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British novelist and critic known for literary fiction, short stories, and essays.
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British novelist and critic known for literary fiction, short stories, and essays.
New York Times bestselling author and Food Network champion based in Minnesota. She founded Nadia Cakes from her home kitchen in 2007.
Physician, Stanford professor, and bestselling author known for writing about healing and bedside medicine.
Author of young adult novels including They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, the Infinity Cycle, What If It's Us, and Here's to Us.
British science fiction and fantasy author known for ambitious speculative worlds, alien ecologies, and intelligent nonhuman perspectives.
Agatha Christie was a British mystery writer known for her detective novels, short stories, and plays featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Argentine writer of novels and short stories.
British writer from Northampton, England, known for influential comics, graphic novels, and prose fiction.
Science fiction author known for hard SF, space opera, and future-history novels.
French writer, journalist, playwright, and essayist born in Algeria. Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
English writer and philosopher known for novels, essays, travel writing, and ideas about mysticism and consciousness.
Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
French novelist and playwright known for historical adventure classics such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Italian-born bestselling romance author and former neuroscience researcher.
Alice Feeney is a New York Times bestselling thriller author and former BBC journalist.
Award-winning author, illustrator, and screenwriter best known for Heartstopper and contemporary YA fiction.
An American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist.
NYT-bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and Starling House. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and is originally from Kentucky.
Canadian poet and speculative fiction writer.
Amanda Lee is the pen name of mystery writer Gayle Trent.
American novelist best known for Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. He began writing after a career in investment banking.
Polish fantasy writer best known for The Witcher series.
American science fiction author and former software engineer whose breakthrough novel was The Martian.
Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a former teen rapper and holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University.
Science fiction and fantasy author best known for Ancillary Justice and the Imperial Radch books. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
German-born Jewish diarist whose posthumously published diary became a classic account of life under Nazi persecution.
American novelist known for gothic horror, vampire fiction, and erotic fiction, especially stories set in New Orleans and the supernatural.
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American novelist and essayist from Cleveland, Ohio.
French writer and aviator whose works blend flight, war, and humanist reflection.
Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and historian of the Byzantine Empire who also works in climate and energy policy and city planning.
New York-based comics artist, editor, and advocate for comics, best known for Maus.
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, and futurist best known for the Space Odyssey novels and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Scottish writer and physician best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger.
Russian-American novelist and philosopher best known for Atlas Shrugged and for developing Objectivism.
American novelist, essayist, and poet.
Bestselling science fiction author best known for the Wayfarers series and the Monk and Robot novellas.
Bill Bryson is an Anglo-American author known for travel writing, memoir, language, and popular science.
American bestselling novelist and screenwriter known for the Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade.
Copywriter and creative director best known as the author of Lessons in Chemistry.
Irish novelist and short-story writer best known for Dracula. He also worked as Henry Irving's personal assistant and managed the Lyceum Theatre in London.
American fantasy and science fiction author best known for the Cosmere, the Mistborn saga, and The Stormlight Archive.
American research professor and bestselling author focused on vulnerability, shame, courage, and belonging.
American fantasy author born in Montana and based in Oregon.
American author and screenwriter known for satirical novels about alienation, consumer culture, and violence.
American science-fiction author and editor best known for coauthoring works set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
British writer, scholar, and Christian apologist known for the Narnia books, the Space Trilogy, and influential nonfiction on faith and literature.
Author known for books on focused work, digital minimalism, and productivity.
Carissa Broadbent writes fantasy romance and epic fantasy. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, son, rabbit, and cat.
Spanish novelist known for the Cemetery of Forgotten Books cycle.
Carmen Maria Machado is an American writer known for In the Dream House, Her Body and Other Parties, and The Low, Low Woods.
Award-winning audiobook narrator with hundreds of credits across fiction and nonfiction.
American fantasy author best known for the Shadowhunter Chronicles and the Mortal Instruments novels. She previously worked as an entertainment journalist before writing fiction.
American novelist and poet known for fantasy, science fiction, and fairy-tale retellings.
English novelist and social critic of the Victorian era, known for memorable characters, social reform themes, and enduring stories.
