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1{{Authors}} who started their careers in the 20th century.
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8* Creator/LloydAlexander
9* Creator/ShermanAlexie
10* Creator/JoHarveyAllen
11* Creator/SteveAllen
12* Creator/AaronAllston
13* Creator/SteveAlten
14* Creator/CatherineAnderson
15* Creator/KevinJAnderson
16* Creator/MatthewTobinAnderson
17* Creator/PoulAnderson
18* Creator/VCAndrews: You can tell the books are popular when they keep being written [[FranchiseZombie after the author's death]].
19* Creator/MayaAngelou
20* Creator/PiersAnthony: Creator of ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' and the Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality.
21* Creator/KAApplegate: Creator of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', and ''Literature/{{Remnants}}''.
22* Creator/CatherineAsaro
23* Creator/IsaacAsimov: Prolific founder of modern Science Fiction.
24* Creator/JanetAsimov
25* Creator/RobertAsprin
26* Creator/SonnyBarger: Outlaw biker, occasional actor and author known for his guest appearances on motorcycling-related media such as ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' and novels centered around the outlaw biker subculture.
27* Creator/PollyBergen
28* Creator/AnneBishop
29* Creator/HollyBlack
30* Creator/JamesBlish
31* Creator/JudyBlume: (born February 12, 1938), Author of teen-age novels dealing straight-forwardly with the problems of growing up. The best known are ''Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret'' and ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing''
32* Creator/DaleBrown
33* Creator/DanBrown: (born June 22, 1964) Author of mystery-thrillers; ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' and ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' are the best-known. Particularly noted in some circles for his insistence that his books are factually accurate even though they are riddled with factual errors.
34* Creator/DavidBrin
35* Creator/{{Brom}}
36* Creator/FredricBrown
37* Creator/AlgisBudrys
38* Creator/ErmaBombeck: Newspaper columnist and author of humor books
39* Creator/AnthonyBoucher
40* Creator/JosephPayneBrennan: Creator of the OccultDetective Lucius Leffing.
41* Music/JimmyBuffett
42* Creator/CharlesBukowski
43* Creator/EmmaBull
44* Creator/EdwardBunker
45* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs: Creator of ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'', among other works.
46* Creator/CandaceBushnell: Author of ''Literature/SexAndTheCity'', [[AdaptationDisplacement better known]] for its [[Series/SexAndTheCity successful TV series adaptation]], also a journalist and television producer.
47* Creator/JimButcher
48* Creator/BillBryson: American-born author raised in England.
49* Creator/BetsyByars
50* Creator/JamesBranchCabell
51* Creator/PaoloBacigalupi
52* Creator/DavidBaldacci
53* Creator/JamesBaldwin
54* Creator/DaveBarry: Syndicated newspaper humor columnist, he is largely responsible for the popularization of the memes [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer "I am not making this up!"]] and "..., which would be AGoodNameForARockBand."
55* Creator/WayneBarlowe
56* Creator/JohnBarth
57* Creator/LFrankBaum: Creator of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''
58* Creator/PeterSBeagle
59* Creator/GregBear
60* Creator/JohnBellairs: Author of ''The Face in the Frost'', a work mixing humor and horror, and many scary novels for children.
61* Creator/CarlBernstein
62* Creator/PeterBenchley: Author of ''Jaws'' and numerous other maritime novels.
63* Creator/GregoryBenford
64* Creator/AlfredBester
65* Creator/JamesPBlaylock
66* Creator/RobertBloch
67* Creator/LawrenceBlock
68* Creator/LarryBond: Author of PossibleWar and spy-thriller novels; a sometime associate of Creator/TomClancy.
69* Creator/SandraBoynton: Children's books
70* Creator/LeighBrackett: Speculative fiction, crime, and western author; also, screenwriter.
71* Creator/RayBradbury: prolific in a wide number of media, but best known for his speculative fiction like ''Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' and ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''.
72* Creator/MarionZimmerBradley: (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) Speculative fiction author, most well-known for the ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' series and ''Literature/TheMistsOfAvalon'', her version of the Arthurian legend told from the perspective of the female characters.
73* Creator/RichardBrautigan
74* Creator/PatriciaBriggs
75* Creator/PoppyZBrite
76* Creator/TomBrokaw
77* Creator/TerryBrooks: American fantasy author, best known for the ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' franchise.
78* Creator/StevenBrust
79* Creator/PearlSBuck
80* Creator/WilliamFBuckleyJr
81* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold
82* Creator/WilliamSBurroughs: Author of the influential but incredibly controversial ''Literature/NakedLunch'', a novel that ended literary censorship in the United States.
83* [[Creator/OctaviaButler Octavia E. Butler]]
84* Creator/MegCabot
85* Creator/AnneMcCaffrey: Author of the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series.
86* Creator/MartinCaidin
87* Creator/JamesMCain
88* Creator/RachelCaine
89* Creator/JohnWCampbell, author of ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' and influential editor of ''Magazine/AstoundingScienceFiction''
90* Creator/JanellCannon
91* Creator/TrumanCapote
92* Creator/EricCarle
93* Creator/JohnDicksonCarr
94* Creator/OrsonScottCard, author of ''Literature/EndersGame'' and its continuation series.
95* Creator/LinCarter
96* [[Creator/BabyPeggy Diana Serra Cary]], a.k.a. Baby Peggy, author of ''Hollywood's Posse'' and several biographies for former child actors, herself included.
97* Creator/MichaelChabon
98* Creator/JackChalker
99* Creator/RaymondChandler
100* Creator/PaddyChayefsky
101* Creator/CJCherryh
102* Creator/TomClancy: While not the first to write techno-thrillers (that was Craig Thomas), Clancy defined the genre.
103* Creator/ChrisClaremont
104* Creator/MaryHigginsClark
105* Creator/JoClayton: Speculative Fiction author.
106* Creator/BeverlyCleary
107* Creator/HalClement
108* Creator/HarlanCoben
109* Creator/WaltCoburn
110* Creator/NancyACollins
111* Creator/SuzanneCollins
112* Creator/AaronCometbus
113* Creator/MichaelConnelly
114* Creator/CarolineBCooney
115* Creator/StephenCoonts
116* Creator/GlenCook
117* Creator/RobertCormier
118* Creator/PatriciaCornwell
119* Creator/GregCostikyan
120* Creator/RobertCoover
121* Creator/BruceCoville
122* Creator/MichaelCrichton: Author of ''Literature/JurassicPark'' and various other techno-thrillers.
123* Creator/JenniferCrusie
124* Creator/HenryDarger: Author of the longest novel in history, the [[{{Doorstopper}} 15,145-page]] ''In the Realms of the Unreal'', which wasn't discovered until after his death.
125* Creator/EECummings
126* Creator/CliveCussler
127* Creator/BrianDaley
128* Creator/PaulaDanziger
129* Creator/PeterDavid
130* Creator/AvramDavidson
131* Creator/OssieDavis
132* Creator/PamelaDean
133* Creator/LSpragueDeCamp
134* Creator/LesterDelRey
135* Creator/SamuelRDelany
136* Creator/DonDeLillo
137* Creator/TroyDenning
138* Creator/TomieDePaola
139* Creator/AugustDerleth
140* Creator/SarahDessen
141* Creator/KateDiCamillo
142* Creator/PhilipKDick
143* Creator/EricJeromeDickey
144* Creator/GordonRDickson
145* Creator/ThomasMDisch
146* Creator/StephenRDonaldson
147* Creator/TimDorsey: Just barely squeezes in here, publishing his first book in 1999. His works primarily concern an eccentric [[OnlyInFlorida Floridian]] SerialKiller named ''Literature/SergeStorms''.
