Famous authors are often remembered through anecdote more than through the record. These pages go back to letters, archives and reporting from the time, and set what is commonly believed against what the record shows.
Crime novelist and playwright · Murder on the Orient Express · The Mousetrap
Novelist and doctor · Sherlock Holmes · The Lost World
Novelist, scholar and Christian writer · The Chronicles of Narnia · Mere Christianity
Children's author and illustrator · The Cat in the Hat · Green Eggs and Ham
Poet, story writer and critic · The Raven · The Fall of the House of Usher
Novelist and short-story writer · The Old Man and the Sea · A Farewell to Arms
Science-fiction novelist · Dune
Novelist · To Kill a Mockingbird · Go Set a Watchman
Novelist · Pride and Prejudice · Emma
Novelist and essayist · Slaughterhouse-Five · Cat's Cradle
Memoirist and poet · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · Still I Rise
Science fiction novelist · Kindred · Parable of the Sower
Playwright · The Importance of Being Earnest · The Picture of Dorian Gray
Suspense novelist · The Talented Mr. Ripley · Strangers on a Train · Carol
Children's author and short-story writer · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · Matilda
Poet and novelist · Ariel · The Bell Jar
Playwright and poet · Hamlet · Romeo and Juliet · The Sonnets