Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher of Jewish descent who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of imme...

Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought a...

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, A...

Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer.Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambéry bar. During his early life, he relocated between Savo...

Henry Céard, born in Bercy on November 18, 1851 and died in Paris on August 16, 1924, was a French novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic. A naturalist writer, he was a close friend of Émile Zola until the Dreyfus Affair. First employed at the War Ministry, he was successively attaché to the...

Henry Gréville (12 October 1842 in Paris – 26 May 1902), pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand, born Fleury, was a French writer.The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now b...

Hippolyte de Chavannes de la giraudière is a writer and journalist, whose singular adventures are reported in the Memoirs of Brissot. He is the author of children's books published in the collections "Bibliothèque des familles", "Bibliothèque des enfants", "Bibliothèques des écoles chrétiennes", etc...

Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered repre...

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the edi...

Born in Dijon, he was educated by the Jesuits. Cazotte then worked for the French Ministry of the Marine and at the age of 27 he obtained a public office at Martinique.  It was not till his return to Paris in 1760 with the rank of commissioner-general that he made his public debut as an author. His ...

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boy...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, ( 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Da...

James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, acco...

Jane Austen, born December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England, and died July 18, 1817 in Winchester, England, was an English novelist. known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her works crit...

Rose-Jeanne-Mathilde Leroy-Allais, is the older sister of Alphonse Allais. She accompanied her brother to Paris where he studied at the School of Pharmacy. She teaches as a free teacher. It was in Paris that she met and married Charles Leroy, a friend of her brother Alphonse, editor of the newspape...

Jaroslav Hašek, (30 April 1883 – 3 January 1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a sat...

Jean de La Fontaine, (8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in Fr...

Zoé Berthier, (1823-1909) wife of Ernest Hello, is a novelist under the pseudonym Jean Lander. She would not only be his wife but also his main collaborator. After their marriage, they lived in the manor of Keroman near Lorient (destroyed) where they had set up a study in a round tower attached to a...

Jean-François Bladé (1827–1900) was a French magistrate, historian and folklorist. He is mainly known for his publication of the oral tradition of Gascony. He is particularly known for publishing an account of the Mass of Saint-Sécaire, used as a source by James Frazer in The Golden Bough. His bes...

Jean-Henri Burgaud des Marets, was born November 2, 1806 in Jarnac (Charente) and died October 6, 1873 in Paris, is a linguist and author of Saintongeaise expression. He approached with talent and success various literary genres, but it is above all his studies on dialects and patois that made him f...

Jeanne Sophie Mallès de Beaulieu Jeanne Sophie Guillemaut de Beaulieu, wife Mallès, born January 19, 1760 in Lorient (Morbihan), died April 26, 1825 in Nontron (Dordogne), is a French writer. She made herself known through moral writings intended for the instruction of youth.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French author who wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon (1757–1760). She was born in 1711 in Rouen, the daughter of Marie-Barbe Plantart and Jean-Baptiste L...

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (24 January 1763 – 14 April 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband from p...

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel, a sequ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include: four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse dramas, memoirs, an autobiography, literary and aesthetic criticism, and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. In addition, numero...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing car...

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career i...

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature ...

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-E...

Joséphine-Blanche Bouchet, born February 4, 1833 in La Roche-sur-Yon and died September 18, 1892 in Villerville, is a French writer. Wife of the academic, illustrator and writer Louis-Casimir Colomb, she signed her books "Mme J. Colomb" or "Mme Louis-Casimir Colomb". Her books for young people are ...

Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, (17 December 1830 – 20 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy of a stroke brought on by syphilis. The Prix Goncourt is awarded annu...