- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Marcel Proust
- Anton Chekhov
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Émile Zola
- W.B. Yeats
- John Barth
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Günter Grass
- John Dos Passos
- Ivan Turgenev
- Ford Madox Ford
- Joshua Ferris
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Alexander Pushkin
- Heinrich Böll
- Stendhal
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Shawn Conners
- Glenway Wescott