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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enheduanna | ?-22xx BC |  | |
| Hesiod | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Homer | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Archilochus | c. 680-c. 645 BC | | |
| Alcaeus of Mytilene | c. 625-c. 580 BC | | |
| Sappho | c. 620-570 BC | | |
| Aesop | c. 620-c. 564 BC | | |
| Anacreon | c. 575-c. 495 BC | | |
| Simonides of Ceos | c. 556-468 BC | | |
| Valmiki | ?-5xx BC | | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | | |
| Pindar | c. 522-443 BC | | |
| Sophocles | c. 497-c. 406 BC | | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-c. 386 BC | | |
| Menander | 342-291 BC | | |
| Qu Yuan | c. 340-278 BC | | |
| Callimachus | c. 310-c. 240 BC | | |
| Lucius Livius Andronicus | c. 284-c. 204 BC | | |
| Plautus | 254-184 BC | (Maccius) | |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ?-2xx BC | | |
| Ennius | c. 239-c. 169 BC | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Terence | 195-159 BC | (Terentius, Afer) | |
| Marcus Terentius Varro | 116-27 BC | | |
| Cornelius Nepos | c. 110-c. 25 BC | | |
| Catullus | 84-54 BC | (Valerius) | |
| Virgil | 70-19 BC | (Vergilius) | |
| Horace | 65-8 BC | (Horatius, Flaccus) | |
| Tibullus | 55-19 BC | (Albius) | |
| Seneca the Elder | 54 BC-39 | (Annaeus) | |
| Sextus Propertius | c. 50-c. 15 BC | | |
| Gaius Helvius Cinna | ?-44 BC | | |
| Ovid | 43 BC-17 | (Ovidius, Naso) | |
| Petronius | c. 27-66 | (Arbiter) | |
| Quintilian | 35-100 | (Fabius, Quintilianus) | |
| Lucan | 39-65 | (Annaeus, Lucanus) | |
| Martial | 40-102 | (Valerius, Martialis) | |
| Statius | c. 45-c. 96 | (Papinius) | |
| Pliny the Younger | 61-c. 113 | (Plinius, Caecilius, Secundus) | |
| Apuleius | c. 125-180 | (Madaurensis) | |
| Lucian of Samosata | c. 125-c. 180 | | |
| Juvenal | ?-1xx | (Iunius, Iuvenalis) | |
| Diogenes Laertius | ?-2xx | | |
| Kalidasa | ?-4xx | | |
| Taliesin | ?-c. 600 | | |
| Wang Wei | 699-759 | | |
| Li Bai | 701-762 | | |
| Du Fu | 712-770 | (Tu) | |
| Abu Nuwas al-Hasan al-Hakami | c. 756-c. 814 | | |
| Mansur al-Hallaj | c. 858-922 | (Hallaj) | |
| Ferdowsi | 940-1020 | | |
| Ahmad ibn Fadlan | ?-9xx | | |
| Sei Shōnagon | c. 966-c. 1017 | | |
| Murasaki Shikibu | c. 973-c. 1014 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Nizami Ganjavi | c. 1141-1209 | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (von Veldeke) | |
| Marie de France | 11xx-c. 1215 | | |
| Shota Rustaveli | c. 1160-c. 1220 | | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179-1241 | | |
| Shams Tabrizi | 1185-1248 | | |
| Nasir al-Din al-Tusi | 1201-1274 | | |
| Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | 1207-1273 | | |
| Saadi Shirazi | 1210-c. 1291 | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| Amir Khusrau | 1253-1325 | | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | c. 1300-1377 | | |
| Petrarch | 1304-1374 | (Petrarca) | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | | |
| Hafez | c. 1325-1390 | | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| Christine de Pizan | 1364-c. 1430 | | |
| Lorenzo Valla | c. 1407-1457 | | |
| Jami | 1414-1492 | | |
| François Villon | c. 1431-c. 1463 | | |
| Luigi Pulci | 1432-1484 | | |
| Ali-Shir Nava'i | 1441-1501 | | |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474-1533 | | |
| Muhammad "Fuzuli" bin Suleyman | 1483-1556 | | |
| Vittoria Colonna | 1490-1547 | | |
| François Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | | |
| Mirabai | 1498-1547 | | |
| Wu Cheng'en | c. 1500-1582 | | |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1503-1566 | | |
| Petar Zoranić | 1508-1569 | | |
| Giorgio Vasari | 1511-1574 | | |
| Tulsidas | 1511-1623 | | |
| Gaspara Stampa | 1523-1554 | | |
| Luís de Camões | c. 1524-1580 | (Vaz, de Camoens) | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | (Eyquem) | |
| Torquato Tasso | 1544-1595 | | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | | |
| Edmund Spenser | c. 1552-1599 | | |
| Cvijeta Zuzorić | c. 1552-1648 | (Zuzzeri) | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| Moderata Fonte | 1555-1592 | (di Pozzo di Forzi) | |
| Lope de Vega | 1562-1635 | | |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Francisco de Quevedo | 1580-1645 | | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Ivan Gundulić | 1589-1638 | | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 1600-1681 | | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| François de La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680 | | |
| Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619-1655 | | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | (Molière) | |
| Reyer Anslo | 1622-1669 | | |
| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal | 1626-1696 | | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | | |
| Madame de La Fayette | 1634-1693 | (de La Vergne) | |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | 1636-1711 | | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | | |
| Matsuo Bashō | 1644-1694 | | |
| Juana Inés de la Cruz | 1648-1695 | | |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 | | |
