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Authors (A)

This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "A". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-A, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.

Ab

• A'Becket, John Joseph (1849 – 1911)
• d'Abbadie, Arnaud-Michel (1815 – 1893)
• Abbe, Cleveland (1838 - 1916)
• Abbey, Henry (1842 – 1911)
• Abbot, Austin (1831 – 1896)
• Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan (1830 – 1890)
• Abbott, Charles Conrad (1843 – 1919)
• Abbott, Edwin Abbott (1838 – 1926)
• Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell (1872 – 1958)
• Abbott, Evelyn (1843 – 1901)
• Abbott, Jacob (1803 – 1879)
• Abbott, John (1821 – 1893)
• Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805 – 1877)
• Abbott, Lawrence Fraser (1859-1933)
• Abbott, Lyman (1835 - 1922)
• Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill (1829 – 1913)
• King Abdullah II (1962 – present)
• `Abdu'l-Bahá (Abbas Effendi) (1844 – 1921)
• Abdullah, Achmed (1881 – 1945)
• Abel, Annie Heloise (1873 – 1947)
• Abélard, Pierre (1079 – 1142)
• Abercrombie, John (1780 – 1844)
• Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881 – 1938)
• Abercrombie, Patrick (1656 – 1716)
• Abney, William de Wiveleslie (1843 – 1920)
• About, Edmond François Valentin (1828 – 1885)
• Abrahams, Israel (1858 – 1925)

Ac

• Achard, Amédée (1814 – 1875)
• Acharius, Erik (1757 – 1819)
• Acosta, José de (1539 – 1600)
• John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord (1834 - 1902)

Ad

• Adam, Graeme Mercer (1830 – 1912)
• Adams, Andy (1859 – 1935)
• Adams, Braman Blanchard (1851 - 1944)
• Adams, Brooks (1848 – 1927)
• Adams, Charles Follen (1842 – 1918)
• Adams, Charles Francis (1807 – 1886)
• Adams, Charles Kendall (1835 – 1902)
• Adams, Francis (1796 – 1861)
• Adams, F. Colburn (1800's)
• Adams, Francis William Lauderdale (1862 – 1893)
• Adams, Frank Dawson (1859 - 1942)
• Adams, Franklin Pierce (1881 – 1960)
• Adams, Frederick Upham (1859 – 1921)
• Adams, George Burton (1851 - 1925)
• Adams, Hannah (1755 – 1831)
• Adams, Henry Brooks (1838 – 1918)
• Adams, James "Grizzly" (1812 – 1860)
• Adams, James Truslow (1878 – 1949)
• Adams, John (1735 – 1826)
• Adams, John Quincy (1767 – 1848)
• Adams, Nehemiah (1806 – 1878)
• Adams, Samuel (1722 – 1803)
• Adams, Samuel Hopkins (1871 – 1958)
• Adams, Sarah Fuller Flower (1805 – 1848)
• Adams, Thomas Sewall (1873 – 1933)
• Adams, William Henry Davenport (1828 – 1891)
• Adams-Reilly, Anthony (1836 - 1885)
• Adamson, Robert (1852 – 1902)
• Adanson, Michel (1727 – 1806)
• Addams, Jane (1860 – 1935)
• Addison, Daniel Dulany (1863 - 1936)
• Addison, Joseph (1672 – 1719)
• Addison, William (1803 – 1881)
• Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848 – 1933)
• Ade, George (1866 – 1944)
• Adler, Felix (1851 – 1933)
• Adler, Hermann (1839 – 1911)
• Adler, Mortimer (1902 - 2001)
• Adolphus, John (1768 – 1845)
• Advis, Luis (1935 – 2004)

Ae / Æ

• Ælfric (c. 955 – c. 1020)
• Aeschylus (525 – 456 BC)
• Aesop (c. 620 – c. 560 BC)

Ag

• Agassiz, Louis (1807 – 1873)
• Agrippa, Henry Cornelius (1486 – 1535)
• Aguilar, Grace (1816 – 1847)
• Aguinaldo, Emilio (1869 – 1964)

Ah

• Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam (1835 - 1908)
• Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (1956 – present)
• Ahrons, Ernest Leopold (1866–1926)

