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.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 |  | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | (Durante) | |
| Homer | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | | |
| Virgil | 70-19 BC | (Publius) | |
| François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire" | 1694-1778 | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | (Lev) | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | (Alexander) | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1821-1881 | | |
| Matsuo Bashō | 1644-1694 | | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| Li Bai | 701-762 | (Po) | |
| Sophocles | c. 497-c. 406 BC | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1861-1941 | | |
| Murasaki Shikibu | c. 973-c. 1014 | | |
| Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | (George, Gordon) | |
| Ovid | 43 BC-17 | (Publius) | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Samuel) | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | (John, Ronald, Reuel) | |
| Abu Nuwas al-Hasan al-Hakami | c. 756-c. 814 | (Abu Nuwas) | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| Kalidasa | ?-4xx | | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | (Miller) | |
| Octave Mirbeau | 1848-1917 | | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014 | | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | | |
| Hafez | c. 1325-1390 | (Shams-od-Din, Mohammad) | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Du Fu | 712-770 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | (Umar) | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Eric) | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Sappho | c. 620-570 BC | | |
| Petrarch | 1304-1374 | (Francesco) | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | | |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911-2006 | | |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | (Johann, Christoph) | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | 1207-1273 | | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | | |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | | |
| Ferdowsi | 940-1020 | | |
| Horace | 65-8 BC | (Quintus) | |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | (Annelies, Marie) | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858-1940 | | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | (Aischylos) | |
| Aesop | c. 620-c. 564 BC | (Aisopos) | |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1503-1566 | (Nostradamus) | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908-1986 | | |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-c. 386 BC | | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | (Alexei) | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | | |
| Daniel Defoe | c. 1660-1731 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | (Herbert, George) | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | (Thomas, Stearns) | |
| Kawabata Yasunari | 1899-1972 | | |
| Lope de Vega | 1562-1635 | | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1918-2008 | | |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809-1852 | (Mykola) | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973 | (Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu) | |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | | |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898-1936 | | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Blake | 1757-1827 | | |
| François Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | | |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898-1956 | | |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960 | | |
| Gabriela Mistral | 1889-1957 | | |
| Lu Xun | 1881-1936 | (Shuren) | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891 | | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | | |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965- | (Joanne, Kathleen) | |
| Umberto Eco | 1932-2016 | | |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859-1952 | | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1900-1944 | | |
| Günter Grass | 1927-2015 | | |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889-1966 | | |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850-1893 | | |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856 | | |
| Khalil Gibran | 1883-1931 | (Kahlil) | |
| Luís de Camões | c. 1524-1580 | | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| José Saramago | 1922-2010 | | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862-1946 | | |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867-1936 | | |
| Sully Prudhomme | 1839-1907 | | |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | (Walter) | |
| Hesiod | ?-c. 700 BC | (Hesiodos) | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| Frédéric Mistral | 1830-1914 | | |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1846-1916 | | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| Sigrid Undset | 1882-1949 | | |
| Doris Lessing | 1919-2013 | (May) | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | | |
| Stendhal | 1783-1842 | (Marie, Henri) | |
| Taras Shevchenko | 1814-1861 | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | (Ernst) | |
| Maya Angelou | 1928-2014 | | |
| Adam Mickiewicz | 1798-1855 | (Bernard) | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | (Clive, Staples) | |
| Giosuè Carducci | 1835-1907 | | |
| Grazia Deledda | 1871-1936 | | |
| Ivan Bunin | 1870-1953 | | |
| Václav Havel | 1936-2011 | | |
| Anatole France | 1844-1924 | | |