148* Creator/DavidDrake: Scifi and fantasy author. Known for his realistic portrayal of combat.
149* Creator/SharonDraper
150* Creator/DianeDuane: Fantasy author most well-known for her ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series and several of ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s best (and best-loved) novels, including ''Spock's World'', ''The Wounded Sky'', ''Doctor's Orders'', and the ''Rihannsu'' series.
151* Creator/LoisDuncan
152* Creator/RogerEbert: Extremely well-known film critic; also a screenwriter, and wrote several books about film.
153* Creator/DavidEddings: Took most of the HighFantasy tropes, smushed them together, and wrote four rather excellent quintets with them. They're so good mostly because he ''knows'' he's using them, so he doesn't take himself very seriously. AirportFantasy at its finest.
154* Creator/CliffordMartinEddyJr: A minor horror writer who was a friend of Creator/HPLovecraft's from childhood.
155* Creator/TeresaEdgerton
156* Creator/EdwardEager
157* Creator/GeorgeAlecEffinger
158* Creator/MichaelEisner
159* Creator/TSEliot
160* Creator/BretEastonEllis
161* Creator/HarlanEllison: Noted not only for his works and influence, but also for his temper and tendency to sue at the drop of a hat. He once posted a dead gopher to a New York publisher because said publisher placed cigarette ads in a collection of short stories, in violation of contract.
162* Creator/RalphEllison
163* Creator/JamesEllroy
164* Creator/DavidFarland
165* Creator/NancyFarmer
166* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer: Taboo-busting sci-fi and fantasy writer with a wild array of original ideas. Best known for the ''Literature/{{Riverworld}}'' and ''World of Tiers'' series.
167* Creator/WilliamFaulkner
168* Creator/RaymondEFeist, author of ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle''
169* Creator/FScottFitzgerald
170* Creator/SidFleischman: Author of children's books including the Newbery winner ''Literature/TheWhippingBoy''.
171* Creator/EricFlint
172* Creator/MichaelFlynn
173* Creator/VinceFlynn
174* Creator/JamesFogle
175* Creator/PhilFoglio
176* Wrestling/MickFoley – Most famous as a professional wrestler, but wrote three best-selling autobiographies and several well-received novels.
177* UsefulNotes/BettyFord
178* Creator/JohnMFord
179* Creator/WilliamRForstchen: Author of science fiction and historical fiction novels.
180* Creator/RobertLForward
181* Creator/AlFranken: Comedy writer, political satirist, U.S. senator.
182* Creator/LeoFrankowski
183* Creator/JonathanFranzen
184* Music/KinkyFriedman
185* [[Creator/AlexanderWales Ben Friesen]] (Alexander Wales)
186* Creator/EstherFriesner
187* Creator/RobertFrost: Poet, probably best known for "two roads diverged in a yellow wood."
188* Creator/AlanDeanFoster: Sci-fi author, and responsible for some truly awesome novelizations
189* Creator/AlanFurst
190* Creator/WilliamGaddis
191* Creator/StefanGagne
192* Creator/ErleStanleyGardner
193* Creator/RandallGarrett
194* Creator/HenryLouisGatesJr.
195* Creator/JeanCraigheadGeorge
196* Creator/TessGerritsen: Best known for the book series that inspired ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles''.
197* Creator/DavidGerrold
198* Creator/WilliamGibson: Grandfather of {{Cyberpunk}}.
199* Creator/DorothyGilman
200* Creator/AllenGinsberg: Poet, creator of "Howl".
201* Creator/NewtGingrich: Also a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
202* Creator/LouiseGluck
203* Creator/JohnGrisham
204* Creator/WilliamGoldman
205* UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater
206* Creator/TerryGoodkind, author of the popular fantasy series ''Literature/SwordOfTruth''.
207* UsefulNotes/DickGoodwin
208* UsefulNotes/DorisKearnsGoodwin
209* Creator/MichaelGrant - Wrote the Literature/{{Gone}} and Literature/{{BZRK}} series on his own, and co-wrote ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', and ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'' with his wife, Creator/KAApplegate.
210* Creator/JessGulbranson
211* Creator/JamesEGunn
212* Creator/ErnestHemingway: Those who consider PurpleProse as the cardinal writing sin can take refuge in his work.
213* Creator/FrankHerbert, author of the epic ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series and more.
214* Creator/CarlHiaasen
215* Creator/TonyHillerman
216* Creator/EdwardDHoch
217* Creator/HollingCHolling
218* Creator/EvanHunter, a.k.a. [=Ed McBain=]
219* Creator/MargaretPetersonHaddix
220* Creator/MaryDowningHahn
221* Creator/JoeHaldeman
222* Creator/BarbaraHambly
223* Creator/DashiellHammett
224* Creator/EdmondHamilton
225* Creator/DanielHandler, aka Lemony Snicket
226* Creator/VictorDavisHanson: Classicist, Military Historian, Farmer and Political Columnist. Writes mostly nonfiction but at least one fiction, ''The End of Sparta''.
227* Creator/JackHandey: Humorist best known for his ''Deep Thoughts'' series.
228* Creator/LyndonHardy
229* Creator/ThomasHarlan
230* Creator/CharlaineHarris
231* Creator/HarryHarrison
232* Creator/LPHartley
233* Creator/RobertAHeinlein: Dean of Science Fiction; the man who perfected the young adult SF novel, assuming you believe he didn't invent it. Defined time loop/time paradox stories with ''Literature/AllYouZombies''.
234* Creator/JosephHeller
235* Creator/LillianHellman
236* Creator/ZennaHenderson: Best known for her series of short stories about "The People."
237** His intellectual property is now under the auspices of Creator/HerbertPropertiesLLC, with Brian Herbert writing additional books.
238* Creator/JoeHill
239* Creator/SandraHill
240* Creator/JimCHines
241* Creator/KennethHite
242* Creator/RobinHobb: Author of the Low Fantasy trilogy-of-trilogies the ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings''
243* Creator/JohnHodgman
244* Creator/MCAHogarth
245* Creator/RobertEHoward: Widely regarded as the father of the SwordAndSorcery genre, he was the creator of ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', ''Literature/SolomonKane'' (long before he was a comic book character), ''[[Literature/{{Kull}} Kull the Conqueror]]'', and ''Literature/BranMakMorn'', as well as making contributions to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Along with J.R.R. Tolkien, he is one of the most influential figures in modern fantasy.
246* Creator/SarahAHoyt
247* Creator/LRonHubbard
248* Creator/AriannaHuffington
249* Creator/LangstonHughes
250* Creator/ZoraNealeHurston
251* Creator/JohnIrving
252* Creator/DavidIves
253* Creator/ShirleyJackson, best known for her creepy but influential story "Literature/TheLottery".
254* Creator/JAJance.
255* Creator/GaryJennings: American author of HistoricalFiction.
256* Creator/KWJeter
257* Creator/JamesJones: Lived through the worst of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and wrote prolifically about it.
