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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adolf Friedrich von Schack | 1815-1894 |  | |
| Alice Dunbar Nelson | 1875-1935 | (Ruth) | |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | 1882-1961 | (Redmona) | |
| Mina Loy | 1882-1966 | (Gertrude) | |
| Noel Streatfeild | 1895-1986 | (Mary) | |
| Zoe Akins | 1886-1958 | (Byrd) | |
| Countee Cullen | 1903-1946 | (LeRoy) | |
| Kjartan Fløgstad | 1944- | | |
| Susan Hill | 1942- | | |
| Willy Vandersteen | 1913-1990 | (Willebrord, Jan, Frans, Maria) | |
| Rupert Holmes | 1947- | (David) | |
| Hedd Wyn | 1887-1917 | (Ellis, Humphrey) | |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | 1876-1958 | (Ella) | |
| Mary Webb | 1881-1927 | (Gladys) | |
| Peretz Markish | 1895-1952 | (Davidovich) | |
| Cvijeta Zuzorić | c. 1552-1648 | (Flora) | |
| Corín Tellado | 1927-2009 | (María del Socorro) | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| John Jakes | 1932-2023 | (Jay, William) | |
| Lucebert | 1924-1994 | (Lubertus, Jacobus) | |
| Lucille Clifton | 1936-2010 | (Thelma) | |
| Reginald Hill | 1936-2012 | (Charles) | |
| Thea Beckman | 1923-2004 | (Theodora) | |
| William Wharton | 1925-2008 | (Albert) | |
| Màrius Serra | 1963- | | |
| Rutger Bregman | 1988- | (Christiaan) | |
| Sara Paretsky | 1947- | | |
| Ante Kovačić | 1854-1889 | | |
| Beatrice Hastings | 1879-1943 | (Emily, Alice) | |
| Iulia Hasdeu | 1869-1888 | | |
| Rhijnvis Feith | 1753-1824 | | |
| Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | (Mzechabuk) | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1912-1975 | | |
| Enn Vetemaa | 1936-2017 | | |
| Ivan Aralica | 1930- | | |
| Jan Terlouw | 1931- | (Cornelis) | |
| Jane Yolen | 1939- | (Hyatt) | |
| Rumer Godden | 1907-1998 | (Margaret) | |
| Tonke Dragt | 1930-2024 | (Antonia, Johanna, Willemina) | |
| Witi Ihimaera | 1944- | (Tame) | |
| John Trudell | 1946-2015 | | |
| Nedim Gürsel | 1951- | | |
| Adolf Heyduk | 1835-1923 | | |
| Adolf Paul | 1863-1943 | (Georg) | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | (Ferdinand) | |
| Jean Toomer | 1894-1967 | (Nathan, Pinchback) | |
| Laura Lippman | 1959- | | |
| Marius von Mayenburg | 1972- | | |
| Miro Gavran | 1961- | | |
| Patrick McCabe | 1955- | | |
| Pavao Pavličić | 1946- | | |
| Raymond Benson | 1955- | | |
| Simon Armitage | 1963- | | |
| Adolph Green | 1914-2002 | | |
| Frank Kermode | 1919-2010 | | |
| Gerrit Komrij | 1944-2012 | | |
| Jamiluddin Aali | 1925-2015 | (Nawabzada, Mirza, Ahmed) | |
| Nikki Giovanni | 1943- | (Yolande, Cornelia) | |
| Paula Gunn Allen | 1939-2008 | (Marie) | |
| Sergiusz Piasecki | 1901-1964 | | |
| Sonia Sanchez | 1934- | (Wilsonia, Benita) | |
| Sybille Bedford | 1911-2006 | (Aleid, Elsa) | |
| Daša Drndić | 1946-2018 | | |
| Joy Harjo | 1951- | | |
| Kate Grenville | 1950- | (Catherine, Elizabeth) | |
| Mercedes Lackey | 1950- | | |
| Sherrilyn Kenyon | 1965- | | |
| Tim Winton | 1960- | (Timothy, John) | |
| Ain Kaalep | 1926-2020 | | |
| Beppe Wolgers | 1928-1986 | (John, Bertil) | |
| Burkhard Driest | 1939-2020 | | |
| Dorothy West | 1907-1998 | | |
| Emyr Humphreys | 1919-2020 | | |
| Irena Vrkljan | 1930-2021 | | |