| André Gide | 1869-1951 | | |
| Alice Munro | 1931- | (Ann) | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | | |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | (Harry) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1931-2019 | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898-1970 | | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | (John, Griffith) | |
| Nelly Sachs | 1891-1970 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | (Rabbie) | |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832-1910 | | |
| Romain Rolland | 1866-1944 | | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | | |
| Czesław Miłosz | 1911-2004 | | |
| Wisława Szymborska | 1923-2012 | | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | 1862-1949 | | |
| Joseph Brodsky | 1940-1996 | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892-1975 | | |
| Saadi Shirazi | 1210-c. 1291 | | |
| V. S. Naipaul | 1932-2018 | (Vidiadhar, Surajprasad) | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1891-1940 | | |
| Orhan Pamuk | 1952- | (Ferit) | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | (Kit) | |
| Giorgio Vasari | 1511-1574 | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Dario Fo | 1926-2016 | | |
| Harold Pinter | 1930-2008 | | |
| Heinrich Böll | 1917-1985 | | |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | 1905-1984 | | |
| Octavio Paz | 1914-1998 | | |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 1931-2015 | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | (Weston, Loomis) | |
| François Mauriac | 1885-1970 | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | (Howard, Phillips) | |
| John Galsworthy | 1867-1933 | | |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez | 1881-1958 | | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814-1841 | | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Herta Müller | 1953- | | |
| Stephen King | 1947- | | |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940- | (John, Maxwell) | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936- | | |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 1600-1681 | | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | | |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1888-1953 | | |
| Eugenio Montale | 1896-1981 | | |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963 | | |
| Paul Heyse | 1830-1914 | | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875-1926 | (René, Karl, Wilhelm, Johann, Josef) | |
| Władysław Reymont | 1867-1925 | (Stanisław) | |
| Shota Rustaveli | c. 1160-c. 1220 | | |
| Wole Soyinka | 1934- | (Akinwande, Oluwole) | |
| Gao Xingjian | 1940- | | |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias | 1899-1974 | | |
| Halldór Laxness | 1902-1998 | (Kiljan) | |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | 1940- | (Jean, Marie, Gustave) | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920-2012 | | |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925-1970 | (Kimitake) | |
| François Villon | c. 1431-c. 1463 | | |
| Muhammad "Fuzuli" bin Suleyman | 1483-1556 | (Fuzuli) | |
| George Eliot | 1819-1880 | (Mary) | |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877-1938 | | |
| Stefan Zweig | 1881-1942 | | |
| Yanka Kupala | 1882-1942 | (Ivan) | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1902-1991 | | |
| Pliny the Younger | 61-c. 113 | (Gaius) | |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725-1798 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | (Abraham) | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | (Francis, Key) | |
| Jacinto Benavente | 1866-1954 | | |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 1888-1970 | | |
| Verner von Heidenstam | 1859-1940 | | |
| Ōe Kenzaburō | 1935-2023 | | |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939-2013 | | |
| Elfriede Jelinek | 1946- | | |
| Apuleius | c. 125-180 | (Lucius) | |
| Catullus | 84-54 BC | (Gaius) | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | | |
| José Echegaray | 1832-1916 | | |
| Pär Lagerkvist | 1891-1974 | | |
| Roger Martin du Gard | 1881-1958 | | |
| Saint-John Perse | 1887-1975 | | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930-2013 | (Albert, Chinụalụmọgụ) | |
| Imre Kertész | 1929-2016 | | |
| Elias Canetti | 1905-1994 | | |
| August Strindberg | 1849-1912 | | |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857-1943 | | |
| Johannes V. Jensen | 1873-1950 | (Vilhelm) | |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup | 1857-1919 | | |
| Sergei Yesenin | 1895-1925 | | |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | 1893-1930 | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Louise Glück | 1943- | | |
| Stan Lee | 1922-2018 | (Stanley, Martin) | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Lucian of Samosata | c. 125-c. 180 | | |
| Menander | 342-291 BC | | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740-1814 | (Donatien, Alphonse, François) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-2008 | (Charles) | |
| Harper Lee | 1926-2016 | (Nelle) | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | (Jerome, David) | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| Vicente Aleixandre | 1898-1984 | | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784 | | |
| Francisco de Quevedo | 1580-1645 | | |
| Nizami Ganjavi | c. 1141-1209 | (Nezami) | |
| Pindar | c. 522-443 BC | (Pindaros, Pindarus) | |
| Paulo Coelho | 1947- | | |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947- | | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Carl Spitteler | 1845-1924 | | |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 1864-1931 | | |
