9001. Boris Pasternak

Russian poet, novelist, and translator best known for the novel Doctor Zhivago; awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature (award rejected under pressure from Soviet authorities).

9002. Jean Cocteau

French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker and artist associated with the avant-garde; known for works such as The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète), Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) and Orpheus (Orphée).

9003. Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist, author of The Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), often considered the father of modern economics.

9004. C.S. Forester

English novelist best known by the pen name C. S. Forester; author of the Horatio Hornblower naval series and novels such as The African Queen, noted for sea stories and historical fiction.

9005. Dr. Seuss

American writer, illustrator, and cartoonist best known by the pen name Dr. Seuss; author and illustrator of numerous popular children's books including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, noted for imaginative characters, rhyme, and playful illustrations.

9006. Anthony Trollope

English Victorian novelist and civil servant, noted for his prolific output and social realism; best known for the Chronicles of Barsetshire (e.g., The Warden, Barchester Towers) and the Palliser novels.

9007. Pat Barker

British novelist best known for the Regeneration Trilogy and for winning the 1995 Booker Prize for The Ghost Road; her work often explores war, trauma, and memory.

9008. Willem Frederik Hermans

Dutch novelist, short story writer, poet and critic, one of the major postwar Dutch authors. Best known for novels such as De donkere kamer van Damokles (The Darkroom of Damocles) and Nooit meer slapen (Beyond Sleep), and for his terse, often pessimistic view of human nature.

9009. Marguerite Duras

French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and film director known for experimental, often autobiographical works. Best known for the novel L'Amant (The Lover) and for writing the screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour; a major figure in 20th-century French literature.

9010. Len Deighton

English author best known for spy novels (notably The IPCRESS File); also wrote historical fiction, nonfiction and cookery books.

9011. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Japanese novelist and essayist, a major figure in 20th-century Japanese literature, known for works exploring eroticism, family life, and cultural change. Notable books include The Makioka Sisters, Naomi, Some Prefer Nettles, The Key, and In Praise of Shadows.

9012. Book*Sense

9013. Elijah Millgram

American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, known for work on practical reasoning, moral psychology, and normative ethics.

9014. Alfred North Whitehead

English mathematician and philosopher, co-author with Bertrand Russell of Principia Mathematica, influential in mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics, and process philosophy (author of Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality).

9015. Orson Welles

American filmmaker, actor, writer and theater/radio producer best known for directing and starring in Citizen Kane (1941), his 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, and influential work across theater, radio and film.

9016. Cartesio

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist; a central figure of 17th-century rationalism, known for 'Cogito, ergo sum', development of analytic geometry and the Cartesian coordinate system, and works such as Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

9017. Joseph Roth

Austrian novelist and journalist of Jewish descent, noted for his interwar fiction and reportage about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; best known for The Radetzky March and Job.

9018. Robert A. Heinlein

American science fiction author and major 20th-century SF figure, known for novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; a former U.S. Navy officer whose work influenced hard science fiction and explored individualism and libertarian themes.

9019. Dee Brown

American novelist, historian, and librarian best known for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), a landmark work on the history and treatment of Native Americans; also wrote Western fiction and nonfiction.

9020. P.G. Wodehouse

English comic writer and humorist, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster and the Blandings Castle stories; prolific novelist, short-story writer, playwright and lyricist.

9021. E.L. Doctorow

American novelist, editor, and professor known for blending historical events and figures with fiction; best known for novels such as Ragtime (1975), The Book of Daniel (1971), and Billy Bathgate (1989).

9022. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher and leading figure of German idealism, best known for works such as Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, and the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences; influential on subsequent philosophy, political theory, and social thought.

9023. Stephen Mulhall

British philosopher and academic, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford, known for work on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Stanley Cavell, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of literature and film.

9024. Lisa Bortolotti

Italian philosopher working in philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, known for research on delusions, irrational beliefs, self-deception, and related topics.

9025. Momo Kapor

Serbian novelist, painter and journalist, and prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and screenplays; born in Sarajevo and long associated with Belgrade.

