20 influential authors of the 20th century
20 influential authors of the 20th century along with some of their notable works:
- James Joyce (1882–1941)
- “Ulysses”
- “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
- “Dubliners”
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
- “Mrs. Dalloway”
- “To the Lighthouse”
- “Orlando”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
- “The Great Gatsby”
- “Tender Is the Night”
- “This Side of Paradise”
- Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
- “The Old Man and the Sea”
- “A Farewell to Arms”
- “The Sun Also Rises”
- George Orwell (1903–1950)
- “1984”
- “Animal Farm”
- “Homage to Catalonia”
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
- “The Metamorphosis”
- “The Trial”
- “The Castle”
- Albert Camus (1913–1960)
- “The Stranger”
- “The Plague”
- “The Myth of Sisyphus”
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973)
- “The Lord of the Rings”
- “The Hobbit”
- “The Silmarillion”
- Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)
- “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
- “Love in the Time of Cholera”
- “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”
- William Faulkner (1897–1962)
- “The Sound and the Fury”
- “As I Lay Dying”
- “Absalom, Absalom!”
- Harper Lee (1926–2016)
- “To Kill a Mockingbird”
- “Go Set a Watchman”
- T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
- “The Waste Land”
- “Four Quartets”
- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
- “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
- “Sons and Lovers”
- “Women in Love”
- Alberto Moravia (1907–1990)
- “The Conformist”
- “Contempt”
- “The Woman of Rome”
- Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
- “Beloved”
- “Song of Solomon”
- “The Bluest Eye”
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
- “Brave New World”
- “Island”
- “Point Counter Point”
- Graham Greene (1904–1991)
- “The Power and the Glory”
- “The Quiet American”
- “Brighton Rock”
- John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
- “The Grapes of Wrath”
- “Of Mice and Men”
- “East of Eden”
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
- “Slaughterhouse-Five”
- “Cat’s Cradle”
- “Breakfast of Champions”
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)
- “The Master and Margarita”
- “Heart of a Dog”
- “The White Guard”
These authors and their works have left a lasting impact on literature, influencing generations of readers and writers with their innovative storytelling, profound insights, and enduring themes.
