Authors
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- Héctor Abad Faciolince, (born 1958)
- Sait Faik Abasıyanık, (1906–1954)
- Christina Abbey (a pseudonym of Nancy Buckingham and John Sawyer)
- Edward Abbey, (1927–1989)
- Lynn Abbey, (born 1948)
- Edwin A. Abbott, (1838–1926)
- Jacob Abbott, (1803–1879)
- John S. C. Abbott, (1805–1877)
- Kōbō Abe, (1924–1993)
- Christina Abernathy
- Robert Abernathy, (1924–1990)
- Marc Abrahams
- Milton Abramowitz, (died 1958)
- Chinua Achebe, (born 1930)
- Andre Aciman
- Forrest J. Ackerman, (1916-2008)
- Douglas Adams, (1952–2001)
- Halide Edip Adivar, (1884–1964)
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- Aesop, (c. 620 BC–560 BC)
- Cecelia Ahern, (born 1981)
- Jerry Ahern, (born 1946)
- Najiba Ahmad, (born 1954)
- Ahmet Vefik Paşa, (1823-1891)
- Dr. Alfred V. Aho
- Conrad Aiken (1899-1973)
- Cem Akas, (born 1968)
- Aasad Meo, (born 1979)
- Yusuf Akcura, (1876-1935)
- Barbara Allen (1914-1986) (a pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann)
- Isabel Allende
- Alev Alatli, (born 1944)
- Louisa May Alcott, (1832–1888)
- Brian Aldiss, (born 1925)
- Rochelle Alers
- Kate Alexander, (b. 1927)
- Lloyd Alexander, (born 1924)
- Trisha Alexander
- John W. Allen, (born, 1942)
- Kate Allan, (born 1975)
- Charlotte Vale Allen, (born 1941)
- Roger MacBride Allen, (born 1957)
- Steve Almond
- Steve Alten, (born 1959)
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler, (1862-1919)
- Bhatia Alok, (born 1985)
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- Andrej Amalrik, (1938–1980)
- Elizabeth Amber
- Ellis Amburn, (born 1933)
- Kingsley Amis, (1922–1995)
- Martin Amis, (born 1949)
- Rudolfo Anaya, (born 1937)
- Karen Anders
- Catherine Anderson, (born 1947)
- Colin Anderson
- Kevin J. Anderson (born 1962)
- Hans Christian Andersen, (1805–1875)
- Susan Andersen
- Poul Anderson, (1926–2001)
- V. C. Andrews
- Threes Anna, 1959
- Piers Anthony, (born 1934)
- Enrico Antiporda
- Christopher Anvil, (born 1922) (pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby)
- Robert Anwood
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- Gosho Aoyama, (born 1963)
- Maja Apostoloska (born 1976)
- Jacob M. Appel
- Max Apple
- Lisa Appignanesi, (born 1946)
- K. A. Applegate
- Lisa Rose Apramian
- Pawlu Aquilina, (1929–2009)
- Jennifer Archer
- Aristophanes, (c. 446 BC – 385 BC)
- Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC)
- Tilly Armstrong, (b. 1927)
- William H. Armstrong
- Fernando Arrabal
- Antonin Artaud
- Catherine Asaro, (born 1955)
- Isaac Asimov, (1920–1992)
- Janet Asimov, (born 1926)
- Robert Asprin, (born 1946)
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, (1899 – 1974)
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- Margaret Atwood
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- James Branch Cabell
- Erskine Caldwell
- Otto Maria Carpeaux
- Pat Cadigan, (born 1953)
- Andrea Cagan
- Brian Callison
- Italo Calvino
- Candace Camp
- John W. Campbell Jr., (1910–1971) (Pseudonym, Don A. Stuart)
- Ramsey Campbell, (born 1956)
- Albert Camus (1913–1960)
- Trudi Canavan
- Jack Canfield (founder and coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul)
- Truman Capote (1924–1984)
- Orson Scott Card, (born 1951)
- Peter Carey
- Eric Carle
- Liz Carlyle
- Edmund Snow Carpenter (born 1922)
- Terry Carr, (1937–1987)
- Julio Carreras (h) (born 1949)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832–1898)
- Philippa Carr, (1906-1993) (Pseudonym of Eleanor Burford Hibbert)
- Robyn Carr
- Lin Carter, (1930–1988)
- Barbara Cartland, (1901–2000)
- Jeffrey Carver
- Raymond Carver
- Kate Cary
- Zoe Cass (b. 1916) (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
- Neal Cassady
- Nick Catalano
- Willa Cather
- Clare Cavendish
- Denys Cazet
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- Camilo José Cela
- Peride Celal (Born 1915)
- Miguel de Cervantes, (1547–1616)
- Michael Chabon
- Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Dr. (born 1952), American Professor and author
- Jack L. Chalker, (born 1944)
- A. Bertram Chandler, (1912–1984)
- Raymond Chandler
- Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Stephen T. Chang, Dr.