| Ivan Kušan | 1933-2012 | | |
| Jill Paton Walsh | 1937-2020 | (Gillian) | |
| Marcia Muller | 1944- | | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| Eugen Kumičić | 1850-1904 | | |
| Josip Kozarac | 1858-1906 | | |
| Mato Lovrak | 1899-1974 | | |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire | 1882-1928 | | |
| Paolo Iashvili | 1894-1937 | (Pavle) | |
| Waldo Frank | 1889-1967 | (David) | |
| Petar Zoranić | 1508-1569 | | |
| Jack Ketchum | 1946-2018 | (Dallas, William) | |
| Kate Summerscale | 1965- | | |
| Leon de Winter | 1954- | | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | 1948- | | |
| Marina Warner | 1946- | | |
| Pia Juul | 1962-2020 | | |
| Zoë Heller | 1965- | (Kate, Hinde) | |
| Antun Šoljan | 1932-1993 | | |
| Bertrice Small | 1937-2015 | | |
| Katharine Kerr | 1944- | | |
| Leonie Ossowski | 1925-2019 | (Jo, Jolanthe) | |
| Seamus Deane | 1940-2021 | | |
| Shirley Hazzard | 1931-2016 | | |
| Spalding Gray | 1941-2004 | (Rockwell) | |
| Vahagn Davtyan | 1922-1996 | | |
| Elinor Wylie | 1885-1928 | (Morton) | |
| Enid Bagnold | 1889-1981 | | |
| Jagoda Truhelka | 1864-1957 | | |
| Janko Leskovar | 1861-1949 | | |
| Janko Polić Kamov | 1886-1910 | | |
| Prudens van Duyse | 1804-1859 | (Prudentius, Joannes, Maria) | |
| Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos | 1764-1809 | | |
| Ahdaf Soueif | 1950- | | |
| Alona Kimhi | 1966- | | |
| Connie Palmen | 1955- | (Aldegonda, Petronella, Huberta, Maria) | |
| David Baddiel | 1964- | (Lionel) | |
| Diane Duane | 1952- | | |
| Jancis Robinson | 1950- | (Mary) | |
| Julijana Matanović | 1959- | | |
| Leonida Lari | 1949-2011 | | |
| Nalini Singh | 1977- | | |
| Olen Steinhauer | 1970- | | |
| A. L. Barker | 1918-2002 | (Audrey, Lilian) | |
| Derviš Sušić | 1925-1990 | | |
| Florjan Lipuš | 1937- | | |
| George Plimpton | 1927-2003 | (Ames) | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Gülten Akın | 1933-2015 | | |
| Hanoch Levin | 1943-1999 | | |
| James Welch | 1940-2003 | (Phillip) | |
| John Edgar Wideman | 1941- | | |
| Jules Deelder | 1944-2019 | (Anton) | |
| Kathleen E. Woodiwiss | 1939-2007 | (Erin) | |
| Maarten 't Hart | 1944- | | |
| Máirtín Ó Direáin | 1910-1988 | | |
| Marga Minco | 1920-2023 | (Sara) | |
| Margaret Walker | 1915-1998 | (Abigail) | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Thomas Kinsella | 1928-2021 | | |
| Vesna Krmpotić | 1932-2018 | | |
| Andy Razaf | 1895-1973 | (Andriamanantena, Paul) | |
| Brand Whitlock | 1869-1934 | (Joseph) | |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar | 1864-1944 | | |
| Jappe Nilssen | 1870-1931 | (Jacob) | |
| Lola Ridge | 1873-1941 | (Rose, Emily) | |
| Louise Bogan | 1897-1970 | | |
| Madelon Szekely-Lulofs | 1899-1958 | | |
| A. L. Kennedy | 1965- | (Alison, Louise) | |
| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 | | |
| Jill Murphy | 1949-2021 | | |
| Tibor Fischer | 1959- | | |
| Timothy Mo | 1950- | | |
| Zoran Ferić | 1961- | | |
| Adélia Prado | 1935- | (Luzia) | |
| Adolf Hoffmeister | 1902-1973 | | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Elise Cowen | 1933-1962 | (Nada) | |
| Etienne Leroux | 1922-1989 | | |
| Jennifer Johnston | 1930- | | |
| John McGahern | 1934-2006 | | |
