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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
linguist, poet, lyricist, philosopher, politician, translator, astrologer
Martin Buber (1878-1965)
philosopher, existentialist, translator, pedagogue, literary editor, Bible translator, educator, zionist, theologian, librettist
- University of Vienna, Humboldt University of Berlin
René Descartes (1596-1650)
philosopher, mathematician, musicologist, physicist, astronomer, music theorist, correspondent, mechanical automaton engineer, military personnel
- collège Henri-IV de La Flèche, Leiden University
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
philosopher, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist
- Algiers 1 University
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
translator, essayist, journalist, philosopher, biographer, opinion journalist
- Military Engineering-Technical University, Nikolay engineering school
André Maurois (1885-1967)
philosopher, essayist, historian, literary critic, biographer, critic
- Lycée Pierre-Corneille