Famous Authors

14,304 famous authors with complete biographies, net worth, and life facts.

Most Celebrated Authors & Writers Worldwide

Douglas Adams

Author

Age 74

Thomas Mann

Author

†80

Quentin Tarantino

Director, Author

Age 63

Bertrand Russell

Politician, Business Leader, Author

†97

John Maynard Keynes

Politician, Business Leader, Author

†62

Charles III

Politician, Business Leader, Author

Age 77

Emma Goldman

Politician, Business Leader, Author

†70

Friedrich Engels

Author, Business Leader

†74

Virginia Woolf

Author

†59

William Blake

Author, Business Leader

†69

Tim Berners-Lee

Author, Business Leader

Age 71

T. S. Eliot

Author, Business Leader

†76

Aldous Huxley

Author, Business Leader

†69

C. S. Lewis

Author, Business Leader

†64

Karl Popper

Author, Business Leader

†92

Thomas Paine

Author, Business Leader

†72

Herbert Hoover

Politician, Author

†90

Walt Whitman

Author, Business Leader

†72

Umberto Eco

Author, Model

Age 94

Ayn Rand

Author, Model

Auguste Comte

Scientist, Author

Octave Mirbeau

Author, Model

John McCain

Author

Age 90

Alain Delon

Author

Age 91