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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NameLifespanOther Names
Aaron Paquette19xx-
Abdulrazak Gurnah1948-
Abiola Abrams1976-(Wednesday)
Achmat Dangor1948-
Ada J. Graves1870-1918(Jane)
Adam Mars-Jones1954-
Adam Mickiewicz1798-1855(Bernard)
Adélia Prado1935-(Luzia)
Adena Halpern1968-
Adolf Branald1910-2008
Adolf Brand1874-1945(Gustav, Adolph, Franz)
Adolf Černý1864-1952
A. de Herz1887-1936(Adolf, Edmund, George)
Adolf Dygasiński1839-1902
Adolf Fierla1908-1967
Adolf Heyduk1835-1923
Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973
Adolf Paul1863-1943(Georg)
Adolf Rudnicki1909-1990(Aron)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack1815-1894
Adolf von Wilbrandt1837-1911(Johann, Albrecht, Frierich, Enoch)
Adolf Wenig1874-1940
Adolph Green1914-2002
Aeschylus525-456 BC
Aesopc. 620-c. 564 BC
Agatha Christie1890-1976
Aharon Appelfeld1932-2018(Ervin)
Ahdaf Soueif1950-
Ain Kaalep1926-
Aksel Sandemose1899-1965(Axel)
Alan Hollinghurst1954-
Alan Hunter1922-2005
A. A. Milne1882-1956(Alan, Alexander)
Albert Camus1913-1960
Albert Mol1917-2004
Aldous Huxley1894-1963
Aleksandr Pushkin1799-1837(Alexander)
Aleksandre Qazbegi1848-1893(Alexander)
Alex Haley1921-1992(Alexander, Murray, Palmer)
Alexander Pope1688-1744
Alexandre Dumas1802-1870(Alexander)
Alfred Tennyson1809-1892
Algernon Blackwood1869-1951
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837-1909
Ali Smith1962-
Alice Thomas Ellis1932-2005(Ann, Margaret)
A. L. Kennedy1965-(Alison, Louise)
Allan Massie1938-(Johnstone)
Allen Ginsberg1926-1997
Almudena Grandes1960-2021(María)
Alona Kimhi1966-
Ambrose Bierce1842-c. 1914
Anaïs Nin1903-1977(Angela, Juana, Antolina, Rosa, Edelmira)
Anatole France1844-1924
André Breton1896-1966(Andrew)
André Brink1935-2015(Philippus)
Andre Norton1912-2005(Alice, Mary)
Andrew O'Hagan1968-
Angela Carter1940-1992(Olive)
Anita Brookner1928-2016
Anita Desai1937-
Anita Mason1942-(Frances)
Ann Schlee1934-
Anna Akhmatova1889-1966
Anna Sewell1820-1878
Anne Brontë1820-1849
Anne Frank1929-1945(Annelies)
Anne McCaffrey1926-2011(Inez)
Anne Rice1941-2021(Howard, Allen, Frances)
Annie M. G. Schmidt1911-1995(Maria, Geertruida)
Ante Kovačić1854-1889
Ante Tomić1970-
Anthony Bourdain1956-2018(Michael)
Anthony Burgess1917-1993
Anthony Horowitz1955-
Anton Chekhov1860-1904
Anton Koolhaas1912-1992
Anton Treuer1969-
Antonio Martínez Menchén1930-
Antun Šoljan1932-1993
Apuleiusc. 125-180
Aristophanesc. 446-c. 386 BC
Arnette Lamb1947-1998
Arnon Grunberg1971-
Arsen Dedić1938-2015(Arsenije)
Arswendo Atmowiloto1948-2019(Sarwendo)
Arthur C. Clarke1917-2008(Charles)
Arthur Conan Doyle1859-1930
Arthur Miller1915-2005
Arthur Rimbaud1854-1891
Arundhati Roy1961-(Suzanna)
Astrid Lindgren1907-2002
A. L. Barker1918-2002(Audrey, Lilian)
August Šenoa1838-1881
August Wilson1945-2005
Ayn Rand1905-1982
Babilina Khositashvili1884-1973
Li Bai701-762(Po)
Barbara Cartland1901-2000(Mary, Hamilton)
Barbara Pym1913-1980(Mary, Crampton)
Barbu Brezianu1909-2008
Barry Unsworth1930-2012
Bart Chabot1954-
Bartho Smit1924-1986(Bartholomeus, Herman, Jacobus)
Matsuo Basho1644-1694
Beatrix Potter1866-1943
Ben Jonson1572-1637(Benjamin)
Ben Okri1959-
Beppe Wolgers1928-1986(John, Bertil)
