
M. John Harrison
English author and literary critic known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, criticism, and memoir.
Author index

English author and literary critic known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, criticism, and memoir.

M. L. Rio is an American novelist known for literary thrillers, gothic fiction, and dark-academia stories.
Australian novelist best known for The Light Between Oceans and A Far-flung Life.

M. L. Wang is a Wisconsin-based author and martial artist who writes character-driven fantasy and science fiction.

American author of novels, picture books, nonfiction, graphic novels, and short fiction for children, young adults, and adults.

M.A. Carrick is the joint pen name of fantasy authors Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms.

British novelist and comic-book writer, also known as Mike Carey and Adam Blake, whose work spans horror, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, and graphic fiction.

American author of young adult historical fiction, fantasy, romance, licensed novels, and nonfiction.

American writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and children's literature, best known for A Wrinkle in Time.
American author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and romance for adults, teens, and children.

Madeline Miller is an American novelist and classicist known for mythological retellings including The Song of Achilles and Circe.
American poet, essayist, memoirist, and art critic whose genre-defying books explore color, violence, family, freedom, gender, care, and artistic life.

Irish-British novelist, memoirist, and children's author known for literary and historical fiction.

American novelist, artist, and musician known for fantasy, speculative fiction, and historical fiction for young readers and adults.

Nonbinary queer cartoonist and author best known for the graphic memoir Gender Queer: A Memoir.

Pakistani education activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and author whose books focus on girls' education, displacement, and coming of age.
American poet, literary critic, editor, memoirist, and historian of American literature (1898–1989).

Canadian journalist and nonfiction author known for accessible works on psychology, sociology, social science, and human behavior.
American comic-book artist and inker (1959–1996), best known for The Sandman and The Question.
British Germanist and literary scholar best known for his critical editing of Franz Kafka's works.
American Muslim minister, human-rights activist, and influential writer and speaker on Black nationalism, Islam, Pan-Africanism, and racial justice.

Malinda Lo is a New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of seven novels, including A Scatter of Light. Her work spans queer young adult fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and thrillers.

Malka Older is an American science-fiction author, sociologist, and humanitarian aid worker known for politically engaged speculative fiction.
Malvina G. Vogel was a children's-book adapter and writer best known for accessible retellings of classic literature.
Marc Thompson is an English-language haiku poet known for the chapbooks Ordinary Time and Oklahoma Heat.

French modernist novelist, essayist, critic, and short-story writer best known for À la recherche du temps perdu.
Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and an Anishinaabe author, poet, playwright, and community arts activist.



Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, memoirist, dramatist, and author of children's and graphic literature.
British literary translator and editor of Spanish- and Portuguese-language literature.

Margaret Owen is an American young adult fantasy author and illustrator based in Seattle.

American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, best known for the Shadow Children and The Missing series.

Margaret Rogerson is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and novellas.

Margaret Stohl is an American young adult novelist and comics writer, best known for co-authoring the Caster Chronicles and writing Marvel novels and graphic works.

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for co-creating Dragonlance with Tracy Hickman.

American author of fantasy, literary fiction, young adult fiction, memoir, drama, and speculative fiction.
American novelist and former television writer known for comic, satirical literary fiction.
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Study, Glass, Soulfinders, Healer, Insider, Sentinels of the Galaxy, and Archives of the Invisible Sword series.

Argentine novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and essayist known for literary horror, dark fiction, and nonfiction about cemeteries, literature, music, and cultural figures.

American contemporary romance author known for slow-burn romantic novels.

Marie Benedict is an American historical fiction author and lawyer who writes about overlooked women in history.

Marie Brennan is the pen name of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author and former anthropologist and folklorist.
Japanese tidying consultant, bestselling author, founder of KonMari Media, and host of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.

Chinese-American author of young adult and adult speculative fiction, including Legend, The Young Elites, Warcross, Skyhunter, and Stars & Smoke.

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

Dutch nonbinary author of young adult and middle-grade novels, graphic novels, comics, and anthologies.
Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist known for queer coming-of-age fiction, graphic novels, essays, and superhero comics.

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

Ukrainian-American fantasy and speculative-fiction author, formerly an actress, who wrote extensively in collaboration with her husband, Sergey Dyachenko.

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

Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, and political writer (1936–2025), awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

American author of fantasy, science fiction, science fantasy, and historical fantasy, best known for the Darkover novels and The Mists of Avalon.

American novelist known for intricate, genre-blending mysteries and psychological thrillers.

Marissa Meyer is an American bestselling author of young adult, middle-grade, fantasy, science-fiction, romance, graphic, and nonfiction works.
Iranian-American novelist known for emotionally rich historical and contemporary fiction centered on Iranian life, friendship, family, migration, and love.

