Famous prose writers

person who writes in prose

402 people

All Alive Deceased
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910 · Age 82
Deceased
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

1835 – 1910 · Age 74
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821 – 1881 · Age 59
Deceased
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870 · Age 58
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
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900 · Age 46
Deceased
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961 · Age 61
Deceased
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 – 2014 · Age 87
Deceased
James Joyce

James Joyce

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973 · Age 81
Deceased
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

1890 – 1976 · Age 85
Deceased
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

1871 – 1922 · Age 51
Deceased
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950 · Age 94
Deceased
John Lennon

John Lennon

1940 – 1980 · Age 40
Deceased
Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850 · Age 51
Deceased
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

1920 – 1992 · Age 72
Deceased
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

1667 – 1745 · Age 77
Deceased
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

1848 – 1917 · Age 69
Deceased
Anatole France

Anatole France

1844 – 1924 · Age 80
Deceased
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008 · Age 89
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940 · Age 81
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q12144794