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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Paquette | 19xx- |  | |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | 1948- | | |
| Abiola Abrams | 1976- | (Wednesday) | |
| Achmat Dangor | 1948- | | |
| Ada J. Graves | 1870-1918 | (Jane) | |
| Adam Mars-Jones | 1954- | | |
| Adam Mickiewicz | 1798-1855 | (Bernard) | |
| Adélia Prado | 1935- | (Luzia) | |
| Adena Halpern | 1968- | | |
| Adolf Branald | 1910-2008 | | |
| Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | (Gustav, Adolph, Franz) | |
| Adolf Černý | 1864-1952 | | |
| A. de Herz | 1887-1936 | (Adolf, Edmund, George) | |
| Adolf Dygasiński | 1839-1902 | | |
| Adolf Fierla | 1908-1967 | | |
| Adolf Heyduk | 1835-1923 | | |
| Adolf Hoffmeister | 1902-1973 | | |
| Adolf Paul | 1863-1943 | (Georg) | |
| Adolf Rudnicki | 1909-1990 | (Aron) | |
| Adolf Friedrich von Schack | 1815-1894 | | |
| Adolf von Wilbrandt | 1837-1911 | (Johann, Albrecht, Frierich, Enoch) | |
| Adolf Wenig | 1874-1940 | | |
| Adolph Green | 1914-2002 | | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | | |
| Aesop | c. 620-c. 564 BC | | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | | |
| Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-2018 | (Ervin) | |
| Ahdaf Soueif | 1950- | | |
| Ain Kaalep | 1926- | | |
| Aksel Sandemose | 1899-1965 | (Axel) | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | 1954- | | |
| Alan Hunter | 1922-2005 | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | (Alan, Alexander) | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Albert Mol | 1917-2004 | | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | (Alexander) | |
| Aleksandre Qazbegi | 1848-1893 | (Alexander) | |
| Alex Haley | 1921-1992 | (Alexander, Murray, Palmer) | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | (Alexander) | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| Ali Smith | 1962- | | |
| Alice Thomas Ellis | 1932-2005 | (Ann, Margaret) | |
| A. L. Kennedy | 1965- | (Alison, Louise) | |
| Allan Massie | 1938- | (Johnstone) | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Almudena Grandes | 1960-2021 | (María) | |
| Alona Kimhi | 1966- | | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| Anaïs Nin | 1903-1977 | (Angela, Juana, Antolina, Rosa, Edelmira) | |
| Anatole France | 1844-1924 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | (Andrew) | |
| André Brink | 1935-2015 | (Philippus) | |
| Andre Norton | 1912-2005 | (Alice, Mary) | |
| Andrew O'Hagan | 1968- | | |
| Angela Carter | 1940-1992 | (Olive) | |
| Anita Brookner | 1928-2016 | | |
| Anita Desai | 1937- | | |
| Anita Mason | 1942- | (Frances) | |
| Ann Schlee | 1934- | | |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889-1966 | | |
| Anna Sewell | 1820-1878 | | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | | |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | (Annelies) | |
| Anne McCaffrey | 1926-2011 | (Inez) | |
| Anne Rice | 1941-2021 | (Howard, Allen, Frances) | |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt | 1911-1995 | (Maria, Geertruida) | |
| Ante Kovačić | 1854-1889 | | |
| Ante Tomić | 1970- | | |
| Anthony Bourdain | 1956-2018 | (Michael) | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Anthony Horowitz | 1955- | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Anton Treuer | 1969- | | |
| Antonio Martínez Menchén | 1930- | | |
| Antun Šoljan | 1932-1993 | | |
| Apuleius | c. 125-180 | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-c. 386 BC | | |
| Arnette Lamb | 1947-1998 | | |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971- | | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | (Arsenije) | |
| Arswendo Atmowiloto | 1948-2019 | (Sarwendo) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-2008 | (Charles) | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891 | | |
| Arundhati Roy | 1961- | (Suzanna) | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | | |
| A. L. Barker | 1918-2002 | (Audrey, Lilian) | |
| August Šenoa | 1838-1881 | | |
| August Wilson | 1945-2005 | | |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | | |
| Babilina Khositashvili | 1884-1973 | | |
| Li Bai | 701-762 | (Po) | |
| Barbara Cartland | 1901-2000 | (Mary, Hamilton) | |
| Barbara Pym | 1913-1980 | (Mary, Crampton) | |
| Barbu Brezianu | 1909-2008 | | |
| Barry Unsworth | 1930-2012 | | |
| Bart Chabot | 1954- | | |
| Bartho Smit | 1924-1986 | (Bartholomeus, Herman, Jacobus) | |
| Matsuo Basho | 1644-1694 | | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | (Benjamin) | |
| Ben Okri | 1959- | | |
| Beppe Wolgers | 1928-1986 | (John, Bertil) | |
| Bernard MacLaverty | 1942- | | |
| Bernardin Pavlović | 17xx | | |
| Bernardine Evaristo | 1959- | (Anne, Mobolaji) | |
| Bernice Rubens | 1923-2004 | | |
| J. Bernlef | 1937-2012 | (Henk) | |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898-1956 | | |
| Bertrice Small | 1937- | | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | 1932-2010 | | |
| Betina Krahn | 19xx- | | |
