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| Who is the Father/Mother of… | Answer | Lifespan | Literary Era |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Father of Tragedy | Aeschylus | 525–456 BCE | Ancient Greek, Classical Literature |
| The Father of Western Criticism | Aristotle | 384–322 BCE | Ancient Greek, Classical Philosophy |
| The Father of English Literature | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343–1400 | Medieval, Late Middle Ages |
| The Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343–1400 | Medieval, Late Middle Ages |
| The Father of the English Language | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343–1400 | Medieval, Late Middle Ages |
| The Father of Printing | Johannes Gutenberg | 1400–1468 | Renaissance, Early Modern |
| The Father of English Prose | William Tyndale | 1494–1536 | Renaissance, Early Modern |
| The Father of English Drama | William Shakespeare | 1564–1616 | Elizabethan, Renaissance |
| The Father of Modern Literature | William Shakespeare | 1564–1616 | Elizabethan, Renaissance |
| The Father of English Epic Poetry | John Milton | 1608–1674 | Renaissance, Early Modern |
| The Father of English Criticism | John Dryden | 1631–1700 | Restoration, Early Modern |
| The Father of English Essay | Francis Bacon | 1561–1626 | Renaissance, Early Modern |
| The Father of Romanticism | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712–1778 | Romanticism, 18th Century |
| The Father of Gothic Fiction | Horace Walpole | 1717–1797 | Gothic Fiction, 18th Century |
| The Father of Source Criticism | Jean Astruc | 1684–1766 | Enlightenment, 18th Century |
| The Father of American Literature | Washington Irving | 1783–1859 | Early American Literature, Romanticism |
| The Father of Historical Fiction | Sir Walter Scott | 1771–1832 | Romanticism, 19th Century |
| The Father of Free Verse | Walt Whitman | 1819–1892 | 19th Century, American Romanticism |
| The Father of American Poetry | Walt Whitman | 1819–1892 | 19th Century, American Romanticism |
| The Father of Detective Fiction | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809–1849 | 19th Century, American Gothic |
| The Father of Victorian Novel | Charles Dickens | 1812–1870 | Victorian Era |
| The Father of Modern Detective Fiction | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859–1930 | Victorian Era, Early 20th Century |
| The Father of Science Fiction | H.G. Wells | 1866–1946 | Late Victorian, Early 20th Century |
| The Father of Fantasy Literature | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1892–1973 | 20th Century, Modern Fantasy |
| The Father of Postcolonial Literature | Chinua Achebe | 1930–2013 | Postcolonial, 20th Century |
| The Father of Indian English Literature | Mulk Raj Anand | 1905–2004 | Postcolonial, 20th Century |
| The Father of New Criticism | John Crowe Ransom | 1888–1974 | New Criticism, Early 20th Century |
| The Father of Modern Poetry | T.S. Eliot | 1888–1965 | Modernism, Early 20th Century |
| The Father of Indian Literature in English | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | 1838–1894 | 19th Century, Pre-independence India |
| The Father of Modern Indian Poetry | Rabindranath Tagore | 1861–1941 | Modern Indian Literature, 19th–20th Century |
| The Father of Indian English Novel | R.K. Narayan | 1906–2001 | Indian Writing in English, 20th Century |
| The Father of Indian Theatre | Badal Sircar | 1925–2011 | Modern Indian Theatre, Postcolonial Era |
| The Father of Indian Drama | Bharata Muni and Bhāsa | 200 BCE and 200 CE | Ancient Indian Aesthetics |
| The Father of Feminist Literature | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1759–1797 | Enlightenment, Feminist Literature |
