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Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)

British writer, 1964–present

French novelist (1697–1763)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)

Agatha Christie

English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Algerian writer

Ahmed Ali (writer)

Pakistani novelist and poet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French writer and film director (1922–2008)

New Zealand writer

Alan Hollinghurst

English writer, translator and poet

Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist

Australian journalist and war correspondent

French philosopher and writer (1913–1960)

Albert Cohen (novelist)

Swiss writer (1895-1981)

Australian writer and World War I veteran (1894-1982)

Alberto Moravia

Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)

English writer and philosopher

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban novelist (1904 - 1980)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer and historian

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Pisemsky

Russian novelist

Aleksey Remizov

Russian writer (1877-1957)

National writer of Finland (1834–1872)

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian poet and novelist (1785–1873)

American writer

Alexander Belyaev

Alexander Fadeyev (writer)

Soviet writer and politician

Alexander Herzen

Russian author and revolutionary (1812–1870)

Alexander Karasyov

Alexander Kielland

Norwegian writer

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

Alexandre Dumas fils

French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)

Norwegian singer-songwriter and author (1914–1970)

German novelist, essayist, and doctor (1878–1957)

Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)

American author and activist

American author, professor (born 1980 or 1981)

Alistair MacLean

Scottish writer

Aloysius Bertrand

Alphonse Daudet

French novelist

Aluísio Azevedo

Brazilian writer and diplomat (1857–1913)

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

English novelist and abolitionist

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)

American novelist (born 1952)

Writer of novels, short stories.

French author and journalist (1844–1924)

French author and Nobel laureate

French winemaker (1766–1832)

André Pieyre de Mandiargues

French novelist

Russian poet, writer and critic (1880-1934)

Andrei Platonov

Andrew Neiderman

American writer of children's literature

English novelist (1764–1823)

American true crime writer (1931–2015)

English novelist

English novelist and poet

Diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

American-Irish science fiction writer, famous for the Pern series

English author (1938–2023)

American author (1941–2021)

American novelist

American author

Annie M.G. Schmidt

Dutch writer (1911–1995)

Anthony Burgess

English writer and composer

English novelist (1905–2000)

Anthony Trollope

English novelist (1815–1882)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

Bulgarian writer

Indian journalist and author

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Russian brothers, writer duo

Norwegian writer

Arthur C. Clarke

British science-fiction writer (1917–2008)

Arthur Conan Doyle

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

British-Canadian writer

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Spanish writer and journalist

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist (born 1961)

Astrid Lindgren

Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays

American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Barbara Cartland

English writer and media personality (1901–2000)

Barbara Kingsolver

American author, poet and essayist

English novelist (1930–2012)

British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

Bengali feminist writer and social reformer

American author, feminist, and social activist

Nigerian writer

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish realist novelist

Benjamin Zephaniah

British poet and author (1958–2023)

Bernardine Evaristo

English author and academic (born 1959)

Bernhard Schlink

German writer (born 1944)

Bettina von Arnim

19th-century German writer

American writer

Blaise Cendrars

Swiss-born novelist and poet

Czech novelist and writer

Polish prose writer, novelist and columnist of the period of positivism

Booth Tarkington

American novelist

Božena Němcová

Czech writer (1820-1862)

Bradley Trevor Greive

Australian author (born 1970)

Irish author (1847–1912)

Bret Easton Ellis

American author, screenwriter, and director (born 1964)

American writer and poet

German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, folklorists and authors

Polish novelist and painter (1892-1942)

Nigerian writer

American science fiction and fantasy author

American novelist

Camilo José Cela

Spanish novelist

Candace Bushnell

American author

Mexican writer (1928 - 2012)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Caroline Lee Hentz

American author and educator

House pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Carson McCullers

American writer

Catherine Cookson

British novelist

Catherynne M. Valente

American writer

Cecily von Ziegesar

American author (born 1970)

Charles Dickens

English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)

Charles Paul de Kock

French novelist

Charles Warren Stoddard

American writer

Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet (1816–1855)

Chart Korbjitti

Author, memoirist, podcaster

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian writer

Chinghiz Aitmatov

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928-2008)

Nigerian author and literary critic (1930–2013)

Chinese romance novelist based in Taiwan

Christina Stead

Australian writer

Christopher Isherwood

English and American novelist (1904–1986)

Christopher Pike (author)

