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Authors
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a writer and physician best known for creating the most famous detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. He is also well regarded for his science-fiction novels, such as The Lost World (1912).
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is best known for The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934) and his stories of the Jazz Age in the 1920s.
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was an American playwright and author. Over the course of her career she wrote more nine novels, fifteen plays and more than 50 short stories. She won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Alison’s House.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is best remembered for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) and the novel Herland (1915). A vocal feminist, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer best known for his novels The Old Man and the Sea (1952)—which won the Pulitzer Prize—and Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (1926). In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
O. Henry (1868-1910) was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, who was born in North Carolina. He wrote many comedic and satirical stories, of which The Gift of the Magi is the most famous.
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) was an American writer who rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. She wrote the acclaimed novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), the latter of which was adapted into a film in 2021.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an author best known for her novel The House of Mirth, and the novellas Summer and Ethan Frome. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1942) was born in London and is best known for her modernist novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928).