English Authors in Chronological Order

 

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Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
James I King of England (1566 - 1625)
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1817)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 - 1880)
Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1895)
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907
H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866 - 1946)
John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950
Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953
William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
George Orwell ( 1903 - 1950)
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
Richard Llewellyn (1906 - 1983)
Sir William Golding (1911 - 1993)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983
Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
Patrick White (1912 - 1990)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1973
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Denton Welch (1915 - 1948)
Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919)
Doris Lessing (1919)
Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)
Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
Tom Sharpe (1928)
Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)
J.G. Ballard (1930)
Harold Pinter (1930)
John Le Carre (1931)
Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul (1932)   Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001
Salman Rushdie (1947)
Ian McEwan (1948)
Martin Amis (1949)