US author of young adult and children's fiction

Chuck Palahniuk

American novelist (born 1962)

Clarice Lispector

Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920–1977)

Clifford Irving

American author and investigative reporter

English author, film director and visual artist (born 1952)

American adventure novelist and underwater explorer

French novelist

Australian author (1920–2006)

Colleen McCullough

Australian author

Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)

Colson Whitehead

American novelist

Compton Mackenzie

Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)

Spanish romantic novelist

Cormac McCarthy

American writer (1933–2023)

German author of children's fiction

Cornell Woolrich

American author and screenwriter

English writer and poet

American writer and lecturer

Dambudzo Marechera

Zimbabwean writer (1952-1987)

American writer

American romance novel writer (born 1947)

Daphne du Maurier

English novelist (1907–1989)

Dashiell Hammett

American writer (1894–1961)

American author

American novelist

David Foster Wallace

American writer (1962–2008)

David Ireland (author)

Australian writer

Australian writer

David Mitchell (author)

English novelist and screenwriter

Australian author (born 1961)

American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)

Debbie Macomber

American writer

Dee Brown (writer)

American writer

English crime writer

American author

English jockey and crime writer (1920–2010)

Dick King-Smith

English writer of children's books

Bulgarian author

American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Russian-Israeli author and journalist (born 1979)

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Russian novelist (1866–1941)

American novelist, playwright, and essayist

Donald Barthelme

American writer, editor, and professor

American novelist and writer

Donna Woolfolk Cross

American novelist

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, short story writer, and Nobel Laureate

Dorothy L. Sayers

English novelist, translator and Christian writer (1893–1957)

American writer (1907-1998)

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

American writer

English author and poet

E. Phillips Oppenheim

English novelist (1866–1946)

Earl Derr Biggers

American novelist and playwright

Eça de Queiroz

Portuguese writer and diplomat (1845–1900)

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and critic (1809–1849)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

American writer

American novelist, short story writer, designer

American librarian, non-fiction crime writer

American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Irish writer (1930–2024)

Japanese writer

Eduard Uspensky

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British statesman and writer (1803–1873)

British artist, illustrator, author and poet

Edward William Lane

British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peacemaker

Edwin Abbott Abbott

British theologian and author

Chinese-American writer and screenwriter

Eleanor Alice Burford

English author (1906-1993)

New Zealand novelist and screenwriter

Pseudonymous Italian writer

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian playwright and novelist

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Romanian-born American writer and Nobel laureate

Elizabeth Gaskell

English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (1810–1865)

Elizabeth Wurtzel

American writer and journalist

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

English novelist and poet (1818–1848)

Emmanuelle Arsan

Thai writer, model and actress

English children's writer (1897–1968)

Irish author of children's books

American author and illustrator (1929–2021)

American novelist and poet (born 1942)

Erich Maria Remarque

German novelist

Erle Stanley Gardner

American writer and lawyer

Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist

Erskine Caldwell

American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist

Erskine Childers (author)

Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)

Australian writer

French writer (1804-1857)

American author and screenwriter (1926-2005)

English novelist

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist and screenwriter (1896–1940)

Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic

Flannery O'Connor

American writer (1925–1964)

Ford Madox Ford

English writer and publisher (1873–1939)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

English-American children's author

François Mauriac

French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist

Françoise Sagan

French writer (1935-2004)

François-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Frank G. Slaughter

American novelist

Irish-American writer, journalist and publisher

American science-fiction author (1920–1986)

Franklin W. Dixon

House pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Austrian and Czech writer (1883–1924)

Austrian-Bohemian writer

Frédéric Dard

French crime writer

Frédéric Mistral

Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige

Frederick Marryat

British naval officer and novelist (1792-1848)

American science fiction writer and editor

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist (1821–1881)

G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

Writer, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor from Russian Empire

Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )

French author and journalist

American science fiction and fantasy writer

English novelist and poet (1819–1880)

George MacDonald

Scottish author, poet and Christian minister

George Meredith

British novelist and poet of the Victorian era

English author and journalist (1903–1950)

George R. R. Martin

American writer and television producer (born 1948)

French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)

George Saunders

American writer of short stories and other literature

Georges Bernanos

French writer (1888 – 1948)

French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist

Georges Simenon

Gérard de Nerval

French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)

Gérard de Villiers

French writer (1929–2013)

American author (1874–1946)

