Yukio Mishima
Japanese writer, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, & founder of the Tatenokai militia born in 1925.
Ouida
English novelist born in 1839. Best known for her novels Under Two Flags and A Dog of Flanders.
Jack London
American novelist, journalist, & social activist known for his novels Call of the Wild and White Fang.
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, & novelist born in 1865. Best known for his novel The Jungle Book.
Compton Mackenzie
English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories, & a memoir born in 1883.
Horatio Alger
American writer born in 1832 known for novels about impoverished boys rising to the middle class.
Patricia Highsmith
American writer best known for novels incl. Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, & The Price of Salt.
Marie d’Agoult
Franco-German romantic author & historian born in 1805. Also known by her pen name, Daniel Stern.
Isaac Asimov
American writer & professor of biochemistry best known for his sci-fi novels the Foundation series.
Frédéric Soulié
French popular writer born in 1800. Wrote over 40 “sensation novels” such as Mémoires du diable.