| Beverly Cleary | 1916-2021 | (Atlee) | |
| Blaga Dimitrova | 1922-2003 | (Nikolova) | |
| Boudewijn Büch | 1948-2002 | | |
| Boy Lornsen | 1922-1995 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | | |
| Brand Whitlock | 1869-1934 | (Joseph) | |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939- | | |
| Burkhard Driest | 1939-2020 | | |
| A. S. Byatt | 1936- | (Antonia, Susan) | |
| Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | (George, Gordon) | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | (Nicolas) | |
| Candace Bushnell | 1958- | | |
| Candia McWilliam | 1955- | (Frances, Juliet) | |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707-1793 | (Osvaldo) | |
| Carmen Callil | 1938- | (Thérèse) | |
| Carola Dunn | 1946- | | |
| Caroline Blackwood | 1931-1996 | (Maureen) | |
| Caroline Graham | 1931- | | |
| C. J. Cherryh | 1942- | (Carolyn, Janice) | |
| Carry Slee | 1949- | | |
| Caryl Phillips | 1958- | | |
| Cass Pennant | 1958- | (Carol) | |
| Catherine Cookson | 1906-1998 | (Ann) | |
| Catherine Marshall | 1914-1983 | (Sarah) | |
| C. L. Moore | 1911-1987 | (Catherine, Lucille) | |
| Catherine Sinclair | 1800-1864 | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Catullus | 84-54 BC | (Gaius) | |
| C. S. Friedman | 1957- | (Celia, S) | |
| Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | (Mzechabuk) | |
| Charlaine Harris | 1951- | | |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | | |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | (Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander) | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | | |
| Chemmanam Chacko | 1926-2018 | | |
| Cheris F. Hodges | 1977- | | |
| Cheyenne McCray | 1965- | | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 1977- | | |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930-2013 | (Albert, Chinụalụmọgụ) | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Christopher Hope | 1944- | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | (Kit) | |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983- | | |
| Clare Morrall | 1952- | | |
| Claribel Alegría | 1924-2018 | (Clara, Isabel) | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | (Clive, Staples) | |
| Codrin Ţapu | 1973- | (Ştefan) | |
| Colin Dexter | 1930-2017 | (Norman) | |
| Colm Tóibín | 1955- | | |
| Connie Palmen | 1955- | | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Cor Bruijn | 1883-1978 | (Cornelis, Pieter) | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933- | | |
| Corneel van Kuyck | 1919-1991 | (Cor, Erico, Alfons, Ria) | |
| C. Buddingh' | 1918-1985 | (Cornelis, Kees) | |
| Cremilda de Lima | 1940- | (Maria) | |
| Cvetka Lipuš | 1966- | | |
| Cvijeta Zuzorić | c. 1552-1648 | (Flora) | |
| Cynthia Leitich Smith | 1967- | | |
| Damon Galgut | 1963- | | |
| Chief Dan George | 1899-1981 | (Geswanouth) | |
| Danai Gurira | 1978- | (Jekesai) | |
| Daniel Defoe | c. 1660-1731 | | |
| Danielle Steel | 1947- | (Fernandes, Dominique) | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | (Durante) | |
| Daphne Deckers | 1968- | | |
| Daphne du Maurier | 1907-1989 | | |
| D'Arcy McNickle | 1904-1977 | (William) | |
| Daša Drndić | 1946-2018 | | |
| David Baddiel | 1964- | (Lionel) | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | (David, Herbert) | |
| David Malouf | 1934- | | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| David Storey | 1933-2017 | (Malcolm) | |
| David Treuer | 1970- | | |
| Debra Magpie Earling | 1957- | (Cecille) | |
| Delphine Dryden | 1967- | | |
| Demetra Kenneth Brown | 1877-1946 | | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| D. J. Enright | 1920-2002 | (Dennis, Joseph) | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Derek Robinson | 1932- | | |
| Derviš Sušić | 1925-1990 | | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Diana Wynne Jones | 1934-2011 | | |
| Diane Duane | 1952- | | |
| Diane Glancy | 1941- | (Helen) | |
| Dick Bruna | 1927-2017 | (Hendrikus, Magdalenus) | |
| Dick Laan | 1894-1973 | | |
| Diogenes Laertius | ?-2xx | | |
| Dixie Browning | 1930- | | |
| Dolf Verroen | 1928- | (Rudolf, Johan) | |
| Donita K. Paul | 1950- | (Kathleen) | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893-1957 | (Leigh) | |
| Douglas Adams | 1952-2001 | | |
| Dražen Prćić | 1967- | | |
| Drew Hayden Taylor | 1962- | | |
| Duane Niatum | 1938- | | |
| Dubravka Ugrešić | 1949- | | |
| Duke Redbird | 1939- | | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | | |
| Dyzma Bończa-Tomaszewski | 1749-1825 | | |
| Eckhart Tolle | 1948- | (Ulrich, Leonard) | |
| Eddy C. Bertin | 1944- | (Charly) | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| E. Nesbit | 1858-1924 | (Edith) | |
| Edith Wharton | 1862-1937 | | |
| Edmund Spenser | c. 1552-1599 | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1885-1968 | | |
| Edna Healey | 1918-2010 | (May) | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | | |
| Eduard Uspensky | 1937-2018 | | |