| Daniel Defoe | c. 1660-1731 | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire" | 1694-1778 | (Voltaire) | |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707-1793 | | |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784 | | |
| Cao Xueqin | 1710-1765 | | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725-1798 | | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729-1781 | | |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | 1732-1799 | | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740-1814 | (de Sade) | |
| Isabelle de Charrière | 1740-1805 | (van Zuylen) | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | | |
| Frances Burney | 1752-1840 | | |
| Rhijnvis Feith | 1753-1824 | | |
| William Blake | 1757-1827 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | | |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | | |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1764-1823 | | |
| Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos | 1764-1809 | | |
| Germaine de Staël | 1766-1817 | | |
| François-René de Chateaubriand | 1768-1848 | | |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | 1770-1843 | | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| Friedrich Schlegel | 1772-1829 | | |
| Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg "Novalis" | 1772-1801 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | | |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1776-1822 | | |
| Heinrich von Kleist | 1777-1811 | | |
| Stendhal | 1783-1842 | (Beyle) | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| Bettina von Arnim | 1785-1859 | | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | | |
| Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790-1869 | | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| Mary Shelley | 1797-1851 | | |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856 | | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798-1837 | | |
| Adam Mickiewicz | 1798-1855 | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | | |
| Mihály Vörösmarty | 1800-1855 | | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Prosper Mérimée | 1803-1870 | | |
| George Sand | 1804-1876 | (Dupin) | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| Prudens van Duyse | 1804-1859 | | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806-1861 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809-1852 | | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Juliusz Słowacki | 1809-1849 | | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810-1865 | (Stevenson) | |
| Alfred de Musset | 1810-1857 | | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811-1863 | | |
| Théophile Gautier | 1811-1872 | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | 1812-1859 | | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| Edward Lear | 1812-1888 | | |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814-1841 | | |
| Taras Shevchenko | 1814-1861 | | |
| Lavrenti Ardaziani | 1815-1870 | | |
| Adolf Friedrich von Schack | 1815-1894 | | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | | |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| Domien Sleeckx | 1818-1901 | | |
| Emily Brontë | 1818-1848 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | | |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| George Eliot | 1819-1880 | (Evans) | |
| Anne Brontë | 1820-1849 | | |
| Božena Němcová | 1820-1862 | | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | (Multatuli) | |
| Anna Sewell | 1820-1878 | | |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1821-1881 | (Dostoevsky) | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas fils | 1824-1895 | | |
| George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | | |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826-1890 | | |
| John Rollin Ridge | 1827-1867 | | |
| Johanna Spyri | 1827-1901 | | |
| Ellen G. White | 1827-1915 | | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828-1882 | | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | | |
| Paul Heyse | 1830-1914 | | |
| Hector Malot | 1830-1907 | | |
| Frédéric Mistral | 1830-1914 | | |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886 | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| José Echegaray | 1832-1916 | | |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | | |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832-1910 | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| Vítězslav Hálek | 1835-1874 | | |
| Adolf Heyduk | 1835-1923 | | |
| Giosuè Carducci | 1835-1907 | | |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 1835-1915 | | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Clemens) | |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1836-1895 | | |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | 1836-1870 | | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| August Šenoa | 1838-1881 | (Schönoa) | |
| Sully Prudhomme | 1839-1907 | | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840-1897 | | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Abraham Goldfaden | 1840-1908 | (Goldnfoden) | |
| Karl May | 1842-1912 | | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | | |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | 1842-1898 | | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843-1920 | | |
