Jack London

- novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist

- literary movement: Realism and Naturalism
- famous works: novels – The cruise of the dazzler, A daughter of
The snows, The call of the wild, White Fang, The iron heel, Martin
Eden; short story collections- Son of the wolf, Children of the
Frost, Tales of the fish patrol.

William Faulkner

- Nobel Prize-winning American author.

- best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle, a comédie humaine of
the American South started in 1929 with SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE
DUST and completed with THE MANSION in 1959
- literary technique: stream of consciousness.
- works: The soldier’s pay, The sound and the fury, The marble’s faun

Herman Mellvile

- American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet, whose

work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism.
- genres : Captivity narrative, Sea story, Gothic Romanticism,
Allegory, Tall tale
- best known for his novel Moby-Dick, often considered one of the
greatest literary works of all time.
Walter Scott

- Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer

- the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel
- techniques: the omniscient narrator and the use of regional speech,
localized settings, sophisticated character delineation
- famous works: Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of The Lake, Waverley,
The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Virginia Woolf

- an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and

writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist
literary figures of the twentieth century.
- technique: stream of consciousness
- famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse,
Orlando and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own

Agatha Christie

- English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays, considered the
'Queen of Crime'
- best remembered for her 80 detective novels, particularly those
featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple and her
successful West End theatre plays
- famous novels: Ten Little Indians, Murder is Easy, The Witness for
the Prosecution
Charlotte Brontë

- English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters

- lived during the Victorian era
- genre: Gothic romance
- representative works: Jane Eyre, Villette

Jane Austen

- English novelist
- genre: romantic fiction set among the gentry
- her realism and biting social commentary have cemented her
historical importance as a writer.
- notable works: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma,
Mansfield Park, Persuasion

Daniel Defoe

- English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer referred to by some as

among the founders of the English novel
- wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics
(politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural)
- genre: adventure
- notable works: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
H.G Wells

- English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre
- referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction", together with Jules
Verne
- a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels,
history, politics and social commentary
- notable works: The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon,
- The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man

Oscar Wilde

- Irish playwright, short story writer, poet, journalist and prominent aesthete
- lived during the Victorian era
- works: his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, who brought him
most lasting recognition, The Importance of Being Earnest.(play),
De Profundis, a 50,000 word letter, the poem The Ballad of Reading
Gaol.

Aldous Huxley

- English writer, of both fiction and non-fiction

- a humanist and pacifist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual
subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism
- best known for his novels including Brave New World and wide-
ranging output of essays
- edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories,
poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.
George Orwell

- English novelist, political writer and journalist

- wrote literary criticism and poetry, as well as fiction
- his work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness
of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism
- best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and
the satirical novella Animal Farm

William Makepeace Thackeray

- English novelist of the 19th century

- genres: Historical Fiction
- lived during the Victorian era
- famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic
portrait of English society.