Novelists edit
- Jane Austen
- Ray Stannard Baker
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- James Matthew Barrie
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Charlotte Brontë
- Anne Brontë
- Frances Burney
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Willa Sibert Cather
- Agatha Christie
- William Wilkie Collins
- Joseph Conrad
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Daniel Defoe
- Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Maria Edgeworth
- Edward Sylvester Ellis
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Henry Fielding
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- E. M. Forster
- Zona Gale
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Henry Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- William Hope Hodgson
- Robert Ervin Howard
- Henry James
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Rudyard Kipling
- David Herbert Lawrence
- Maurice Leblanc
- Sinclair Lewis
- Frederick Marryat
- Guy de Maupassant
- Johnston McCulley
- Herman Cyril McNeile
- Herman Melville
- Rodrigues Ottolengui
- Howard Pyle
- Henry Handel Richardson
- Rafael Sabatini
- George Bernard Shaw
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anthony Trollope
- Ivan Turgenev
- Jules Verne
- Herbert George Wells
- Edith Wharton
Short story writers edit
- Achmed Abdullah
- Louisa May Alcott
- Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Gertrude Atherton
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- James Matthew Barrie
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Ambrose Bierce
- Willa Sibert Cather
- Anton Chekhov
- Kate Chopin
- William Wilkie Collins
- Joseph Conrad
- Stephen Crane
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Zona Gale
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
- Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
- Nikolai Gogol
- Maxim Gorky
- Henry Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy
- Bret Harte
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- O. Henry
- William Hope Hodgson
- Robert Ervin Howard
- William Wymark Jacobs
- Henry James
- Montague Rhodes James
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
- Rudyard Kipling
- David Herbert Lawrence
- Henry Lawson
- Maurice Leblanc
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh
- Guy de Maupassant
- Johnston McCulley
- Herman Melville
- Hector Hugh Munro
- Rodrigues Ottolengui
- José María de Pereda
- Edward Plunkett
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Fletcher Pratt
- Rafael Sabatini
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Leo Tolstoy
- Ivan Turgenev
- Jules Verne
- Manly Wade Wellman
- Herbert George Wells
- Edith Wharton
- Oscar Wilde