Classic Authors Crossword Puzzle

About the Classic Authors Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle gathers influential writers from ancient Greece and Rome through the nineteenth century, including novelists, poets, and playwrights. Look for names such as Homer, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and Leo Tolstoy. Readers who enjoy literary history, famous authors, and the writers behind classic books will recognize names from many eras and countries.

This crossword draws on 32 clues about Classic Authors. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Poet who translated the Iliad (13 letters)
• •Robinson Crusoe novelist (11 letters)
• •Victorian novelist behind Middlemarch (11 letters)
• •Norwegian playwright behind A Doll's House (5 letters)
• •French novelist behind Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (10 letters)
• •Novelist who created Frankenstein (11 letters)
• •Bengali poet who wrote Gitanjali (6 letters)
• •Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid (6 letters)

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