Authors: From Antiquity to Today
From the mythical bard of Ancient Greece, Homer who wrote in 800 BC, to the publications of the new millennium, this section provides the major titles and descriptions for each selected author.
Antiquity-1500
Features Homer, Virgil & Cicero
Beginning with Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, this time period involves works that came to formulate the literature we recognize and love today.
Bust of Homer, active 800 BC
1500-1900
From John Calvin to Bertolt Brecht
Beginning with the famous reformer John Calvin to the best authors of the 19th century, including Issac Newton, William Shakespeare and John Maynard Keynes.
Anonymous portrait of John Calvin, c. 1550
1900-Today
From Dobzhansky to Joshua Cohen, winner of 2022 Pulitzer in Fiction
This section is an informative and otherwise pleasing collection of the top 20th and 21st century authors, with an emphasis on poetry and criticism.
Dobzhansky in 1966