E L James
E L James is a British novelist best known for the Fifty Shades erotic-romance novels and their companion trilogy.
Author index
E L James is a British novelist best known for the Fifty Shades erotic-romance novels and their companion trilogy.

E. B. White was an American essayist, humorist, poet, editor, and author of children's literature, best known for Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan.

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

E. Lockhart is an American author of young adult fiction and graphic novels.

English modernist novelist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and humanist best known for his novels exploring class, sexuality, empire, and human connection.
American illustrator and cartoonist (1861–1933), best known for illustrating the first American edition of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Canadian comics author and artist known for atmospheric horror graphic novels and webcomics.

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and bestselling author whose teachings emphasize presence, inner stillness, and freedom from identification with the ego.
American comic-book writer, cartoonist, and screenwriter known for crime, noir, espionage, and superhero comics.

American computer scientist, computer-graphics pioneer, and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios.

British-American science journalist and author of popular science and nature writing.
Scottish-born comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and publisher known for Alec, Bacchus, and From Hell.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor, and literary critic whose Gothic fiction, detective stories, and theories of literary composition shaped modern horror, science fiction, and mystery literature.

American author best known for creating Tarzan and the Barsoom series.
American literary translator, writer, and teacher known for her Spanish-to-English translations and writing on literary translation.
English author, poet, and socialist activist best known for pioneering modern children's fantasy.

American novelist, short-story writer, poet, travel writer, memoirist, and designer whose fiction sharply depicts class, gender, and social change.
American literary scholar, editor, and James Joyce scholar known for book-length studies of Joyce and for helping bring William Golding's Lord of the Flies to American paperback readers.
American actor, audiobook narrator, writer, and director who co-created the Audible Original novella The Angel of Rome with Jess Walter.

Edward Ashton is an American author of science fiction and speculative fiction.
American Japanologist, literary scholar, translator, historian, and author best known for his studies of Japanese literature and Tokyo.
American economist, media scholar, and social critic known for political-economy research and media criticism.

American intelligence contractor, whistleblower, privacy advocate, and author of the memoir Permanent Record.

Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist, cultural critic, public intellectual, and professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He was a founding figure in postcolonial studies and a prominent advocate for Palestinian self-determination.

English schoolmaster, Anglican priest, theologian, biblical scholar, and author best known for the novella Flatland.

Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962), best known for popular retellings of Japanese and Chinese classics, including Musashi, Taiko, and Shin Heike monogatari.
American literary critic, feminist theorist, literary historian, and cultural writer known for influential work in feminist literary criticism and gynocriticism.

New Zealand novelist and screenwriter known for literary fiction, historical mystery, and psychological drama.


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

Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, memoirist, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
American artificial intelligence researcher, decision theorist, and writer known for work on AI safety, rationality, and speculative fiction.
American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and journalist known for The Possessed and the Selin novels The Idiot and Either/Or.
British-Turkish novelist, essayist, memoirist, and political scientist who writes in Turkish and English.

American novelist known for contemporary women's fiction set largely on Nantucket.

American and British author of adult, young adult, and children's fiction and nonfiction, twice a National Book Award finalist.

Elise Kova is a bestselling author of fantasy and fantasy romance, known for magical worlds, deep emotions, and romantic adventures.

British novelist and short-story writer known for dark, psychologically intense fiction.

Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and novelist whose work includes young adult novels in verse, literary fiction, and poetry.

Elizabeth Bear is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other speculative fiction.

Elizabeth Evans is an American fiction writer known for psychologically astute novels and short-story collections.

English Victorian novelist, biographer, and short-story writer known for fiction about industrial society, class, gender, family, and religious conscience.

American author and journalist known for literary fiction, short stories, memoir, biography, and creative nonfiction.

American novelist, short-fiction writer, critic, and comics writer known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and literary fiction.
American journalist and nonfiction author known for environmental and climate reporting.

American novelist known for historical, gothic, and suspense fiction, including The Historian, The Swan Thieves, The Shadow Land, and Mystery Play.

Elizabeth Lim is an American author of young adult fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, and adult fantasy.
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for military science fiction, epic fantasy, and character-driven explorations of duty, identity, and community.

American novelist and short-story writer known for compassionate literary fiction about ordinary lives, family relationships, memory, loneliness, and community.
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.

Elle Cosimano is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of mystery, thriller, fantasy, and young adult fiction.

Canadian bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense, known for the Off-Campus universe and military romantic-suspense novels.

American poet, former journalist, and author of verse novels, middle-grade fiction, adult fiction, and nonfiction for young readers.

