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Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein. David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as “the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.” Ellis Parker Butler American Author, Humorist and Speaker Born: December 5, 1869; Muscatine, Iowa. Died: September 13, 1937; Williamsville, Massachusetts. Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. Zona Gale, American novelist and playwright whose Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life. Emma Orczy was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Don Marquis, U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s. Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist. Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, “A Martian Odyssey”, was published to great acclaim in July 1934, but he died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later. Honoré de Balzac, French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine. He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King”s College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas. Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. Henry Lawson was born on June 17, 1867, in Grenfell, Australia. He wrote short stories and ballad-like poems, illuminating the lives of rural, working Australians. Lawson is often called “Australia”s greatest writer.” W.W. Jacobs, in full William Wymark Jacobs, English short-story writer best known for his classic horror story “The Monkey”s Paw.” Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist who wrote to the service of the church. Her books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement. Her abundant work is mostly out of print. …AND OTHERS!