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Charles Reade
Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and dramatist whose fiction attacked Victorian social abuses; his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is regarded as his masterpiece.
Charles Simic
Charles Simic, born Dušan Simić, was a Serbian-American poet who won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and served as US Poet Laureate from 2007 to 2008.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross (born Leeds, 1964) is a British science fiction writer in Edinburgh, author of the Laundry Files, Accelerando, and Glasshouse; three Hugo Awards for novellas, 18 Hugo nominations, translated into over twelve languages.
Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren (1926-2019), American Columbia academic and Britannica editor, won $129,000 on the rigged NBC quiz show Twenty-One in 1956-57, confessed to Congress in 1959, and inspired the film Quiz Show.
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858–1932) was an American author, lawyer, and civil-rights activist, the first African American fiction writer to win wide literary recognition.
Charles Williams (British writer)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945), English poet, novelist, theologian, and Oxford University Press editor; member of the Inklings with C. S. Lewis and Tolkien; wrote seven supernatural thrillers including Descent into Hell and the Arthurian cycle Taliessin through Logres.
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English Victorian novelist and poet, sister of Emily and Anne; wrote Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley, and Villette as Currer Bell; subject of Gaskell's 1857 biography.
Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869–1928) was an English poet and short-story writer whose only lifetime collection, The Farmer's Bride, drew praise from Hardy, Woolf, and Pound.
Charlotte Mutsaers
Charlotte Mutsaers, born 1942 in Utrecht, is a Dutch writer and visual artist who received the Constantijn Huygens-prijs in 2000 and the P.C. Hooftprijs in 2010.
Charlotte Pence Bond
Charlotte Pence Bond, daughter of former Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence, is a bestselling author of the Marlon Bundo children's series and Where You Go, and a Daily Wire journalist on Morning Wire.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American feminist writer and sociologist, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and Herland; rediscovered by 1970s feminist critics.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith, born Charlotte Turner Smith, was an English poet and novelist whose Elegiac Sonnets, first published in 1784, led the Romantic-era revival of the sonnet.
Charlotte Stoker
Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker (1818-1901), Irish writer and social reformer, mother of Bram Stoker; Sligo cholera witness whose account influenced Dracula, first woman to address the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.
Charu Nivedita
Charu Nivedita (சாரு நிவேதிதா), born 1953 in Tamil Nadu, is a Chennai-based Tamil writer of postmodern, transgressive fiction whose best-known novel, Zero Degree, was published in 1998.
Chaso
Chaso, pen name of Chaganti Somayajulu (1915 to 1994), was a Telugu short story writer who published only about 45 stories yet became a master of the genre.
Chế Lan Viên
Chế Lan Viên (1920–1989) was the pen name of Vietnamese poet and critic Phan Ngọc Hoan, a leading Thơ mới poet who won the Ho Chi Minh Prize.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928–2026) was a Senegalese writer and statesman whose novel L'Aventure ambiguë (1961), a classic of francophone African literature, has been translated into about forty languages.
Chen Baichen
Chen Baichen (陈白尘, born Chen Zenghong, 1908–1994) was a Chinese playwright, fiction writer, and educator whose satirical comedy Shengguan Tu (升官图) made political satire a major genre in modern Chinese drama.
Chen Duansheng
Chen Duansheng (陳端生, courtesy name Yunzhen, 1751 to about 1796) was a Qing dynasty Chinese woman writer, author of the first seventeen juan of the tanci novel Zaishengyuan.
Chen Lin (Han dynasty poet)
Chen Lin (陈琳, courtesy name Kongzhang, died 217) was a Chinese poet and prose master of the late Eastern Han dynasty, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an.
Chen Ran
Chen Ran (陈染, born 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese fiction and essay writer whose 1990s novel A Private Life made her a central figure of Chinese women's writing.
Chen Sanli
Chen Sanli (1853–1937) was a Chinese poet and reformist official who led the Tongguangti, the leading school of classical poetry in the late Qing era.
Chen Sen
Chen Sen (陈森) was a Qing dynasty novelist of the Daoguang era, author of Pinhua Baojian, a sixty-chapter novel about Beijing actors and the literati who admired them.
Chen Tingzhuo
Chen Tingzhuo (陳廷焯, courtesy name Yifeng, 1853–1892) was a Qing dynasty ci lyric critic from Dantu, Jiangsu, best known for the Baiyuzhai cihua and its shenyu doctrine.
Chen Weisong
Chen Weisong (陈维崧, courtesy name Qinian, 1625–1682) was an early Qing Chinese poet, the most prolific ci writer of his era and founder of the Yangxian school.
Chen Yingzhen
Chen Yingzhen (陳映真), born Chen Yongshan in November 1937, is a Taiwanese writer and publisher, a central figure of postwar left-wing literature and founder of Renjian magazine in 1985.
Chen Zhongshi
Chen Zhongshi (陈忠实, 1942–2016) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi Province and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, best known for the novel White Deer Plain.
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist, essayist, and social commentator who wrote in Shona and English; his novel Bones won the 1989 Noma Award.
Cherusseri Namboothiri
Cherusseri Namboothiri (ചെറുശ്ശേരി നമ്പൂതിരി) was a fifteenth-century Malayalam poet, court poet of King Udayavarman of Kolathunadu, known for the Krishnagatha, still recited daily in Kerala.
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (born 1968), American author of the #1 NYT bestseller Wild about her 1995 1,100-mile Pacific Crest Trail hike; anonymous Dear Sugar columnist; books include Torch, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough.