Notable people
206 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
Writers
Writer / Poet
Authors known for poetry, prose, lyrics, drama and fiction
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Mural guide
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Writers are people known for literary composition, across rhapsodies, poems, lyrics, songs, drama, prose and fiction. Their achievement lies in surviving works and collected writings. They differ from cultural personas and subjects of famous writings in that writers are the ones who wrote, while the other two are people written about or created in the works.
People in this role
- Duke Mu of Zhao (Ji Hu)c. 870 BCE–828 BCE
- Duke Wu of Wei (Ji He)853 BCE–758 BCE
- Fan Bo (Earl of Fan)c. 810 BCE–760 BCE
- Lady Mu of Xuc. 690 BCE–640 BCE
- Xi Si (Gongzi Xi Si)c. 670 BCE–620 BCE
- Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu)c. 369 BCE–c. 286 BCE
- Qu Yuanc. 340 BCE–c. 278 BCE
- Xunzic. 313 BCE–c. 238 BCE
- Song YuDates unknown; Chu, late Warring States
- Jing ChaDates unknown; a Chu writer of the late Warring States (one reckoning c. 290–c. 223 BCE)
- Han MingDates unknown; active in the late Warring States under the Lord of Chunshen (c. 262-238 BCE)
- Zou Yang206 BCE–129 BCE
- Wei MengDates unknown; active in the Chu kingdom of the early Western Han, c. 201–154 BCE
- Jia Yi200 BCE–168 BCE
- Liu Zhang200 BCE–177 BCE
- Sima Xiangruc. 179 BCE–118 BCE
- Liu An179 BCE–122 BCE
- Jia ShanDates unknown; active in the reign of Emperor Wen of Han (179–157 BCE)
- Zhuo Wenjunc. 175 BCE - c. 121 BCE
- Mei ChengBirth unknown–c. 140 BCE
- Mao HengDates unknown; active in the early Western Han, in the time of Prince Xian of Hejian (155–130 BCE)
- Mao ChangDates unknown; active under King Xian of Hejian (r. 155–130 BCE)
- Dongfang Shuoc. 154 BCE–c. 93 BCE
- Sima Qianc. 145 BCE–c. 90 BCE (birth by another account 135 BCE)
- Zhufu YanBirth unknown, died 126 BCE
No people in this role for that dynasty.