Sample Essays on the Most Important Writers for Students Ray Bradbury Sylvia Plath John Steinbeck Nathaniel Hawthorne Leo Tolstoy Shakespeare Walt Whitman William Blake William Wordsworth William Faulkner Shirley Jackson Zora Neale Hurston Mark Twain Jane Austen Hemingway Emily Dickinson Amy Tan Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe Anne Bradstreet Kate Chopin Langston Hughes Alice Walker George Orwell Scott Fitzgerald Homer Plato Sophocles