B

Balzac, Honoré de
Father of The Human Comedy.

Brecht, Bertolt
Big shot among German playwrights.
 

C

Churchill, Winston
The one with the cigar.

Clemenceau, Georges
French premier who was also a playwright.
 

D

Diderot, Denis
Jean-Jacques's buddy. At least for a while.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Master of the novel.
 

F

Fontenelle, Bernard de
Montesquieu's pal.

Franklin, Benjamin
The one who invented everything and your hand basket.

H

Hemingway, Ernest
The one who married four times.

Horace
Roman poet.

Hugo, Victor Marie
French writer and politician.

Hume, David
The brain from Edinburgh.
 

I

Ibsen, Henrik
Norwegian shocker.
 

K

Kafka, Franz
Depressed and brilliant.
 

L

Lawrence of Arabia
Devoted biker, occasional camel rider.

Lunacharsky, Anatoly
Russian patron of the arts.
 

M

Mann, Thomas
Don't read his book if you already got your trip to Venice booked.

Marx, Karl Heinrich
Philosopher and sociologist.

Mill, John Stuart
The British philosopher.

Montesquieu
A thinker.
 

P

Poe, Edgar Allan
Mystery writer.

Proust, Marcel
French novelist.
 

R

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The one who wrote letters to the ones that were sitting across the table.

Russell, Bertrand
The thinker from Wales.
 

S

Sand, George
Alias Aurore Dupin

Sartre, Jean-Paul
The one who didn't want the Nobel Prize.

Shakespeare, William
Playwright.

Shaw, George Bernard
The Irish writer with the huge beard.
 

T

Tennyson, Alfred
A smart poet.
 

V

Virgil
The Roman poet.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
The one with the sharp remarks.
 

W

Wilmot, John
Depp, Johnny.