Notable Writers

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the literary world. Included are novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists. However, those who are primarily considered to be philosophers or academic writers can be found on the lists of thinkers.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah1948-
Abraham Goldfaden1840-1908(Avram, Avrum)
Achmat Dangor1948-2020
Adam Mickiewicz1798-1855(Bernard)
Adélia Prado1935-(Luzia)
Adolf Brand1874-1945(Gustav, Adolph, Franz)
A. de Herz1887-1936(Adolf, Edmund, George)
Adolf Heyduk1835-1923
Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973
Adolf Paul1863-1943(Georg)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack1815-1894
Adolph Green1914-2002
Aeschylus525-456 BC(Aischylos)
Aesopc. 620-c. 564 BC(Aisopos)
Agatha Christie1890-1976
Ágota Kristóf1935-2011
Aharon Appelfeld1932-2018(Ervin)
Ahdaf Soueif1950-
Ahmad ibn Fadlan?-9xx
Ain Kaalep1926-2020
Aksel Sandemose1899-1965(Axel)
Alain Locke1885-1954(LeRoy)
Alan Hollinghurst1954-
A. A. Milne1882-1956(Alan, Alexander)
Alan Moore1953-
Albert Camus1913-1960
Albert Mol1917-2004
Alberto Moravia1907-1990
Alcaeus of Mytilenec. 625-c. 580 BC(Alkaios)
Aldous Huxley1894-1963
Aleksandr Blok1880-1921(Alexander)
Aleksandr Pushkin1799-1837(Alexander)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918-2008
Aleksandre Qazbegi1848-1893(Alexander)
Alex Haley1921-1992(Alexander, Murray, Palmer)
Alexander Pope1688-1744
Alexandre Dumas1802-1870
Alexandre Dumas fils1824-1895
Alfred de Musset1810-1857
Alfred Tennyson1809-1892
Algernon Blackwood1869-1951
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837-1909
Abu Nuwas al-Hasan al-Hakamic. 756-c. 814(Abu Nuwas)
Ali Smith1962-
Alice Dunbar Nelson1875-1935(Ruth)
Alice Munro1931-(Ann)
Alice Sebold1963-
Alice Walker1944-(Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate)
Ali-Shir Nava'i1441-1501(Alisher)
A. L. Kennedy1965-(Alison, Louise)
Alison Lurie1926-2020
Allen Ginsberg1926-1997
Almudena Grandes1960-2021(María)
Alona Kimhi1966-
Alphonse Daudet1840-1897
Alphonse de Lamartine1790-1869
Alvin Toffler1928-2016
Ambrose Bierce1842-c. 1914
Amélie Nothomb1966-
Amir Khusrau1253-1325
Amos Oz1939-2018
Amy Lowell1874-1925(Lawrence)
Anacreonc. 575-c. 495 BC(Anakreon)
Anaïs Nin1903-1977(Angela, Juana, Antolina, Rosa, Edelmira)
Anatole France1844-1924
André Breton1896-1966
André Brink1935-2015(Philippus)
André Gide1869-1951
André Malraux1901-1976
André Maurois1885-1967
Andre Norton1912-2005(Alice, Mary)
Andrzej Sapkowski1948-
Andy Razaf1895-1973(Andriamanantena, Paul)
Angela Carter1940-1992(Olive)
Anita Brookner1928-2016
Anita Desai1937-
Ann Radcliffe1764-1823
Anna Akhmatova1889-1966
Anna Seghers1900-1983
Anna Sewell1820-1878
Anna Wintour1949-
Anne Brontë1820-1849
Anne Frank1929-1945(Annelies, Marie)
Anne Golon1921-2017
Anne McCaffrey1926-2011(Inez)
Anne Rice1941-2021(Howard, Allen, Frances)
Anne Sexton1928-1974(Gray)
Anne Spencer1882-1975(Bethel)
Anne Tyler1941-
Annie Ernaux1940-
Annie M. G. Schmidt1911-1995(Anna, Maria, Geertruida)
Ante Kovačić1854-1889
Ante Tomić1970-
Anthony Bourdain1956-2018(Michael)
Anthony Burgess1917-1993
Anthony Horowitz1955-
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900-1944
Anton Chekhov1860-1904
Anton Koolhaas1912-1992
A. S. Byatt1936-(Antonia, Susan)
Antonin Artaud1896-1948
Antun Šoljan1932-1993
Apollonius of Rhodes?-2xx BC
Apuleiusc. 125-180(Lucius)
Archilochusc. 680-c. 645 BC
Aristophanesc. 446-c. 386 BC
Arna Bontemps1902-1973(Wendell)
Arnon Grunberg1971-
Arsen Dedić1938-2015(Arsenije)
Arthur C. Clarke1917-2008(Charles)
Arthur Conan Doyle1859-1930
Arthur Miller1915-2005
Arthur Rimbaud1854-1891
Arthur Schnitzler1862-1931
