
A. A. Milne
English author, playwright, poet, essayist, and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author index

English author, playwright, poet, essayist, and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.

A queer speculative-fiction writer known for fantasy and science-fiction novels, including the Hell's Library trilogy; she also writes science-fiction romance as Ada Harper.
American literary scholar and editor specializing in Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama, and literary criticism.

A. R. Torre is the suspense-fiction pseudonym of Alessandra Torre, known for psychological and domestic thrillers.
English novelist, short-story writer, critic, and essayist best known for Possession and the Frederica Quartet.
British scholar, critic, editor, and translator of Russian literature, especially Alexander Pushkin.

American science-fiction and thriller novelist known for science-driven mysteries, apocalyptic scenarios, and speculative adventure.


Ethiopian-born American physician, professor, and author known for memoirs and literary fiction centered on medicine, migration, family, and human connection.

American historian, novelist, and composer known for speculative fiction and Renaissance intellectual history.

Adalyn Grace is a bestselling author of young-adult fantasy, including the Belladonna trilogy and the All the Stars and Teeth duology.
British journalist and nonfiction author known for deeply reported histories of major technological disasters.

American historian, journalist, lecturer, and nonfiction author known for narrative histories and memoirs focused on human rights, social justice, war, and political repression.
British author, comedian, television writer, and former junior doctor known for humorous medical memoirs and children's books.

English horror fiction writer known for supernatural, folk, and psychological horror.

Adam M. Grant is an organizational psychologist, Wharton professor, and bestselling author focused on character, connection, culture, and change.

American young adult author known for queer-centered contemporary, speculative, and fantasy fiction.

Scottish moral philosopher and pioneer of political economy, best known for The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations.

Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi-Irish author of young adult, middle grade, and adult fiction, including queer and culturally specific stories.

Filipino-Canadian comic-book artist best known for co-creating Marvel's Runaways and for his work on Ms. Marvel.

Northern Irish crime and thriller novelist known for the Sean Duffy and Michael Forsythe series, the Lighthouse Trilogy, and standalone thrillers including The Chain and The Island.

British science-fiction and fantasy author known for large-scale speculative series, inventive nonhuman protagonists, and genre-blending novellas.

Adrienne Young is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of adult and young adult fiction.

English crime novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and memoirist best known for Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Argentine novelist and short-story writer known for literary horror and speculative fiction.

Aiden Thomas is a trans, Latinx, New York Times bestselling young adult author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.

Nigerian nonbinary storyteller and visual artist whose fiction, memoir, and poetry center Indigenous Black realities, Igbo metaphysics, embodiment, and radical possibilities.
British poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, anthologist, and memoirist who wrote as A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.
American author, speaker, and organizational-change consultant known for co-authoring books on communication, accountability, leadership, and behavior change.

Swiss-British author and public intellectual known for accessible books applying philosophy, literature, art, and psychology to everyday life.
Scottish-American actor, writer, singer, director, and activist whose authored works include a novel, memoirs, nonfiction, photographic essays, children's picture books, and a co-authored cultural memoir.

American science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and nonfiction author known for the Humanx Commonwealth, Pip & Flinx, and Spellsinger series, as well as numerous film and television novelizations.
English teacher, writer, editor, Shakespeare adapter, and Liverpool theatre advocate.

American crime writer based in Roanoke, Virginia, known for mystery, crime, and thriller novels.

Alan Moore is an English writer best known for influential graphic novels and comics, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.

British-American writer, speaker, and interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and comparative religion.

Welsh hard-science-fiction author known for space opera, deep-time settings, and scientifically informed worldbuilding.

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an American speculative-fiction writer known for novels and short fiction blending science fiction, fantasy, social commentary, and Afrofuturist themes.

French-Algerian novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning author associated with absurdism and the philosophy of revolt.
British theatre director, teacher, critic, and writer associated with alternative theatre, experimental education, documentary film, and television studies.

English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, travel writer, and philosophical thinker best known for Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, and Island.

Russian novelist, historian, memoirist, dramatist, and dissident whose writing exposed the Soviet labor-camp system and explored Russia's moral and historical crises.

Alex Aster is a New York-based bestselling novelist who writes young adult fantasy, adult romance, and adult romantasy.

Alex Finlay is a bestselling American thriller novelist whose books include Every Last Fear, The Night Shift, What Have We Done, If Something Happens to Me, Parents Weekend, and The Anniversary.

Alex Haley (1921–1992) was an American writer and journalist best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots.