Iranian-born French graphic novelist, memoirist, children's-book author, filmmaker, and visual artist best known for Persepolis.

American novelist and comic-book writer known for paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and award-winning graphic novels.
British comic-book artist and writer known for Fables, Miracleman, The Sandman, Hellblazer, and Dead Boy Detectives.
Author of independently published Christian biblical-study books, also credited as Mark Allen Deakins.

British cultural critic, theorist, writer, and lecturer known for his analyses of capitalism, popular culture, depression, hauntology, and lost futures.

Mark Haddon is an English writer and artist known for novels, children's fiction, poetry, short stories, plays, and memoir.
Irish-American literary translator and Kafka scholar known for award-winning translations from German.

American journalist and author of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and children's books, known for richly researched histories of food, commodities, places, and culture.

American-British novelist known for grimdark fantasy and science fiction, including The Broken Empire, The Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, and The Library Trilogy.

American self-help author and blogger known for candid writing on personal development, relationships, values, and meaning.
Scottish comic-book writer known for creator-owned and mainstream superhero graphic works.
American Italianist, translator, literary scholar, and Indiana University professor best known for influential English translations of Dante and other Italian classics.
American novelist, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and nonfiction author known for thriller fiction, criminal-justice books, and public-health writing.

American author of mystery, thriller, suspense, and historical fiction novels.

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American humorist, novelist, travel writer, essayist, lecturer, and social satirist.
American comic-book writer known for influential superhero comics including Kingdom Come, The Flash, Superman: Birthright, Daredevil, Captain America, and Batman/Superman: World's Finest.

American novelist known for experimental, typographically innovative fiction including House of Leaves and The Familiar.

German-born author of military science fiction, best known for the Frontlines series.

Australian author of six novels and the memoir Three Wild Dogs (and the truth).

Jamaican-born novelist known for historically grounded, formally ambitious fiction spanning Jamaica, the Caribbean, and an expansive African-inspired fantasy world.
American psychologist, mediator, author, and founder of Nonviolent Communication.
Italian writer, translator, and editorial consultant known for children's literature, literary fiction, memoir, and literary nonfiction.

Martha Wells is an American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for The Murderbot Diaries and The Books of the Raksura.

English novelist, essayist, literary critic, memoirist, and journalist known for satirical, formally inventive fiction and incisive cultural criticism.

American writer best known for recreational mathematics, puzzles, popular science, magic, scientific skepticism, literary annotation, and fiction.
English classical scholar, translator, and former school headmaster known for prose translations of Greek and Roman classics.
American historian of nuclear weapons, atomic diplomacy, and Cold War history; co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus.

American writer, editor, librarian, and bookseller best known for her posthumously published historical novel co-authored with Annie Barrows.
British classicist, historian, and author specializing in ancient Rome, classical archaeology, and the reception of the classical world.

American novelist with a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, known for science fiction and meticulously researched historical fiction.

Mary E. Pearson is an American bestselling author of young adult fantasy, science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's books, and adult fantasy.
Mary GrandPré is an American children's-book author and illustrator best known for the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter novels.

Mary H. K. Choi is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and comic-book writer.

Mary Kubica is an American bestselling author of psychological and domestic thrillers.

American poet and essayist (1935–2019) known for lyric poetry rooted in the natural world.

American popular-science writer and humorist known for witty, research-driven nonfiction about the human body, science, death, space, sex, war, and nature.

Mary Robinette Kowal is an American science-fiction and fantasy author, puppeteer, voice actor, and former SFWA president.

English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, travel writer, biographer, and editor, best known for Frankenstein.
Bestselling and award-winning author of young adult and adult romance novels.

American writer, artist, and musician best known for science-fantasy LitRPG.
American comic-book writer known for creator-owned and superhero graphic works including Casanova, Sex Criminals, Hawkeye, The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

English novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, children's literature, memoir, and books about mental health.
British science writer, journalist, and businessman known for books on evolution, genetics, human nature, innovation, economics, and environmental issues.
American novelist known for genre-spanning fiction combining fantasy, science fiction, thriller, horror, alternate history, and dark humor.

American comics writer and artist best known for creating Mage and Grendel.
American humor writer, comics writer, and editor known for parody nonfiction and creator-owned graphic works.

American sociologist, author, and Princeton University professor known for ethnographic and policy research on poverty, housing insecurity, eviction, race, and urban inequality.
American actor and author known for memoir, inspirational nonfiction, children's picture books, and poetry.