American writer and illustrator best known for inventive children's picture books and mystery novels.
American scholar, editor, publisher, and author specializing in Russian literature.

Elly Griffiths is the pen name of British novelist Domenica de Rosa, known for crime fiction, historical mysteries, children's mysteries, short stories, and nonfiction.

Elsie Silver is a Canadian #1 New York Times bestselling author of sassy, steamy small-town romance.
Emiko Jean is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult and adult fiction.

Emilia Hart is a British-Australian novelist known for historical fiction blending magical realism, folklore, and feminist themes.


English novelist and poet best known for Wuthering Heights and her influential poetry.

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

American novelist known for young adult speculative fiction and contemporary romance.

Emily McIntire is a bestselling romance author known for dark, contemporary, and emotionally intense love stories.

Emily Nagoski is an American sex educator, researcher, and author specializing in sexual wellbeing, relationships, and stress education.

New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of romance and fantasy.

Canadian novelist and essayist known for literary fiction that blends crime, speculative, and science-fiction elements.


British-American classicist, translator, author, and professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania.


Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian known for historical fiction, short stories, and the novel Room.
Emma Lord is an American author and digital media editor based in New York City who writes contemporary romance, including young adult and adult novels.

American novelist and picture-book author known for warm, humorous stories about family, friendship, relationships, aging, and memory.
American writer of speculative fiction and fantasy, known for her debut novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe.

Irish author best known for humorous fantasy and science fiction for young readers, especially the Artemis Fowl series.

Alaska-raised American novelist whose fiction draws on the state's landscape, folklore, and history.

Greek Stoic philosopher of the first and early second centuries CE, whose surviving teachings were recorded and edited primarily by his pupil Arrian.
British science-fiction, crime, and children's writer and Guardian critic.

American author and illustrator best known for innovative collage-illustrated picture books, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Entrepreneur, writer, investor, and book curator focused on technology, startups, investing, and personal development.
American sociologist and public intellectual known for research on cities, social infrastructure, media, isolation, and urban disasters.

Eric LaRocca is a horror and dark-fiction author whose work explores grief, obsession, identity, and transgressive love.
American voice actor, audiobook narrator, producer, and author of children’s biographies of classical composers.

American investigative journalist and author known for deeply reported nonfiction on food, labor, crime, and nuclear weapons.
Eric Vincent (born 1953) is an American comic-book writer, artist, and illustrator associated with underground comix and independent comics.

German-American psychoanalyst, social psychologist, humanist philosopher, and social critic (1900–1980).

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

American journalist and author best known for narrative nonfiction about historical disasters, crime, war, and social change.
American fantasy novelist known for The Queen of the Tearling sequence and The Kingdom of Sweets.

Erin A. Craig is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of gothic young adult fantasy novels.

Collective pseudonym used by a team of authors for middle-grade animal fantasy, including Warriors, Seekers, Survivors, Bravelands, Bamboo Kingdom, and Renegades.

Erin Mallon is a USA Today bestselling romance author, playwright, and award-winning audiobook narrator.
American author and INSEAD professor known for books on cross-cultural management and organizational culture.

Erin Morgenstern is an American author and multimedia artist best known for her fantasy novels The Night Circus and The Starless Sea.
Marine ecologist, science writer, and National Geographic Explorer focused on ocean life and conservation.

Erin Sterling is the pen name of Rachel Hawkins, an American author of paranormal romance and fantasy romance.

American novelist, screenwriter, and poet known for science fiction and pop-culture-infused stories.

English artist, author, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for illustrating A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books.

American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, essayist, poet, and playwright known for spare prose and understated emotional intensity.
Belgian-American psychotherapist, author, and speaker known for her work on relationships, intimacy, desire, and infidelity.
Etaf Rum is a Palestinian-American novelist, educator, and entrepreneur known for literary fiction about identity, family, culture, and intergenerational trauma.
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, and literary critic who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.
Actor, audiobook narrator, writer, editor, and teacher best known as the author of documentary companion books on health and sustainability.

Ancient Athenian tragedian and one of the three canonical Greek tragedians, noted for psychologically complex characters, rhetorical debate, and radical reinterpretations of myth.
Canadian fantasy author born in England and raised in Zambia, best known for The Burning series.

English novelist, satirist, biographer, travel writer, essayist, and journalist.
Everina Maxwell is an English author of queer science fiction, space opera, fantasy, and romance.

Evie Woods is the pen name of Irish author Evie Gaughan, known for warm, magical novels blending history, folklore, mystery, romance, and the transformative power of stories.