Alexander Pope is a British poet, author, translator, and one of the first satirists in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the most popular thinkers of his time. This popular American essayist, philosopher, and poet also led the transcendentalism movement in America in the mid-19th century.

Writers, more often than not, are more than one thing all at once. May Sarton, one of America’s most prolific writers, dedicated her life to poetry, journalism, and fiction.