Louisa May Alcott
Endo writer
Born: November 29, 1832
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: raised transcendentalist
Bio 
Book in database:
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
Horatio Alger
Exo writer
Born: January 13, 1832
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Unitarian
Bio
Books in database:
Ragged Dick (1868)
Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab (1871)
Mulk Raj Anand
Exo writer
Born: December 12, 1905
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: Asian
Religion: Hindu
Bio
Books in database:
Two Leaves and a Bud (1937)
Untouchable (1933)
Mary Ann Ashford
Endo writer
Born: April 26, 1787
Formal education: None
Profession: Servant
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Life of a Licensed Victualler’s Daughter, Written by Herself (1844)
Sanora Babb
Endo writer
Born: April 21, 1907
Formal education: High School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Whose Names Are Unknown (2004)
James Barke
Endo writer
Born: May 22, 1905
Formal education: High School
Profession: Manager
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Land of the Leal (1939)
Walter Besant
Exo writer
Born: August 14, 1836
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Books in database:
All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882)
Children of Gibeon (1886)
Clementina Black
Exo writer
Born: July 27, 1853
Formal education: None
Profession: Teacher
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
An Agitator (1894)
Madeleine Blair
Endo writer
Born: N/A
Formal education:
Profession: N/A
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Madeleine: An Autobiography (1919)
Simon Blumenfeld
Exo writer
Born: November 25, 1907
Formal education: N/A
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Judaism
Bio
Book in database:
The Iron Garden (1932)
Walter Brierley
Endo writer
Born: April 26, 2025
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Means-Test Man (1935)
Charlotte Bronte
Exo writer
Born: April 21, 1816
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Book in database:
Shirley (1849)
Robert Cantwell
Exo writer
Born: January 31, 1980
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Land of Plenty (1934)
Willa Cather
Endo writer
Born: December 7, 1873
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Episcopalian
Bio
Book in database:
My Antonia (1918)
Charles Chesnutt
Exo writer
Born: June 20, 1858
Formal education: College
Profession: Stenographer
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
The Colonel's Dream (1905)
Jack Conroy
Endo writer
Born: December 5, 1899
Formal education: None
Profession: Factory Worker
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Methodist
Bio
Books in database:
The Disinherited (1933)
A World to Win (1935)
Thomas Cooper
Endo writer
Born: March 20, 1805
Formal education: None
Profession: Lecturer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Baptist
Bio
Book in database:
The Life of Thomas Cooper (1872)
Stephen Crane
Exo writer
Born: November 1, 1871
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Methodist
Bio
Book in database:
Maggie, Girl of the Streets (1893)
William Henry Davies
Endo writer
Born: July 3, 1871
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)
Jean Devanny
Endo writer
Born: January 7, 1894
Formal education: Primary School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Sugar Heaven (1936)
Charles Dickens
Endo writer
Born: February 7, 1812
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Book in database:
Hard Times (1854)
Benjamin Disraeli
Exo writer
Born: February 20, 1874
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Politician
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Book in database:
Sybil, or a Tale of Two Nations (1845)
John Dos Passos
Exo writer
Born: January 14, 1896
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
U.S.A. (1938)
Frederick Douglass
Endo writer
Born: 1818-02-??
