Famous novelists

writer of novels

3,911 people

All Alive Deceased
Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu

0973 – 1014 · Age 41
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

1832 – 1898 · Age 65
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940 · Age 81
Deceased
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894 · Age 44
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Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

1850 – 1893 · Age 42
Deceased
Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

1932 – 2016 · Age 84
Deceased
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

1713 – 1784 · Age 70
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1899 – 1977 · Age 78
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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

1902 – 1968 · Age 66
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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

1897 – 1962 · Age 64
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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

1819 – 1892 · Age 72
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Jack London

Jack London

1876 – 1916 · Age 40
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Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

1934 – 1996 · Age 62
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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

1660 – 1731 · Age 70
Deceased
Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

1928 – 2014 · Age 86
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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

1890 – 1960 · Age 70
Deceased
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963 · Age 69
Deceased
André Gide

André Gide

1869 – 1951 · Age 81
Deceased
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 – 1822 · Age 29
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Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

1897 – 1945 · Age 47
Deceased
Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

1866 – 1944 · Age 78
Deceased
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

1906 – 1989 · Age 83
Deceased
Walter Scott

Walter Scott

1771 – 1832 · Age 61
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q6625963