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MACAULAY, Thomas
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC (1800-1859) was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. |
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MacDONALD, George
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author who wrote two of the most important visionary novels of the 19th century: Lilith and Phantastes. |
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MacGRATH, Harold
Harold MacGrath (1871-1932) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. |
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MACHEN, Arthur
Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. |
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine author, philosopher, and historian, and was instrumental in developing the study and analysis of politics. |
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MACLAREN, Ian
Ian Maclaren was the pseudonym of Rev. John Watson (1850-1907) a theologian and author. |
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MAETERLINCK, Maurice
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright and essayist. |
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MAJOR, Charles
Charles Major (1856-1913) was an American lawyer and novelist. |
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MALET, Lucas
Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852-1931), a Victorian novelist. |
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MALLORY, Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas Mallory (or Malory) (c. 1405-1471) was an English author best known for writing (or compiling) Le Mort d'Arthur. |
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MANLY, John Matthews
John Matthews Manly (1865-1940), was a noted scholar and head of the English Department at the University of Chicago. |
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MANN, Thomas
Thomas Mann served as Consultant in Germanic Literature at the Library of Congress for three years, and served as a Fellow in Germanic Literature for ten years after that. |
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MANUCY, Albert
Albert Manucy was Historian for the Southeast National Monuments. |
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MANZONI, Alessandro
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (1785-1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. |
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MARLITT, E.
Eugenie John (1825-1887), who wrote as E. Marlitt, studied music, and performed as a singer. |
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MARRYAT, Capt. Frederick
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. |
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MARSH, Ngaio
Dame Ngaio Marsh (c.1895-1982) was a popular New Zealand author and director in the theatre. |
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MARX, Karl
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a founder of the socialist political movement. |
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MASSON, Frederic
Louis Claude Frédéric Masson (1847-1923) was a French historian and member of l'Académie Française. |
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MATTHEWS, Brander
James Brander Matthews (1852-1929), was an American writer and the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. |
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. |
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MAXWELL, W.B.
William Babington Maxwell (1866-1938) was a British novelist. |
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MAYER, Edwin Justus
Edwin Justus Mayer (1896-1960) was an American screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 47 films between 1927 and 1958.
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McCAFFREY, Anne
Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011) was an influential American-born fantasy writer. |
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McCLEARY, Dorothy
Dorothy McCleary was a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. |
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McCULLEY, Johnston
Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) was a prolific American writer, best known for creating the character Zorro. |
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McINTOSH, W. D.
William Donald McIntosh (1881-?) became the pastor of the Knox Congregation Church in Ontario, Canada in 1926. |
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McINTYRE, O.O.
Oscar Odd McIntyre (1884-1938) was a famed New York newspaper columnist. |
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McKEEVER, Harriet B.
Harriet Burn McKeever (1807-1886) was a school teacher who began writing later in life. |
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McNEILE, Cyril
Cyril McNeile (1888-1937) was a British author best known for his character Bull-Dog Drummond. |
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McSPADDEN, J. Walker
Joseph Walker McSpadden (1874-1960) wrote children's books, as well as non-fiction studies of opera and American sculptors. |
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MEADE, L.T.
L.T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), who wrote over 300 popular books for girls, edited a magazine for girls, and co-authored several mystery novels. |
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MEANS, Florence Crannell
Florence Crannell Means (1891-1980) was an American author. She wrote multicultural children's books and espoused a message of racial equality. |
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MEEK, J.P.
Writing as J. P. Meek, Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972) wrote many children's novels and was an early science fiction authors. |
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MELVILLE, Herman
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. |
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MENCKEN, H.L.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." |
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MEREDITH, George
George Meredith (1828-1909) abandoned the legal profession for journalism and poetry. |
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MERIMEE, Prosper
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.
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MERLANTI, Ernesto G.
The Rev. Ernesto G. Merlanti (1894-1972) collaborated on a novel with Grace D. Hall. |
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MERRICK, Leonard
Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was a widely admired English novelist, whom J. M. Barrie called "the novelist's novelist." |
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MERRIMAN, Henry Seton
Hugh Stowell Scott (1863?-1903) was a novelist under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman. |
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MICHAELIS, Karin
Karin Michaëlis (1872-1950) was a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, and author of a widely translated 1930s series of children's books with the eponymous heroine, Bibi. |
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MILL, John Stuart
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, civil servant, and Member of Parliament. |
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MILLER, Walter M.
Walter M. Miller (1923-1996) was an American science fiction writer, best known for his short stories and novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz." |
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MILNE, A.A.
Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) was a noted English playwright, most famous for his children's books featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin. |
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MILTON, John
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, author, polemicist, Puritan and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. |
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MIRRLEES, Hope
Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. |
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MIRSKY, Prince D.S.
Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (1890-1939) was a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of literature between Britain and the Soviet Union. |
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MITCHELL, S. Weir
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and writer. |
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MITFORD, Bertram
Bertram Mitford (1855-1914), one of the famous Mitford family, was a prolific English novelist. Most of his novels were set in South Africa. |
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MOLESWORTH, Mrs.
Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) wrote many children's books. |
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MOLIERE, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, (1622-1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. |
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MOORE, F. Frankfort
Frank Frankfort Moore (1855-1931) was a British dramatist, novelist and poet. |
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MOORE, George
George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. |
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MOORE, Ward
Joseph Ward Moore (1903-1978) was an American author. |
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MORE, Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English lawyer and politician who lost his life for opposing King Henry VIII in the matter of his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. |
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MORIER, James
James Justinian Morier (1780-1849) was a British diplomat and author. |
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MORLEY, Christopher
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, author, and poet. |
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MORRIS, Gouverneur
Gouverneur Morris (1876-1953), was an author of pulp novels and short stories during the early twentieth century. |
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MORRIS, William
William Morris (1834–1896) was an English artist and writer. He was influential in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. |
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MORRISON, Arthur
Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English author and journalist. |
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MOTT, Lawrence
Jordan Lawrence Mott IV (1881-1931), better known as Lawrence Mott, was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. |
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MUHLBACH, Louise
Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814-1873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction. |
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MUIR, John
John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. |
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MULHOLLAND, Rosa
Rosa Mulholland (?-1921), also known as Lady Gilbert, was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. |
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MUNCH, Peter Andreas
Peter Andreas Munch (1810-1863) was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway. |
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MUNDY, Talbot
Talbot Mundy (1879-1940), born William Lancaster Gribbon, was an English writer, best known for his popular adventure novels. |
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MURFREE, Mary N.
Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922) was an American writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. |
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