Charles Darwin
He was an English naturalist, recognized as the most influential scientist of those who put forward the idea of biological evolution through natural s...
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Lindsey Davis
He studied English literature at Oxford. Fascinated by archaeology, he is the author of the political-historical novels, set in ancient Rome, starring...
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Foe, better known for his pseudonym Daniel Defoe, was an English writer, journalist and pamphlet, world-famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and novelist, one of the best known in universal literature, and the most outstanding of the Victori...
Paul C. Doherty
He was born in 1946 in Middlesbrough, England. He studied history at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford where he obtained a PhD with a thesis on...
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was a British writer famous for novels such as Rebeca and My cousin Raquel, both taken to the movies. The films Jamaica Inn and The ...
Robin I.M. Dunbar
He is a British anthropologist, psychologist and evolutionary biologist, specialized in the study of primate behavior.
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was a novelist known for his great sense of humor and satirical skills, and as author of the novel Tom Jones.
Ken Follet
Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, on June 5, 1949 and is the author of a great many successful novels. His greatest success was the novel "The p...
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH was an English novelist, essayist and libretor. His works address the class differences and hypocrisy of British society...
Frederick Forsyth
He's a British writer. It is mainly known by suspended novels such as The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File, Icon, The Fist of God a...
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often cited as Mrs. Gaskell, was a novelist and writer of English stories during the Victorian era.
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE was a British novelist and poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1983, especially known for his work El señor...
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves was a British writer and scholar, father of the writer and translator Lucía Graves.
Graham Greene
He was a British writer, writer and literary critic, whose work explored the confusion of modern man and dealt with issues about politics or morally a...
Mark Haddon
He has written numerous books for children and a poemary. He worked for a while with people with physical and mental deficiencies, which helped him cr...
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was an English Victorian writer of adventure novels, initiator of the "lost world" subgender.
Matt Haig
He's an English novelist and journalist. He has written fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, often in the genre of speculative fiction.
Samantha Harvey
British novelist formed in philosophy and creative writing whose lyrical prose explores memory and human condition; after debuting with The Wilderness...