| Edward Eager | 1911-1964 | (McMaken) | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | (Edward, Morgan) | |
| Ela Peroci | 1922-2001 | | |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973 | (Dorothea) | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810-1865 | (Cleghorn) | |
| Elizabeth George | 1949- | (Susan) | |
| Elizabeth Mavor | 1927-2013 | | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1912-1975 | | |
| Elsie B. Washington | 1942-2009 | (Bernice) | |
| Elswyth Thane | 1900-1984 | (Helen) | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | (Elwyn, Brooks) | |
| Emanuil A. Vidinski | 1978- | | |
| Emerenz Meier | 1874-1928 | | |
| Emil Cioran | 1911-1995 | (Mihai) | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | | |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886 | | |
| E. Pauline Johnson | 1861-1913 | (Emily, Tekahionwake) | |
| Emyr Humphreys | 1919-2020 | | |
| Enid Bagnold | 1889-1981 | | |
| Enid Blyton | 1897-1968 | (Mary) | |
| Enis Batur | 1952- | (Ahmet) | |
| Enn Nõu | 1933- | | |
| Enn Vetemaa | 1936- | | |
| Eric Gansworth | 1965- | | |
| Eric Knight | 1897-1943 | (Mowbray) | |
| Erica Wagner | 1967- | | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898-1970 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | (Miller) | |
| Etgar Keret | 1967- | | |
| Etienne Leroux | 1922-1989 | | |
| Eugen Kumičić | 1850-1904 | | |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909-1994 | | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | | |
| Fan Noli | 1882-1965 | (Theofan, Stilian) | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | (McGill) | |
| Fay Weldon | 1931- | (Franklin) | |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898-1936 | | |
| Felix Timmermans | 1886-1947 | (Leopoldus, Maximilianus) | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | (Ferdinand) | |
| Ferdo Kozak | 1894-1957 | (Ferdinand) | |
| Ferdowsi | 940-1020 | | |
| Flora Thompson | 1876-1947 | (Jane) | |
| Florjan Lipuš | 1937- | | |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | (Fanny) | |
| Francesco Petrarca | 1304-1374 | (Petrarch) | |
| Francine Pascal | 1938- | | |
| Francine Rivers | 1947- | (Sandra) | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | (Francis, Key) | |
| François Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | | |
| Frank Kermode | 1919-2010 | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| Friedo Lampe | 1899-1945 | (Moritz, Christian, Friedrich) | |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | (Johann, Christoph) | |
| Du Fu | 712-770 | | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1821-1881 | (Theodore) | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014 | | |
| Gaja Grzegorzewska | 1980- | | |
| Galaktion Tabidze | 1892-1959 | | |
| Garth Ennis | 1970- | | |
| Gaspara Stampa | 1523-1554 | | |
| Gena Showalter | 1975- | | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| George Eliot | 1819-1880 | (Mary) | |
| George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | | |
| George R. R. Martin | 1948- | (Raymond, Richard) | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Eric) | |
| George Sand | 1804-1876 | (Amandine) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934- | (Robert) | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | | |
| Gerard Woodward | 1961- | | |
| Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| Germaine de Staël | 1766-1817 | | |
| Germaine Greer | 1939- | | |
| Gerri Russell | 1962- | (Geraldine) | |
| Gerrit Komrij | 1944-2012 | | |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725-1798 | | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | (John) | |
| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 | | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Goran Tribuson | 1948- | | |
| Graham Greene | 1904-1991 | (Henry) | |
| Graham Swift | 1949- | (Colin) | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | | |
| Gülten Akın | 1933-2015 | | |
| Gustav-Adolf Mossa | 1883-1971 | (Gustave, Adolphe) | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| Gwyn Cready | 1962- | | |
| Gyles Brandreth | 1948- | (Daubeney) | |
| Halide Edip Adıvar | 1884-1964 | | |
| Halide Nusret Zorlutuna | 1901-1984 | | |
| Hallie Erminie Rives | 1874-1956 | | |
| Hanoch Levin | 1943-1999 | | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | (John) | |
| Harold Courlander | 1908-1996 | | |
| Harper Lee | 1926- | (Nelle) | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Haunani-Kay Trask | 1949- | | |
| Hedd Wyn | 1887-1917 | (Ellis, Humphrey) | |
| Heiki Vilep | 1960- | | |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856 | | |
| Heleen van Royen | 1965- | | |
| Hella Haasse | 1918-2011 | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (Heinrich) | |
| Henning Mankell | 1948-2015 | (Georg) | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | (Henry) | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | (Herbert, George) | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962 | | |
| Hesiod | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Hilary Mantel | 1952- | | |