| George Sand | 1804-1876 | (Amandine) | |
| Paul Verlaine | 1844-1896 | | |
| Derek Walcott | 1930-2017 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | (David, Herbert) | |
| Enid Blyton | 1897-1968 | (Mary) | |
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1888-1964 | | |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1863-1938 | | |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880-1918 | | |
| Karel Čapek | 1890-1938 | | |
| Lesya Ukrainka | 1871-1913 | (Larysa) | |
| Svetlana Alexievich | 1948- | | |
| Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg "Novalis" | 1772-1801 | (Novalis) | |
| Isabelle de Charrière | 1740-1805 | (Belle) | |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | | |
| Camilo José Cela | 1916-2002 | | |
| Claude Simon | 1913-2005 | | |
| Giorgos Seferis | 1900-1971 | | |
| Jaroslav Seifert | 1901-1986 | | |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | 1901-1968 | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Plautus | 254-184 BC | (Titus) | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179-1241 | | |
| Mo Yan | 1955- | (Moye) | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | (William) | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729-1781 | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900-1949 | (Munnerlyn) | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929-2023 | | |
| Patrick White | 1912-1990 | | |
| Haruki Murakami | 1949- | | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888-1935 | | |
| Marina Tsvetaeva | 1892-1941 | | |
| Graham Greene | 1904-1991 | (Henry) | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954- | | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| Patrick Modiano | 1945- | | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | | |
| Amir Khusrau | 1253-1325 | | |
| Edmund Spenser | c. 1552-1599 | | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | | |
| Peter Handke | 1942- | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-2018 | | |
| George R. R. Martin | 1948- | (Raymond, Richard) | |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894-1961 | (Auguste) | |
| Jami | 1414-1492 | (Nur ad-Din, 'Abd ar-Rahman) | |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474-1533 | | |
| Nasir al-Din al-Tusi | 1201-1274 | | |
| Torquato Tasso | 1544-1595 | | |
| Chinghiz Aitmatov | 1928-2008 | | |
| Elie Wiesel | 1928-2016 | | |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707-1793 | (Osvaldo) | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798-1837 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | (Richard) | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Annie Ernaux | 1940- | | |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921-2006 | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | (Benjamin) | |
| Terence | 195-159 BC | (Publius) | |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1776-1822 | (Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus) | |
| Dhanpat Rai "Premchand" Srivastava | 1880-1936 | (Premchand) | |
| Eyvind Johnson | 1900-1976 | | |
| Harry Martinson | 1904-1978 | | |
| Odysseas Elytis | 1911-1996 | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| O. Henry | 1862-1910 | (William, Sydney) | |
| Karen Blixen | 1885-1962 | (Isak, Tania) | |
| Philip Roth | 1933-2018 | (Milton) | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Douglas Adams | 1952-2001 | | |
| Valmiki | ?-5xx BC | | |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | | |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909-1994 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas fils | 1824-1895 | | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826-1890 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 1892-1927 | | |
| Lucan | 39-65 | (Marcus) | |
| Anthony Bourdain | 1956-2018 | (Michael) | |
| Dan Brown | 1964- | (Daniel) | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | (Jean, Louis) | |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939- | (Eleanor) | |
| Aleksandr Blok | 1880-1921 | (Alexander) | |
| Ivan Franko | 1856-1916 | | |
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883-1923 | | |
| Mihai Eminescu | 1850-1889 | | |
| Prosper Mérimée | 1803-1870 | | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811-1863 | | |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | 1770-1843 | | |
| Heinrich von Kleist | 1777-1811 | | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| Tulsidas | 1511-1623 | | |
| Tristan Tzara | 1896-1963 | | |
| Georges Simenon | 1903-1989 | | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Isabel Allende | 1942- | | |
| Mario Puzo | 1920-1999 | | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | (Kindred) | |
| Tove Jansson | 1914-2001 | (Marika) | |
| G. K. Chesterton | 1874-1936 | (Gilbert, Keith) | |
| Henry Miller | 1891-1980 | | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | (James, Matthew) | |
| John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | | |
| Rubén Darío | 1867-1916 | (Félix) | |
| Ali-Shir Nava'i | 1441-1501 | (Alisher) | |
| Christine de Pizan | 1364-c. 1430 | | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| André Malraux | 1901-1976 | | |
| Michael Crichton | 1942-2008 | | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | (Anson) | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | 1962- | (Nawoja) | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Enheduanna | ?-22xx BC | | |
| François-René de Chateaubriand | 1768-1848 | | |
