Yaa Gyasi
Ghanaian American novelist known for literary fiction about family, migration, history, faith, and belonging.
2 works0 series
Author index
Authors beginning with Y
Yangsze Choo
Yangsze Choo is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent and the New York Times bestselling author of three historical fantasy novels.
3 works0 series
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist, author, academic, and politician known for work on game theory, political economy, the euro crisis, and contemporary capitalism.
27 works1 series
Yareli Arizmendi
Mexican-American actress, writer, producer, and performance artist known for co-writing A Day Without a Mexican and creating politically engaged solo theater works.
6 works0 series
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, and the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
76 works0 series
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian novelist, satirist, playwright, literary critic, and naval engineer best known for the dystopian novel We.
22 works1 series
Yiyun Li
Chinese-born American writer of literary fiction, short stories, memoir, and nonfiction.
12 works0 series
Yoon Ha Lee
Korean-American science fiction and fantasy author of adult, young adult, middle-grade, nonfiction, and graphic works.
16 works4 series
Yuji Oniki
Writer, translator, and English-language adapter known for Japanese popular-culture nonfiction and Studio Ghibli film-comic adaptations.
23 works5 series
Yukio Mishima
Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and poet whose work explored beauty, identity, sexuality, tradition, nationalism, and death.
109 works1 series
Yume Kitasei
Japanese American author of science fiction, speculative fiction, and mystery novels.
4 works0 series
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian, philosopher, and bestselling nonfiction author known for writing accessible, large-scale histories of humanity, technology, and information.
13 works2 series