James W Goll

The provided Wikipedia extract is a template for a list of individuals who have written in the German language, encompassing fiction, essays, and plays. It specifies that the list includes both living and deceased authors of any ethnicity or nationality. A note is included regarding the alphabetization of medieval authors, which are primarily sorted by their first name rather than a pseudonym. The extract also outlines abbreviations for different literary genres, such as children's literature (ch), drama (d), fiction (f), non-fiction (nf), and poetry (p). It then presents a skeletal structure of the alphabet, with sections for each letter from A to Z, presumably intended to contain author names. The document concludes with sections for "See also," "References," and "External links," suggesting further resources and related topics, such as other lists of German-language writers and a digital library of works by German-speaking women.