Bernard MacLaverty1942-
Bernardin Pavlović17xx
Bernardine Evaristo1959-(Anne, Mobolaji)
Bernice Rubens1923-2004
J. Bernlef1937-2012(Henk)
Bertolt Brecht1898-1956
Bertrice Small1937-
Beryl Bainbridge1932-2010
Betina Krahn19xx-
Beverly Cleary1916-2021(Atlee)
Blaga Dimitrova1922-2003(Nikolova)
Boudewijn Büch1948-2002
Boy Lornsen1922-1995
Bram Stoker1847-1912
Brand Whitlock1869-1934(Joseph)
Breyten Breytenbach1939-
Burkhard Driest1939-2020
A. S. Byatt1936-(Antonia, Susan)
Lord Byron1788-1824(George, Gordon)
Camille Flammarion1842-1925(Nicolas)
Candace Bushnell1958-
Candia McWilliam1955-(Frances, Juliet)
Carlo Goldoni1707-1793(Osvaldo)
Carmen Callil1938-(Thérèse)
Carola Dunn1946-
Caroline Blackwood1931-1996(Maureen)
Caroline Graham1931-
C. J. Cherryh1942-(Carolyn, Janice)
Carry Slee1949-
Caryl Phillips1958-
Cass Pennant1958-(Carol)
Catherine Cookson1906-1998(Ann)
Catherine Marshall1914-1983(Sarah)
C. L. Moore1911-1987(Catherine, Lucille)
Catherine Sinclair1800-1864
Cato the Elder234-149 BC
Catullus84-54 BC(Gaius)
C. S. Friedman1957-(Celia, S)
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
Chemmanam Chacko1926-2018
Cheris F. Hodges1977-
Cheyenne McCray1965-
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie1977-
Chinua Achebe1930-2013(Albert, Chinụalụmọgụ)
Chrétien de Troyesc. 1135-c. 1183
Christopher Hope1944-
Christopher Marlowe1564-1593(Kit)
Christopher Paolini1983-
Clare Morrall1952-
Claribel Alegría1924-2018(Clara, Isabel)
C. S. Lewis1898-1963(Clive, Staples)
Codrin Ţapu1973-(Ştefan)
Colin Dexter1930-2017(Norman)
Colm Tóibín1955-
Connie Palmen1955-
Constantijn Huygens1596-1687
Cor Bruijn1883-1978(Cornelis, Pieter)
Cormac McCarthy1933-
Corneel van Kuyck1919-1991(Cor, Erico, Alfons, Ria)
C. Buddingh'1918-1985(Cornelis, Kees)
Cremilda de Lima1940-(Maria)
Cvetka Lipuš1966-
Cvijeta Zuzorićc. 1552-1648(Flora)
Cynthia Leitich Smith1967-
Damon Galgut1963-
Chief Dan George1899-1981(Geswanouth)
Danai Gurira1978-(Jekesai)
Daniel Defoec. 1660-1731
Danielle Steel1947-(Fernandes, Dominique)
Dante Alighieric. 1265-1321(Durante)
Daphne Deckers1968-
Daphne du Maurier1907-1989
D'Arcy McNickle1904-1977(William)
Daša Drndić1946-2018
David Baddiel1964-(Lionel)
D. H. Lawrence1885-1930(David, Herbert)
David Malouf1934-
David Seidler1937-
David Storey1933-2017(Malcolm)
David Treuer1970-
Debra Magpie Earling1957-(Cecille)
Delphine Dryden1967-
Demetra Kenneth Brown1877-1946
Denis Diderot1713-1784
D. J. Enright1920-2002(Dennis, Joseph)
Derek Humphry1930-
Derek Robinson1932-
Derviš Sušić1925-1990
Derviş Zaim1964-
Diana Wynne Jones1934-2011
Diane Duane1952-
Diane Glancy1941-(Helen)
Dick Bruna1927-2017(Hendrikus, Magdalenus)
Dick Laan1894-1973
Diogenes Laertius?-2xx
Dixie Browning1930-
Dolf Verroen1928-(Rudolf, Johan)
Donita K. Paul1950-(Kathleen)
Dorothy L. Sayers1893-1957(Leigh)
Douglas Adams1952-2001
Dražen Prćić1967-
Drew Hayden Taylor1962-
Duane Niatum1938-
Dubravka Ugrešić1949-
Duke Redbird1939-
Dylan Thomas1914-1953
Dyzma Bończa-Tomaszewski1749-1825
Eckhart Tolle1948-(Ulrich, Leonard)
Eddy C. Bertin1944-(Charly)
Edgar Rice Burroughs1875-1950
Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849
E. Nesbit1858-1924(Edith)
Edith Wharton1862-1937
Edmund Spenserc. 1552-1599
Edna Ferber1885-1968
Edna Healey1918-2010(May)
Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli"1820-1887
Eduard Uspensky1937-2018
Edward Eager1911-1964(McMaken)
E. M. Forster1879-1970(Edward, Morgan)
Ela Peroci1922-2001
Elizabeth Bowen1899-1973(Dorothea)
Elizabeth Gaskell1810-1865(Cleghorn)
Elizabeth George1949-(Susan)
Elizabeth Mavor1927-2013
Elizabeth Taylor1912-1975
Elsie B. Washington1942-2009(Bernice)
Elswyth Thane1900-1984(Helen)
E. B. White1899-1985(Elwyn, Brooks)
Emanuil A. Vidinski1978-
Emerenz Meier1874-1928
Emil Cioran1911-1995(Mihai)
Émile Zola1840-1902
Emily Brontë1818-1848
Emily Dickinson1830-1886
E. Pauline Johnson1861-1913(Emily, Tekahionwake)
Emyr Humphreys1919-2020
Enid Bagnold1889-1981
Enid Blyton1897-1968(Mary)
Enis Batur1952-(Ahmet)
Enn Nõu1933-
Enn Vetemaa1936-
Eric Gansworth1965-
Eric Knight1897-1943(Mowbray)
Erica Wagner1967-
Erich Maria Remarque1898-1970
Ernest Hemingway1899-1961(Miller)
Etgar Keret1967-
Etienne Leroux1922-1989
Eugen Kumičić1850-1904
Eugène Ionesco1909-1994
Euripidesc. 480-406 BC
Ezra Pound1885-1972
Fan Noli1882-1965(Theofan, Stilian)
Farley Mowat1921-2014(McGill)
Fay Weldon1931-(Franklin)
Federico García Lorca1898-1936
Felix Timmermans1886-1947(Leopoldus, Maximilianus)
F. Bordewijk1884-1965(Ferdinand)
Ferdo Kozak1894-1957(Ferdinand)
Ferdowsi940-1020
Flora Thompson1876-1947(Jane)
Florjan Lipuš1937-
Frances Burney1752-1840(Fanny)
Francesco Petrarca1304-1374(Petrarch)
Francine Pascal1938-
Francine Rivers1947-(Sandra)
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896-1940(Francis, Key)
François Rabelaisc. 1494-1553
Frank Herbert1920-1986
Frank Kermode1919-2010
Franz Kafka1883-1924
Friedo Lampe1899-1945(Moritz, Christian, Friedrich)
Friedrich Schiller1759-1805(Johann, Christoph)
Du Fu712-770
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821-1881(Theodore)
Gabriel García Márquez1927-2014
Gaja Grzegorzewska1980-
Galaktion Tabidze1892-1959
Garth Ennis1970-
Gaspara Stampa1523-1554
Gena Showalter1975-
Geoffrey of Monmouthc. 1100-c. 1155
Geoffrey Chaucer1343-1400
George Eliot1819-1880(Mary)
George MacDonald1824-1905
George R. R. Martin1948-(Raymond, Richard)
George Orwell1903-1950(Eric)
George Sand1804-1876(Amandine)
George Bernard Shaw1856-1950
Gerald Vizenor1934-(Robert)
Gerard Reve1923-2006
Gerard Woodward1961-
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero1585-1618
Germaine de Staël1766-1817
Germaine Greer1939-
Gerri Russell1962-(Geraldine)
Gerrit Komrij1944-2012
Giacomo Casanova1725-1798
Giovanni Boccaccio1313-1375(John)
Goderdzi Chokheli1954-2007
Godfried Bomans1913-1971
Goran Tribuson1948-
Graham Greene1904-1991(Henry)
Graham Swift1949-(Colin)
Guillermo Arriaga1958-
Gülten Akın1933-2015
Gustav-Adolf Mossa1883-1971(Gustave, Adolphe)
Gustave Flaubert1821-1880
Guus Kuijer1942-
Gwyn Cready1962-
Gyles Brandreth1948-(Daubeney)
Halide Edip Adıvar1884-1964
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna1901-1984
Hallie Erminie Rives1874-1956
Hanoch Levin1943-1999
Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875(John)
Harold Courlander1908-1996
Harper Lee1926-(Nelle)
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811-1896
Harry Mulisch1927-2010
Haunani-Kay Trask1949-
Hedd Wyn1887-1917(Ellis, Humphrey)
Heiki Vilep1960-
Heinrich Heine1797-1856
Heleen van Royen1965-
Hella Haasse1918-2011
Hendrik van Veldekec. 1150-c. 1184(Heinrich)
Henning Mankell1948-2015(Georg)
Henrik Ibsen1828-1906(Henry)
Henry James1843-1916
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882
H. G. Wells1866-1946(Herbert, George)
Herman Melville1819-1891
Hermann Hesse1877-1962
Hesiod?-c. 700 BC
Hilary Mantel1952-
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
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar1864-1944
Ian Fleming1908-1964
Ian McEwan1948-(Russell)
Iben Sandemose1950-
Ida Tarbell1857-1944(Minerva)
Ida Vitale1923-
Idris Davies1905-1953
Igor Štiks1977-
Ikbal Ali Shah1894-1969
Imme Dros1936-(Emmy, Theodora)
Inez van Dullemen1925-2021
Ingrid Jonker1933-1965
Inoslav Bešker1950-
Ion Trewin1943-2015(Courtenay, Gill)
Irena Vrkljan1930-
Iris Murdoch1919-1999
Isaac Asimov1920-1992
Iulia Hasdeu1869-1888
Ivan Aralica1930-
Ivan Gundulić1589-1638
Ivan Kušan1933-2012
Ivan Slamnig1930-2001
Ivan Turgenev1818-1883
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić1874-1938
Ivana Šojat1971-
Ivica Đikić1977-
Ivo Brešan1936-2017
Jack Kerouac1922-1969
Jack Ketchum1946-2018(Dallas, William)
Jack London1876-1916
Jackie Collins1937-2015(Jacqueline, Jill)
Jacob Cats1577-1660
Jacob Grimm1785-1863
Jacob van Maerlantc. 1235-c. 1300
Jacqueline Wilson1945-
Jacqui Jacoby1963-
Jagoda Truhelka1864-1957
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi1207-1273
J. M. Barrie1860-1937(James, Matthew)
James Fenimore Cooper1789-1851
J. G. Farrell1935-1979(James, Gordon)
James Joyce1882-1941
James Kelman1946-
James Patterson1947-
J. Dalton Trumbo1905-1976(James)
James Welch1940-2003(Phillip)
Jamiluddin Aali1925-2015(Nawabzada, Mirza, Ahmed)
Jan Terlouw1931-(Cornelis)
Jan Vos1612-1667
Jan Wolkers1925-2007
Jancis Robinson1950-(Mary)
Jane Austen1775-1817
Jane Gardam1928-
Jane Yolen1939-(Hyatt)
Janelle Taylor1944-(Diane)
Janet Campbell Hale1946-
Janet Evanovich1943-
Janko Leskovar1861-1949
Janko Polić Kamov1886-1910
Jappe Nilssen1870-1931(Jacob)
Jay Asher1975-
Jean Cocteau1889-1963
Jean de La Fontaine1621-1695(John)
Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière"1622-1673(John)
Jean Racine1639-1699(John)
Jean Rhys1890-1979(Ella, Gwendolyn)
Jean-Paul Sartre1905-1980(John)
Jeaniene Frost1974-
Jef Nys1927-2009(Jozef)
Jeffery Deaver1950-
Jennifer Johnston1930-
J. D. Salinger1919-2010(Jerome, David)
Jessica Durlacher1961-
Jill Murphy1949-2021
Jill Paton Walsh1937-(Gillian)
Jilly Cooper1937-
Joan Didion1934-2021
J. K. Rowling1965-(Joanne, Kathleen)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749-1832(John)
Johann Hari1979-(Eduard)
John Arden1930-2012
John Banville1945-
John Berger1926-2017
John Fuller1937-
John Galsworthy1867-1933
John Grisham1955-
John Jakes1932-(Jay, William)
John Keats1795-1821
John Joseph Mathews1894-1979
John McGahern1934-2006
John Milton1608-1674
John Mohawk1945-2006
John Milton Oskison1874-1947
John Rollin Ridge1827-1867(Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird)
John Ruskin1819-1900
John Steinbeck1902-1968(Ernst)
J. R. R. Tolkien1892-1973(John, Ronald, Reuel)
John Trudell1946-2015
John Updike1932-2009(Hoyer)
Jonathan Safran Foer1977-
Jonathan Swift1667-1745
Joost van den Vondel1587-1679
Joost Zwagerman1963-2015(Johannes, Jacobus, Willebrordus)
Jordan Peterson1962-(Bernt)
Joseph Boyden1966-
Joseph Bruchac1942-
Joseph Conrad1857-1924
Joseph Heller1923-1999
Josephine Hart1942-2011
Josh Malerman19xx-
Josip Kozarac1858-1906
Jostein Gaarder1952-
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan1976-
Joy Harjo1951-
Jude Deveraux1947-
Judith Krantz1928-2019(Bluma, Gittel)
Judy Blume1938-(Judith)
Jules Deelder1944-2019(Anton)
Jules Verne1828-1905
Julia O'Faolain1932-
Julian Barnes1946-(Patrick)
Julian Rathbone1935-2008
Julijana Matanović1959-
Juliusz Słowacki1809-1849
Jurica Pavičić1965-
Juš Kozak1892-1964
Justin Cartwright1945-2018(James)
Juvenal?-1xx(Decimus)
Kahlil Gibran1883-1931
Kaie Kellough1975-
Karel Glastra van Loon1962-2005
Karin Spaink1957-
Kate Grenville1950-(Catherine, Elizabeth)
Kate Saunders1960-
Kate Summerscale1965-
Katharine Kerr1944-
K. A. Applegate1956-(Katherine, Alice)
Katherine Paterson1932-
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss1939-2007(Erin)
Kathy Reichs1948-(Kathleen, Joan, Toelle)
Kazuo Ishiguro1954-
Kees Momma1965-(Cornelis, Willem)
Kees van Kooten1941-(Cornelis, Reinier)
Kenneth Grahame1859-1932
Keri Hulme1947-
Kevin Henkes1960-
Kevin Killian1952-2019
Kevin Loring1974-
Kingsley Amis1922-1995
Kiran Desai1971-
Kjartan Fløgstad1944-
Kolau Nadiradze1895-1990(Nikoloz)
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia1893-1975
Korney Chukovsky1882-1969
Kristina Lugn1948-2020(Gunhild, Bricken)
Kurt Vonnegut1922-2007
Lada Žigo1970-
Lado Asatiani1917-1943
L. Ron Hubbard1911-1986(Lafayette, Ronald)
Langston Hughes1901-1967(James, Mercer)
Laura Lippman1959-
Lavrenti Ardaziani1815-1870
LaVyrle Spencer1943-
Lawrence Durrell1912-1990
Layli Long Soldier19xx-
Leanne Banks1959-
LeAnne Howe1951-
Lee Maracle1950-
Lela Cole Kitson1891-1970(Margaret)
Lemony Snicket1970-(Daniel, Handler)
Leo Tolstoy1828-1910
Leonard Crow Dog1942-
Leonida Lari1949-2011
Leonie Ossowski1925-2019(Jo, Jolanthe)
Leslie Marmon Silko1948-
Lewis Carroll1832-1898
Lilith Saintcrow1976-
Linda LeGarde Grover1950-
Linda K. Hogan1947-
Linnea Sinclair1954-
Lisa Charleyboy19xx-
L. J. Smithc. 1960-(Lisa, Jane)
Liza Cody1944-
Louis Couperus1863-1923
Louisa May Alcott1832-1888
Louise Erdrich1954-(Karen)
Louwrens Penning1854-1927
Lucian of Samosatac. 125-c. 180
Lucille Clifton1936-2010(Thelma)
Lucille Desparois1909-1996
Lucille Fletcher1912-2000(Violet)
Lucy Maud Montgomery1874-1942
Ludovic Halévy1834-1908
Luigi Pulci1432-1484
Lutfi Lepaja1945-
Lydia Chukovskaya1907-1996
L. Frank Baum1856-1919(Lyman)
Lynda Suzanne Robinson1951-
Lytton Strachey1880-1932(Giles)
Maarten 't Hart1944-
Madeleine L'Engle1918-2007
Madeleine St John1941-2006
Madelon Szekely-Lulofs1899-1958
Maggie Gee1948-
Magnus Mills1954-
Mahmut Makal1930-2018
Máirtín Ó Cadhain1906-1970
Máirtín Ó Direáin1910-1988
Malcolm Bradbury1932-2000(Stanley)
Marcel Proust1871-1922
Marcia Muller1944-
Marcus Terentius Varro116-27 BC
Marga Minco1920-(Sara)
Margaret Atwood1939-(Eleanor)
Margaret Mitchell1900-1949(Munnerlyn)
Margaret Weis1948-(Edith)
Margery Allingham1904-1966(Louise)
M. J. Hyland1968-(Maria, Joan)
María Nestora Téllez1828-1890
Marica Bodrožić1973-
Marija Jurić Zagorka1873-1957
Marina Warner1946-
Marinko Koščec1967-
Marion Zimmer Bradley1930-1999
