Stephen E. Ambrose
American historian and author known for popular histories of World War II, biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and works on American history.
30 works2 series
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Stephen Gill
British photographer and photobook artist born in Bristol in 1971, known for experimental, conceptual, and documentary photography.
30 works2 series
Stephen R. Donaldson
American fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and nonfiction author best known for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Gap Cycle.
30 works7 series
Susan Cooper
English-born American writer best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, a landmark series of children's fantasy novels.
30 works2 series
Bruce Sterling
American science-fiction writer, journalist, editor, critic, futurist, and design theorist associated with cyberpunk.
29 works1 series
Charles Van Doren
American writer, editor, and educator best known for works on reading, knowledge, and history.
29 works3 series
Christopher Tolkien
English editor, scholar, translator, and literary executor best known for editing and publishing J. R. R. Tolkien's posthumous writings.
29 works2 series
Daniel Kraus
American author of horror, speculative fiction, young-adult and middle-grade fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction.
29 works3 series
John Boyne
Irish novelist and writer known for literary and historical fiction for adults and younger readers.
29 works2 series
Jonathan Stroud
British fantasy author best known for the Bartimaeus Sequence, Lockwood & Co., and Scarlett & Browne.
29 works3 series
Jostein Gaarder
Norwegian author known for philosophical fiction, children's literature, young-adult novels, short stories, and popular philosophy.
29 works1 series
Malvina G. Vogel
Malvina G. Vogel was a children's-book adapter and writer best known for accessible retellings of classic literature.
29 works1 series
Matt Haig
English novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, children's literature, memoir, and books about mental health.
29 works5 series
Michael Grant
American author Michael Grant, pseudonym of Michael Reynolds, known for young adult science fiction, dystopian, fantasy, horror, historical, and thriller fiction.
29 works9 series
Norman Denny
English writer, novelist, children's author, editor, and translator who also published fiction under the pseudonyms Bruce Norman and Norman Dale.
29 works4 series
Oscar Wilde
Irish writer, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic known for his wit, aestheticism, fairy tales, novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and late-Victorian comedies.
29 works0 series
Rainbow Rowell
American author of contemporary and young adult fiction, short fiction, and comics.
29 works4 series
Raymond Carver
American short-story writer and poet known for spare, emotionally resonant fiction about ordinary working and middle-class lives.
29 works0 series
Rob J. Hayes
British fantasy and science-fiction author known for grimdark, epic, science-fantasy, and steampunk fiction.
29 works11 series
Robert J. Sawyer
Canadian science-fiction novelist and short-fiction writer known for scientifically grounded stories about consciousness, technology, evolution, religion, and the future of humanity.
29 works4 series
Robert Jordan
American fantasy author and pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948–2007), best known for The Wheel of Time.
29 works3 series
Sherry Thomas
USA Today-bestselling author of historical romance, young adult fantasy, historical mystery, contemporary romance, and science-fiction romance.
29 works6 series
Simon McHardy
New Zealand-born Australian author of extreme horror, splatterpunk, dark fantasy, and bizarro fiction.
29 works3 series
Simone de Beauvoir
French existentialist writer, feminist philosopher, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and political activist.
29 works0 series
T. H. White
English writer best known for the Arthurian sequence collected as The Once and Future King.
29 works1 series
Tove Jansson
Finnish-Swedish writer, artist, illustrator, and creator of the Moomins.
29 works3 series
V. E. Schwab
V. E. Schwab is an American fantasy author known for imaginative, atmospheric stories about magic, monsters, villains, and immortality.
29 works11 series
Al Álvarez
British poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, anthologist, and memoirist who wrote as A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.
28 works0 series
Ally Carter
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.
28 works5 series
Charlie N. Holmberg
American bestselling author of fantasy and romance fiction, including The Paper Magician, Spellbreaker, Star Mother, Whimbrel House, and The Shattered King series.
28 works7 series
Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-fiction writer best known for the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy and The Wandering Earth.
28 works2 series
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is an English novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense, morally charged fiction.
28 works0 series
Jamie McGuire
Jamie McGuire is an American bestselling author known for contemporary romance, new adult romance, paranormal romance, dystopian fiction, and science fiction.
28 works7 series
Jeanette Winterson
British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and playwright known for inventive literary fiction, queer themes, retellings, and speculative narratives.
28 works3 series
Julie Smith
American mystery novelist and former newspaper reporter, best known for the Edgar Award-winning New Orleans Mourning and her Rebecca Schwartz, Paul MacDonald, Skip Langdon, and Talba Wallis series.
28 works4 series
Juliet Marillier
New Zealand-born Australian writer of historical fantasy, young adult fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, and short fiction.
28 works8 series
Louis Sachar
American author of humorous children's, young adult, and adult fiction, best known for Holes and the Wayside School and Marvin Redpost series.
28 works3 series
M. T. Anderson
American author of novels, picture books, nonfiction, graphic novels, and short fiction for children, young adults, and adults.
28 works3 series
Madeleine Roux
American author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and romance for adults, teens, and children.
28 works4 series
Margaret Stohl
Margaret Stohl is an American young adult novelist and comics writer, best known for co-authoring the Caster Chronicles and writing Marvel novels and graphic works.
28 works9 series
Mervyn Peake
English writer, poet, artist, and illustrator best known for the Gormenghast novels.
28 works1 series
Michael Page
Michael Fitzgerald Page was a British-born Australian writer, editor, and former merchant sailor known for nautical fiction, Australian history, biographies, and illustrated fantasy reference books.
28 works0 series
Nat Cassidy
American novelist, playwright, actor, and musician known primarily for horror fiction and darkly comic theatre.
28 works1 series
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian novelist, memoirist, essayist, and lyricist known for spiritually themed fiction and reflective prose.
28 works0 series
Richmond Lattimore
American poet, classicist, and translator best known for influential English translations of Homer and Greek tragedy.
28 works1 series
Viktor E. Frankl
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of logotherapy.
28 works1 series
William Kent Krueger
American novelist and crime writer best known for the Cork O'Connor mystery series, set primarily in northern Minnesota.
28 works1 series