290 authors,
one library.

Émile Gaboriau was a French journalist who effectively invented the police procedural.

John Galsworthy was trained for the bar, came into money, and spent his career writing about the class that had produced him.

Elizabeth Gaskell was a Unitarian minister's wife in industrial Manchester, and she wrote the industrial city as someone who had been inside its houses.

Dana Gatlin was an American writer and journalist from Kansas City who published fiction in McClure's and the other big magazines of the 1910s and 1920s.

Théophile Gautier was a French poet, novelist and critic who trained as a painter and led the young Romantics at the riotous 1830 premiere of Hernani, wearing a scarlet waistcoat that scanda

George Gissing was an English novelist whose brilliant academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute he hoped to reform, and later married.

Elinor Glyn wrote Three Weeks, in which a queen seduces a young Englishman on a tiger skin, and spent the rest of her life famous for it — banned, parodied, and read by everyone.

William Godwin was an English philosopher and novelist, a dissenting minister turned atheist whose Political Justice made him briefly the most famous radical in Britain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, novelist and statesman, and the central figure of German literature.

Nikolai Gogol was a Russian writer born in what is now Ukraine, whose comic grotesques hide a bleak view of the world.

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer who failed at medicine, teaching and the church, wandered Europe playing the flute for meals, and then wrote a masterpiece in every form he touched

Maxim Gorky — the name means Bitter — was orphaned at eleven, worked as a dishwasher, baker and dock hand, and attempted suicide at nineteen before becoming the most widely read writer in Ru

George W. Gough was an English novelist of the early twentieth century, remembered for The Yeoman Adventurer (1917), a tale of the Jacobite rising of 1745 told by a young Staffordshire farme

Sarah Grand was born Frances Clarke, left an unhappy marriage to write, and in 1894 gave the age its keyword: the New Woman.

James Grant was a Scottish novelist who produced some ninety books, most of them military adventures drawn from a soldier's eye for detail; he had served in the 62nd Regiment of Foot before

Anna Katharine Green was an American writer who published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, nine years before Sherlock Holmes, and is called the mother of the detective novel.

Zane Grey was an American dentist who abandoned the drill for the typewriter and invented the popular western with Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).

Augusta Groner was an Austrian schoolteacher who invented one of the first professional detectives in German fiction: Joseph Muller, a small, shabby police official whose own criminal record

The Grossmith brothers were English performers who wrote The Diary of a Nobody together for Punch in 1888.