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Fifty–four writers from the last 100 years have been chosen from the following periods: Modern, Mid–Century, Postmodern, Contemporary.

Marcel George's stunning watercolor portraits of writers of fiction ensure that even if you don't win, you're in good company. Genius Writers can be used in exactly the same way as regular playing cards. Each suit features a group of writers from history with numbers and court cards, including two jokers.

Modern

• James Joyce
• William Faulkner
• George Orwell
• Colette
• Thomas Mann
• Katherine Mansfield
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Gertrude Stein
• Marcel Proust
• Ernest Hemingway
• Franz Kafka
• Virginia Woolf
• Samuel Beckett

Mid–Century

• Albert Camus
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Chinua Achebe
• Philip K. Dick
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Jean Rhys
• Doris Lessing
• Philip Roth
• Marguerite Duras
• Raymond Chandler
• Jack Kerouac
• Clarice Lispector
• John Updike

Postmodern

• Gabriel García Márquez
• Italo Calvino
• Maya Angelou
• Günter Grass
• Susan Sontag
• J.M. Coetzee
• Milan Kundera
• Haruki Murakami
• David Foster Wallace
• Don DeLillo
• Roberto Bolaño
• Toni Morrison
• Thomas Pynchon

Contemporary

• Hilary Mantel
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Orhan Pamuk
• Lydia Davis
• Michel Houellebecq
• Jonathan Franzen
• Karl Ove Knausgard
• Joan Didion
• J.K. Rowling
• Alice Munro
• Zadie Smith
• Elena Ferrante
• Margaret Atwood

The Jokers

• Jorge Luis Borges
• Vladamir Nabokov