Authors
327 writers across three thousand years, in the order they lived.
Ancient Near East3000 BCE to 600 BCE
Archaic Greece800 BCE to 480 BCE
Classical Greece480 BCE to 323 BCE
Hellenistic and Roman Republic323 BCE to 27 BCE
Roman Empire27 BCE to 476
- Virgil70 BCE–19 BCE3 works
- Horace65 BCE–8 BCE1 work
- Livy59 BCE–171 work
- Ovid43 BCE–171 work
- Seneca4 BCE–651 work
- Lucianc. 160-180 CE1 work
- Nicomachus of Gerasac. 100 CE1 work
- Paul the Apostlec. 33-64 CE2 works
- Ptolemy2nd century CE1 work
- Sextus Empiricuslate 2nd century CE1 work
- Plutarch46–1192 works
- Epictetus50–1353 works
- Tacitus56–1203 works
- Pliny the Younger61–1131 work
- Marcus Aurelius121–1801 work
- Galen129–2161 work
- Plotinus204–2701 work
- Porphyry234–3051 work
Late Antiquity300 to 700
Medieval700 to 1400
- Julian of Norwichc. 1373-14161 work
- Marie de Francec. 1160-12151 work
- Shantideva8th century CE1 work
- Al-Kindi801–8731 work
- Al-Razi854–9251 work
- Al-Farabi870–9503 works
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina)980–10371 work
- Anselm1033–11091 work
- Al-Ghazali1058–11111 work
- Ibn Tufayl1105–11851 work
- Maimonides1138–12041 work
- Ibn Arabi1165–12401 work
- Bonaventure1221–12741 work
- Thomas Aquinas1225–12746 works
- Dante Alighieri1265–13216 works
- Petrarch1304–13741 work
- Ibn Khaldun1332–14061 work
- Jean Froissart1337–14051 work
- Geoffrey Chaucer1343–14002 works
Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Council of Castile16th century1 work
- Philip Nichols1570s-1590s1 work
- Francis Pretty1577-15801 work
- Swabian Peasants15251 work
- Christine de Pizan1364–14301 work
- Thomas à Kempis1380–14711 work
- Thomas Malory1415–14711 work
- Leonardo da Vinci1452–15191 work
- Desiderius Erasmus1466–15361 work
- Niccolò Machiavelli1469–15272 works
- Nicolaus Copernicus1473–15431 work
- Thomas More1478–15351 work
- Martin Luther1483–15469 works
- Francisco de Vitoria1483–15461 work
- François Rabelais1494–15531 work
- William Roper1496–15781 work
- Benvenuto Cellini1500–15711 work
- John Calvin1509–15641 work
- Ambroise Paré1510–15901 work
- Teresa of Ávila1515–15821 work
- Michel de Montaigne1533–15921 work
- William Harrison1535–15931 work
- William Gilbert1544–16031 work
- Miguel de Cervantes1547–16161 work
- Walter Raleigh1552–16181 work
- Edmund Spenser1552–15993 works
- Philip Sidney1554–15861 work
- Christopher Marlowe1564–15932 works
- William Shakespeare1564–161625 works
- Thomas Dekker1572–16321 work
Seventeenth Century1600 to 1700
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher1606-16131 work
- Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayalac. 1600-16151 work
- John Websterc. 1602-16341 work
- Francis Bacon1561–16264 works
- Galileo Galilei1564–16422 works
- Johannes Kepler1571–16302 works
- John Donne1572–16311 work
- Ben Jonson1572–16371 work
- William Harvey1578–16573 works
- Philip Massinger1583–16401 work
- Thomas Hobbes1588–16791 work
- Izaak Walton1593–16831 work
- René Descartes1596–16506 works
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca1600–16811 work
- Thomas Browne1605–16821 work
- Pierre Corneille1606–16842 works
- John Milton1608–16746 works
- Elisabeth of Bohemia1618–16801 work
- Molière1622–16738 works
- Blaise Pascal1623–16623 works
- John Bunyan1628–16881 work
- Christiaan Huygens1629–16951 work
- Anne Conway1631–16791 work
- John Dryden1631–17001 work
- John Locke1632–17044 works
- Baruch Spinoza1632–16772 works
- Jean Racine1639–16993 works
- Isaac Newton1643–17272 works
- William Penn1644–17181 work
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646–17165 works
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz1648–16951 work
- William Congreve1670–17291 work