American novelist and memoirist known for emotionally driven adult and young-adult fiction.
English journalist, broadcaster, cultural historian, novelist, and audio-drama writer.
British neuroscientist, sleep researcher, professor, and author known for the popular-science book Why We Sleep.

American fantasy and science-fiction novelist known for The Acts of Caine, Barra the Pict, and Star Wars novels.

Maureen Johnson is an American author best known for young adult mystery, contemporary, fantasy, and romance fiction.
Maurice Broaddus is an Indianapolis-based author, editor, librarian, educator, and community organizer whose fiction spans science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult literature.
English writer, literary scholar, and editor known for work on Romantic literature, Gothic fiction, Shakespeare, and film adaptation.

American author and illustrator best known for psychologically rich, darkly playful picture books.

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

Max Brooks is an American author, screenwriter, and actor known for satirical fiction and nonfiction about disaster, warfare, survival, and social resilience.

Max Gladstone is an award-winning American speculative-fiction author known for the Craft Sequence, Empress of Forever, and This Is How You Lose the Time War, co-written with Amal El-Mohtar.
English writer and former bookseller and editor known for formally experimental fiction blending prose, poetry, and visual approaches.
Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist, machine-learning researcher, and author known for popular-science writing on cosmology, mathematical reality, artificial intelligence, and the future of life.

American poet, memoirist, essayist, playwright, children's author, and civil rights activist.

Meagan Spooner is an American young adult author known for science fiction, fantasy, and romantic adventure novels, including the Skylark trilogy and collaborations with Amie Kaufman.

American novelist writing middle-grade, young adult, and adult fiction, best known for The Princess Diaries and The Mediator.

Meg Shaffer is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels.
Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer known for noir, crime fiction, and psychologically intense stories about women, ambition, desire, and power.

USA Today bestselling author of award-winning speculative fiction, including fantasy romance and young adult fantasy.

Megan E. O'Keefe is a US author of science fiction and fantasy, including space opera and steampunk fiction.

Megan Miranda is a New York Times bestselling author of psychological suspense and mystery novels for adults and young adults.

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

American bestselling author of romantic comedy and contemporary romance.

Mel Robbins is an American author, speaker, podcast host, and personal-development educator known for practical tools for behavior change, confidence, motivation, and habit formation.

American author of young adult and adult fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction.

Melissa Bashardoust is a young adult fantasy author known for feminist fairy-tale retellings.
American novelist, poet, and essayist known for surreal, darkly comic writing about desire, anxiety, embodiment, faith, and contemporary life.

Filipina-American bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults.

Melissa Marr is an American author of fantasy, romance, young-adult, adult, and children's fiction, best known for the Wicked Lovely series.

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Valdemar novels, Elemental Masters, and numerous co-authored fantasy series.

British biologist, mycologist, and writer known for his work on fungi, mycorrhizal networks, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science.
English writer, poet, artist, and illustrator best known for the Gormenghast novels.

Meryl Wilsner is a bestselling author of contemporary romances featuring queer folks who love women.
Scottish novelist known for romantic comedy and contemporary fiction.
Mia Sheridan is a bestselling American author of emotionally driven contemporary romance and romantic suspense.
Micaiah Johnson is an American author and scholar who writes science fiction, speculative fiction, and horror.

American spiritual teacher, author, meditation-center founder, and entrepreneur known for nonfiction on consciousness, meditation, surrender, and inner freedom.

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and comics creator.

American crime novelist and former crime reporter best known for the Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Renée Ballard, Jack McEvoy, and Catalina series.

American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, physician, and nonfiction author known for scientifically grounded thrillers.

American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and screenwriter best known for The Hours.
American author, animation director, writer, and co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.

German author best known for imaginative children's and fantasy literature, including Jim Knopf, Momo, and Die unendliche Geschichte.
Michael Eric Dyson is an American scholar, author, ordained Baptist minister, and public intellectual whose work examines race, religion, politics, popular culture, and African American life.
American journalist and nonfiction author known for narrative works about crime, isolation, adventure, and unusual lives.

American author Michael Grant, pseudonym of Michael Reynolds, known for young adult science fiction, dystopian, fantasy, horror, historical, and thriller fiction.
American literary translator and Slavic scholar known for influential translations from Central and Eastern European languages.
German-born British poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator, born in 1957.

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Riyria novels.
American science-fiction author, translator, and editor known for four satirical novels and acclaimed translations of Polish literature.

Michael Lewis is an American nonfiction writer and journalist known for narrative books about finance, business, sports, technology, politics, and public institutions.

American novelist and screenwriter best known for Southern Gothic horror, the Blackwater serial novel, and the screenplay for Beetlejuice.