| Hisham Matar | 1970- | | |
| Hoimar von Ditfurth | 1921-1989 | (Gerhard, Friedrich, Ernst) | |
| Homer | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| Horace | 65-8 BC | (Quintus) | |
| Hovik Vardoumian | 1940- | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | (Howard, Phillips) | |
| Hrvoje Hitrec | 1943- | | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | | |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar | 1864-1944 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| Ian McEwan | 1948- | (Russell) | |
| Iben Sandemose | 1950- | | |
| Ida Tarbell | 1857-1944 | (Minerva) | |
| Ida Vitale | 1923- | | |
| Idris Davies | 1905-1953 | | |
| Igor Štiks | 1977- | | |
| Ikbal Ali Shah | 1894-1969 | | |
| Imme Dros | 1936- | (Emmy, Theodora) | |
| Inez van Dullemen | 1925-2021 | | |
| Ingrid Jonker | 1933-1965 | | |
| Inoslav Bešker | 1950- | | |
| Ion Trewin | 1943-2015 | (Courtenay, Gill) | |
| Irena Vrkljan | 1930- | | |
| Iris Murdoch | 1919-1999 | | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Iulia Hasdeu | 1869-1888 | | |
| Ivan Aralica | 1930- | | |
| Ivan Gundulić | 1589-1638 | | |
| Ivan Kušan | 1933-2012 | | |
| Ivan Slamnig | 1930-2001 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | 1874-1938 | | |
| Ivana Šojat | 1971- | | |
| Ivica Đikić | 1977- | | |
| Ivo Brešan | 1936-2017 | | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | | |
| Jack Ketchum | 1946-2018 | (Dallas, William) | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | | |
| Jackie Collins | 1937-2015 | (Jacqueline, Jill) | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| Jacqueline Wilson | 1945- | | |
| Jacqui Jacoby | 1963- | | |
| Jagoda Truhelka | 1864-1957 | | |
| Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | 1207-1273 | | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | (James, Matthew) | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935-1979 | (James, Gordon) | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| James Kelman | 1946- | | |
| James Patterson | 1947- | | |
| J. Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | (James) | |
| James Welch | 1940-2003 | (Phillip) | |
| Jamiluddin Aali | 1925-2015 | (Nawabzada, Mirza, Ahmed) | |
| Jan Terlouw | 1931- | (Cornelis) | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| Jancis Robinson | 1950- | (Mary) | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | | |
| Jane Gardam | 1928- | | |
| Jane Yolen | 1939- | (Hyatt) | |
| Janelle Taylor | 1944- | (Diane) | |
| Janet Campbell Hale | 1946- | | |
| Janet Evanovich | 1943- | | |
| Janko Leskovar | 1861-1949 | | |
| Janko Polić Kamov | 1886-1910 | | |
| Jappe Nilssen | 1870-1931 | (Jacob) | |
| Jay Asher | 1975- | | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963 | | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | (John) | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | (John) | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | (John) | |
| Jean Rhys | 1890-1979 | (Ella, Gwendolyn) | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | (John) | |
| Jeaniene Frost | 1974- | | |
| Jef Nys | 1927-2009 | (Jozef) | |
| Jeffery Deaver | 1950- | | |
| Jennifer Johnston | 1930- | | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | (Jerome, David) | |
| Jessica Durlacher | 1961- | | |
| Jill Murphy | 1949-2021 | | |
| Jill Paton Walsh | 1937- | (Gillian) | |
| Jilly Cooper | 1937- | | |
| Joan Didion | 1934-2021 | | |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965- | (Joanne, Kathleen) | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | (John) | |
| Johann Hari | 1979- | (Eduard) | |
| John Arden | 1930-2012 | | |
| John Banville | 1945- | | |
| John Berger | 1926-2017 | | |
| John Fuller | 1937- | | |
| John Galsworthy | 1867-1933 | | |
| John Grisham | 1955- | | |
| John Jakes | 1932- | (Jay, William) | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| John Joseph Mathews | 1894-1979 | | |
| John McGahern | 1934-2006 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| John Mohawk | 1945-2006 | | |
| John Milton Oskison | 1874-1947 | | |
| John Rollin Ridge | 1827-1867 | (Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird) | |
| John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | (Ernst) | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | (John, Ronald, Reuel) | |
| John Trudell | 1946-2015 | | |
| John Updike | 1932-2009 | (Hoyer) | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977- | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Joost Zwagerman | 1963-2015 | (Johannes, Jacobus, Willebrordus) | |
| Jordan Peterson | 1962- | (Bernt) | |
| Joseph Boyden | 1966- | | |
| Joseph Bruchac | 1942- | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923-1999 | | |
| Josephine Hart | 1942-2011 | | |
| Josh Malerman | 19xx- | | |
| Josip Kozarac | 1858-1906 | | |
| Jostein Gaarder | 1952- | | |
| Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan | 1976- | | |
| Joy Harjo | 1951- | | |
| Jude Deveraux | 1947- | | |
