Famous Charts
Famous Birth & Death Charts
Birth and death are both fixed moments, so these charts never change. Every figure has a documented birth date and place, and those who have died have a documented death beside it, which is the chart nobody else draws. The rest are alive and have the one. Nothing here is estimated.
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102 figures in Writing, starting with A.
A102 figures
- A. A. MilneAuthor
- Abraham CahanJournalist
- Abraham Grace MerrittAuthor
- Adam ZagajewskiPoet
- Adrienne RichPoet
- Agatha ChristieCrime novelist
- Alan CorenHumorist
- Alan MooreWriter
- Alan SillitoeNovelist
- Alan WattsWriter & speaker
- Alasdair GrayNovelist
- Albert CamusNovelist & philosopher
- Albert Jay NockJournalist
- Aldo LeopoldEcologist & writer
- Aldous HuxleyNovelist & essayist
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynNovelist & historian
- Alexander PushkinPoet
- Alexander RamatiWriter
- Alexander WoollcottCritic
- Alexandre DumasNovelist
- Alexandre Dumas filsNovelist & dramatist
- Alex HaleyWriter
- Alfred, Lord TennysonPoet
- Alice Dunbar NelsonWriter
- Alice McDermottNovelist
- Alice MunroShort story writer
- Alice SeboldWriter
- Alice WalkerNovelist & poet
- Ali SmithNovelist
- Alison LurieNovelist
- Al JeanWriter
- Allen GinsbergPoet
- Alma KarlinWriter & traveller
- Almudena GrandesNovelist
- Alok Vaid-MenonWriter
- Amanda GormanPoet
- Ambrose BierceWriter & journalist
- Amélie NothombNovelist
- Amichai ChassonPoet
- Amiri BarakaWriter
- Amitav GhoshNovelist
- Amy HempelWriter
- Amy LowellPoet
- Amy Sherman-PalladinoWriter
- Anatole FranceNovelist
- Anderson CooperJournalist & broadcaster
- Andrea CamilleriNovelist
- André AcimanWriter
- Andrea DworkinWriter
- Andre Dubus IIINovelist
- André GideNovelist
- Andrei VoznesenskyPoet
- Andrew MarrJournalist & broadcaster
- Andy RooneyWriter
- Andy WeirNovelist
- Angela CarterNovelist
- Anita SarkeesianCritic
- Anna AkhmatovaPoet
- Anna PolitkovskayaJournalist
- Anna QuindlenWriter
- Ann CleevesAuthor
- Anne BrontëNovelist & poet
- Anne CarsonPoet & classicist
- Anne EnrightNovelist
- Anne FrankDiarist
- Anne HoltNovelist
- Anne SextonPoet
- Anne TylerNovelist
- Annie ErnauxNovelist
- Annie ProulxNovelist
- Ann LeckieNovelist
- Ann PatchettNovelist & bookseller
- Anthony Berkeley CoxNovelist
- Anthony TrollopeNovelist
- Anton ChekhovPlaywright & short story writer
- Antoni BohdziewiczScreenplay Writer
- António Lobo AntunesNovelist
- Antonio Muñoz MolinaNovelist
- A. O. ScottCritic
- Aphra BehnPlaywright & novelist
- Aravind AdigaNovelist
- Archibald MacLeishPoet
- Arnaldur IndriðasonNovelist
- Arnold BennettNovelist
- Arthur C. ClarkeNovelist & futurist
- Arthur Conan DoyleNovelist & physician
- Arthur KoestlerNovelist & journalist
- Arthur LaurentsPlaywright
- Arthur MillerPlaywright
- Arthur RimbaudPoet
- Arthur YoungWriter
- Arundhati RoyNovelist & essayist
- Åsa LarssonNovelist
- A. S. ByattNovelist
- Astrid LindgrenAuthor
- Atul GawandeSurgeon & writer
- Audre LordePoet & activist
- August StrindbergPlaywright & novelist
- August WilsonPlaywright
- Aurora CornuPoet
- Ayn RandNovelist & philosopher
- Azar NafisiWriter
