Famous writers

Charlotte Brontë
(
April 21, 1816
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March 31, 1855
Present
)
Famous Works:

"Jane Eyre"‍

"Villette"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(
July 3, 1860
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August 17, 1935
Present
)
Famous Works:

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

"When I Was A Witch"

"Women and Economics"

Chinua Achebe
(
November 16, 1930
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March 21, 2013
Present
)
Famous Works:

"Things Fall Apart"‍

"No Longer at Ease"

"Arrow of God"

Edgar Allan Poe
(
January 19, 1809
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October 7, 1849
Present
)
Famous Works:

"The Cask of Amontillado",

"The Black Cat"

"The Gold-Bug"

Emily Brontë
(
July 30, 1818
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December 19, 1848
Present
)
Famous Works:

“Wuthering Heights”

Harper Lee
(
April 28, 1926
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February 19, 2016
Present
)
Famous Works:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

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J.D. Salinger
(
January 1, 1919
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January 27, 2010
Present
)
Famous Works:

"The Catcher in the Rye"

‍"Nine Stories"

"Franny and Zooey"

Joseph Conrad
(
December 3, 1857
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August 3, 1924
Present
)
Famous Works:

"Heart of Darkness"

"Under Western Eyes"

"Lord Jim"

Martin Luther King
(
January 15, 1929
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April 4, 1968
Present
)
Famous Works:

“Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

Tim O’Brien
(
October 1, 1946
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Present
)
Famous Works:

"The Things They Carried"

"In the Lake of the Woods"

"Going After Cacciato"

William Faulkner
(
September 25, 1897
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July 6, 1962
Present
)
Famous Works:

"A Rose for Emily"‍

"The Sound and the Fury"

"The Bear"