Add a touch of class to your poker table with Genius Writers, featuring some of the most exciting literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Fifty-four writers from the last 100 years have been chosen from the following periods: Modern, Mid-Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George's stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction ensure that even if you don't win, you're in good company. Genius Writers can be used in exactly the same way as regular playing cards. Each suit features a group of writers from history with numbers and court cards, including two jokers. The following periods: ModernJames JoyceWilliam FaulknerGeorge OrwellColetteThomas MannKatherine MansfieldF. Scott FitzgeraldGertrude SteinMarcel ProustErnest HemingwayFranz KafkaVirginia WoolfSamuel Beckett Mid-CenturyAlbert CamusUrsula K. Le GuinChinua AchebePhilip K. DickAleksandr SolzhenitsynJean RhysDoris LessingPhilip RothMarguerite DurasRaymond ChandlerJack KerouacClarice LispectorJohn Updike PostmodernGabriel García MárquezItalo CalvinoMaya AngelouGünter GrassSusan SontagJ.M. CoetzeeMilan KunderaHaruki MurakamiDavid Foster WallaceDon DeLilloRoberto BolañoToni MorrisonThomas Pynchon ContemporaryHilary MantelChimamanda Ngozi AdichieOrhan PamukLydia DavisMichel HouellebecqJonathan FranzenKarl Ove KnausgardJoan DidionJ.K. RowlingAlice MunroZadie SmithElena FerranteMargaret Atwood The JokersJorge Luis BorgesVladamir Nabokov Other Genius decks include: Genius Music (Genius Playing Cards)Genius Art (Genius Playing Cards)