William Shakespeare

19th century
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius.

His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

Victor Hugo
(1802 1885)
Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist and playwright and a leading supporter of the Romantic Movement in France. His best novels include Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris (in English, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Les Travailleurs de la Mer. He is regarded as the leading figure in the history of French literature and politics.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809-1849)
Was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, who was also associated with the American Romantic Movement. He was better known for his tales of mystery and macabre. He was amongst the earliest American practitioners of short story and was generally considered as the inventor of the detectivefiction genre. Poe is also credited for his contribution in the emerging genre of science fiction. He became famous for his popular poems like, "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee".

Henry Van Dyke

(1852-1933)
A multitalented personality, Henry Van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman, known for his works which included short stories, poems, and essays. He was an influential writer and contributed in various other fields such as religion, literature, education, diplomacy, public service, and nature. His important works include "The Poetry of Tennyson" ,"The Other Wise Man" and "The First Christmas Tree.

Mario Puzo
(1920-1999)
Mario Puzo was an ItalianAmerican author and screenwriter who introduced and acquired fame for his Mario Puzo wrote his first mastery in the crime fiction. novel The Dark Arena during the World War and brought him the fame that was followed by his second and third novel The Fortunate Pilgrim and The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw respectively.

Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American author, essayist, lecturer and humorist who wrote a series of famous books including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Mark's first important work . Most of all, the author is known for his notable and insightful satires that gained him reverence from both critics as well as his contemporaries who call him the 'father of the English literature'.