Arundhati Roy1961-(Suzanna)
Astrid Lindgren1907-2002
Audre Lorde1934-1992(Audrey, Geraldine)
A. L. Barker1918-2002(Audrey, Lilian)
August Šenoa1838-1881
August Strindberg1849-1912
August Wilson1945-2005
Ayn Rand1905-1982
Babilina Khositashvili1884-1973
Li Bai701-762(Po)
Barbara Cartland1901-2000(Mary, Hamilton)
Barbara Kingsolver1955-
Barbara Pym1913-1980(Mary, Crampton)
Barry Unsworth1930-2012
Matsuo Bashō1644-1694
Beatrice Hastings1879-1943(Emily, Alice)
Beatrix Potter1866-1943
Ben Jonson1572-1637(Benjamin)
Ben Okri1959-
Benito Pérez Galdós1843-1920
Benjamin Zephaniah1958-2023(Obadiah, Iqbal)
Beppe Wolgers1928-1986(John, Bertil)
Bernard MacLaverty1942-
Bernard Malamud1914-1986
Bernardine Evaristo1959-(Anne, Mobolaji)
Bernice Rubens1923-2004
J. Bernlef1937-2012(Henk)
Bertolt Brecht1898-1956
Bertrice Small1937-2015
Beryl Bainbridge1932-2010
Bettina von Arnim1785-1859(Elisabeth)
Beverly Cleary1916-2021(Atlee)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson1832-1910
Blaga Dimitrova1922-2003(Nikolova)
Bob Kane1915-1998(Robert)
Bohumil Hrabal1914-1997
Booth Tarkington1869-1946
Boris Akunin1956-(Grigori)
Boris Pasternak1890-1960
Boris Vian1920-1959(Vernon)
Botho Strauß1944-
Boy Lornsen1922-1995
Božena Němcová1820-1862
Bram Stoker1847-1912(Abraham)
Brand Whitlock1869-1934(Joseph)
Brandon Sanderson1975-
Breyten Breytenbach1939-
Buckminster Fuller1895-1983(Richard)
Burkhard Driest1939-2020
Lord Byron1788-1824(George, Gordon)
Callimachusc. 310-c. 240 BC(Kallimachos)
Camilla Läckberg1974-
Camille Flammarion1842-1925(Nicolas)
Camilo José Cela1916-2002
Candace Bushnell1958-
Carl Sandburg1878-1967(August)
Carl Spitteler1845-1924
Carl Van Vechten1880-1964
Carlo Collodi1826-1890
Carlo Goldoni1707-1793(Osvaldo)
Carlos Castaneda1925-1998
Carlos Fuentes1928-2012
Carol Shields1935-2003(Ann)
Caroline Graham1931-
C. J. Cherryh1942-(Carolyn, Janice)
Caryl Phillips1958-
Cassandra Clare1973-
Catherine Cookson1906-1998(Ann)
C. L. Moore1911-1987(Catherine, Lucille)
Cato the Elder234-149 BC
Catullus84-54 BC(Gaius)
C. S. Friedman1957-(Celia, S)
Celine Song1988-
Chabua Amirejibi1921-2013(Mzechabuk)
Charlaine Harris1951-
Charles Baudelaire1821-1867
Charles Bukowski1920-1994
Charles Dickens1812-1870
Charles Eastman1858-1939(Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander)
Charles Perrault1628-1703
Charlotte Brontë1816-1855
Wu Cheng'enc. 1500-1582
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie1977-
Chinghiz Aitmatov1928-2008
Chinua Achebe1930-2013(Albert, Chinụalụmọgụ)
Chrétien de Troyesc. 1135-c. 1183
Christa Wolf1929-2011
Christine de Pizan1364-c. 1430
Christopher Hope1944-
Christopher Marlowe1564-1593(Kit)
Christopher Paolini1983-
Chuck Palahniuk1962-(Charles)
Claribel Alegría1924-2018(Clara, Isabel)
Claude McKay1890-1948(Festus, Claudius)
Claude Simon1913-2005
Clive Cussler1931-2020
C. S. Lewis1898-1963(Clive, Staples)
Codrin Ţapu1973-(Ştefan)
Colette1873-1954(Sidonie, Gabrielle)
Colin Dexter1930-2017(Norman)
Colleen McCullough1937-2015
Colm Tóibín1955-
Colson Whitehead1969-
Connie Palmen1955-(Aldegonda, Petronella, Huberta, Maria)
Conrad Aiken1889-1973(Potter)
Constantijn Huygens1596-1687
Corín Tellado1927-2009(María del Socorro)
Cormac McCarthy1933-2023(Charles, Joseph)
C. Buddingh'1918-1985(Cornelis, Kees)
Cornelius Neposc. 110-c. 25 BC
Countee Cullen1903-1946(LeRoy)
Cremilda de Lima1940-(Maria)
Cvetka Lipuš1966-
Cvijeta Zuzorićc. 1552-1648(Flora)
Cynthia Leitich Smith1967-
Czesław Miłosz1911-2004
Dale Carnegie1888-1955(Harbison)
Dalton Trumbo1905-1976(James)
Damon Galgut1963-
Dan Brown1964-(Daniel)
Chief Dan George1899-1981(Geswanouth)
Danai Gurira1978-(Jekesai)
Daniel Defoec. 1660-1731
Daniel Handler1970-(Lemony)
