290 authors,
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Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist from Provence who came to Paris at seventeen and made his name with Tartarin of Tarascon, a comic Provençal braggart the south never forgave him for.

Rebecca Harding Davis published Life in the Iron-Mills in 1861 and invented American realism in a single story — mill workers rendered without pity or prettiness, thirty years before anyone

Richard Harding Davis was the most famous American reporter of his generation, and he largely invented the war correspondent as a public personality.

Holman Day was an American novelist, poet and newspaperman from Maine, whose books are filled with the loggers, river drivers and small-town politicians of his native state.

Daniel Defoe was an English writer, merchant and government agent who came to fiction late, publishing Robinson Crusoe at fifty-nine.

Charles Dickens was an English novelist and the most popular writer of the Victorian age.

Thomas Dixon, Jr. was an American lawyer, Baptist minister and novelist whose The Clansman glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became D.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was arrested at twenty-seven for belonging to a circle that discussed banned books, sentenced to death, and marched to a firing squad before the sentence was commuted at th

Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician who created the most famous character in English fiction and spent much of his life trying to escape him.

Gustave Droz trained as a painter and exhibited at the Salon for a decade before a magazine asked him for sketches of married life.

Alexandre Dumas was the most widely read French novelist of the nineteenth century and remains among the most widely read of any century in translation.

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, was an Irish writer who invented his own pantheon of gods in The Gods of Pegāna and wrote much of his work in longhand with a quill at Ireland's longest-

Claire de Duras was a French novelist whose father was guillotined in the Terror and who fled to Martinique and London before returning to run one of the great salons of the Restoration.

Henry van Dyke was an American clergyman, professor at Princeton and diplomat, who served as Woodrow Wilson's minister to the Netherlands during the Great War.