Literature (Authors)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 to 1832; German; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther

Frances (Fanny) Burney

1752 to 1840; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Evelina (1778), Cecilia (1782), Camilla (1796), The Wanderer (1814)

Elizabeth Inchbald

1753 to 1821; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* A Simple Story (1791), Nature and Art (1796)

William Godwin

1756 to 1836; English; Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Caleb Williams

Mary Robinson

1757 to 1800; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

William Beckford

1760 to 1844; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Vathek

Walter Scott

1771 to 1832; Scottish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor

Charlotte Dacre

1772 to 1825; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Zofloya, The Libertine

Jane Austen

1775 to 1817; English; *context:* favorite poet was Pope--did not appreciate Byron; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion (p. 1818), Northanger Abbey (p. 1818), Lady Susan (p. 1871)

Matthew Lewis

1775 to 1818; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Monk

E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

1776 to 1822; German; Gothic, Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Charles Maturin

1782 to 1824; Irish; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

1783 to 1842; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma

Washington Irving

1783 to 1859; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* "Rip Van Winkle" (1819); "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)

Emily Brontë

1818 to 1848; English; *context:* pen name was Ellis Bell; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1860 to 1935; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* "The Yellow Wallpaper", Herland, Women and Economics

Ivan Turgenev

1818 to 1883; Russian; Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Fathers and Sons, A Sportsman's Sketches, A Month in the Country

George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

1819 to 1880; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1872), Daniel Deronda (1876)

Herman Melville

1819 to 1891; American; American Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Moby Dick; Billy Budd; Bartleby, the Scrivener; Benito Cereno

Gustave Flaubert

1821 to 1880; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

1860 to 1937; Scottish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Little White Bird, Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

1862 to 1910; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* "The Gift of the Magi"

M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

1862 to 1936; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Edith Wharton

1862 to 1937; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* first woman to receive Pulitzer Prize; *works:* The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

1863 to 1943; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Monkey's Paw

Arthur Machen

1863 to 1947; Welsh; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Great God Pan

Rudyard Kipling

1865 to 1936; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, Captains Courageous, If—, Gunga Din, The White Man's Burden, The Man Who Would Be King

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 to 1881; Russian; Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, The Idiot, Demons

Wilkie Collins

1824 to 1889; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), The Moonstone (1868)

Jules Verne

1828 to 1905; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

Leo Tolstoy

1828 to 1910; Russian; Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych

H. G. Wells

1866 to 1946; English; science fiction/social realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds

Henry MacKenzie

1745 to 1831; Scottish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Man of Feeling

Charlotte Turner Smith

1749 to 1806; English; Romantic, Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Francois Rabelais

*(1483 - 1494) to 1553; French; Renaissance; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Gargantua and Pantagruel

Giovanni Boccaccio

*1313 to 1375; Italian; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Decameron, On Famous Women

Ann Radcliffe

*1764 to 1823; English; Gothic, Romanticism; context:* ; *style:* Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes; Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural; pioneered the technique of "the explained supernatural" as the final revelation of inexplicable phenomena; *legacy:* pioneer of the Gothic novel; helped the Gothic novel achieve respectability in the 1790s; *works:* The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1797), Gaston de Blondeville (1826)

Maria Edgeworth

*1768 to 1849; Anglo-Irish; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Mary Shelley

*1797 to 1851; English; Romanticism, Gothic; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Frankenstein, The Last Man

Alexander Pushkin

*1799 to 1837; Russian; Romanticism; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* founder of modern Russian literature; *works:* The Queen of Spades

Honoré de Balzac

*1799 to 1850; French; context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* La Comédie Humaine, Père Goriot

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 to 1616; Spanish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* composed first modern novel; *works:* Don Quixote

Jean de La Fontaine

1621 to 1695; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

John Bunyan

1628 to 1688; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Pilgrim's Progress

Aphra Behn

1640 to 1689; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Oroonoko, The Rover

Daniel Defoe

1660 to 1731; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* one of earliest proponents of the novel form; *works:* Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders

Jonathan Swift

1667 to 1745; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal (1729)

Samuel Richardson

1689 to 1761; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740); Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748); The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)

1694 to 1778; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Candide

Henry Fielding

1707 to 1754; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Shamela (1741); The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams (1742); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

Samuel Johnson

1709 to 1784; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)

John Cleland

1709 to 1789; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Laurence Sterne

1713 to 1768; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; A Political Romance

Horace Walpole

1717 to 1797; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* composed the first Gothic Novel; *works:* The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Oliver Goldsmith

1728 to 1774; Irish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), "The Deserted Village" (1770), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), She Stoops to Conquer (1771)

