Classic Author skills for AI agents
100 practitioner-grade classic author skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.
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- Agatha Christie Style
Writes prose in the style of Agatha Christie, queen of mystery fiction. Activates on keywords like "Christie style," "whodunit," "mystery plotting," or "write like Agatha Christie."
90 lines - Albert Camus Style
Writes prose in the style of Albert Camus, absurdist philosopher-novelist. Activates on keywords like "Camus style," "absurdist fiction," "Mediterranean prose," or "write like Camus."
94 lines - Aldous Huxley Style
Writes prose in the style of Aldous Huxley, visionary satirist and polymath. Activates on keywords like "Huxley style," "dystopian satire," "intellectual fiction," or "write like Huxley."
89 lines - Alexandre Dumas Style
Writes prose in the style of Alexandre Dumas, master of historical adventure. Activates on keywords like "Dumas style," "swashbuckling fiction," "musketeer adventure," or "write like Alexandre Dumas."
87 lines - Alice Munro Style
Writes prose in the style of Alice Munro, Canadian short story master. Activates on keywords like "Munro style," "literary short fiction," "domestic realism," or "write like Alice Munro."
86 lines - Anton Chekhov Style
Writes prose in the style of Anton Chekhov, Russian master of realism. Activates on keywords like "Chekhov style," "Russian short story," "understated realism," or "write like Chekhov."
87 lines - Arthur C. Clarke Style
Writes prose in the style of Arthur C. Clarke, visionary of hard sci-fi. Activates on keywords like "Clarke style," "cosmic hard sci-fi," "transcendent technology," or "write like Arthur C. Clarke."
93 lines - Arthur Conan Doyle Style
Writes prose in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Activates on keywords like "Conan Doyle style," "detective fiction," "deductive reasoning," or "write like Conan Doyle."
89 lines - Bram Stoker Style
Writes prose in the style of Bram Stoker, architect of Gothic epistolary horror. Activates on keywords like "Stoker style," "Gothic epistolary," "Victorian horror," or "write like Bram Stoker."
96 lines - Carson McCullers Style
Writes prose in the style of Carson McCullers, poet of Southern loneliness and longing. Activates on keywords like "McCullers style," "Southern Gothic," "loneliness fiction," or "write like Carson McCullers."
96 lines - Charles Bukowski Style
Writes prose in the style of Charles Bukowski, laureate of the down-and-out. Activates on keywords like "Bukowski style," "dirty realism," "lowlife prose," or "write like Bukowski."
88 lines - Liu Cixin Style
Writes prose in the style of Liu Cixin, architect of cosmic-scale hard science fiction. Activates on keywords like "Liu Cixin style," "hard science fiction," "cosmic scale narrative," or "write like Liu Cixin."
96 lines - C.S. Lewis Style
Writes prose in the style of C.S. Lewis, British fantasy allegorist. Activates on keywords like "Lewis style," "allegorical fantasy," "Christian literary fiction," or "write like C.S. Lewis."
86 lines - Dante Alighieri Style
Writes prose in the style of Dante Alighieri, architect of the Divine Comedy. Activates on keywords like "Dante style," "terza rima," "allegorical journey," or "write like Dante."
96 lines - Daphne du Maurier Style
Writes prose in the style of Daphne du Maurier, architect of Gothic romantic suspense. Activates on keywords like "du Maurier style," "Gothic suspense," "romantic menace," or "write like Daphne du Maurier."
96 lines - Denis Johnson Style
Writes prose in the style of Denis Johnson, visionary of the American margins. Activates on keywords like "Johnson style," "transgressive fiction," "hallucinatory realism," or "write like Denis Johnson."
96 lines - D.H. Lawrence Style
Writes prose in the style of D.H. Lawrence, prophet of embodied consciousness. Activates on keywords like "Lawrence style," "embodied prose," "vitalist fiction," or "write like D.H. Lawrence."
96 lines - Don DeLillo Style
Writes prose in the style of Don DeLillo, postmodern chronicler of America. Activates on keywords like "DeLillo style," "systems novel," "media satire," or "write like DeLillo."
93 lines - Douglas Adams Style
Writes prose in the style of Douglas Adams, British comic sci-fi author. Activates on keywords like "Adams style," "absurdist sci-fi," "comedic science fiction," or "write like Douglas Adams."
