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)