English novelist, short-story writer, editor, critic, and musician known for science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, and the New Wave movement.
English journalist, television correspondent, war reporter, novelist, and memoirist (1937–2016).
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist, filmmaker, and editor known for formally inventive writing about memory, displacement, war, and identity.
Michael Fitzgerald Page was a British-born Australian writer, editor, and former merchant sailor known for nautical fiction, Australian history, biographies, and illustrated fantasy reference books.

American author, journalist, and professor known for nonfiction about food, agriculture, plants, psychedelics, and consciousness.

Irish author of fantasy, science fiction, horror, folklore, romance, and nonfiction, also writing romance as Anna Dillon and some young-adult fiction as Mike Scott.

Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for award-winning novels, short fiction, collections, criticism, and literary biography.
British philosopher, Cambridge fellow, and opera critic known for studies of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Wagner.
American communication scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, known for work on organizational communication, uncertainty management, organizational socialization, and volunteering.
American comics artist, writer, and wildlife illustrator known for The Puma Blues, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Soul's Winter, The Sandman, and The Fracture of the Universal Boy.
Dutch-born Australian-raised Scottish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist.

French philosopher and historian of ideas whose works analyzed knowledge, power, institutions, subjectivity, and sexuality.

French novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker known for bleak, satirical examinations of contemporary Western society.

American civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New Jim Crow.
American true-crime writer and founder of True Crime Diary, best known for her posthumously published investigation of the Golden State Killer.


British author of historical fiction, children's historical fantasy, and supernatural novels.

American musician and author best known for the memoir Crying in H Mart.
Japanese novelist known for warm, interconnected contemporary fiction and short-story collections.

Japanese-American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science author known for his work on string field theory and books explaining physics, cosmology, and future technology.

British crime and espionage novelist best known for the Slough House series.

Japanese novelist, poet, essayist, and memoirist born in Osaka in 1976.

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age, best known for Don Quixote.
Mexican spiritual teacher and bestselling author of practical books on Toltec wisdom, personal freedom, love, and awareness.

Hungarian-American psychologist and co-founder of positive psychology, best known for developing the concept of flow.
American comics writer and artist best known for creating Madman and co-creating The Atomics and X-Ray Robot.

British writer of novels, graphic works, comics, short fiction, and screenplays, also published as M. R. Carey and Adam Blake.

Mike Chen is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and young adult fiction, as well as a writer of licensed franchise novels and comics.
American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work on The Sandman.
Mike Grady is a network marketing and home-based business expert and author.

American comic-book writer and artist best known as the creator of Hellboy and its connected supernatural universe.

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, physician, and satirist.
American writer, cultural critic, speaker, and editor known for nonfiction on feminism, race, culture, and social justice, as well as graphic works and speculative-fiction publishing.

Czech-born French novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist known for philosophically intricate fiction about memory, identity, desire, history, and exile.

Miles Cameron is the fantasy-fiction pen name of Canadian novelist Christian Cameron, a military veteran and medieval-history graduate.
Brazilian writer, humorist, journalist, cartoonist, poet, playwright, translator, and visual artist known for satirical prose, aphorisms, fables, poetry, theater, and political humor.

Min Jin Lee is a Korean American novelist whose fiction explores family, migration, identity, class, and the Korean diaspora.

Edgar Award-winning American novelist from Ohio who writes across young adult and adult genres.

Mira Grant is the pseudonym of American author Seanan McGuire, used primarily for science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic fiction.

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

Canadian novelist and memoirist known for darkly comic, compassionate writing about family, religion, mental illness, and survival.
German author and translator best known for novels about difficult childhoods, Jewish life, memory, and the Holocaust.

Mitch Albom is an American author, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster, and musician known for memoirs, inspirational fiction, nonfiction, and stage works.
Mizuki Tsujimura is a Japanese novelist known for mystery fiction for adult and young-adult readers.

Chinese danmei and xianxia novelist known for three completed web novels.

Pakistani-British novelist and essayist known for literary fiction addressing migration, identity, globalization, and political change.

Canadian novelist known for darkly comic, surreal fiction about women, identity, beauty, pain, friendship, and artistic creation.

Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean American horror novelist living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.
Morgan Housel is a bestselling nonfiction author and partner at The Collaborative Fund, known for writing about money, investing, behavior, and decision-making.
Morgan Talty is a Penobscot writer and author of literary fiction and short stories.

American philosopher, educator, author, and advocate of liberal education and the Great Books tradition.

Mur Lafferty is an American science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery author, podcaster, editor, and nonfiction writer.