| Judith Krantz | 1928-2019 | (Bluma, Gittel) | |
| Judy Blume | 1938- | (Judith) | |
| Jules Deelder | 1944-2019 | (Anton) | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Julia O'Faolain | 1932- | | |
| Julian Barnes | 1946- | (Patrick) | |
| Julian Rathbone | 1935-2008 | | |
| Julijana Matanović | 1959- | | |
| Juliusz Słowacki | 1809-1849 | | |
| Jurica Pavičić | 1965- | | |
| Juš Kozak | 1892-1964 | | |
| Justin Cartwright | 1945-2018 | (James) | |
| Juvenal | ?-1xx | (Decimus) | |
| Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931 | | |
| Kaie Kellough | 1975- | | |
| Karel Glastra van Loon | 1962-2005 | | |
| Karin Spaink | 1957- | | |
| Kate Grenville | 1950- | (Catherine, Elizabeth) | |
| Kate Saunders | 1960- | | |
| Kate Summerscale | 1965- | | |
| Katharine Kerr | 1944- | | |
| K. A. Applegate | 1956- | (Katherine, Alice) | |
| Katherine Paterson | 1932- | | |
| Kathleen E. Woodiwiss | 1939-2007 | (Erin) | |
| Kathy Reichs | 1948- | (Kathleen, Joan, Toelle) | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954- | | |
| Kees Momma | 1965- | (Cornelis, Willem) | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | (Cornelis, Reinier) | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Keri Hulme | 1947- | | |
| Kevin Henkes | 1960- | | |
| Kevin Killian | 1952-2019 | | |
| Kevin Loring | 1974- | | |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922-1995 | | |
| Kiran Desai | 1971- | | |
| Kjartan Fløgstad | 1944- | | |
| Kolau Nadiradze | 1895-1990 | (Nikoloz) | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Korney Chukovsky | 1882-1969 | | |
| Kristina Lugn | 1948-2020 | (Gunhild, Bricken) | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| Lada Žigo | 1970- | | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 1911-1986 | (Lafayette, Ronald) | |
| Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | (James, Mercer) | |
| Laura Lippman | 1959- | | |
| Lavrenti Ardaziani | 1815-1870 | | |
| LaVyrle Spencer | 1943- | | |
| Lawrence Durrell | 1912-1990 | | |
| Layli Long Soldier | 19xx- | | |
| Leanne Banks | 1959- | | |
| LeAnne Howe | 1951- | | |
| Lee Maracle | 1950- | | |
| Lela Cole Kitson | 1891-1970 | (Margaret) | |
| Lemony Snicket | 1970- | (Daniel, Handler) | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | | |
| Leonard Crow Dog | 1942- | | |
| Leonida Lari | 1949-2011 | | |
| Leonie Ossowski | 1925-2019 | (Jo, Jolanthe) | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | 1948- | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| Lilith Saintcrow | 1976- | | |
| Linda LeGarde Grover | 1950- | | |
| Linda K. Hogan | 1947- | | |
| Linnea Sinclair | 1954- | | |
| Lisa Charleyboy | 19xx- | | |
| L. J. Smith | c. 1960- | (Lisa, Jane) | |
| Liza Cody | 1944- | | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 1954- | (Karen) | |
| Louwrens Penning | 1854-1927 | | |
| Lucian of Samosata | c. 125-c. 180 | | |
| Lucille Clifton | 1936-2010 | (Thelma) | |
| Lucille Desparois | 1909-1996 | | |
| Lucille Fletcher | 1912-2000 | (Violet) | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| Luigi Pulci | 1432-1484 | | |
| Lutfi Lepaja | 1945- | | |
| Lydia Chukovskaya | 1907-1996 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | (Lyman) | |
| Lynda Suzanne Robinson | 1951- | | |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 | (Giles) | |
| Maarten 't Hart | 1944- | | |
| Madeleine L'Engle | 1918-2007 | | |
| Madeleine St John | 1941-2006 | | |
| Madelon Szekely-Lulofs | 1899-1958 | | |
| Maggie Gee | 1948- | | |
| Magnus Mills | 1954- | | |
| Mahmut Makal | 1930-2018 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | 1906-1970 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Direáin | 1910-1988 | | |
| Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-2000 | (Stanley) | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Marcia Muller | 1944- | | |
| Marcus Terentius Varro | 116-27 BC | | |
| Marga Minco | 1920- | (Sara) | |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939- | (Eleanor) | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900-1949 | (Munnerlyn) | |
| Margaret Weis | 1948- | (Edith) | |
| Margery Allingham | 1904-1966 | (Louise) | |
| M. J. Hyland | 1968- | (Maria, Joan) | |
| María Nestora Téllez | 1828-1890 | | |
| Marica Bodrožić | 1973- | | |
| Marija Jurić Zagorka | 1873-1957 | | |
| Marina Warner | 1946- | | |
| Marinko Koščec | 1967- | | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1930-1999 | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1896-1953 | | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Samuel) | |
| Marlon James | 1970- | | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| Martial | 40-102 | (Marcus) | |
| Martin Amis | 1949- | (Louis) | |
| Martin Caidin | 1927-1997 | | |
| Martín Prechtel | 19xx- | | |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 1835-1915 | | |
| Mary Brave Bird | 1954-2013 | (Ellen) | |
| Mary Higgins Clark | 1927-2020 | (Theresa, Eleanor) | |
| Mary Renault | 1905-1983 | (Eileen) | |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | 1876-1958 | (Ella) | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | | |
| Mary Webb | 1881-1927 | (Gladys) | |
| Mate Balota | 1898-1963 | (Mijo) | |
| Matei Călinescu | 1934-2009 | | |
| Mato Lovrak | 1899-1974 | | |
| Matthew Sweeney | 1952-2018 | (Gerard) | |
| Maureen Jennings | 1939- | | |
| Maurice Kenny | 1929-2016 | (Frank) | |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928-2012 | | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | (Alexei) | |
| Maya Angelou | 1928- | | |
| Melanie Rawn | 1954- | | |
| Melinda Metz | 1962- | | |
| Menander | 342-291 BC | | |
| Mercedes Lackey | 1950- | | |
| Meša Selimović | 1910-1982 | (Mehmed) | |
| Michael Collins | 1964- | | |
| Michael Dorris | 1945-1997 | (Milou, Anthony) | |
| Michael V. Gazzo | 1923-1995 | (Vincenzo) | |
| Michael Ignatieff | 1947- | (Grant) | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | (John) | |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943- | | |
| Michael Scott Rohan | 1951-2018 | | |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1503-1566 | (Nostradamus) | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | (Michael) | |
| Michèle Roberts | 1949- | (Brigitte) | |
| Mick Jackson | 1960- | | |
| Mickey Spillane | 1918-2006 | (Frank, Morrison) | |
| Midas Dekkers | 1946- | | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | (Michael) | |
| Mihály Vörösmarty | 1800-1855 | | |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814-1841 | | |
| Mikha'il Na'ima | 1889-1988 | | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929- | | |
| Milana Vlaović | 1971- | | |
| Miljenko Jergović | 1966- | | |
| Milovan Vitezović | 1944- | | |
| Mirko Kovač | 1938-2013 | | |
| Miro Gavran | 1961- | | |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-1981 | | |
| Moderata Fonte | 1555-1592 | (Modesta) | |
| Molly Keane | 1904-1996 | (Mary, Nesta) | |
| Monica Ali | 1967- | | |
| M. R. James | 1862-1936 | (Montague, Rhodes) | |
| Mordecai Richler | 1931-2001 | | |
| Mourning Dove | 1884-1936 | (Christine, Hum-Ishu-Ma) | |
| Muhsin al-Ramli | 1967- | | |
| Munir Niazi | 1928-2006 | (Ahmed) | |
| Muriel Spark | 1918-2006 | | |
| Nada Iveljić | 1931-2009 | | |
| Nalini Singh | 1977- | | |
| Naseem Kharal | 1939-1978 | | |
| Natalie Diaz | 19xx- | | |
| Natasha Walter | 1967- | | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1934- | (Navarre) | |
| Nazım Hikmet | 1902-1963 | | |
| Neale Donald Walsch | 1943- | | |
| Nedim Gürsel | 1951- | | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960- | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | (Marvin) | |
| Nélida Piñon | 1937- | | |
| Ngaio Marsh | 1895-1982 | (Edith) | |
| Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos | 1764-1809 | | |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809-1852 | | |
| Nina Bawden | 1925-2012 | | |
| Noël Coward | 1899-1973 | (Peirce) | |
| Noel Streatfeild | 1895-1986 | (Mary) | |
| Nora Roberts | 1950- | (Eleanor, Jill, Sarah, Marie) | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | (Kingsley) | |
| Octavia E. Butler | 1947-2006 | (Estelle) | |
| Ogden Nash | 1902-1971 | | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | 1962- | (Nawoja) | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Olivia Goldsmith | 1949-2004 | (Justine, Randy) | |
| Olja Savičević | 1974- | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | (Umar) | |
| Baroness Orczy | 1865-1947 | (Emma, Emmuska, Magdolna, Rozália, Mária, Jozefa, Borbála) | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Otokar Březina | 1868-1929 | (Otakar, Václav) | |
| Ovid | 43 BC-17 | (Publius) | |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | | |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire | 1882-1928 | | |
| Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha | 1883-1964 | | |
| P. L. Travers | 1899-1996 | (Helen, Pamela, Lyndon) | |
| Paolo Iashvili | 1894-1937 | (Pavle) | |
| Pat Barker | 1943- | (Patricia, Mary) | |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921-1995 | (Mary) | |
| Patrick McCabe | 1955- | | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | 1973- | (James) | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Paul Scott | 1920-1978 | | |
| Paul van Loon | 1955- | | |
| Paula Gunn Allen | 1939-2008 | (Marie) | |
| Paulo Coelho | 1947- | | |
| Pavao Pavličić | 1946- | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973 | (Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu) | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | (Pelham, Grenville) | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916-2000 | | |
| Penelope Lively | 1933- | (Margaret) | |
| P. H. Newby | 1918-1997 | (Percy, Howard) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| Peretz Hirschbein | 1880-1948 | | |
| Peretz Markish | 1895-1952 | (Davidovich) | |
| Petar Šegedin | 1909-1998 | | |
| Petar Zoranić | 1508-1569 | | |
| Peter Carey | 1943- | (Philip) | |
| Peter Handke | 1942- | | |
| Peter Kemp | 1913-1993 | (Mant, MacIntyre) | |
| Peter van Gestel | 1937-2019 | | |
