
S. A. Chakraborty
S. A. Chakraborty is the pen name of Shannon Chakraborty, a New York Times bestselling fantasy author.
Author index

S. A. Chakraborty is the pen name of Shannon Chakraborty, a New York Times bestselling fantasy author.

S. A. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling American writer from southeastern Virginia known for Southern noir and crime thrillers.

American author best known for realistic young-adult fiction, including The Outsiders; she also wrote children's books, adult fiction, and short stories.

English novelist known for psychological thrillers about memory, identity, belief, and the consequences of misunderstanding ourselves and others.

S. L. Huang is a Hugo Award-winning author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.

S.A. Barnes is the pen name of Stacey Kade, an Illinois-based author of science fiction horror and paranormal romance.
S.T. Abby was a pen name of romance author C.M. Owens, also known as Kristy Cunning. She wrote dark romantic suspense under this name.

S.T. Gibson is a bestselling author of gothic romances and dark fantasy novels.

Sabaa Tahir is an American author of young adult fantasy and contemporary fiction, best known for the An Ember in the Ashes series and All My Rage.

American writer of fantasy and science-fiction prose, poetry, and superhero comics.
Sally Hepworth is an Australian novelist known for domestic suspense and psychological thrillers centered on family relationships, secrets, and moral ambiguity.

Irish novelist known for psychologically acute literary fiction about intimacy, class, friendship, and contemporary life.

Australian romance novelist known for contemporary romantic comedies and historical romance.

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist known for magical realism, historical fiction, satire, and writing about migration, identity, censorship, and cultural conflict.

American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and public intellectual known for writing on religion, ethics, consciousness, meditation, and human values.

American science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult author, editor, and community organizer.

American science writer and New York Times bestselling author of narrative nonfiction about science, history, and human discovery.

Argentine writer known for psychologically unsettling novels and short fiction exploring the uncanny within everyday life.
Samantha Downing is an American author of internationally bestselling psychological thrillers and domestic suspense novels.

Samantha Harvey is a British novelist and nonfiction author known for literary fiction that explores memory, morality, history, consciousness, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.
American essayist, humorist, blogger, comedian, and television writer known for candid, comic nonfiction.
British fantasy author best known for The Bone Season and The Roots of Chaos.
Filipino speculative-fiction author based in Manila, known for imaginative novels blending fantasy, magical realism, romance, and time travel.

Chef, teacher, and food writer known for making cooking principles accessible through warm, technique-focused cookbooks.
Samuel A. Moore is a scholarly communication specialist at Cambridge University Library whose research focuses on academic publishing, open research, and the commons.

Irish novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and translator whose austere modernist works helped define the Theatre of the Absurd.

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.
Japanese comic artist and illustrator best known for the Hugo- and Eisner-winning fantasy series Monstress.

Sandra Cisneros is an American Chicana poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and author of children's books.

British-Indian author of fantasy fiction for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers.
American novelist and screenwriter known for crime fiction, horror, and mystery novels.

Canadian-American novelist known for literary and historical fiction featuring complex human-animal relationships.
Italian comics artist best known for co-creating and first drawing Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man.

American New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of young adult fantasy, romantasy, and adult fantasy romance.

American author of young-adult mystery and thriller fiction, adult suspense novels, middle-grade illustrated novels, and graphic works.

New Zealand-born Australian author of epic fantasy romance, best known for the Crystal Bloom and Moonfall series.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author from Nashville, Tennessee.
American novelist known for Southern magical realism, lyrical prose, and stories about family, food, memory, and community.
American cartoonist and illustrator known for the Sarah's Scribbles webcomic and graphic works including Fangs and Cryptid Club.


American young-adult novelist known for contemporary coming-of-age fiction.

Sarah Gailey is an American author of speculative fiction, horror, mystery, short fiction, essays, and comics.

American fantasy and romance author best known for the Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series.
Canadian writer and literary translator from Spanish and French, known for short and experimental fiction.

Sarah Pekkanen is an American bestselling author of contemporary fiction and psychological suspense, writing both solo novels and co-authored thrillers with Greer Hendricks.

Sarah Penner is a historical-fiction author best known for The Lost Apothecary, The London Séance Society, and The Amalfi Curse.

British author and screenwriter of horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, historical mysteries, and young adult fiction.

Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author and singer-songwriter known for award-winning novels and short fiction.

Irish fantasy author of young adult and adult fiction, including The Demon's Lexicon, In Other Lands, and Long Live Evil.

