{
  "id": "literary-author-surnames",
  "name": "Literary Author Surnames",
  "title": "Literary Author Surnames",
  "description": "Surnames of well-known literary authors writing in English.",
  "category": "entertainment",
  "source": "https://github.com/dariusk/corpora",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/dariusk/corpora",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 500,
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "surname",
      "label": "Surname",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "surname": "Abbey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Achebe"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Acker"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ackerman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Adams"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Agee"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Aiken"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ainsworth"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Albee"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Alcott"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Alexie"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Algren"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Allen"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Allende"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Alvarez"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Amis"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Andrews"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Angelou"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Apollinaire"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Aragon"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Arendt"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Artaud"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Asch"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ashbery"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Asimov"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Atwood"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Auden"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Auel"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Austen"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Auster"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ballard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Banks"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Baraka"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Barnes"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Barrie"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Barth"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Barthelme"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Barthes"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bashevis Singer"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bataille"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Baum"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Beckett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Beerbohm"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bellamy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bellow"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Benchley"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bennett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bergson"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bester"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Blanchot"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bloom"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Blume"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bolaño"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Borges"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bowles"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brackenridge"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bradbury"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brautigan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brecht"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Breton"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brodsky"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brontë"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Brown"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bukowski"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Bulgakov"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Burney"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Burroughs"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Byatt"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Calvino"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Campbell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Camus"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Capote"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Card"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Carlyle"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Carroll"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Carver"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cather"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cheever"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Chekhov"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cherryh"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Chesnutt"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Chesterton"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Chomsky"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Chopin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Clancy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Clark"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Clarke"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cocteau"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Coetzee"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cohen"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Collins"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Conrad"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Conroy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cooper"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Coover"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cornwell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cortázar"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Coupland"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Coward"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Crane"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Creeley"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Crichton"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cronin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cummings"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cunningham"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Cussler"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Céline"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dahl"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Danticat"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Davis"
    },
    {
      "surname": "de Beauvoir"
    },
    {
      "surname": "de Saint-Exupéry"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Delany"
    },
    {
      "surname": "DeLillo"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dick"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dickens"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dickey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Didion"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dillard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Disraeli"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Doctorow"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Doolittle"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dorris"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dos Passos"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dostoyevsky"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Douglass"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Doyle"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dreiser"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Drury"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Du Maurier"
    },
    {
      "surname": "DuBois"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dufresne"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dunbar"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dunwich"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Durkheim"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Durrell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dylan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Dürrenmatt"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Easton Ellis"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ebert"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Eco"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Eddings"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Eliot"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ellison"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ellroy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Éluard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ephron"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Epstein"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Erdrich"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Faulkner"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ferlinghetti"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fern"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fielding"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Finney"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fitzgerald"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fleming"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Follett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ford"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Forester"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Forster"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Forsyth"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Foucault"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fowler"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fowles"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fox"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Franzen"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Frazier"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Freud"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Friedan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Friedman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fromm"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Frost"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Frye"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fuentes"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fugard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Fuller"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Furst"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gaddis"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gaiman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gaines"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Galsworthy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gandhi"
    },
    {
      "surname": "García Lorca"
    },
    {
      "surname": "García Márquez"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gardner"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gass"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gaunt"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Genet"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gibbons"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gide"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gilbert"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ginsberg"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ginzburg"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gissing"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Glück"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Godwin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Goethe"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gogol"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Golding"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Goldman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gordimer"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gordon"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Gorky"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Grass"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Graves"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Green"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Greenberg"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Greene"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Grisham"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hailey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hall"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hammett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hawthorne"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Heidegger"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Heinlein"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Heller"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hemingway"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Henry"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Herr"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hersey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hesse"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Highsmith"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hitchens"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hoffman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hopkins"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hornby"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Housman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Howard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Howells"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hubbard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hudson"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hughes"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Hurston"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Huxley"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ingalls Wilder"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ionesco"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Irving"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Isherwood"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ishiguro"
    },
    {
      "surname": "James"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Jewett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Joyce"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Jung"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Jünger"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kafka"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Keneally"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kennedy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kerouac"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kerr"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kesey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Keynes"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kilmer"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kincaid"
    },
    {
      "surname": "King"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kingsolver"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kingston"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kinsey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kipling"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Koestler"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Koltès"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Koontz"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kosinski"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Krakauer"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Kundera"
    },
    {
      "surname": "L'Amour"
    },
    {
      "surname": "L'Engle"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Larkin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Laurence"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lawrence"
    },
    {
      "surname": "le Carré"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Leary"
    },
    {
      "surname": "LeGuin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Leiris"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lem"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lessing"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lethem"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Letts"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Liebling"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lippard"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lodge"
    },
    {
      "surname": "London"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Longfellow"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lorde"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lott"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lovecraft"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lowell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Lowry"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Loy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ludlum"
    },
    {
      "surname": "MacLeish"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Madox Ford"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mailer"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Malamud"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Malraux"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mamet"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mann"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Matheson"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Maugham"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McCarthy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McCullers"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McCullough"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McEwan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McInerney"
    },
    {
      "surname": "McMurtry"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mead"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Melville"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mencken"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Merton"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Michener"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Miller"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Milne"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mitchell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Miłosz"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Molnár"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Moorcock"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Moore"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Morrison"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mosley"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Mumford"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Munro"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Murakami"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Murdoch"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Müller"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Nabokov"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Naipaul"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Nash"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Naylor"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Neruda"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Nesbit"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Neville"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Niedecker"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Nin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Noon"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Nordhoff"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Norman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Norris"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Némirovsky"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Brian"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Casey"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Connor"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Hara"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Nan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "O'Neill"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Oates"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Odets"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ōe"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Oliphant"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Olmstead"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Olson"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ondaatje"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Orwell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Ozick"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Page"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Palahniuk"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Paley"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pamuk"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Parker"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pasternak"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pekar"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Perkins Gilman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Piercy"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pinter"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pirandello"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Plath"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Platonov"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Poe"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Porter"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Potok"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Potter"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pound"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Powell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Powers"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pratchett"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Proulx"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Proust"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pullman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pushkin"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Puzo"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Pynchon"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Queneau"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Radcliffe"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rand"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rawlings"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rhys"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rilke"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Robbe-Grillet"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Robbins"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Roethke"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Roth"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rowling"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Rushdie"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Russell"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Russo"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sacher-Masoch"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sagan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Salinger"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Salzman"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sandburg"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Saramago"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Saroyan"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sartre"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Scott"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Scott-Heron"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sebald"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sebold"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sendak"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Seton"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Seuss"
    },
    {
      "surname": "Sexton"
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    {
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    {
      "surname": "Wright"
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