| Juana Inés de la Cruz | 1648-1695 | | |
| John Updike | 1932-2009 | (Hoyer) | |
| Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | (James, Mercer) | |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903-1987 | | |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840-1897 | | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | | |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | 1842-1898 | | |
| Lucius Livius Andronicus | c. 284-c. 204 BC | | |
| Sei Shōnagon | c. 966-c. 1017 | | |
| Qu Yuan | c. 340-278 BC | | |
| Alice Walker | 1944- | (Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate) | |
| Jorge Amado | 1912-2001 | | |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914-1984 | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | (August) | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828-1882 | | |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894-1961 | | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | (Edward, Morgan) | |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | 1836-1870 | | |
| Louis Aragon | 1897-1982 | | |
| Edward Said | 1935-2003 | | |
| Ismail Kadare | 1936- | | |
| Nazım Hikmet | 1902-1963 | | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | c. 1300-1377 | | |
| Martial | 40-102 | (Marcus) | |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843-1920 | | |
| Edith Wharton | 1862-1937 | | |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959 | | |
| Carlos Fuentes | 1928-2012 | | |
| Italo Calvino | 1923-1985 | | |
| Susan Sontag | 1933-2004 | | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790-1869 | | |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | 1732-1799 | | |
| Ahmad ibn Fadlan | ?-9xx | | |
| Anacreon | c. 575-c. 495 BC | (Anakreon) | |
| Juvenal | ?-1xx | (Decimus) | |
| Marcus Terentius Varro | 116-27 BC | | |
| Petronius | c. 27-66 | (Gaius) | |
| Robert Musil | 1880-1942 | | |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948-2015 | (Terence) | |
| Théophile Gautier | 1811-1872 | | |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907-1990 | | |
| Jacques Prévert | 1900-1977 | | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | (Kingsley) | |
| Primo Levi | 1919-1987 | (Michele) | |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ?-2xx BC | | |
| Diogenes Laertius | ?-2xx | | |
| Statius | c. 45-c. 96 | (Publius) | |
| Colette | 1873-1954 | (Sidonie, Gabrielle) | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806-1861 | | |
| Gertrude Stein | 1874-1946 | | |
| Johanna Spyri | 1827-1901 | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | (Franklin) | |
| Germaine Greer | 1939- | | |
| Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619-1655 | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | (Alan, Alexander) | |
| Archilochus | c. 680-c. 645 BC | | |
| Callimachus | c. 310-c. 240 BC | (Kallimachos) | |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955 | (Harbison) | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921-1990 | | |
| Friedrich Schlegel | 1772-1829 | | |
| Germaine de Staël | 1766-1817 | | |
| Anne Rice | 1941-2021 | (Howard, Allen, Frances) | |
| John le Carré | 1931-2020 | (David, Moore) | |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | 1883-1957 | | |
| Ennius | c. 239-c. 169 BC | (Quintus) | |
| Mirabai | 1498-1547 | (Meera, Meerabai) | |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | 1636-1711 | | |
| Anaïs Nin | 1903-1977 | (Angela, Juana, Antolina, Rosa, Edelmira) | |
| Alfred de Musset | 1810-1857 | | |
| Antonin Artaud | 1896-1948 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | (Lyman) | |
| Wu Cheng'en | c. 1500-1582 | | |
| Mansur al-Hallaj | c. 858-922 | (Mansour) | |
| Quintilian | 35-100 | (Marcus) | |
| Tibullus | 55-19 BC | | |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | 1948- | | |
| Arundhati Roy | 1961- | (Suzanna) | |
| Daphne du Maurier | 1907-1989 | | |
| Iris Murdoch | 1919-1999 | | |
| Thomas Pynchon | 1937- | (Ruggles) | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| Lou Andreas-Salomé | 1861-1937 | | |
| Paul Éluard | 1895-1952 | | |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1879-1949 | | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1764-1823 | | |
| Janusz Korczak | 1878-1942 | (Henryk) | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1878-1968 | (Beall) | |
| Philip Pullman | 1946- | | |
| Alcaeus of Mytilene | c. 625-c. 580 BC | (Alkaios) | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | | |
| Sidney Sheldon | 1917-2007 | | |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997 | (Seward) | |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1862-1931 | | |
| Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis | 1863-1933 | (Constantine) | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| François de La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680 | | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 1977- | | |
| Boris Vian | 1920-1959 | (Vernon) | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933-2023 | (Charles, Joseph) | |
| Michael Ende | 1929-1995 | | |
| Lorenzo Valla | c. 1407-1457 | | |
| Sextus Propertius | c. 50-c. 15 BC | | |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849-1924 | | |
| Karl May | 1842-1912 | | |
| Khaled Hosseini | 1965- | | |
| Max Brod | 1884-1968 | | |
| Paul Valéry | 1871-1945 | (Ambroise, Toussaint, Jules) | |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876-1941 | (Berton) | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | | |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914-1996 | (Germaine, Marie) | |
