Ambrose Bierce
American journalist, satirist, poet, short-story writer, critic, and Civil War veteran known for dark humor, supernatural fiction, and The Devil's Dictionary.
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Amie Kaufman
Amie Kaufman is a NYT and internationally bestselling author whose multi-award-winning work is published in nearly thirty languages.
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Angela Carter
English novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, and children's author (1940–1992).
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Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short-story writer known for compassionate, observant fiction about families, marriage, and ordinary life.
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Daniel Kehlmann
German-Austrian novelist, essayist, and playwright known for literary fiction blending history, philosophy, science, and metafiction.
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Dashiell Hammett
American author whose hard-boiled detective fiction helped establish modern crime literature.
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David Eddings
American novelist best known for epic fantasy series including The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli, and The Dreamers.
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Deanna Raybourn
American novelist known for historical mysteries, historical romances, gothic fiction, and contemporary thrillers.
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E. M. Forster
English modernist novelist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and humanist best known for his novels exploring class, sexuality, empire, and human connection.
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Gahan Wilson
American cartoonist, author, illustrator, and writer of macabre humor, fantasy, mystery, and children's books.
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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic and symbolist dramas helped establish modern drama.
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Janny Wurts
American fantasy author and artist known for epic fantasy, collaborative worldbuilding, and richly illustrated fiction.
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Jason Reynolds
American author of poetry, novels, verse novels, nonfiction, memoir, and illustrated books for young readers.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and political thinker of the Enlightenment whose works shaped modern ideas of education, political legitimacy, autobiography, and the relationship between nature and society.
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John Fowles
John Fowles (1926–2005) was an English novelist, essayist, poet, and translator, best known for The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
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Judith Butler
American philosopher and gender theorist whose work transformed feminist, queer, critical, and political theory.
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Maggie Stiefvater
American novelist, artist, and musician known for fantasy, speculative fiction, and historical fiction for young readers and adults.
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Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer is an American bestselling author of young adult, middle-grade, fantasy, science-fiction, romance, graphic, and nonfiction works.
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Milan Kundera
Czech-born French novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist known for philosophically intricate fiction about memory, identity, desire, history, and exile.
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Mira Grant
Mira Grant is the pseudonym of American author Seanan McGuire, used primarily for science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic fiction.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine diplomat, political theorist, historian, playwright, and poet whose analyses of power, civic conflict, and republican government shaped modern political thought.
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Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer best known for bestselling romance novels and their film adaptations.
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P. D. James
English crime novelist, memoirist, nonfiction writer, and playwright best known for the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries.
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Raven Kennedy
Raven Kennedy is a California-born author of fantasy romance, paranormal romance, and dark romance.
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Sherman Alexie
Spokane/Coeur d'Alene poet, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, screenwriter, and children's author.
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Spencer Johnson
American physician and author best known for the business fables Who Moved My Cheese? and The Present, and for co-authoring The One Minute Manager.
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Tom King
American comic-book writer and novelist, formerly a CIA counterterrorism operations officer.
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Will Wight
American fantasy author known for progression-fantasy, cultivation-fantasy, and science-fantasy novels.
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Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist, author, academic, and politician known for work on game theory, political economy, the euro crisis, and contemporary capitalism.
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Alyssa Cole
Alyssa Cole is an American author of romance, thrillers, and graphic novels.
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Annie Ernaux
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.
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Ben H. Winters
Ben H. Winters is an American novelist, playwright, poet, comic-book writer, and creator of original audio fiction.
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Bram Stoker
Irish novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, biographer, and theatre manager best known for Dracula.
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Charlie Adlard
British comic-book artist and penciller best known for The Walking Dead, Savage, White Death, and other graphic novels.
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China Miéville
China Miéville is an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, political theorist, and comic-book author known for inventive speculative fiction.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist and essayist known for transgressive fiction, dark satire, horror, and literary nonfiction.
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Colleen McCullough
Australian novelist and nonfiction writer known for historical fiction, romance, mystery, biography, memoir, and a cookbook.
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Connie Willis
American science fiction and fantasy writer known for time-travel fiction, social satire, and historical themes.
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Daniel Goleman
American psychologist, author, and science journalist best known for popularizing emotional intelligence.
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Dirk Maggs
British writer, adapter, producer, and director best known for cinematic audio drama.
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Erin Mallon
Erin Mallon is a USA Today bestselling romance author, playwright, and award-winning audiobook narrator.
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Gail Carson Levine
American author of children's and young adult fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, historical fiction, poetry, and writing guides.
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Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter known for visceral portrayals of working-class Scotland and distinctive Scots vernacular.
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Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist, mythologist, and folklorist whose work helped establish modern Germanic philology and folklore studies.
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Jeff Kinney
American author, cartoonist, and illustrator best known for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Juno Dawson
Juno Dawson is a British transgender novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and author of young adult fiction and nonfiction.
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Keri Lake
Keri Lake is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of dark, gothic romance featuring vengeance, obsession, forbidden love, and beautifully brutal desire.
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