Lewis Shiner
American novelist and short-story writer associated with cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, crime fiction, and literary fiction.
21 works0 series
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Mary Beard
British classicist, historian, and author specializing in ancient Rome, classical archaeology, and the reception of the classical world.
21 works1 series
Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearson is an American bestselling author of young adult fantasy, science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's books, and adult fantasy.
21 works4 series
Maurice Sendak
American author and illustrator best known for psychologically rich, darkly playful picture books.
21 works1 series
Michel Houellebecq
French novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker known for bleak, satirical examinations of contemporary Western society.
21 works0 series
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author.
21 works1 series
Robert Harris
British novelist and former journalist known for historical, political, military, and speculative thrillers, as well as early nonfiction.
21 works1 series
Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi is an American author of fantasy fiction inspired by mythology, folklore, and fairy tales.
21 works3 series
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican-Canadian novelist, short-story writer, editor, and publisher known for genre-spanning horror, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, and noir.
21 works1 series
Willa Cather
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist known for fiction about migration, memory, artistic vocation, and life on the American Great Plains.
21 works0 series
Alex Ross
Alex Ross is an American comic-book writer, plotter, painter, and artist known for painted superhero graphic novels and limited series.
20 works3 series
Aliette de Bodard
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.
20 works5 series
Ally Condie
American author of young adult, middle-grade, picture-book, and adult fiction, best known for the Matched trilogy.
20 works3 series
Andrzej Sapkowski
Polish fantasy author best known for The Witcher series and the Hussite Trilogy.
20 works2 series
Bernardine Evaristo
British writer of fiction, verse fiction, poetry, memoir, nonfiction, essays, and drama, whose work explores African diasporic histories and identities.
20 works1 series
C.S. Pacat
Australian author of fantasy novels and graphic works, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, Dark Rise, and Fence.
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Christopher Moore
American author known for humorous novels blending fantasy, horror, mystery, satire, and historical or literary parody.
20 works5 series
Christopher Moore
American novelist known for comic fantasy, horror, satire, absurdist fiction, and mystery.
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Claire Legrand
Claire Legrand is an American author of dark fantasy, horror, and children's, young adult, and adult fiction. She is best known for the Empirium and Middlemist trilogies.
20 works4 series
Denis Johnson
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, reporter, and playwright known for formally adventurous works about marginal lives, violence, addiction, faith, and redemption.
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Elaine Showalter
American literary critic, feminist theorist, literary historian, and cultural writer known for influential work in feminist literary criticism and gynocriticism.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
English Victorian novelist, biographer, and short-story writer known for fiction about industrial society, class, gender, family, and religious conscience.
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Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese modernist poet, writer, translator, literary critic, and publisher whose work was created both under his own name and through numerous heteronyms.
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Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford is a British literary scholar, Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and author and editor of books on Romantic literature, place, nature, and literary history.
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Franz Kafka
German-language modernist writer from Prague, best known for his novels, novellas, short stories, diaries, and letters.
20 works0 series
J.D. Barker
J.D. Barker is a New York Times and international bestselling American author of suspense thrillers incorporating horror, crime, mystery, science fiction, and the supernatural.
20 works2 series
Jack Thorne
British playwright and screenwriter whose work spans theatre, film, television, and radio.
20 works1 series
Jeff Lindsay
American crime novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for the Dexter and Riley Wolfe series.
20 works5 series
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, professor, and transgender rights advocate whose books include novels, memoirs, young adult fiction, and essayistic nonfiction.
20 works2 series
Jojo Moyes
British novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for contemporary and historical women's fiction, including the Me Before You trilogy.
20 works2 series
Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy author known for fiction about war, resistance, gender, and power.
20 works2 series
Kendare Blake
Kendare Blake is an American author of dark young-adult fantasy, horror, and contemporary fiction.
20 works5 series
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
British poet, playwright, and novelist writing for children, young adults, and adults.
20 works1 series
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of fantasy, young adult fiction, adult fiction, children's literature, graphic works, and short fiction.
20 works7 series
Lucinda Berry
American USA Today bestselling author and former psychologist known for psychological thrillers focused on childhood trauma, family dynamics, and domestic suspense.
20 works2 series
Malcolm Cowley
American poet, literary critic, editor, memoirist, and historian of American literature (1898–1989).
20 works1 series
Mark Olshaker
American novelist, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and nonfiction author known for thriller fiction, criminal-justice books, and public-health writing.
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Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American nonfiction writer and journalist known for narrative books about finance, business, sports, technology, politics, and public institutions.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist and co-founder of positive psychology, best known for developing the concept of flow.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator; Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an American-British novelist and short-story writer known for speculative, young adult, and children's fiction.
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Paul Tremblay
American author of horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, mystery, thriller, speculative fiction, and short fiction.
20 works1 series
Rachel Cohn
American author best known for bestselling young adult novels and co-authored contemporary fiction.
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Richard Adams
English novelist best known for Watership Down and other animal fantasies, as well as fantasy, historical fiction, children's literature, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry.
20 works2 series
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and author known for influential writing on evolution, gene-centered selection, science, and atheism.
20 works1 series
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was an American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, social critic, dramatist, and poet whose work confronted racism, poverty, migration, and political exile.
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Stephen R. Covey
American educator, leadership consultant, businessman, and bestselling author known for principle-centered approaches to personal effectiveness, leadership, and family life.
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