Core Authors List
This list is largely based on the that compiled by the Encyclopedia Britannica. It is from this list that works are selected for use in Great Books classes, research symposia, drama field trips, college drama productions and other Great Books activities. ( The list is a work in progress.)
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Aeschylus
Dante Alighieri
Jorge Amado
Thomas Aquinas
Matthew Arnold
Machado de Assis
St. Augustine
Aristophanes
Aristotle
W. H. Auden
Marcus Aurelius
Jane Austen
Francis Bacon
Matsuo Basho
Jeremy Bentham
Beowulf
Thomas Berger
Charles Baudelaire
Samuel Beckett
Henri Bergson
Bhagavad Gita
Bible
William Blake
Giovanni Boccaccio
Boethius
Niels Bohr
Jorge Borges
James Boswell
Edmund Burke
Robert Browning
Cao Xueqin
Willa Cather
Miguel Cervantes
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Cicero
Samuel Coleridge
Confucius
Joseph Conrad
Nicolas Copernicus
Pierre Corneille
Charles Darwin
Daniel Defoe
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Denis Diderot
John Donne
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Frederick Douglass
Theodore Dreiser
John Dryden
W.E.B. Dubois
Albert Einstein
El Cid
George Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic of Son Jara
Epictetus
Desiderius Erasmus
Euclid
Euripides
Michael Faraday
William Faulkner
The Federalist Papers
Absolsqasem Ferdowsi
Henry Fielding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert
E. M. Forster
Anatole France
Sir James Frazer
Sigmund Freud
Galileo Galilei
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
Edward Gibbon
William Gilbert
George Gissing
Johann Goethe
Nikolai Gogol
Greek Anthology
Thomas Hardy
William Harvey
Jaroslav Hasek
Nathaniel Hawthorne
G.W.F. Hegel
Martin Heidegger
Werner Heisenberg
Ernest Hemingway
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Thomas Hobbes
Homer
Horace
Aldous Huxley
T. H. Huxley
David Hume
Zora Neale Hurston
Johan Huizinga
Henrik Ibsen
Henry James
William James
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Johnson
Ben Jonson
James Joyce
Carl Jung
Juvenal
Franz Kafka
Immanuel Kant
John Keats
Johannes Kepler
John Maynard Keynes
Soren Kierkegaard
Martin Luther King
Koran
Kung Shang Jen
Lao-tze
Antoine Lavoisier
D.H.Lawrence
Abraham Lincoln
Titus Livy
John Locke
Lucretius
Martin Luther
Thomas Macauley
Niccolo Machiavelli
Naguib Mahfouz
Thomas Malory
Thomas Mann
Christopher Marlowe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Karl Marx
Herman Melville
Mencius
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Jean Moliere
Michel Montaigne
Baron Montesquieu
Thomas More
Lady Shikibu Murasaki
Gilbert Murray
Vladimir Nabokov
Isaac Newton
Niebelungenlied
Friedrich Nietzsche
Flannery O’Connor
Eugene O’Neill
George Orwell
Ovid
Thomas Paine
Blaise Pascal
Francesco Petrarch
Petronius
Pindar
Luigi Pirandello
Max Planck
Plato
Plautus
Plutarch
Li Po
Henri Poincare
Polybius
Alexander Pope
William Prescott
Marcel Proust
Ptolemy
Aleksandr Pushkin
Barbara Pym
Jean Racine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bertrand Russell
Sappho
Arthur Schopenhauer
William Shakespeare
Bernard Shaw
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
Richard Sheridan
Tobias Smollett
Adam Smith
Alexander Solzynitsyn
Ignazio Silone
Song of Roland
Sophocles
Edmund Spenser
Benedict Spinoza
Lawrence Sterne
Wallace Stevens
Claude Levi Strauss
Italo Svevo
Jonathan Swift
Tacitus
Rabindrarath Tagore
Talmud
R.H.Tawney
Alfred Tennyson
Terrence
Henry David Thoreau
Thucydides
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leo Tolstoy
Lazarillo de Tormes
Anthony Trollope
Mark Twain
Upanishads
Virgil
Vladimir Voinovich
Voltaire [Francois Arouet]
Popul Vuh
Evelyn Waugh
Max Weber
Walt Whitman
Tennessee Williams
Edmund Wilson
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
Richard Wright
Wu Ch'eng-en
W.B.Yeats
Mikhail Zoschenko