Famous writers

person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works

9,940 people

All Alive Deceased
Thales

Thales

Deceased
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

1918 – 2007 · Age 89
Deceased
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

1822 – 1885 · Age 63
Deceased
Plutarch

Plutarch

0040 – 0120
Deceased
Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

1883 – 1931 · Age 48
Deceased
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

1588 – 1679 · Age 91
Deceased
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

1874 – 1964 · Age 90
Deceased
Woody Allen

Woody Allen

1935 · Age 90
Alive
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

1920 – 1993 · Age 73
Deceased
Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

1821 – 1880 · Age 58
Deceased
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008 · Age 89
Deceased
Rumi

Rumi

1207 – 1273 · Age 66
Deceased
David Hume

David Hume

1711 – 1776 · Age 65
Deceased
Seneca

Seneca

Deceased
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1888 – 1965 · Age 76
Deceased
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

1918 – 1988 · Age 69
Deceased
Montesquieu

Montesquieu

1689 – 1755 · Age 66
Deceased
James Monroe

James Monroe

1758 – 1831 · Age 73
Deceased
Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu

0973 – 1014 · Age 41
Deceased
John Milton

John Milton

1608 – 1674 · Age 65
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

1928 – 1999 · Age 70
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940 · Age 81
Deceased
Euripides

Euripides

Deceased
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

1832 – 1898 · Age 65
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180