| A | B |
| one of the most productive writers of all time | Guy de Maupassant |
| the master of short fiction | Guy de Maupassant |
| credited with the "whiplash" ending | Guy de Maupassant |
| born in Normandy, France | Guy de Maupassant |
| ten-year apprenticeship with Gustave Flaubert | Guy de Maupassant |
| real name H.H. Munro | Saki |
| wrote Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, and Beasts and Super Beasts | Saki |
| satirical humor | Saki |
| born in Akyab (now Sittwe), Burma | Saki |
| killed in World War I | Saki |
| attracted a following in England by publishing translations of his works | Rabindranath Tagore |
| first non-Westerner to win the Nobel Prize for Literature | Rabindranath Tagore |
| wrote The Home and the World, The Hungry Stones, and The Supreme Right | Rabindranath Tagore |
| born in Veracruz, Mexico | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes |
| wrote novel El indio | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes |
| The Indian won first Mexican National Prize for Literature | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes |
| "A Letter to God" appears in his collection of stories entitlled "Mexican Country Tales" | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes |
| born in Gore, Virginia | Willa Cather |
| wrote The Troll Graden, O Pioneers!, and My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| wrote One of Ours about the future of the human race | Willa Cather |
| born in Eastwood, England | D. H. Lawrence |
| produced nearly forty columes of fiction, poetry, drama, literary description, and travel description | D. H. Lawrence |
| died of tuberculosis | D. H. Lawrence |