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings1896-1953
Mark Twain1835-1910(Samuel)
Marlon James1970-
Marten Toonder1912-2005
Martial40-102(Marcus)
Martin Amis1949-(Louis)
Martin Caidin1927-1997
Martín Prechtel19xx-
Mary Elizabeth Braddon1835-1915
Mary Brave Bird1954-2013(Ellen)
Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020(Theresa, Eleanor)
Mary Renault1905-1983(Eileen)
Mary Roberts Rinehart1876-1958(Ella)
Mary Shelley1797-1851
Mary Webb1881-1927(Gladys)
Mate Balota1898-1963(Mijo)
Matei Călinescu1934-2009
Mato Lovrak1899-1974
Matthew Sweeney1952-2018(Gerard)
Maureen Jennings1939-
Maurice Kenny1929-2016(Frank)
Maurice Sendak1928-2012
Maxim Gorky1868-1936(Alexei)
Maya Angelou1928-
Melanie Rawn1954-
Melinda Metz1962-
Menander342-291 BC
Mercedes Lackey1950-
Meša Selimović1910-1982(Mehmed)
Michael Collins1964-
Michael Dorris1945-1997(Milou, Anthony)
Michael V. Gazzo1923-1995(Vincenzo)
Michael Ignatieff1947-(Grant)
Michael Moorcock1939-(John)
Michael Ondaatje1943-
Michael Scott Rohan1951-2018
Michel de Nostredame1503-1566(Nostradamus)
Michel de Montaigne1533-1592(Michael)
Michèle Roberts1949-(Brigitte)
Mick Jackson1960-
Mickey Spillane1918-2006(Frank, Morrison)
Midas Dekkers1946-
Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616(Michael)
Mihály Vörösmarty1800-1855
Mikhail Lermontov1814-1841
Mikha'il Na'ima1889-1988
Milan Kundera1929-
Milana Vlaović1971-
Miljenko Jergović1966-
Milovan Vitezović1944-
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
Mourning Dove1884-1936(Christine, Hum-Ishu-Ma)
Muhsin al-Ramli1967-
Munir Niazi1928-2006(Ahmed)
Muriel Spark1918-2006
Nada Iveljić1931-2009
Nalini Singh1977-
Naseem Kharal1939-1978
Natalie Diaz19xx-
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-
Ngaio Marsh1895-1982(Edith)
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos1764-1809
Nikolai Gogol1809-1852
Nina Bawden1925-2012
Noël Coward1899-1973(Peirce)
Noel Streatfeild1895-1986(Mary)
Nora Roberts1950-(Eleanor, Jill, Sarah, Marie)
Norman Mailer1923-2007(Kingsley)
Octavia E. Butler1947-2006(Estelle)
Ogden Nash1902-1971
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)
Oscar Wilde1854-1900
Otokar Březina1868-1929(Otakar, Václav)
Ovid43 BC-17(Publius)
Pablo Neruda1904-1973
Pádraic Ó Conaire1882-1928
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha1883-1964
P. L. Travers1899-1996(Helen, Pamela, Lyndon)
Paolo Iashvili1894-1937(Pavle)
Pat Barker1943-(Patricia, Mary)
Patricia Highsmith1921-1995(Mary)
Patrick McCabe1955-
Patrick Rothfuss1973-(James)
Paul Biegel1925-2006
Paul Scott1920-1978
Paul van Loon1955-
Paula Gunn Allen1939-2008(Marie)
Paulo Coelho1947-
Pavao Pavličić1946-
Pearl S. Buck1892-1973(Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu)
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)
Petar Šegedin1909-1998
Petar Zoranić1508-1569
Peter Carey1943-(Philip)
Peter Handke1942-
Peter Kemp1913-1993(Mant, MacIntyre)
Peter van Gestel1937-2019
Petroniusc. 27-66(Gaius)
Philip K. Dick1928-1982(Kindred)
Philip Kerr1956-2018(Ballantyne)
Philip Pullman1946-
Philip Roth1933-2018(Milton)
Philip Sidney1554-1586
Phoebe Waller-Bridge1985-
P. C. Cast1960-(Phyllis, Christine)
P. D. James1920-2014(Phyllis, Dorothy)
Phyllis McGinley1905-1978
