Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones

John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (1902 – 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters." During his writing career, he

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (1922 – 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English

F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (1947 - ) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including

Alan Dean Foster Alan Dean Foster, born on November 18, 1946, in New York City, is a prolific American author whose imagination has transported readers to extraordinary worlds and captivated their minds with his compelling storytelling. With over a hundred novels, numerous short stories, and film novelizations to his name,