Danielle Steel1947-(Fernandes, Dominique)
Dante Alighieric. 1265-1321(Durante)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti1828-1882
Daphne du Maurier1907-1989
Dario Fo1926-2016
Daša Drndić1946-2018
Dashiell Hammett1894-1961
David Baddiel1964-(Lionel)
D. H. Lawrence1885-1930(David, Herbert)
David Malouf1934-
David Mitchell1969-(Stephen)
David Seidler1937-
David Storey1933-2017(Malcolm)
David Foster Wallace1962-2008
Dean Koontz1945-(Ray)
Madame de La Fayette1634-1693(Marie, Madeleine)
Denis Diderot1713-1784
Denis Johnson1949-2017(Hale)
D. J. Enright1920-2002(Dennis, Joseph)
Derek Humphry1930-
Derek Walcott1930-2017
Derviš Sušić1925-1990
Derviş Zaim1964-
Dhanpat Rai "Premchand" Srivastava1880-1936(Premchand)
Diana Wynne Jones1934-2011
Diane Duane1952-
Dick Bruna1927-2017(Hendrikus, Magdalenus)
Diogenes Laertius?-2xx
Dixie Browning1930-
Djuna Barnes1892-1982
Dodie Smith1896-1990(Dorothy, Gladys)
Dolf Verroen1928-(Rudolf, Johan)
Domien Sleeckx1818-1901(Jan, Lambrecht, Dominicus)
Don DeLillo1936-(Donald, Richard)
Donald Barthelme1931-1989
Donna Leon1942-
Doris Lessing1919-2013(May)
Dorothy L. Sayers1893-1957(Leigh)
Dorothy West1907-1998
Douglas Adams1952-2001
Drew Hayden Taylor1962-
Dubravka Ugrešić1949-2023
Dudley Randall1914-2000
Dylan Thomas1914-1953
Ebru Umar1970-
Eckhart Tolle1948-(Ulrich, Leonard)
Eddy C. Bertin1944-2018(Charly)
Edgar Rice Burroughs1875-1950
E. L. Doctorow1931-2015(Edgar, Lawrence)
Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849
E. Nesbit1858-1924(Edith)
Edith Wharton1862-1937
Edmondo De Amicis1846-1908
Edmund Spenserc. 1552-1599
Edna Ferber1885-1968
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892-1950(Nancy)
E. Annie Proulx1935-(Edna)
Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli"1820-1887
Eduard Uspensky1937-2018
Edward Carpenter1844-1929
E. M. Forster1879-1970(Edward, Morgan)
Edward Lear1812-1888
Edward Said1935-2003
Ela Peroci1922-2001
Eleanor H. Porter1868-1920
Elena Ferrante19xx-
Elfriede Jelinek1946-
Elias Canetti1905-1994
Elie Wiesel1928-2016
Elif Shafak1971-
Elinor Wylie1885-1928(Morton)
Elise Cowen1933-1962(Nada)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806-1861
Elizabeth Bowen1899-1973(Dorothea)
Elizabeth Gaskell1810-1865(Cleghorn)
Elizabeth George1949-(Susan)
Elizabeth Gilbert1969-
Elizabeth Strout1956-
Elizabeth Taylor1912-1975
Ellen Glasgow1873-1945(Anderson, Gholson)
Ellen G. White1827-1915(Gould)
Elsa Morante1912-1985
E. B. White1899-1985(Elwyn, Brooks)
Emil Cioran1911-1995(Mihai)
Émile Zola1840-1902
Emily Brontë1818-1848
Emily Dickinson1830-1886
E. Pauline Johnson1861-1913(Emily, Tekahionwake)
Emyr Humphreys1919-2020
Endre Ady1877-1919
Enheduanna?-22xx BC
Enid Bagnold1889-1981
Enid Blyton1897-1968(Mary)
Enis Batur1952-(Ahmet)
Enn Vetemaa1936-2017
Enniusc. 239-c. 169 BC(Quintus)
Eric Knight1897-1943(Mowbray)
Erich Maria Remarque1898-1970
Erik Axel Karlfeldt1864-1931
Ernest Hemingway1899-1961(Miller)
E. T. A. Hoffmann1776-1822(Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus)
Ernst Jünger1895-1998
Etgar Keret1967-
Etheridge Knight1931-1991
Etienne Leroux1922-1989
Eudora Welty1909-2001
Eugen Kumičić1850-1904
Eugène Ionesco1909-1994
Eugene O'Neill1888-1953
Eugenio Montale1896-1981
Euripidesc. 480-406 BC
Eyvind Johnson1900-1976
Ezra Pound1885-1972(Weston, Loomis)
Fan Noli1882-1965(Theofan, Stilian)
Farley Mowat1921-2014(McGill)
Fay Weldon1931-2023(Franklin)
Federico García Lorca1898-1936
Felix Timmermans1886-1947(Leopoldus, Maximilianus)
F. Bordewijk1884-1965(Ferdinand)
Ferdowsi940-1020
Fernando Pessoa1888-1935
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti1876-1944
Flora Thompson1876-1947(Jane)
Florjan Lipuš1937-
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849-1924
