Jules Girardin was a French writer, born January 4, 1832 in Loches (Indre-et-Loire) and died October 26, 1888 in Paris. He sometimes adopted the pseudonym J. Levoisin. He studied in Châteauroux. A student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he became an accredited grammar and literature professor. He ...

Jules Lermina (1839–1915) was a French writer. He began his career as a journalist in 1859. He was arrested for his socialist political opinions, and received Victor Hugo's support. He published a number of Edgar Allan Poe-inspired collections, Histoires Incroyables [Incredible Tales] (1885), Nouve...

co-author: The book of tales

Julie Gouraud (1810-1891), was a French author of children's books. She used the pseudonym Louise d'Aulnay.

Karl Friedrich May 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his travel novels set on one hand in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main protagonists and on the other hand in the Orient and Middle East with Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef O...

Laure (6 November 1784 – 7 June 1838) was born as Laure Adélaïde Constance Permon at Montpellier, was a French writer. In 1800, Laure married Jean-Andoche Junot (created Duke of Abrantès, whom she called Alexandre, in 1806). The Memoirs were published at Paris in 1831–1834 in 18 volumes. Many edi...

Laure Surville, was born Laure Balzac September 29, 1800 in Tours and died in Paris 9th on January 4, 1871. Favourite sister of the writer Honoré de Balzac, she published a biography of the latter after his death, Balzac, his life and his works according to his correspondence. She also wrote texts ...

Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age...

Léon Gozlan (11 September 1803 – 14 September 1866) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright. When he was still a boy, his father, who had made a large fortune as a ship-broker, met with a series of misfortunes, and Léon, before completing his education, had to go to sea in order to earn a ...

Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 – 25 December 1935) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright. Léon Hennique, born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, was the son of the naval infantry officer Agathon Hennique. He became a naturalist novelist and dramatist. He studied painting, but after the Franco-P...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. ...

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebin...

Louis Henri Boussenard (4 October 1847, Escrennes, Loiret – 11 September 1910 in Orléans) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed "the French Rider Haggard" during his lifetime, but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his popularity, 40 volumes...

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Br...

Lucie des Ages French novelist born in Loudun, France on 16-10-1845 and died in 1914.

Marcel Dhanys is the pseudonym of Maria Azinières Born in: Bort (Corrèze), on April 23, 1858 and died on January 12, 1938 in Rennes where she had retired to her widowed niece Mme Louise Azinières, since November 1921, Maria who remained single took care of the sons of her niece who died. She studied...

Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but wealthy nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honour to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles Ménage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin. Ménage...

Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father. She and her sister Madeleine initially lived with an aunt but ultimately spent nine years in the orphanage at Bourges. In 1877, Andoux was ...

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held views on estate management, politics...

Marie Bersier her maiden name Julie Amélie Hollard. She was born in Paris on 25-07-1831 her father was Henri Louis Gabriel Marc Hollard 1801-1866 who was Doctor of Medicine in Paris III. Professor of natural history and anatomy in Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Poitiers (Vienna). Professor of zoology at th...

Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French writer known for her literary fairy tales. When she termed her works contes de fées (fairy tales), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. ...

Marthe Bertin is a French writer born in 1855, in Amboise (Indre-et-Loire).

Mathilde Alanic is a French writer, born on January 10, 1864 in Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and died on October 20, 1948 (at the age of 84) in Angers. She is the daughter of an entrepreneur in the Rue Bressigny in Angers. She was a pupil of Bergson at the Ecole Supérieure des Lettres in Angers. She wrot...

Auguste-Maurice Barrès 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. In politics, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1...

Maurice Joly (1829–1878) was a French publicist and lawyer known for his political satire titled Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle, that attacked the regime of Napoleon III. Available English translations include: Dialogues in Hell between...

Michel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) (1 February 1860, Ajaccio - 8 August 1918, Eaubonne) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist.Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on 27 March 1892. A mon...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern nove...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors inclu...

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1 April (O.S. 20 March) 1809 – 4 March (O.S. 21 February) 1852 was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary re...

Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father Jacques Feuillet was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. Feuillet inherited some of his father's nervous excitability, though not to the same degr...

Paul Auguste Marie Adam, born December 7, 1862 in Paris where he died January 2, 1920, is a French writer and art critic. Coming from a family of industrialists and soldiers from Artois, son of a Postmaster General under the Second Empire, Paul Adam studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris before emba...

Antoine Joseph Paul Alexis (16 June 1847 – 28 July 1901) was a French novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He is best remembered today as the friend and biographer of Émile Zola. Alexis was born at Aix-en-Provence. He attended the Collège Bourbon where he first learned of Zola, who was himself a gra...

Paul-Auguste Arène (26 June 1843, Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 17 December 1896, Antibes) was a Provençal poet and French writer. The son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser, he studied in Marseille, then in Vannes. A short play which enjoyed some success at the Odéon, Pierrot ...