Harcourt Trade's publishing program is synonymous with such classic writers and thinkers as:

• Hannah Arendt
  
• T. S. Eliot (1948 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• E. M. Forster
  
• Sir William Golding (1983 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Gunter Grass (1999 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Daniel Keyes
  
• C. S. Lewis
  
• Sinclair Lewis (1930 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Thomas Merton
  
• Czeslaw Milosz (1980 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Anais Nin
• Flannery O'Connor
  
• George Orwell
  
• Octavio Paz (1990 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  
• Jose Saramago (1998 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Wislawa Szymborska (1996 Nobel Prize for Literature winner)
  
• Alice Walker
  
• Robert Penn Warren
  
• Eudora Welty