Dead Souls Author Gogol (5 letters) is the pen name of Russian author Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, who wrote the novel Dead Souls in 1842. Dead Souls Author Paine (5 letters) is Thomas Paine, an English-American political activist and author who wrote The Age of Reason in 1794. Dead Souls Author Styx (4 letters) is the pseudonym of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who wrote Faust in 1808.