| Jordan Peterson | 1962- | (Bernt) | |
| Michel Houellebecq | 1956- | | |
| Stephenie Meyer | 1973- | | |
| Cornelius Nepos | c. 110-c. 25 BC | | |
| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 1876-1944 | | |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856-1925 | (Henry) | |
| Katherine Mansfield | 1888-1923 | (Kathleen) | |
| Cao Xueqin | 1710-1765 | | |
| Françoise Sagan | 1935-2004 | (Delphine) | |
| Philip Reeve | 1966- | | |
| Ernst Jünger | 1895-1998 | | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | | |
| Hunter S. Thompson | 1937-2005 | (Stockton) | |
| René Goscinny | 1926-1977 | | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | | |
| Amélie Nothomb | 1966- | | |
| John Grisham | 1955- | | |
| Stieg Larsson | 1954-2004 | | |
| Tom Clancy | 1947-2013 | (Thomas) | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810-1865 | (Cleghorn) | |
| Georges Bataille | 1897-1962 | | |
| Joseph Roth | 1894-1939 | | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960- | | |
| Christa Wolf | 1929-2011 | | |
| Jean Genet | 1910-1986 | | |
| Matilde Camus | 1919-2012 | | |
| Simonides of Ceos | c. 556-468 BC | | |
| André Maurois | 1885-1967 | | |
| Edward Lear | 1812-1888 | | |
| Korney Chukovsky | 1882-1969 | | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | | |
| Amos Oz | 1939-2018 | | |
| Emil Cioran | 1911-1995 | (Mihai) | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Wang Wei | 699-759 | | |
| Bettina von Arnim | 1785-1859 | (Elisabeth) | |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1896-1957 | | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | (Pelham, Grenville) | |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | | |
| Anna Seghers | 1900-1983 | | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923-1999 | | |
| Osamu Dazai | 1909-1948 | (Shūji) | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1945-1982 | | |
| Seneca the Elder | 54 BC-39 | (Lucius) | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | (Nicolas) | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1892-1950 | (Nancy) | |
| James Baldwin | 1924-1987 | (Arthur) | |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848-1907 | (Charles, Marie, Georges) | |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922-1995 | | |
| Richard Bach | 1936- | | |
| Romain Gary | 1914-1980 | (Roman) | |
| Sam Shepard | 1943-2017 | (Samuel) | |
| Sholem Aleichem | 1859-1916 | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975 | (Niven) | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | 1891-1960 | | |
| Marie de France | 11xx-c. 1215 | | |
| Robert Ludlum | 1927-2001 | | |
| Božena Němcová | 1820-1862 | | |
| Edmondo De Amicis | 1846-1908 | | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | | |
| Ilya Ehrenburg | 1891-1967 | | |
| Juliusz Słowacki | 1809-1849 | | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 1967- | | |
| Jon Fosse | 1959- | | |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962- | | |
| Madame de La Fayette | 1634-1693 | (Marie, Madeleine) | |
| Paul Celan | 1920-1970 | | |
| Thomas Bernhard | 1931-1989 | | |
| Alan Moore | 1953- | | |
| Endre Ady | 1877-1919 | | |
| Jostein Gaarder | 1952- | | |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1867-1957 | | |
| Robert Walser | 1878-1956 | | |
| Willa Cather | 1873-1947 | | |
| Ingeborg Bachmann | 1926-1973 | | |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921-1995 | (Mary) | |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923-2015 | (Sadık) | |
| Elif Shafak | 1971- | | |
| Henning Mankell | 1948-2015 | (Georg) | |
| John Green | 1977- | | |
| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal | 1626-1696 | | |
| Paul Auster | 1947- | | |
| William Gibson | 1948- | | |
| Isidore Lucien Ducasse "Comte de Lautréamont" | 1846-1870 | | |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1836-1895 | | |
| Maurice Leblanc | 1864-1941 | | |
| Andrzej Sapkowski | 1948- | | |
| Kiran Desai | 1971- | | |
| Nicholas Sparks | 1965- | | |
| Colleen McCullough | 1937-2015 | | |
| Mika Waltari | 1908-1979 | | |
| Raymond Carver | 1938-1988 | (Clevie) | |
| Siegfried Lenz | 1926-2014 | | |
| Gaston Leroux | 1868-1927 | | |
| P. L. Travers | 1899-1996 | (Helen, Pamela, Lyndon) | |
| Ian McEwan | 1948- | (Russell) | |
| Bohumil Hrabal | 1914-1997 | | |
| William Styron | 1925-2006 | (Clark) | |
| Chuck Palahniuk | 1962- | (Charles) | |
| Jo Nesbø | 1960- | | |
| Patrick Süskind | 1949- | | |
| Rick Riordan | 1964- | (Richard) | |
| Shams Tabrizi | 1185-1248 | | |
| Barbara Cartland | 1901-2000 | (Mary, Hamilton) | |
| Elsa Morante | 1912-1985 | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1938- | | |
| Mary Higgins Clark | 1927-2020 | (Theresa, Eleanor) | |
| R. L. Stine | 1943- | (Robert, Lawrence) | |
| Sándor Márai | 1900-1989 | | |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983- | | |
| John Reed | 1887-1920 | (Jack, Silas) | |
| Noël Coward | 1899-1973 | (Peirce) | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | | |
| Alvin Toffler | 1928-2016 | | |
| Carlos Castaneda | 1925-1998 | | |
| John Irving | 1942- | | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 1911-1986 | (Lafayette, Ronald) | |
| Lawrence Durrell | 1912-1990 | | |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928-2012 | | |
| Ralph Ellison | 1913-1994 | (Waldo) | |
| Danai Gurira | 1978- | (Jekesai) | |
| Julian Barnes | 1946- | (Patrick) | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | (Elwyn, Brooks) | |
| Halide Edip Adıvar | 1884-1964 | | |
| Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | 1874-1938 | | |
| Jean Rhys | 1890-1979 | (Ella, Gwendolyn) | |
| A. S. Byatt | 1936- | (Antonia, Susan) | |
| Bob Kane | 1915-1998 | (Robert) | |
| Don DeLillo | 1936- | (Donald, Richard) | |
| Eduard Uspensky | 1937-2018 | | |
| Thomas Keneally | 1935- | | |
| Wilbur Smith | 1933-2021 | | |
| Anna Wintour | 1949- | | |
| Boris Akunin | 1956- | (Grigori) | |
| Ken Follett | 1949- | (Kenneth) | |
| Carl Van Vechten | 1880-1964 | | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893-1957 | (Leigh) | |
| Stanisław Wyspiański | 1869-1907 | (Mateusz, Ignacy) | |
| Ágota Kristóf | 1935-2011 | | |
| Alex Haley | 1921-1992 | (Alexander, Murray, Palmer) | |
| Frederick Forsyth | 1938- | | |
| P. D. James | 1920-2014 | (Phyllis, Dorothy) | |
| Naomi Klein | 1970- | | |
| Yann Martel | 1963- | | |
| George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-1981 | | |
| Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | (James) | |
| Hilary Mantel | 1952-2022 | | |
| John Cheever | 1912-1982 | (William) | |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943- | | |
| Muriel Spark | 1918-2006 | | |
| Richard Adams | 1920-2016 | | |
| Ruth Rendell | 1930-2015 | (Barbara) | |
| Zadie Smith | 1975- | | |
| Danielle Steel | 1947- | (Fernandes, Dominique) | |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892-1982 | | |
| Eckhart Tolle | 1948- | (Ulrich, Leonard) | |
| Edna Ferber | 1885-1968 | | |
| Ellen G. White | 1827-1915 | (Gould) | |
| Hector Malot | 1830-1907 | | |
| Marianne Moore | 1887-1972 | (Craig) | |
| Tyler Perry | 1969- | (Emmitt) | |
| Zalman Shazar | 1889-1974 | (Shneur) | |
| Anne Sexton | 1928-1974 | (Gray) | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914-1986 | | |
| Diana Wynne Jones | 1934-2011 | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1935- | (Edna) | |
| Henri Charrière | 1906-1973 | | |
| Joan Didion | 1934-2021 | | |
| Richard Wright | 1908-1960 | (Nathaniel) | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1905-1989 | | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927-2013 | | |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | (Fanny) | |
| David Foster Wallace | 1962-2008 | | |
| Martin Amis | 1949-2023 | (Louis) | |
| H. D. | 1886-1961 | (Hilda) | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1890-1980 | | |
| Sara Teasdale | 1884-1933 | (Sarah, Trevor) | |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | 1812-1859 | (Napoleon, Stanisław, Adam, Feliks) | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931-2015 | (Edgar, Lawrence) | |
| John Berger | 1926-2017 | | |
| Leonora Carrington | 1917-2011 | | |
| Martin Walser | 1927-2023 | (Johannes) | |
| Natalia Ginzburg | 1916-1991 | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | (Marvin) | |
| Vittoria Colonna | 1490-1547 | | |
| Audre Lorde | 1934-1992 | (Audrey, Geraldine) | |
| Frank McCourt | 1930-2009 | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1915-2019 | | |
| Sue Grafton | 1940-2017 | (Taylor) | |
| Dodie Smith | 1896-1990 | (Dorothy, Gladys) | |
| E. Nesbit | 1858-1924 | (Edith) | |
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1889-1956 | | |
| Ivan Gundulić | 1589-1638 | | |
| John Banville | 1945- | | |
| André Brink | 1935-2015 | (Philippus) | |
| Angela Carter | 1940-1992 | (Olive) | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | (Maurice, Julien) | |
| James Agee | 1909-1955 | (Rufus) | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1937-1969 | | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1930-1999 | | |
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | 1906-1954 | | |
| Baroness Orczy | 1865-1947 | (Emma, Emmuska, Magdolna, Rozália, Mária, Jozefa, Borbála) | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | (Chawner) | |
| Dubravka Ugrešić | 1949-2023 | | |
| James Patterson | 1947- | | |
| Jonathan Franzen | 1959- | (Earl) | |
| Nora Roberts | 1950- | (Eleanor, Jill, Sarah, Marie) | |
| Sophie Kinsella | 1969- | (Madeleine) | |
| Anita Desai | 1937- | | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917-2000 | (Elizabeth) | |
| Irène Némirovsky | 1903-1942 | | |
| James Hilton | 1900-1954 | | |
| James A. Michener | 1907-1997 | (Albert) | |
| Jin Yong | 1924-2018 | (Louis, Leung-yung) | |
| Brandon Sanderson | 1975- | | |
| Elena Ferrante | 19xx- | | |
| Fan Noli | 1882-1965 | (Theofan, Stilian) | |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | 1980- | | |
| Michael Chabon | 1963- | | |
| Robert Jordan | 1948-2007 | (James, Oliver) | |
| Ruth Chatterton | 1892-1961 | | |
| Veronica Roth | 1988- | | |
| Peter Carey | 1943- | (Philip) | |
| William Peter Blatty | 1928-2017 | | |
| Ben Okri | 1959- | | |
| Dean Koontz | 1945- | (Ray) | |
| E. L. James | 1963- | (Erika) | |
| Octavia E. Butler | 1947-2006 | (Estelle) | |
| Zane Grey | 1872-1939 | (Pearl) | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1952- | | |
| Anne McCaffrey | 1926-2011 | (Inez) | |
| Eudora Welty | 1909-2001 | | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | (John) | |
| Shirley Jackson | 1916-1965 | | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Anna Sewell | 1820-1878 | | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Cassandra Clare | 1973- | | |
| Phoebe Waller-Bridge | 1985- | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1941- | | |
| Colin Dexter | 1930-2017 | (Norman) | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 1943- | | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916-2000 | | |
| Richard Ford | 1944- | | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 | (Giles) | |