Welsh novelist and playwright known for historical, gothic, and queer literary fiction.
Sarah Winman is a British novelist and actress, best known for literary fiction exploring love, friendship, family, memory, and chosen communities.

New Zealand lawyer, former diplomat, public policy expert, and author of Careless People.

Sarina Bowen is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, new adult, and LGBTQ+ romance.

Japanese novelist born in 1977 in Chiba Prefecture. He debuted with Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and is known for warm, restorative fiction.

Japanese novelist and essayist known for literary, speculative, dystopian, and body-horror fiction examining conformity, gender, sexuality, family, work, and social norms.

Scarlett St. Clair is a #1 New York Times bestselling Muscogee author of dark fantasy romance, romantasy, paranormal romance, and young adult fantasy.

American novelist and technologist known for dark fantasy, cosmic horror, and metaphysical horror.


American cartoonist, comics theorist, writer, and artist known for influential nonfiction comics and graphic novels.

American author, cartoonist, comedian, and former radio DJ known for the Basic Instructions comic strip and humorous science-fiction and fantasy novels.

American science-fiction and horror novelist known for podcast fiction, high-concept thrillers, and the Galactic Football League series.
American novelist and screenwriter known for the thriller A Simple Plan and horror novel The Ruins.

American comic-book writer and prose author known for American Vampire, Batman, and creator-owned horror and science-fiction works.

American author of science fiction and young adult fiction, known for the Uglies, Leviathan, Midnighters, Zeroes, and Impostors series.
Irish poet, novelist, literary critic, and intellectual historian known for Reading in the Dark and major studies of Irish literature, nationalism, and modernity.

Sean Hawker is an author of extreme horror, splatterpunk, and transgressive fiction.

American speculative-fiction author known for urban fantasy, portal fantasy, science fiction, and horror. She also writes as Mira Grant and A. Deborah Baker.

American journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker known for narrative nonfiction about war, dangerous environments, and human connection.
Canadian author of swashbuckling fantasy, best known for The Greatcoats and Spellslinger series.

SenLinYu is a fantasy author and fanfiction writer whose debut novel is Alchemised.

American novelist and short-story writer known for literary speculative fiction.
American Russian-language lecturer, translator, and scholar of Soviet semiotics associated with the University of Michigan.

Russian science-fiction and fantasy writer, known for urban fantasy, space opera, cyberpunk, and the Night Watch series.
Brazilian diplomat and author specializing in international security and nuclear disarmament.

American fantasy and science fiction writer known for The Masquerade novels and Exordia.
American author, entrepreneur, and marketing thinker known for concise books on marketing, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
American novelist, nonfiction writer, comic-book writer, screenwriter, and film producer known for comedic horror, historical fantasy, and mashup fiction.
Shane Hawk is an enrolled Cheyenne and Arapaho horror writer, editor, and creator of the Native Horror Index.

Shannon Hale is an award-winning American author of fantasy, romance, graphic novels, memoirs, and books for children and young adults.
Canadian author of psychological thrillers, domestic suspense, mystery, and comic fiction.

American CPA, entrepreneur, author, and financial-literacy advocate known for co-authoring Rich Dad Poor Dad and numerous books on personal finance, entrepreneurship, and wealth.

American young adult author whose fiction often combines speculative elements with LGBTQ+ themes, mental health, identity, and hope.
Northern Irish literary translator and editor of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature.
American writer, editor, publisher, literary agent, and creator of the Story Grid methodology.
American comic-book artist known for expressive, cartoon-influenced work for DC Comics, Vertigo, Marvel, and independent publishers.

Shea Ernshaw is an American bestselling author of atmospheric young adult and adult fiction.

Sri Lankan writer known for literary fiction, satire, short stories, and children's books.
Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer whose eleven books span fiction, nonfiction, memoir, children's literature, and drama.

American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, playwright, and author-illustrator known for irreverent children's books, poetry, and adult cartoons.

American young adult fantasy author best known for the Serpent & Dove trilogy.

American novelist from the Pacific Northwest, best known for her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Shelley Parker-Chan is an Asian Australian author of queer historical fantasy and the Radiant Emperor duology.
American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, and author known for the OBEY campaign and the Barack Obama HOPE poster.
Spokane/Coeur d'Alene poet, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, screenwriter, and children's author.

American author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, science fiction, historical romance, and nonfiction.

USA Today-bestselling author of historical romance, young adult fantasy, historical mystery, contemporary romance, and science-fiction romance.
American business executive and nonfiction author known for books on women's leadership, careers, grief, and resilience.