258* Creator/EricaJong: Author of feminist erotica, best known for the term "zipless fuck".
259* Creator/RobertJordan
260* Creator/WilliamJoyce
261* Creator/JanetKagan
262* Creator/EzraJackKeats
263* Creator/HarryStephenKeeler: Prolific writer of very odd books.
264* Creator/BrianKeene
265* Creator/WilliamHKeithJr: Prolific author of science and military fiction.
266* UsefulNotes/HelenKeller: Blind and deaf activist.
267* Creator/JackKerouac: Spiritual father of the Beatnik counterculture movement.
268* Creator/KenKesey: Author of ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''. Also major player in 1960s psychedelic culture.
269* Creator/JackKetchum: American horror author.
270* Creator/AlexanderKey
271* Creator/AlanKing
272* Creator/StephenKing: Hugely successful author of modern horror and fantasy.
273* Creator/JamesKirkwood
274* UsefulNotes/HenryKissinger
275* Creator/AnnetteCurtisKlause (born in England, immigrated to and currently lives in America)
276* Creator/AndrewKlavan
277* Creator/TEDKlein
278* Creator/RichardAKnaak
279* Creator/DamonKnight
280* Creator/ELKonigsburg
281* Creator/DeanKoontz: Not quite so popular as Stephen King, but still, a successful author of modern horror and fantasy.
282* Creator/CyrilMKornbluth: Science fiction author
283* Creator/NancyKress
284* Creator/EllenKushner: Fantasy author
285* Creator/HenryKuttner: Science fiction and fantasy author
286* Creator/MichaelKurland: Writes mystery and speculative fiction.
287* Creator/KatherineKurtz: Writes historical fantasy, most notably the ''Literature/{{Deryni}}'' novels.
288* Creator/MercedesLackey: Does fantasy (''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'') and Urban Fantasy.
289* Creator/RALafferty
290* Creator/TimLaHaye: Influential author of Christian techno-thrillers and science fiction.
291* Creator/DonaldWestlake
292* Creator/LouisLAmour: Western novelist.
293* Creator/LJagiLamplighter: Fantasy writer
294* Creator/RingLardner: Best known as a sportswriter, his 1916 book ''You Know Me Al'' is considered one of the high-water marks in American humor.
295* Creator/ErikLarson
296* Creator/KeithLaumer
297* Creator/StephenRLawhead
298* Creator/RichardLaymon: Prolific splatter-horror author from 1980 to 2000
299* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin: Prolific and influential science fiction writer and feminist.
300* Creator/DennisLehane, best known for ''Literature/MysticRiver'' and ''Literature/ShutterIsland''.
301* Creator/FritzLeiber
302* Creator/MurrayLeinster: Prolific science fiction author, pioneer of AlternateHistory fiction, coiner of the term "FirstContact", and predicter of the Internet.
303* Creator/MadeleineLEngle
304* Creator/ElmoreLeonard: The Lay's Potato Chip of crime fiction -- you can't read just one. His terse prose and chatty dialog make for effortlessly enjoyable reading.
305* Creator/HelenLester
306* Creator/JuliusLester
307* Creator/JonathanLethem
308* Creator/IraLevin
309* Creator/GailCarsonLevine
310* Creator/SinclairLewis
311* Creator/ThomasLigotti
312* Creator/RushLimbaugh: Better known for his talk radio career, but wrote two top-selling political commentaries in the 1990s and a series of children's novels in the 2010s.
313* Creator/JaneLindskold
314* Creator/HollyLisle
315* Creator/BentleyLittle
316* Creator/HughLofting
317* Creator/LoisLowry
318* Creator/FrankBelknapLong
319* Creator/HPLovecraft: "Weird fiction" author who had a major impact on the horror genre; created the CosmicHorrorStory, and changed how we see "monsters".
320* Creator/DavidLubar: Young adult fiction writer.
321* Creator/RobertLudlum
322* Creator/ZoeLund
323* Creator/DavidMacaulay
324* Creator/RAMacAvoy
325* Creator/GavinMacLeod
326* Creator/ElliotSMaggin
327* Creator/GregoryMaguire
328* Creator/NormanMailer
329* Creator/LeonardMaltin: Film critic and animation historian; author of ''Maltin's Movie Guide'' and ''Leonard Maltin's Classic Film Guide''.
330* Creator/DavidMamet: Pretty fuckin' good playwright/screenwriter.
331* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin: Famous for ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. He also helped kick-start the ''Literature/WildCards'' series.
332* Creator/LisaMason
333* Creator/AnnMMartin: most famous for ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' series.
334* Creator/RichardMatheson
335* Creator/RJeanMathieu
336* Creator/JulianMay
337* Creator/MercerMayer: Author of the ''Literature/LittleCritter'' books.
338* Creator/RobertRMcCammon : Author of ''Literature/SwanSong'' and ''Literature/BoysLife'', among many other novels.
339* Creator/CormacMcCarthy
340* Creator/ScottMcCloud
341* Creator/CarsonMcCullers
342* Creator/LurleneMcDaniel
343* Creator/JackMcDevitt
344* Creator/MichaelMcDowell
345* Creator/VondaNMcIntyre
346* Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip
347* Creator/RobinMcKinley
348* Creator/PatrickMcManus
349* Creator/TerryMcMillan
350* Creator/ClareMcNally
351* UsefulNotes/RobertMcNamara: 8th US Secretary of Defense.
352* Creator/HLMencken
353* Creator/MissManners: Pen name of etiquette expert Judith Martin
354* Creator/FernMichaels
355* Creator/MelisaMichaels
356* Creator/JamesMichener
357* Creator/ArthurMiller
358* Creator/LEModesittJR
359* Creator/DevonMonk
360* Creator/ElizabethMoon
361* Creator/ChristopherMoore
362* Creator/CLMoore
363* Creator/JohnMoore
364* Creator/DanielKeysMoran
365* Creator/ToniMorrison
366* Creator/RobertMunsch
367* Creator/WalterDeanMyers
368* Creator/OgdenNash: poet, noted for wordplay and odd rhymes.
369* Creator/PhyllisReynoldsNaylor
370* Creator/LarryNiven: Author of ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' and the ''Known Space'' universe.
371* Creator/AndreNorton
372* Creator/BillNye: He wrote some nonfiction books.
373* Creator/FlanneryOConnor
374* Creator/EugeneONeill: acclaimed playwright.
375* Creator/JackPaar
376* Creator/AlexeiPanshin
377* Creator/ChuckPalahniuk
378* Creator/RobertBParker: ''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' (started in the 1970's); ''Literature/JesseStone'' (1997); ''Literature/SunnyRandall'' (1999). All three continued until his death in 2010, with other authors continuing the storylines after.
379* Creator/DorothyParker: Poet, screenwriter, comedian, journalist and short story author.
380* Creator/KatherinePaterson: Children's book author.
381* Creator/JamesPatterson: Thriller writer.
382* Creator/GaryPaulsen: Children's book author.
383* Creator/BillPeet
384* Creator/SJPerelman: Humorist. Know that he wrote scripts for the Creator/MarxBrothers, and you get a pretty clear picture of his style.
385* Creator/FrankPeretti: Author of Christian suspense/horror novels. Might be considered the [[TropeCodifier codifier]] of the (Christian) genre, if not the [[TropeMaker founder]].
