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)

• Dean Moriarty via concept surface "literary character"
• Sidney Lee via concept surface "literary scholar"
• Pliny the Younger via concept surface "Roman author"
• Sherwood Anderson via concept surface "modernist writer"
• Meyer Wolfsheim via concept surface "literary character"
• Betelgeusian via concept surface "literary character type"
• Haki R. Madhubuti via concept surface "literary critic"
• Joe Harper via concept surface "literary character"
• Robert Langdon via concept surface "literary character"
• Houston A. Baker Jr. via concept surface "literary critic"
• Alcuin of York via concept surface "Latin writer"
• Pausanias via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Karla Saaranen via concept surface "literary character"
• Richard Wright via concept surface "African American writer"
• Paul the Deacon via concept surface "Latin writer"
• Prabaker via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Maurice Maeterlinck via concept surface "Symbolist writer"
• Leonida Repaci via concept surface "cultural figure"
• Logan Killicks via concept surface "literary character"
• Jean Moréas via concept surface "literary critic"
• Yoshi via concept surface "Fictional character"
• Benjy Compson via concept surface "literary character"
• Jason Compson IV via concept surface "literary character"
• Dilsey Gibson via concept surface "literary character"
• Luster via concept surface "literary character"
• Holden Caulfield via concept surface "literary character"
• Mr. Antolini via concept surface "literary character"
• Stradlater via concept surface "literary character"
• Ackley via concept surface "literary character"
• Bontshe Shvayg via concept surface "literary character"
• Quentin Compson via concept surface "literary character"
• Miss Quentin via concept surface "literary character"
• Der Nister via concept surface "symbolist author"
• Caddy Compson via concept surface "literary character"
• Diedrich Knickerbocker via concept surface "literary persona"
• William Dean Howells via concept surface "literary critic"
• Tom Walker via concept surface "literary character"
• Prince Edward via concept surface "literary character"
• Mr. Jason Compson III via concept surface "literary character"
  surface form: Jason Compson III
• Phoebe Caulfield via concept surface "literary character"
• Caroline Compson via concept surface "literary character"
• D. B. Caulfield via concept surface "literary character"
• Imre Kertész via concept surface "Nobel laureate in Literature"
• Mendel Nachmanovich via concept surface "literary character"
• Boris Pasternak via concept surface "Russian writer"
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar via concept surface "literary scholar"
• Benedetto Croce via concept surface "literary critic"
• Joyce Carol Oates via concept surface "literary critic"
• Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls via concept surface "Fictional character"
  surface form: Ms. Norbury
• Sami