290 authors,
one library.

Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American journalist and one of the muckrakers Roosevelt named.

Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet and politician who with Richard Steele founded The Spectator in 1711 and, in daily essays of a page or two, largely invented the form.

William Harrison Ainsworth was an English novelist who briefly outsold Dickens and wrote thirty-nine novels, most of them historical.

Grant Allen was a Canadian-born scientist who wrote popular Darwinism for a living and fiction to pay for it, and then detonated a scandal: The Woman Who Did, whose heroine refuses marriage

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer, the son of a cobbler, who arrived in Copenhagen at fourteen with nothing and was educated at the king's expense.

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who walked out of his Ohio paint factory mid-sentence at thirty-six, apparently in a fugue state, and abandoned business for literature.

Apuleius was a Roman writer and orator from North Africa, active in the second century AD.

Rebecca Agatha Armour taught school in Fredericton and wrote some of the first novels to take New Brunswick seriously as a setting — courtships, fortunes and snobberies transplanted from Lon

Edwin Lester Arnold was an English writer and the son of a noted scholar of Eastern religion.

T. S. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century.

Eleanor Atkinson was an American teacher and journalist from Indiana who wrote for the Chicago Tribune under a pen name before turning to books.

Jane Austen wrote six novels that turned the courtship plot into the sharpest instrument the nineteenth century had for examining money, class and self-knowledge.

Jane Goodwin Austin — no relation to the English novelist — was a Massachusetts writer who made the Pilgrims her territory, digging through Plymouth records for the human detail the historie

Mariano Azuela was a Mexican novelist and physician who served as an army doctor with Pancho Villa's forces and wrote The Underdogs from the saddle, publishing it in a El Paso newspaper in 1