386* Creator/TomPerrotta
387* Creator/StevePerry
388* Creator/JulieAnnePeters
389* Creator/JodiPicoult
390* Creator/TamoraPierce: Fantasy author known for inverting TheSmurfettePrinciple. Really likes writing quartets, although not so much lately.
391* Creator/ChristopherPike
392* Creator/DavPilkey
393* Creator/DanielPinkwater
394* Creator/HBeamPiper: Science fiction writer; worked out an extensive future history as well as several AlternateHistory stories. Committed suicide in 1964 because of financial problems. A check was literally in the mail.
395* Creator/SylviaPlath
396* Creator/GeorgePlimpton
397* Creator/FrederikPohl
398* Creator/EzraPound
399* Creator/JerryPournelle
400* Creator/TimPowers
401* Creator/MarkPrindle
402* Creator/WHPugmire
403* Creator/ThomasPynchon
404* Creator/ElleryQueen
405* Creator/JuliaQuinn: Regency romance novelist.
406* Creator/SeaburyQuinn
407* Creator/DanRather
408* Creator/MelanieRawn
409* Creator/IshmaelReed
410* Creator/RobertReed
411* Creator/LauraResnick
412* Creator/MikeResnick
413* Creator/MichaelRex
414* Creator/MackReynolds
415* Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes
416* Creator/AnneRice
417* Creator/JohnRidley
418* Creator/JohnRingo: Started with MilitaryScienceFiction works (the first book of the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' was his authorial debut), but has branched out to other genres, including {{fantasy}} (urban and traditional) and adventure stories.
419* Creator/RickRiordan
420* Creator/GeraldoRivera
421* Creator/TomRobbins
422* Creator/NoraRoberts: Synonymous with well-written romance.
423* Creator/KimStanleyRobinson
424* Creator/RichardRoeper
425* Creator/FredRogers
426* Creator/ReginaldRose
427* Creator/PhilipRoth
428* Creator/LauraJohRowland
429* Creator/GregRucka: crime novelist, also noted for his work on Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman and his own comic book titles, such as ''ComicBook/{{Whiteout}}'' and ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry''.
430* Creator/RudyRucker
431* Creator/MattRuff
432* Creator/DamonRunyon
433* Creator/KristineKathrynRusch (also pen names Kris Rusch, Kris Nelscott, Kristine Grayson, Sandy Schofield [joint works with husband Dean Wesley Smith], and Kathryn Wesley)
434* Creator/FredSaberhagen
435* Creator/LouisSachar
436* Creator/CarlSagan
437* Creator/JDSalinger
438* Creator/RASalvatore: Primarily fantasy.
439* Creator/CarlSandburg
440* Creator/JohnSandford
441* Creator/JohnSaul
442* Creator/DanSavage
443* Creator/RichardScarry
444* Creator/JamesHSchmitz
445* Creator/JonScieszka
446* Creator/MelissaScott
447* Creator/DavidSedaris
448* Creator/ErichSegal
449* Creator/HubertSelbyJr
450* Creator/MauriceSendak
451* Creator/DrSeuss: The definitive picture-book author.
452* Creator/AnneSexton
453* Creator/NtozakeShange
454* Creator/RogerSharpe
455* Creator/RichardSharpeShaver
456* Creator/RobertSheckley
457* Creator/SidneySheldon: His tales of treachery amongst TheBeautifulElite made his books blockbusters from TheSeventies through the TurnOfTheMillennium.
458* Creator/SamShepard: Cowboy playwright
459* Creator/JeanShepherd
460* Creator/JosephaSherman
461* Creator/NealShusterman
462* Creator/RobertSilverberg
463* Creator/ShelSilverstein
464* Creator/CliffordSimak: one of the best SF writers.
465* Creator/DanSimmons: Former public-school English teacher turned writer, he is responsible for the sci-fi epic, ''The Literature/HyperionCantos'', as well as ''Literature/{{Ilium}}''. ''Olympos'', ''The Terror'', and most recently ''Drood'' -- among many others.
466* Creator/NeilSimon: Playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist.
467* Creator/LinneaSinclair
468* Creator/GeneSiskel
469* Creator/WilliamSleator
470* Creator/JaneSmiley: Pulitzer-prize winning author whose work often revolves around farming and horses
471* Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith: Known best for his dark fantasy short stories, but also wrote horror, science fiction, and poetry.
472* Creator/CordwainerSmith: Classic author of Science Fiction, also wrote the first definitive book on modern psychological warfare. His style is a generally excerpts from the DaysOfFuturePast, and is nearly all set in his [[TheVerse 'verse]]: The Instrumentality of Mankind. Philosophically, he fused Christian symbolism with Chinese philosophy. Creator/StudioGainax have an affinity for his work and keep naming things after it.
473* Creator/EEDocSmith, author of the ''Lensman'' series. One of the first major science fiction writers. Ultimately responsible for, or provided some of the earliest descriptions of, a fair amount of the weaponry and gadgetry seen in modern SF, and some in reality as well.
474* Creator/LJSmith, author of ''Literature/NightWorld'', ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'', and ''The Secret Circle''.
475* Creator/RolandSmith
476* Creator/ThomasLeeJosephSmith
477* Creator/MargaretSnyder
478* Creator/ZilphaKeatleySnyder
479* Creator/SuzanneSomers
480* Creator/MickeySpillane: Pulp crime author and creator of private eye Literature/MikeHammer.
481* Creator/JerrySpinelli
482* Creator/NormanSpinrad
483* Creator/MichaelStackpole
484* Creator/JohnSteakley
485* Creator/AllenSteele
486* Creator/DanielleSteel
487* Creator/WilliamSteig
488* Creator/JohnSteinbeck: Pulitzer and Noble Peace Prize-winning author of many books such as ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' commonly used in MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia. Influential in both his views and writing style. Responsible for traumatizing generations of schoolchildren forever more.
489* Creator/NealStephenson: Cyberpunk author, TropeMaker of TheMetaverse
490* Creator/BruceSterling
491* Creator/CarolineStevermer: Historical fantasy, author of ''A College of Magics'' and co-author of ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia''
492* Creator/RLStine
493* Creator/SMStirling
494* Creator/RexStout
495* Creator/MattStover: Writer of ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine'' series as well as many fine ''Franchise/StarWars'' novels
496* Creator/PeterStraub
497* Creator/TheodoreSturgeon: SpeculativeFiction writer, and the man who gave us SturgeonsLaw.
498* Creator/MichaelSwanwick
499* Creator/AmyTan
500* Creator/DonnaTartt
501* Creator/MildredDTaylor: Author of ''Literature/RollOfThunderHearMyCry'' and the rest of the Logan family sage.
502* Creator/WilliamTenn: Prolific writer of 1950s and 1960s science-fiction short stories.
503* Creator/SheriSTepper
504* Creator/CateTiernan Young Adult fantasy author, best known as the author of ''Literature/{{Sweep}}''.
505* Creator/HunterSThompson: Madcap drug-addled journalist best known for writing ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''. One of the main reasons ''Rolling Stone'' magazine took off instead of folding early like many other magazines of the time.
506* Creator/JimThompson: Pulp writer known for his hard-boiled style and bleak worldview. Known for works such as ''The Killer Inside Me'', ''The Grifters'', ''Pop. 1280'', and ''After Dark, My Sweet''. Many of his books have been adapted for film.
