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
cummings, e. e.: American poet
Defoe, Daniel: American author of Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles: British author of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily: American poet
Donne, John: English poet and author of “Death Be Not Proud”
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Russian novelist and author of Crime and Punishment
Dryden, John: English poet and author of Alexander’s Feast
Eliot, George: English novelist and author of Middlemarch
Eliot, T. S.: British poet and author of “The Waste Land”
Ellison, Ralph: American author of The Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: American philosopher and writer, and author of “Concord Hymn”
Euripedes: Greek dramatist known for his tragedies
Faulkner, William: American author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: American novelist and author of The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave: French writer and author of Madame Bovary
Frost, Robert: American poet and author of “The Road Not Taken”
Ginsberg, Allen: American poet and author of beat poetry, including Howl
Goëthe, Johann Wolfgang von: German writer and author of Faust
Golding, William: English author of The Lord of the Flies
Grimm Brothers: German authors of fairytales
Hardy, Thomas: English writer and author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: American author of The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest: American author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea
Hesse, Herman: German writer and author of Siddhartha
Homer: Greek poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
Hughes, Langston: Black American poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
Hugo, Victor: French writer and author of Les Misérables
Hurston, Zora Neale: Black American author of Their Eyes Were Watching God who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
Huxley, Aldous: British author of Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik: Norwegian playwright and author of A Doll’s House
James, Henry: American writer and author of The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James: Irish author of Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Kafka, Franz: German author of The Metamorphosis
Keats, John: English poet and author of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Kerouac, Jack: American poet and author of On the Road
Kipling, Rudyard: British author of The Jungle Book
Lawrence, D. H.: British author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lewis, Sinclair: American satirist and author of Main Street
London, Jack: American author of The Call of the Wild
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: American poet and author of Paul Revere’s Ride
Mann, Thomas: German author of The Magic Mountain
Marlowe, Christopher: English playwright and author of Dr. Faustus
Melville, Herman: American author of Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur: American playwright and author of The Crucible
Milton, John: British author of Paradise Lost
Morrison, Toni: Black American author of Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir: Russian writer and author of Lolita
O’Neill, Eugene: American playwright and author of A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George: English author of 1984 and Animal Farm
Ovid: Roman poet and author of Metamorphoses
Paine, Thomas: American writer and author of Common Sense
Petrarch: Italian Renaissance poet
Plath, Sylvia: American poet and author of The Bell Jar
Plutarch: Greek writer and author of The Parallel Lives
Poe, Edgar Allan: American author of “The Raven”
Pound, Ezra: American poet
Proust, Marcel: French novelist and author of Remembrance of Things Past
Rushdie, Salman: British novelist and author of The Satanic Verses
Scott, Sir Walter: Scottish novelist and author of Ivanhoe
Seuss, Dr.: American author of children’s books, including The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax
Shakespeare, William: British dramatist and author of MacBeth and The Tempest
Shaw, George Bernard: Irish playwright and author of Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary: English novelist and author of Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: English poet and author of Prometheus Unbound
Silverstein, Shel: American author of children’s poems, including Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sinclair, Upton: American writer and author of The Jungle
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander: Russian writer and author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles: Greek playwright and author of Oedipus Rex
Spenser, Edmund: English poet and author of The Faerie Queen
Steinbeck, John: American author of The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Scottish author of Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: American author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan: English author of Gulliver’s Travels
Thoreau, Henry David: American author of Walden
Tolkien, J. R. R.: British author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Tolstoy, Leo: Russian author of Anna Karenina
Twain, Mark: American author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Updike, John: American author of Rabbit, Run
Virgil: Roman poet and author of The Aeineid
Vonnegut, Kurt: American novelist and author of Slaughterhouse-Five
Wharton, Edith: British author of Ethan Frome
Whitman, Walt: American poet and author of Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar: Irish author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: American author of Little House on the Prairie
Wilder, Thornton: American playwright and author of Our Town
Williams, Tennessee: American playwright and author of A Streetcar Named Desire
Woolf, Virginia: British novelist and author of Mrs. Dalloway
Wordsworth, William: British poet
Yeats, William Butler: Irish playwright and author of The Winding Stair