Authors
The writers behind our book tees, from Jane Austen to Jack London, with short biographies and the tees their books inspired.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote six novels of English country life, including Pride and Prejudice, with sharp irony about money, class and marriage.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson (1832–1898), the Oxford mathematician who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American sailor-turned-novelist whose Moby-Dick was ignored in his lifetime and later hailed as a masterpiece.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician who created Sherlock Holmes and wrote four novels and fifty-six stories about the detective.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish theatre manager and author whose 1897 novel Dracula established the modern vampire story.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was an American author who drew on her own family life in Little Women, her best-known novel.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer known for his epigrams, plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) chronicled the Jazz Age of 1920s America in novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) was a Spanish soldier and writer whose Don Quixote is often called the first modern novel.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was an American illustrator and popular novelist, remembered today for the weird-fiction collection The King in Yellow.
Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French author of adventure novels, including Around the World in Eighty Days, and a founder of modern science fiction.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and moral thinker, and the author of the epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of weird fiction whose story The Call of Cthulhu helped define cosmic horror.
Brothers Grimm
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German scholars who collected the folk tales published as Children's and Household Tales in 1812.
Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was an American adventure writer and socialist, author of The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf and Martin Eden.