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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Name	Lifespan	Other Names
Janet Evanovich	1943-	(Schneider)
Louise Glück	1943-
Peter Carey	1943-
Pat Barker	1943-
Nikki Giovanni	1943-
Hrvoje Hitrec	1943-
LaVyrle Spencer	1943-
Rose Tremain	1943-	(Thomson)
Tor Edvin Dahl	1943-
Neale Donald Walsch	1943-
Michael Ondaatje	1943-
R. L. Stine	1943-
Sam Shepard	1943-2017
Marilynne Robinson	1943-	(Summers)
Hanoch Levin	1943-1999
Witi Ihimaera	1944-	(Smiler)
Alice Walker	1944-
Richard Ford	1944-
Christopher Hope	1944-
Gerrit Komrij	1944-2012
Liza Cody	1944-
Kjartan Fløgstad	1944-
Milovan Vitezović	1944-2022
Marcia Muller	1944-
Katharine Kerr	1944-
Jules Deelder	1944-2019
Maarten 't Hart	1944-
Botho Strauß	1944-
Eddy C. Bertin	1944-2018
Michael Dorris	1945-1997	(North)
August Wilson	1945-2005
Justin Cartwright	1945-2018
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1945-1982
Robert Munsch	1945-
Dean Koontz	1945-
Patrick Modiano	1945-
John Banville	1945-
Jacqueline Wilson	1945-	(Aitken)
Julian Barnes	1946-
John Trudell	1946-2015
Sue Townsend	1946-2014
James Kelman	1946-
Mensje van Keulen	1946-	(Meloen, van der Steen)
Daša Drndić	1946-2018
Pavao Pavličić	1946-
Tessa de Loo	1946-	(Duyvené de Wit)
Philip Pullman	1946-
Elfriede Jelinek	1946-
Marina Warner	1946-
Jack Ketchum	1946-2018	(Mayr)
Francine Rivers	1947-
Paul Auster	1947-
Yehonatan Geffen	1947-2023
Rupert Holmes	1947-	(Goldstein)
Keri Hulme	1947-2021
James Patterson	1947-
Tom Clancy	1947-2013
Michael Ignatieff	1947-
Sara Paretsky	1947-
Salman Rushdie	1947-
Octavia E. Butler	1947-2006
Linda Hogan	1947-
Danielle Steel	1947-	(Schuelein)
Paulo Coelho	1947-
Jude Deveraux	1947-	(Gilliam)
Stephen King	1947-
Şadi Üçüncü	1948-2004
Robert Jordan	1948-2007	(Rigney)
Henning Mankell	1948-2015
Eckhart Tolle	1948-
Leslie Marmon Silko	1948-
Margaret Weis	1948-
William Gibson	1948-
Terry Pratchett	1948-2015
Wendy Rose	1948-	(Edwards, Khanshendel)
Svetlana Alexievich	1948-
Ian McEwan	1948-
Andrzej Sapkowski	1948-
Kathy Reichs	1948-
Slobodan Šnajder	1948-
S. E. Hinton	1948-
Goran Tribuson	1948-
George R. R. Martin	1948-
Achmat Dangor	1948-2020
Kristina Lugn	1948-2020
Abdulrazak Gurnah	1948-
Olivia Goldsmith	1949-2004	(Goldfield, Rendal)
Haruki Murakami	1949-
Elizabeth George	1949-
Patrick Süskind	1949-
Dubravka Ugrešić	1949-2023
Graham Swift	1949-
Michèle Roberts	1949-
Ken Follett	1949-
Denis Johnson	1949-2017
Slavenka Drakulić	1949-
Jill Murphy	1949-2021
Richard Russo	1949-
Martin Amis	1949-2023
Jane Smiley	1949-
Leonida Lari	1949-2011
Anna Wintour	1949-
Elena Ferrante	19xx-
Josh Malerman	19xx-
Ahdaf Soueif	1950-
Jancis Robinson	1950-
Jeffery Deaver	1950-
Mercedes Lackey	1950-	(Ritchie)
Lee Maracle	1950-2021
Nora Roberts	1950-	(Hardesty, March, Robertson)
Kate Grenville	1950-
Timothy Mo	1950-
Şakir Bilgin	1951-
Michael Scott Rohan	1951-2018
Nedim Gürsel	1951-
Joy Harjo	1951-	(Foster)
Oscar Hijuelos	1951-2013
Charlaine Harris	1951-	(Schulz)
Tomson Highway	1951-
William Boyd	1952-
Douglas Adams	1952-2001
Diane Duane	1952-
Orhan Pamuk	1952-
Enis Batur	1952-
Rohinton Mistry	1952-
Hilary Mantel	1952-2022
Jostein Gaarder	1952-
Michael Cunningham	1952-
Sebastian Faulks	1953-
Tess Gerritsen	1953-	(Tom)
Thomas Ligotti	1953-
Herta Müller	1953-
Alan Moore	1953-
Romesh Gunesekera	1954-
Magnus Mills	1954-
Melanie Rawn	1954-
Renate Dorrestein	1954-2018
Leon de Winter	1954-
Jon Krakauer	1954-
Alan Hollinghurst	1954-
Louise Erdrich	1954-
Stieg Larsson	1954-2004
Željko Ivanković	1954-
Goderdzi Chokheli	1954-2007
Kazuo Ishiguro	1954-
John Grisham	1955-
Mo Yan	1955-	(Guan)
Patrick McCabe	1955-
Anthony Horowitz	1955-
Barbara Kingsolver	1955-
Paul van Loon	1955-
Colm Tóibín	1955-