Journalist and author of books on habits, productivity, and communication.
English novelist and the eldest of the Brontë sisters. She published Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.
Nigerian novelist and essayist whose work explores identity, family, gender, and migration.
English fantasy and speculative fiction writer known for New Weird novels and political nonfiction.
Combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, bestselling romance authors known for the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series.
Novelist of horror and fantasy, known for Between Two Fires and the Blacktongue books.
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle, the Fractalverse novels, and related Alagaësia works.
Author of The Sun Eater space opera series.
Editor and author of the History of Middle-earth books.
American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist best known for Fight Club.
Chinese science fiction writer and computer engineer.
Author of short fiction and novellas.
American bestselling author of contemporary romance and psychological thriller fiction.
Novelist and essayist born in 1969 and raised in Manhattan. His books include The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, The Underground Railroad, and the Ray Carney trilogy.
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for spare prose, stark violence, and bleakly beautiful landscapes.
Canadian science fiction author, journalist, blogger, and digital-rights activist.
American writer and lecturer who developed influential courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
American thriller author best known for The Da Vinci Code and the Robert Langdon novels.
American novelist known for science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, and thriller works, including the Hyperion Cantos, Ilium/Olympos, The Terror, and Drood.
Author of Flowers for Algernon and The Minds of Billy Milligan.
Italian medieval poet best known for The Divine Comedy.
English novelist, short-story writer, and memoirist known for gothic suspense, historical fiction, and Cornish settings.
American author, editor, and publisher, founder of McSweeney's.
American writer David Foster Wallace was known for novels, stories, and essays that blended formal daring, humor, and intellectual depth.
Canadian playwright.
Bestselling author and staff writer at The New Yorker.
Novelist and translator known for Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Utopia Avenue.
New York Times bestselling author of romance and women's fiction, and a founding partner of BelleBooks.
Author of Where the Crawdads Sing and wildlife nonfiction written with Mark Owens.
Canadian novelist and former computer programmer known for hard science fiction about artificial intelligence and the human condition.
Best known for the Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon writes historical fiction, fantasy, romance, and science fiction.
British fantasy writer known for inventive children's and young adult novels that blend magic, humor, and parallel worlds.
American scholar and author known for his work on Japanese literature and culture.
Douglas Adams was an English writer and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
American writer known for children's books, essays, and The Elements of Style.
American illustrator and caricaturist best known for his drawings for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic known for his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Romanian-born American novelist, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
English novelist and poet best known for Wuthering Heights and her poetry.
Emily Henry is a bestselling author of contemporary romance and young adult fiction. She lives and writes in the American Midwest.
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of six novels, including Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility.
Irish author of children's books, best known for the Artemis Fowl series.
German novelist known for his anti-war fiction, especially All Quiet on the Western Front.
Erik Larson is a narrative nonfiction author and former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time.
Writer and multimedia artist based in Massachusetts whose work often takes the form of fairy tales.
Internationally best-selling novelist and screenwriter, author of Ready Player One and Armada.
American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation.
Fonda Lee writes epic fantasy and science fiction, including the Green Bone Saga, Untethered Sky, Exo, Cross Fire, and the Breathmarked novels with Shannon Lee.
English-American novelist and playwright best known for children's classics such as The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
French novelist François Mauriac (1885–1970) wrote Catholic-inflected fiction set largely in southwestern France, exploring faith, sin, grace, and family conflict.
American science fiction author best known for the Dune series.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish writer from Prague, then in Austria-Hungary. His fiction blends realism with surreal, often oppressive situations that trap isolated protagonists.
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist.
Bestselling physician and author of psychological thrillers and medical humor novels.
German philosopher and writer whose critiques of morality, religion, and culture shaped modern thought.
Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher known for psychologically intense fiction.
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist best known for magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Novelist and screenwriter whose books include Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Young Jane Young, and Elsewhere.
Gene Wolfe was an American writer known for intricate science fiction, fantasy, and horror narratives, often using unreliable narrators and themes of memory and morality.
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist known for lucid prose and opposition to totalitarianism.
