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