Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Expect the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) to test you on famous authors and their works. Even if you’re well read, you might find that the list of authors the MAT tests for is pretty intensive.
Here are some authors you should become familiar with before taking the MAT.
Aeschylus: Greek dramatist and author of Prometheus Bound
Aesop: Greek author of fables (stories with a moral)
Alcott, Louisa May: American author of Little Women
Alger, Horatio: American novelist
Alighieri, Dante: Italian author of The Divine Comedy
Andersen, Hans Christian: Danish author of fairytales
Angelou, Maya: Black American writer who wrote about growing up in the South
Aristophanes: Greek playwright and author of The Clouds
Austen, Jane: British author of Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Honoré de: French writer and author of La Comédie Humaine
Baudelaire, Charles: French poet and author of Les Fleurs du Mal
Beckett, Samuel: Irish existentialist and author of Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul: American novelist and author of Herzog
Blake, William: British poet and author of Songs of Innocence
Bradbury, Ray: American science fiction writer and author of The Martian Chronicles
Brontë, Charlotte: British author of Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: British author of Wuthering Heights
Byron, Lord George: Romantic poet and author of Don Juan
Camus, Albert: Existentialist French writer and author of The Stranger
Caroll, Lewis: British author of Alice in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: American author of Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de: Spanish author of Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey: English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales
Chekov, Anton Pavlovich: Russian playwright and author of The Cherry Orchard
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: British romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Conrad, Joseph: British writer and author of Heart of Darkness
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