| Paul Verlaine | 1844-1896 | | |
| Anatole France | 1844-1924 | | |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844-1929 | | |
| Carl Spitteler | 1845-1924 | | |
| Isidore Lucien Ducasse "Comte de Lautréamont" | 1846-1870 | | |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1846-1916 | | |
| Edmondo De Amicis | 1846-1908 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | | |
| Aleksandre Qazbegi | 1848-1893 | (Kazbegi) | |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848-1907 | | |
| Octave Mirbeau | 1848-1917 | | |
| August Strindberg | 1849-1912 | | |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849-1924 | | |
| Eugen Kumičić | 1850-1904 | | |
| Mihai Eminescu | 1850-1889 | | |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850-1893 | | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| Ante Kovačić | 1854-1889 | | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | | |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856-1925 | | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup | 1857-1919 | | |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857-1943 | | |
| Ida Tarbell | 1857-1944 | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | | |
| Josip Kozarac | 1858-1906 | | |
| E. Nesbit | 1858-1924 | (Bland) | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858-1940 | | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Sholem Aleichem | 1859-1916 | | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Verner von Heidenstam | 1859-1940 | | |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859-1952 | | |
| Vjenceslav Novak | 1859-1905 | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | | |
| Lou Andreas-Salomé | 1861-1937 | | |
| E. Pauline Johnson | 1861-1913 | | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1861-1941 | | |
| Janko Leskovar | 1861-1949 | | |
| Edith Wharton | 1862-1937 | | |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1862-1931 | | |
| M. R. James | 1862-1936 | | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | 1862-1949 | | |
| O. Henry | 1862-1910 | (Porter) | |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862-1946 | | |
| Adolf Paul | 1863-1943 | (Wiedersheim) | |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1863-1938 | | |
| Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis | 1863-1933 | (Cavafy) | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Jagoda Truhelka | 1864-1957 | | |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 1864-1931 | | |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar | 1864-1944 | | |
| Maurice Leblanc | 1864-1941 | | |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | | |
| Baroness Orczy | 1865-1947 | (Orczy de Orci) | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | | |
| Romain Rolland | 1866-1944 | | |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | | |
| Jacinto Benavente | 1866-1954 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | | |
| Rubén Darío | 1867-1916 | (García, Sarmiento) | |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1867-1957 | | |
| Władysław Reymont | 1867-1925 | | |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867-1936 | | |
| John Galsworthy | 1867-1933 | | |
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867-1915 | | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | (Peshkov) | |
| Gaston Leroux | 1868-1927 | | |
| Otokar Březina | 1868-1929 | (Jebavý) | |
| Eleanor H. Porter | 1868-1920 | (Hodgman) | |
| Stanisław Wyspiański | 1869-1907 | | |
| Brand Whitlock | 1869-1934 | | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1869-1946 | | |
| Iulia Hasdeu | 1869-1888 | | |
| André Gide | 1869-1951 | | |
| Jappe Nilssen | 1870-1931 | | |
| Ivan Bunin | 1870-1953 | | |
| Viktor Car Emin | 1870-1963 | | |
| Lesya Ukrainka | 1871-1913 | | |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Grazia Deledda | 1871-1936 | | |
| Paul Valéry | 1871-1945 | | |
| Zane Grey | 1872-1939 | | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872-1906 | | |
| Johannes V. Jensen | 1873-1950 | | |
| Colette | 1873-1954 | | |
| Marija Jurić Zagorka | 1873-1957 | | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1873-1945 | | |
| Willa Cather | 1873-1947 | | |
| Lola Ridge | 1873-1941 | | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | | |
| Gertrude Stein | 1874-1946 | | |
| Amy Lowell | 1874-1925 | | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | 1874-1938 | | |
| G. K. Chesterton | 1874-1936 | | |
| Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | | |
| Alice Dunbar Nelson | 1875-1935 | (Moore) | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875-1926 | | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | (Chaney) | |
| Zitkála-Šá | 1876-1938 | (Simmons, Bonnin) | |
| Vladimir Nazor | 1876-1949 | | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1876-1948 | | |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | 1876-1958 | | |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876-1941 | | |
| Flora Thompson | 1876-1947 | | |
| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 1876-1944 | | |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962 | | |
