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- A Boy's WillA Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, and is the poet's first commercially
- A Country Doctor (short story collection)A Country Doctor (German: Ein Landarzt) is a collection of short stories written mostly in
- A Man Without a CountryA Man Without a Country (subtitle: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America) is an ess
- Abbey TheatreNational Theatre of Ireland, Dublin
- AbdalRank of sainthood in Islamic thought
- Abdul Haq (Urdu scholar)Urdu linguist and scholar (1870–1961)
- Abu Nuwas8th-century classical Arabic poet
- Académie des Sciences Morales et PolitiquesThe Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (French pronunciation: , Academy of Moral
- Adam MickiewiczPoIish writer and activist (1798–1855)
- Aeschylus5th-century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
- Aestheticism19th-century art movement
- After the Ball (short story)"After the Ball" (also known as "After the Dance") (Russian: После бала) is a short story
- Agatha ChristieEnglish mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
- Al-Insān al-KāmilConcept of "Perfect Human" in Islam
- Alastor, or The Spirit of SolitudeAlastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 Sept
- Albert CamusFrench philosopher and writer (1913–1960)
- Alejo CarpentierCuban novelist (1904–1980)
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSoviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008)
- Alexander Henry StevensAlexander Henry Stevens (June 13, 1834 – July 10, 1916) was an American banker.
- Alexander KucharskyAlexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741 – 5 November 1819) also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Poli
- Alexander PopeEnglish poet (1688–1744)
- Alexander PushkinRussian writer (1799–1837)
- Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (August 18, 1854 – February 16, 1934) was an American a
- Alexandre DumasFrench writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
- Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson DickensAlfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer
- AliansSufi mystic order in Shia Islam
- Alighiero di BellincioneAlighiero di Bellincione (c. 1210–1283) was the father of Dante Alighieri.
- All Saints' Church, Sutton CourtenayThe Church of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay is the Church of England parish church of Sutto
- AllegoryLiterary device
- Allegory (mathematics)In the mathematical field of category theory, an allegory is a category that has some of t
- Álvaro Vargas LlosaÁlvaro Vargas Llosa (born 18 March 1966) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer and political commen
- American literatureLiterature written in or related to the United States
- Ami PerrinAmi Perrin (c. 1500 – 1561) was a Genevan leader of the "Libertins" party and one of the m
- Amir KhusrauIndian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)
- Amrit RaiAmrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet and biographer in
- An Ideal HusbandAn Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and poli
- Ancient accounts of HomerAncient accounts of Homer include numerous passages in which archaic and classical Greek p
- André GideFrench author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
- André Schwarz-BartAndré Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928, Metz, Moselle - September 30, 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guad
- AndromaqueAndromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexa
- Angelou (crater)Angelou is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 18 kilometers. Its name was adopted b
- Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i UrduLiterary organisation for the promotion of Urdu (1886)
- Anna AkhmatovaRussian and Soviet poet (1889–1966)
- Anne FrankGerman-born diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
- Antoine Destutt de TracyFrench aristocrat and philosopher (1754–1836)
- Anton ChekhovRussian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
- Antonin ArtaudFrench artist (1896–1948)
- António VieiraAntónio Vieira SJ (Portuguese pronunciation: ; 6 February 1608 – 18 July 1697) was a Portu
- ApocryphaWorks of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin
- Apollo KorzeniowskiApollo Korzeniowski (21 February 1820 – 23 May 1869) was a Polish poet, playwright, transl
- Arabic poetryForm of poetry
- Arbury HallArbury Hall (grid reference SP335893) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton, Warwi
- AristophanesClassical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
- Armand FallièresPresident of France from 1906 to 1913
- Arquà PetrarcaArquà Petrarca (Italian pronunciation: ) is a town and municipality (comune) in northeaste
- Arthur C. ClarkeBritish science fiction writer (1917–2008)
- Arthur Conan DoyleBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)
- Arthur MillerAmerican playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
- Arthur RimbaudFrench poet (1854–1891)
- Ash Wednesday (poem)Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1
- Astrid LindgrenSwedish author and screenwriter (1907–2002)
- August StrindbergSwedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
- AutobiographySelf-written biography