507* Creator/RuthPlumlyThompson
508* Creator/BarbaraTuchman: A historian who gave great examples of real-life idiotic tropes. Her ''March of Folly'' is especially noteworthy in that respect.
509* Creator/JamesThurber
510* Creator/HarryTurtledove: Alternative-fiction author probably best-known for his Timeline 191 series.
511* Creator/JonathanTweet
512* Creator/JohnUpdike
513* Creator/StevenUtley
514* Creator/AndrewVachss
515* Creator/ChrisVanAllsburg: Picture book author and illustrator.
516* Creator/JackVance: Author of the stories of The Dying Earth, which served as the inspiration for the magic system of D&D, called "Vancian magic". Also wrote several SF series, and stand-alones.
517* Creator/MelvinVanPeebles
518* Creator/JohnVarley
519* Creator/BrianKVaughan
520* Creator/VivianVandeVelde
521* Creator/GoreVidal
522* Creator/VernorVinge
523* Creator/WilliamTVollmann
524* Creator/KurtVonnegut
525* Creator/SarahVowell
526* Creator/KarlEdwardWagner
527* Creator/HowardWaldrop
528* Creator/AliceWalker
529* Creator/DavidFosterWallace
530* Creator/JohnWaters
531* Creator/JudeWatson
532* Creator/LawrenceWattEvans
533* Creator/DavidWeber
534* Creator/MargaretWeis: co-creator of the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' setting and co-author of a number of books in that setting. Also author of numerous other fantasy novels.
535* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman
536* Creator/MarthaWells
537* Creator/RosemaryWells: Prolific picture book author of ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'', ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'', ''Bunny Planet'' and many others; occasionally writes titles for older audiences
538* Creator/KDWentworth
539* Creator/MaeWest
540* Creator/ScottWesterfeld
541* Creator/EdithWharton
542* Creator/EBWhite
543* Creator/EdwardLucasWhite
544* Creator/ColsonWhitehead
545* Creator/ThorntonWilder
546* Creator/MelissaWiley
547* Creator/GregoryAlanWilliams
548* Creator/TadWilliams
549* Creator/TennesseeWilliams
550* Creator/WalterJonWilliams
551* Creator/WilliamCarlosWilliams
552* Creator/JackWilliamson
553* Creator/ConnieWillis
554* Creator/FPaulWilson
555* Creator/RobertAntonWilson: Master of the MindScrew
556* Creator/JessWinfield: Co-founder of the Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany, writing ''Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged'' as part of the group. Later known for his screenwriting work in several animated television series.
557* Creator/GaryWolf: Author of ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' and ''Literature/SpaceVulture''
558* Creator/GeneWolfe: Author of ''The Book of the New Sun'' and other works.
559* Creator/ThomasWolfe: Author of ''Literature/LookHomewardAngel'' and other works (not to be confused with Creator/TomWolfe).
560* Creator/TomWolfe: Author of ''Film/TheRightStuff'' and ''Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' (not to be confused with Creator/ThomasWolfe).
561* Creator/MichaelWolff
562* Creator/ScottWolter
563* Creator/BobWoodward
564* Creator/CornellWoolrich
565* Creator/JohnCWright
566* Creator/RichardWright
567* Creator/PatriciaCWrede
568* Creator/JannyWurts
569* Creator/LaurenceYep
570* Creator/JaneYolen
571* Creator/EliezerYudkowsky
572* Creator/TimothyZahn
573* Creator/RogerZelazny: Poetic sci-fi and fantasy writer: ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', ''Literature/DamnationAlley'', ''Literature/LordOfLight'' and ''Literature/DoorwaysInTheSand''. Winner of 6 Hugos, 3 Nebulas, and 2 Locus Awards, among other awards.
574[[/folder]]
575
576[[folder:Argentinian]]
577* Creator/JorgeLuisBorges: (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), Writer, essayist, and poet. He helped to create the genre of "MagicalRealism" with his woks like ''The Aleph'' and ''Ficciones''.
578* Creator/JulioCortazar
579* Creator/RobertoFontanarrosa
580* Creator/AngelicaGorodischer
581* Creator/MauroMantella
582* Creator/MariaElenaWalsh
583* Creator/RodolfoWalsh
584[[/folder]]
585
586[[folder:Australian]]
587* Creator/GraemeBase
588* Creator/MaryGrantBruce
589* Creator/TrudiCanavan
590* Creator/IsobelleCarmody
591* Creator/ABertramChandler
592* Creator/StephenDedman
593* Creator/GregEgan
594* Creator/JackieFrench
595* Creator/KerryGreenwood
596* Creator/AndyGriffiths
597* Creator/CliveJames
598* Creator/PaulJennings
599* Creator/RobinKlein
600* Creator/DaveLuckett
601* Creator/MelinaMarchetta
602* Creator/JulietMarillier
603* Creator/GarthNix
604* Creator/RuthPark
605* Creator/BanjoPaterson
606* Creator/MatthewReilly
607* Creator/EmilyRodda
608* Creator/ShaunTan
609* Creator/SeanWilliams
610[[/folder]]
611
612[[folder:Austrian]]
613* Creator/ThomasBernhard: Austrian author and playwright known for his highly critical, nihilistic views and causing the biggest theatre scandal in Austrian history.
614* Creator/MartinBuber
615* UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud
616* Creator/RainerMariaRilke
617* Creator/LudwigWittgenstein
618[[/folder]]
619
620[[folder:Belgian]]
621* Creator/HermanBrusselmans: A columnist, poet, novelist, and playwright.
622* Creator/GeorgesSimenon, prolific Belgian-French writer of pulp novels, detective fiction and psychological fiction, creator of Inspector Maigret.
623[[/folder]]
624
625[[folder:Brazilian]]
626* UsefulNotes/AlbertoSantosDumont
627* Creator/PauloCoelho
628* Creator/LuisFernandoVerissimo
629[[/folder]]
630
631[[folder:British (United Kingdom)]]
632* Creator/DanAbnett: Comic book writer for 2000AD and Marvel (along with a few DC pieces), who is also known for writing a number of Warhammer 40,000 novels, particularly the Literature/GauntsGhosts series.
633* Creator/DouglasAdams: author of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' in its many, many mediums.
634* Creator/RichardAdams
635* Creator/BrianWAldiss
636* Creator/MartinAmis
637* Creator/JulieAndrews
638* Creator/WilbertAwdry: AKA the Rev. W. Awdry. Wrote ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'', the basis for ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''.
639* Creator/AlanAyckbourn
640* Creator/JGBallard
641* Creator/IainBanks: major science fiction author, known for grand SpaceOpera -- particularly his ''Literature/TheCulture'' novels.
642* Creator/LynneReidBanks
643* Creator/CliveBarker
644* Creator/StephenBaxter
645* Creator/HilaireBelloc
646* Creator/AlanBennett
647* Creator/RobertHughBenson
648* Creator/LouisDeBernieres
649* Creator/AlgernonBlackwood
650* Creator/EnidBlyton - possibly the most prolific and famous (or infamous, depending on your viewpoint) children's authors ever.
