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Select the letter the authors surname begins with, or below in the editors and compilers index, to go to the listing of authors with this letter and then click on the authors name to see information on the author and what books they are known to have written. there are a number of authors with the same name, and in those cases the lifespan dates will help. Let us know of any errors you see. 

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Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934
Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 AKA: Square, A
Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Adams, Andy, 1859-1935
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Adams, William Taylor, 1822-1897 AKA: Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Aesop, 620(?)B.C.-563(?)B.C.
Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1966
Aikman, William, 1824-1909
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, 1892-1927
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899
Allen, Emory Adams, 1853-
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925
Altemus, Henry
Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919
American Tract Society, The
Ames, Azel, 1845-1908
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928
Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Angellotti, Marion Polk
Anzengruber, Ludwig, 1839-1889
Appleton, Victor, pseudonym
Apuleius, Lucius
Arbuthnot, John
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533
Ariosto, Ludovico, 1474-1533
Aristophanes, ca. 446-ca. 385 B.C.
Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.
Arnim, Elizabeth von, 1866-1941 AKA: Elizabeth, 1866-1941
Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von, 1781-1831
Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568
Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 AKA: Lin, Frank, 1857-1948, pseud.
Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse, 1863-1942
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934
Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952

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Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904
Badger, Joseph E., Jr, 1848-
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 AKA: Grayson, David, 1870-1946, Pseudonym
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
Ball, Hugo, 1886-1927
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913
Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894
Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)
Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, 1803-1886
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922
Bannerman, Helen, 1862-1946
Barber, H. (Horatio), 1875-
Barber, Margaret Fairless, 1869-1901 AKA: Fairless, Michael, 1869-1901
Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)
Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa), 1862-1921
Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945
Barker, Nettie Garmer
Barr, Amelia E., Edith Huddleston, 1831-1919
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1860-1937
Barrington, E., pseud. AKA: Beck, L. Adams (Lily Moresby Adams), died 1931
Barry, John D. (John Daniel), 1866-1942
Basile, Giambattista, ca. 1575-1632
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Bayly, Ada Ellen, 1857-1903 AKA: Lyall, Edna, 1857-1903, pseudonym
Bazin, René, 1853-1932 AKA: Bazin, Rene, 1853-1932
Beaumont, Mary
Beck, L. Adams (Lily Moresby Adams), died 1931 AKA: Barrington, E., pseud.
Becke, Louis, 1855-1913
Becker, Carl Lotus, 1873-1945
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Bell, Currer [pseud.] AKA: Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Bell, Currer _ Bell, Ellis _ Bell, Acton, pseudonymns AKA: Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940
Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956
Benton, Joel, 1832-1911
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858
Bentzon, Th., 1840-1907 AKA: Bentzon, Th. (Mme. Blanc)
Bernard, Charles de, 1804-1850
Beyle, Marie-Henri, 1783-1842 AKA: Stendhal, 1783-1842
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933
Bigges, Walter, d. 1586
Bindloss, Harold, 1866-1945
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904
Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes), 1837-1902
Black, William Harman, b. 1868
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900
Blades, William, 1824-1890
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918 AKA: Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (De Graff), 1865-1918
Blasco Ibanez, Vicente, 1867-1928
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Bojer, Johan, 1872-1959
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915 AKA: Browne, Thomas Alexander, 1826-1915
Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin), 1916-
Bonnin, Gertrude (Zitkala-Sa) AKA: Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938
Booth, William, 1829-1912
Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Botev, Hristo, 1848-1876 AKA: Botev, Khristo, 1848-1876
Botev, Khristo, 1848-1876 AKA: Botev, Hristo, 1848-1876
Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935
Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de, 1769-1834
Bower, B. M., 1874-1940 AKA: Sinclair, B. M. (Bertha Muzzy), 1874-1940
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1848-1895
Boz AKA: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Bramah, Ernest, 1869?-1942
Brame, Charlotte M., 1836-1884 AKA: Clay, Berta M. (pseud.)
Brand, Max, 1892-1944
Brann, William Cowper, 1855-1898
Bray, William, 1736-1832
Brentano, Clemens, 1778-1842
Brieux, Eugene, 1858-1932
Brisbane, Arthur, 1864-1936
Bronte, Anne, 1820-1849
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 AKA: Bell, Currer [pseud.]
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 AKA: Bell, Currer _ Bell, Ellis _ Bell, Acton, pseudonymns
Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848
Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Brown, Arthur Judson, 1856-1963
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884
Browne, Charles Farrar, 1834-1867 AKA: Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867
Browne, Thomas Alexander, 1826-1915 AKA: Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 AKA: Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876
Bryant, Sara Cone, 1873-
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus), 1884-1962
Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
Bullen, Frank T., 1857-1915
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron, 1803-1873
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874-1965
Burgoyne, Thomas H.
Burk, Martha Cannary, 1852-1903 AKA: Calamity Jane, 1852-1903
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Burke, Thomas, 1887-1945
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Burnham, Clara Louise, 1854-1927
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Bury, Richard de, 1287-1345
Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937
Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

 

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