90 lines - Edgar Allan Poe Style
Writes prose in the style of Edgar Allan Poe, architect of Gothic horror. Activates on keywords like "Poe style," "Gothic horror," "macabre atmosphere," or "write like Poe."
89 lines - Edith Wharton Style
Writes prose in the style of Edith Wharton, chronicler of the Gilded Age. Activates on keywords like "Wharton style," "Gilded Age fiction," "society novel," or "write like Edith Wharton."
87 lines - Elena Ferrante Style
Writes prose in the style of Elena Ferrante, Italian literary novelist. Activates on keywords like "Ferrante style," "female friendship fiction," "Neapolitan narrative," or "write like Ferrante."
87 lines - Emile Zola Style
Writes prose in the style of Emile Zola, founder of literary Naturalism. Activates on keywords like "Zola style," "naturalist fiction," "social documentary novel," or "write like Emile Zola."
94 lines - Emily Bronte Style
Writes prose in the style of Emily Bronte, visionary of wild passion. Activates on keywords like "Emily Bronte style," "moor Gothic," "elemental passion," or "write like Emily Bronte."
86 lines - F. Scott Fitzgerald Style
Writes prose in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald, poet of the Jazz Age. Activates on keywords like "Fitzgerald style," "Jazz Age elegance," "lyrical American prose," or "write like Fitzgerald."
91 lines - Flann O'Brien Style
Writes prose in the style of Flann O'Brien, Irish master of postmodern metafiction. Activates on keywords like "O'Brien style," "Irish postmodern," "metafictional comedy," or "write like Flann O'Brien."
96 lines - Flannery O'Connor Style
Writes prose in the style of Flannery O'Connor, Southern Gothic visionary. Activates on keywords like "O'Connor style," "grotesque fiction," "Southern Gothic violence," or "write like Flannery O'Connor."
93 lines - Frank Herbert Style
Writes prose in the style of Frank Herbert, American sci-fi visionary. Activates on keywords like "Herbert style," "ecological sci-fi," "political science fiction," or "write like Frank Herbert."
88 lines - George Eliot Style
Writes prose in the style of George Eliot, Victorian realist novelist. Activates on keywords like "Eliot style," "psychological realism," "Victorian moral fiction," or "write like George Eliot."
86 lines - George Orwell Style
Writes prose in the style of George Orwell, champion of clarity and truth. Activates on keywords like "Orwell style," "political clarity," "plain prose," or "write like Orwell."
87 lines - Gustave Flaubert Style
Writes prose in the style of Gustave Flaubert, architect of French Realism. Activates on keywords like "Flaubert style," "le mot juste," "French realism," or "write like Gustave Flaubert."
93 lines - Harlan Ellison Style
Writes prose in the style of Harlan Ellison, rage-fueled speculative fiction provocateur. Activates on keywords like "Ellison style," "speculative provocation," "angry science fiction," or "write like Harlan Ellison."
96 lines - Henry James Style
Writes prose in the style of Henry James, master of psychological realism. Activates on keywords like "James style," "Jamesian prose," "psychological realism," or "write like Henry James."
90 lines - Herman Melville Style
Writes prose in the style of Herman Melville, author of the American epic. Activates on keywords like "Melville style," "American epic," "oceanic prose," or "write like Melville."
91 lines - Hermann Hesse Style
Writes prose in the style of Hermann Hesse, novelist of spiritual seeking. Activates on keywords like "Hesse style," "spiritual fiction," "inner journey novel," or "write like Hermann Hesse."
93 lines - Homer Style
Writes prose in the style of Homer, foundational epic poet of Western literature. Activates on keywords like "Homeric style," "epic poetry," "oral tradition," or "write like Homer."
96 lines - Honore de Balzac Style
Writes prose in the style of Honore de Balzac, architect of La Comedie Humaine. Activates on keywords like "Balzac style," "French social realism," "panoramic fiction," or "write like Honore de Balzac."
96 lines - H.P. Lovecraft Style
Writes prose in the style of H.P. Lovecraft, father of cosmic horror. Activates on keywords like "Lovecraft style," "cosmic horror," "eldritch dread," or "write like Lovecraft."
90 lines - Hunter S. Thompson Style
Writes prose in the style of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalism inventor. Activates on keywords like "Thompson style," "Gonzo journalism," "fear and loathing," or "write like Hunter Thompson."
92 lines - Isaac Asimov Style
Writes prose in the style of Isaac Asimov, master of hard science fiction. Activates on keywords like "Asimov style," "hard sci-fi," "ideas-driven fiction," or "write like Asimov."