Ai

• Aiken, Conrad (1889 – 1973)
• Aikin, Arthur (1773 – 1854)
• Aikin, John (1747 – 1822)
• Lucy Aikin (Mary Godolphin) (1781-1864)
• Aikman, William (1824 – 1909)
• Ainger, Alfred (1837 – 1904)
• Ainslie, Douglas (1865 – 1948)
• Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805 – 1882)
• Aird, Thomas (1802 – 1876)
• Airy, Osmund (1845 – 1928)
• Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)
• Airy, Wilfrid (1836 - 1925)
• Aitchison, George (1825 – 1910)
• Aitken, George Atherton (1860 – 1917)
• Aitken, John (1839 – 1919)
• Aiton, William (1731 – 1793)

Ak

• Akaka, Daniel (1924 – present)
• Akenside, Mark (1721 – 1770)
• Akers, Charles Edmond (1861 - 1915)
• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke (1892 – 1927)

Al

• Alain-Fournier (1886 – 1914)
• Alabaster, Chaloner Grenville (1880 - 1958)
• Albert the Great (c. 1193 – 1280)
• Alcock, Charles William (1842 - 1907)
• Alcock, Deborah (1825 – 1913)
• Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799 – 1888)
• Alcott, Louisa May (1832 – 1888)
• Alcott, William Andrus (1798 – 1859)
• Aldásy, Antal (1869 – 1932)
• Aldington, Richard (1892 – 1962)
• Aldrich, Anne Reeve (1866 – 1892)
• Aldrich, Mildred (1853 – 1928)
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836 – 1907)
• Aldunate Phillips, Arturo (1902 – 1985)
• Alecsandri, Vasile (1821 – 1890)
• Alegría, Fernando (1918 – 2005)
• Alekseyev, Valery (1929 – 1991)
• d'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717 – 1783)
• Alesius, Alexander (1500 – 1565)
• Alexander VI, Pope (1431 – 1503)
• Alexander, Cecil Frances (1818 – 1895)
• Alexander, Edward Porter (1835 – 1910)
• Alexander, Joel W. (1900's)
• Alexander, William Lindsay (1808 - 1884)
• Alexandre, Aaron (1756 – 1850)
• Alexis, Joseph
• Aley, Robert Judson (1863 – 1935)
• Alford, Henry (1810 – 1871)
• Alger, Horatio (1832 – 1899)
• Alger, John Goldworth (1836 – 1907)
• Alger, William Rounseville (1822 – 1905)
• Alhorn, Ida A. (1800's – 1900's)
• Ali, Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf (1872 – 1953)
• Ali, Maulana Muhammad (1874 – 1951)
• Ali, Syed Nawab (1800's – 1900's)
• Alighieri, Dante (1265 – 1321)
• Alison, Archibald (disambiguation)
• Alito, Samuel (1950 – present)
• Allan, William (1837 – 1899)
• Allard, Wayne (1943 – present)
• Allbutt, Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
• Allen, Alexander (1814 – 1842)
• Allen, Elizabeth Chase (1832 – 1911)
• Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1848 – 1899)
• Allen, Emory Adams (1853 – 1933)
• Allen, Ethan (1739 – 1789)
• Allen, Hervey (1889 – 1949)
• Allen, James (1864 – 1912)
• Allen, James Lane (1849 – 1925)
• Allen, John James (1797 – 1871)
• Allen, John William (1865 – 1944)
• Allen, Littlebury Woodson (1803 – 1871)
• Allen, Nathan (1813 – 1889)
• Allen, Percy Stafford (1869 - 1933)
• Allen, Thomas William (1862 - 1950)
• Allen, Winfred Emory (1873 – 1947)
• Allende, Salvador (1908 - 1973)
• Allibone, Samuel Austin (1816 – 1889)
• Allingham, William (1824 – 1889)
• Allinson, Alfred Richard (1854 – 1929)
• Allinson, Thomas Richard (1858-1918)
• Allison, Young E. (1853 – 1932)
• Allman, George James (1812 – 1898)
• Allman, George Johnston (1824-1904)
• Allston, Washington (1779 – 1843)
• Alphandéry, Paul Daniel (1875 – 1932)
• Altsheler, Joseph Alexander (1862 – 1919)

