E.M. Forster (born January 1, 1879, London, England—died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire) was a British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism. (Britannica, 2024)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (born November 11 [October 30, Old Style], 1821, Moscow, Russia—died February 9 [January 28, Old Style], 1881, St. Petersburg) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. His ideas profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism. (Britannica, 2024)

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Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose enduring fame rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In his comedies, he proved himself to master the epigram. Despite his fall from society’s grace at the end of his life, Wilde came to be regarded as the personification of wit and sophistication. (Britannica, 2024)

“George A. Warren” was a pen name used on two early series, the Musket Boys series (1909—1910), about the American Revolutionary War, and the Banner Boy Scouts series (1912—1916).

Isobel Wylie Hutchison (30 May 1889 – 20 February 1982) was a pioneering Scottish Arctic explorer, botanist, filmmaker, poet, and travel writer. Born into a well-off family at Carlowrie Castle in West Lothian, she received a private education before setting out—often solo—on expeditions to Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands to collect plant specimens for institutions like Kew Gardens and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Her vivid travel books and National Geographic articles chronicled these journeys, and she frequently lectured using her own films, photographs, and sketches. In 1934, she became the first woman awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Mungo Park Medal in recognition of her botanical discoveries and “indomitable spirit.” Hutchison’s diaries, papers, and photographic archives now reside in the National Library of Scotland, preserving her legacy as both a scientist and storyteller (Scottish Poetry Library)