Clara Reeve

1729 to 1807; English; Gothic; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* nexus between Walpole and Radcliffe; *works:* The Old English Baron

James Fenimore Cooper

1789 to 1851; American; Romantic Period; *context:* 11th of 12 children, most of whom died in infancy; descended from Quakers; moved from NJ to Cooperstown, NY--community founded by Congressman father; lived on land recently ceded by Iroquois; enrolled at Yale at 13, but blew up another student's door, after having already locked a donkey in a recitation room; expelled in third year; joined merchant ship Sterling; traveled to England and Spain; joined Navy--father got him a job; served well; worked near Lake Ontario building ships--learned ship duties and frontier life; often traveled in New York and fished; met best friend Shubrick; inherited fortune from father at 20; married at 21; had 7 children, 5 survived; wife Susan wagered he could write a book better than the one she was reading in 1820--wrote Precaution in style of Austen; then wrote The Spy, The Pioneers, and The Last of the Mohicans, which became bestsellers; lost child in 1823; welcomed Lafayette in 1824; moved to Paris in 1826 for better book sales and education for children; began contributed to political journal in 1832; began writing more political novels; returned to US in 1833 and wrote trenchant social critique; wrote a large history of the US Navy--researched for 14 years; *style:* historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days; *legacy:* The Last of the Mohicans never been out of print; raised important questions about nationhood; beginning of American literary tradition; *works:* The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers

Thomas Carlyle

1795 to 1881; Scottish; Victorian Period; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Sartor Resartus; The French Revolution: A History; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

Alexandre Dumas

1802 to 1870; French; Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)

Victor Hugo

1802 to 1885; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Les Misèrables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804 to 1864; American; American Romanticism, Dark Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Twice-Told Tales, Young Goodman Brown, The Artist of the Beautiful, Rapaccini's Daughter, The Minister's Black Veil, The Birthmark

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 to 1849; American; Dark Romanticism; *context:* strongly disliked transcendentalists--referred to followers as "Frog-Pondians", after the pond on Boston Common,[88][89] and ridiculed their writings as "metaphor—run mad,"[90] lapsing into "obscurity for obscurity's sake" or "mysticism for mysticism's sake"; *style:* Gothic--genre followed to appease the public taste; most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, reanimation of dead, and mourning; many works considered part of dark romanticism genre--literary reaction to transcendentalism; obsession with doubles--William Wilson; also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes; used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity; reinvented science fiction, responding in his writing to emerging technologies such as hot air balloons in "The Balloon-Hoax"; wrote much of his work using themes aimed specifically at mass-market tastes--fiction often included elements of popular pseudosciences, such as phrenology and physiognomy Literary theory Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle".[98] He disliked didacticism[99] and allegory,[100] though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art.[101] He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.[98] To that end, he believed that the writer should carefully calculate every sentiment and idea.[102] increasingly aware that literature is a commodity; also believes literature is a spiritual vocation concern regarding establishing indigenous literature *legacy:* best known for poetry and short stories, particularly tales of mystery and the macabre; widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in US and American literature as a whole; one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story; generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre; credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction; first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone; admired by decadent French poets; *works:* The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Purloined Letter, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Premature Burial

Nikolai Gogol

1809 to 1852; Russian; *context:* ; *style:* considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism; later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque; early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture, and folklore; later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls); *legacy:* ; *works:* novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", are also among his best-known works.

William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 to 1863; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Vanity Fair

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1811 to 1896; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Uncle Tom's Cabin

Charles Dickens

1812 to 1870; English; Victorian Age; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations

Sheridan Le Fanu

1814 to 1873; Irish; Gothic, Dark Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* In a Glass Darkly, Uncle Silas, Carmilla, The House by the Churchyard

Anthony Trollope

1815 to 1882; English; Victorian Age; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Charlotte Brontë

1816 to 1855; English; *context:* pen name was Currer Bell; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Jane Eyre

Louisa May Alcott

1832 to 1888; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys

Lewis Carroll

1832 to 1898; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Phantasmagoria, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, The Hunting of the Snark

Samuel Butler

1835 to 1902; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:*

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

1835 to 1910; American; Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anton Chekhov

1860 to 1904; Russian; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Lady with the Little Dog, About Love, The Man in the Case, Gooseberries, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya

Thomas Hardy

1840 to 1928; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), Jude the Obscure (1895)

Ambrose Bierce

1842 to 1914; American; Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, The Death of Halpin Frayser, The Moonlit Road, The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Henry James

1843 to 1916; American; Realism/Modernism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, The American