Alex North is the pen name of British crime writer Steve Mosby, known for psychological thrillers and horror-tinged crime fiction.
Alex Ross is an American comic-book writer, plotter, painter, and artist known for painted superhero graphic novels and limited series.

Scottish author and legal scholar known for literary fiction, detective series, children's books, poetry, short stories, and academic works.
Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and prose writer (1799–1837), widely regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature.

Alexandra Bracken is an American bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction for young adults, middle-grade readers, and adults.

British author of young adult and adult fantasy novels, including To Kill a Kingdom and Princess of Souls.

French novelist, playwright, travel writer, memoirist, historian, and essayist, best known for historical adventure fiction.

Alexandria Bellefleur is an award-winning USA Today bestselling author of swoony contemporary romance, often featuring lovable grumps and sunshine characters. Her debut novel, Written in the Stars, won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance and the 2020 Ripped Bodice Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction.

Alexis Hall is an English genrequeer author of LGBTQ+ romance, urban fantasy, historical fantasy, and science fiction.

Alexis Henderson is an American speculative-fiction author known for dark fantasy, horror, witchcraft, and cosmic horror.

American science-fiction author, editor, and writer for comics, radio, and television, best known for The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination.
American literary translator, editor, and writer known for translating Japanese and Burmese literature.
American journalist and nonfiction writer best known for his narrative of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.
English writer of supernatural fiction, fantasy, children's literature, memoir, essays, and plays.

Ali Hazelwood is an Italian-born, American-based author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance.
Scottish novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, and author of illustrated fiction.

British novelist and former BBC journalist known for psychological thrillers.

American novelist and author of young-adult and children's fiction known for magical realism, historical fiction, and emotionally resonant family stories.


Award-winning English author, illustrator, and screenwriter who created the Heartstopper graphic novel series and writes contemporary young adult fiction.
Alice Sebold is an American writer known for the memoir Lucky and the novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon.

American novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, short-story writer, and activist.
Aliette de Bodard is a French science fiction and fantasy author known for Vietnamese-inspired space opera, dark fantasy, historical fantasy, and romantic speculative fiction.

American cartoonist and author known for Dykes to Watch Out For and autobiographical graphic memoirs.

American novelist and short-story writer known for contemporary literary fiction marked by wit, emotional depth, and close observation of relationships.
Australian author of historical, fantasy, science-fiction, and crime fiction for adults and young adults.
Australian author and literary translator, best known for the graded-reader novella Housemates and for translating contemporary Japanese fiction into English.

American fantasy and speculative-fiction author known for imaginative, historically inflected stories about magic, stories, identity, and resistance.
American poet, translator, and scholar of classical and Italian literature.

American author, artist, humorist, and blogger known for illustrated autobiographical essays about everyday life, mental health, animals, and human absurdity.

American novelist known for romantic fantasy for young adult and adult readers.
Ally Carter is the pen name of Sarah Leigh Fogleman, an American author of adult, young adult, and middle-grade action-adventure and romance fiction.

American author of young adult, middle-grade, picture-book, and adult fiction, best known for the Matched trilogy.
Allyson Johnson is a California author of fiction, including historical fiction and romance.

Alma Katsu is an American author of historical horror, supernatural fiction, and espionage thrillers, best known for The Taker trilogy, The Hunger, The Deep, The Fervor, and the Red Widow series.

Alyssa Cole is an American author of romance, thrillers, and graphic novels.

Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of poetry and short fiction, and co-author of the New York Times bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time War.
Amanda Dolan is an educator, researcher, and writer focused on resilience, self-doubt, learning, and personal growth.

Amanda Foody is a New York Times, USA Today, and indie bestselling author of fantasy novels, including the Wilderlore series, A Fate So Cold, and All of Us Villains.
Amanda Lee is the mystery-fiction pseudonym of author Gayle Trent, also known as Gayle Leeson.

Amanda Lovelace is an American poet and witchcraft author known for feminist, fairy-tale-inflected poetry and co-created tarot and oracle decks.
Amanda Montell is an American writer and linguist known for nonfiction about language, culture, influence, and irrationality.

Amber V. Nicole is a dark fantasy and fantasy-romance author known for morally complex characters, epic stakes, and stories blending magic, horror, and romance.
American journalist, satirist, poet, short-story writer, critic, and Civil War veteran known for dark humor, supernatural fiction, and The Devil's Dictionary.

Amélie Wen Zhao is a bestselling author of young adult fantasy novels.

