Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century..

Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period.

Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright.

Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, **Ernest Hemingway** became one of America's most celebrated and influential writers, transforming both literature and the public's perception of what it meant to be an author.

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 – Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and writer. A founding figure of analytic philosophy and logicism, he opposed British idealism and was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians. He received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature and authored works including *The Problems of Philosophy*.