Frances Burney1752-1840(Fanny)
Francine Pascal1938-
Francine Rivers1947-(Sandra)
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896-1940(Francis, Key)
Francisco de Quevedo1580-1645
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"1694-1778
François-René de Chateaubriand1768-1848
François de La Rochefoucauld1613-1680
François Mauriac1885-1970
François Rabelaisc. 1494-1553
François Villonc. 1431-c. 1463
Françoise Sagan1935-2004(Delphine)
Frank Herbert1920-1986(Franklin)
Frank Kermode1919-2010
Frank McCourt1930-2009
Frank Yerby1916-1991(Garvin)
Frans Eemil Sillanpää1888-1964
Franz Kafka1883-1924
Frédéric Mistral1830-1914
Frederick Forsyth1938-
Friedrich Dürrenmatt1921-1990
Friedrich Hölderlin1770-1843
Friedrich Schiller1759-1805(Johann, Christoph)
Friedrich Schlegel1772-1829
Du Fu712-770
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821-1881
Gabriel García Márquez1927-2014
Gabriela Mistral1889-1957
Gabriele D'Annunzio1863-1938
Gaius Helvius Cinna?-44 BC
Galaktion Tabidze1892-1959
Garth Ennis1970-
Gaspara Stampa1523-1554
Gaston Leroux1868-1927
Geoffrey of Monmouthc. 1100-c. 1155
Geoffrey Chaucer1343-1400
Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg "Novalis"1772-1801(Novalis)
George Eliot1819-1880(Mary)
George MacDonald1824-1905
George R. R. Martin1948-(Raymond, Richard)
George Orwell1903-1950(Eric)
George Plimpton1927-2003(Ames)
George Sand1804-1876(Amandine)
George Saunders1958-
George Schuyler1895-1977(Samuel)
George Bernard Shaw1856-1950
Georges Bataille1897-1962
Georges Simenon1903-1989
Georgia Douglas Johnson1880-1966(Blanche)
Gerald Vizenor1934-(Robert)
Geraldine Brooks1955-
Gerard Reve1923-2006
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero1585-1618
Gerhart Hauptmann1862-1946
Germaine de Staël1766-1817
Germaine Greer1939-
Gerrit Komrij1944-2012
Gertrude Stein1874-1946
Giacomo Casanova1725-1798
Giacomo Leopardi1798-1837
G. K. Chesterton1874-1936(Gilbert, Keith)
Gillian Flynn1971-
Giorgio Vasari1511-1574
Giorgos Seferis1900-1971
Giosuè Carducci1835-1907
Giovanni Boccaccio1313-1375
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1896-1957
Goderdzi Chokheli1954-2007
Godfried Bomans1913-1971
Goran Tribuson1948-
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1729-1781
Grace Paley1922-2007
Graham Greene1904-1991(Henry)
Graham Swift1949-(Colin)
Grazia Deledda1871-1936
Guillaume Apollinaire1880-1918
Guillaume de Machautc. 1300-1377
Guillermo Arriaga1958-
Gülten Akın1933-2015
Günter Grass1927-2015
Gustave Flaubert1821-1880
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer1836-1870
Guus Kuijer1942-
Guy de Maupassant1850-1893
Gwendolyn B. Bennett1902-1981
Gwendolyn Brooks1917-2000(Elizabeth)
Ha Jin1956-(Xuěfēi)
Hafezc. 1325-1390(Shams-od-Din, Mohammad)
Halide Edip Adıvar1884-1964
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna1901-1984
Halldór Laxness1902-1998(Kiljan)
Hanoch Levin1943-1999
Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875
Hans Andreus1926-1977(Johan, Wilhelm)
Harold Courlander1908-1996
Harold Pinter1930-2008
Harold Robbins1916-1997
Harper Lee1926-2016(Nelle)
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811-1896
Harry Martinson1904-1978
Harry Mulisch1927-2010
Haruki Murakami1949-
Hector Malot1830-1907
Hedd Wyn1887-1917(Ellis, Humphrey)
Heinrich Böll1917-1985
Heinrich Heine1797-1856
Heinrich von Kleist1777-1811
Heleen van Royen1965-
Helene Johnson1906-1995
Hella Haasse1918-2011(Hélène)
Hendrik van Veldekec. 1150-c. 1184(Heinrich)
Henning Mankell1948-2015(Georg)
Henri Charrière1906-1973
Henrik Ibsen1828-1906
Henrik Pontoppidan1857-1943
O. Henry1862-1910(William, Sydney)
H. Rider Haggard1856-1925(Henry)
Henry James1843-1916