| Mihály Vörösmarty | 1800-1855 | | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Camilla Läckberg | 1974- | | |
| David Mitchell | 1969- | (Stephen) | |
| Patricia Cornwell | 1956- | | |
| Ivan Yefremov | 1908-1972 | | |
| Sabahattin Ali | 1907-1948 | | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1889-1973 | (Potter) | |
| Eleanor H. Porter | 1868-1920 | | |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | 1969- | | |
| Ian Rankin | 1960- | | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977- | | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Zitkála-Šá | 1876-1938 | (Gertrude) | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Luigi Pulci | 1432-1484 | | |
| Anita Brookner | 1928-2016 | | |
| C. J. Cherryh | 1942- | (Carolyn, Janice) | |
| Dick Bruna | 1927-2017 | (Hendrikus, Magdalenus) | |
| Donna Leon | 1942- | | |
| Harold Robbins | 1916-1997 | | |
| Hella Haasse | 1918-2011 | (Hélène) | |
| Meša Selimović | 1910-1982 | (Mehmed) | |
| Peter Benchley | 1940-2006 | | |
| Anthony Horowitz | 1955- | | |
| Etgar Keret | 1967- | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 1960- | (Kent) | |
| Junot Díaz | 1968- | | |
| Aksel Sandemose | 1899-1965 | (Axel) | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt | 1911-1995 | (Anna, Maria, Geertruida) | |
| Clive Cussler | 1931-2020 | | |
| David Storey | 1933-2017 | (Malcolm) | |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931-1989 | | |
| Fay Weldon | 1931-2023 | (Franklin) | |
| Jackie Collins | 1937-2015 | (Jacqueline, Jill) | |
| Lois Lowry | 1937- | | |
| Neale Donald Walsch | 1943- | | |
| Taliesin | ?-c. 600 | | |
| Vasyl Stus | 1938-1985 | | |
| Colm Tóibín | 1955- | | |
| George Saunders | 1958- | | |
| Malcolm Gladwell | 1963- | | |
| Ngaio Marsh | 1895-1982 | (Edith) | |
| Claribel Alegría | 1924-2018 | (Clara, Isabel) | |
| Leon Uris | 1924-2003 | | |
| Madeleine L'Engle | 1918-2007 | | |
| Mary Renault | 1905-1983 | (Eileen) | |
| Mickey Spillane | 1918-2006 | (Frank, Morrison) | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| Gillian Flynn | 1971- | | |
| Zakhar Prilepin | 1975- | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (Heinrich) | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1869-1946 | | |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973 | (Dorothea) | |
| Ida Tarbell | 1857-1944 | (Minerva) | |
| Mikha'il Na'ima | 1889-1988 | | |
| Beverly Cleary | 1916-2021 | (Atlee) | |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939- | | |
| Ida Vitale | 1923- | | |
| Katherine Paterson | 1932- | | |
| Penelope Lively | 1933- | (Margaret) | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | 1928-2017 | (Maynard) | |
| Rupert Sheldrake | 1942- | (Alfred) | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1908-1963 | (Huebner) | |
| Ali Smith | 1962- | | |
| Jacqueline Wilson | 1945- | | |
| Roddy Doyle | 1958- | | |
| Sarah Waters | 1966- | | |
| Gaius Helvius Cinna | ?-44 BC | | |
| Amy Lowell | 1874-1925 | (Lawrence) | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1873-1945 | (Anderson, Gholson) | |
| Markus Zusak | 1975- | | |
| Perez Hilton | 1978- | | |
| DBC Pierre | 1961- | (Peter, Warren) | |
| Slavenka Drakulić | 1949- | | |
| William Boyd | 1952- | | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | 1932-2010 | | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | | |
| Jack Higgins | 1929-2022 | (Harry, Henry) | |
| Judy Blume | 1938- | (Judith) | |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 1930-1965 | (Vivian) | |
| Mary Oliver | 1935-2019 | (Jane) | |
| William Trevor | 1928-2016 | | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 1956- | | |
| Gaspara Stampa | 1523-1554 | | |
| Graham Swift | 1949- | (Colin) | |
| Jodi Picoult | 1966- | | |
| Jonathan Stroud | 1970- | | |
| Michael Ignatieff | 1947- | (Grant) | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | 1973- | (James) | |
| August Šenoa | 1838-1881 | | |
| Carol Shields | 1935-2003 | (Ann) | |
| Jacqueline Susann | 1918-1974 | | |
| Marija Jurić Zagorka | 1873-1957 | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1896-1953 | | |
| Pat Barker | 1943- | (Patricia, Mary) | |
| Robert James Waller | 1939-2017 | | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | 1954- | | |
| Damon Galgut | 1963- | | |
| Jon Krakauer | 1954- | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 1954- | (Karen) | |
| Sue Townsend | 1946-2014 | (Susan) | |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935-1979 | (James, Gordon) | |
| John Hersey | 1914-1993 | (Richard) | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1936-2021 | (Jeff) | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1921-2017 | (Purdy) | |
| V. C. Andrews | 1923-1986 | (Cleo, Virginia) | |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844-1929 | | |
| Eric Knight | 1897-1943 | (Mowbray) | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1896-1956 | | |
| Nella Larsen | 1891-1964 | (Nellallitea, Nellie) | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872-1906 | | |
| Vladimir Nazor | 1876-1949 | | |
| Guzel Yakhina | 1977- | | |
| Kathy Reichs | 1948- | (Kathleen, Joan) | |
| Muhsin al-Ramli | 1967- | | |
| Richard Powers | 1957- | | |
| Tracy Letts | 1965- | | |
| Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-2018 | (Ervin) | |
| Albert Mol | 1917-2004 | | |
| Alison Lurie | 1926-2020 | | |
| Caroline Graham | 1931- | | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | (McGill) | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| Margery Allingham | 1904-1966 | (Louise) | |