Géza Gárdonyi

Hungarian writer and journalist

Italian writer and journalist

American writer

Italian writer (1840–1922)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Sicilian writer and prince

Singaporean writer

American writer (1925–2012)

Graciliano Ramos

Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)

British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)

Italian writer (1871-1936)

South Korean writer (born 1976)

German author, visual artist and sculptor (1927–2015)

Gustave Flaubert

French novelist

Guy de Maupassant

French writer (1850–1893)

Children's illustrator and writer

H. P. Lovecraft

American author (1890–1937)

American evangelist and Christian writer (born 1929)

Halldór Laxness

Icelandic author

South Korean writer (born 1970)

North Korean author

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer (1805–1875)

American writer (1934–2018)

American author

Harold Schechter

American true crime writer (born 1948)

American novelist

Harriet Beecher Stowe

19th-century American abolitionist and author

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

English novelist and screenwriter

Australian author

Henri Charrière

French writer (1906–1973)

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

American writer and painter

Henry de Montherlant

Henry Handel Richardson

Australian author

American and British writer (1843–1916)

American novelist

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish journalist, novelist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate

American writer and poet

Herman Melville

19th-century American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)

Topics referred to by the same term

North Korean writer

Honoré de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

American novelist (1832–1899)

Howard Jacobson

British author and journalist

English children's writer

Norwegian writer and politician

Scottish writer (1954–2013)

English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer

English novelist and screenwriter

American writer and pimp

Ichiyō Higuchi

Japanese writer

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician (1834–1893)

Soviet writing duo

Austrian writer

Hungarian author (1929-2016)

Irish writer and philosopher

Scottish novelist (born 1958)

American writer

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Russian writer and journalist

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-American author (1903–1991)

Albanian writer

Hungarian writer (1900 - 1970)

Italian author (1923–1985)

Italian writer (1861-1928)

Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918)

Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)

19th-century Russian writer

Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)

J. B. Priestley

American writer (1919–2010)

J. E. Casely Hayford

Gold Coast journalist, lawyer and politician

English writer (1930–2009)

British writer (1935–1979)

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

British novelist and playwright (1860–1937)

Acclaimed writer and scholar

J. M. G. Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

British novelist

American writer

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

American mystery and speculative fiction writer

English novelist (1937–2015)

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist

Jacqueline Susann

American novelist and actress

Jacqueline Wilson

English novelist (born 1945)

Jalil Mammadguluzadeh

Azerbaijani satirist and writer

James A. Michener

American author (1907–1997)

American writer

American writer and activist (1924–1987)

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer (1789–1851)

American writer

British poet and novelist (1770–1835)

James Jones (author)

American writer

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

Scottish writer

American novelist, short story writer, journalist (1892-1977)

James Patterson

American author

James T. Farrell

American writer

American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

English novelist (1775–1817)

American writer (1944-2013)

Jaroslav Hašek

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist

American author of young adult novels

American writer

Novelist from Dominica

American playwright and crime novelist (born 1952)

English author and former politician

Jeffrey Eugenides

American novelist and short story writer (born 1960)

Jerome K. Jerome

English writer and humorist (1859–1927)

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Polish author (1909–1983)

American writer

American author, poet, and punk musician

Hong Kong writer (1924 - 2018)

Japanese novelist

American writer

João Guimarães Rosa

Brazilian novelist, short story writer, and diplomat

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author (1873-1950)

Irish writer, also writes as Benjamin Black (born 1945)

American novelist and short story writer

English writer (1908–1973)

John Dickson Carr

American mystery novelist and playwright

John Dos Passos

American novelist

John Galsworthy

English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)

John Gray (American author)

American family therapist, lecturer, and author (Born 1951)

American author, vlogger and philanthropist

American author

American novelist and screenwriter

John Kennedy Toole

American novelist

British novelist and former spy (1931–2020)

John Luther Long

American lawyer and writer

American novelist and short story writer (1905–1970)

American writer

American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

John W. Campbell

American science fiction writer and editor

John William Polidori

English writer and physician

Jonas Lie (writer)

Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright

Jonathan Carroll

American fiction writer

Jonathan Franzen

American writer

Jonathan Lethem

American novelist, essayist, short story writer

Brazilian writer (1912–2001)

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer (1899–1986)

José de Alencar

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

José Lins do Rego

Brazilian writer

Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel Literature lareate

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

Australian writer (1843-1912)

American writer

Austrian novelist and journalist

Joyce Carol Oates

American author (born 1938)