George R. R. Martin is an American author and editor best known for A Song of Ice and Fire. He has also written widely in science fiction, horror, and shared-universe fiction.
Chicago-based novelist who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and studied at the University of Kansas and Northwestern University.
Ginny Tapley Takemori translates contemporary Japanese fiction into English.
New York Times bestselling author of horror novels, short fiction, and nonfiction about genre history.
English writer and pioneer of science fiction. He also wrote novels, short stories, history, politics, and social commentary.
American writer from Providence, Rhode Island, best known for cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos. His horror, fantasy, and science fiction stories became highly influential after his death.
South Korean novelist and poet known for fiction such as The Vegetarian, Human Acts, and Greek Lessons.
American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
Harper Lee was a novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, best known for To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and translator known for fiction that blends everyday life with surreal and magical elements.
Canadian bestselling author of fantasy for adults, kids, and teens, including the Emily Wilde series.
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet best known for Moby-Dick and Billy Budd.
German-Swiss poet and novelist, and 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate whose work often explores spirituality and self-knowledge.
Holly Black is a bestselling fantasy author of novels for children, teens, and adults.
Author of the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, Five Survive, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, and Not Quite Dead Yet.
Ancient Greek poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey, foundational works of Greek literature.
Science fiction author born in 1975, best known for the Wool/Silo series.
Scottish author known for mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, especially the Culture series.
Novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically acute fiction including Atonement, Amsterdam, and Saturday.
Russian-born American writer and biochemistry professor known for science fiction and popular science.
Chilean novelist and memoirist born in Peru, known for historical fiction, family sagas, and magical realist storytelling.
Italian journalist and writer known for inventive novels, stories, and essays.
American fiction writer best known for The Catcher in the Rye and the Glass family stories.
Scottish author best known for the Harry Potter series and the Cormoran Strike novels.
English author and scholar best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry, and a central figure of the Beat Generation.
American novelist, journalist, and social activist known for adventure fiction, Klondike stories, and early science fiction.
Belgian novelist and psychoanalyst born in Etterbeek. She wrote more than 15 novels and won major literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Orlanda.
American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and civil rights activist whose work explores race, sexuality, and identity.
James Dashner is the author of the Maze Runner and Mortality Doctrine series.
Australian author best known for The Licanius Trilogy and The Will of the Many, the first novel in the Hierarchy series.
Irish novelist and poet associated with modernism and the avant-garde. He is best known for Ulysses and Dubliners.
James Patterson is an American bestselling author known for fast-paced thrillers, recurring series, and widely read children's and nonfiction books.
Shared pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, a science-fiction and fantasy writing duo based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
English novelist known for irony, social observation, and novels of manners.
American scientist and author best known for popular science books.
American translator, writer, scholar, and Japanologist.
American author, editor, and literary critic associated with weird fiction and the Southern Reach trilogy.
American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
American writer, director, and former actress best known for iCarly and Sam & Cat.
New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult, new adult, paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, who goes by Jen, writes young adult mysteries, thrillers, and fantasy novels and teaches psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma.
Author best known for the Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires series.
New York Times bestselling author of novels including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, Mad Honey, and By Any Other Name.
British fantasy author and film editor best known for the First Law world and the Shattered Sea trilogy.
Joe Hill is the pen name of Joseph Hillström King, son of Stephen and Tabitha King, and a writer of horror and dark fantasy.
Irish novelist known for internationally bestselling fiction for adults and younger readers.
John Green writes young adult fiction and nonfiction. His books include Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Anthropocene Reviewed.
Bestselling author known for legal thrillers and courtroom dramas.
Fantasy author known for The Faithful and the Fallen and the Bloodsworn Saga. He studied and lectured at Brighton University and lives in Eastbourne.
American science-fiction and nonfiction author best known for the Old Man's War series, Redshirts, and The Kaiju Preservation Society.
American author and literary critic.
American novelist and journalist known for humane portraits of working people, California settings, and social conflict.
American novelist best known for Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus.
American author and journalist known for narrative nonfiction about wilderness, risk, and public controversy.
Social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business whose research examines morality and cultural and political division.