9026. Cornelia Funke

German author of children's and young-adult fantasy fiction, best known for The Thief Lord and the Inkheart trilogy.

9027. Halldór Laxness

Icelandic novelist, poet and playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955; best known for novels such as Independent People and for modernizing 20th-century Icelandic literature.

9028. Akiyuki Nosaka

Japanese novelist, short-story writer, lyricist and politician, best known for the semi-autobiographical 'Grave of the Fireflies' (Hotaru no Haka), which won the Naoki Prize and was adapted into an acclaimed animated film.

9029. Ugo Foscolo

Italian poet, novelist, and essayist associated with neoclassicism and early Romanticism; best known for the novel "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" and the poem "Dei Sepolcri," and for his involvement in patriotic and literary debates of his time.

9030. Arthur Koestler

Hungarian-British novelist, journalist and essayist best known for the anti-totalitarian novel Darkness at Noon; originally involved with communist movements but became a prominent critic of totalitarianism and wrote on politics, science, and philosophy.

9031. Hans Christian Andersen

Danish 19th-century author, poet and novelist best known for his fairy tales, including "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Snow Queen".

9032. Wu Cheng'en

Ming dynasty novelist and poet, traditionally credited as the author of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West (Xi You Ji).

9033. Don DeLillo

American novelist, playwright, and essayist known for works such as White Noise, Libra, and Underworld, whose fiction explores media, technology, consumerism, and contemporary American life.

9034. Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director associated with the Generation of '27; author of Romancero gitano, Poeta en Nueva York, and plays including Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Executed in 1936 during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War.

9035. Theodor Fontane

German novelist and poet (1819–1898), a leading 19th-century realist author best known for novels such as Effi Briest and Irrungen, Wirrungen; also worked as a journalist, travel writer, and earlier trained as an apothecary.

9036. Thorstein Veblen

American economist and sociologist, a founder of institutional economics; best known for critiquing consumerism and capitalism and for coining the term "conspicuous consumption" (The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899).

9037. Kengo Kuma

Japanese architect and designer, founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates, known for integrating buildings with their surroundings and for the use of natural materials. Notable projects include the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, the Suntory Museum of Art (Tokyo), and the New National Stadium for Tokyo.

9038. Francis Ponge

French poet and essayist known for prose poems that focus on everyday objects and language; best known for Le Parti pris des choses (1942).

9039. Mary B. Hesse

British philosopher of science known for influential work on scientific models, analogies, and the role of representation in scientific explanation; author of Forces and Fields (1961) and Models and Analogies in Science (1963).

9040. Mitchell G. Ash

Historian specializing in modern German history and the history of science; long-time faculty member at the University of Vienna.

9041. Italo Svevo

Italian novelist and playwright (born Ettore Schmitz), associated with literary modernism; best known for the novel 'Zeno's Conscience' (La coscienza di Zeno). He worked in Trieste as a businessman, showed interest in psychology/psychoanalysis, and was encouraged by James Joyce.

9042. Max Weber

German sociologist, economist and political theorist (1864–1920). A founding figure of modern sociology, known for work on bureaucracy, types of authority, social action and rationalization, and for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

9043. David J. Stump

9044. Clément Oubrerie

French illustrator, comic-book artist and animator known for his work in graphic novels and animation.

9045. Henry Miller

American novelist, essayist, and artist best known for his semi-autobiographical and controversial novels such as Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; associated with the expatriate literary scene in Paris and notable for challenges to censorship.

9046. James Agee

American novelist, poet, journalist, film critic, and screenwriter best known for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Death in the Family.

9047. W.E.B. Du Bois

African-American sociologist, historian, writer, and civil rights and Pan-African activist; co-founder of the NAACP, first Black Harvard Ph.D., and author of The Souls of Black Folk.

9048. Tennessee Williams

American playwright (born Thomas Lanier Williams III, 1911–1983), a leading 20th-century dramatist best known for A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; recipient of multiple major awards including Pulitzer Prizes.

9049. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-born American novelist and short-story writer who wrote primarily in Yiddish. Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1978), known for works depicting Jewish life such as The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, and Sabbath's Theater.

9050. Maciej Świerkocki