- Iris Chang, (1968–2004)
- William Ellery Channing
- James Chapman, (1955-present)
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (c.1343–1400)
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
- John Cheever (1912– 1982)
- Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
- C. J. Cherryh, (born 1942)
- Marion Chesney
- Denise Chesterton, (1897-1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- G. K. Chesterton, (1874–1936)
- Ted Chiang
- Charles Chilton, (born 1917)
- Mary Cholmondeley, (1859–1925)
- Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
- Deepak Chopra
- Kate Chopin
- Jill Christian (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
- John Christopher, (born 1922) (Pseudonym of Samuel Youd)
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
- Ralph Chubb, (1892 – 1960), British poet and printer
- Winston Churchill, (1874–1965), British Prime Minister and author
- Winston Churchill, (1871–1947), American author
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- Marguerite De Angeli, (1889–1987)
- L. Sprague De Camp, (1907–2000)
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Charles De Lint, (born 1951)
- Kit Dealtry, (1872-1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Pamela Dean, (born 1953)
- Jeffrey Deaver, (born 1950)
- Kenneth S. Deffeyes
- Daniel Defoe, (1660–1731)
- Len Deighton, (born 1929)
- Edward "Ted" Delaney
- Samuel R. Delany, (born 1942)
- Don DeLillo, (born 1936)
- Barbara Delinsky
- Esther Delisle, (born 1954)
- Lester Del Rey, (1915–1993)
- Lester Dent, (1904–1959)
- August Derleth, (1909–1971)
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Isak Dinesen
- Jude Deveraux
- Josie Dew
- Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, (born 1974)
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- Jacqueline Diamond
- Jared Diamond, (born 1937)
- Junot Diaz
- Philip K. Dick, (1928–1982)
- Charles Dickens, (1812–1870)
- Peter Dickinson
- Gordon R. Dickson, (1923–2001)
- Joan Didion
- Annie Dillard
- Thomas DiLorenzo
- William Direen
- Thomas M. Disch, (1940-2008)
- Franklin W. Dixon
- Stephen Dixon
- Decimate (born between 1987-1992)
Do-Dy
- Cory Doctorow, (born 1971)
- E. L. Doctorow
- Christina Dodd
- Mary Mapes Dodge
- Harriet Doerr, (1910–2002)
- Neel Doff
- Robyn Donald
- Emmanuel Dongala
- John Dos Passos
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Carole Nelson Douglas
- Norman Douglas, (1868–1953)
- O. Douglas, (1877–1948)
- Alan Downs
- James V. Downton
- Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859–1930)
- Gardner Dozois, (born 1947)
- David Drake, (born 1945)
- Shannon Drake
- Theodore Dreiser
- Dinesh D'Souza, (born 1961)
- William Pène du Bois, (1916–1993)
- K. Sello Duiker, (1974–2005)
- Alexandre Dumas, père (father), (1802–1870)
- Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), (1824–1895)
- Daphne du Maurier, (1907–1989)
- Carola Dunn
- Gerina Dunwich, (born 1959)
- Lee Duran
- Francis Durbridge (1912 - 1998)
- David Anthony Durham
- John C. Dvorak
- Stuart Dybek
- Igor Dymkov, (born 1972)
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Fr-Fu
- Randall Frakes
- Anne Frank, (1929 – 1945)
- Bruno Frank, (1878 – 1945)
- Antonia Fraser, (born 1932)
- Raymond Fraser
- Barbara C. Freeman, (born 1906)
- Douglas S. Freeman, (1886 – 1953)
- R. Austin Freeman, (1862 – 1943)
- Ashley French (1897-1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- James Frey
- C. S. Friedman, (born 1957)
- David D. Friedman, (born 1945)
- Richard Elliott Friedman
- Robert Frost, (1874 – 1963)
- Athol Fugard
- Robert Fulghum
- Jean Overton Fuller
- Matt Fullerty
- Alice Fulton
- Cornelia Funke, (born 1958)
- Bilkisu Funtuwa
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- Sue Grafton
- Cork Graham (b. 1964)
- Elizabeth Graham
- Heather Graham
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859 – 1932)
- Hardie Gramatky
- Charles L. Grant, (born 1942)
- Kathryn Grant, pseudonym of Kathryn Ptacek
- Günter Grass, (born 1927)
- Patricia Grasso
- Harriet Gray (1897-1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- Andrew Greeley
- Jane Green
- Julian Green, (1900-1998)
- John Green
- Graham Greene
- Jessica Gregson
- Kate Grenville
- Frederick Philip Grove, (1879 – 1948)]
- Mildred Grieveson
- W. E. B. Griffin
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Ken Grimwood
- John Grisham
- C. Groom, (1872-1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Clarice Groom, (1872-1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Kathleen Clarice Groom, (1872-1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Mrs. Sydney Groom, (1872-1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Elgin Groseclose
- Annie Groves (b. 1946-) (pseudonym of Penelope Jones Halsall)
- Bernhard Grzimek
- Paul Guimard, (1921-2004)
- Wyman Guin
- Jeffrey Guterman
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
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- Jürgen Habermas (born 1929)
- David Hackworth
- Mark Haddon
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Sebastian Haffner, which was the pen name for Raimund Pretzel (1907–1999)
- H. Rider Haggard, (1856–1925)
- Emily Hahn (1905–1997)
- Qurratulain Haider
- Arthur Hailey (1920-2004)
- Yusuf Has Hajib
- Jack C. Haldeman II, (1941–2002)
- Joe Haldeman, (born 1943)
- Alex Haley (1921–1992)
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
- Barbara Hambly
- Edmond Hamilton, (1904–1977)
- Hervey Hamilton, (1897-1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- Marguerite Hamilton
- Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
- Peter F. Hamilton, (born 1960)
- Ruth Hamilton
- Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961)
- Knut Hamsun
- Daniel Handler – pen name Lemony Snicket
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
- Charles Harness
- John Harrington (photographer, author)
- E. Lynn Harris, (born 1955)
- Joanne Harris
- Joel Chandler Harris, (1848–1908)
- Sam Harris, (born 1967)
- Thomas Harris
- Elizabeth Harrison
- Harry Harrison, (born 1925)
- M. John Harrison, (born 1945)
- Christopher Hart, born 1965
- Peter Härtling, (born 1933)
- William K. Hartmann
- Caroline Harvey
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Henry Hasse (1913 - 1977)
- Havank
- Ethan Hawke
- Karen Hawkins
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ernest Haycox
- Jon Haylett
- Shirley Hazzard
- Mark Victor Hansen (coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul)
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- James Hearst (1900–1983)
- Constance Heaven (1911-1995) (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
- Victor Heck
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831)
- Martin Heidegger, (1889–1976)
- Robert A. Heinlein, (1907–1988)
- Boo Heisey
- Joseph Heller
- Mark Helprin
- Ernest Hemingway
- Zenna Henderson
- Shirl Henke
- Virginia Henley
- Jean Henry-Mead, writer, editor, photographer
- Marguerite Henry
- Frank Herbert, (1920–1986)
- Hans Herbjørnsrud
- Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803)
- Miguel Hernández
- Hans Herbjørnsrud
- Don Herold
- James Herriot, (1916–1995)
- Hermann Hesse
- Karen Hesse, (born 1952)
- Dorothy Hewett, (1923–2002)
- Georgette Heyer, (1902–1974)
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Ho-Hr
- Tami Hoag
- Russell Hoban, (born 1925)
- Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679)
- Abbie Hoffman, (1936–1989)
- James P. Hogan, (born 1941)
- Wendy Holden
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Jane Holland, (b. 1966)
- Sarah Holland, (b. 1961)
- Sheila Holland, (1937–2000)
- Timothy Holme, (1928–1987)
- Frank L. Holt
- Victoria Holt, (1906–1993) (Pseudonym of Eleanor Burford Hibbert)
- Homer
- Ed Hooper
- Kay Hooper
- Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider books
- Janette Turner Hospital
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Linda Howard
- Robert E. Howard
- Hannah Howell
- Fred Hoyle, (1915–2001)
- Bohumil Hrabal
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Ki-Kl-Kn
Ko-Kr
Ku-Ky
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- Day Leclaire
- Munro Leaf
- Edward Lear, (1812–1888)
- Dennis Lee, (born 1939)
- Harper Lee
- Miranda Lee
- Sharon Lee, (born 1952)
- Tanith Lee, (born 1947)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929)
- Lois Lehner
- Kimmo Lehtonen
- Fritz Leiber, (1910–1992)
- Murray Leinster, (1896–1975) (Pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins)
- Stanisław Lem, (born 1921)
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Donna Leon
- Doris Lessing, (born 1919)
- Jonathan Lethem
- Julie Elizabeth Leto
- Barbara Levick (born 1932)
- Stacey Levine
- Paul Levinson, (born 1947)
- William Levy
- C. S. Lewis, (1898–1963)
- Deborah Lewis (pseudonym of Charles L. Grant)
- Linda Lewis
- Susan Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Alice Chetwynd Ley (b. 1913)
- Sophie Leyton (1928-2009) (a pseudonym of Sheila O'Nions Walsh)
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- Amin Maalouf (born, 1949)
- Darko Macan (born, 1966)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald (born 1958)
- Betty MacDonald, (1908–1958)
- John D. MacDonald, (1916–1986)
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, (1899-1970)
- Patricia MacLachlan
- Katherine Maclean, (born 1925)
- Charlotte MacLeod, (1922-2005)
- Ken MacLeod, (born 1954)
- Ian R. MacLeod, (born 1956)
- Debbie Macomber
- Marc MacYoung
- Maddox, (born 1978)
- Naguib Mahfouz, (born 1911)
- Norman Mailer
- Curzio Malaparte
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Susan Mallery
- Hector Malot, (1830–1907)
- Barry Malzberg
- Andrew Mango, (born 1926)
- Thomas Mann
- Laurence Manning, (1899–1972)
- Richard Manning
- Jill Mansell
- Katherine Mansfield, (1888–1923)
- Cristina Marcano
- Marcel Marceau
- Jill March (b. 1950)
- Stella March
- Ben Marcus, (born 1967)
- Jan Marcussen
- Leo Margulies, (1900–1975)
- Javier Marías, (born 1951)
- David Markson
- Deb Marlowe
- Paul Marlowe
- Damian Marrett
- John Marsden
- Geoffrey Marsh
- Ronald James Marsh (1914-1987)
- Sonjia Marshall (Nov 10,)
- Ann M. Martin
- George R. R. Martin, (born 1948)
- J. P. Martin, (1880–1966)
- Kat Martin
- Sandra Marton
- Karl Marx (1818–1883)
- Connie Mason
- Alexander Masters
- Dary Matera
- Carol Matas
- Anne Mather (b. 1946)
- Richard Matheson, (born 1926)
- Deborah Mathis
- Laura Matthews
- W. Somerset Maugham, (1874–1965)
- Guy de Maupassant, (1850–1893)
- André Maurois
- Tucker Max, (born 1975)
- Kathleen Maxwell (pseudonymn of Kathryn Ptacek)
- Patricia Maxwell
- Julian May, (born 1931)
- Peter May, (born 1951)
- Richard Maybury, (born 1946)
- Anne Mayfield (pseudonymn of Kathryn Ptacek)
- D. J. MacHale
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- Anne McAllister
- Robert McAlmon (1896-1956)
- Paul J. McAuley, (born 1955)
- Anne McCaffrey, (born 1926)
- Sharron McClellan, (born 1963)
- Frank McCourt (born 1930)
- Robert McCloskey (1915–2003)
- Moy McCrory
