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)

• Nicholas Vedder via concept surface "literary character"
• Countee Cullen via concept surface "Harlem Renaissance figure"
• Jay Gatsby via concept surface "literary character"
• Romeo Montague via concept surface "literary character"
• Claude McKay via concept surface "Harlem Renaissance figure"
• Jean Toomer via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Dame Van Winkle via concept surface "literary character"
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing via concept surface "literary critic"
• Samuel Johnson via concept surface "literary critic"
• Alain Locke via concept surface "literary critic"
• Starbuck from Moby-Dick via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Starbuck
• Virginia Woolf via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Tom Joad via concept surface "literary character"
• Jim Casy via concept surface "literary character"
• Brother Cadfael via concept surface "literary character"
• Gottfried via concept surface "literary critic"
  surface form: Johann Gottfried Herder
• Ma Joad via concept surface "literary character"
• Hugh Blair via concept surface "literary critic"
• Johann Christoph Gottsched via concept surface "literary critic"
• Pa Joad via concept surface "literary character"
• Echecrates via concept surface "Literary character"
• Rose of Sharon Joad via concept surface "literary character"
• Fenchurch via concept surface "literary character"
• Friedrich Nicolai via concept surface "literary critic"
• Ada Galsworthy via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
  surface form: John Galsworthy
• Robert Jordan via concept surface "literary character"
• Desmond MacCarthy via concept surface "literary critic"
• Katrina Van Tassel via concept surface "literary character"
• Geoffrey Crayon via concept surface "literary persona"
• Edgar Allan Poe via concept surface "literary critic"
• William Tudor via concept surface "cultural figure"
• Harold Pinter via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Harold Bloom via concept surface "literary critic"
• Clayton via concept surface "literary character"
• Harry via concept surface "literary character"
• Hippolita via concept surface "literary character"
• Conrad via concept surface "literary character"
• Matilda via concept surface "literary character"
• George Falconer via concept surface "literary character"
• Judith Gardenier via concept surface "literary character"
• Celie Johnson via concept surface "literary character"
• Neal Cassady via concept surface "Beat Generation figure"
• Captain Ahab via concept surface "literary character"
• Queequeg via concept surface "literary character"
• Starbuck via concept surface "literary character"
• Stubb via concept surface "literary character"
• Flask via concept surface "literary character"
• Pip via concept surface "literary character"
• the Baron via concept surface "literary character"
• Mole via concept surface "literary character"