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was an American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, dramatist, and author of children's books, renowned for her Gothic, supernatural, psychological, and domestic fiction.

Shirtaloon is the pen name of author Travis Deverell, creator of the He Who Fights with Monsters series.
American scholar, writer, and activist whose work examines information technology, work, capitalism, power, and democracy.

Indian-born American physician, hematologist-oncologist, cancer researcher, and science writer known for accessible works on medicine, biology, and medical history.
American historian, literary critic, essayist, and Russian-to-English translator.
Sierra Greer is an American science-fiction author and former high school English teacher who writes about the future from rural Connecticut.

Sierra Simone is a USA Today bestselling romance author and former librarian.


Mexican-Canadian novelist, short-story writer, editor, and publisher known for genre-spanning horror, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, and noir.

Filipino-American writer of speculative fiction and author of The Vanished Birds and The Spear Cuts Through Water.
English writer of science fiction and fantasy, known for serialised online fiction.
New Zealand-born Australian author of extreme horror, splatterpunk, dark fantasy, and bizarro fiction.
English author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery, best known for the Deathstalker, Nightside, Secret Histories, Ghost Finders, and Ishmael Jones series.
Simon Sinek is an author, ethnographer, and leadership thinker known for writing about purpose, leadership, organizational culture, and long-term strategy.

British popular-science author, journalist, television producer, and physicist known for accessible books on mathematics, cryptography, cosmology, and alternative medicine.
British-American journalist, author, and popular historian known for narrative nonfiction about history, science, geography, and culture.

French existentialist writer, feminist philosopher, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and political activist.

Canadian author of historical gothic mysteries, paranormal thrillers, horror, and romantic suspense.
Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007) was a British-Irish children's and young adult author and human-rights activist whose fiction is known for its compassion, social conscience, and vivid Irish and English settings.

Scottish novelist, poet, historian, editor, and antiquarian who helped establish the historical novel.
American comic-book writer, artist, cartoonist, and illustrator known for creator-owned fantasy comics and Marvel superhero work.

American author and filmmaker known for fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, young adult fiction, and graphic novels.
German educational scholar, social scientist, systemic consultant, and author.
Australian young adult author of queer contemporary fiction and romance.

English author known for romantic comedies, women's fiction, young adult fiction, and children's books, including the Shopaholic series.

Sophie Lark is an American contemporary romance author known for dark mafia romance, romantic suspense, and interconnected family sagas.

Sophocles (c. 497/496–406/405 BCE) was an Athenian tragedian and one of the three great surviving playwrights of classical Greek tragedy.

Danish philosopher, theologian, and author whose pseudonymous and signed writings shaped modern existential philosophy and Christian thought.
Japanese physician and novelist known for humane medical fiction and literary fables about books, reading, and compassion.

American physician and author best known for the business fables Who Moved My Cheese? and The Present, and for co-authoring The One Minute Manager.

New Zealand-born, Chicago-based author of fantasy romance and urban fantasy.

New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense.

American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, and producer who co-created many of Marvel Comics' most influential superheroes.

Polish writer, philosopher, essayist, satirist, and futurologist best known for intellectually rigorous science fiction.
Polish-born American actor, playwright, director, producer, photographer, and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer.

Austrian writer, poet, biographer, essayist, playwright, novelist, and memoirist known for psychologically intense novellas and humanist historical studies.
Literary scholar and editor known for critical studies of Virginia Woolf and modernist fiction.

French novelist, essayist, art critic, memoirist, and travel writer (1783–1842), best known for Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.

American author known for young adult fantasy, fantasy romance, and children's fiction.
American author and editor known for young adult romance, contemporary horror, and adult romance.
U.S.-based author and philanthropy strategist writing on self-discovery, nonprofit transformation, and fundraising.

English hard science-fiction author known for scientifically rigorous novels spanning deep time, space exploration, alternate history, evolution, and humanity's future.
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, professor, and author specializing in dinosaur, bird, and mammal evolution.

American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Imaginary Friend.

American historian and author known for popular histories of World War II, biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and works on American history.
Americanist, literary critic, and Honorary Professor of English at University College London.

English actor, comedian, writer, broadcaster, playwright, and activist known for comic novels, memoirs, essays, poetry, and Greek-myth retellings.
British photographer and photobook artist born in Bristol in 1971, known for experimental, conceptual, and documentary photography.

Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet author of horror, experimental fiction, crime fiction, science fiction, and graphic works.
American publisher, literary agent, and nonfiction author best known for coauthoring books on Stoic philosophy with Ryan Holiday.

