Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends

Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, aka Alexandre Dumas, was a prolific French writer active throughout the middle of the 19th... Read more

Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, most notably remembered for pioneering the infamous Gonz... Read more

Clive Staples Lewis, or as he was later called Jack, was an Irish born novelist, poet, essayist, academic, medievalist, ... Read more

Jack Kerouac, or as he liked to call himself, Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet active duri... Read more

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a 19th century poet whose immense body of influential works was not even found until after... Read more

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, critic, and publisher active during the first half of the 20th... Read more

William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi-born novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and playwri... Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known to most of us as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American writer active during the 1920s... Read more

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a 20th century literary icon whose career spanned a whopping fifty years and includes the publicat... Read more

Charles John Huffam Dickens was and still is one of the most famous English writers to date, and is regarded by many as ... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or as we have all come to know him, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, l... Read more

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author, short story writer, and journalist active during the late 1920s and int... Read more

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an Anglo-American poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and critic active during the early 20t... Read more

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and short story writer active during the early 20th century ... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, literary critic, and editor, who is remembered for his incredibly imaginative an... Read more

Henry David Thoreau was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, naturalist, abolitionist, tax resister, surveyor, and h... Read more

Eric Arthur Blair, or as we all have come to recognize him – Mr. George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journ... Read more

Jane Austen was an English novelist active during the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and her writing was best-know... Read more

Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American short story writer, essayist, and novelist, active throughout the first half of t... Read more

Herman Melville was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer active during the American Renaissance period fro... Read more