| Liza Cody | 1944- | | |
| Lucille Fletcher | 1912-2000 | (Violet) | |
| Manly Wade Wellman | 1903-1986 | | |
| Martin Caidin | 1927-1997 | | |
| Seán Ó Faoláin | 1900-1991 | (John, Francis, Proinsias) | |
| Sunčana Škrinjarić | 1931-2004 | | |
| Tor Edvin Dahl | 1943- | | |
| Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | (Victor) | |
| Vjekoslav Kaleb | 1905-1996 | | |
| Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | | |
| Ante Tomić | 1970- | | |
| Caryl Phillips | 1958- | | |
| Hisham Matar | 1970- | | |
| Ivica Đikić | 1977- | | |
| Jude Deveraux | 1947- | | |
| Marente de Moor | 1972- | | |
| Michael Dorris | 1945-1997 | (Milou, Anthony) | |
| Sebastian Barry | 1955- | | |
| Christopher Hope | 1944- | | |
| Dudley Randall | 1914-2000 | | |
| Gwendolyn B. Bennett | 1902-1981 | | |
| Harold Courlander | 1908-1996 | | |
| Hoimar von Ditfurth | 1921-1989 | (Gerhard, Friedrich, Ernst) | |
| Ivan Slamnig | 1930-2001 | | |
| Josephine Hart | 1942-2011 | | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | (Vladimir) | |
| Petar Šegedin | 1909-1998 | | |
| Peter van Gestel | 1937-2019 | | |
| Richard Hooker | 1924-1997 | (Hiester) | |
| R. D. Wingfield | 1928-2007 | (Rodney, David) | |
| Slobodan Novak | 1924-2016 | (Ante) | |
| Tomislav Ladan | 1932-2008 | | |
| Wallace Thurman | 1902-1934 | (Henry) | |
| Codrin Ţapu | 1973- | (Ştefan) | |
| Ebru Umar | 1970- | | |
| Francine Rivers | 1947- | (Sandra) | |
| Goran Tribuson | 1948- | | |
| Ivana Šojat | 1971- | | |
| Robert Munsch | 1945- | (Norman) | |
| Tessa de Loo | 1946- | (Johanna, Tineke, Martina) | |
| Domien Sleeckx | 1818-1901 | (Jan, Lambrecht, Dominicus) | |
| Flora Thompson | 1876-1947 | (Jane) | |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson | 1880-1966 | (Blanche) | |
| Kolau Nadiradze | 1895-1990 | (Nikoloz) | |
| Peretz Hirschbein | 1880-1948 | | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| Reyer Anslo | 1622-1669 | | |
| Arna Bontemps | 1902-1973 | (Wendell) | |
| Boy Lornsen | 1922-1995 | | |
| Cremilda de Lima | 1940- | (Maria) | |
| Frank Yerby | 1916-1991 | (Garvin) | |
| Halide Nusret Zorlutuna | 1901-1984 | | |
| Jef Nys | 1927-2009 | (Jozef) | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | (Cornelis, Reinier) | |
| Mahmut Makal | 1930-2018 | | |
| Maureen Jennings | 1939- | | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Robert Hayden | 1913-1980 | (Asa, Bundy) | |
| W. P. Kinsella | 1935-2016 | (William, Patrick) | |
| C. S. Friedman | 1957- | (Celia, S) | |
| Jeaniene Frost | 1974- | | |
| Joost Zwagerman | 1963-2015 | (Johannes, Jacobus, Willebrordus) | |
| Joseph Boyden | 1966- | | |
| Josh Malerman | 19xx- | | |
| Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan | 1976- | | |
| Justin Cartwright | 1945-2018 | (James) | |
| Magnus Mills | 1954- | | |
| Rebecca Roanhorse | 1971- | | |
| Slobodan Šnajder | 1948- | | |
| Yehonatan Geffen | 1947-2023 | | |
| A. de Herz | 1887-1936 | (Adolf, Edmund, George) | |
| Anne Spencer | 1882-1975 | (Bethel) | |
| George Schuyler | 1895-1977 | (Samuel) | |
| John Rollin Ridge | 1827-1867 | (Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird) | |
| Juš Kozak | 1892-1964 | | |
| Lavrenti Ardaziani | 1815-1870 | | |