651* Creator/RobertBolt
652* Creator/MadeleineBrent, author of romantic suspense novels
653* Creator/RaymondBriggs
654* Creator/ChristopherBrookmyre
655* [[Creator/DKBroster D.K. Broster]]
656* Creator/JohnBrunner
657* Creator/JohnBuchan
658* Creator/AnthonyBurgess
659* Creator/RamseyCampbell
660* Creator/JohnLeCarre: Master of the Cold War spy thriller, he was instrumental in creating the spy anti-hero in counterpoint to the high-adventure James Bond-type spy. Notable works include ''The Spy Who Came In From The Cold'', ''The Tailor Of Panama'', and ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''.
661* Creator/AngelaCarter
662* Creator/AndrewCartmel: Writer of television, novels and comics.
663* Creator/GKChesterton: English writer who is ''the'' Christian apologist to know, probably second in popularity only to Creator/CSLewis. Known primarily for his witty essays and use of paradoxical statements, but also for his "Literature/FatherBrown" Mysteries.
664* Creator/LeeChild: Writer of ''Literature/JackReacher'' book series.
665* Creator/AgathaChristie: Epitomises the classic age of mystery fiction. See her [[Recap/AgathaChristie bibliography]] also.
666* Creator/JohnChristopher
667* Creator/ArthurCClarke
668* Creator/AnnCleeves: Crime author, known for writing the books that were adapted into ''Series/{{Vera}}'' and ''Series/{{Shetland}}''.
669* Creator/JohnClive
670* Creator/JackieCollins: Author of many bestselling soap opera novels about [[TheBeautifulElite rich, beautiful people]].
671* Creator/JohnConnolly: Writer of ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings'', the Charlie Parker series, the Samuel Johnson trilogy, horror short stories and a co-authored sci-fi series, among other projects.
672* Creator/StormConstantine
673* Creator/JillyCooper
674* Creator/SusanCooper: ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising''.
675* Creator/PaulCornell: Writer for the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures, creator of Franchise/BerniceSummerfield and also did a few Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine comics.
676* Creator/BernardCornwell
677* Creator/JudyCornwell
678* Creator/AleisterCrowley: Author of ''Moonchild'', founder of the magical and religious school of Thelema, and seminal contributor to modern occult thought. Put the "k" in "magick", to the chagrin of many.
679* Creator/BenCounter
680* Creator/RoaldDahl: A highly influential children's author, known for his macabre sense of humour. After all, "Violence accompanied by wit is much loved."
681* Creator/AndrewDavies
682* Creator/CandyDavis
683* UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins: Author of several scientific books, and the well-known ''The God Delusion''. Known for his political activism on behalf of atheism.
684* Creator/LenDeighton: British spy writer and historian.
685* Creator/PeterDickinson
686* Creator/TerranceDicks: Prolific [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Doctor Who novelisation]] author.
687* Creator/DougalDixon: Set the stage for speculative biology.
688* Creator/GeraldDurrell: Naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, and the author of many books (most of them being autobiographical).
689* Creator/JuliaDonaldson A children’s writer known for Literature/TheGruffalo
690* Creator/JTEdson: Prolific British author of Westerns.
691* Creator/WarrenEllis: Vitriolic comic book writer best-known for writing the ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' series.
692* Creator/BenElton
693* Creator/GarthEnnis: co-created the ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' comic book series and revived ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' line.
694* Creator/LionelFanthorpe
695* Creator/NicholasFisk
696* Creator/IanFleming: Creator of Franchise/JamesBond '''and''' ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
697* Creator/EMForster
698* Creator/FrederickForsyth
699* Creator/DickFrancis: British jockey and crime/mystery writer.
700* Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser: Creator of ''Literature/{{Flashman}}''.
701* Creator/StephenFry
702* Creator/NeilGaiman: Creator of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' as well as accomplished novelist and screenplay writer.
703* Creator/AlanGarner
704* Creator/DavidGemmell
705* Creator/MaryGentle
706* Creator/SimonRGreen
707* Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}}
708* Creator/PhilippaGregory
709* Creator/ArthurHailey: Lived mostly in Canada and the Bahamas
710* Creator/PeterFHamilton: Author of Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy, Greg Mandel, Commonwealth Saga and Void Trilogies.
711* Creator/IreneHandl
712* Creator/SophieHannah: Crime-psychological author.
713* Creator/ThomasHardy: By the beginning of the 20th century, Hardy stopped writing novels and exclusively wrote poetry for the rest of his life.
714* Creator/LPHartley
715* Creator/StephenHawking: Non-fiction, plus a children's fiction series co-authored with his daughter.
716* Creator/RChetwyndHayes
717* Creator/JamesHerbert
718* Creator/JamesHerriot: The archetypal KindlyVet.
719* Creator/GeorgetteHeyer: Does Regency Romance. Heavily inspired by Creator/JaneAusten.
720* Creator/JackHiggins
721* Creator/TomHolt
722* Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson
723* Creator/AnthonyHorowitz
724* Creator/StephenHunt
725* Creator/AldousHuxley
726* Creator/EvaIbbotson
727* Creator/DavidIcke: Conspiracy theorist.
728* Creator/EricIdle
729* Creator/MichaelInnes
730* Creator/JillIreland
731* Creator/KazuoIshiguro: Novelist born in Japan but raised from childhood in England; 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works include ''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'' and ''Literature/NeverLetMeGo''.
732* Creator/BrianJacques
733* Creator/RobinJarvis
734* Creator/TerryJones: Former Monty Python member who wrote novels about medieval topics as well as children's fantasy novels.
735* Creator/JudithKerr
736* Creator/GarryKilworth
737* Creator/RonaldKnox
738* Creator/LyndaLaPlante
739* Creator/DavidLangford
740* Creator/PhilipLarkin
741* UsefulNotes/TELawrence: He wrote extensively about his archaeological and wartime experiences.
742* Creator/NigellaLawson: Journalist, restaurant critic, food writer and author of several bestselling cookery books.
743* Creator/TanithLee
744* Creator/CSLewis: Best known for writing ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' and ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters''. A good friend of Creator/JRRTolkien, with whom he had a friendly rivalry.
745* Creator/BrianLumley
746* Creator/KenMacLeod
747* Creator/IanMarter
748* Creator/JohnMasefield
749* Creator/GrahamMasterton
750* Creator/DaphneDuMaurier
751* Creator/PhilMasters
752* Creator/IanMcDonald
753* Creator/RobertMcNairWilson
754* Creator/MartinMillar
755* Creator/AAMilne
756* Creator/DavidMitchellAuthor
757* Creator/NancyMitford
758* Creator/MichaelMoorcock
759* Creator/AlanMoore: Comic book writer and novelist. Best known for his work on ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' as well as his stories such as the ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ''Comicbook/VForVendetta'', and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
760* Creator/HectorHughMunro (Saki)
761* Creator/PatrickNess: Moved to England at 28 years old.
762* Creator/KimNewman
763* Creator/GeorgeOrwell: Political writer and journalist. Creator of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Literature/AnimalFarm''. Has contributed several well-known phrases to the English language, including "Orwellian" as a byword for authoritarianism and censorship. TropeNamer for BigBrotherIsWatching.
764* Creator/KJParker
765* Creator/BillPertwee
766* Creator/EllisPeters
767* Creator/AlanPlater: Wrote ''Literature/{{Misterioso}}'' (1987) and ''[[Literature/OliversTravels Oliver's Travels]]'' (1994).