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Religion: Episcopalian
Bio
Book in database:
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Theodore Dreiser
Endo writer
Born: August 27, 1871
Formal education: College
Profession: journalist
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Sister Carrie (1900)
James T. Farrell
Endo writer
Born: February 27, 1904
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Young Lonnigan (1932)
William Faulkner
Exo writer
Born: September 25, 1897
Formal education: High School
Profession: Power Plant Supervisor
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Presbyterian
Bio
Book in database:
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Rudolph Fisher
Exo writer
Born: May 9, 1897
Formal education: College
Profession: Physician
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Walls of Jericho, The (1928)
Miles Franklin
Exo writer
Born: October 14, 1879
Formal education: High School
Profession:
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
My Brilliant Career (1901)
Hamlin Garland
Endo writer
Born: September 14, 1860
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Main-Travelled Roads (1891)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Exo writer
Born: September 29, 1810
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Unitarian
Bio
Books in database:
Mary Barton (1848)
North and South ()
George Gissing
Exo writer
Born: November 22, 1857
Formal education: College
Profession: Tutor
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Nether World, The (1889)
Susan Glaspell
Exo writer
Born: July 1, 1876
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: College
Bio
Book in database:
The Visioning (1911)
Michael Gold
Endo writer
Born: April 12, 1894
Formal education: None
Profession: Editor
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Judaism
Bio
Book in database:
Jews Without Money (1930)
Henry Green
Exo writer
Born: October 29, 1905
Formal education: College
Profession: Factory Director
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Living (1929)
Walter Greenwood
Endo writer
Born: December 17, 1903
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Clerk
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Love on the Dole (1933)
Albert Halper
Endo writer
Born: April 26, 2025
Formal education: High School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Books in database:
The Foundry (1934)
Union Square (1933)
Thomas Hardy
Endo writer
Born: June 2, 1840
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Books in database:
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Margaret Harkness
Exo writer
Born: February 28, 1854
Formal education: Finishing School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Book in database:
Out of Work (1888)
Frances Harper
Endo writer
Born: September 24, 1825
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Religion: Episcopalian
Bio
Book in database:
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (1892)
George Wylie Henderson
Endo writer
Born: 1904-16-14
Formal education:
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Ollie Miss (1935)
Josephine Herbst
Exo writer
Born: March 5, 1892
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Pity Is Not Enough (1933)
Harold Heslop
Endo writer
Born: October 1, 1898
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Gate of a Strange Field (1929)
Pauline Hopkins
Exo writer
Born: April 26, 2025
Formal education: High School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Religion: Baptist
Bio
Book in database:
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (1902)
William Dean Howells
Exo writer
Born: March 1, 1837
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)
Langston Hughes
Endo writer
Born: February 1, 1902
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Not Without Laughter (1930)
Zora Neale Hurston
Endo writer
Born: January 7, 1891
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Helen Hunt Jackson
Exo writer
Born: October 15, 1830
Formal education: Seminary
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Unitarian
Bio
Book in database:
Ramona (1884)
Harriet Jacobs
Endo writer
Born: April 26, 2025
Formal education: None
Profession:
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Exo writer
Born: June 20, 1910
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Now in November (1934)
Edith Summers Kelley
Endo writer
Born: April 28, 1884
Formal education: College
Profession: Farmer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Weeds (1923)
Charles Kingsley
Exo writer
Born: June 12, 1819
Formal education: College
Profession: Clergyman
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Anglican
Bio
Book in database:
Alton Locke (1849)
Tom Kromer
Endo writer
Born: October 20, 1906
Formal education: None
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Waiting for Nothing (1935)
Jack London
Endo writer
Born: January 12, 1876
Formal education: College
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
People of the Abyss (1903)
Grace Lumpkin
Endo writer
Born: March 3, 1891
Formal education:
Profession:
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
To Make my Bread (1932)
Theresa Malkiel
Endo writer
Born: May 1, 1874
Formal education:
Profession: Cloakmaker
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker (1910)
Albert Maltz
Exo writer
Born: October 28, 1908
Formal education: College
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Underground Stream (1940)
Alexander McArthur
Endo writer
Born: N/A
Formal education:
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
No Mean City (1935)
Claude McKay
Exo writer
Born: September 15, 1889
Formal education: College
Profession:
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Religion: Catholic
