Genius Writers (Genius Playing Cards)

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. Modern  James Joyce William Faulkner George Orwell Colette Thomas Mann Katherine Mansfield F. Scott Fitzgerald Gertrude Stein Marcel Proust Ernest Hemingway Franz Kafka Virginia Woolf Samuel Beckett Mid-Century  Albert Camus Ursula K. Le Guin Chinua Achebe Philip K. Dick Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jean Rhys Doris Lessing Philip Roth Marguer