Bram Stoker

1847 to 1912; Irish; Gothic, Dark Romanticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Dracula

Guy de Maupassant

1850 to 1893; French; Naturalism, Realism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Necklace

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 to 1894; English; Victorian Age; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Kate Chopin

1850 to 1904; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Désirée's Baby (1893), The Story of an Hour (1894), The Storm (1898), The Awakening (1899)

Oscar Wilde

1854 to 1900; Irish; Aestheticism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest

Joseph Conrad

1857 to 1924; Polish-British; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The N***** of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 to 1930; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World

Algernon Blackwood

1869 to 1951; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Centaur, "The Willows," "The Wendigo"

Stephen Crane

1871 to 1900; American; Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism; *context:* fourteenth and last child born to minister in the Methodist Episcopal church; ancestors moved to US in first Puritan wave, and later ones participated in Revolutionary War; was primarily raised by sister Agnes, 15 years his senior; family moved to New York in 1876; often sickly and afflicted by constant colds as a child; an intelligent child who taught himself to read before the age of four; didn't enroll in school until 1880, but completed two grades in six weeks; father died in 1880; several deaths among siblings as well; enrolled at Pennington Seminary in 1886--coed ministry-focused, boarding school; left after two years for Claverack College, a quasi-military school; poor grades in math and science, but excellent at literature and history; moody and rebellious; excelled in baseball; interested in military training program; transferred to Lafayette College to pursue mining degree; skipped classes; joined literary societies; briefly attended Syracuse, only attending English class, before dropping out to focus on writing; camped often--short stories; befriended Hamlin Garland--advocate for writer; later did journalism on slums; had romance with Lily Munroe, married woman; she refused to elope with him; fired for controversial article; struggled to make a living as a free-lance writer; independently published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets--sold poorly; irritated with dry style of war stories; started The Red Badge of Courage; wrote from around midnight until four or five in the morning; started writing five poems a day; Garland impressed; published book of poetry--poor reception; Red Badge immensely popular; brought him fame at 24; scandal with case involving prostitute--reputation ruined; met Cora Taylor before leaving on boat trip; boat sank--Open Boat; reputation enhanced; left for New York; wrote Open Boat; hired at Hearst's newspaper; traveled to Athens with Taylor to document Greco-Turkish conflict; war ended--moved to England, where he was more admired, with Taylor; kept relationship secret; befriended Conrad; had money struggles, so wrote prolifically; reported on Spanish-American War; still struggled with finances; died of hemorrhages; *style:* similarities between the stylistic techniques in his writing and Impressionist painting—use of color and chiaroscuro; vehemently rejected sentimentality--"a story should be logical in its action and faithful to character"; work driven by immediacy and is at once concentrated, vivid, and intense; names of his protagonists are not commonly used and sometimes not named at all; frequent incorporation of everyday speech into dialogue; work thematically driven by Naturalistic and Realistic concerns, including ideals versus realities, spiritual crises, and fear; fascinated by war and death, as well as fire, disfigurement, fear, and courage; depicts extreme isolation from society, religion, and community; work run through with antitheism--nihilism/existentialism; poetry was free verse and unconventional; *legacy:* published five novels, two volumes of poetry, three short story collections, two books of war stories, and numerous works of short fiction and reporting; mainly remembered for The Red Badge of Courage; work was forgotten until the 1920s; reputation enhanced by writer friends; poetry largely ignored; fiction is thought to have been an important inspiration for Hemingway and his fellow Modernists; *works:* Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), The Red Badge of Courage (1895), The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898), The Monster and Other Stories (1899)

Marcel Proust

1871 to 1922; French; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* In Search of Lost Time

Theodore Dreiser

1871 to 1945; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy

Willa Cather

1873 to 1947; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922)

Thomas Mann

1875 to 1955; German; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus

Jack London

1876 to 1916; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire

Sherwood Anderson

1876 to 1941; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Winesburg, Ohio

Hermann Hesse

1877 to 1962; German-Swiss; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game

Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany)

1878 to 1957; Anglo-Irish; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The King of Elfland's Daughter

Upton Sinclair

1878 to 1968; American; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Jungle

E. M. Forster

1879 to 1970; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* A Passage to India, A Room with a View, Howards End

James Joyce

1882 to 1941; Irish; Modernism; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners

A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

1882 to 1956; English; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* Winnie-the-Poo

Apuleius

c. 124 to c. 170 CE; Roman-Algerian; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Golden Ass

Petronius

c. 27 to c. 66 CE; Roman; *context:* ; *style:* ; *legacy:* ; *works:* The Satyricon