William Shakespeare
baptized 1564-1616
William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist and actor regarded as the greatest writer in English. He was also called England's national poet or the Bard of Avon, as he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
William Blake
1757–1827
William Blake was an English poet, printmaker and painter and one of the leading figures in the history of the Romantic Age.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, philosopher and theologian who with William Wordsworth was a founder of the Romantic movement in England.
The Brothers Grimm
1785-1863 (Jacob Ludwig Carl) and 1786-1859 (Wilhelm Carl)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were two German folklorists and linguists who wrote The Children's and Household Tales that were a collection of folk stories.
Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Mary Shelley was an English Romantic novelist most famous for her novel Frankenstein.
Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English mathematician and novelist mots famous for his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
Isaac Asimov
1920-1992
Isaac Asimov is one of the greatest authors of science fiction. He is famous for his Robot series in which robots respect the Three Laws of Robotics and do not harm humans.