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882
Henry Miller1891-1980
Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
Henryk Sienkiewicz1846-1916
H. G. Wells1866-1946(Herbert, George)
Herman Melville1819-1891
Herman Wouk1915-2019
Hermann Hesse1877-1962
Herta Müller1953-
Hesiod?-c. 700 BC(Hesiodos)
Hilary Mantel1952-2022
H. D.1886-1961(Hilda)
Hisham Matar1970-
Hoimar von Ditfurth1921-1989(Gerhard, Friedrich, Ernst)
Homer?-c. 700 BC
Honoré de Balzac1799-1850
Horace65-8 BC(Quintus)
Hovik Vardoumian1940-
H. P. Lovecraft1890-1937(Howard, Phillips)
Hrvoje Hitrec1943-
Hugo Claus1929-2008(Maurice, Julien)
Hunter S. Thompson1937-2005(Stockton)
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar1864-1944
Ian Fleming1908-1964
Ian McEwan1948-(Russell)
Ian Rankin1960-
Ida Tarbell1857-1944(Minerva)
Ida Vitale1923-
Ilya Ehrenburg1891-1967
Imme Dros1936-(Emmy, Theodora)
Imre Kertész1929-2016
Ingeborg Bachmann1926-1973
Ingrid Jonker1933-1965
Irena Vrkljan1930-2021
Irène Némirovsky1903-1942
Iris Murdoch1919-1999
Isaac Asimov1920-1992
Isaac Bashevis Singer1902-1991
Isabel Allende1942-
Isabelle de Charrière1740-1805(Belle)
Ishmael Reed1938-(Scott)
Isidore Lucien Ducasse "Comte de Lautréamont"1846-1870
Ismail Kadare1936-
Italo Calvino1923-1985
Iulia Hasdeu1869-1888
Ivan Aralica1930-
Ivan Bunin1870-1953
Ivan Gundulić1589-1638
Ivan Kušan1933-2012
Ivan Slamnig1930-2001
Ivan Turgenev1818-1883
Ivan Yefremov1908-1972
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić1874-1938
Ivana Šojat1971-
Ivica Đikić1977-
Ivo Andrić1892-1975
Ivo Brešan1936-2017
Jacinto Benavente1866-1954
Jack Higgins1929-2022(Harry, Henry)
Jack Kerouac1922-1969(Jean, Louis)
Jack Ketchum1946-2018(Dallas, William)
Jack London1876-1916(John, Griffith)
Jackie Collins1937-2015(Jacqueline, Jill)
Jacob Cats1577-1660
Jacob Grimm1785-1863
Jacob van Maerlantc. 1235-c. 1300
Jacqueline Susann1918-1974
Jacqueline Wilson1945-
Jacques Prévert1900-1977
Jagoda Truhelka1864-1957
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi1207-1273
E. L. James1963-(Erika)
James Agee1909-1955(Rufus)
James Baldwin1924-1987(Arthur)
J. M. Barrie1860-1937(James, Matthew)
James Fenimore Cooper1789-1851
J. G. Farrell1935-1979(James, Gordon)
James Hilton1900-1954
James Weldon Johnson1871-1938
James Joyce1882-1941
James Kelman1946-
James A. Michener1907-1997(Albert)
James Patterson1947-
James Welch1940-2003(Phillip)
Jami1414-1492(Nur ad-Din, 'Abd ar-Rahman)
Jamiluddin Aali1925-2015(Nawabzada, Mirza, Ahmed)
Jan Terlouw1931-(Cornelis)
Jan Vos1612-1667
Jan Wolkers1925-2007
Jancis Robinson1950-(Mary)
Jane Austen1775-1817
Jane Gardam1928-
Jane Smiley1949-
Jane Yolen1939-(Hyatt)
Janet Evanovich1943-
Janko Leskovar1861-1949
Janko Polić Kamov1886-1910
Janusz Korczak1878-1942(Henryk)
Jappe Nilssen1870-1931(Jacob)
Jaroslav Hašek1883-1923
Jaroslav Seifert1901-1986
Jason Miller1939-2001(John, Anthony)
Jay Asher1975-
Jean Cocteau1889-1963
Jean de La Fontaine1621-1695
Jean Genet1910-1986
J. M. G. Le Clézio1940-(Jean, Marie, Gustave)
Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière"1622-1673
Jean Racine1639-1699
Jean Rhys1890-1979(Ella, Gwendolyn)
Jean-Paul Sartre1905-1980
Jean Toomer1894-1967(Nathan, Pinchback)
Jeaniene Frost1974-
Jef Nys1927-2009(Jozef)
Jeffery Deaver1950-
Jeffrey Eugenides1960-(Kent)
Jennifer Egan1962-
Jennifer Johnston1930-
J. D. Salinger1919-2010(Jerome, David)
Jessica Durlacher1961-
Jessie Redmon Fauset1882-1961(Redmona)
Jhumpa Lahiri1967-
Jill Murphy1949-2021
Jill Paton Walsh1937-2020(Gillian)
Jilly Cooper1937-
Jo Nesbø1960-
Joan Didion1934-2021
J. K. Rowling1965-(Joanne, Kathleen)
Jodi Picoult1966-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749-1832
Johanna Spyri1827-1901
