Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford was an American theoretical physicist and science-fiction author known for scientifically rigorous hard science fiction.
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Hiromi Kawakami
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet known for quietly surreal fiction about intimacy, memory, and everyday life.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, autobiographer, and natural philosopher whose work spans the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, and early Romanticism.
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José Saramago
Portuguese novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, and Nobel Prize laureate whose allegorical fiction combines political critique, historical imagination, compassion, and irony.
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Mariko Tamaki
Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist known for queer coming-of-age fiction, graphic novels, essays, and superhero comics.
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Robert A. Heinlein
American science-fiction writer known for influential novels, short fiction, essays, political writing, and screenplays.
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Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale is an award-winning American author of fantasy, romance, graphic novels, memoirs, and books for children and young adults.
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Stanisław Lem
Polish writer, philosopher, essayist, satirist, and futurologist best known for intellectually rigorous science fiction.
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Wilkie Collins
English novelist, playwright, short-story writer, essayist, and travel writer best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
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Dave Eggers
American author, editor, publisher, and artist known for literary fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, short fiction, and children's literature.
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Edwin A. Abbott
English schoolmaster, Anglican priest, theologian, biblical scholar, and author best known for the novella Flatland.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter associated with Jazz Age literature.
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Garth Nix
Australian author of fantasy and science fiction for children, young adults, and adults.
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Greg Egan
Australian science fiction writer, mathematician, and computer programmer known for mathematically rigorous hard science fiction.
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Jim Butcher
American fantasy author best known for The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and The Cinder Spires.
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Joe Hill
Joseph Hillstrom King, known professionally as Joe Hill, is an American novelist, short-story writer, and comic-book writer.
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John Andrew Sutherland
British literary critic, academic, columnist, biographer, and author specializing in Victorian fiction, twentieth-century literature, and publishing history.
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John Jackson Miller
American science-fiction author, comic-book writer, game writer, and comics-industry historian known especially for Star Wars and Star Trek fiction.
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Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory is a British historical novelist, historian, and playwright known especially for fiction about the Tudor and Plantagenet periods.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German-language poet and writer known for visionary poetry, prose, drama, art criticism, and letters.
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Rina Kent
Rina Kent is a bestselling author of dark contemporary romance, known for intense enemies-to-lovers stories, antiheroes, villains, and interconnected fictional worlds.
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Theodore Sturgeon
American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, criticism, and memoir, known for More Than Human, Venus Plus X, and influential short fiction.
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C.N. Crawford
C.N. Crawford is the shared pen name of Christine and Nick Crawford, a writing duo known for fantasy romance and urban fantasy.
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Eric Carle
American author and illustrator best known for innovative collage-illustrated picture books, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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George Orwell
George Orwell was the pen name of English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950).
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George R. R. Martin
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, television producer, and editor best known for A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews is the pen name of the husband-and-wife writing team Ilona and Gordon Gordon, known for urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction.
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Inio Asano
Japanese manga artist and writer known for psychologically incisive, realistic, and often surreal stories about adolescence, alienation, everyday life, and social anxiety.
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James Rollins
American veterinarian and bestselling author of international adventure thrillers, science-based suspense, fantasy, and middle-grade fiction.
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James Tynion IV
Eisner Award-winning American comic-book writer known for horror, superhero, science-fiction, and fantasy comics.
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Lewis Carroll
English writer, poet, mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon, best known for the Alice books.
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Michael Connelly
American crime novelist and former crime reporter best known for the Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Renée Ballard, Jack McEvoy, and Catalina series.
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Samuel R. Delany
American science-fiction and fantasy novelist, memoirist, critic, essayist, and graphic writer known for formally innovative, intellectually ambitious work on language, society, race, sexuality, and gender.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, essayist, memoirist, and reporter best known for Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons.
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Harold Bloom
American literary critic, literary theorist, professor, and author known for his work on poetic influence, Romanticism, Shakespeare, religion, and the Western canon.
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Hugh Howey
American science-fiction author best known for the Silo series, including Wool, Shift, and Dust.
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John Joseph Adams
American editor, anthologist, publisher, critic, and essayist known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative-fiction anthologies.
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John Scalzi
American science-fiction novelist and nonfiction author known for humorous, idea-driven speculative fiction.
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Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, author, and illustrator known for satirical cartoons, graphic novels, children's books, novels, memoir, and political commentary.
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Knut Hamsun
Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, and travel writer whose psychologically focused fiction helped pioneer literary modernism.
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Larry McMurtry
American novelist, essayist, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter, and bookseller (1936–2021), known for fiction about Texas, the American West, and changing American communities.
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Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child (1957–2021) was an American novelist and former book editor known for techno-thrillers, horror, and suspense. He wrote solo novels and coauthored numerous bestselling thrillers with Douglas Preston.
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Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher, educator, author, and advocate of liberal education and the Great Books tradition.
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Virginia Woolf
English modernist novelist, essayist, biographer, memoirist, and playwright.
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Charles Stross
British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for the Eschaton, Merchant Princes, Laundry Files, Halting State, and Freyaverse works.
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Cliff Rathburn
American comic-book writer and artist known for his work on The Walking Dead, Brit, and Remote Space.
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Edith Wharton
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, travel writer, memoirist, and designer whose fiction sharply depicts class, gender, and social change.
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