WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 –1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California. Sinclair wrote nearly 100 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.