Les Écrivains les Plus Brillants

British detective fiction author

Alan Watts

A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien

Albert Camus

A French writer, philosopher and journalist.

Alexander Pushkin

A Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist, author and physician

Ayn Rand

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Ben Jonson

An English playwright and poet best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c

Benjamin Disraeli

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

George Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist known for writing Man and Superman (1902

Carl Sagan

IQ 130

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator

Charles-Guillaume Étienne

A 19th-century French playwright.

Charles Dickens

An English writer and social critic.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

A French literary critic.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre
Villette

Christoph Martin Wieland

A German poet and writer best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon) as well as

Christopher Hitchens

An English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist an

Claude Adrien Helvétius

A French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

Clive Staples Lewis

IQ 150

A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney

A French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician who was one of the first modern writers to advoc

Daniel Defoe

An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.

Dante Alighieri

An Italian poet, writer and philosopher best known for the narrative poem Divine Comedy.

David Strauss

A German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical

David Hume

A Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known for his highly inf

Denis Diderot

La Religieuse

Marquis de Sade

A French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer best known for The 120 Days of Sodom and Justine.

Acharya S

An American genius writer supporting the theory that Jesus never existed as a historical person.

Edgar Allan Poe

An American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is considered the inventor of the detective fiction and is kno

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An English writer and politician coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is

Edward Gibbon

Probably the greatest English historian of all times. Famous for his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Rom

Elizabeth Gaskell

An English novelist, biographer and short story writer most famous for her novels "Cranford", "North and South, and "Wiv

Ernest Hemingway

An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman best known for his novels For Whom the Bell Tolls, A

Erwin Chargaff

An Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist who discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double he

Euripides

A tragedian of classical Athens who is remembered by the plays Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Bacchae

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Is an American novelist and screenwriter known across the world for his novel The Great Gatsby.

François Rabelais

A French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar.

Voltaire

IQ 190

French writer, historian & philosopher who wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.

François-René de Chateaubriand

A French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who dominated the literary scene in France in the first half of the

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

A noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

A French writer who was the tutor of Louis XIV.

Franz Kafka

A genius Czech novelist known for the surreal subject of his novel "Metamorphosis".

Friedrich Schiller

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the greatest Russian authors of the 19th century whose works deal with human nature, religion, atheism, revolutio

Gaius Lucilius

The earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain

Pliny the Elder

A Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend

Geoffrey Chaucer

An English poet and author who is credited as the creator of modern English poetry and literature as a whole.

George Sand

A French novelist, memoirist, and journalist who had a vibrant personal and literary life.

George Eliot

An English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Germaine de Staël

A French woman of letters and political theorist of Genevan origin.

Gerolamo Cardano

An Italian polymath was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binom

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenmen

Hans Christian Andersen

A Danish author who is one of the most well-known authors of fairy tales.

Henry Fielding

An English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire. His comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appr

Henry Thomas Buckle

An English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization considered to be the Father of Scientific Hist

Herodotus

An ancient Greek writer and geographer who was the first Greek historian.

Hildegard of Bingen

A German Benedictine abbess who is among the best best-known composers of sacred monophony

Homer

Is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Honoré de Balzac

A French novelist and playwright best-known for his magnum opus novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Hugh Miller

A self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.

Isaac Asimov

An American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who is considered one of the most influential sci-

Ivan Turgenev

A Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

Jacob Grimm

A German philologist, jurist, and folklorist who was the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

James Anthony Froude

An English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

A British poet and playwright, known for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

Jane Marcet

British writer

Jean Racine

A French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throug

Jean-Paul Sartre

A French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter who is one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentiali

Ludwig Tieck

A German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement.

Johann Gottfried Herder

Volksgeist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IQ 200

German writer, scientist artist, & politician best known for his drama Faust and is considered to be the greatest German

Johannes Gutenberg

IQ 140

A German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe

John Harington (writer)

An English courtier, author and translator known as the inventor of the flush toilet

John Philoponus

Philosopher, Theologist, Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Writer

John Milton

An English poet and intellectual most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

John Burroughs