Mexican writer (1917-1986)

American writer

American children's writer

Jules de Goncourt

19th century French writer

French writer (1910-2007)

Julio Cortázar

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Japanese author (1886–1965)

Dominican-American writer and academic (born 1968)

Junpei Gomikawa

Japanese novelist and writer (1916-1995)

Algerian writer and journalist

Danish writer (1885–1962)

Karl Kraus (writer)

Austrian writer and journalist (1874–1936)

German author (1842–1912)

American author

Algerian writer (1929-1989)

Katherine Mansfield

New Zealand author

Katherine Paterson

Chinese-born American writer (born 1932)

Kathleen Winsor

American author (1919-2003)

American writer and forensic anthropologist

British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954)

British bestseller novelist

American writer and countercultural figure

Kenneth Grahame

Japanese Writer and Nobel Laureate

New Zealand writer

Khachatur Abovian

Ethnic Armenian writer, activist, academic

Khaled Hosseini

Afghan-American novelist

Khamsing Srinawk

South Korean writer

English author, critic and teacher (1922–1995)

Norwegian novelist

Ghanaian author, novelist and poet (1946-2017)

Kulap Saipradit

American author (1922–2007)

Kyotaro Nishimura

Japanese novelist (1930–2022)

American author of children's books (1856-1919)

Writer and translator (1850–1904)

American science fiction writer

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

Laura Ingalls Wilder

American writer, teacher, and journalist

Russian writer, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"

American writer

Cameroonian author (born 1973)

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian author (1836–1895)

English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Australian author

Brazilian writer (1881-1922)

Chinese science fiction writer

Lloyd Alexander

American writer

American writer

Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist (1878–1957)

Louis de Bernières

English novelist

American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist

American author (born 1954)

American author (1926–2017)

Louise Rennison

English author and comedian

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Lucy Mack Smith

American religious leader (1775-1856)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author

Ludwig Bemelmans

Austrian and American writer (1898–1962)

American writer

Lygia Fagundes Telles

Brazilian novelist and writer (born 1923)

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Russian writer, novelist and playwright (born 1938)

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

M. F. K. Fisher

American food writer

Machado de Assis

Brazilian writer

MacKinlay Kantor

American journalist

Maddox (writer)

American blogger

Madeleine L'Engle

American writer (1918–2007)

Hungarian novelist

English poet and novelist

Chinese writer (1896-1981)

French novelist, critic and essayist

English-born Australian novelist, journalist and poet

Margaret Atwood

Canadian writer (born 1939)

Margaret Laurence

Canadian novelist and short story writer (1926-1987)

Margaret Mitchell

American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)

Margery Williams

Writer (1881-1944)

Marguerite Henry

American writer

Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist (1903–1987)

Japanese writer (1903-1987)

Swedish children's writer

Marianne Wiggins

American author

Marijane Meaker

American writer (born 1927)

Italian American author, screenwriter, and journalist

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

American novelist and editor

Russian writer and critic

American author and humorist

Marlon James (novelist)

Jamaican novelist

English novelist (1949–2023)

Mary Higgins Clark

Novelist, writer

American Poet and Essayist

Mary Mapes Dodge

American children's writer (1831-1905)

Mary McCarthy (author)

American writer

English novelist

English writer (1797–1851)

Guadeloupean, French-language author

Australian action thriller writer (born 1974)

Maurice Leblanc

French writer (1864–1941)

American children's book author and illustrator (1928–2012)

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

American novelist

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Yiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)

Nurse, poet and artist (born 1959)

English author and illustrator

Bulgarian-born British writer (1895–1956)

American author and Pulitzer Prize winner

Michael Crichton

American author and filmmaker (1942–2008)

Michael Jackson (writer)

Beer and whisky expert

Michael Moorcock

English writer, editor, critic

American writer

French writer (1926–2016)

Michel Houellebecq

Michelle McNamara

American writer

Mickey Spillane

American crime novelist

Finnish writer (1908–1979)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian and Soviet author (1891–1940)

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist

Mikhail Shishkin (writer)

Russian-Swiss writer

Mikhail Sholokhov

Czech author of Czech and French literature

Australian writer and feminist

Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel Laureate

Brazilian writer and physician (1937–2011)

Mohamed Choukri

Moroccan author (1935–2003)

Monteiro Lobato

Brazilian writer

Hungarian writer (1825–1904)

