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Writers of Gothic fiction

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The list Writers of Gothic fiction includes Oscar Wilde, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Truman Capote. The list consists of 148 members.

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Gothic fiction
Horrific, romantic style of English literature
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    Truman Capote

    American author (1924–1984)
    Truman Capote
    Overview: Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories ...
    Date of birth: 30 September 1924
    Date of death: 25 August 1984
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    Oscar Wilde

    Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)
    Oscar Wilde
    Overview: Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular ...
    Date of birth: 16 October 1854
    Date of death: 29 November 1900
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)
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    Stephen King

    American author
    Stephen King
    Overview: Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1947
    Age: 77
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
    Partner: Tabitha King (Married)
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    Jane Austen

    English novelist (1775–1817)
    Jane Austen
    Overview: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th ...
    Date of birth: 16 December 1775
    Date of death: 18 July 1817
    Age: 41 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    Edgar Allan Poe

    American writer and critic (1809–1849)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Overview: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales ...
    Date of birth: 19 January 1809
    Date of death: 7 October 1849
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Daphne Du Maurier

    English novelist (1907–1989)
    Daphne Du Maurier
    Overview: Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
    Date of birth: 13 May 1907
    Date of death: 19 April 1989
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Victor Hugo

    French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)
    Victor Hugo
    Overview: Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1802
    Date of death: 22 May 1885
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    R.L. Stine

    Writer
    R.L. Stine
    Overview: Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor ...
    Date of birth: 8 October 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Jane Waldhorn (Married)
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    Louisa May Alcott

    American novelist (1832–1888)
    Louisa May Alcott
    Overview: Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) ...
    Date of birth: 29 November 1832
    Date of death: 6 March 1888
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
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    H.G. Wells

    English writer (1866–1946)
    H.G. Wells
    Overview: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1866
    Date of death: 13 August 1946
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Harper Lee

    Novelist
    Harper Lee
    Overview: Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern ...
    Date of birth: 28 April 1926
    Date of death: 19 February 2016
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Charlotte Brontë

    English novelist and poet (1816–1855)
    Charlotte Brontë
    Overview: Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature ...
    Date of birth: 21 April 1816
    Date of death: 31 March 1855
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    Charles Dickens

    English novelist
    Charles Dickens
    Overview: Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1812
    Date of death: 9 June 1870
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Ray Bradbury

    American speculative fiction writer
    Ray Bradbury
    Overview: Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including ...
    Date of birth: 22 August 1920
    Date of death: 5 June 2012
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    H.P. Lovecraft

    American short story writer
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Overview: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos.
    Date of birth: 20 August 1890
    Date of death: 15 March 1937
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Anne Rice

    American author (1941–2021)
    Anne Rice
    Overview: Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series ...
    Date of birth: 4 October 1941
    Date of death: 11 December 2021
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    English poet
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Overview: Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language ...
    Date of birth: 4 August 1792
    Date of death: 8 July 1822
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Jules Verne

    French science fiction author
    Jules Verne
    Overview: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordi ...
    Date of birth: 8 February 1828
    Date of death: 24 March 1905
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    American writer
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Overview: Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
    Date of birth: 4 July 1804
    Date of death: 19 May 1864
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Henry James

    American and British writer (1843–1916)
    Henry James
    Overview: Henry James OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author who became a British citizen in the last year of his life. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism ...
    Date of birth: 15 April 1843
    Date of death: 28 February 1916
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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