Johannes V. Jensen1873-1950(Vilhelm)
John Arden1930-2012
John Banville1945-
John Berger1926-2017
John Cheever1912-1982(William)
J. M. Coetzee1940-(John, Maxwell)
John Galsworthy1867-1933
John Green1977-
John Grisham1955-
John Hersey1914-1993(Richard)
John Irving1942-
John Jakes1932-2023(Jay, William)
John Keats1795-1821
John le Carré1931-2020(David, Moore)
John McGahern1934-2006
John Milton1608-1674
John Phillips Marquand1893-1960
John Reed1887-1920(Jack, Silas)
John Rollin Ridge1827-1867(Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird)
John Ruskin1819-1900
John Steinbeck1902-1968(Ernst)
J. R. R. Tolkien1892-1973(John, Ronald, Reuel)
John Kennedy Toole1937-1969
John Trudell1946-2015
John Updike1932-2009(Hoyer)
John Edgar Wideman1941-
Jon Fosse1959-
Jonathan Safran Foer1977-
Jonathan Franzen1959-(Earl)
Jonathan Stroud1970-
Jonathan Swift1667-1745
Joost van den Vondel1587-1679
Joost Zwagerman1963-2015(Johannes, Jacobus, Willebrordus)
Jordan Peterson1962-(Bernt)
Jorge Amado1912-2001
Jorge Luis Borges1899-1986
Joris-Karl Huysmans1848-1907(Charles, Marie, Georges)
José Echegaray1832-1916
José Saramago1922-2010
Joseph Boyden1966-
Joseph Brodsky1940-1996
Joseph Conrad1857-1924
Joseph Heller1923-1999
Joseph Roth1894-1939
Josephine Hart1942-2011
Josh Malerman19xx-
Josip Kozarac1858-1906
Jostein Gaarder1952-
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan1976-
Joy Harjo1951-
Joyce Carol Oates1938-
Juan Ramón Jiménez1881-1958
Juana Inés de la Cruz1648-1695
Jude Deveraux1947-
Judith Krantz1928-2019(Bluma, Gittel)
Judy Blume1938-(Judith)
Jules Deelder1944-2019(Anton)
Jules Verne1828-1905
Julia Quinn1970-(Julie)
Julian Barnes1946-(Patrick)
Julijana Matanović1959-
Julio Cortázar1914-1984
Juliusz Słowacki1809-1849
Junot Díaz1968-
Jurica Pavičić1965-
Juš Kozak1892-1964
Justin Cartwright1945-2018(James)
Juvenal?-1xx(Decimus)
Kalidasa?-4xx
Karel Čapek1890-1938
Karen Blixen1885-1962(Isak, Tania)
Karl Adolph Gjellerup1857-1919
Karl May1842-1912
Kate Grenville1950-(Catherine, Elizabeth)
Kate Saunders1960-2023(Katharine)
Kate Summerscale1965-
Katharine Kerr1944-
Katherine Applegate1956-(Alice)
Katherine Mansfield1888-1923(Kathleen)
Katherine Paterson1932-
Katherine Anne Porter1890-1980
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss1939-2007(Erin)
Kathy Reichs1948-(Kathleen, Joan)
Kazuo Ishiguro1954-
Kees van Kooten1941-(Cornelis, Reinier)
Ken Follett1949-(Kenneth)
Kenneth Grahame1859-1932
Kenneth Rexroth1905-1982(Charles, Marion)
Ōe Kenzaburō1935-2023
Keri Hulme1947-2021
Kevin Henkes1960-
Khaled Hosseini1965-
Khalil Gibran1883-1931(Kahlil)
Kingsley Amis1922-1995
Kiran Desai1971-
Kjartan Fløgstad1944-
Knut Hamsun1859-1952
Kolau Nadiradze1895-1990(Nikoloz)
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia1893-1975
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis1863-1933(Constantine)
Korney Chukovsky1882-1969
Kristina Lugn1948-2020(Gunhild, Bricken)
Kurt Vonnegut1922-2007
Lada Žigo1970-
Lado Asatiani1917-1943(Vladimir)
L. Ron Hubbard1911-1986(Lafayette, Ronald)
Langston Hughes1901-1967(James, Mercer)
Larry McMurtry1936-2021(Jeff)
Laura Ingalls Wilder1867-1957
Laura Lippman1959-
Lavrenti Ardaziani1815-1870
LaVyrle Spencer1943-
Lawrence Durrell1912-1990
Lee Maracle1950-2021
Leigh Bardugo1975-
Leo Tolstoy1828-1910(Lev)
Leon de Winter1954-
Leon Uris1924-2003
Leonida Lari1949-2011
Leonie Ossowski1925-2019(Jo, Jolanthe)
Leonora Carrington1917-2011
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch1836-1895
Leslie Marmon Silko1948-
Lesya Ukrainka1871-1913
Lewis Carroll1832-1898
Lilith Saintcrow1976-
Linda Hogan1947-
L. J. Smithc. 1960-(Lisa, Jane)
Liza Cody1944-
Lloyd C. Douglas1877-1951(Cassel)
Lois Lowry1937-
Lola Ridge1873-1941(Rose, Emily)