| Petronius | c. 27-66 | (Gaius) | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | (Kindred) | |
| Philip Kerr | 1956-2018 | (Ballantyne) | |
| Philip Pullman | 1946- | | |
| Philip Roth | 1933-2018 | (Milton) | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| Phoebe Waller-Bridge | 1985- | | |
| P. C. Cast | 1960- | (Phyllis, Christine) | |
| P. D. James | 1920-2014 | (Phyllis, Dorothy) | |
| Phyllis McGinley | 1905-1978 | | |
| Pia Juul | 1962-2020 | | |
| DBC Pierre | 1961- | (Peter, Warren) | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | (Peter) | |
| Pierrette Fleutiaux | 1941-2019 | | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Pindar | c. 522-443 BC | (Pindaros, Pindarus) | |
| Plautus | 254-184 BC | (Titus) | |
| Pliny the Younger | 61-c. 113 | (Gaius) | |
| Polly Devlin | 1944- | | |
| Primo Levi | 1919-1987 | (Michele) | |
| Primož Kozak | 1929-1981 | | |
| Prudens van Duyse | 1804-1859 | (Prudentius, Joannes, Maria) | |
| Quintilian | 35-100 | (Marcus) | |
| Rachel Tzvia Back | 1960- | | |
| Rachel Billington | 1942- | | |
| Rachel Seiffert | 1971- | | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1945-1982 | | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875-1926 | (René, Karl, Wilhelm, Johann, Josef) | |
| Raivo Seppo | 1973- | | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Ranko Marinković | 1913-2001 | | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920-2012 | | |
| R. C. Hutchinson | 1907-1975 | (Ray, Coryton) | |
| Raymond Benson | 1955- | | |
| Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun" | 1964- | | |
| Rebecca Roanhorse | 1971- | | |
| Reginald Hill | 1936-2012 | (Charles) | |
| Remco Campert | 1929- | | |
| Renate Dorrestein | 1954- | | |
| René Goscinny | 1926-1977 | | |
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1889-1956 | | |
| Reşat Ekrem Koçu | 1905-1975 | | |
| Reyer Anslo | 1622-1669 | | |
| Rhijnvis Feith | 1753-1824 | | |
| Richard Erdoes | 1912-2008 | | |
| Richard Hooker | 1924-1997 | (Hiester) | |
| Richard Wagamese | 1955-2017 | | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | (Rabbie) | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | (Anson) | |
| Robert Musil | 1880-1942 | | |
| Robert Perišić | 1969- | | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| Robert James Waller | 1939-2017 | | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | | |
| Robley Wilson | 1930-2018 | | |
| Rochelle Alers | 1963- | | |
| Roddy Doyle | 1958- | | |
| R. D. Wingfield | 1928-2007 | (Rodney, David) | |
| Rohinton Mistry | 1952- | | |
| Romesh Gunesekera | 1954- | | |
| Ronald Giphart | 1965- | | |
| Rosamunde Pilcher | 1924-2019 | | |
| Rose Tremain | 1943- | (Rosemary, Jane) | |
| Rosina Lippi | 1956- | | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | | |
| Rumer Godden | 1907-1998 | (Margaret) | |
| Rupert Atkinson | 1881-1961 | (Evelyn, John) | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | (Chawner) | |
| Rupert Furneaux | 1908-1981 | (Kenneth) | |
| Rupert Holmes | 1947- | (David) | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Rupert Sheldrake | 1942- | (Alfred) | |
| Rupert Thomson | 1955- | | |
| Russell Celyn Jones | 1952- | | |
| Rutger Bregman | 1988- | (Christiaan) | |
| Ruth Gruber | 1911-2016 | | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927-2013 | | |
| Ruth Rendell | 1930-2015 | (Barbara) | |
| Sabahattin Ali | 1907-1948 | | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740-1814 | (Donatien, Alphonse, François) | |
| Şadi Üçüncü | 1948-2004 | | |
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | 1906-1954 | | |
| Saken Seifullin | 1894-1939 | | |
| Şakir Bilgin | 1951- | | |
| Salih Saeed Ba-Amer | 1925- | | |
| Salley Vickers | 1948- | | |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947- | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1943-2017 | (Samuel) | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | | |
| Sappho | c. 620-570 BC | | |
| Sara Douglass | 1957-2011 | | |
| Sara Paretsky | 1947- | | |
| Sarah Hall | 1974- | | |
| Sarah Waters | 1966- | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| Seamus Deane | 1940- | | |
| Seán Ó Faoláin | 1900-1991 | (John, Francis, Proinsias) | |
| Sebastian Barry | 1955- | | |
| Sebastian Faulks | 1953- | | |
| Selina Hastings | 1945- | (Shirley) | |
| Selwyn Jepson | 1899-1989 | | |
| Serena B. Miller | 1950- | | |
| Sergiusz Piasecki | 1901-1964 | | |
| Shelia Goss | 1968- | | |
| Shena Mackay | 1944- | | |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966- | (Joseph) | |
| Sherrilyn Kenyon | 1965- | | |
| Sherryl Woods | 1944- | | |
| Sherwin Bitsui | 1974- | | |
| Shirl Henke | 1942- | | |
| Shirlee Busbee | 1941- | (Elaine) | |
| Shirley Hazzard | 1931-2016 | | |
| Shmuel Hasfari | 1954- | | |
| Shota Rustaveli | c. 1160-c. 1220 | | |
| Simon Armitage | 1963- | | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Simon J. Ortiz | 1941- | | |
| Simon Pokagon | c. 1830-1899 | | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908-1986 | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | (Harry) | |