Argentine writer, essayist, and poet known for metaphysical fiction, literary essays, and inventive poetry.
Portuguese novelist and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Polish-born British novelist and memoirist known for sea stories and psychologically intense fiction about duty, honor, guilt, and imperial power.
American satirical novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
French novelist who pioneered science fiction and wrote influential adventure tales about travel, exploration, and technology.
Julia Whelan is a screenwriter, actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator.
British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London.
Author of the Winternight Trilogy, the Small Spaces quartet, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, and The Strangest Fish.
British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
British author of thrillers and historical novels.
American novelist and countercultural figure best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion.
Ken Liu is a Chinese American author, translator, and programmer known for award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and translations from Chinese.
Afghan-born novelist and former physician whose books often explore Afghanistan, displacement, and family bonds.
American science fiction writer.
Award-winning, bestselling novelist of more than 20 books, including The Nightingale, The Great Alone, The Four Winds, and Firefly Lane.
American novelist known for darkly comic fiction that blends satire, science fiction, and social criticism.
Canadian author best known for the Anne of Green Gables novels.
Russian-American translator best known for English-language translations of Russian classics with Richard Pevear.
American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for hard science fiction, especially the Ringworld novels.
Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author known for the Grishaverse, Ninth House, and The Familiar.
Russian novelist and thinker best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer best known for the Alice books.
Liane Moriarty is an Australian novelist known for contemporary fiction about family, friendship, marriage, and the secrets beneath ordinary lives.
British sinologist, writer, philosopher, and British Museum curator.
Lisa Jewell is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist known for The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, and None of This Is True.
Novelist and creative writing teacher based in Philadelphia.
American children's and young adult author born in Hawaii and raised in a military family.
American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for Holes and the Wayside School series.
American novelist and short-story writer best known for Little Women and its sequels.
Lucy Foley is the author of mystery thrillers and historical novels, including The Guest List, The Paris Apartment, The Hunting Party, The Midnight Feast, The Invitation, Last Letter from Istanbul, and The Book of Lost and Found.
Writer and academic born in Miami and raised in North Carolina. She is the author of If We Were Villains, Graveyard Shift, and Hot Wax, and her research explores madness and mood disorder on the early modern stage.
American author and martial artist from Wisconsin.
American writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult literature, best known for A Wrinkle in Time and related novels.
Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She studied Classics at Brown University and has taught Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare.
English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker.
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, best known for Meditations.
Canadian writer, poet, novelist, critic, feminist, and activist known for fiction, poetry, and essays.
Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult fantasy, science fiction, and historical novels, including Legend, Warcross, Skyhunter, and Stars and Smoke.
Author of the Lunar Chronicles, Renegades, and Gilded series.
English novelist and memoirist best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Mark Manson (born 1984) is a blogger, entrepreneur, and former dating coach known for self-help writing on relationships, emotions, and personal growth.
American author and humorist best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
American fiction author best known for House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, and The Familiar.
Novelist and memoirist best known for The Book Thief.
Italian writer.
Martha Wells writes science fiction and fantasy, including The Murderbot Diaries, The Books of the Raksura, and the Ile-Rien novels.
Writer of popular mathematics, puzzles, science, philosophy, and skeptical nonfiction.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the USA TODAY bestselling author of alternate-history and science fiction novels, including The Calculating Stars, and a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Astounding awards.
Mary Shelley was a British novelist and writer best known for Frankenstein, a landmark Gothic novel that also helped shape early science fiction.
Matt Dinniman is an artist and author best known for the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and other end-of-the-world books. He also plays bass in two bands.
Matt Haig is a British author of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults.
American English/French translator best known for his 1989 English translation of Albert Camus' The Stranger.
Author of World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, Devolution, and the Minecraft novels.
Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning fantasy and science fiction author.
American author, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for science-based thrillers.
Bestselling fantasy author of the Riyria and Elan novels.
American non-fiction author and financial journalist.
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at UC Berkeley who writes about the intersection of nature and culture.
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright best known for Don Quixote.
Czech and French novelist.
