Prominent Literary vegetarians
- Percy and Mary Shelley (the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was vegetarian but the humans were the real monsters)
- Benjamin Franklin (for many years he tried his best to be a vegetarian)
- Henry Thoreau (was vegetarian for most of the time)
- Tolstoy
- George Bernard Shaw
- Franz Kafka
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- J.M. Coetzee
- Jonathan Safran Foer wrote Eating Animals (2009), a brilliant, profound and compassionate book on his decision to become vegetarian, based on intensive research on the food industry in the United States: