Classic Authors Word Search
Find renowned writers from across the centuries, from Homer and Austen to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Poe.
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About the Classic Authors Word Search
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.
All 40 words in this puzzle
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- Alexander Pope
- Anton Chekhov
- Bram Stoker
- Cervantes
- Charles Dickens
- Daniel Defoe
- Dante Alighieri
- Dostoevsky
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- Franz Kafka
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Eliot
- Goethe
- Henry Fielding
- Herman Melville
- Homer
- Ibsen
- Jane Austen
- John Milton
- Jonathan Swift
- Jules Verne
- Laurence Sterne
- Leo Tolstoy
- Lewis Carroll
- Louisa May Alcott
- Mark Twain
- Mary Shelley
- Moliere
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Burns
- Rudyard Kipling
- Tagore
- Thomas Hardy
- Thoreau
- Victor Hugo
- Virgil
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- Wordsworth