91 lines - Isabel Allende Style
Writes prose in the style of Isabel Allende, Chilean magical realist. Activates on keywords like "Allende style," "magical realism," "Latin American family saga," or "write like Allende."
86 lines - Jack Kerouac Style
Writes prose in the style of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation pioneer. Activates on keywords like "Kerouac style," "spontaneous prose," "Beat generation," or "write like Kerouac."
93 lines - James Fenimore Cooper Style
Writes prose in the style of James Fenimore Cooper, American frontier novelist. Activates on keywords like "Cooper style," "frontier romance," "Leatherstocking tales," or "write like James Fenimore Cooper."
91 lines - James Joyce Style
Writes prose in the style of James Joyce, Irish modernist master. Activates on keywords like "Joyce style," "stream of consciousness," "modernist prose," or "write like Joyce."
87 lines - Charlotte Bronte Style
Writes prose in the style of Charlotte Bronte, Victorian feminist voice. Activates on keywords like "Bronte style," "Gothic romance," "Victorian passion," or "write like Charlotte Bronte."
86 lines - Jean-Paul Sartre Style
Writes prose in the style of Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher-novelist. Activates on keywords like "Sartre style," "existentialist fiction," "phenomenological prose," or "write like Sartre."
93 lines - J.K. Rowling Style
Writes prose in the style of J.K. Rowling, British fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Rowling style," "magical worldbuilding," "British fantasy fiction," or "write like Rowling."
86 lines - Joan Didion Style
Writes prose in the style of Joan Didion, essayist of American disorder. Activates on keywords like "Didion style," "New Journalism," "California noir essay," or "write like Joan Didion."
93 lines - John Steinbeck Style
Writes prose in the style of John Steinbeck, American realist chronicler. Activates on keywords like "Steinbeck style," "social realism," "working-class fiction," or "write like Steinbeck."
93 lines - John Updike Style
Writes prose in the style of John Updike, chronicler of American suburban life. Activates on keywords like "Updike style," "suburban realism," "lyrical observation," or "write like Updike."
96 lines - Jose Saramago Style
Writes prose in the style of Jose Saramago, allegorical Nobel laureate. Activates on keywords like "Saramago style," "allegorical fiction," "flowing punctuation," or "write like Saramago."
93 lines - Joseph Conrad Style
Writes prose in the style of Joseph Conrad, master of moral ambiguity and maritime modernism. Activates on keywords like "Conrad style," "moral ambiguity," "colonial critique," or "write like Conrad."
96 lines - Julio Cortazar Style
Writes prose in the style of Julio Cortazar, Argentine experimental master. Activates on keywords like "Cortazar style," "experimental fiction," "Argentine surrealism," or "write like Julio Cortazar."
92 lines - Nikos Kazantzakis Style
Writes prose in the style of Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek literary visionary. Activates on keywords like "Kazantzakis style," "Greek literary fiction," "Dionysian prose," or "write like Nikos Kazantzakis."
95 lines - Kurt Vonnegut Style
Writes prose in the style of Kurt Vonnegut, satirist of the absurd. Activates on keywords like "Vonnegut style," "satirical sci-fi," "dark absurdism," or "write like Vonnegut."
88 lines - Langston Hughes Style
Writes prose in the style of Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance poet. Activates on keywords like "Hughes style," "jazz poetry prose," "Harlem Renaissance writing," or "write like Langston Hughes."
89 lines - Lorrie Moore Style
Writes prose in the style of Lorrie Moore, queen of comic heartbreak fiction. Activates on keywords like "Moore style," "comic literary fiction," "witty grief," or "write like Lorrie Moore."
96 lines - Marcel Proust Style
Writes prose in the style of Marcel Proust, modernist master of memory. Activates on keywords like "Proust style," "involuntary memory," "Proustian sentences," or "write like Proust."
93 lines - Mario Vargas Llosa Style
Writes prose in the style of Mario Vargas Llosa, master of Latin American fiction. Activates on keywords like "Vargas Llosa style," "structural realism," "Latin American political novel," or "write like Vargas Llosa."
96 lines - Mark Twain Style
Writes prose in the style of Mark Twain, father of American literature. Activates on keywords like "Twain style," "vernacular humor," "American realism," or "write like Mark Twain."
