This visual celebration of the world's most famous thinkers tells the exciting stories of their lives and groundbreaking ideas. Writers Who Changed History places well-known authors in their historical and cultural context, showing you how they came to influence literature as we know it today. This illustrated guide is perfect for those interested in literature, writing, poetry, and novels, or who want to broaden their general understanding of literature and the lives of authors.

Inside this book about writers, you will find:

• An overview of the lives and works of about 100 of the world's most significant novelists, poets, and playwrights - from the Middle Ages to the present day
• Eight pages of new content with 12 new entries, including Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston
• Portraits of each author alongside photos of their homes and offices, authentic manuscripts, notebooks, letters, and first editions

In the literature guide, each author is introduced with a realistic portrait and biographical entries that delve into the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired and influenced their work, revealing information about the greatest characters, plots, and expressive settings they created. The entries explore each individual's key ideas and working methods and place their ideas in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and period of history in which they lived. Writers Who Changed History provides revealing insights into what drove each person to develop new ways of understanding the world.

Pages: 368, Dimensions: 24.5x24.5cm