| Slavenka Drakulić | 1949- | | |
| Slobodan Novak | 1924-2016 | (Ante) | |
| Slobodan Šnajder | 1948- | | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179-1241 | | |
| Soman Chainani | 1979- | | |
| Sophie Kinsella | 1969- | (Madeleine) | |
| Sophocles | c. 497-c. 406 BC | | |
| Stan Lee | 1922-2018 | | |
| Stanisław Wyspiański | 1869-1907 | (Mateusz, Ignacy) | |
| Stanley Middleton | 1919-2009 | | |
| Stendhal | 1783-1842 | (Marie, Henri) | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | 1972- | | |
| Stephen King | 1947- | | |
| Stephenie Meyer | 1973- | | |
| Stieg Larsson | 1954-2004 | | |
| Sue Grafton | 1940-2017 | (Taylor) | |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 | | |
| Sun Bear | 1929-1992 | (Vincent) | |
| Sunčana Škrinjarić | 1931-2004 | | |
| Süreyya Aylin Antmen | 1981- | | |
| Süreyyya Evren | 1972- | | |
| Susan Cooper | 1935- | | |
| Susan Hill | 1942- | | |
| Susannah Clapp | 1949- | | |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962- | | |
| Sybille Bedford | 1911-2006 | (Aleid, Elsa) | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | | |
| Tais Teng | 1952- | (Thijs) | |
| Tami Hoag | 1959- | | |
| Tanya Anne Crosby | 1962- | | |
| Tena Štivičić | 1977- | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | | |
| Terence | 195-159 BC | (Publius) | |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948-2015 | | |
| Tess Gerritsen | 1953- | (Terry) | |
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867-1915 | | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | (Theodore) | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| Thierry Laget | 1959- | | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | (Thomas, Stearns) | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Thomas Keneally | 1935- | | |
| Thomas Kinsella | 1928-2021 | | |
| Thomas Ligotti | 1953- | | |
| Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | | |
| Tibor Fischer | 1959- | | |
| Tim Winton | 1960- | (Timothy, John) | |
| Timothy Mo | 1950- | | |
| Titsian Tabidze | 1895-1937 | | |
| Tom Clancy | 1947-2013 | | |
| Tomislav Ladan | 1932-2008 | | |
| Tomson Highway | 1951- | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1931-2019 | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Tor Edvin Dahl | 1943- | | |
| Trezza Azzopardi | 1961- | | |
| Tristan Bancks | 1974- | | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Twm Morys | 1961- | | |
| Umberto Eco | 1932- | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-2018 | | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | | |
| Václav Havel | 1936-2011 | | |
| Vahagn Davtyan | 1922-1996 | | |
| Vedrana Rudan | 1949- | | |
| Velma Wallis | 1960- | | |
| Vesna Krmpotić | 1932-2018 | | |
| Vesna Parun | 1922-2010 | | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| Viktor Car Emin | 1870-1963 | | |
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | 1882-1954 | | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | (Victor) | |
| Vinko Vrbanić | 1951- | | |
| Virgil | 70-19 BC | (Publius) | |
| V. C. Andrews | 1923-1986 | (Virginia, Cleo) | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | | |
| Vítězslav Hálek | 1835-1874 | | |
| Vjekoslav Kaleb | 1905-1996 | | |
| Vjenceslav Novak | 1859-1905 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| Vladimir Nazor | 1876-1949 | | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Wendy Rose | 1948- | (Bronwen, Chiron, Elizabeth) | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | (William) | |
| Willem Elsschot | 1882-1960 | (Alfons) | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| William Trevor | 1928-2016 | | |
| William Apess | 1798-1839 | | |
| William Blake | 1757-1827 | | |
| William Boyd | 1952- | | |
| W. J. Burley | 1914-2002 | (William, John) | |
| W. Bruce Cameron | 1960- | (William) | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| W. P. Kinsella | 1935-2016 | (William, Patrick) | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | (William) | |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | | |
| William Styron | 1925-2006 | (Clark) | |
| William Wharton | 1925-2008 | (Albert) | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | | |
| Willy Vandersteen | 1913-1990 | (Willebrord, Jan, Frans, Maria) | |
| Winona LaDuke | 1959- | | |
| Winston Graham | 1908-2003 | (Mawdsley) | |
| Winston Ntshona | 1941-2018 | | |
| Witi Ihimaera | 1944- | (Tame) | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
| Wyatt Emory Cooper | 1927-1978 | | |
| Yann Martel | 1963- | | |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923- | (Sadık) | |
| Yehonatan Geffen | 1947- | | |
| Zadie Smith | 1975- | | |
| Zarah Ghahramani | 1981- | | |
| Zdena Tomin | 1941- | | |
| Željko Ivanković | 1954- | | |
| Zitkála-Šá | 1876-1938 | (Gertrude) | |
| Zoë Heller | 1965- | (Kate, Hinde) | |
| Zoran Ferić | 1961- | | |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | 1812-1859 | (Napoleon, Stanisław, Adam, Feliks) | |