A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Flora Annie Steel was a British writer who lived 22 years of her life in British India. She was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. She often interacted with women in Indian society, learning about their household keeping, handmade crafts, and collecting folk-tales, of which she published a collection in 1894.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American short story writer and novelist whose most brilliant novel is The Great Gatsby. Considered to be a member of the 1920s "Lost Generation", he is mostly famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age in his novels. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now known as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

McClellan worked as a Congregationalist minister and as a high school teacher and principal. His writing, generally self-published, addresses religion, nature, and romantic love while only occasionally revealing an emotional struggle against racial discrimination.

A figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote plays, a syndicated newspaper column, and four collections of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962).

The English novelist, journalist, sociologist and historian, H. G. Wells, had an enormous influence on both his own generation and the one that immediately followed it. Best remembered nowadays for his science fiction novels such as The Island of Doctor Moreau, he was called a father of the genre, alongside Jules Vernes and Hugo Gernsback. He was nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in ...  [+]

An American author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft achieved posthumous fame for his horror fiction. During his life, he was virtually unknown by the American public, apart from his publications in pulp magazines. However, now he is regarded as one of the best and most influential 20th century writers of horror fiction.

Hamilton Wright Mabie was an American writer, critic, lecturer and editor during the 19th and early 20th centuries. After law school, he was hired to work for the Christian Union magazine and was later promoted to associate editor.

American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer, Hamlin Garland is generally acknowledged for his fictional works involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.

He was made member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918 and won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1922 with his book A Daughter of the Middle Border.

Harriet Spofford is still today one of the most widely-published American writers. She wrote novels, poems, and detective stories, spanning her career across more than six decades and many literary genres. She had an extraordinary gift for language and wrote beautiful, moving descriptions, evoking intense feelings.

Henry Jackson van Dyke, Jr. was an American author, educator, and clergyman, especially well known for his poetry and two Christmas stories, "The Other Wise Man" and "The First Christmas Tree." You will find various religious themes expressed throughout his works. van Dyke was educated and would go on to teach English literature at Princeton University.