Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, dit Maurice Maeterlinck, né le 29 août 1862 à Gand (Belgique) et mort le 6 mai 1949 à Nice (France), est un écrivain francophone belge, prix Nobel de littérature en 1911.
Maurice Renard, né le 28 février 1875 à Châlons-sur-Marne et mort le 18 novembre 1939 à Rochefort-sur-Mer, est un écrivain français, spécialisé dans la littérature merveilleuse-scientifique, fantastique et policière.
Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld, baron Dudevant, dit Maurice Sand, né le 30 juin 1823 à Paris et mort le 4 septembre 1889 à Nohant-Vic (Indre), est un écrivain, entomologiste et peintre français. Il est le fils de George Sand.
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. He also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. His Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics. Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust and Frederick Frost. As George Challis, Faust wrote the "Tizzo the Firebrand" series for Argosy magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of historical swashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.
Max Brod war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller, Theater- und Musikkritiker mit österreichischer, tschechoslowakischer und israelischer Staatsbürgerschaft. Sein einst erfolgreiches literarisches Werk ist heute weitgehend unbeachtet. Bedeutungsvoll sind seine Verdienste um den Erhalt der Werke des Schriftstellers Franz Kafka als deren Herausgeber, Bearbeiter und Interpret. Darüber hinaus war Brod Förderer der Komponisten Leoš Janáček und Jaromír Weinberger. Er gilt auch als Entdecker des Dichters Franz Werfel.
Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.
