literary figure

A literary figure is a person, real or fictional, who plays a significant role in the creation, development, or representation of literature and its cultural impact.

Observed surface forms (43)

• literary character ×224
• literary critic ×62
• Fictional character ×18
• Nobel laureate in Literature ×13
• modernist writer ×13
• Harlem Renaissance figure ×6
• African American writer ×4
• Latin writer ×4
• Literary character ×4
• cultural figure ×4

• literary scholar ×4
• Latin author ×3
• Nobel Prize laureate in Literature ×3
• Roman author ×3
• Russian writer ×3
• literary agent ×3
• literary character type ×3
• literary theorist ×3
• child character in literature ×2
• folk tale character ×2
• literary historian ×2
• literary persona ×2
• short story character ×2
• Arthurian literature author ×1
• Beat Generation figure ×1
• Character in literature ×1
• Fireside Poet ×1
• Hebrew-language writer ×1
• Renaissance writer ×1
• Symbolist writer ×1
• Victorian-era writer ×1
• character in Plato's dialogues ×1
• character in literature ×1
• classical Kannada writer ×1
• drama character ×1
• key figure of the Harlem Renaissance ×1
• literary elite ×1
• literary modernist ×1
• modernist author ×1
• pioneer of modern Hebrew literature ×1
• pioneer of modern Yiddish literature ×1
• socialist realist writer ×1
• symbolist author ×1

Instances (391)

• Jake Peralta via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Tom Sawyer via concept surface "literary character"
• Brom Bones via concept surface "literary character"
• Francis H. Underwood
• scribes of Judah via concept surface "literary elite"
• Becky Thatcher via concept surface "literary character"
• Aunt Polly via concept surface "literary character"
• Benjamin Disraeli via concept surface "Victorian-era writer"
• Lactantius via concept surface "Latin writer"
• I. L. Peretz via concept surface "modernist author"
• Thomas Malory via concept surface "Arthurian literature author"
• Headless Horseman via concept surface "literary character"
• Émile Zola via concept surface "literary critic"
• Langston Hughes via concept surface "Harlem Renaissance figure"
• Mendele Mocher Sforim via concept surface "Hebrew-language writer"
• Arthur Dent via concept surface "Fictional character"
• d'Artagnan via concept surface "literary character"
• Isaac Bashevis Singer via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Ford Prefect via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Huckleberry Finn via concept surface "literary character"
• Marvin the Paranoid Android via concept surface "character in literature"
• Aramis via concept surface "literary character"
• Charles Eliot Norton via concept surface "literary critic"
• William Faulkner via concept surface "Nobel Prize laureate in Literature"
• Sheriff of Nottingham via concept surface "literary character"
• Constance Bonacieux via concept surface "literary character"
• Willa Cather via concept surface "literary critic"
• George Orwell via concept surface "literary critic"
• Franz Kafka via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Tertullian via concept surface "Latin writer"
• James Bond via concept surface "literary character"
• Reverend John Hale via concept surface "literary character"
• Judge Danforth via concept surface "literary character"
• Elinor Dashwood via concept surface "literary character"
• Tom Canty via concept surface "literary character"
• Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Dorothy Gale
• Mary Warren via concept surface "literary character"
• Leonardo Bruni via concept surface "Renaissance writer"
• T. E. Hulme via concept surface "literary critic"
• Samuel Beckett via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Margaret Schlegel via concept surface "literary character"
• Charles Baudelaire via concept surface "literary critic"
• Ezra Pound via concept surface "literary critic"
• Ichabod Crane via concept surface "short story character"
• Sir Sidney Lee via concept surface "literary scholar"
• Theodor Mommsen via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Anton Chekhov via concept surface "Russian writer"
• Leslie Stephen via concept surface "literary critic"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge via concept surface "literary critic"
• Pierre Bezukhov via concept surface "Fictional character"