Guy de Maupassant			FR			1850-1893		novelist, short-story writer. "A Life," "Bel-Ami," "The Necklace."
Honori de Balzac			FR			1799-1850
William Wordsworth			GB			1770-1850
Laura Richards						2/27/1850		?
Eugene Field						9/2/1850		?
Robert Louis Stevenson			GB			11/13/1850-1894		novelist, poet, essayist. Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley			GB			8/30/1797-1851
Kate Chopin			US			1851-1904		writer. The Awakening.
James Fenimore Cooper	Christ Churchyard	Cooperstown	NY			9/15/1789-9/14/1851
Nikolai Gogol			SU			1809-1852
Howard Pyle						3/5/1853		?
Arthur Rimbaud			FR			1854-1891		poet. A Season in Hell.
Oscar Wilde			IE			10/16/1854-1900		playwright, story-writer. The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Charlotte Brontk			GB			1816-1855
George Bernard Shaw			IE/GB			1856-1950		playwright, critic. St. Joan, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Man and Superman.
Heinrich Heine			DE			1797-1856
T. Thomas Fortune			US			1856-6/2/1928		Started the New York Age(1883), a distinguished black newspaper, coined the word "Afro-American".
L. Frank Baum			US			5/15/1856-1919		writer. Wizard of Oz series of children's books.
Kate Douglas Wiggin						9/28/1856		?
Rudyard Kipling			GB			12/30/1856-1936		author, poet. "The White Man's Burden," "Gunga Din," The Jungle Book.
Alfred de Musset			FR			1810-1857
Joseph Conrad			GB			1857-1924		novelist. Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Nostromo.
Selma Lagerlvf			SE			1858-1940		novelist. Jerusalem, The Ring of the Lowenskolds.
Edith Nesbit						8/15/1858		?
Wilhelm Grimm			DE			2/24/1786-1859
Alfred E. Housman			GB			1859-1936		poet. A Shropshire Lad.
Knute Hamsun			NO			1859-1952		novelist. Hunger.
Solomon Rabinowitz (Sholem Aleichem)			SU			1859-5/13/1916		Yiddish writer. Tevye's Daughter, Adventures of Mottel, The Old Country.
Kenneth Grahame						3/9/1859
Arthur Conan Doyle			GB			5/22/1859-1930		novelist. Sherlock Holmes mystery series.
Washington Irving	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	North Tarrytown	NY			4/3/1783-11/28/1859
James M. Barrie			GB			1860-1937		playwright, novelist. Peter Pan, Dear Brutus, What Every Woman Knows.
Anton Chekhov			SU			1860-1904		short-story writer, dramatist. Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters.
Sir James M. Barrie						5/9/1860		?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning			GB			1806-1861
Rabindranath Tagore			IN			1861-1941		author, poet. Sadhana, The Realization of Life, Gitanjali.
Edith Wharton			US			1862-1937		novelist. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome.
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)			US			1862-6/5/1910		short-story writer. "The Gift of the Magi."
Helen Brodie Bannerman						2/25/1862		?
Henry David Thoreau	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	Concord	MA			1817-5/6/1962
Jakob Grimm			DE			1/4/1785-1863
William Makepeace Thackeray			GB			1811-1863
Gabriele D'Annunzio			IT			1863-1938		poet, novelist, dramatist. The Child of Pleasure, The Intruder, The Victim.
George Santayana			US			1863-1952		poet, essayist, philosopher. The Sense of Beauty, The Realms of Being.
Clement Clarke Moore	Trinity Cemetery	New York	NY			1779-7/10/1863
Gene Stratton Porter						8/17/1863		?
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	Concord	MA			7/4/1804-5/18 or 19/1864
William Butler Yeats			IE			1865-1939		poet, playwright. The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, Last Poems.
Romain Rolland			FR			1866-1944		novelist, biographer. Jean-Christophe.
George Ade			US			1866-1944		humorist. Fables in Slang.