Am

• Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji (1891 – 1956)
• American Youth Congress (1935-1940)
• Ames, Azel (1845 – 1908)
• Ames, Herman V. (1865 – 1935)
• Ames, James Barr (1846 – 1910)
• Ames, Winthrop (1870 – 1937)
• Amhurst, Nicholas (1697 – 1742)
• Amiel, Henri Frédéric (1821 – 1881)
• Amitābha (immeasurably ancient)
• Amjentan, Frank (1957 – 1987)
• Ammianus Marcellinus (320s - 390s)
• Amos, Sheldon (1835 – 1886)
• Amphlett, John (1845 – 1918)
• Amsbury, Clifton Holman (1910 – 2007)

An

• Anburey, Thomas (1759-1840)
• Anchel, Robert (1880 - 1951)
• Andagoya, Pascual (1495 – 1548)
• Anderson, Adelaide Mary (1863 - 1936)
• Anderson, Alexander (1845 – 1909)
• Anderson, Doris (1921 – 2007)
• Anderson, Elizabeth (1800's – 1900's)
• Anderson, Frank Maloy (1871 – 1961)
• Andersen, Hans Christian (1805 – 1875)
• Anderson, James (1824 – 1893)
• Anderson, Joseph (1832 – 1916)
• Anderson, John George Clark (1870 – 1952)
• Anderson, Margaret Steele (1867 – 1921)
• Anderson, Nephi (1865 – 1923)
• Anderson, Peter John (1852 – 1926)
• Anderson, Robert Gordon (1881 – 1950)
• Anderson, Rocky (1951 – present)
• Anderson, Sherwood (1876 – 1941)
• Anderson, William (1842 - 1900)
• Anderson, William Patrick (1851 - 1927)
• Andersson, Dan (1888 – 1920)
• Andrade, David A. (1859 – 1928)
• André, John (1750-1780)
• Andrew, Elizabeth Wheeler (1845 – 1917)
• Andrewes, Lancelot (1555 – 1626)
• Andrews, Charles Freer (1871 – 1940)
• Andrews, Christopher Columbus (1829 – 1922)
• Andrews, Eliza Frances (1840 – 1931)
• Andrews, Ethan Allen (1787 – 1858)
• Andrews, Henry Charles (1770 – 1830)
• Andrews, Jane (1833 – 1887)
• Andrews, John Arthur (1865 – 1903)
• Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich (1871 – 1919)
• Angell, James Burrill (1829 – 1916)
• Angellotti, Marion Polk (1894 – 1979)
• Annand, William (1808 – 1887)
• d'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863 – 1938)
• Anselm, Saint (1033 – 1109)
• Anstey, Christopher (1724 – 1805)
• Anthony, Alfred Webster (1865 – 1939)
• Anthony, Anthony (? – 1562?)
• Anthony, Susan B. (1820 – 1906)
• Anthony, William Arnold (1835 – 1908)
• Antoninus Augustus, Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
• Antonio, Nicolás (1617 – 1684)
• Antrobus, Reginald Laurence (1853 - 1942)
• Anukulchandra, Thakur (1888 – 1969)
• Anwar, Chairil (1922 - 1949)

Ap

• Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880 – 1918)
• Apparao, Gurajada (1861–1915)
• Appleby, Thomas
• Appleton, Thomas Gold (1812 – 1884)
• Appleton, Victor (pen name for a syndicate formed in 1904)
• Apuleius, Lucius (c. 123 – 180)

Aq

• Aquinas, St. Thomas (1225 – 1274)
• Aquino, Corazon (1933 – 2009)