Brazilian writer, journalist, cartoonist, and humorist.
Min Jin Lee is the author of Free Food for Millionaires, Pachinko, and American Hagwon.
German writer and translator
American author, journalist, broadcaster, screenwriter, dramatist, and musician best known for his bestselling books.
Canadian novelist and short story writer known for darkly comic fiction.
Fantasy and science fiction author, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, and multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award winner.
Fantasy author and history enthusiast with a particular fascination for the Napoleonic era.
American novelist and short story writer central to 19th-century American literature.
American novelist and screenwriter known for award-winning fiction for children, teens, and adults.
American novelist and game designer known for expansive speculative fiction and technology writing.
English author known for fantasy, horror, comics, and children's books.
Nigerian-American science fiction and fantasy writer known for works such as Binti, Who Fears Death, and Akata Witch.
Writer, professor, and photographer; author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Time Is a Mother, No, and The Emperor of Gladness.
American science fiction writer known for novels about race, gender, power, survival, and social change. She received a MacArthur Genius Grant and the PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award.
Olivie Blake is the New York Times bestselling author of the Atlas series and Alone with You in the Ether. She also writes as Alexene Farol Follmuth and lives in Los Angeles.
American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist best known for science fiction.
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, born Shūji Tsushima, best known for modern classics of alienation and self-destruction.
Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, poet, and dramatist celebrated for his wit, his plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
American novelist whose debut Eileen won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Speculative fiction author known for Abeni's Song, A Master of Djinn, Ring Shout, and related stories.
Award-winning author of young adult, middle-grade, and adult fiction.
German writer and screenwriter best known for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and The Double Bass.
New York Times bestselling horror author and winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards.
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning to fiction. She lives in London.
Pauline Baynes was a British illustrator and author best known for her detailed fantasy artwork for Tolkien and Narnia books.
Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002.
American novelist and professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Editor and Orwell scholar.
Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist.
American translator and Japanologist known for English translations of Japanese fiction.
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for science fiction that probes reality, identity, politics, and metaphysics.
English writer from Norwich, best known for His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
Pierce Brown is an American science fiction author best known for the Red Rising series.
qntm, pronounced "quantum", has written science fiction for most of this millennium, building elegant hypotheticals into expansive speculative worlds.
English cartoonist, illustrator, and children's writer.
Rebecca F. Kuang, writing as R.F. Kuang, is the bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel, Yellowface, and Katabasis. She is a Marshall Scholar and is pursuing a PhD at Yale.
Rachel Gillig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Shepherd King series.
Rainbow Rowell writes novels, short stories, and comics about love, awkward people, and people who talk a lot. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.
American author and photographer best known for the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series and Sunderworld.
American author and screenwriter known for work across fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
New York Times bestselling speculative fiction writer and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award winner.
Rebecca Ross is a bestselling author of fantasy novels for teens and adults. She lives in Northeast Georgia with her husband and dog.
Rebecca Yarros is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance and fantasy novels, including the Empyrean series. She lives in Colorado and cofounded the nonprofit One October.
English novelist best known for Watership Down.
British actor, novelist, and audiobook narrator known for his deep voice and character-driven performances.
Pseudonym used by Stephen King for a run of novels beginning with Rage in 1977.
British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science author known for The Selfish Gene and his criticism of creationism.
Science fiction and fantasy author best known for the Takeshi Kovacs and A Land Fit for Heroes series.
American writer and screenwriter whose work blended horror, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, and suspense.
Author and television presenter, best known for The Thursday Murder Club series.
American translator of Russian literature and author.
Rick Riordan is an American bestselling author known for myth-inspired adventure fiction for young readers, including the Percy Jackson series.
New York Times bestselling author of ten novels. A native of Pennsylvania, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter best known for darkly comic children's books and twist-ending stories.
American science fiction writer known for technical plausibility, bestselling novels, and influential, often controversial ideas about society and politics.
American author of fantasy and science fiction, best known for The Tainted Cup, A Drop of Corruption, The Divine Cities trilogy, and The Founders Trilogy.
American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known as Robert Jordan, wrote epic fantasy, historical fiction, westerns, and nonfiction under several pen names.