Japanese general and novelist (1862-1922)

Australian writer (1916-1999)

Muhammed Said Abdulla

Tanzanian novelist (1918–1991)

Indian English writer

Dutch author (1820–1887)

Scottish author (1918–2006)

American science fiction and fantasy writer

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Russian writer and educator

Nadine Gordimer

South African writer (1923–2014)

Egyptian writer

English novelist, biographer and journalist

Naomi Mitchison

Scottish novelist and poet

American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American novelist and short story writer

Nathaniel Parker Willis

American magazine writer, editor, and publisher

Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist (1867–1916)

American novelist, librarian, nurse

American writer

English writer (1899–1960)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Kenyan writer and academic (1938–2025)

Hong Kong writer (1935–2022)

Nicholas Sparks

American writer and novelist

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)

Nikos Kazantzakis

Greek writer and philosopher (1883–1957)

English novelist

Noah Gordon (novelist)

American writer

American romance writer

Norman Bridwell

American author (1928-2014)

American writer (1923–2007)

Norman Vincent Peale

American minister, author, and positive thinking proponent

American short story writer

Odysseas Elytis

Greek poet and art critic

British novelist and philosopher

Polish writer and activist

Turkish writer, academic, and Nobel laureate

Orson Scott Card

American science fiction novelist (born 1951)

British writer; baronet (1892-1969)

Japanese writer

English crime writer

P. G. Wodehouse

English writer (1881–1975)

English writer and broadcasting administrator (1918–1997)

Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)

South Korean novelist

Pär Lagerkvist

South Korean writer

English writer and novelist

Patricia A. McKillip

American fantasy and science fiction author

Patricia Cornwell

American crime writer

Patricia Highsmith

American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)

Patrick Chamoiseau

Martiniquais writer

Patrick Modiano

Patrick Rothfuss

American fantasy writer

Patrick Süskind

German writer and screenwriter

English-born Australian writer

American writer and film director

American writer

French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868-1955)

Paul Jennings (Australian author)

Australian children's author (born 1943)

Paul Lomami-Tshibamba

Congolese writer

Paul Scott (novelist)

English novelist, playwright and poet

American travel writer and novelist (born 1941)

Brazilian lyricist and novelist (born 1947)

American writer (1892–1973)

Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Lively

British novelist

British novelist (1946-2011)

Peter Carey (novelist)

Australian novelist

Peter Dickinson

English children's writer

Austrian Nobel laureate novelist (born 1942)

Peter Matthiessen

American novelist

Philip Francis Nowlan

American science fiction writer who created Buck Rogers

American science fiction author (1928-1982)

American novelist

English-American writer

American writer

Indian writer of Hindustani language (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936)

Italian Holocaust survivor and writer (1919–1987)

Prosper Mérimée

French writer, archaeologist and historian

Chinese scholar and writer (1910-1998)

English raconteur (1908–1999)

American writer and producer

Rachel de Queiroz

Brazilian writer and journalist (1910-2003)

Indian-born English writer

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1913-1994)

Brazilian writer

American author and screenwriter

American writer and poet

Raymond Chandler

American novelist and screenwriter

Raymond E. Feist

American novelist

Raymond Queneau

French novelist and poet (1903–1976)

American writer

British feminist and author

René Belbenoît

French criminal and author (1899–1959)

American writer (1886-1975)

Ricardo Güiraldes

Argentine novelist and poet

Richard Aldington

English writer and poet (1892–1962)

Richard Brautigan

American writer (1935–1984)

Richard Flanagan

Australian novelist

Richard Peck (writer)

American young adult novelist

Richard Price (writer)

American novelist and screenwriter (born 1949)

Author and illustrator from the United States

Richard Wright (author)

African-American writer

Richard Yates (novelist)

American writer

American author

Robert A. Heinlein

American writer

Robert E. Howard

American author

Robert Greene (American author)

American author (born 1959)

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)

American novelist

Swiss writer (1919-1997)

Robert W. Chambers

American artist, novelist, short story writer

Roberto Bolaño

Robin Cook (American novelist)

American physician and novelist

Irish author and screenwriter

Roger Hargreaves

British author (1935–1988)

Roger Martin du Gard

Canadian sailor

American writer

Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

New Zealand-Australian writer

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

Ryōtarō Shiba

Japanese writer

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Japanese writer

American writer

Iranian writer (1903–1951)

