English FYI Authors (Revised)

Greek, 620 B.C.-564 B.C.
Fables that resolved difficulties between Corinthians and Athenians and leaders
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Lion and the Mouse

American, 1832-1888
Novels
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, An Old-Fashioned Girl, A Strange Island

Native American, 1966-present day
Poetry, short stories, filmmaking, comedian
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals

Denmark (Danish), 1805-1875
Poems, plays, travel books, fairytales
Fairy Tales, Told for Children, The Dying Child, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Suit, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling

American, 1928-present day
Contemporary American poet and civil rights activist
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry (also wrote articles, short stories, TV scripts, documentaries, 5 books of essays, several books of poetry, and plays)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

American, 1856-1919
Fantasy, poem
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Queen Zixi of Ix

American, 1875-1950
Science fiction, adventure
Tarzan series, Barsoom series (John Carter), Pellucidar series, Venus series, Caspak series, Moon series

English with Irish ties, 1832-1898
Fantasy and "literary nonsense"
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark

English, 1890-1976
Novels, stories, and plays on crime mystery (wrote romances under a pseudonym)
Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There were None, Towards Zero

English, 1812-1870
Plays, fiction, picaresque style in novels (hero of low social class lives by own wisdom in a corrupt society)
The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfeld, A Tale of Two Cities, The Frozen Deep, A Christmas Carol

American, 1830-1886
Poetry and letters
Wild Nights, Dying, Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Scottish, 1859-1930
Detective mystery books
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four

German Jew, 1929-1945
Wrote a diary

German, 1398-1468
Creator of printing press
Famous work was Bible

German, 1785-1863, 1786-1859
Folktales, also collected German and Scandinavian myths
Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel
Wrote a German dictionary but didn't see it finished

Born in India, sent to England, 1865-1936
Novels, short stories, poems
The Jungle Book, The Elephant Child, The Man Who Would be King, Gunga Din, The Five Nations, The Years Between

English daughter of Indian immigrants, 1967-present day
Mostly autiobiographical novels
Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth

German, 1818-1883
History, sociology, philosophy
The Communit Manifesto, Das Kapital, The German ideology, On the Jewish Question

American, 1936-present day
Fiction (westerns), biography, movie scripts
Crazy Horse: A Life (biography), Lonesome Dove, Telegraph DAys: A Novel, Rhino RAnch

English, 1882-1956
Poet, novelist, editor, playwright (published essays in book form)
Lovers in London, Winne the Pooh

American, 1862-1910
Mostly short stories that all had situational irony (twist)
The Gift of the Magi, THe Ransom of Red Chief, The Cop and the Anthem

Greek, 428 or 427 B.C.-348 or 347 B.C.
Dialogues (two people talking)
The Republic, Apology, The Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, The trial and death of Socrates, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Critias
Established first "school," a school of philosophy at the academy

American, 1809-1849
Romantic poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, gothic fiction, literary criticism
The Raven, Lenore, Annabel Lee, Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, The Mosque of the Red Death

American (parents German immigrants), died 2002
Children's literature
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, The Cat in the Hat

Scotland, 1850-1894Essays, travel writing, short stories, novels, romances, poetry, plays, biography (also composed for flageolet)Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, A Children's Garden of Verses

Irish, 1667-1745
Fiction (lots of irony)
A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Drapier's Letters

American, 1835-1910
Fiction
Innocents Abroad, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

American, 1932-2009
Poetry, essay, fiction, criticism (critiques), short stories
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, The Complete Henry Bech, The Early Stories

French, 1828-1905
Fiction
Five Weeks in a Balloon, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen

American, 1944-present day
Poetry, essay, epistolary novels, fiction
The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Seret of Joy, Be the Light of my Father's Eyes