Famous novelists

writer of novels

1,885 people

All Alive Deceased
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910 · Age 82
Deceased
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832 · Age 82
Deceased
Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

1802 – 1885 · Age 83
Deceased
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

1835 – 1910 · Age 74
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821 – 1881 · Age 59
Deceased
Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616 · Age 68
Deceased
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870 · Age 58
Deceased
Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

1805 – 1875 · Age 70
Deceased
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941 · Age 80
Deceased
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837 · Age 37
Deceased
Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

1860 – 1904 · Age 44
Deceased
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

1883 – 1924 · Age 40
Deceased
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 – 1778 · Age 66
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849 · Age 40
Deceased
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900 · Age 46
Deceased
George Orwell

George Orwell

1903 – 1950 · Age 46
Deceased
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961 · Age 61
Deceased
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 – 2014 · Age 87
Deceased
Albert Camus

Albert Camus

1913 – 1960 · Age 46
Deceased
James Joyce

James Joyce

1882 – 1941 · Age 58
Deceased
J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973 · Age 81
Deceased
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1775 – 1817 · Age 41
Deceased
Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

1924 – 2024 · Age 100
Deceased
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

1905 – 1980 · Age 74
Deceased
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

1890 – 1976 · Age 85
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q6625963