Sebastian Barry	1955-
Raymond Benson	1955-
Geraldine Brooks	1955-
Richard Wagamese	1955-2017
Rupert Thomson	1955-
Connie Palmen	1955-
Elizabeth Strout	1956-
Rosina Lippi	1956-	(Green)
Ha Jin	1956-
Philip Kerr	1956-2018
Michel Houellebecq	1956-
Boris Akunin	1956-	(Chkhartishvili)
Patricia Cornwell	1956-
Anthony Bourdain	1956-2018
Katherine Applegate	1956-
C. S. Friedman	1957-
Vinette Ebrahim	1957-
Sara Douglass	1957-2011	(Warneke)
Richard Powers	1957-
Guillermo Arriaga	1958-	(Jordán)
Caryl Phillips	1958-
Benjamin Zephaniah	1958-2023	(Springer)
Roddy Doyle	1958-
Candace Bushnell	1958-
George Saunders	1958-
Tami Hoag	1959-	(Mikkelson)
Laura Lippman	1959-
Ben Okri	1959-
Julijana Matanović	1959-
Bernardine Evaristo	1959-
Jonathan Franzen	1959-
Winona LaDuke	1959-
Jon Fosse	1959-
Tibor Fischer	1959-
Mick Jackson	1960-
Velma Wallis	1960-
W. Bruce Cameron	1960-
Jeffrey Eugenides	1960-
Jo Nesbø	1960-
Ian Rankin	1960-
P. C. Cast	1960-
Kate Saunders	1960-2023
Almudena Grandes	1960-2021	(Hernández)
Tim Winton	1960-
Mirjam Oldenhave	1960-
L. J. Smith	c. 1960-
Neil Gaiman	1960-
Kevin Henkes	1960-
Trezza Azzopardi	1961-
DBC Pierre	1961-	(Finlay)
Miro Gavran	1961-
Zoran Ferić	1961-
Jessica Durlacher	1961-
Arundhati Roy	1961-
Olga Tokarczuk	1962-
David Foster Wallace	1962-2008
Chuck Palahniuk	1962-
Melinda Metz	1962-
Pia Juul	1962-2020
Jordan Peterson	1962-
Drew Hayden Taylor	1962-
Suzanne Collins	1962-
Ali Smith	1962-
Jennifer Egan	1962-
E. L. James	1963-	(Mitchell)
Màrius Serra	1963-	(Roig)
Michael Chabon	1963-
Simon Armitage	1963-
Yann Martel	1963-
Malcolm Gladwell	1963-
Alice Sebold	1963-
Damon Galgut	1963-
Joost Zwagerman	1963-2015
Derviş Zaim	1964-
Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun"	1964-	(Kluun)
David Baddiel	1964-
Rick Riordan	1964-
Dan Brown	1964-
Lucinda Riley	1965-2021	(Edmonds)
Khaled Hosseini	1965-
Heleen van Royen	1965-
Tracy Letts	1965-
Zoë Heller	1965-
J. K. Rowling	1965-
Kate Summerscale	1965-
A. L. Kennedy	1965-
Jurica Pavičić	1965-
Sherrilyn Kenyon	1965-
Ronald Giphart	1965-
Nicholas Sparks	1965-
Alona Kimhi	1966-
Cvetka Lipuš	1966-
Philip Reeve	1966-
Jodi Picoult	1966-
Miljenko Jergović	1966-
Amélie Nothomb	1966-
Sarah Waters	1966-
Sherman Alexie	1966-
Joseph Boyden	1966-
Cynthia Leitich Smith	1967-
Natasha Walter	1967-
Muhsin al-Ramli	1967-
Jhumpa Lahiri	1967-
Etgar Keret	1967-
Monica Ali	1967-
M. J. Hyland	1968-
Junot Díaz	1968-
David Mitchell	1969-
Elizabeth Gilbert	1969-
Tyler Perry	1969-
Colson Whitehead	1969-
Sophie Kinsella	1969-	(Townley, Wickham)
Hisham Matar	1970-
Lada Žigo	1970-
Julia Quinn	1970-	(Cotler, Pottinger)
Garth Ennis	1970-
Daniel Handler	1970-	(Snicket)
Ante Tomić	1970-
Naomi Klein	1970-
Ebru Umar	1970-
Olen Steinhauer	1970-
Jonathan Stroud	1970-
Marlon James	1970-
Arnon Grunberg	1971-
Gillian Flynn	1971-
Ivana Šojat	1971-
Rebecca Roanhorse	1971-
Kiran Desai	1971-
Elif Shafak	1971-
Marente de Moor	1972-
Stephen Graham Jones	1972-
Marius von Mayenburg	1972-
Marica Bodrožić	1973-
Patrick Rothfuss	1973-
Cassandra Clare	1973-
Codrin Ţapu	1973-
Stephenie Meyer	1973-
Sarah Hall	1974-
Jeaniene Frost	1974-
Camilla Läckberg	1974-
Olja Savičević	1974-
Leigh Bardugo	1975-
Markus Zusak	1975-
Zakhar Prilepin	1975-
Jay Asher	1975-
Zadie Smith	1975-
Brandon Sanderson	1975-
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan	1976-
Lilith Saintcrow	1976-
Ivica Đikić	1977-
Jonathan Safran Foer	1977-
Guzel Yakhina	1977-
John Green	1977-
Nalini Singh	1977-
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	1977-
Danai Gurira	1978-
Perez Hilton	1978-
Natalie Diaz	1978-
Soman Chainani	1979-
Lin-Manuel Miranda	1980-
Christopher Paolini	1983-
Phoebe Waller-Bridge	1985-
Celine Song	1988-
Rutger Bregman	1988-
Veronica Roth	1988-