87 lines - Mary Shelley Style
Writes prose in the style of Mary Shelley, pioneer of science fiction and Gothic literature. Activates on keywords like "Shelley style," "Gothic science fiction," "Romantic horror," or "write like Mary Shelley."
96 lines - Miguel de Cervantes Style
Writes prose in the style of Miguel de Cervantes, inventor of the modern novel. Activates on keywords like "Cervantes style," "picaresque fiction," "metafictional comedy," or "write like Cervantes."
96 lines - Mikhail Bulgakov Style
Writes prose in the style of Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian satirical fantasist. Activates on keywords like "Bulgakov style," "satirical fantasy," "Soviet surrealism," or "write like Bulgakov."
86 lines - Milan Kundera Style
Writes prose in the style of Milan Kundera, philosophical novelist of memory. Activates on keywords like "Kundera style," "philosophical fiction," "lightness and weight," or "write like Kundera."
93 lines - Naguib Mahfouz Style
Writes prose in the style of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel laureate. Activates on keywords like "Mahfouz style," "Cairo realism," "Arabic literary fiction," or "write like Mahfouz."
87 lines - Nathaniel Hawthorne Style
Writes prose in the style of Nathaniel Hawthorne, master of dark romanticism. Activates on keywords like "Hawthorne style," "dark romanticism," "allegorical fiction," or "write like Hawthorne."
93 lines - Oscar Wilde Style
Writes prose in the style of Oscar Wilde, master of wit and paradox. Activates on keywords like "Wilde style," "epigrammatic wit," "aesthetic satire," or "write like Oscar Wilde."
88 lines - Pablo Neruda Style
Writes prose and verse in the style of Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet of earthly wonder. Activates on keywords like "Neruda style," "elemental poetry," "Latin American odes," or "write like Pablo Neruda."
95 lines - Patrick Suskind Style
Writes prose in the style of Patrick Suskind, master of sensory fiction. Activates on keywords like "Suskind style," "olfactory fiction," "sensory prose," or "write like Patrick Suskind."
96 lines - Philip K. Dick Style
Writes prose in the style of Philip K. Dick, master of paranoid sci-fi. Activates on keywords like "PKD style," "paranoid science fiction," "reality questioning," or "write like Philip K. Dick."
89 lines - Philip Roth Style
Writes prose in the style of Philip Roth, American literary provocateur. Activates on keywords like "Roth style," "American obsession," "confessional fiction," or "write like Philip Roth."
93 lines - Ralph Ellison Style
Writes prose in the style of Ralph Ellison, American literary visionary. Activates on keywords like "Ellison style," "invisible man prose," "jazz-inflected fiction," or "write like Ralph Ellison."
94 lines - Ray Bradbury Style
Writes prose in the style of Ray Bradbury, poet of science fiction. Activates on keywords like "Bradbury style," "lyrical sci-fi," "nostalgic wonder," or "write like Ray Bradbury."
89 lines - Raymond Carver Style
Writes prose in the style of Raymond Carver, master of American minimalist fiction. Activates on keywords like "Carver style," "minimalist fiction," "blue-collar realism," or "write like Carver."
96 lines - Roald Dahl Style
Writes prose in the style of Roald Dahl, British dark humor master. Activates on keywords like "Dahl style," "dark children's fiction," "wicked humor," or "write like Roald Dahl."
86 lines - Robert Louis Stevenson Style
Writes prose in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson, master of adventure fiction. Activates on keywords like "Stevenson style," "adventure fiction," "Victorian adventure," or "write like Robert Louis Stevenson."
93 lines - Roberto Bolano Style
Writes prose in the style of Roberto Bolano, Chilean-Mexican novelist. Activates on keywords like "Bolano style," "literary detective fiction," "Latin American postmodern," or "write like Bolano."
86 lines - Salman Rushdie Style
Writes prose in the style of Salman Rushdie, magical realist fabulist. Activates on keywords like "Rushdie style," "magical realism," "postcolonial fabulism," or "write like Rushdie."
93 lines - Samuel Beckett Style
Writes prose in the style of Samuel Beckett, master of absurdist minimalism. Activates on keywords like "Beckett style," "absurdist prose," "existential minimalism," or "write like Beckett."
96 lines - Saul Bellow Style
Writes prose in the style of Saul Bellow, American literary intellectual. Activates on keywords like "Bellow style," "intellectual fiction," "urban American novel," or "write like Saul Bellow."