English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work transformed understanding of black holes and the early universe.
American author, journalist, and podcast host best known for co-authoring the Freakonomics books.
Stephen J. Kohler is an executive coach, leadership speaker, musician, and author of The Leadership Anthem.

American author of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, suspense, crime fiction, and nonfiction.
American poet, writer, editor, and translator known for poetic adaptations of classic spiritual, biblical, and literary texts.

American educator, leadership consultant, businessman, and bestselling author known for principle-centered approaches to personal effectiveness, leadership, and family life.

American fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and nonfiction author best known for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Gap Cycle.
American Buddhist meditation teacher, Zen and Theravada teacher, retired civil litigator, and author.
British science-fiction and fantasy artist known for imaginative book-cover art and the art book Paradox: The Art of Stephen Youll.

American author best known for the Twilight Saga, The Host, and The Chemist.

Steve Cavanagh is an Irish bestselling author of legal and psychological thrillers and a former lawyer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
British author and arboriculturist known for historical fiction set during the English Civil War and for his practical guide to urban trees.
British comic-book artist and writer best known as the co-creator and artist of Preacher.
American novelist, essayist, and film critic known for surreal, avant-pop fiction about history, politics, popular culture, and Los Angeles.

American usability consultant and author known for practical books on web and product usability.
American comics artist and illustrator known primarily for inking and occasional pencilling.
British comic-book artist and occasional writer known for work in horror, science fiction, superhero, and satirical comics.
Steve West is a Texas-based fantasy author and creator of the Kingsmoot series.
American engineer, programmer, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of Apple Computer.
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Vlad Taltos novels and the Dragaera setting.


Canadian novelist, archaeologist, and anthropologist best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series.
American comic-book writer known for The Punisher, Whisper, crime comics, licensed adaptations, and young-adult fiction written under pseudonyms.
American author and media creator whose nonfiction explores technology, science, history, cities, culture, and innovation.

Steven L. Peck is an American evolutionary ecologist, novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer.

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and popular science writer known for his work on language, mind, human nature, violence, progress, and rationality.
American author of historical fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and books on creativity, as well as a screenwriter.

Steven Rowley is an American novelist and author of fiction for adults and children, known for emotionally resonant stories blending humor, family, friendship, love, and loss.

Swedish journalist, anti-fascist researcher, editor, and crime-fiction author best known for the Millennium trilogy.
English literary scholar, Joyce critic, memoirist, and translator best known for his pioneering study of James Joyce's Ulysses.

English author and former travel journalist known for genre-blending mystery novels combining locked-room puzzles with literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Sue Lynn Tan is a Malaysian-born, Hong Kong-based author of romantic fantasy inspired by mythology, including the Celestial Kingdom books, Immortal, and Never Ever After.

American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and spiritual nonfiction writer known for literary fiction centered on women, race, faith, history, and personal transformation.
Egyptian American playwright, actor, and teaching theatre artist based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sri Lankan-born Australian novelist known for historical crime fiction, contemporary mystery, and young adult fantasy.

Ancient Chinese military strategist traditionally credited with The Art of War; his historicity and the work's authorship are debated.

Sunyi Dean is a biracial fantasy and speculative-fiction author born in Texas, raised in Hong Kong, and based in Yorkshire.

Susan Cain is an American author and speaker whose books explore introversion, temperament, sorrow, longing, and human connection.

English-born American writer best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, a landmark series of children's fantasy novels.

Susan Dennard is an award-winning American author best known for young adult fantasy, horror, mystery, and romantic fiction.
Susan Ee is a world-wide bestselling author of young adult and fantasy novels.

Susan Hill is an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, children's author, memoirist, and essayist best known for her gothic fiction and Simon Serrailler crime novels.

American journalist and author known for narrative nonfiction, memoir, cultural criticism, and literary journalism.

American essayist, novelist, critic, playwright, filmmaker, and public intellectual.

Susanna Clarke is an English author best known for the fantasy novels Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi, as well as her short fiction set in the world of English magic.


Susanne Valenti is a British romance author who co-writes with her sister, Caroline Peckham. Their work spans dark romance, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and dystopian romance.

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer best known for The Hunger Games and The Underland Chronicles.

Belarusian writer and journalist known for polyphonic oral histories of Soviet and post-Soviet life.

Canadian science fiction writer, linguist, and translator based in Montreal.

Sylvia Day is an American bestselling author of contemporary, historical, paranormal, and suspense romance, as well as urban fantasy and science fiction. She also writes under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.

American poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and children's author (1932–1963), best known for The Bell Jar and Ariel.