Indian-born British American novelist

Sanmao (writer)

Taiwanese novelist, translator and writer (1943-1991)

Canadian-American writer

Sebastian Faulks

British journalist and novelist

Seiichi Morimura

Japanese novelist and author (born 1933)

Selma Lagerlöf

Swedish author (1858–1940)

Sergei Lukyanenko

Sergey Mikhalkov

Russian and Soviet writer (1913–2009)

Shel Silverstein

American poet, cartoonist, writer, and songwriter (1930–1999)

Sheridan Le Fanu

Irish Gothic and mystery writer (1814–1873)

Sherwood Anderson

American writer

Shin Kyung-sook

South Korean writer (born 1963)

Shirley Jackson

American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Israeli writer and Nobel laureate

Sholem Aleichem

Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)

Japanese writer

American writer

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

Simin Daneshvar

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

Icelandic writer

Sławomir Mrożek

Polish dramatist and writer (1930-2013)

Sony Lab'ou Tansi

Writer (1947-1995)

Stan and Jan Berenstain

American author and illustrator duo

Polish science fiction author and futurologist (1921–2006)

Stanley Middleton

Australian writer

Austrian writer (1881–1942)

19th century French writer

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

American writer

Stephenie Meyer

American author

American writer

Susan Brownmiller

American feminist and author

American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004)

American author (born 1948)

English author (1906-1964)

Egyptian academic, (1889–1973)

Japanese writer (1878-1923)

Takiji Kobayashi

Japanese writer

Japanese novelist in the late Edo period (1767-1848)

American writer

American novelist (born 1983)

Bangladeshi poet, columnist, novelist

Sudanese novelist and short story writer (1929–2009)

American writer of fantasy fiction

Terry Pratchett

English fantasy author

American writer

20th century sibling writers and literary personas

Australian novelist (1925-2004)

Theodor Fontane

German journalist, novelist and poet

Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Danish writer (1876-1957)

Thomas Alexander Browne

Australian author (1826–1915)

Thomas De Quincey

English essayist, 1785-1859

Thomas Dixon Jr.

American Baptist minister, writer, lawyer, politician, and white supremacist

English novelist and poet (1840–1928)

Thomas Keneally

Australian novelist

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate

American Trappist monk (1915–1968)

American novelist

American novelist

American entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcaster

Australian writer

American author (1947–2013)

American author and journalist (1930–2018)

Nigerian-American novelist (born 1993)

French illustrator and writer

American novelist, professor, Nobel Laureate, and Pulitzer Prize winner

American motivational speaker (born 1960)

Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914-2001)

American author

American internet personality; blogger; author (born 1975)

Italian semiotician, philosopher, and writer (1932–2016)

20th-century American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist

Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

American novelist (1923–1986)

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Valentin Rasputin

Soviet and Russian writer (1937-2015)

French writer and poet (1881-1957)

Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States

Varlam Shalamov

Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor

Belarusian writer, human rights activist, and politician (1924–2003)

Vasily Aksyonov

Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness

Vladimir Nabokov

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Vladimir Sorokin

Vũ Trọng Phụng

Vietnamese writer

German writer and academic (1944-2001)

W. Somerset Maugham

English playwright and writer

American novelist

Wallace Thurman

American novelist

American writer (1915-1989)

Scottish novelist (1771–1832)

Washington Irving

American writer, historian, and diplomat (1783–1859)

British author and vicar (born 1911–1997)

British novelist

English novelist and playwright (1824–1889)

American writer (1873–1947)

William Dean Howells

American author, critic, and playwright

William Faulkner

American writer (1897–1962)

American novelist

American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist

William Golding

British novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)

William Goldman

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

William Harrison Ainsworth

English novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

English novelist and illustrator (1811–1863)

William Manchester

American author, journalist and historian

William Roughead

British criminologist

William S. Burroughs

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American cartoonist, illustrator and writer

American writer

William T. Vollmann

Novelist, short story writer, essayist

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American novelist

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist

English painter, writer and critic (1882-1957)

Chinese writer (1911-1942)

Canadian author

Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese author

Japanese writer

Yevgeny Zamyatin

South Korean writer

Japanese author (1925–1970)

Zachris Topelius

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British novelist

Zakhar Prilepin

Russian writer and politician (born 1975)

Zamenga Batukezanga

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American novelist (1872–1939)

Zora Neale Hurston

American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)