| Malcolm Cowley | 1898-1989 | | |
| Mate Balota | 1898-1963 | (Mijo) | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Selwyn Jepson | 1899-1989 | | |
| Viktor Car Emin | 1870-1963 | | |
| Cvetka Lipuš | 1966- | | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Enis Batur | 1952- | (Ahmet) | |
| Linda Hogan | 1947- | | |
| Marica Bodrožić | 1973- | | |
| Olivia Goldsmith | 1949-2004 | (Justine, Randy) | |
| Paul van Loon | 1955- | | |
| Richard Wagamese | 1955-2017 | | |
| Tami Hoag | 1959- | | |
| Trezza Azzopardi | 1961- | | |
| W. Bruce Cameron | 1960- | (William) | |
| Željko Ivanković | 1954- | | |
| Bernard MacLaverty | 1942- | | |
| C. Buddingh' | 1918-1985 | (Cornelis, Kees) | |
| D. J. Enright | 1920-2002 | (Dennis, Joseph) | |
| Dixie Browning | 1930- | | |
| Dolf Verroen | 1928- | (Rudolf, Johan) | |
| Ela Peroci | 1922-2001 | | |
| Etheridge Knight | 1931-1991 | | |
| Francine Pascal | 1938- | | |
| Hans Andreus | 1926-1977 | (Johan, Wilhelm) | |
| Imme Dros | 1936- | (Emmy, Theodora) | |
| Richard Bruce Nugent | 1906-1987 | | |
| Babilina Khositashvili | 1884-1973 | | |
| Marita Bonner | 1899-1971 | (Marieta) | |
| May Miller | 1899-1995 | | |
| Rudolph Fisher | 1897-1934 | (John, Chauncey) | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite | 1878-1962 | (Beaumont) | |
| Celine Song | 1988- | | |
| Cynthia Leitich Smith | 1967- | | |
| Heleen van Royen | 1965- | | |
| Kate Saunders | 1960-2023 | (Katharine) | |
| Kevin Henkes | 1960- | | |
| M. J. Hyland | 1968- | (Maria, Joan) | |
| Melinda Metz | 1962- | | |
| Mensje van Keulen | 1946- | (Josien, Francina) | |
| Michèle Roberts | 1949- | (Brigitte) | |
| Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun" | 1964- | | |
| Rosina Lippi | 1956- | | |
| Rupert Thomson | 1955- | | |
| Şakir Bilgin | 1951- | | |
| Sara Douglass | 1957-2011 | | |
| Sarah Hall | 1974- | | |
| Velma Wallis | 1960- | | |
| Vinette Ebrahim | 1957- | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Eddy C. Bertin | 1944-2018 | (Charly) | |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934- | (Robert) | |
| Helene Johnson | 1906-1995 | | |
| Hovik Vardoumian | 1940- | | |
| Hrvoje Hitrec | 1943- | | |
| Jane Gardam | 1928- | | |
| Jilly Cooper | 1937- | | |
| LaVyrle Spencer | 1943- | | |
| Milovan Vitezović | 1944-2022 | | |
| Molly Keane | 1904-1996 | (Mary, Nesta) | |
| Pierrette Fleutiaux | 1941-2019 | | |
| Rachel Billington | 1942- | | |
| Renate Rubinstein | 1929-1990 | (Tamar, Ida) | |
| Zdena Tomin | 1941-2020 | | |
| Drew Hayden Taylor | 1962- | | |
| Jessica Durlacher | 1961- | | |
| Jurica Pavičić | 1965- | | |
| Lada Žigo | 1970- | | |
| Lee Maracle | 1950-2021 | | |
| Lilith Saintcrow | 1976- | | |
| Melanie Rawn | 1954- | | |
| Michael Scott Rohan | 1951-2018 | | |
| Mick Jackson | 1960- | | |
| Mirjam Oldenhave | 1960- | | |
| Natalie Diaz | 1978- | | |
| Natasha Walter | 1967- | | |
| Olja Savičević | 1974- | | |
| Romesh Gunesekera | 1954- | | |
| Ronald Giphart | 1965- | | |
| Şadi Üçüncü | 1948-2004 | | |
| Soman Chainani | 1979- | | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | 1972- | | |
| Tomson Highway | 1951- | | |
| Wendy Rose | 1948- | (Bronwen, Chiron, Elizabeth) | |