| Ogden Nash | 1902-1971 | | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | | |
| Rosamunde Pilcher | 1924-2019 | | |
| Aleksandre Qazbegi | 1848-1893 | (Alexander) | |
| Chief Dan George | 1899-1981 | (Geswanouth) | |
| Felix Timmermans | 1886-1947 | (Leopoldus, Maximilianus) | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1893-1960 | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| M. R. James | 1862-1936 | (Montague, Rhodes) | |
| Mykola Khvylovy | 1893-1933 | (Stefan, Yuliya) | |
| Almudena Grandes | 1960-2021 | (María) | |
| Candace Bushnell | 1958- | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 1969- | | |
| Philip Kerr | 1956-2018 | (Ballantyne) | |
| Andre Norton | 1912-2005 | (Alice, Mary) | |
| Jason Miller | 1939-2001 | (John, Anthony) | |
| Judith Krantz | 1928-2019 | (Bluma, Gittel) | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1909-1993 | (Earle) | |
| Abraham Goldfaden | 1840-1908 | (Avram, Avrum) | |
| Alain Locke | 1885-1954 | (LeRoy) | |
| Claude McKay | 1890-1948 | (Festus, Claudius) | |
| Galaktion Tabidze | 1892-1959 | | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 1955- | | |
| Ha Jin | 1956- | (Xuěfēi) | |
| Jennifer Egan | 1962- | | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Leigh Bardugo | 1975- | | |
| Miljenko Jergović | 1966- | | |
| Monica Ali | 1967- | | |
| Willem Elsschot | 1882-1960 | (Alfons) | |
| Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| Moderata Fonte | 1555-1592 | (Modesta) | |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 | | |
| Bernice Rubens | 1923-2004 | | |
| Blaga Dimitrova | 1922-2003 | (Nikolova) | |
| Botho Strauß | 1944- | | |
| Grace Paley | 1922-2007 | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1934- | (Navarre) | |
| Charlaine Harris | 1951- | | |
| Jeffery Deaver | 1950- | | |
| Julia Quinn | 1970- | (Julie) | |
| Keri Hulme | 1947-2021 | | |
| Marlon James | 1970- | | |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | | |
| Ring Lardner | 1885-1933 | (Ringgold, Wilmer) | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1876-1948 | (Keating) | |
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867-1915 | | |
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | 1882-1954 | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| Alice Sebold | 1963- | | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | (Arsenije) | |
| Benjamin Zephaniah | 1958-2023 | (Obadiah, Iqbal) | |
| L. J. Smith | c. 1960- | (Lisa, Jane) | |
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | 1906-1970 | | |
| Michael V. Gazzo | 1923-1995 | (Vincenzo) | |
| Mordecai Richler | 1931-2001 | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1951-2013 | (Jerome) | |
| Remco Campert | 1929-2022 | | |
| Richard Russo | 1949- | | |
| Winston Graham | 1908-2003 | (Mawdsley) | |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 1835-1915 | | |
| Saken Seifullin | 1894-1939 | | |
| Titsian Tabidze | 1895-1937 | | |
| Elizabeth George | 1949- | (Susan) | |
| Garth Ennis | 1970- | | |
| Jane Smiley | 1949- | | |
| Katherine Applegate | 1956- | (Alice) | |
| Margaret Weis | 1948- | (Edith) | |
| Anne Golon | 1921-2017 | | |
| Barbara Pym | 1913-1980 | (Mary, Crampton) | |
| Barry Unsworth | 1930-2012 | | |
| David Malouf | 1934- | | |
| Lydia Chukovskaya | 1907-1996 | | |
| Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-2000 | (Stanley) | |
| Mirko Kovač | 1938-2013 | | |
| Ranko Marinković | 1913-2001 | | |
| Richard Scarry | 1919-1994 | | |
| Russell Banks | 1940-2023 | | |
| Susan Cooper | 1935- | | |
| Vesna Parun | 1922-2010 | | |
| Otokar Březina | 1868-1929 | (Otakar, Václav) | |
| Vjenceslav Novak | 1859-1905 | | |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971- | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1955- | | |
| Bernardine Evaristo | 1959- | (Anne, Mobolaji) | |
| Daniel Handler | 1970- | (Lemony) | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | | |
| Jay Asher | 1975- | | |
| Lucinda Riley | 1965-2021 | (Kate) | |
| Renate Dorrestein | 1954-2018 | | |
| Rohinton Mistry | 1952- | | |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966- | (Joseph) | |
| Tess Gerritsen | 1953- | (Terry) | |
| Winona LaDuke | 1959- | | |
| J. Bernlef | 1937-2012 | (Henk) | |
| C. L. Moore | 1911-1987 | (Catherine, Lucille) | |
| Ingrid Jonker | 1933-1965 | | |
| Ishmael Reed | 1938- | (Scott) | |
| Ivo Brešan | 1936-2017 | | |
| Janet Evanovich | 1943- | | |
| John Arden | 1930-2012 | | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | 1905-1982 | (Charles, Marion) | |
| Nina Bawden | 1925-2012 | | |
| Paul Scott | 1920-1978 | | |
| P. H. Newby | 1918-1997 | (Percy, Howard) | |
| Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | (Gustav, Adolph, Franz) | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | (Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander) | |
| Denis Johnson | 1949-2017 | (Hale) | |
| E. Pauline Johnson | 1861-1913 | (Emily, Tekahionwake) | |
| Lloyd C. Douglas | 1877-1951 | (Cassel) | |
| P. C. Cast | 1960- | (Phyllis, Christine) | |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | (Nicholas) | |
| Vítězslav Hálek | 1835-1874 | | |
| Catherine Cookson | 1906-1998 | (Ann) | |
| Nélida Piñon | 1937-2022 | | |
| Rose Tremain | 1943- | (Rosemary, Jane) | |
| Stanley Middleton | 1919-2009 | | |
| Thomas Berger | 1924-2014 | (Louis) | |
| August Wilson | 1945-2005 | | |
| James Kelman | 1946- | | |
| Kristina Lugn | 1948-2020 | (Gunhild, Bricken) | |
| Sebastian Faulks | 1953- | | |
| S. E. Hinton | 1948- | (Susan, Eloise) | |
| Thomas Ligotti | 1953- | |