Bio
Book in database:
Home to Harlem (1928)
Arthur Morrison
Endo writer
Born: November 1, 1863
Formal education: N/A
Profession: Clerk
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
A Child of the Jago (1896)
Frank Norris
Exo writer
Born: March 5, 1870
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
McTeague (1899)
Tillie Olsen
Endo writer
Born: January 14, 1912
Formal education: High School
Profession: Various
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Yonnondio (1974)
George Orwell
Exo writer
Born: June 25, 1903
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Myra Page
Exo writer
Born: October 1, 1897
Formal education: College
Profession: Various
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Moscow Yankee (1935)
George Reynolds
Exo writer
Born: July 23, 1814
Formal education: College
Profession: Editor
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
The Mysteries of London (1845)
Elizabeth Robins
Endo writer
Born: August 6, 1862
Formal education:
Profession: Various
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Convert (1907)
Henry Roth
Endo writer
Born: February 8, 1906
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Judaism
Bio
Book in database:
Call it Sleep (1934)
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott
Exo writer
Born: August 31, 1865
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Story of Anna Beames (1907)
Nan Shepherd
Exo writer
Born: February 11, 1893
Formal education: College
Profession: College Professor
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Quarry Wood (1928)
Upton Sinclair
Exo writer
Born: September 20, 1878
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
The Jungle (1906)
Agnes Smedley
Endo writer
Born: February 23, 1892
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Daughter of Earth (1929)
Mary Smith
Endo writer
Born: April 26, 2025
Formal education: Primary School
Profession: Teacher
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Christian
Book in database:
Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist (1892)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Exo writer
Born: December 26, 1819
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Christian
Bio
Book in database:
of a Life (1859)
Christina Stead
Exo writer
Born: July 17, 1902
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934)
John Steinbeck
Exo writer
Born: February 27, 1902
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Episcopalian
Bio
Books in database:
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Jesse Stuart
Endo writer
Born: August 8, 1906
Formal education: College
Profession: High-School Teacher
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Methodist
Bio
Book in database:
Trees of Heaven (1940)
Mary Taylor
Exo writer
Born: February 26, 1817
Formal education:
Profession: N/A
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Miss Miles - A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago (1890)
Elias Tobenkian
Exo writer
Born: February 10, 1881
Formal education: College
Profession: Journalist
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Witte Arrives (1916)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Exo writer
Born: October 1, 1790
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Evangelical Protestant
Bio
Book in database:
Helen Fleetwood (1841)
Robert Tressell
Endo writer
Born: April 17, 1870
Formal education: Primary School
Profession: Building Painter
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914)
Jim Tully
Endo writer
Born: June 3, 1886
Formal education: None
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography (1924)
Mark Twain
Endo writer
Born: November 30, 1835
Formal education: Primary School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Presbyterian
Bio
Book in database:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Evelyn Underhill
Exo writer
Born: December 6, 1875
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Catholic
Bio
Book in database:
The Grey World (1904)
Mary Heaton Vorse
Exo writer
Born: October 11, 1874
Formal education: College
Profession: Journalist
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
Strike! (1930)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Exo writer
Born: August 31, 1844
Formal education: High School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Silent Partner (1871)
Silvia Nora Townsend Warner
Exo writer
Born: December 6, 1893
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The True Heart (1929)
Booker T. Washington
Endo writer
Born: April 18, 1856
Formal education: Seminary
Profession: Educator
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Up from Slavery (1900)
Thomas Martin Wheeler
Endo writer
Born: November 23, 1811
Formal education: Secondary School
Profession: Various
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: N/A
Bio
Book in database:
Sunshine and Shadow (1849)
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Exo writer
Born: May 10, 1894
Formal education:
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Bio
Book in database:
The Wall of Glass (1927)
Harriet E. Wilson
Endo writer
Born: March 15, 1825
Formal education:
Profession: Housekeeper
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Religion: Spiritualist
Bio
Book in database:
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of Free Black (1859)
Richard Wright
Endo writer
Born: September 4, 1908
Formal education: High School
Profession: Writer
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Bio
Book in database:
Native Son (1940)
Anzia Yezierska
Endo writer
Born: October 29, 1880
Formal education: College
Profession: Writer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Religion: Judaism
Bio
Book in database:
Arrogant Beggar (1927)
