
Ashley Herring Blake
Award-winning American author of queer contemporary romance and LGBTQ+ young adult and middle-grade fiction.
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Award-winning American author of queer contemporary romance and LGBTQ+ young adult and middle-grade fiction.
English writer, biographer, translator, and social commentator best known for his close association with Leo Tolstoy and his biography of him.

American author and illustrator known for innovative illustrated novels and picture books.

Canadian bestselling author of dark romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, and romantic fantasy.

Carissa Broadbent writes fantasy novels with romance and strong female protagonists.
Catherine Belsey (1940–2021) was a British literary critic and academic known for influential work in literary theory, cultural criticism, Shakespeare studies, and early modern literature.

Nigerian writer known for novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, memoir, drama, and children's literature exploring Nigerian history, migration, identity, gender, and feminism.
American cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and graphic novelist known for A Distant Soil, manga instruction books, and graphic-novel adaptations of Neil Gaiman's fiction.

Italian poet, prose writer, philosopher, and political thinker best known for the Divine Comedy.
American author and business strategist known for memoir, Christian nonfiction, and practical books on marketing and business.

Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist known for psychologically acute fiction about women, friendship, family, Naples, and identity.

American poet whose compressed, innovative lyrics became central to American literature after her death.

Swedish novelist, columnist, and blogger who debuted in 2012 with A Man Called Ove.

French novelist and stylist associated with realism and literary modernity.
British theatre critic, author, and theatre historian best known for his influential drama criticism in The Sunday Times.

Heather Gudenkauf is an Edgar Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Iowa novelist known for psychological suspense and thrillers about family secrets, crime, and small-town communities.
Haitian-American author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and picture books for children and teens.
American actor, filmmaker, visual artist, and writer whose books include literary fiction, poetry, memoir, nonfiction, and hybrid art works.
Jason Rekulak is an American novelist and author of nonfiction and children's picture books, known for suspense, thriller, horror, and mystery fiction.
Jennifer Niven is an American author of bestselling young adult and adult fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir.

British author, editor, investor, and financial journalist specializing in investment writing.

American novelist, satirist, playwright, and memoirist best known for Catch-22.

American novelist and short-story writer known for literary, historical, speculative, and science-fiction fiction.
American author of young adult and adult speculative, romantic, and historical fiction.
American poet, essayist, and spiritual memoirist known for accessible writing on faith, place, monasticism, and ordinary life.

New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of small-town romance.
American comic-book writer and colorist, known for the creator-owned series Standstill and MidState.
American theoretical physicist, mathematician, screenwriter, and author of popular science, memoir, and children's books.
American author and practicing internal-medicine physician writing young adult fiction, adult fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, popular nonfiction, and poetry.
American poet, essayist, memoirist, and art critic whose genre-defying books explore color, violence, family, freedom, gender, care, and artistic life.

American author of fantasy, literary fiction, young adult fiction, memoir, drama, and speculative fiction.

American author of children's, young adult, fantasy, thriller, and literary fiction.

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist known for literary fiction and theological nonfiction.

American novelist and screenwriter best known for The Godfather and his fiction about crime, family, power, and immigrant life.

American fantasy and science-fiction novelist known for The Acts of Caine, Barra the Pict, and Star Wars novels.
American author and journalist known for immersive nonfiction, celebrity biographies, memoirs, and relationship writing.
British novelist and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, literary thrillers, science fiction, and noir.

Nikolai Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian-language writer, dramatist, and satirist whose grotesque fiction shaped modern Russian literature.

American author of picture books, chapter books, young adult novels, and adult literary fiction.

Nisha J. Tuli is a Canadian bestselling author of fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and dystopian fiction.

American author, consultant, and founder of The Table Group, known for books on leadership, teamwork, and organizational health.

American novelist, memoirist, and adventure writer known for literary fiction and nonfiction centered on wilderness, survival, friendship, and the natural world.

American bestselling author of psychological crime, mystery, and suspense fiction.

Roman poet renowned for love elegy, mythological epic, didactic poetry, and poetry of exile.
American writer and translator best known for retellings of Japanese folktales and children's classics.
Italian comics artist best known for co-creating and first drawing Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man.

Shirtaloon is the pen name of author Travis Deverell, creator of the He Who Fights with Monsters series.