Ernest Hemingway at work, 1939.  He was the creator of A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes

C.S. Lewis, 1947.  Lewis, of course authored The Chronicles of Narnia

J.R.R. Tolkien created the mythology of Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings.

Richard Wright, created the ground-breaking novel Native Son in 1940.

Bram Stoker.  In 1897 he penned a novel that would feature the greatest horror icon in literature--  Dracula.

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Jules Verne, father of modern science fiction.  He gave such us works as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

H.G. Wells.  Like Verne, a pioneer of the science fiction genre.  He authored unforgettable novels like the Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man.