Gary Chapman
American Christian author, pastor, marriage counselor, and radio host best known for The 5 Love Languages.
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Jack Ketchum
American horror writer and filmmaker Dallas William Mayr (1946–2018), best known by his pen name Jack Ketchum.
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Kerstin Gier
German author of humorous adult novels and fantasy fiction for young adults, also published under the pseudonyms Jule Brand and Sophie Bérard.
46 works7 series
LJ Andrews
LJ Andrews is a USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of dark fantasy romance, known for Viking-, fae-, pirate-, and magic-infused worlds.
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Lois Lowry
American author of children's and young adult fiction, memoir, poetry, and picture books; two-time Newbery Medal winner.
46 works7 series
Martha Wells
Martha Wells is an American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for The Murderbot Diaries and The Books of the Raksura.
46 works7 series
Penelope Curtis
British art historian, curator, and writer known for her scholarship on modern and contemporary sculpture and her leadership of Tate Britain and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher, theologian, and author whose pseudonymous and signed writings shaped modern existential philosophy and Christian thought.
46 works1 series
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was an American playwright, novelist, essayist, and memoirist best known for Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons.
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Beverly Cleary
American author of children's and young-adult literature best known for the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse books.
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Brian Jacques
Brian Jacques (1939–2011) was an English author best known for the Redwall series of children's fantasy novels.
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Daniel Abraham
American novelist and comic-book writer known for fantasy, science fiction, horror, and graphic fiction. He also writes under the pseudonym M. L. N. Hanover and, with Ty Franck, the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American novelist, abolitionist, essayist, and religious writer best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Holly Black
American author of contemporary and dark fantasy for adults, young adults, and children.
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Jeph Loeb
American comic-book writer, film and television writer, and producer known for Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Hush, and Marvel's color series.
45 works7 series
Lauren Myracle
American author of young adult, middle-grade, children's, graphic, and adult fiction.
45 works7 series
Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer of science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, crime, graphic fiction, and children's books.
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Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for Little Women.
45 works4 series
Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr is an American author of fantasy, romance, young-adult, adult, and children's fiction, best known for the Wicked Lovely series.
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Peter Straub
American novelist, poet, editor, and author of literary horror and supernatural fiction.
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Steven Grant
American comic-book writer known for The Punisher, Whisper, crime comics, licensed adaptations, and young-adult fiction written under pseudonyms.
45 works15 series
Tanya Huff
Canadian fantasy and science fiction author known for urban fantasy, paranormal mysteries, military science fiction, and space opera.
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Will Durant
American philosopher, historian, and writer best known for The Story of Civilization and The Story of Philosophy.
45 works1 series
Algernon Blackwood
English writer of supernatural fiction, fantasy, children's literature, memoir, essays, and plays.
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Gaston Leroux
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and reporter best known for the Rouletabille mysteries, the Chéri-Bibi novels, and The Phantom of the Opera.
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Gregory Maguire
American author of crossover books for adults and children, best known for Wicked and his revisionist fairy-tale fiction.
44 works4 series
Italo Calvino
Italian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, folklorist, and editor known for inventive, intellectually playful fiction.
44 works2 series
Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron is an American author, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, songwriter, and teacher best known for The Artist's Way.
44 works1 series
Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs is an American forensic anthropologist, academic, and author of forensic crime fiction. She is best known for the Temperance Brennan novels and the co-authored Virals young-adult series.
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Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) was an American author best known for fantasy and children's literature, especially The Chronicles of Prydain, the Westmark trilogy, and the Vesper Holly adventures.
44 works3 series
Patricia Cornwell
American crime novelist best known for the Kay Scarpetta forensic-thriller series.
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Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter, and translator known for metafiction, coincidence, identity, and literary self-reference.
44 works1 series
Sierra Simone
Sierra Simone is a USA Today bestselling romance author and former librarian.
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Vaclav Smil
Canadian interdisciplinary scientist and author specializing in energy, environment, food, population, technology, and global change.
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Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, historical adventure, and related fiction.
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William Shakespeare
English playwright, poet, and actor active during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
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Anne Rice
American novelist best known for gothic fiction, The Vampire Chronicles, and the Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
43 works8 series
Claudia Gray
Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent, an American author of young adult science fiction, fantasy, romance, and mystery.
43 works8 series
Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other speculative fiction.
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Ellen Hopkins
American poet, former journalist, and author of verse novels, middle-grade fiction, adult fiction, and nonfiction for young readers.
43 works6 series
G. Willow Wilson
American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and comics writer known for Cairo, Air, Alif the Unseen, Ms. Marvel, Invisible Kingdom, and Poison Ivy.
43 works11 series
John Connolly
Irish author of crime, supernatural, fantasy, science-fiction, young-adult, and nonfiction works, best known for the Charlie Parker thrillers.
43 works5 series
Nancy Kress
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for novels and short fiction about genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, aliens, and social change.
43 works6 series
Neal Asher
English science-fiction writer known for fast-paced space opera, cyberpunk, and post-cyberpunk fiction, especially the Polity universe.
43 works8 series
Norman Mailer
American novelist, nonfiction writer, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker whose career spanned nearly seven decades.
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