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Jeffrey Cranor
American author, playwright, and podcast creator best known as co-creator of Welcome to Night Vale.
Jeffrey Zaslow
American journalist and nonfiction author known for bestselling books about life transitions, friendship, courage, and family.
Jesmyn Ward
American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and editor whose work explores Black life, family, grief, race, and resilience in the American South.

Jonas Jonasson
Swedish journalist and novelist known for comic, picaresque fiction and social satire.

Josie Silver
Josie Silver is a British romance novelist known for warm, emotionally driven love stories.
K. O'Neill
New Zealand author and illustrator of inclusive fantasy graphic novels for children and young readers.

Karen M. McManus
Bestselling author of young adult mystery, thriller, and suspense novels.
Kelly Link
American author of speculative fiction, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, and weird fiction.

Kenneth Grahame
Scottish-born English writer best known for The Wind in the Willows, whose essays and childhood stories helped shape modern children's literature.

Kristin Cashore
American author of young adult fantasy and speculative fiction, best known for the Graceling Realm novels.
Lance Caselman
English manga adapter credited on Japanese graphic works published by VIZ Media.

Laura Dave
Laura Dave is a #1 New York Times bestselling American novelist known for relationship-centered fiction, family drama, and suspense.

Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short-story writer, author of five novels and three short-story collections.
Lauren Weisberger
American author best known for contemporary women's fiction, including The Devil Wears Prada.
Lindsay C. Gibson
American clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and bestselling nonfiction author specializing in emotional maturity, family relationships, and recovery from emotionally immature parenting.

Liz Tomforde
Liz Tomforde is a contemporary romance author known for witty banter, found-family dynamics, healthy relationships, and sports romance.

Lucy Foley
British novelist known for historical fiction and contemporary mystery thrillers.

M. L. Wang
M. L. Wang is a Wisconsin-based author and martial artist who writes character-driven fantasy and science fiction.
Malcolm X
American Muslim minister, human-rights activist, and influential writer and speaker on Black nationalism, Islam, Pan-Africanism, and racial justice.
Martin Hammond
English classical scholar, translator, and former school headmaster known for prose translations of Greek and Roman classics.
Matt Ruff
American novelist known for genre-spanning fiction combining fantasy, science fiction, thriller, horror, alternate history, and dark humor.

Max Barry
Australian novelist known for satirical, speculative, and science-fiction novels about corporations, technology, language, and power.

Megan Whalen Turner
American author of fantasy novels and short fiction for children and young adults, best known for The Queen's Thief series.

Miranda July
Miranda July is an American writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for literary fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, performance, and artist's books.

Neon Yang
Neon Yang is a queer, non-binary Singaporean speculative-fiction author based in the United Kingdom.

Nick Cutter
Nick Cutter is the horror-fiction pseudonym of Canadian author Craig Davidson.

Owen King
American author of novels, short fiction, graphic works, and collaborative fiction.

Patrick Rothfuss
American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle and its companion novellas, with additional nonfiction and graphic fiction.

Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler is a Canadian-American science fiction, speculative fiction, noir, horror, and literary writer whose fiction often explores ecology, technology, consciousness, and authoritarianism.

Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith is the crime-fiction pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, author of the Cormoran Strike detective novels.
Robert Tombs
British historian specializing in modern French history, the Paris Commune, Franco-British relations, and English history.

Ron Chernow
American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer known for bestselling narrative nonfiction about finance, American politics, and literary figures.

RuNyx
RuNyx is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of dark romance.

Ruta Sepetys
Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American author of internationally published historical fiction for young adults and adults, and co-author of The Bletchley Riddle.

Rutger Bregman
Dutch historian, writer, and journalist known for nonfiction on history, economics, human nature, and moral ambition.

Ryan Cahill
Irish author of epic fantasy, best known for The Bound and the Broken series.

Sam Kean
American science writer and New York Times bestselling author of narrative nonfiction about science, history, and human discovery.
Samanta Schweblin
Argentine writer known for psychologically unsettling novels and short fiction exploring the uncanny within everyday life.

Sarah Waters
Welsh novelist and playwright known for historical, gothic, and queer literary fiction.

Satoshi Yagisawa
Japanese novelist born in 1977 in Chiba Prefecture. He debuted with Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and is known for warm, restorative fiction.
Shawn McManus
American comic-book artist known for expressive, cartoon-influenced work for DC Comics, Vertigo, Marvel, and independent publishers.

Shehan Karunatilaka
Sri Lankan writer known for literary fiction, satire, short stories, and children's books.
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007) was a British-Irish children's and young adult author and human-rights activist whose fiction is known for its compassion, social conscience, and vivid Irish and English settings.
Sophie Gonzales
Australian young adult author of queer contemporary fiction and romance.
Stephanie Perkins
American author and editor known for young adult romance, contemporary horror, and adult romance.