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Murasaki Shikibu is the best known writer to emerge from Japan's glorious Heian period. Her novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji-monogatari) is considered to be one of the world's finest and earliest novels. Some argue that Murasaki is the world's first modern novelist.
Dr. Suess Genre. Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) created a very unique genre of literature within the children's literary sphere, being both theoretically and critically sound. His book Green Eggs and Ham, written in 1960, is considered under a multitude of different genres within the children's literature category.