Great People are always good for players in Sid Meier's Civilization 6, no matter what kind of victory they are going for. One of these Great People types is the Great Writer.
Great Writers in Civilization 6 are all named after real famous writers throughout human history and produce the real works that they have created in real life. These Great Works of Writing provide valuable tourism to the civilizations that house them.
However, in order to use a Great Writer, players need to have a place to put their works. If players don't have a place to put any Great Works of Writing, they can still keep their Great Writer and save the unit until they have a place to put their Great Work.
There are different possible places where players can place their Great Works of Writing. In order to use a Great Writer, players need to have the Great Writer travel to the tile that houses the building that can hold the Great Work. It needs to have an empty slot in order for the Great Writer to be used. Each Great Writer can be used up to two times.
The buildings and Wonders that can hold Great Works of Writing are:
- Amphitheater
- Apadana
- Bank (If Giovanni de' Medici is used to build it)
- Bolshoi Theatre
- Broadway
- Great Library
- Oxford University
- Queen's Bibliotheque
- Palace
There are a total of 50 Great Works of Writing and 25 Great Writers that players can get. They are:
- Alexander Pushkin
- Bhasa
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- H.G. Wells
- Homer
- James Joyce
- Jane Austen
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Karel Capek
- Leo Tolstoy
- Li Bai
- Margaret Cavendish
- Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
- Mark Twain
- Mary Shelly
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Ovid
- Qu Yuan
- Rabindranath Tagore
- William Shakespeare
Unlike Great People like Great Generals and Great Merchants, the names of the works and the Great Writers themselves don't really matter. None of the Great Writers have extra special abilities associated with their works except for the boosts in tourism. Unlike Great Works of Art and Artifacts, Great Works of Writing cannot be organized to increase tourism while displayed.
Civilization 6Â is available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Source: Civilization 6 Gamepedia
