Author index

Authors beginning with N

N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is an award-winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, known for the Broken Earth trilogy and other acclaimed fantasy and science-fiction works.

18 works4 series

Nalini Singh

Fijian-born, New Zealand-raised author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, fantasy, and thrillers.

69 works6 series

Nalo Hopkinson

Jamaican-born Canadian writer of speculative fiction, novels, short stories, and graphic works, known for Caribbean-inflected science fiction and fantasy.

14 works1 series

Namina Forna

Sierra Leonean American young adult novelist and screenwriter best known for the New York Times bestselling fantasy trilogy The Gilded Ones.

3 works1 series

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

American author of speculative and literary fiction, known for the short-story collection Friday Black and the dystopian novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.

2 works0 series

Nancy Holder

American author of horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, young adult fiction, media tie-ins, comics, and poetry.

117 works23 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

Naomi Alderman

British novelist, nonfiction writer, broadcaster, and games writer whose work explores religion, gender, technology, power, and social change.

9 works1 series

Naomi Klein

Canadian journalist, author, filmmaker, activist, and professor known for nonfiction on corporate globalization, capitalism, climate justice, and political crises.

9 works0 series

Naomi Novik

American fantasy author known for the Temeraire and Scholomance series, as well as Uprooted and Spinning Silver.

18 works3 series

Napoleon Hill

American self-help author and motivational lecturer best known for Think and Grow Rich.

15 works0 series

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

French-Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former derivatives trader known for writing about uncertainty, probability, risk, and antifragility.

7 works2 series

Nat Cassidy

American novelist, playwright, actor, and musician known primarily for horror fiction and darkly comic theatre.

28 works1 series

Natalie Goldberg

American writer, teacher, poet, painter, and Zen practitioner known for books connecting writing practice with meditation and everyday life.

16 works0 series

Natalie Haynes

British writer, broadcaster, classicist, and former comedian known for literary fiction and nonfiction about Greek mythology.

9 works0 series

Natalie Naudus

Asian American audiobook narrator and author of queer fiction.

2 works1 series

Natasha Pulley

British author of historical, speculative, and science-fiction novels, including The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms.

10 works1 series

Natasha Wimmer

American translator, editor, and writer known for Spanish-to-English literary translation and travel writing.

1 works1 series

Nate Silver

American statistician, author, and political analyst known for statistical forecasting in politics, sports, and risk.

9 works1 series

Nathan Ballingrud

American horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction writer known for empathetic stories about ordinary people confronting monstrous forces.

7 works1 series

Nathan Fairbairn

Canadian comics creator, writer, colorist, and letterer known for the graphic novels Lake of Fire and PAWS.

6 works2 series

Nathan Hill

American novelist and journalist best known for The Nix and Wellness.

2 works0 series

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American novelist and short-story writer whose works explore sin, guilt, history, morality, and the supernatural.

23 works2 series

Nathaniel Philbrick

American historian and author of narrative nonfiction, maritime history, memoir, and historical works for young readers.

18 works1 series

Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist, essayist, literary critic, and poet whose fiction helped define modern Japanese literature.

26 works2 series

Natsuo Kirino

Japanese novelist known for psychologically intense crime fiction, literary thrillers, feminist noir, and socially incisive contemporary fiction.

59 works2 series

Navessa Allen

Navessa Allen is a bestselling romance author known for contemporary, dark, historical, paranormal, and fantasy romance.

14 works6 series

ND Stevenson

ND Stevenson is an American cartoonist, writer, and animation producer best known for Nimona, Lumberjanes, The Fire Never Goes Out, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

9 works3 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

Neal Shusterman

American author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults, known for speculative, dystopian, science-fiction, fantasy, and contemporary novels.

64 works14 series

Neal Stephenson

American author of science fiction, cyberpunk, historical fiction, techno-thrillers, and nonfiction.

26 works7 series

Ned Vizzini

Ned Vizzini (1981–2013) was an American author and journalist known for humorous, candid young adult fiction and nonfiction.

7 works1 series

Neil deGrasse Tyson

American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator; Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

20 works1 series

Neil Gaiman

English author of fantasy, horror, science fiction, comics, novels, short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children's literature.

89 works5 series

Neil Postman

American educator, media theorist, author, and cultural critic known for his analyses of language, education, television, technology, and public discourse.

17 works0 series

Neil Smith

Canadian fiction writer and literary translator from Montreal, known for the short-story collection Bang Crunch and the novels Boo and Jones.

3 works0 series

Neil Smith

Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, known for literary fiction and short stories.

3 works0 series

Neil Strauss

American author and journalist known for immersive nonfiction, celebrity biographies, memoirs, and relationship writing.

13 works0 series

Neon Yang

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

8 works2 series

Nevil Shute

English novelist and aeronautical engineer whose adventure, war, science-fiction, and Australian-set novels combined practical detail with accessible storytelling.

26 works1 series

Newt Scamander

Fictional British magizoologist and Hogwarts textbook writer.

1 works0 series

Nghi Vo

American author of queer fantasy novels and novellas.

12 works2 series

Nic Stone

American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, contemporary fiction, and co-authored young adult nonfiction.

17 works3 series

Niccolò Machiavelli

Florentine diplomat, political theorist, historian, playwright, and poet whose analyses of power, civic conflict, and republican government shaped modern political thought.

27 works0 series

Nicholas Binge

British author of speculative thrillers, science fiction, horror, and crime fiction; he also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Nick Brucker.

7 works0 series

Nicholas Eames

Canadian fantasy author best known for The Band novels and the Barbaric comic one-shot.

3 works2 series

Nicholas Kilmer

American painter, art dealer, curator, and writer known for art-world mysteries, memoir, art-historical nonfiction, and plays.

18 works1 series

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer best known for bestselling romance novels and their film adaptations.

27 works2 series

Nick Bostrom

Swedish-born philosopher known for work on anthropic reasoning, existential risk, human enhancement, artificial intelligence, and long-term human futures.

6 works0 series

Nick Caistor

British journalist, translator, editor, and author of nonfiction about Latin America.

18 works7 series

Nick Cutter

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

8 works0 series

Nick Harkaway

British novelist and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, literary thrillers, science fiction, and noir.

13 works4 series

Nick Hornby

British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter known for comic, humane writing about music, sport, relationships, and reading.

24 works1 series

Nick Medina

Chicago-born horror novelist and member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana.

4 works0 series

Nick Offerman

American actor, humorist, woodworker, and bestselling nonfiction author.

7 works1 series

Nicola Griffith

British-American author of speculative fiction, crime novels, historical fiction, memoir, short fiction, and literary nonfiction, known for queer and disabled perspectives.

15 works4 series

Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author of contemporary young adult romance and adult thriller fiction.

7 works1 series

Nicole Galland is an American novelist whose work includes historical fiction, Shakespearean retellings, romantic comedy, and speculative fiction. She has also co-authored works with Neal Stephenson and other writers under the pen name E. D. deBirmingham.

14 works2 series