Alexander Pushkin
- Thomas Pynchon
- Pyrrho of Elis
- Pythagoras of Samos
Q
editR
edit- Wilhelm Raabe
- François Rabelais
- Jean Racine
- Ann Radcliffe
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Raymond Radiguet
- Karl Raimund
- C. Rajagopalachari
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sri Ramakrishna
- A. K. Ramanujan
- Hastings Rashdall
- Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Terence Rattigan
- Irina Ratushinskaya
- Satyajit Ray
- Reardon. B. P.
- Wilhelm Reich
- Reichenbach
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Jean Renoir
- Reposianus
- Johannes Reuchlin
- Fritz Reuter
- Alfonso Reyes
- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- Charles Reznikoff
- Gregor von Rezzori
- Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams)
- Ivor Armstrong Richards
- Mordecai Richler
- Paul Ricouer
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Julian Rios
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- J. M. Roberts
- Armand Robin
- Henri-Pierre Roché
- Second Earl of John Wilmot Rochester
- Theodore Huebner Roethke
- Éric Rohmer
- Romain Rolland
- Jules Romains
- Pierre de Ronsard
- William Roper
- Roscelin
- David H. Rosenthal
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Edmond Rostand
- Joseph Roth
- Elizabeth Roudinesco
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Raymond Roussel
- Gabrielle Roy
- Josiah Royce
- Rufinus
- Mevlana Jalaleddin Rumi
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg
- John Ruskin
- Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell
- Anatoli Rybakov
- Gilbert Ryle
- Ryozen Hoshi
S
edit- Pentti Saarikoski
- Johannes von Saaz
- Ernesto Sabato
- Edward Sachau
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Hans Sachs
- Nelly Sachs
- Marquis de Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
- Pinchas Sadeh
- Sa'di
- Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
- Dorianne Sager
- Saigyō Hōshi
- Ihara Saikaku
- Pierre Saint-Amand
- Charles Saint-Beuve
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Comte de Claude Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
- Andrei Sakharov
- Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
- Sebastiao Salgado
- J. D. Salinger
- Sallust
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Samuel Johnson
- George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin)
- Carl Sandburg
- Sanjo In
- Sasaki Sanmi
- George Santayana
- Edward Sapir
- Sappho
- José Saramago
- William Saroyan
- Nathalie Sarraute (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak)
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Saru Maru
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Salvatore Satta
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Walter Landor Savage
- Alberto Savinio
- Meyer Schapiro
- Robert Louis Scharring-Hausen Founding Father of Library Week 1922
- Max Scheler
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
- August Wilhelm Schlegel
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
- Moritz Schlick
- Arno Schmidt
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Gerhard Gershom Scholem
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Daniel Paul Schreber
- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
- Bruno Schulz
- Alfred Schütz
- Albert Schweitzer
- Leonardo Sciasia
- Sir Walter Scott
- John Duns Scotus
- Augustin Eugène Scribe
- Roger Scruton
- John Searle
- Ronald Searle
- Winfried George Maximilian Sebald
- George Seferis (Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades)
- Victor Segalen
- E. G. Seidensticker
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Hara Sekitei
- Aubrey de Sélincourt
- Wilfrid Stalker Sellars
- Semonides
- Jorge Semprun
- Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
- Marcus Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Robert William Service
- Madame de Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal)
- Anna Seward
- Anne Sexton
- Sextus Empiricus