Ar

• Arafat, Yasser (1929 – 2004)
• Arber, Agnes (1879 – 1960)
• Arber, Edward (1836 - 1912)
• Arbuthnot, Sir Alexander John (1822 – 1907)
• Arbuthnot, John (1667 – 1735)
• Arbuthnot-Lane, William (1856 – 1943)
• Archard, Charles John (1860 – 1916)
• Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1865 – 1947)
• Archer, Thomas Andrew (1853 – 1905)
• Archer, William (1856 – 1924)
• Archer, W. G. (1907 – 1979)
• Arendt, Hannah (1906 – 1975)
• Arendzen, John Peter (1873 – 1949)
• Ariosto, Ludovico (1474 – 1533)
• Aristophanes (448 – 385 BC)
• Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
• Arkwright, Godfrey Edward Pellew (1864 – 1944)
• Armitage, Elkanah (1844 - 1929)
• Armour, Rebecca Agatha (1846 – 1891)
• Armsby, Henry Prentiss (1853 – 1921)
• Armstrong, Andrew Campbell (1860 – 1935)
• Armstrong, Edward (1846 - 1928)
• Armstrong, Henry Edward (1848 - 1937)
• Armstrong, Henry W. (1879 – 1951)
• Armstrong, John (1709 – 1779)
• Armstrong, Walter (1850 – 1918)
• Arndt, Walter Tallmadge (1873 - 1932)
• Arne, Thomas (1710 – 1778)
• Arnim, Elizabeth Gräfin von (1866 – 1941)
• Arnold, Benedict (1741 – 1801)
• Arnold, Charles Thomas (1823 – 1900)
• Arnold, Edwin (1832 – 1904)
• Arnold, Edwin Lester (1857 – 1935)
• Arnold, Frederick (1833 – 1891)
• Arnold, H.F. (1902 – 1963)
• Arnold, Isaac N. (1815 – 1884)
• Arnold, Matthew (1822 – 1888)
• Arnold, Thomas (1795 – 1842)
• Arnott, George Arnott Walker (1799 – 1868)
• Arps, George Frederick (1874 – 1939)
• Arraño Acevedo, José (1921 – 2009)
• Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal- (1947 – present)
• Arthur, Chester A. (1829 – 1886)
• Arthur, Timothy Shay (1809 – 1885)
• Artsybashev, Mikhail Petrovich (1878 – 1927)
• Innes, Arthur Douglas (1863 – 1938)
• Arvers, Félix (1806 – 1850)

As

• Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen (1812 – 1885)
• Ascham, Roger (1515 – 1568)
• Sholem Asch (1880 – 1957)
• Ascoli. Graziadio Isaia (1829 - 1907)
• Asgill, John (1659 – 1738)
• Ashby, Thomas Almond (1874 – 1931)
• Ashmole, Elias (1617 – 1692)
• Ashton, John (1834 – 1911)
• Ashworth, Philip A. (1853 – 1921)
• Ashworth, Thomas Ramsden (1864 – 1935)
• Asimov, Isaac (c. 1920 – 1992)
• Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852 – 1928)
• Aston, William George (1841 – 1911)

At

• Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal (1881 – 1938)
• St. Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296 – 373)
• Athenagoras I (1886 – 1972)
• Atherton, Gertrude (1857 – 1948)
• Atkinson, Charles Francis (1880 – 1960)
• Atkinson, Edmund (1831 – 1901)
• Atkinson, Edward (1827 – 1905)
• Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse (1863 – 1964)
• Atkinson, George H. (1819 – 1889)
• Atkinson, James Augustus (1832 – 1911)
• Atkinson, Joseph Beavington (1822 – 1886)
• Atkinson, William Parsons (1820 – 1890)
• Atlay, James Beresford (1860 – 1912)
• Atteridge, Andrew Hilliard (1844 – 1912)
• Atwater, Wilbur Olin (1844 – 1907)
• Atwood, Isaac Morgan (1838 - 1917)

Au

• Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée (1720 – 1778)
• Aubrey, John (1626 – 1697)
• Auden, W.H. (1907 – 1973)
• Audiffredi, Giovanni Battista (1734 – 1794)
• Audubon, John James (1785 – 1851)
• Aufderheide, May (1888 – 1972)
• St. Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
• Aurobindo, Sri (1871 – 1950)
• Austen, Ernest Edward (1867-1938)
• Austen, Jane (1775 – 1817)
• Austin, Alfred (1835 - 1913)
• Austin, Caroline (1800's)
• Austin, Jane Goodwin (1831 – 1894)
• Austin, Kate (1864 – 1902)
• Austin, Mary Hunter (1868 – 1934)
• Austin, Preston Bruce (1859 – 1927)

Av

• Aveling, Francis (1875 – 1941)
• Avenarius, Richard (1843 – 1896)
• Averchenko, Arkady (1881 – 1925)
• Avery, Harold (1869 – 1943)
• Averroës (1126 – 1198)

Aw

• Awdry, Wilbert (1911 - 1997)

Ax

• d'Axa, Zo (1864 – 1930)
• Axon, Ernest Charles Armytage (1868 – 1947)
• Axon, William Edward Armytage (1846 – 1913)

Ay

• Ayres, William Orville (1817 – 1887)
• Ayton, Sir Robert (1570 – 1638)
• Aytoun, William Edmonstoune (1813 – 1865)

Az

• Azevedo, Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de (1857 – 1913)
• Azuela, Mariano (1873 – 1952)