Famous writers who had passed away in recent years included: - George Orwell - Carl Reinhart - Ernest Hemmingway - Faulkner (F Scott Fitzgerald) - Margaret Atwood - William Somerset Maugham - Mauriceamus - Lao She (Shu Yi) - Leo Tolstoy - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Hugo The above writers were all famous writers of the 20th century. Their representative works included novels, plays, poems, and so on.