Famous literary critics
cultural journalist who reviews new literary books
608 people
Aristotle
Alexander Pushkin
1799
– 1837
· Age 37
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe
1809
– 1849
· Age 40
Deceased
George Orwell
1903
– 1950
· Age 46
Deceased
James Joyce
1882
– 1941
· Age 58
Deceased
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892
– 1973
· Age 81
Deceased
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905
– 1980
· Age 74
Deceased
Jorge Luis Borges
1899
– 1986
· Age 86
Deceased
Marcel Proust
1871
– 1922
· Age 51
Deceased
George Bernard Shaw
1856
– 1950
· Age 94
Deceased
Simone de Beauvoir
1908
– 1986
· Age 78
Deceased
Charles Baudelaire
1821
– 1867
· Age 46
Deceased
Honoré de Balzac
1799
– 1850
· Age 51
Deceased
Virginia Woolf
1882
– 1941
· Age 59
Deceased
Søren Kierkegaard
1813
– 1855
· Age 42
Deceased
Heinrich Heine
1797
– 1856
· Age 58
Deceased
Émile Zola
1840
– 1902
· Age 62
Deceased
Octave Mirbeau
1848
– 1917
· Age 69
Deceased
Anatole France
1844
– 1924
· Age 80
Deceased
T. S. Eliot
1888
– 1965
· Age 76
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol
1809
– 1852
· Age 42
Deceased
Bertolt Brecht
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
Umberto Eco
1932
– 2016
· Age 84
Deceased
Denis Diderot
1713
– 1784
· Age 70
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov
1899
– 1977
· Age 78
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q4263842