While fiction accounts for a small fraction of his total output, these two novels are his best-selling works, having sold almost fifty million copies in sixty-two languages by 2007-more than any other pair of books by a twentieth-century author.

"A famous twentieth-century author whose works I have been reading has stated categorically that it is impossible to produce true literature by electronic means."

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 - January 24, 1991) was a twentieth-century American author known for his Westerns.

Literary realism is the trend, beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century authors, toward depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is.

May Sinclair also wrote various pieces of literary criticism on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, a Brontë biography (The Three Brontës, 1912), and a few unpublished dramas.

Uniquely among twentieth-century authors, all of Holme's novels and her book of short stories were published in the Oxford World's Classics series.

He was an eminent member of the "traditionalist school" of twentieth-century authors.

One of the most important influences on the development of the short story and novel in American fiction, Hemingway has seized the imagination of the American public like no other twentieth-century author.

For his lasting contribution he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1970, and many consider him Italy's most important twentieth-century children's author.

In 1973 his great-grandsons, Sidney and Charles Fisher, donated to the library their own collections of Shakespeare, various twentieth-century authors, and etchings of Wenceslaus Hollar.