Enlightenment1700 to 1800
- Continental Congress1774-17891 work
- French National Assembly1789-17911 work
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay1787-17881 work
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Thomas Paine17911 work
- Daniel Defoe1660–17311 work
- Jonathan Swift1667–17454 works
- Johann Sebastian Bach1685–17501 work
- George Berkeley1685–17532 works
- Alexander Pope1688–17443 works
- Montesquieu1689–17552 works
- Voltaire1694–17783 works
- Benjamin Franklin1706–17901 work
- Henry Fielding1707–17542 works
- Samuel Johnson1709–17845 works
- David Hume1711–17764 works
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–17785 works
- Denis Diderot1713–17841 work
- Laurence Sterne1713–17682 works
- Thomas Gray1716–17711 work
- John Woolman1720–17721 work
- Samson Occom1723–17921 work
- Adam Smith1723–17902 works
- Immanuel Kant1724–18046 works
- Oliver Goldsmith1728–17742 works
- Edmund Burke1729–17973 works
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1729–17812 works
- George Washington1732–17991 work
- Edward Gibbon1737–17941 work
- James Boswell1740–17952 works
- Nicolas de Condorcet1743–17941 work
- Thomas Jefferson1743–18261 work
- Antoine Lavoisier1743–17941 work
- Jeremy Bentham1748–18321 work
- Olympe de Gouges1748–17931 work
- Edward Jenner1749–18231 work
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751–18161 work
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–17911 work
- Robert Burns1759–17961 work
- Friedrich Schiller1759–18052 works
- Mary Wollstonecraft1759–17972 works
Nineteenth Century1800 to 1900
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm1812-18591 work
- United States Supreme Court1789 to the present1 work
- Various authorsvarious periods3 works
- Toussaint Louverture1743–18031 work
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–18324 works
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines1758–18062 works
- Joseph Fourier1768–18301 work
- G. W. F. Hegel1770–18314 works
- William Wordsworth1770–18502 works
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–18343 works
- Jane Austen1775–18172 works
- Charles Lamb1775–18341 work
- William Hazlitt1778–18301 work
- Carl von Clausewitz1780–18311 work
- Stendhal1783–18423 works
- Alessandro Manzoni1785–18731 work
- Lord Byron1788–18243 works
- Arthur Schopenhauer1788–18601 work
- Michael Faraday1791–18673 works
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–18223 works
- Thomas Carlyle1795–18813 works
- John Keats1795–18211 work
- David Walker1796–18301 work
- Charles Lyell1797–18752 works
- Mary Shelley1797–18511 work
- Sojourner Truth1797–18831 work
- Auguste Comte1798–18571 work
- Honoré de Balzac1799–18503 works
- Thomas Babington Macaulay1800–18591 work
- John Henry Newman1801–18902 works
- Victor Hugo1802–18851 work
- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–18824 works
- Ludwig Feuerbach1804–18721 work
- Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–18641 work
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve1804–18691 work
- Hans Christian Andersen1805–18751 work
- Giuseppe Mazzini1805–18721 work
- Alexis de Tocqueville1805–18593 works
- John Stuart Mill1806–18736 works
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–18821 work
- Charles Darwin1809–18823 works
- Oliver Wendell Holmes1809–18941 work
- Abraham Lincoln1809–18654 works
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–18492 works
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–18921 work
- Pope Leo XIII1810–19032 works
- Robert Browning1812–18892 works
- Charles Dickens1812–18704 works
- Claude Bernard1813–18781 work
- Harriet Jacobs1813–18971 work
- Søren Kierkegaard1813–18552 works