- Pip Seymour
- Third Earl of Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
- William Shakespeare
- Varlam Shalamov
- Ntozake Shange
- Li Shang-yin
- Ādi Shankarachārya
- Vishnu Sharmā
- George Bernard Shaw
- Lao Shê (Shu Sheyou née Qingchun)
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Vitaly Shentalinsky
- Sam Shepard
- Shepherd Of Hermas
- Shi Naien
- Zenkei Shibayama
- Carol Shields
- Wang Shifu
- Masaoka Shiki (Masaoka Tsunenori)
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Futabatei Shimei
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- Sei Shonagon
- Earl Shorriss
- Tsubouchi Shoyo
- Shune
- Evgeny Shvarts
- J. Sibree
- Henry Sidgwick
- Philip Sidney
- Sidonius
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Angelus Silesius
- Italicus Silius
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- Milan Simecka
- Charles Simic
- Georg Simmel
- Claude Simon
- Simonides of Amorgos
- Simonides of Ceos
- Simplicius
- Upton Sinclair
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Charles Hubert Sisson
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- C. Sivaramamurti
- Sjón
- Joshua James William Skaug
- Josef Skvorecky
- Adam Smith
- R. R. R. Smith
- Tobias George Smollet
- Socrates Scholasticus
- Edith Södergran
- Larry Soderquist
- Fyodor Sologub (Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov)
- Solon
- Vladimir Solvyov
- Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
- Sophocles
- Villy Sorensen
- Pitirim Sorokin
- Natsume Sōseki
- Robert Southey
- Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole)
- Sozomen
- Anne Bethel Spencer
- Herbert Spencer
- Stephen Spender
- Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
- Edmund Spenser
- Speusippus
- Sphaerus
- Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza
- Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- Leo Spitzer
- Madame de Anne Louise Germaine Necker Staël (-Holstein)
- William Stafford
- Leslie Stainton
- Joan Stambaugh
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Henry Morton Stanley (John Rowlands)
- Joan Stanley-Baker
- Statius
- Richard Steele
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Stendhal (Beyle Henri Marie)
- Laurence Sterne
- Lawrence Sterne
- Stesichorus
- W. Richard Stevens
- Wallace Stevens
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Adalbert Stifter
- Allan Stoekl
- Henry Scott Stokes
- Brian Stone
- Rebecca Stone-Miller
- Tom Stoppard
- Theodor Storm
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Strabo
- Lytton Strachey
- Gottfried von Strassburg
- Johan August Strindberg
- Arkady Strugatsky
- Boris Strugatsky
- Lucien Stryk
- Preston Sturges
- Snorri Sturluson
- Francisco Syrianus Suárez
- John Suckling (poet)
- Suetonius
- Takano Suju
- Louis Sullivan
- René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme
- Sulpitius Severus
- P'ei Sung-chih
- Suo No Naishi
- Kari Suomalainen
- Earl of Surrey
- Robert Smith Surtees
- Patrick Süskind
- Tom Sutcliffe
- Italo Svevo
- Livia Veneziani Svevo
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Dorothy Henry/ Whitelock Sweet
- Jonathan Swift
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- John Millington Synge
- Peter Szondi
- Wislawa Szymborska
T
edit- Antonio Tabucchi
- Tacitus
- Jean-Yves Tadié
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Taiken Monin Horikawa
- Hippolyte Taine
- Taira No Kanemori
- Kyoshi Takahama
- Shinkichi Takahashi
- Anton Tammsaare
- Tang Xianzu
- Junichiro Tanizaki
- Sony Labou Tansi
- Veikko Nyyrikki (Nyrki) Tapiovaara
- Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky
- Alfred Tarski
- Torquato Tasso
- Tatian
- Ta-ts'in
- Tawara Machi
- Jeremy Taylor
- V. I. Tcherbatsky
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Terence
- Teresa Sanchez Cepeda d'Avila (y Ahumada)
- Tertullian
- Abram Tertz (Sinyavsky Andrei)
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Thales of Miletus
- Theocritus
- Theodoret
- Theodotus
- Theodore Theodorsen