768* Creator/MarcPlatt
769* Creator/BeatrixPotter: Writer and illustrator of much-loved morality tales for children, including a series revolving around the feisty CivilizedAnimal Peter Rabbit.
770* Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist The British author, as distinct from the American comic book writer of the same name.
771* Creator/HaroldPinter
772* Creator/TerryPratchett: Author of the Literature/{{Discworld}} series.
773* Creator/AnthonyPrice
774* Creator/JBPriestley
775* Creator/PhilipPullman, author of the controversial fantasy series ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials''.
776* Creator/RobertRankin: Author of self-described "Far-fetched fiction".
777* Creator/MaryRenault
778* Creator/RuthRendell
779* Creator/DerekRobinson
780* Creator/ZoeKirkRobinson
781* Creator/BertrandRussell: Tremendously influential philosopher and mathematician who focused on essay writing in his later years, and apparently kicked enough ass at it to win the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature. Famous for his vigorous skepticism and anti-war work.
782* Creator/SalmanRushdie
783* Creator/EdwardRutherfurd
784* Creator/EricFrankRussell
785* Creator/AlastairReynolds: Sci-fi/SpaceOpera author, creator of the ''Revelation Space'' universe.
786* Creator/MichaelRosen
787* Creator/JKRowling: The creator of ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
788* Creator/RosieRushton
789* Creator/RafaelSabatini
790* Creator/{{Saki}} (pen name of H.H. Munro)
791* Creator/SiegfriedSassoon
792* Creator/DorothyLSayers
793* Creator/KarlSchroeder
794* Creator/CharlesSheffield
795* Creator/PeterSimple (a pseudonym of Michael Wharton)
796* Creator/NevilShute
797* Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith
798* Creator/NicholasSparks
799* Creator/LewisSpence: Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.
800* Creator/LudwigWittgenstein: Became a British citizen in 1939.
801* Creator/OlafStapledon
802* Creator/TomSharpe
803* Creator/MaryStewart
804* Creator/TomStoppard
805* Creator/NoelStreatfeild
806* Creator/RosemarySutcliff: writer of historical fiction; best known for ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth''.
807* Creator/RobertSwindells
808* Creator/JosephineTey
809* Creator/DylanThomas
810* Creator/JRRTolkien: Oxford professor and linguist who created the Middle-Earth legendarium, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The father of modern fantasy. Good friends with Creator/CSLewis.
811* Creator/EllestonTrevor, who wrote under several pseudonyms, including Adam Hall (author of the ''Literature/{{Quiller}}'' espionage novels).
812* Creator/SueTownsend
813* Creator/JeanUre, a children's/young adult author who writes books similar to the style of Creator/JacquelineWilson.
814* Creator/SarahWaters
815* Creator/EvelynWaugh
816* Creator/IrvineWelsh
817* Creator/RobertWestall
818* Creator/DennisWheatley
819* Creator/THWhite, author of the Arthurian retelling ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''.
820* Creator/CharlesWilliams
821* Creator/ColinWilson
822* Creator/JacquelineWilson: Popular author of children's and teenage fiction.
823* Creator/PGWodehouse: Prolific and enormously entertaining comic writer, helped shape the image of the GenteelInterbellumSetting.
824* Creator/VirginiaWoolf: Modernist, famous for her feminist politics and being the [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]] for "stream of consciousness" writing.
825* Creator/JohnWyndham
826* Creator/DianaWynneJones
827[[/folder]]
828
829[[folder:Canadian]]
830* Creator/MargaretAtwood
831* Creator/MaryGrahamBonner
832* Creator/PauletteBourgeois
833* Creator/SigmundBrouwer
834* Creator/EleanorCameron
835* Creator/DouglasCoupland
836* Creator/JulieECzerneda
837* Creator/StevenErikson: [[FantasyLiterature Fantasy]] writer.
838* Creator/CoryDoctorow
839* Creator/TimothyFindley
840* Creator/LawrenceHill
841* Creator/NaloHopkinson
842* Creator/TanyaHuff
843* Creator/WilliamGibson
844* Creator/BarbaraGowdy
845* Creator/GuyGavrielKay
846* Creator/WPKinsella
847* Creator/GordonKorman
848* Creator/MargaretLaurence: Award-winning Canadian author.
849* Creator/RobinLaws
850* Creator/CharlesDeLint
851* Creator/AnnMarieMacDonald: Canadian author and playwright.
852* Creator/LMMontgomery
853* Creator/AliceMunro: Short story author and winner of the 2013 UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature
854* Creator/KennethOppel
855* Creator/MordecaiRichler (Author of darkly humourous books, with characters drawn from the Montreal Jewish community and beyond.)
856* Creator/SpiderRobinson (Science Fiction writer who gives Piers Anthony a run for his money when it comes to the puns).
857* Creator/RichardRohmer
858* Creator/JoelRosenberg
859* Creator/RobertJSawyer : Sci-fi writer whose work often explores issues with artificial intelligence and consciousness.
860* Creator/PatrickSenecal (horror/mystery/suspense suthor from Quebec)
861* Creator/MichaelSlade : Author of horror/crime fiction, often called the "Canadian Stephen King.
862* Creator/AEVanVogt (another sci-fi writer with a thing for ugly monsters, corrupt monarchies, and Aristotelian philosophy.)
863* Creator/EricWalters (started in 1993)
864* Creator/PeterWatts
865* Creator/RobertCharlesWilson
866[[/folder]]
867
868[[folder:Chilean]]
869* Creator/IsabelAllende
870* Creator/RobertoBolano
871* Creator/GabrielaMistral
872* Creator/PabloNeruda
873[[/folder]]
874
875[[folder:Chinese]]
876%%Surname comes first
877* Creator/JinYong: Prolific author, and one of, if not ''the'' biggest author in the genre of {{Wuxia}}.
878* Creator/LuXun: Founder of modern Chinese literature.
879* Creator/MoYan: UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature winning author.
880[[/folder]]
881
882[[folder:Colombian]]
883* Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez: Man whose name is engraved in MagicRealism.
884[[/folder]]
885
886[[folder:Czech]]
887* [[Creator/JiriKulhanek Jiří Kulhánek]]: Author of vampire fiction
888* [[Creator/KarelCapek Karel Čapek]]: A very influential writer, intellectual, journalist, playwright, translator and an amateur photographer.
889[[/folder]]
890
891[[folder:Danish]]
892* Creator/HenrikDrescher, author of Literature/PatTheBeastie.
893* Creator/SvenHassel
894[[/folder]]
895
896[[folder:Dutch]]
897
898* Creator/TheaBeckman
899* Creator/TaisTeng
900* Creator/HermanVanVeen
901[[/folder]]
902
903[[folder:Finnish]]
904* Creator/ToveJansson
905[[/folder]]
906
907[[folder:French]]
908* Creator/ReneBarjavel, science-fiction and anticipation writer
909* Creator/RolandBarthes, literary critic and academic, pioneer of structuralism and post-structuralism.
910* Creator/AlbertCamus, existentialist and absurdist writer. His best-known novel is ''Literature/TheStranger''.
911* Creator/FrancisCarsac, geologist and science fiction writer
912* Creator/JacquesDerrida, pioneer of the concept of {{Deconstruction}}
913* Creator/CharlesExbrayat
914* Creator/AntoineDeSaintExupery, author of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''
915* Creator/JeanGenet, author of ''Literature/QuerelleDeBrest''.