93 lines - Shirley Jackson Style
Writes prose in the style of Shirley Jackson, master of domestic Gothic horror. Activates on keywords like "Jackson style," "domestic horror," "psychological Gothic," or "write like Shirley Jackson."
96 lines - Simone de Beauvoir Style
Writes prose in the style of Simone de Beauvoir, French existentialist author. Activates on keywords like "de Beauvoir style," "existentialist fiction," "feminist literary prose," or "write like de Beauvoir."
89 lines - Stanislaw Lem Style
Writes prose in the style of Stanislaw Lem, Polish philosophical sci-fi master. Activates on keywords like "Lem style," "philosophical sci-fi," "first contact fiction," or "write like Stanislaw Lem."
88 lines - Stendhal Style
Writes prose in the style of Stendhal, pioneer of psychological realism. Activates on keywords like "Stendhal style," "crystallization," "French psychological novel," or "write like Stendhal."
95 lines - Sylvia Plath Style
Writes prose in the style of Sylvia Plath, confessional poet and novelist. Activates on keywords like "Plath style," "confessional intensity," "feminist Gothic," or "write like Sylvia Plath."
87 lines - Terry Pratchett Style
Writes prose in the style of Terry Pratchett, British comic fantasy master. Activates on keywords like "Pratchett style," "comic fantasy," "Discworld humor," or "write like Pratchett."
89 lines - Thomas Hardy Style
Writes prose in the style of Thomas Hardy, Victorian tragic novelist. Activates on keywords like "Hardy style," "Wessex tragedy," "fatalistic pastoral," or "write like Thomas Hardy."
88 lines - Thomas Mann Style
Writes prose in the style of Thomas Mann, titan of German literary fiction. Activates on keywords like "Mann style," "German literary novel," "ironic realism," or "write like Thomas Mann."
96 lines - Thomas Pynchon Style
Writes prose in the style of Thomas Pynchon, postmodern encyclopedic novelist. Activates on keywords like "Pynchon style," "paranoid fiction," "encyclopedic novel," or "write like Pynchon."
94 lines - J.R.R. Tolkien Style
Writes prose in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien, father of high fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Tolkien style," "epic fantasy," "mythic worldbuilding," or "write like Tolkien."
87 lines - Toni Cade Bambara Style
Writes prose in the style of Toni Cade Bambara, voice of Black community life. Activates on keywords like "Bambara style," "vernacular narration," "community fiction," or "write like Bambara."
96 lines - Truman Capote Style
Writes prose in the style of Truman Capote, literary nonfiction pioneer. Activates on keywords like "Capote style," "nonfiction novel," "literary journalism," or "write like Capote."
92 lines - Umberto Eco Style
Writes prose in the style of Umberto Eco, Italian intellectual novelist. Activates on keywords like "Eco style," "intellectual mystery," "historical literary fiction," or "write like Eco."
86 lines - Victor Hugo Style
Writes prose in the style of Victor Hugo, titan of French Romanticism. Activates on keywords like "Hugo style," "French Romantic," "epic social fiction," or "write like Victor Hugo."
92 lines - Vladimir Nabokov Style
Writes prose in the style of Vladimir Nabokov, postmodern stylist supreme. Activates on keywords like "Nabokov style," "ornate prose," "unreliable narrator," or "write like Nabokov."
94 lines - Willa Cather Style
Writes prose in the style of Willa Cather, voice of the American prairie. Activates on keywords like "Cather style," "prairie literature," "pioneer fiction," or "write like Willa Cather."
90 lines - William Faulkner Style
Writes prose in the style of William Faulkner, Southern Gothic titan. Activates on keywords like "Faulkner style," "Southern Gothic," "Yoknapatawpha," or "write like Faulkner."
91 lines - William Shakespeare Style
Writes prose in the style of William Shakespeare, supreme dramatist and poet. Activates on keywords like "Shakespeare style," "iambic verse," "Elizabethan drama," or "write like Shakespeare."
96 lines - Yukio Mishima Style
Writes prose in the style of Yukio Mishima, Japanese literary master. Activates on keywords like "Mishima style," "aesthetic obsession," "Japanese literary fiction," or "write like Mishima."
87 lines - Zora Neale Hurston Style
Writes prose in the style of Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem Renaissance author. Activates on keywords like "Hurston style," "African American vernacular," "Harlem Renaissance prose," or "write like Hurston."
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