Lincoln Steffens			US			1866-1936		editor, writer. The Shame of the Cities.
Beatrix Potter						7/28/1866		?
H. G. Wells			GB			9/21/1866-1946		novelist. The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds. The Island of Dr Moreau.
Charles Baudelaire			FR			1821-1867
John Galsworthy			GB			1867-1933		novelist, dramatist. The Forsyte Saga, A Modern Comedy.
Luigi Pirandello			IT			1867-1936		novelist, dramatist. Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Laura Ingalls Wilder			US			2/7/1867-1957		novelist. Little House on the Prairie series of children's books.
Arthur Rackham						9/19/1867		?
Ella Young						12/26/1867		?
Edmond Rostand			FR			1868-1918		poet, dramatist. Cyrano de Bergerac.
Maxim Gorky			SU			1868-1936		writer. The Lower Depths.
Eleanor H. Porter						12/19/1868		?
Alphonse de Lamartine			FR			1790-1869
Andri Gide			FR			1869-1951		writer. The Immoralist, The Pastoral Symphony, Strait Is the Gate.
Edgar Lee Masters			US			1869-3/5/1950		poet, biographer. Spoon River Anthology(1915).
Edwin Arlington Robinson			US			1869-4/6/1935		poet. "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy."
Booth Tarkington			US			7/29/1869-5/19/1946		novelist. Seventeen(1917), Alice Adams(1921), Penrod.
Felix Salten						9/6/1869		?
Charles J. Finger						12/25/1869		?
Alexandre Dumas			FR			1802-1870
Prosper Mirimie			FR			1803-1870
Charles Dickens			GB			1812-1870
H. H. Munro (Saki)			GB			1870-1916		writer. Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts.
Frank Norris			US			1870-10/25/1902		Novelist, used literature to illuminate social problems: The Octopus(1901), The Pit(1903).
Hillaire Belloc						7/27/1870		?
Marcel Proust			FR			1871-1922		novelist. Remembrance of Things Past.
Paul Valiry			FR			1871-1945		poet, critic. La Jeune Parque, The Graveyard by the Sea.
John M. Synge			IE			1871-1909		poet, dramatist. Riders to the Sea, The Playboy of the Western World.
Stephen Crane			US			1871-6/5/1900		novelist, short-story writer. The Red Badge of Courage, "The Open Boat."
Theodore Dreiser			US			1871-12/28/1945		novelist. An American Tragedy(1925), Sister Carrie.
James Weldon Johnson						6/17/1871		?
Zane Grey			US			1872-1939		writer of western stories.
Emily Post			US			1872-9/25/1960		Author of best-selling etiquette book.
Paul Laurence Dunbar			US			1872-2/9/1906		The poet, who wrote in Negro folk dialect
(Sidonie) Colette			FR			1873-1954		novelist. Claudine, Gigi.
Willa Cather			US			1873-4/24/1947		novelist, essayist. O Pioneers! My Antonia(1918), Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Walter De La Mare						4/25/1873		?
G. K. Chesterton			GB			1874-1936		critic, novelist. Father Brown series of mysteries.
W. Somerset Maugham			GB			1874-1965		author. Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, The Moon and Sixpence.
Amy Lowell			US			1874-5/1/1925		poet, critic. "Lilacs."
Gertrude Stein			US			1874-1946		writer. Three Lives.
Clarence Day			US			1874-12/28/1935		His sketches about his parents were adapted for the stage hits Life with Father and Life with Mother.
Ellen Glasgow			US			1874-11/21/1945		Glasgow's novels describe Southern society in transition from postbellum to modern day; her work includes Barren Ground(1925), In This Our Life(1941).
Laura Adams Armer						1/12/1874		?
Thornton Burgess						1/14/1874		?
Robert Frost			US			3/26/1874-1/29/1963		poet. "Birches," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Lucy Maud Montgomery						11/30/1874		?