916* Creator/JorisKarlHuysmans
917* Creator/MilanKundera, born Czech but a citizen of France who considers himself a French writer, known for ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing.''
918* Creator/GabrielMarcel
919* Creator/RobertMerle
920* Creator/MarcelPagnol, author of the Marseille Trilogy and the ''Souvenirs d'enfance'' cycle.
921* Creator/CharlesPeguy
922* Creator/MarcelProust, author of ''A La Recherche du Temps Perdu'' (English title: ''In Search of Lost Time'' or ''Remembrance of Things Past'')
923* Creator/JeanPaulSartre
924* UsefulNotes/PierreTeilhardDeChardin
925* Creator/BernardWerber, author of ''Les Fourmis''
926[[/folder]]
927
928[[folder:German]]
929* Creator/BertoltBrecht
930* Creator/MichaelEnde
931* Creator/CorneliaFunke
932* Creator/GunterGrass
933* Creator/HermannHesse: Nobel Prize winning author of books like ''Siddhartha'', ''Steppenwolf'', ''Demian'', and ''Literature/TheGlassBeadGame''.
934* Creator/DietrichVonHildebrand
935* Creator/{{Janosch}}
936* Creator/ErnstJunger: A veteran of both world wars turned novelist.
937* Creator/FranzKafka: A german-writing author of surrealist literature. Considered a rather influential writer despite completing and publishing very little. Best known for ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' and ''The Trial''.
938* Creator/WalterMoers
939* Creator/OtfriedPreussler
940* Creator/RafikSchami
941* Creator/WGSebald
942* Creator/KurtTucholsky
943[[/folder]]
944
945[[folder:Indian]]
946* Creator/JhumpaLahiri (Indian-American writer, writes mostly about Indian immigrants to America)
947* Creator/SalmanRushdie
948* Creator/VikramShandra
949[[/folder]]
950
951[[folder:Irish]]
952* Creator/MaeveBinchy
953* Creator/EoinColfer
954* Creator/JohnConnolly
955* Creator/LordDunsany: Early and prolific fantasy author best known for ''Literature/TheGodsOfPegana''. Highly admired by Creator/HPLovecraft and also influenced authors ranging from Tolkien to Gaiman.
956* Creator/JamesJoyce: Not too shabby: in 1998, ''Modern Library'' ranked ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' No. 1, and ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'' No. 3, on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
957* Creator/MarianKeyes: pioneer of ChickLit.
958* Creator/PaulKearney, fantasy author, often compared to Creator/DavidGemmell.
959* Creator/SpikeMilligan
960* Creator/FlannOBrien
961* Creator/ArdalOHanlon
962* Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, a prolific writer of plays and social activist.
963* Creator/HenryDeVereStacpoole
964* Creator/WilliamButlerYeats
965
966[[/folder]]
967
968[[folder:Israeli]]
969* Creator/EphraimKishon
970[[/folder]]
971
972[[folder:Italian]]
973* Creator/ItaloCalvino
974* Creator/UmbertoEco
975* Creator/PieroScaruffi
976[[/folder]]
977
978[[folder:Japanese]]
979* Creator/FumikoEnchi
980* Creator/ShusakuEndo
981* Creator/ShuheiFujisawa
982* Creator/ShigesatoItoi - he's published quite a few books, but it's not his primary profession.
983* Creator/YukioMishima
984* Creator/RyoMizuno - novelist and game designer
985* Creator/HarukiMurakami
986* Creator/RyuMurakami
987* Creator/FuyumiOno
988* Creator/YoshikiTanaka
989* Creator/NahokoUehashi
990* Creator/TakashiYanase: Japanese children's book author and illustrator, known for touching on [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment darker]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids and heavier subject matter for children and families]]. His best-known works are ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'', which spawned an entire franchise, and ''[[Japanese/RingingBell Chirin no Suzu]]'' (''Chirin's Bell'') [[note]] Known as ''Ringing Bell'' in Anglophone regions. [[/note]], which gained a film adaptation in 1978 by Creator/{{Sanrio}}.
991* Creator/MurasakiYukiya
992
993[[/folder]]
994
995[[folder:New Zealand]]
996* Creator/MargaretMahy
997* Creator/CherryWilder
998[[/folder]]
999
1000[[folder:Nigerian]]
1001* Creator/ChinuaAchebe
1002[[/folder]]
1003
1004[[folder:Norwegian]]
1005* Creator/GerdBrantenberg
1006[[/folder]]
1007
1008[[folder:Peruvian]]
1009* Creator/MarioVargasLlosa
1010[[/folder]]
1011
1012[[folder:Polish]]
1013* Creator/JosephConrad: Polish-born English writer who did not speak English fluently until his twenties.
1014* Creator/JacekDukaj
1015* Creator/StefanGrabinski
1016* Creator/StanislawLem
1017* Creator/AndrzejSapkowski
1018[[/folder]]
1019
1020[[folder:Portuguese]]
1021* Creator/JoseSaramago
1022[[/folder]]
1023
1024[[folder:Russian]]
1025* Creator/MikhailAkhmanov
1026* Creator/AndreiBelyanin
1027* Creator/JosephBrodsky
1028* Creator/KirBulychev: Creator of ScienceFiction series such as ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture''.
1029* Creator/OlegDivov: Popular modern scifi author.
1030* Creator/YuliaLatynina
1031* Creator/AndreyLivadny
1032* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko: ''Literature/NightWatchSeries''.
1033* Creator/VladimirNabokov: Wrote a lot of stuff worth seeking out, but best known for "[[Literature/{{Lolita}} that novel with the pervy old guy]]".
1034* Creator/VictorPelevin
1035* Creator/NickPerumov
1036* Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn
1037* The Creator/StrugatskyBrothers: Authors of Soviet ScienceFiction and satire.
1038* Creator/VladimirVasilyev: co-wrote the ''Day Watch'' with Lukyanenko, but is also the author of many original works.
1039[[/folder]]
1040
1041[[folder:Spanish]]
1042* Creator/JuanFerrándiz
1043* Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca: Famous Andalusian playwright and poet full of angst. Killed right at the beginning of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar.
1044* Creator/ArturoPerezReverte
1045* Creator/CarlosRuizZafon
1046[[/folder]]
1047
1048[[folder:South African]]
1049* Creator/DaveFreer
1050* Creator/WilburSmith
1051* Creator/HjalmarThesen
1052[[/folder]]
1053
1054[[folder:Swedish]]
1055* Creator/AstridLindgren
1056* Creator/HakanNesser
1057* Creator/AkeOhlmarks
1058[[/folder]]
1059
1060[[folder:Swiss]]
1061* UsefulNotes/CarlJung
1062[[/folder]]
1063
1064[[folder:Thai]]
1065* Creator/SPSomtow
1066[[/folder]]
1067
1068[[folder:Turkish]]
1069* Creator/OrhanPamuk
1070[[/folder]]
1071
1072[[folder:West Indian]]
1073* Creator/AnthonyWinkler: Jamaican-born author and lecturer, he is the writer of several novels set in Jamaica, including ''Literature/TheLunatic,'' ''Literature/ThePaintedCanoe,'' and his autobiographical work ''Literature/GoingHomeToTeach.''
1074[[/folder]]

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