Pia Juul1962-2020
DBC Pierre1961-(Peter, Warren)
Pierre Corneille1606-1684(Peter)
Pierrette Fleutiaux1941-2019
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft1581-1647
Pindarc. 522-443 BC(Pindaros, Pindarus)
Plautus254-184 BC(Titus)
Pliny the Younger61-c. 113(Gaius)
Polly Devlin1944-
Primo Levi1919-1987(Michele)
Primož Kozak1929-1981
Prudens van Duyse1804-1859(Prudentius, Joannes, Maria)
Quintilian35-100(Marcus)
Rachel Tzvia Back1960-
Rachel Billington1942-
Rachel Seiffert1971-
Rafael Sabatini1875-1950
Rainer Werner Fassbinder1945-1982
Rainer Maria Rilke1875-1926(René, Karl, Wilhelm, Johann, Josef)
Raivo Seppo1973-
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882
Ranko Marinković1913-2001
Ray Bradbury1920-2012
R. C. Hutchinson1907-1975(Ray, Coryton)
Raymond Benson1955-
Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun"1964-
Rebecca Roanhorse1971-
Reginald Hill1936-2012(Charles)
Remco Campert1929-
Renate Dorrestein1954-
René Goscinny1926-1977
Reşat Nuri Güntekin1889-1956
Reşat Ekrem Koçu1905-1975
Reyer Anslo1622-1669
Rhijnvis Feith1753-1824
Richard Erdoes1912-2008
Richard Hooker1924-1997(Hiester)
Richard Wagamese1955-2017
Roald Dahl1916-1990
Robert Browning1812-1889
Robert Burns1759-1796(Rabbie)
Robert Frost1874-1963
Robert A. Heinlein1907-1988(Anson)
Robert Musil1880-1942
Robert Perišić1969-
Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894
Robert James Waller1939-2017
Robertson Davies1913-1995
Robley Wilson1930-2018
Rochelle Alers1963-
Roddy Doyle1958-
R. D. Wingfield1928-2007(Rodney, David)
Rohinton Mistry1952-
Romesh Gunesekera1954-
Ronald Giphart1965-
Rosamunde Pilcher1924-2019
Rose Tremain1943-(Rosemary, Jane)
Rosina Lippi1956-
Rudyard Kipling1865-1936
Rumer Godden1907-1998(Margaret)
Rupert Atkinson1881-1961(Evelyn, John)
Rupert Brooke1887-1915(Chawner)
Rupert Furneaux1908-1981(Kenneth)
Rupert Holmes1947-(David)
Rupert Hughes1872-1956
Rupert Sheldrake1942-(Alfred)
Rupert Thomson1955-
Russell Celyn Jones1952-
Rutger Bregman1988-(Christiaan)
Ruth Gruber1911-2016
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1927-2013
Ruth Rendell1930-2015(Barbara)
Sabahattin Ali1907-1948
Marquis de Sade1740-1814(Donatien, Alphonse, François)
Şadi Üçüncü1948-2004
Sait Faik Abasıyanık1906-1954
Saken Seifullin1894-1939
Şakir Bilgin1951-
Salih Saeed Ba-Amer1925-
Salley Vickers1948-
Salman Rushdie1947-
Sam Shepard1943-2017(Samuel)
Samuel Beckett1906-1989
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772-1834
Samuel Pepys1633-1703
Sapphoc. 620-570 BC
Sara Douglass1957-2011
Sara Paretsky1947-
Sarah Hall1974-
Sarah Waters1966-
Saul Bellow1915-2005
Seamus Deane1940-
Seán Ó Faoláin1900-1991(John, Francis, Proinsias)
Sebastian Barry1955-
Sebastian Faulks1953-
Selina Hastings1945-(Shirley)
Selwyn Jepson1899-1989
Serena B. Miller1950-
Sergiusz Piasecki1901-1964
Shelia Goss1968-
Shena Mackay1944-
Sherman Alexie1966-(Joseph)
Sherrilyn Kenyon1965-
Sherryl Woods1944-
Sherwin Bitsui1974-
Shirl Henke1942-
Shirlee Busbee1941-(Elaine)
Shirley Hazzard1931-2016
Shmuel Hasfari1954-
Shota Rustavelic. 1160-c. 1220
Simon Armitage1963-
Simon Carmiggelt1913-1987
Simon J. Ortiz1941-
Simon Pokagonc. 1830-1899
Simon Vestdijk1898-1971
Simone de Beauvoir1908-1986
Sinclair Lewis1885-1951(Harry)