Lope de Vega1562-1635
Lorenzo Vallac. 1407-1457
Lorraine Hansberry1930-1965(Vivian)
Lou Andreas-Salomé1861-1937
Louis Aragon1897-1982
Louis Bromfield1896-1956
Louis-Ferdinand Céline1894-1961(Auguste)
Louis Couperus1863-1923
Louisa May Alcott1832-1888
Louise Bogan1897-1970
Louise Erdrich1954-(Karen)
Louise Glück1943-
Lucan39-65(Marcus)
Lucebert1924-1994(Lubertus, Jacobus)
Lucian of Samosatac. 125-c. 180
Lucille Clifton1936-2010(Thelma)
Lucille Fletcher1912-2000(Violet)
Lucinda Riley1965-2021(Kate)
Lucius Livius Andronicusc. 284-c. 204 BC
Lucy Maud Montgomery1874-1942
Ludovic Halévy1834-1908
Ludovico Ariosto1474-1533
Luigi Pirandello1867-1936
Luigi Pulci1432-1484
Luís de Camõesc. 1524-1580
Lydia Chukovskaya1907-1996
L. Frank Baum1856-1919(Lyman)
Lytton Strachey1880-1932(Giles)
Maarten 't Hart1944-
Madeleine L'Engle1918-2007
Madelon Szekely-Lulofs1899-1958
Magnus Mills1954-
Mahmut Makal1930-2018
Máirtín Ó Cadhain1906-1970
Máirtín Ó Direáin1910-1988
Malcolm Bradbury1932-2000(Stanley)
Malcolm Cowley1898-1989
Malcolm Gladwell1963-
Manly Wade Wellman1903-1986
Mansur al-Hallajc. 858-922(Mansour)
Marcel Proust1871-1922
Marcia Muller1944-
Marcus Terentius Varro116-27 BC
Marente de Moor1972-
Marga Minco1920-2023(Sara)
Margaret Atwood1939-(Eleanor)
Margaret Mitchell1900-1949(Munnerlyn)
Margaret Walker1915-1998(Abigail)
Margaret Weis1948-(Edith)
Margery Allingham1904-1966(Louise)
Marguerite Duras1914-1996(Germaine, Marie)
Marguerite Yourcenar1903-1987
M. J. Hyland1968-(Maria, Joan)
Marianne Moore1887-1972(Craig)
Marica Bodrožić1973-
Marie de France11xx-c. 1215
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal1626-1696
Marija Jurić Zagorka1873-1957
Marilynne Robinson1943-
Marina Tsvetaeva1892-1941
Marina Warner1946-
Mario Puzo1920-1999
Mario Vargas Llosa1936-
Marion Zimmer Bradley1930-1999
Marita Bonner1899-1971(Marieta)
Màrius Serra1963-
Marius von Mayenburg1972-
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings1896-1953
Mark Twain1835-1910(Samuel)
Markus Zusak1975-
Marlon James1970-
Marten Toonder1912-2005
Martial40-102(Marcus)
Martin Amis1949-2023(Louis)
Martin Caidin1927-1997
Martin Walser1927-2023(Johannes)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon1835-1915
Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020(Theresa, Eleanor)
Mary Oliver1935-2019(Jane)
Mary Renault1905-1983(Eileen)
Mary Roberts Rinehart1876-1958(Ella)
Mary Shelley1797-1851
Mary Webb1881-1927(Gladys)
Mate Balota1898-1963(Mijo)
Matilde Camus1919-2012
Mato Lovrak1899-1974
Maureen Jennings1939-
Maurice Leblanc1864-1941
Maurice Maeterlinck1862-1949
Maurice Sendak1928-2012
Max Brod1884-1968
Maxim Gorky1868-1936(Alexei)
May Miller1899-1995
Maya Angelou1928-2014
Melanie Rawn1954-
Melinda Metz1962-
Menander342-291 BC
Mensje van Keulen1946-(Josien, Francina)
Mercedes Lackey1950-
Meša Selimović1910-1982(Mehmed)
Michael Chabon1963-
Michael Crichton1942-2008
Michael Cunningham1952-
Michael Dorris1945-1997(Milou, Anthony)
Michael Ende1929-1995
Michael V. Gazzo1923-1995(Vincenzo)
Michael Ignatieff1947-(Grant)
Michael Moorcock1939-(John)
Michael Ondaatje1943-
Michael Scott Rohan1951-2018
Michel de Nostredame1503-1566(Nostradamus)
Michel Houellebecq1956-
Michel de Montaigne1533-1592
Michèle Roberts1949-(Brigitte)
Mick Jackson1960-
Mickey Spillane1918-2006(Frank, Morrison)
Miguel Ángel Asturias1899-1974
Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616
Mihai Eminescu1850-1889
Mihály Vörösmarty1800-1855
Mika Waltari1908-1979
Mikhail Bulgakov1891-1940
Mikhail Lermontov1814-1841
Mikha'il Na'ima1889-1988
Mikhail Sholokhov1905-1984
Milan Kundera1929-2023
Miljenko Jergović1966-
Milovan Vitezović1944-2022
Mina Loy1882-1966(Gertrude)
Mirabai1498-1547(Meera, Meerabai)