| Lloyd C. Douglas | 1877-1951 | | |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877-1938 | | |
| Endre Ady | 1877-1919 | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | (Sandberg) | |
| Robert Walser | 1878-1956 | | |
| Janusz Korczak | 1878-1942 | (Goldszmit) | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1878-1968 | | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite | 1878-1962 | | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | | |
| Beatrice Hastings | 1879-1943 | (Haigh) | |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1879-1949 | | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | | |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | | |
| Aleksandr Blok | 1880-1921 | | |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 | | |
| Carl Van Vechten | 1880-1964 | | |
| Dhanpat Rai "Premchand" Srivastava | 1880-1936 | | |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880-1918 | | |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson | 1880-1966 | (Camp) | |
| Robert Musil | 1880-1942 | | |
| Peretz Hirschbein | 1880-1948 | | |
| Roger Martin du Gard | 1881-1958 | | |
| Mary Webb | 1881-1927 | (Meredith) | |
| Lu Xun | 1881-1936 | (Zhou) | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | | |
| Stefan Zweig | 1881-1942 | | |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez | 1881-1958 | | |
| Yanka Kupala | 1882-1942 | (Lutsevich) | |
| Fan Noli | 1882-1965 | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | | |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| Anne Spencer | 1882-1975 | (Bannister) | |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire | 1882-1928 | | |
| Korney Chukovsky | 1882-1969 | | |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | 1882-1961 | | |
| Willem Elsschot | 1882-1960 | (De Ridder) | |
| Sigrid Undset | 1882-1949 | | |
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | 1882-1954 | | |
| Mina Loy | 1882-1966 | (Löwy) | |
| Khalil Gibran | 1883-1931 | | |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | 1883-1957 | | |
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883-1923 | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | | |
| Max Brod | 1884-1968 | | |
| Halide Edip Adıvar | 1884-1964 | | |
| Sara Teasdale | 1884-1933 | (Filsinger) | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | | |
| Babilina Khositashvili | 1884-1973 | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | | |
| Ring Lardner | 1885-1933 | | |
| Karen Blixen | 1885-1962 | (Dinesen) | |
| André Maurois | 1885-1967 | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1885-1968 | | |
| Elinor Wylie | 1885-1928 | (Hoyt) | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | | |
| Alain Locke | 1885-1954 | | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | (Hajibeyov) | |
| François Mauriac | 1885-1970 | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | | |
| Felix Timmermans | 1886-1947 | | |
| H. D. | 1886-1961 | (Doolittle) | |
| Zoe Akins | 1886-1958 | | |
| Janko Polić Kamov | 1886-1910 | | |
| Hedd Wyn | 1887-1917 | (Evans) | |
| Saint-John Perse | 1887-1975 | | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | | |
| John Reed | 1887-1920 | | |
| Marianne Moore | 1887-1972 | | |
| A. de Herz | 1887-1936 | | |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888-1935 | | |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 1888-1970 | | |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959 | | |
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1888-1964 | | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | | |
| Katherine Mansfield | 1888-1923 | (Beauchamp, Murry) | |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1888-1953 | | |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955 | (Carnagey) | |
| Gabriela Mistral | 1889-1957 | | |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889-1966 | | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963 | | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1889-1973 | | |
| Waldo Frank | 1889-1967 | | |
| Mikha'il Na'ima | 1889-1988 | | |
| Enid Bagnold | 1889-1981 | | |
| Zalman Shazar | 1889-1974 | (Rubashov) | |
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1889-1956 | | |
| Karel Čapek | 1890-1938 | | |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960 | | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1890-1980 | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | | |
| Jean Rhys | 1890-1979 | (Rees, Williams) | |
| Claude McKay | 1890-1948 | | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890-1976 | | |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1891-1940 | | |
| Ilya Ehrenburg | 1891-1967 | | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | 1891-1960 | | |
| Nella Larsen | 1891-1964 | (Walker) | |
| Pär Lagerkvist | 1891-1974 | | |
| Nelly Sachs | 1891-1970 | | |
| Henry Miller | 1891-1980 | | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1892-1950 | (Boyd) | |
| Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 1892-1927 | | |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892-1982 | | |
| Juš Kozak | 1892-1964 | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973 | | |
| Marina Tsvetaeva | 1892-1941 | | |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892-1975 | | |
| Galaktion Tabidze | 1892-1959 | | |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | 1893-1930 | | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893-1957 | | |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-1981 | | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1893-1960 | | |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894-1961 | | |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894-1961 | (Destouches) | |
| Paolo Iashvili | 1894-1937 | | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | | |
| Joseph Roth | 1894-1939 | | |
| Saken Seifullin | 1894-1939 | | |
| Jean Toomer | 1894-1967 | | |
| George Schuyler | 1895-1977 | | |
| Kolau Nadiradze | 1895-1990 | | |
| Titsian Tabidze | 1895-1937 | | |
| Ernst Jünger | 1895-1998 | | |
| Ngaio Marsh | 1895-1982 | | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | | |
| Sergei Yesenin | 1895-1925 | | |
| Peretz Markish | 1895-1952 | | |
| Paul Éluard | 1895-1952 | | |
| Andy Razaf | 1895-1973 | (Razafinkarefo) | |
| Noel Streatfeild | 1895-1986 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | | |
| Tristan Tzara | 1896-1963 | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1896-1953 | | |
| Antonin Artaud | 1896-1948 | | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | | |
| Eugenio Montale | 1896-1981 | | |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1896-1957 | | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1896-1956 | | |
| Eric Knight | 1897-1943 | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975 | | |
| Rudolph Fisher | 1897-1934 | | |
| Enid Blyton | 1897-1968 | | |
| Louise Bogan | 1897-1970 | | |
| Georges Bataille | 1897-1962 | | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | | |
| Louis Aragon | 1897-1982 | | |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898-1956 | | |
| Vicente Aleixandre | 1898-1984 | | |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898-1936 | | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898-1970 | | |
| Malcolm Cowley | 1898-1989 | | |
| Mate Balota | 1898-1963 | (Mirković) | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| May Miller | 1899-1995 | | |
| Mato Lovrak | 1899-1974 | | |
| Aksel Sandemose | 1899-1965 | (Nielsen) | |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973 | | |
| Kawabata Yasunari | 1899-1972 | | |
| Marita Bonner | 1899-1971 | (Occomy) | |
| Madelon Szekely-Lulofs | 1899-1958 | | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | | |
| Chief Dan George | 1899-1981 | (Slaholt, Slahoot) | |
| P. L. Travers | 1899-1996 | (Goff) | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | | |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias | 1899-1974 | | |
| Selwyn Jepson | 1899-1989 | | |
| Noël Coward | 1899-1973 | | |
| Jacques Prévert | 1900-1977 | | |
| Seán Ó Faoláin | 1900-1991 | (Whelan) | |
| Giorgos Seferis | 1900-1971 | | |
| Sándor Márai | 1900-1989 | | |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1900-1944 | | |
| Eyvind Johnson | 1900-1976 | | |
| James Hilton | 1900-1954 | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900-1949 | | |
| Anna Seghers | 1900-1983 | (Reiling) | |
| Halide Nusret Zorlutuna | 1901-1984 | | |
| Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | | |
| Sergiusz Piasecki | 1901-1964 | | |
| Barbara Cartland | 1901-2000 | | |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | 1901-1968 | | |
| Jaroslav Seifert | 1901-1986 | | |
| André Malraux | 1901-1976 | | |
| Nazım Hikmet | 1902-1963 | (Ran) | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | | |
| Halldór Laxness | 1902-1998 | | |
| Gwendolyn B. Bennett | 1902-1981 | | |
| Adolf Hoffmeister | 1902-1973 | | |
| Wallace Thurman | 1902-1934 | | |
| Ogden Nash | 1902-1971 | | |
| Arna Bontemps | 1902-1973 | | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1902-1991 | | |
| Irène Némirovsky | 1903-1942 | | |
| Georges Simenon | 1903-1989 | | |
| Anaïs Nin | 1903-1977 | (Culmell) | |
| Manly Wade Wellman | 1903-1986 | | |
| Countee Cullen | 1903-1946 | (Porter) | |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903-1987 | | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Blair) | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | (Seuss) | |
| Harry Martinson | 1904-1978 | | |
| Margery Allingham | 1904-1966 | | |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | | |
| Molly Keane | 1904-1996 | (Skrine) | |
| Graham Greene | 1904-1991 | | |
| Ayn Rand | 1905-1982 | | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1905-1989 | | |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | 1905-1984 | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | | |
| Elias Canetti | 1905-1994 | | |
| Mary Renault | 1905-1983 | (Challans) | |
| Vjekoslav Kaleb | 1905-1996 | | |
| Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | 1905-1982 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | 1906-1970 | | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Catherine Cookson | 1906-1998 | (McMullen) | |
| Richard Bruce Nugent | 1906-1987 | | |
| Helene Johnson | 1906-1995 | | |
| Henri Charrière | 1906-1973 | | |
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | 1906-1954 | | |
| James A. Michener | 1907-1997 | | |
| Sabahattin Ali | 1907-1948 | | |
| Lydia Chukovskaya | 1907-1996 | | |
| Daphne du Maurier | 1907-1989 | | |
| Dorothy West | 1907-1998 | | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | | |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907-2002 | | |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907-1990 | (Pincherle) | |
| Rumer Godden | 1907-1998 | | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908-1986 | | |
| Ivan Yefremov | 1908-1972 | | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1908-1963 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| Winston Graham | 1908-2003 | (Grime) | |
| Richard Wright | 1908-1960 | | |
| Harold Courlander | 1908-1996 | | |
| Mika Waltari | 1908-1979 | | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1909-1993 | | |
| Eudora Welty | 1909-2001 | | |
| Osamu Dazai | 1909-1948 | (Tsushima) | |
| Petar Šegedin | 1909-1998 | | |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909-1994 | | |
| James Agee | 1909-1955 | | |
| Meša Selimović | 1910-1982 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Direáin | 1910-1988 | | |
| Jean Genet | 1910-1986 | | |
| C. L. Moore | 1911-1987 | | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 1911-1986 | | |
| Sybille Bedford | 1911-2006 | (von Schoenebeck) | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | | |
| Emil Cioran | 1911-1995 | | |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt | 1911-1995 | | |
| Czesław Miłosz | 1911-2004 | | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| Odysseas Elytis | 1911-1996 | | |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911-2006 | | |
| Elsa Morante | 1912-1985 | | |
| Andre Norton | 1912-2005 | | |
| Lawrence Durrell | 1912-1990 | | |
| Lucille Fletcher | 1912-2000 | | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| John Cheever | 1912-1982 | | |
| Patrick White | 1912-1990 | | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1912-1975 | | |
| Jorge Amado | 1912-2001 | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Willy Vandersteen | 1913-1990 | | |
| Ranko Marinković | 1913-2001 | | |
| Ralph Ellison | 1913-1994 | | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Barbara Pym | 1913-1980 | | |
| Robert Hayden | 1913-1980 | (Sheffey) | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Claude Simon | 1913-2005 | | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914-1984 | | |
| Dudley Randall | 1914-2000 | | |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997 | | |
| Bohumil Hrabal | 1914-1997 | | |
| Octavio Paz | 1914-1998 | | |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914-1996 | (Donnadieu) | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914-1986 | | |
| Romain Gary | 1914-1980 | (Kacew) | |
| John Hersey | 1914-1993 | | |
| Tove Jansson | 1914-2001 | | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | | |
| Adolph Green | 1914-2002 | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1915-2019 | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| Margaret Walker | 1915-1998 | (Alexander) | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Bob Kane | 1915-1998 | | |
| Beverly Cleary | 1916-2021 | (Bunn) | |
| Camilo José Cela | 1916-2002 | | |
| Harold Robbins | 1916-1997 | | |
| Natalia Ginzburg | 1916-1991 | | |
| Frank Yerby | 1916-1991 | | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Shirley Jackson | 1916-1965 | | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916-2000 | | |
| Albert Mol | 1917-2004 | | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | | |
| Sidney Sheldon | 1917-2007 | | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Leonora Carrington | 1917-2011 | | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917-2000 | | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-2008 | | |
| Heinrich Böll | 1917-1985 | | |
| Muriel Spark | 1918-2006 | | |
| Hella Haasse | 1918-2011 | | |
| Mickey Spillane | 1918-2006 | | |
| A. L. Barker | 1918-2002 | | |
| P. H. Newby | 1918-1997 | | |
| C. Buddingh' | 1918-1985 | | |
| Jacqueline Susann | 1918-1974 | | |
| Madeleine L'Engle | 1918-2007 | (Camp) | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1918-2008 | | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | | |
| Emyr Humphreys | 1919-2020 | | |
| Richard Scarry | 1919-1994 | | |
| Iris Murdoch | 1919-1999 | | |
| Primo Levi | 1919-1987 | | |
| Stanley Middleton | 1919-2009 | | |
| Matilde Camus | 1919-2012 | | |
| Doris Lessing | 1919-2013 | (Tayler) | |
| Frank Kermode | 1919-2010 | | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Boris Vian | 1920-1959 | (Sullivan) | |
| D. J. Enright | 1920-2002 | | |
| Paul Scott | 1920-1978 | | |
| Marga Minco | 1920-2023 | (Menco) | |
| Richard Adams | 1920-2016 | | |
| P. D. James | 1920-2014 | | |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920-2012 | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | | |
| Mario Puzo | 1920-1999 | | |
| Paul Celan | 1920-1970 | (Antschel) | |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921-1990 | | |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921-1995 | (Plangman) | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1921-2017 | | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | | |
| Alex Haley | 1921-1992 | | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921-2006 | | |
| Hoimar von Ditfurth | 1921-1989 | | |
| Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | | |
| Anne Golon | 1921-2017 | | |
| Blaga Dimitrova | 1922-2003 | | |
| Ela Peroci | 1922-2001 | | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | | |
| Vesna Parun | 1922-2010 | | |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922-1995 | | |
| Etienne Leroux | 1922-1989 | | |
| Boy Lornsen | 1922-1995 | | |
| Vahagn Davtyan | 1922-1996 | | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| José Saramago | 1922-2010 | | |
| Grace Paley | 1922-2007 | | |
| Stan Lee | 1922-2018 | (Lieber) | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | | |
| Michael V. Gazzo | 1923-1995 | | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923-1999 | | |
| V. C. Andrews | 1923-1986 | | |
| Wisława Szymborska | 1923-2012 | | |
| Thea Beckman | 1923-2004 | (Beckmann, Petie) | |
| Bernice Rubens | 1923-2004 | | |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923-2015 | (Gökçeli) | |
| Italo Calvino | 1923-1985 | | |
| Ida Vitale | 1923- | | |
| Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | (van het Reve) | |
| Richard Hooker | 1924-1997 | (Hornberger) | |
| Jin Yong | 1924-2018 | (Cha) | |
| Claribel Alegría | 1924-2018 | (Vides) | |
| Thomas Berger | 1924-2014 | | |
| James Baldwin | 1924-1987 | (Jones) | |
| Leon Uris | 1924-2003 | | |
| Lucebert | 1924-1994 | (Swaanswijk) | |
| Rosamunde Pilcher | 1924-2019 | | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Slobodan Novak | 1924-2016 | | |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925-1970 | (Hiraoka) | |
| Nina Bawden | 1925-2012 | | |
| Jamiluddin Aali | 1925-2015 | (Khan) | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Derviš Sušić | 1925-1990 | | |
| William Styron | 1925-2006 | | |
| Leonie Ossowski | 1925-2019 | (Tiedemann, von Brandenstein) | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| William Wharton | 1925-2008 | (Du Aime) | |
| Carlos Castaneda | 1925-1998 | | |
| Hans Andreus | 1926-1977 | (van der Zant) | |
| Siegfried Lenz | 1926-2014 | | |
| Dario Fo | 1926-2016 | | |
| Anne McCaffrey | 1926-2011 | | |
| Harper Lee | 1926-2016 | | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Ain Kaalep | 1926-2020 | | |
| Ingeborg Bachmann | 1926-1973 | | |
| René Goscinny | 1926-1977 | | |
| Alison Lurie | 1926-2020 | | |
| John Berger | 1926-2017 | | |
| Jef Nys | 1927-2009 | | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014 | | |
| George Plimpton | 1927-2003 | | |
| Martin Walser | 1927-2023 | | |
| Corín Tellado | 1927-2009 | (López) | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927-2013 | | |
| Robert Ludlum | 1927-2001 | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Dick Bruna | 1927-2017 | | |
| Martin Caidin | 1927-1997 | | |
| Günter Grass | 1927-2015 | | |
| Mary Higgins Clark | 1927-2020 | | |
| William Peter Blatty | 1928-2017 | | |
| Judith Krantz | 1928-2019 | (Tarcher) | |
| Maya Angelou | 1928-2014 | | |
| Thomas Kinsella | 1928-2021 | | |
| William Trevor | 1928-2016 | (Cox) | |
| R. D. Wingfield | 1928-2007 | | |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928-2012 | | |
| Jane Gardam | 1928- | | |
| Anita Brookner | 1928-2016 | | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | 1928-2017 | | |
| Elie Wiesel | 1928-2016 | | |
| Alvin Toffler | 1928-2016 | | |
| Anne Sexton | 1928-1974 | (Harvey) | |
| Beppe Wolgers | 1928-1986 | | |
| Carlos Fuentes | 1928-2012 | | |
| Dolf Verroen | 1928- | | |
| Chinghiz Aitmatov | 1928-2008 | | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | | |
| Christa Wolf | 1929-2011 | | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929-2023 | | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | | |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | | |
| Jack Higgins | 1929-2022 | (Patterson) | |
| Remco Campert | 1929-2022 | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-2018 | (Kroeber) | |
| Imre Kertész | 1929-2016 | | |
| Michael Ende | 1929-1995 | | |
| Renate Rubinstein | 1929-1990 | | |
| Mahmut Makal | 1930-2018 | | |
| Jennifer Johnston | 1930- | | |
| Derek Walcott | 1930-2017 | | |
| Ruth Rendell | 1930-2015 | | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 1930-1965 | | |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1930-1999 | | |
| Ivan Slamnig | 1930-2001 | | |
| Barry Unsworth | 1930-2012 | | |
| Frank McCourt | 1930-2009 | | |
| Irena Vrkljan | 1930-2021 | | |
| Dixie Browning | 1930- | | |
| Ivan Aralica | 1930- | | |
| Colin Dexter | 1930-2017 | | |
| Harold Pinter | 1930-2008 | | |
| John Arden | 1930-2012 | | |
| Tonke Dragt | 1930- | | |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930-2013 | | |
| Clive Cussler | 1931-2020 | | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931-2015 | | |
| Mordecai Richler | 1931-2001 | | |
| Shirley Hazzard | 1931-2016 | | |
| Thomas Bernhard | 1931-1989 | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1931-2019 | (Wofford) | |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931-1989 | | |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 1931-2015 | | |
| Etheridge Knight | 1931-1991 | | |
| Alice Munro | 1931- | (Laidlaw) | |
| Caroline Graham | 1931- | | |
