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| 2208 | Pushkin | Named for the great Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837). |
| 2362 | Mark Twain | Named for Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Lang-horne Clemens (1835–1910), world-famous American write |
| 2578 | Saint-Exupery | Named in memory of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), some time pilot, author o |
| 2625 | Jack London | Named for the celebrated American writer Jack London (1876–1916). (M 8542) |
| 2675 | Tolkien | Named in memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author and philologist, Merton professor of English |
| 2810 | Lev Tolstoj | Named for the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj (1828–1910). (M 8801) |
| 2921 | Sophocles | Named for the author of tragedies in ancient Athens (496–406 B.C.). Of his 123 tragedies only seven |
| 2930 | Euripides | Named for the author of tragedies in ancient Athens (480–406 B.C.). Of his 92 plays 19 survived. (M |
| 2934 | Aristophanes | Named for the author of comedies in ancient Athens (445–385 B.C.). Of his 44 plays 11 survived. (M 1 |
| 2985 | Shakespeare | Named for the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616). (M 10044) |
| 3044 | Saltykov | Named by the first discoverer in memory of her grandfather, Nikita Saltykov (1893–1946), well known |
| 3046 | Moliere | Named for the French playwright (1622–1673). (M 10045) |
| 3047 | Goethe | Named for the German poet and playwright {Johann Wolfgang von Goethe} (1749–1832). (M 10045) |
| 3067 | Akhmatova | Named in honor of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889–1966), outstanding poetess, awarded an honorary doc |
| 3079 | Schiller | Named for the German poet and playwright (1759–1805). (M 10045) |
| 3149 | Okudzhava | Named in honor of the contemporary Soviet writer, poet and singer Bulat Okudzhava. (M 12209; M 12851 |
| 3244 | Petronius | Named for Petronius (fl. c. A.D. 60), Roman author whose main work is the novel Satyricon. (M 16591) |
| 3412 | Kafka | Named in memory of the Bohemian writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924). In his novels and short stories (of |
| 3453 | Dostoevsky | Named for the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881). (M 12017) |
| 3771 | Alexejtolstoj | Named in memory of Alexej Nikolaevich Tolstoj (1883–1945), a well-known Russian writer and public fi |
| 4110 | Keats | Named after the English poet John Keats (1795–1821), who wrote of the thrill he experienced when he |
| 4124 | Herriot | Named in honor of James Herriot (1916–1995) {pen name James Alfred Wright}, veterinarian and writer. |
| 4370 | Dickens | Named for the great English novelist Charles Dickens (1812–1870). Dickens’ works include The Pickwic |
| 4474 | Proust | Named in honor of Dominique Proust, astrophysicist at the Meudon Observatory who works on observatio |
| 4635 | Rimbaud | Named in memory of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) on the occasion of the hundredth anniv |
| 4923 | Clarke | Named in honor of Arthur C. Clarke (1917– ), renowned author and visionary. His optimistic portrayal |
| 5020 | Asimov | Named in memory of Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), author and scientist. A prolific writer, Asimov produce |
| 5190 | Fry | Stephen Fry (b. 1957) is an English writer, actor, comedian, TV presenter and activist. He studied |
| 5418 | Joyce | Named in memory of James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of languag |
| 5535 | Annefrank | Named in memory of Anne Frank (1929–1945), whose life and diary form a poignant record of the ravage |
| 5666 | Rabelais | Named in memory of François Rabelais (c.1494–1553), great French writer, outstanding representative |
| 5676 | Voltaire | Named in memory of Marie François Arouet (Voltaire) (1694–1778), the great French writer, philosophe |
| 5697 | Arrhenius | Named in memory of the Swedish physicochemist Svante August Arrhenius (1859–1927). A professor in St |
| 6223 | Dahl | Named in honor of the Welsh-born author Roald Dahl (b. 1916). His Willy Wonka and the Chocolate |
| 6371 | Heinlein | Named in honor of Dieter Heinlein (1956– ). A resident of Augsburg, Germany, Heinlein in 1989 took o |
| 6440 | Ransome | Named in memory of Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), one of the best loved of all children's writers. His |
| 6984 | Lewiscarroll | Named after English fairy-tale author and mathematician Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 183 |
| 7016 | Conandoyle | Educated as a physician, Scots-born Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) became famous for his Adventur |
| 7232 | Nabokov | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet and critic. His be |
| 7328 | Casanova | Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a writer, spy and diplomat, the prince of Italian adventur |
| 7644 | Cslewis | Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British scholar and novelist, author of the famous children's |
| 7855 | Tagore | Named in memory of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer. Opposed to the Indian c |
| 8081 | Leopardi | Named in memory of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet and prose writer famous for his collec |
| 8812 | Kravtsov | Named for Ukrainian pilot and writer Yurij Fedorovich Kravtsov (1924-1994). The author and the hero |
| 9087 | Neff | Named for Vladimír Neff and Ondřej Neff. Vladimír Neff (1909-1983) was an outstanding Czech writer, |
| 10733 | Georgesand | Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant (1804-1876) was a French romantic writer who wrote under the pseudon |
| 11020 | Orwell | British writer George Orwell (Eric Blair, 1903-1950) was renowned for his novels Animal Farm |
| 11379 | Flaubert | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French writer who conceived a strong dislike of accepted ideas. |
| 15017 | Cuppy | William (“Will”) Jacob Cuppy (1884-1949) was an American humorist and journalist. A gentle satirist, |
| 29675 | Ippolitonievo | Ippolito Nievo (1831–1861) was an Italian writer, journalist and revolutionary. His Le Confessio |
| 44597 | Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an essayist and naturalist who took the naturalist beliefs of tr |