Mirjam Oldenhave1960-
Mirko Kovač1938-2013
Miro Gavran1961-
Miroslav Krleža1893-1981
Moderata Fonte1555-1592(Modesta)
Molly Keane1904-1996(Mary, Nesta)
Monica Ali1967-
M. R. James1862-1936(Montague, Rhodes)
Mordecai Richler1931-2001
Muhammad "Fuzuli" bin Suleyman1483-1556(Fuzuli)
Muhammad Iqbal1877-1938
Muhsin al-Ramli1967-
Murasaki Shikibuc. 973-c. 1014
Muriel Spark1918-2006
Nadine Gordimer1923-2014
Naguib Mahfouz1911-2006
Nalini Singh1977-
Naomi Klein1970-
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi1201-1274
Natalia Ginzburg1916-1991
Natalie Diaz1978-
Natasha Walter1967-
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864
N. Scott Momaday1934-(Navarre)
Nazım Hikmet1902-1963
Neale Donald Walsch1943-
Nedim Gürsel1951-
Neil Gaiman1960-
Neil Simon1927-2018(Marvin)
Nélida Piñon1937-2022
Nella Larsen1891-1964(Nellallitea, Nellie)
Nelly Sachs1891-1970
Ngaio Marsh1895-1982(Edith)
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos1764-1809
Nicholas Sparks1965-
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux1636-1711
Nikki Giovanni1943-(Yolande, Cornelia)
Nikolai Gogol1809-1852
Nikos Kazantzakis1883-1957
Nina Bawden1925-2012
Nizami Ganjavic. 1141-1209(Nezami)
Noël Coward1899-1973(Peirce)
Noel Streatfeild1895-1986(Mary)
Nora Roberts1950-(Eleanor, Jill, Sarah, Marie)
Norman Mailer1923-2007(Kingsley)
Octave Mirbeau1848-1917
Octavia E. Butler1947-2006(Estelle)
Octavio Paz1914-1998
Odysseas Elytis1911-1996
Ogden Nash1902-1971
Olen Steinhauer1970-
Olga Tokarczuk1962-(Nawoja)
Oliver Goldsmith1728-1774
Olivia Goldsmith1949-2004(Justine, Randy)
Olja Savičević1974-
Omar Khayyám1048-1131(Umar)
Baroness Orczy1865-1947(Emma, Emmuska, Magdolna, Rozália, Mária, Jozefa, Borbála)
Orhan Pamuk1952-(Ferit)
Osamu Dazai1909-1948(Shūji)
Oscar Hijuelos1951-2013(Jerome)
Oscar Wilde1854-1900
Otokar Březina1868-1929(Otakar, Václav)
Ovid43 BC-17(Publius)
Pablo Neruda1904-1973
Pádraic Ó Conaire1882-1928
P. L. Travers1899-1996(Helen, Pamela, Lyndon)
Paolo Iashvili1894-1937(Pavle)
Pär Lagerkvist1891-1974
Pat Barker1943-(Patricia, Mary)
Patricia Cornwell1956-
Patricia Highsmith1921-1995(Mary)
Patrick McCabe1955-
Patrick Modiano1945-
Patrick Rothfuss1973-(James)
Patrick Süskind1949-
Patrick White1912-1990
Paul Auster1947-
Paul Biegel1925-2006
Paul Celan1920-1970
Paul Laurence Dunbar1872-1906
Paul Éluard1895-1952
Paul Heyse1830-1914
Paul Scott1920-1978
Paul Valéry1871-1945(Ambroise, Toussaint, Jules)
Paul van Loon1955-
Paul Verlaine1844-1896
Paula Gunn Allen1939-2008(Marie)
Paulo Coelho1947-
Pavao Pavličić1946-
Pearl S. Buck1892-1973(Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca1600-1681
P. G. Wodehouse1881-1975(Pelham, Grenville)
Penelope Fitzgerald1916-2000
Penelope Lively1933-(Margaret)
P. H. Newby1918-1997(Percy, Howard)
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792-1822
Peretz Hirschbein1880-1948
Peretz Markish1895-1952(Davidovich)
Perez Hilton1978-
Petar Šegedin1909-1998
Petar Zoranić1508-1569
Peter Benchley1940-2006
Peter Carey1943-(Philip)
Peter Handke1942-
Peter van Gestel1937-2019
Petrarch1304-1374(Francesco)
Petroniusc. 27-66(Gaius)
Philip K. Dick1928-1982(Kindred)
Philip Kerr1956-2018(Ballantyne)
Philip Pullman1946-
Philip Reeve1966-
Philip Roth1933-2018(Milton)
Philip Sidney1554-1586
Phoebe Waller-Bridge1985-
P. C. Cast1960-(Phyllis, Christine)
P. D. James1920-2014(Phyllis, Dorothy)
Pia Juul1962-2020
DBC Pierre1961-(Peter, Warren)
Pierre Beaumarchais1732-1799
Pierre Corneille1606-1684
Pierrette Fleutiaux1941-2019
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft1581-1647
Pindarc. 522-443 BC(Pindaros, Pindarus)
Plautus254-184 BC(Titus)
Pliny the Younger61-c. 113(Gaius)
Primo Levi1919-1987(Michele)