CLT Author Bank






Thousands of different men and women have made valuable contributions to the richness of philosophy and thought that we have inherited. Fully two-thirds of CLT reading and writing passages are drawn from the list of authors below.
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
- Æschylus (525-455 BC)
- Æsop (621-565 BC)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- St Anselm of Canterbury (1034-1109)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
- St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- Archimedes (287-212 BC)
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
- St Athanasius (297-373)
- St Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- Averroës (1126-1198)
- Avicenna (980-1037)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Beowulf (8th century)
- Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
- The Bhagavad Gītā (2nd century BC)
- Boëthius (477-524)
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
- Martin Buber (1878-1965)
- John Bunyan (1628-1688)
- Julius Cæsar (100-44 BC)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- Willa Cather (1873-1947)
- St Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- Cicero (106-43 BC)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Confucius (551-479 BC)
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
- Epictetus (55-135)
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
- Euclid (ca. 300 BC)
- Euripides (480-406 BC)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- Herodotus (484-425 BC)
- Hippocrates (460-370 BC)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Homer (7th century BC)
- David Hume (1711-1776)
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- William James (1842-1910)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- Pope St John Paul II (1920-2005)
- Carl Jung (1875-1961)
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)
- Harper Lee (1926-2016)
- Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)
- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Lucretius (99-55 BC)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- James Madison (1751-1836)
- Maimonides (1138-1204)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- St Thomas More (1478-1535)
- St John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
- Ovid (43 BC-17)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- Max Planck (1858-1947)
- Plato (428-347 BC)
- Plutarch (46-120)
- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
- Pseudo-Dionysius (ca. 500)
- Ptolemy (100-170)
- John Rawls (1921-2002)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
- Sophocles (496-406 BC)
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
- Tacitus (56-120)
- St Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
- Tertullian (160-220)
- Thucydides (460-400 BC)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)