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer best known for Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
American fantasy novelist known for The Realm of the Elderlings.
American science fiction and fantasy writer known for mythic world-building, lyrical prose, and the Amber novels.
International bestselling author of suspense novels including The Woman in Cabin 10 and Zero Days.
Fantasy author known for the Daevabad Trilogy and the Amina al-Sirafi series.
Susan Eloise Hinton published The Outsiders at 17 under her initials. She was the first recipient of the Margaret Edwards Award in 1979 and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Irish author and screenwriter based in Dublin.
Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay in 1947, is a Booker Prize-winning novelist whose fiction often explores India, migration, and the meeting of Eastern and Western worlds.
London-born bestselling fantasy author best known for The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree.
Sangu Mandanna is a fantasy and science-fiction author based in Norwich, England, where she lives with her husband and children. She says she began writing stories after an elephant chased her down a forest road as a child.
Sarah J. Maas is an American bestselling fantasy author known for the Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series.
Japanese novelist known for fiction about social pressure, intimacy, and outsider identity.
American author known for the Wayward Children, October Daye, InCryptid, and Alchemical Journeys books; she also publishes as Mira Grant.
American writer from Tacoma, Washington. Her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, became a New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller.
American artist and graphic designer known for street art, poster design, and the OBEY campaign.
American novelist and short-story writer best known for 'The Lottery' and The Haunting of Hill House.
Mexican Canadian author of horror, fantasy, and speculative fiction, known for Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau.
Bestselling fantasy author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series.
American author, screenwriter, and film director best known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Writer, comedian, actor, and presenter.
Stephen Graham Jones is an American horror author and New York Times bestselling writer of novels, novellas, collections, and comics.
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author.
American author known for horror, suspense, fantasy, crime, science fiction, and mystery.
Author best known for The Twilight Saga and The Host.
American economist and coauthor of the Freakonomics books.
Steven Erikson is a novelist best known for the Malazan fantasy sequence.
Novelist known for locked-room mysteries that blend science fiction, fantasy, horror, and literary fiction.
Ancient Chinese strategist traditionally credited with The Art of War.
Author of Quiet and Bittersweet, known for writing about introversion, emotion, and inner life.
English author best known for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi.
Suzanne Collins writes children's, middle-grade, and young adult fiction, including The Hunger Games and the Underland Chronicles.
American poet, novelist, short-story writer, and children's author.
American author and illustrator Ursula Vernon writes fantasy, horror, and children's books as T. Kingfisher.
American author and journalist whose work includes essays, memoir, fiction, and Marvel's Black Panther.
California-based author of epic fantasy and science fiction, best known for the Osten Ard, Otherland, Shadowmarch, and Bobby Dollar books.
Horror, fantasy, and science fiction author based in Oxford.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of bestselling novels including The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto Is Back, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. She lives in Los Angeles.
American science fiction writer whose work has won multiple Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards.
English author best known for the Discworld series. He was knighted in 2009 and died in 2015 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
TJ Klune is a bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of queer speculative fiction, including The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, the Green Creek series, and The Extraordinaries.
Novelist and essayist best known for Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Novelist best known for the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series.
American author, audiobook narrator, and video game designer.
American writer whose novels, short stories, and nonfiction became literary classics.
Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and professor. Best known for The Name of the Rose and for influential books on signs, reading, translation, and culture.
Placeholder author used for works whose creator is not identified.
American author of science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and essays, best known for the Earthsea books and the Hainish cycle.
American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction for readers of all ages.
Bestselling author of the Divergent series and Carve the Mark who grew up outside Chicago and now lives in Chicago.
French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and human rights activist associated with Romanticism.
American author and screenwriter known for the Red Queen series and Realm Breaker.
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of logotherapy.
English modernist writer and feminist essayist associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Journalist and biographer, and former CEO of the Aspen Institute.
American science fiction novelist and a defining figure of cyberpunk.
British novelist and essayist, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
Canadian novelist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. French is his first language, but he writes in English.
Japanese writer known for novels and short fiction that have won major literary awards in Japan and abroad.