Lillian Hellman1905 – 1984
Mary McCarthy1912 – 1989
Jack Kerouac1922 – 1969
Truman Capote1924 – 1984
Norman Mailer1923 – 2007
Elizabeth Bishop1911 – 1979
J.D. Salinger1919 – 2010
Gore Vidal1925 – 2012
Ernest Hemingway1899 – 1961
Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881
Joseph Conrad1857 – 1924
D.H. Lawrence1885 – 1930
Herman Melville1819 – 1891
James Joyce1882 – 1941
Virginia Woolf1882 – 1941
Vladimir Nabokov1899 – 1977
Mark Twain1835 – 1910
William Faulkner1897 – 1962
Jane Austen1775 – 1817
Charlotte Brontë1816 – 1855
Anne Brontë1820 – 1849
Henry James1843 – 1916
Edgar Allan Poe1809 – 1849
Henry WadsworthLongfellow1807 – 1882
or every great author, there’s another great author eager to knock him or her down a few pegs. Although the writers on this map are typically deemed canonical by literary tastemakers, there wasn’t much mutual admiration amongst them.We’ve mapped out the rivalries and one-sided vendettas of many celebrated writers; just hover over an arrow between two authors to see a cutting insult directed by one to the other.
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Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing
James FenimoreCooper1789 – 1851