Amie Kaufman is a NYT and internationally bestselling author whose multi-award-winning work is published in nearly thirty languages.

Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author specializing in attachment science and relationships.

American novelist and short-fiction writer known for elegant historical and literary fiction.
American novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for historical fiction, contemporary romance, romantic fantasy, and young adult fiction.
American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director best known for Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, and the memoir Yes Please.

American novelist, memoirist, essayist, children's author, and nature writer known for exploring Chinese American identity, family, memory, and cultural inheritance.

Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult science fiction and fantasy and adult mystery fiction.

Ana Huang is a bestselling author of contemporary romance, including new adult, sports, billionaire, and suspense romances.

Egyptian-born Italian-American writer and professor known for novels, memoirs, essays, and short fiction exploring desire, memory, exile, and place.
Andrea L. Rogers is a Cherokee Nation citizen and author of books for children and young adults, including horror, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and picture books.

American fantasy author known for The Drowning Empire and The Hollow Covenant series.

Andrew Hunt, often credited as Andy Hunt, is an American programmer, author, consultant, and publisher best known as co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and a founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Andrew J. Hurley is an American historian whose work focuses on urban, environmental, public, and twentieth-century U.S. history.

Andrew Joseph White is a bestselling trans and autistic American author of horror novels for young adults and adults.

Andrew Rowe is a professional game designer and progression-fantasy novelist known for interconnected fantasy series and standalone game-inspired fiction.

American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less.

Polish fantasy author best known for The Witcher series and the Hussite Trilogy.
Andy Kubert is an American comic-book artist and writer best known for superhero comics and graphic novels.

American science-fiction author and former software engineer best known for The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary.

English novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, and children's author (1940–1992).

American psychologist, professor, and author known for research on grit, self-control, achievement, and the influence of situations on behavior.

American scholar, author, activist, and prison-abolitionist theorist whose work centers race, gender, class, incarceration, feminism, and liberation.

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the author of young adult mystery-thriller novels about her Ojibwe community.
Korean American novelist and former trial lawyer known for literary mysteries and thrillers.
English children's author and illustrator known for fantasy novels, picture books, and books for beginning readers.

Angie Thomas is an American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, contemporary novels, fantasy, nonfiction, and collaborative novels.

Polish-American horror and thriller author known for atmospheric, psychologically intense fiction.
American poet, novelist, translator, and clinical psychologist known for poetry collections and translations of Rainer Maria Rilke.
American novelist, journalist, essayist, and author of guidebooks on contemporary Jewish life.
Anjali Singh is an Assistant Professor of English at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, whose research focuses on postcolonial literature, diaspora studies, indenture literature, migration, memory, gender, and cultural studies.

American author of science fiction, fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and young adult fiction. She also writes as Ava Gray, Ellen Connor, and A.A. Aguirre.

American author best known for young adult fiction, especially The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.
American author, screenwriter, producer, and science communicator known for popular-science writing and the Cosmos television franchise.
American curator, museum director, editor, and writer on modern and contemporary art.

American science fiction and fantasy author best known for the Imperial Radch novels.

Chinese-Australian author of bestselling young adult and adult fiction, including contemporary romance and historical fantasy.
American novelist known for literary fiction centered on family, loss, connection, and resilience.

American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and children's author known for literary fiction, including Bel Canto, Commonwealth, The Dutch House, Tom Lake, and Whistler.
Writer and audio producer known for original historical fiction and full-cast audio-drama adaptations of classic novels.
Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, and addiction-medicine specialist. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD and Dopamine Nation.

Anna-Marie McLemore is a queer, Latine, nonbinary author of young adult and adult fiction.

Annalee Newitz is an American science journalist and science-fiction author.
American-Polish journalist and historian known for her work on communism, post-communist Europe, authoritarianism, and disinformation.
American fantasy author known for the Black Jewels, Tir Alainn, Ephemera, The Others, and Isle of Wyrd series.

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was an English novelist and poet who published under the pseudonym Acton Bell.

Canadian poet, essayist, classicist, translator, and professor whose books combine poetry, criticism, fiction, drama, and visual experimentation.

Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and writer whose diary documented her family’s life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Anne Lamott is an American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and nonfiction writer known for candid, humorous books about family, faith, recovery, and writing.

Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) was an American-Irish science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series.
Anne Perry (1938–2023) was an English author best known for historical crime fiction, especially the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.

American novelist best known for gothic fiction, The Vampire Chronicles, and the Lives of the Mayfair Witches.

Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short-story writer known for compassionate, observant fiction about families, marriage, and ordinary life.
Dutch writer and translator whose fiction includes youth novels, an adult novel, and co-authored youth short-story anthologies.

American author of children's fiction, picture books, nonfiction, and adult novels, best known for the Ivy + Bean and Iggy series and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Annie Duke is an American author, former professional poker player, and decision strategist.

French writer whose autobiographical and sociological works examine class, gender, memory, family, sexuality, and collective experience. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.

American investigative journalist and nonfiction author known for books on military history, intelligence, science, and national security.

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and nonfiction author known for works rooted in rural landscapes, environmental history, and regional communities.

A cataloging designation for literary works whose authorship is unknown, undisclosed, or collective.
English translator, adapter, and writer known for literary and children's-book work.

American chef, author, memoirist, travel writer, television host, and graphic-novel co-writer known for candid writing about professional kitchens, food, travel, and culture.

English novelist, critic, composer, poet, playwright, and memoirist (1917–1993), best known for A Clockwork Orange.

American novelist, short-story writer, and memoirist known for lyrical literary fiction and historically expansive narratives.

English novelist, screenwriter, and playwright known for mystery, thriller, horror, fantasy, and children's fiction.

Anthony Ryan is a Scottish author of epic fantasy, science fiction noir, and horror. He previously worked in the British Civil Service and writes under the name A. J. Ryan for some horror fiction.

French writer, poet, pioneering aviator, and journalist best known for The Little Prince and his aviation memoirs.

Russian physician, playwright, and short-story writer whose understated realism and psychological insight profoundly influenced modern literature and drama.

Anton Hur is a Korean writer and literary translator based in Seoul, known for speculative fiction and essays.

British author and publisher known for historical crime novels and epic fantasy.
British literary translator and editor specializing in Polish fiction, reportage, poetry, and children's literature.

Indian-born Australian novelist and journalist known for literary fiction and short stories.

Ariel Lawhon is an American author of historical fiction novels and short fiction.

Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BCE), founder of the Lyceum and a foundational figure in logic, ethics, political philosophy, natural science, biology, rhetoric, and poetics.

Arkady Martine is a Hugo Award-winning speculative fiction writer known for the Teixcalaan novels and the novella Rose/House.

Soviet and Russian science-fiction writer, translator, and co-author with Boris Strugatsky.

American cartoonist, writer, editor, and comics advocate best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir Maus.

British science-fiction writer, futurist, astronautics popularizer, and author of more than one hundred books.

Scottish physician, writer, poet, playwright, and creator of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, and Brigadier Gerard.

American novelist best known for the historical novel Memoirs of a Geisha.
American writer, translator, and Harvard-affiliated scholar, best known as the author of the novel Shooting War and as a translator of French nonfiction and literature.

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, essayist, memoirist, and reporter best known for Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons.

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was an American playwright, novelist, essayist, and memoirist best known for Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons.
American writer, editor, playwright, lyricist, teacher, and audiobook narrator.

Indian novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and political activist.

American technology writer, television host, and producer known for books about Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneurs, and commercial space.
Canadian novelist known for psychologically suspenseful fiction about motherhood, womanhood, and family.

Ashley Elston is an American author of young adult mystery and contemporary fiction and adult thrillers.

Award-winning American author of queer contemporary romance and LGBTQ+ young adult and middle-grade fiction.

Ashley Poston is an American author of young adult and adult romance, fantasy, and science fiction, including The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, and A Novel Love Story.

Ashley Winstead is an academic-turned-novelist known for psychological thrillers and contemporary romantic comedies.

Swedish author best known for Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and Ronia the Robber's Daughter.

American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher known for medical nonfiction and science writing.

Audre Lorde was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, feminist, and activist whose work addressed race, gender, sexuality, class, illness, and liberation.

American novelist, graphic novelist, visual artist, and author of artist's books known for literary fantasy, romance, and explorations of time, mortality, love, and memory.

American memoirist, novelist, essayist, and author of children's books.

American writer and artist known for illustrated books about creativity and poetry made from newspaper redactions.

Ava Reid is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of gothic, dark fantasy, and young adult fiction.

Avi is the pen name of American author Edward Irving Wortis, best known for children's and young adult fiction.

Axie Oh is a New York Times bestselling young adult author of science fiction, fantasy, and romance.
English writer, biographer, translator, and social commentator best known for his close association with Leo Tolstoy and his biography of him.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, playwright, essayist, and philosopher who developed Objectivism, a philosophy centered on reason, individual rights, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism.