
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon is an American author best known for the internationally bestselling Outlander novels, which combine historical fiction, romance, fantasy, and time travel.
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Diana Gabaldon is an American author best known for the internationally bestselling Outlander novels, which combine historical fiction, romance, fantasy, and time travel.

Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist known for young adult speculative fiction, fairy-tale retellings, and Star Wars novels.

German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright known for anti-war and exile literature.

Russian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose fiction explores psychology, morality, freedom, faith, and social change.

Japanese filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter, and novelist born in Yokohama in 1979.
British literary critic and academic known for her work on Victorian literature, evolutionary theory, science, narrative, and Virginia Woolf.

British novelist, journalist, naval-intelligence officer, and creator of James Bond.

Ibram X. Kendi is a historian, National Book Award-winning author, and leading antiracist scholar.

British novelist known for comic speculative fiction, literary satire, mystery, and fantasy.

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a USA Today bestselling author known for the Vera Wong novels and the Dial A for Aunties series. She has won an Edgar Award, a Libby Award, an Audies Award, and the Comedy Women in Print Award.
Jock, pseudonym of Mark Simpson, is a Scottish comic-book artist, writer, and graphic novelist known for dynamic work in superhero, horror, science-fiction, and crime comics.
American painter, draftsman, illustrator, and graphic-novel artist known for figurative painting, artist books, and co-created graphic novels.

American author best known for the autobiographical Little House novels about pioneer life in the nineteenth-century American Midwest and Great Plains.

Dutch nonbinary author of young adult and middle-grade novels, graphic novels, comics, and anthologies.

English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, travel writer, biographer, and editor, best known for Frankenstein.

American writer, artist, and musician best known for science-fantasy LitRPG.

N. K. Jemisin is an award-winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, known for the Broken Earth trilogy and other acclaimed fantasy and science-fiction works.

American fantasy author known for the Temeraire and Scholomance series, as well as Uprooted and Spinning Silver.

American historian and author of narrative nonfiction, maritime history, memoir, and historical works for young readers.
American painter, art dealer, curator, and writer known for art-world mysteries, memoir, art-historical nonfiction, and plays.
British journalist, translator, editor, and author of nonfiction about Latin America.

Olivia Dade is a romance author known for bawdy romantic comedies featuring nerdy characters, plus-size protagonists, and happily-ever-after endings.

American author of young-adult and middle-grade fiction, adult gothic suspense, and thrillers.
American poet, literary critic, essayist, translator, and educator known for dramatic-monologue poetry and influential translations from French.

American author of suspense, mystery, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and young-adult fiction.

Sarah Pekkanen is an American bestselling author of contemporary fiction and psychological suspense, writing both solo novels and co-authored thrillers with Greer Hendricks.

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was an American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, dramatist, and author of children's books, renowned for her Gothic, supernatural, psychological, and domestic fiction.

Tarryn Fisher is a South African-born, Seattle-based author of romance, psychological suspense, thriller, and new adult fiction.

French economist and author known for historical research on economic inequality, wealth distribution, taxation, and political conflict.
American comic-book artist and co-creator known for Starman and Ex Machina.

Swiss-British author and public intellectual known for accessible books applying philosophy, literature, art, and psychology to everyday life.

American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and children's author known for literary fiction, including Bel Canto, Commonwealth, The Dutch House, Tom Lake, and Whistler.

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.

South Korean novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator, and activist known for blending horror, science fiction, fantasy, and social critique.
American novelist and screenwriter known for crime fiction and horror, including Prince of Thieves, Gangland, and The Strain trilogy co-authored with Guillermo del Toro.

American writer, lecturer, and teacher best known for influential works on public speaking, interpersonal relations, self-improvement, and worry management.

Cherokee American novelist, robotics engineer, and nonfiction author known for science fiction thrillers, robot-themed humor, and speculative fiction.

Swedish journalist and author known for biographies, literary crime novels, and his continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

American cognitive scientist, psychologist, computer scientist, and design researcher known for foundational work in human-centered design, usability, and cognitive science.

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English author and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Elizabeth Wein is an American-British author of historical and science-fiction fiction for young adults, as well as nonfiction. She is best known for Code Name Verity and the Lion Hunters cycle.

Eric LaRocca is a horror and dark-fiction author whose work explores grief, obsession, identity, and transgressive love.

German socialist philosopher, political theorist, historian, and revolutionary; co-founder of Marxism with Karl Marx.

American author, journalist, and screenwriter best known for horror fiction and nonfiction.

Canadian novelist and poet known for richly imagined fantasy novels shaped by history, myth, and questions of identity.
Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher (1903–1988), known for expressionist printmaking and literary-themed graphic works.

American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and sailor best known for Moby-Dick.
British philologist, Shakespeare scholar, and editor of Old and Middle English literature.