Slavenka Drakulić1949-
Slobodan Novak1924-2016(Ante)
Slobodan Šnajder1948-
Snorri Sturluson1179-1241
Soman Chainani1979-
Sophie Kinsella1969-(Madeleine)
Sophoclesc. 497-c. 406 BC
Stan Lee1922-2018
Stanisław Wyspiański1869-1907(Mateusz, Ignacy)
Stanley Middleton1919-2009
Stendhal1783-1842(Marie, Henri)
Stephen Graham Jones1972-
Stephen King1947-
Stephenie Meyer1973-
Stieg Larsson1954-2004
Sue Grafton1940-2017(Taylor)
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani1658-1725
Sun Bear1929-1992(Vincent)
Sunčana Škrinjarić1931-2004
Süreyya Aylin Antmen1981-
Süreyyya Evren1972-
Susan Cooper1935-
Susan Hill1942-
Susannah Clapp1949-
Suzanne Collins1962-
Sybille Bedford1911-2006(Aleid, Elsa)
Sylvia Plath1932-1963
Tais Teng1952-(Thijs)
Tami Hoag1959-
Tanya Anne Crosby1962-
Tena Štivičić1977-
Tennessee Williams1911-1983
Terence195-159 BC(Publius)
Terry Pratchett1948-2015
Tess Gerritsen1953-(Terry)
Tevfik Fikret1867-1915
Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss"1904-1991(Theodore)
Theodor Mommsen1817-1903
Thierry Laget1959-
T. S. Eliot1888-1965(Thomas, Stearns)
Thomas Hardy1840-1928
Thomas Keneally1935-
Thomas Kinsella1928-2021
Thomas Ligotti1953-
Thomas Mann1875-1955
Tibor Fischer1959-
Tim Winton1960-(Timothy, John)
Timothy Mo1950-
Titsian Tabidze1895-1937
Tom Clancy1947-2013
Tomislav Ladan1932-2008
Tomson Highway1951-
Toni Morrison1931-2019(Chloe, Ardelia)
Tor Edvin Dahl1943-
Trezza Azzopardi1961-
Tristan Bancks1974-
Truman Capote1924-1984
Twm Morys1961-
Umberto Eco1932-
Ursula K. Le Guin1929-2018
Üzeyir Hacıbəyov1885-1948
Václav Havel1936-2011
Vahagn Davtyan1922-1996
Vedrana Rudan1949-
Velma Wallis1960-
Vesna Krmpotić1932-2018
Vesna Parun1922-2010
Victor Hugo1802-1885
Viktor Car Emin1870-1963
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius1882-1954
Vincas Kudirka1858-1899
Vine Deloria Jr.1933-2005(Victor)
Vinko Vrbanić1951-
Virgil70-19 BC(Publius)
V. C. Andrews1923-1986(Virginia, Cleo)
Virginia Woolf1882-1941
Vítězslav Hálek1835-1874
Vjekoslav Kaleb1905-1996
Vjenceslav Novak1859-1905
Vladimir Nabokov1899-1977
Vladimir Nazor1876-1949
Walter Scott1771-1832
Washington Irving1783-1859
Wendy Rose1948-(Bronwen, Chiron, Elizabeth)
Wilhelm Grimm1786-1859(William)
Willem Elsschot1882-1960(Alfons)
Willem Frederik Hermans1921-1995
William Trevor1928-2016
William Apess1798-1839
William Blake1757-1827
William Boyd1952-
W. J. Burley1914-2002(William, John)
W. Bruce Cameron1960-(William)
William Faulkner1897-1962(Cuthbert)
William Golding1911-1993
W. P. Kinsella1935-2016(William, Patrick)
W. Somerset Maugham1874-1965(William)
William Shakespeare1564-1616
William Styron1925-2006(Clark)
William Wharton1925-2008(Albert)
William Wordsworth1770-1850
William Butler Yeats1865-1939
Willy Vandersteen1913-1990(Willebrord, Jan, Frans, Maria)
Winona LaDuke1959-
Winston Graham1908-2003(Mawdsley)
Winston Ntshona1941-2018
Witi Ihimaera1944-(Tame)
Wolfram von Eschenbachc. 1170-c. 1220
Wyatt Emory Cooper1927-1978
Yann Martel1963-
Yaşar Kemal1923-(Sadık)
Yehonatan Geffen1947-
Zadie Smith1975-
Zarah Ghahramani1981-
Zdena Tomin1941-
Željko Ivanković1954-
Zitkála-Šá1876-1938(Gertrude)
Zoë Heller1965-(Kate, Hinde)
Zoran Ferić1961-
Zygmunt Krasiński1812-1859(Napoleon, Stanisław, Adam, Feliks)