Popular authors

Authors 1 till 50 of 50.

• Aldrin, Buzz
  American former astronaut, engineer and fighter 1930- 137
• Aristotle
  Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC 165
• Bacon, Francis
  English philosopher and statesman 1561-1626 188
• Baldwin, James
  American writer 1924-1987 120
• Beecher, Henry Ward
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker 1813-1887 130
• Bierce, Ambrose
  American writer 1842-1914 232
• Butler, Samuel
  English poet 1612-1680 131
• Byron, Lord George
  English poet 1788-1824 207
• Camus, Albert
  French writer and essayist 1913-1960 134
• Carlyle, Thomas
  Scottish writer and historicus 1795-1881 229
• Chesterton, Gilbert K.
  English writer 1874-1936 156
• Churchill, Winston
  English statesman 1874-1965 192
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
  Roman statesman and writer 106 BC - 43 BC 141
• Disraeli, Benjamin
  English statesman and writer 1804-1881 174
• Dylan, Bob
  American musician 1941- 125
• Einstein, Albert
  German - American physicist 1879-1955 268
• Eliot, George
  English writer and poet 1819-1880 160
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882 593
• Franklin, Benjamin
  American statesman and physicist 1706-1790 250
• Gandhi, Mahatma
  Indian politician 1917-1985 124
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  German writer and poet 1749-1832 321
• Hazlitt, William
  English writer 1778-1830 140
• Hoffer, Eric
  American writer 1902-1983 130
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  American writer and poet 1809-1894 139
• Horace
  Roman poet 65-8 BC 123
• Hubbard, Elbert
  American writer and publisher 1859-1915 121
• Huxley, Aldous
  English writer 1894-1963 290
• Jefferson, Thomas
  American statesman 1743-1826 120
• Johnson, Samuel
  English writer 1709-1784 385
• Lewis, C. S.
  Irish novelist and poet 1898-1963 134
• Lichtenberg, G. C.
  German writer and physicist 1742-1799 121
• Lincoln, Abraham
  American statesman 1809-1865 218
• Mencken, Henry Louis
  American journalist and critic 1880-1956 169
• Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
  French essayist and philosopher 1533-1592 136
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
  German poet and philosopher 1844-1900 181
• Orwell, George
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950 178
• Paglia, Camille
  American academic and social critic 1947- 154
• Pascal, Blaise
  French physicist, mathematician and philosopher 1623-1662 162
• Pope, Alexander
  English poet 1688-1744 155
• Rochefoucauld, Francois de la
  French writer 1613-1680 176
• Ruskin, John
  English art critic 1819-1900 133
• Russell, Bertrand
  English philosopher and mathematician 1872-1970 164
• Sagan, Carl
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author 1934-1996 139
• Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright 5 BC - 65 A.D. 182
• Shakespeare, William
  English playwright and poet 1564-1616 536
• Shaw, George Bernard
  Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950 545
• Thoreau, Henry David
  American writer 1817-1862 282
• Twain, Mark
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910 384
• Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) 1694-1778 132
• Wilde, Oscar
  Irish writer 1854-1900 517

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