| Fay Weldon | 1931-2023 | (Birkinshaw) | |
| John le Carré | 1931-2020 | (Cornwell) | |
| Jan Terlouw | 1931- | | |
| Sunčana Škrinjarić | 1931-2004 | | |
| Umberto Eco | 1932-2016 | | |
| Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-2018 | | |
| John Updike | 1932-2009 | | |
| John Jakes | 1932-2023 | (Scotland) | |
| Vesna Krmpotić | 1932-2018 | | |
| Tomislav Ladan | 1932-2008 | | |
| V. S. Naipaul | 1932-2018 | | |
| Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-2000 | | |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | | |
| Katherine Paterson | 1932- | | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | 1932-2010 | | |
| Antun Šoljan | 1932-1993 | | |
| Wilbur Smith | 1933-2021 | | |
| Susan Sontag | 1933-2004 | | |
| Gülten Akın | 1933-2015 | | |
| Penelope Lively | 1933- | (Low) | |
| Philip Roth | 1933-2018 | | |
| Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | | |
| David Storey | 1933-2017 | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933-2023 | | |
| Elise Cowen | 1933-1962 | | |
| Ivan Kušan | 1933-2012 | | |
| Ingrid Jonker | 1933-1965 | | |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934- | | |
| Audre Lorde | 1934-1992 | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1934- | | |
| David Malouf | 1934- | | |
| Wole Soyinka | 1934- | | |
| Diana Wynne Jones | 1934-2011 | | |
| Sonia Sanchez | 1934- | (Driver) | |
| John McGahern | 1934-2006 | | |
| Joan Didion | 1934-2021 | | |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935-1979 | | |
| Ōe Kenzaburō | 1935-2023 | | |
| Susan Cooper | 1935- | | |
| W. P. Kinsella | 1935-2016 | | |
| André Brink | 1935-2015 | | |
| Carol Shields | 1935-2003 | | |
| Françoise Sagan | 1935-2004 | (Quoirez) | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1935- | | |
| Mary Oliver | 1935-2019 | | |
| Thomas Keneally | 1935- | | |
| Ágota Kristóf | 1935-2011 | | |
| Edward Said | 1935-2003 | | |
| Adélia Prado | 1935- | (de Freitas) | |
| Ismail Kadare | 1936- | | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936- | | |
| Reginald Hill | 1936-2012 | | |
| Ivo Brešan | 1936-2017 | | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1936-2021 | | |
| Enn Vetemaa | 1936-2017 | | |
| Richard Bach | 1936- | | |
| Lucille Clifton | 1936-2010 | (Sayles) | |
| A. S. Byatt | 1936- | (Duffy) | |
| Imme Dros | 1936- | | |
| Václav Havel | 1936-2011 | | |
| Don DeLillo | 1936- | | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| J. Bernlef | 1937-2012 | (Marsman) | |
| Jilly Cooper | 1937- | (Sallitt) | |
| Lois Lowry | 1937- | | |
| Jill Paton Walsh | 1937-2020 | (Bliss) | |
| Nélida Piñon | 1937-2022 | | |
| Florjan Lipuš | 1937- | | |
| Thomas Pynchon | 1937- | | |
| Colleen McCullough | 1937-2015 | | |
| Anita Desai | 1937- | (Mazumdar) | |
| Hunter S. Thompson | 1937-2005 | | |
| Peter van Gestel | 1937-2019 | | |
| Jackie Collins | 1937-2015 | | |
| Bertrice Small | 1937-2015 | | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1937-1969 | | |
| Eduard Uspensky | 1937-2018 | | |
| Judy Blume | 1938- | (Sussman) | |
| Ishmael Reed | 1938- | | |
| Francine Pascal | 1938- | (Rubin) | |
| Raymond Carver | 1938-1988 | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1938- | | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | | |
| Frederick Forsyth | 1938- | | |
| Mirko Kovač | 1938-2013 | | |
| Germaine Greer | 1939- | | |
| Jane Yolen | 1939- | | |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939-2013 | | |
| Maureen Jennings | 1939- | | |
| Burkhard Driest | 1939-2020 | | |
| Amos Oz | 1939-2018 | | |
| Kathleen E. Woodiwiss | 1939-2007 | (Hogg) | |
| Robert James Waller | 1939-2017 | | |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939- | | |
| Paula Gunn Allen | 1939-2008 | (Francis) | |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939- | | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | | |
| Gao Xingjian | 1940- | | |
| Seamus Deane | 1940-2021 | | |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940- | | |
| Cremilda de Lima | 1940- | (Martins, Fernandes, Alves) | |
| Russell Banks | 1940-2023 | | |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | 1940- | | |
| Sue Grafton | 1940-2017 | | |
| Angela Carter | 1940-1992 | | |
| Peter Benchley | 1940-2006 | | |
| Joseph Brodsky | 1940-1996 | | |
| Hovik Vardoumian | 1940- | | |
| Annie Ernaux | 1940- | | |
| James Welch | 1940-2003 | | |
| Zdena Tomin | 1941-2020 | | |
| Spalding Gray | 1941-2004 | | |
| John Edgar Wideman | 1941- | | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | | |
| Anne Rice | 1941-2021 | (O'Brien) | |
| Pierrette Fleutiaux | 1941-2019 | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1941- | | |
| Susan Hill | 1942- | | |
| Josephine Hart | 1942-2011 | | |
| John Irving | 1942- | | |
| Rachel Billington | 1942- | | |
| Rupert Sheldrake | 1942- | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| Isabel Allende | 1942- | | |
| C. J. Cherryh | 1942- | (Cherry) | |
| Bernard MacLaverty | 1942- | | |
| Donna Leon | 1942- | | |
| Michael Crichton | 1942-2008 | | |
| Peter Handke | 1942- | | |
| Janet Evanovich | 1943- | (Schneider) | |
| Louise Glück | 1943- | | |
| Peter Carey | 1943- | | |
| Pat Barker | 1943- | | |
| Nikki Giovanni | 1943- | | |
| Hrvoje Hitrec | 1943- | |