Find Authors
By Background
Discover books where the author's background brings authenticity and depth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
theologian, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, Catholic priest, geologist, philosopher, scientific collector, stretcher bearer
- University of Paris, Villanova University
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
theologian, philosopher, resistance fighter, poet, parson
- Union Theological Seminary, Humboldt University of Berlin
Cornel West (born 1953)
theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist
- Harvard University, Princeton University
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
theologian, poet, Anglican priest, Catholic priest, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Great Ealing School
David F. Ford (born 1948)
theologian
- University of Tübingen, University College Dublin
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
theologian
- University of Oxford, Campbell College
Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818)
lexicographer, linguist, publisher, theologian, philosopher
- University of Helmstedt, University of Halle-Wittenberg