- Richard Wagner1813–18831 work
- Richard Henry Dana Jr.1815–18821 work
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–19021 work
- Henry David Thoreau1817–18623 works
- Frederick Douglass1818–18953 works
- Karl Marx1818–18834 works
- George Eliot1819–18802 works
- Herman Melville1819–18912 works
- John Ruskin1819–19001 work
- Walt Whitman1819–18921 work
- Fyodor Dostoevsky1821–18813 works
- Gustave Flaubert1821–18802 works
- Hermann von Helmholtz1821–18941 work
- Matthew Arnold1822–18882 works
- Louis Pasteur1822–18951 work
- Ernest Renan1823–18921 work
- Lord Kelvin1824–19071 work
- Thomas Henry Huxley1825–18951 work
- Joseph Lister1827–19121 work
- Henrik Ibsen1828–19064 works
- Leo Tolstoy1828–19105 works
- Archibald Geikie1835–19241 work
- Simon Newcomb1835–19091 work
- Mark Twain1835–19102 works
- William James1842–19104 works
- Henry James1843–19163 works
- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–19005 works
- James George Frazer1854–19411 work
- Booker T. Washington1856–19151 work
- Joseph Conrad1857–19241 work
- Thorstein Veblen1857–19291 work
- Anton Chekhov1860–19041 work
Twentieth Century1900 to 2000
- John Asafu-Adjaye et al.20151 work
- Combahee River Collective1974-19801 work
- Kyle Powys Whyte21st century1 work
- Charles W. Eliot1834–19261 work
- Pope Pius X1835–19141 work
- Henri Poincaré1854–19122 works
- Sigmund Freud1856–193916 works
- George Bernard Shaw1856–19504 works
- Max Planck1858–19473 works
- Henri Bergson1859–19415 works
- John Dewey1859–19525 works
- Alfred North Whitehead1861–19474 works
- George Santayana1863–19523 works
- Max Weber1864–19202 works
- Luigi Pirandello1867–19361 work
- W. E. B. Du Bois1868–19632 works
- Mohandas K. Gandhi1869–19481 work
- William Allan Neilson1869–19461 work
- Vladimir Lenin1870–19241 work
- Marcel Proust1871–19222 works
- Johan Huizinga1872–19451 work
- Bertrand Russell1872–19704 works
- Willa Cather1873–19472 works
- Carl Jung1875–19611 work
- Thomas Mann1875–19553 works
- G. H. Hardy1877–19471 work
- Albert Einstein1879–19554 works
- R. H. Tawney1880–19621 work
- Arthur Eddington1882–19441 work
- James Joyce1882–19413 works
- Jacques Maritain1882–19734 works
- Virginia Woolf1882–19412 works
- Franz Kafka1883–19243 works
- John Maynard Keynes1883–19461 work
- Niels Bohr1885–19621 work
- D. H. Lawrence1885–19301 work
- Karl Barth1886–19681 work
- Erwin Schrödinger1887–19611 work
- T. S. Eliot1888–19651 work
- Eugene O'Neill1888–19531 work
- Martin Heidegger1889–19762 works
- Arnold J. Toynbee1889–19752 works
- Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–19512 works
- B. R. Ambedkar1891–19561 work
- F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–19401 work
- Dorothy Day1897–19801 work
- William Faulkner1897–19622 works
- Bertolt Brecht1898–19561 work
- Ernest Hemingway1899–19611 work
- Theodosius Dobzhansky1900–19751 work
- Werner Heisenberg1901–19761 work
- Mortimer J. Adler1902–20011 work
- George Orwell1903–19501 work
- Jean-Paul Sartre1905–19803 works
- C. H. Waddington1905–19751 work
- Hannah Arendt1906–19753 works
- Samuel Beckett1906–19891 work
- Simone de Beauvoir1908–19861 work
- Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–20091 work
- Ralph Ellison1913–19941 work
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–20082 works
- Primo Levi1919–19871 work
- Pope John Paul II1920–20051 work
- Frantz Fanon1925–19611 work
- Flannery O'Connor1925–19641 work
- Michel Foucault1926–19841 work
- Miguel León-Portilla (ed.)1926–20191 work
- Martin Luther King Jr.1929–19681 work
- Lorraine Hansberry1930–19651 work
- Derek Walcott1930–20171 work
- Toni Morrison1931–20192 works
- Barbara J. Fields19471 work
- Robert Pollin19501 work
- Kohei Saito19871 work