- Theognis
- Theognostus of Alexandria
- Theonas of Alexandria
- Theophilus of Antioch
- Theophrastus
- Paule Thévenin
- Thomas à Kempis
- William I. Thomas
- John M. Thompson
- Ian Thomson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Thrasymachus
- Thucydides
- James Thurber
- Lü Tiancheng
- Tiberianus
- Tibullus
- Ludwig Tieck
- Georg Henrik Tikkanen
- Paul Tillich
- Timon of Phlius
- Tiruvalluvar
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Ernst Toller
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Vladimir Tolstikov
- Aleksei Tolstoi
- Leo Tolstoy
- Rolf Toman
- Miguel Torga
- Michel Tournier
- Thomas Traherne
- Georg Trakl
- Tomas Tranströmer
- Mary Tregear
- Michel Tremblay
- Roland Michel Tremblay
- Anthony Trollope
- Leon Trotsky
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- François Truffaut
- Tryphiodorus
- Wu Tsao
- Milosz Tserniaski
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
- Edrisi Ma Tuan-lin
- Friedebert Tuglas (until 1923 Mikhelson)
- Mao Tun (Shen Yan-bing b. Shen Dehong)
- Su Tung-p'o
- Göran Tunström
- Ivan Turgenev
- Alan Türing
- Arvo Turtiainen
- Julian Tuwim
- Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
- V. N. Tyazhelov
- Royall Tyler
- Tyrtaeus
- Tristan Tzara
- Chuang Tzu
- Lao Tzu
- Sun Tzu
U
editV
edit- Valerius Flaccus
- Valerius Maximus
- Paul Valéry
- Cesar Vallejo
- Vālmiki
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Robert Jan Van Pelt
- Eugene Vance
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Publius Terentius Varro
- Giorgio Vasari
- Henry Vaughan
- Thorstein Veblen
- Velleius Paterculus
- Venantius
- Paul Vercors
- Aubrey de Vere
- Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere
- Giovanni Verga
- Cornelius Verhoeven
- Paul Verlaine
- Geza Vermes
- Jules Verne
- Dziga Vertov
- Tarjei Vesaas
- Boris Vian
- Giambattista Vico
- Victorinus
- Alfred de Vigny
- Lauri Viita
- Geoffrey de Maréchal de Champagne Villehardouin
- Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
- François Villon
- Vincent of Lérins
- Virgil or Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
- Paul Virilio
- Vitruvius
- Vivekananda (Narendra Datt)
- Walther von der Vogelweide
- Vladimir Voinovich
- Voltaire (b. François Marie Arouet)
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Jacobus de Voragine
- Ivanov Vsevolod
- Alexander Vvedensky
- Lev Vygotsky
W
edit- Wace
- Derek Walcott
- Guido Waldman
- Shah Wali Allah
- David Foster Wallace
- Lew Wallace
- Georg August Wallin (Yrjö Aukusti Wallin) (Abd al-Wali)
- Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
- Horace Walpole
- Hugh Walpole
- Martin Walser
- Robert Walser
- Mika Waltari
- Walther
- Izaak Walton
- Robert Penn Warren
- Jakob Wassermann
- Charles Watts
- Evelyn Waugh
- Max Weber
- John Webster
- Wang Wei (8th century poet)
- Grete Weil
- Simone Weil
- Peter Weiss
- Otfried von Weissenburg
- Herbert George Wells
- Franz Werfel
- Nathanael West (Nathan Weinstein until 1926)
- Rebecca West
- Edith Wharton
- Frederic M. Wheelock
- Edmund White
- Elwyn Brooks White
- Patrick White
- Alfred North Whitehead
- John Whiting
- Walt Whitman
- Ernst Wiechert
- Christoph Martin Wieland
- Elie Wiesel
- Oscar Wilde
- Billy Wilder
- Thornton Wilder
- W. J. Wilkins
- Geoffrey Willans
- William of Ockham
- Tennessee Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- George Wilson Knight
- Edmund Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Alison Winston
- John Wisdom
- Owen Wister
- Stanisław Witkiewicz
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. Witkacy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Christa Wolf
- Christian Wolff
- Tatiana Wolff
- Heinrich Wölfflin
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- James Woodall
- George Woodcock
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf
- John Woolman
- William Wordsworth
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Morris Wright
- Thomas Wyatt
- William Wycherley
- John Wyclif