Worked as both an author and an actor
Charles Dickens
Left an unfinished novel due to a stroke
Is known mainly as a sciencie fiction author
Shakespeare
Jane Austen
The only one of these authors who is not English
H. G. Wells
George R. .R Martin
Began to write in the epistolary style (using letters written by the characters) without much success
Neil Gaiman
Wrote in all kinds of medium: novels, comics, film and t.v.