I was interested in seeing roughly how the authors of the Fortnightly Books I have done were distributed. There's no easy way to do it, but I picked birthplace with respect to modern-day country. This would not be particularly useful as a literary grouping -- while there is undeniably a sense in which (e.g.) Kipling is Indian as an author, there is no significant sense in which Tolkien is South African as an author. But it has the advantage of being a standard that can be applied across the board and that is usually easy to find (there are only a few cases where we don't know enough to pin down exactly what modern-day country a person was born in). Alternatives would also not be definitely better (death place would give even less plausible results, and trying to pin down a 'place of literary flourishing' would be immensely more difficult and less objective). In any case, the point is just to get a rough sense. It's unsurprising that the UK and the USA dominate, of course. I've broken up the UK into its constituent countries. I thought about doing so with the states, as well, but decided that would be too messy, and instead just settled for giving a quick abbreviation identifying the state in which the author was born. One thing I learned from doing this is that, out of the 110 identifiable authors, I have had far fewer Texan, Spanish, and Scandinavian authors than I had thought, and no Canadians at all. Also, I have never done Euripides, which is unacceptable. Something perhaps to remedy by the end of next year.
Algeria
Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Austria
Douglas, The South Wind
Czech Republic
Werfel, The Song of Bernadette
Denmark
Undset, Saint Catherine of Siena, Ida Elisabeth
England
--, Beowulf
--, The Complete Old English Poems
Austen, Sanditon, The Watsons, Lady Susan, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
Brontë (Ch), Villette
Burdekin, Swastika Night
Caldwell, Never Victorious, Never Defeated
Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
Christie, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Appointment with Death, 13 at Dinner, The Tuesday Club Murders, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Collins, The Moonstone
Cooper, The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Coward, Future Indefinite
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Eliot, Romola
Gordon (Lord Byron), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Heyer, A Civil Contract
Jones, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin
King-Hall, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765
Plunkett (Lord Dunsany), The King of Elfland's Daughter
Renault, Fire from Heaven
Sayers, Have His Carcase, The Man Born to Be King
Shakespeare, Histories
Shelley (P), Prometheus Unbound
Waugh, Edmund Campion, Brideshead Revisited, Helena
Williams, Many Dimensions
Finland
Lönnrot, The Kalevala, The Kanteletar
France
Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
Balzac, Eugenie Grandet, The Wild Ass's Skin, The Quest of the Absolute
Bédier, The Romance of Tristan & Iseult
Dumas, The Three Musketeers (with Maquet)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Hugo, Les Misérables
Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon, The Kip Brothers, Travel Scholarships, The Self-Propelled Island, A Castle in Transylvania, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Germany
Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Faust
Schiller, William Tell
Greece
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Sophocles, The Theban Plays of Sophocles
Iceland
--, Njal's Saga
--, Saga of the Volsungs
--, Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
--, The Poetic Edda
India
Kipling, Kim
Ireland
Shaw, Two Plays for Puritans, Man and Superman
Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Stoker, Dracula
Italy
Danta, Purgatorio
Eco, The Island of the Day Before, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum
Manzoni, The Betrothed
Tomasi (di Lampedusa), The Leopard
Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
Japan
Endō, Silence
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
Sono, Watcher from the Shore
Northern Ireland
Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Philippines
Joaquin, Cave and Shadows, May Day Eve and Other Stories
Russia
Asimov, The Foundation Series, The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr
Chekhov, Two Plays
Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Rand, Anthem
Solzhenitsyn, August 1914, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Zamyatin, We
Scotland
Brown, Magnus
MacDonald, Lilith
MacInnes, North from Rome
Scott, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley
Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, Kidnapped
South Africa
Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, Roverandom, The Hobbit
Spain
Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (St. Teresa), The Life, The Interior Castle
Unamuno y Jugo, San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
Switzerland
Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson
Ukraine
Conrad, Nostromo
USA
Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase [PA]
Brown, Storming Heaven, Shadows of Steel [NY]
Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Return of Tarzan [IL]
Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Ántonia [VA]
Cooper, The Deerslayer; The Spy [NJ]
Crichton, Jurassic Park [IL]
Dodson, Away All Boats [WA?]
Donlon, Outpost of Freedom [NY]
Douglas, Magnificent Obsession [IN]
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [MD]
Ferber, Cimarron [MI]
Gilman, Herland [CT]
Harte, Tales of the Gold Rush [NY]
Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, Twice-Told Tales [MA]
Haycox, The Adventurers [OR]
Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier
Howells, The Big Company Look [LA?]
Hyman, No Time for Sergeants [GA]
L'Amour, Sackett, The Sackett Brand [ND]
London, The Sea-Wolf [CA]
Markle, The Teka Stone [PA]
Marquand, Think Fast, Mr Moto [DE]
McIntyre, The River Witch [GA]
Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz [FL]
Morrison, The Devious Way [MA?]
Ormonde, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba [ID?]
Powers, Declare [NY]
Price, The Beloved Invader [WV]
Slaughter, Sword and Scalpel [DC]
Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events [CA]
Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Court [CA}
Straczynski, Demon Night [NJ]
Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire [IN]
Terry, Tom Northway [TX?]
Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte, The Innocents Abroad [FL]
Washington, Up from Slavery [VA]
Wales
--, The Mabinogion
Unknown
First, Second, Third, and Fourth Maccabees
The Book of a Thousand Nights and A Night Volume I, Volume II