- Jack McDevitt, (born 1935)
- Ian McEwan
- Leslie McFarlane (1902-1977
- Bryant H. McGill, (born 1969)
- May McGoldrick
- Maureen F. McHugh, (born 1959)
- Terence McKenna, (1946–2000)
- Meagan McKinney
- Barbara McMahon
- Larry McMurtry
- Judith McNaught
- Kat Meads
- Teresa Medeiros
- Capt. S.P. Meek
- Fulvio Melia, (born 1956)
- Herman Melville
- Robert Menasse
- Eduardo Mendoza
- Holdemar Menezes (1921-1996)
- Christina Merlin (1911-1995) (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
- Judith Merril, (1923–1997)
- A. Merritt, (1884–1943)(Abraham Merritt)
- Stephanie Meyer
- Walter Dean Meyers (born 1937)
- Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932)
- Jhaverchand Meghani (1896-1947)
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- Judith Michael
- Barbara Michaels
- Fern Michaels
- Leigh Michaels
- Richard Michelson
- Michelle Mickelson,( born 1970), American Author
- China Miéville, (born 1972)
- Jack Miles
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Grazyna Miller
- James Russell Miller (1840–1912), American author, editor and Pastor
- Linda Lael Miller
- P. Schuyler Miller, (1912–1974)
- Steve Miller, (born 1950)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., (1923–1996)
- A.A. Milne (1882–1956)
- Franco Mimmi, (born 1942)
- Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973)
- Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908)
- Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996)
- Minae Mizumura, Japanese novelist, critic, essayist. Educated in the US.
- Darren McEntire, AMERICAN NOVELIST.(BORN 1964)
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- L. E. Modesitt, Jr., (born 1948)
- Donald Moffitt, (born 1936)
- Szilvia Molnar, (born 1984)
- Karyn Monk
- E.J. Montini, (born 1955)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874–1942)
- Elizabeth Moon, (born 1945)
- Michael Moorcock, (born 1939)
- Alan Moore, (born 1953)
- C. L. Moore, (1911–1987)
- Clement Clarke Moore
- Patrick Moore, (born 1923)
- Ward Moore
- Daniel Keys Moran, (born 1962)
- Sëan Edward Moran, (born 1957)
- Alberto Moravia
- Diana Morgan
- Diana Morgan
- Toni Morrison
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Carole Mortimer
- Andrew Morton
- Sam Moskowitz, (1920–1997)
- Alexandra Motschmann
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- Vladimir Nabokov
- Linda Nagata, (born 1960)
- V.S. Naipaul
- Namık Kemal
- Jan Narveson, (born 1936)
- Betty Neels
- Edith Nesbit, (1858–1924)
- Aziz Nesin, (1915–1995)
- Jeffrey A. Nesbit
- John Newbery
- Nerida Newton, (born 1972)
- Friedrich Neznansky
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Larry Niven, (born 1938)
- Garth Nix
- Frederick Nolan, (born 1931)
- William F. Nolan, (born 1928)
- Nolla, Olga (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
- Jeff Noon, (born 1957)
- Cees Nooteboom
- Howard Norman, (born 1949)
- John Norman, (born 1931)
- Harold Norse, (born 1916)
- Andre Norton, (born 1912) (pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton)
- Mary Norton
- Alan E. Nourse, (1928–1992)
- Laura Numeroff
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- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809–1849)
- Frederik Pohl, (born 1919)
- Peter Pohl, (1940-)
- Daniel Poliquin
- Sharon Pollock, (born 1936)
- Alexander Pope, (1688–1744)
- Gene Stratton Porter (1863–1924)
- Beatrix Potter, (1866–1943)
- Jacques Poulin, (born 1937)
- Gerry Poulos, (born 1963)
- Jerry Pournelle, (born 1933)
- Anthony Powell, (1905–2000)
- Heather Graham Pozzessere
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- Karen Robards
- Jason Roberts
- Keith Roberts, (1935–2000)
- Les Roberts
- Nora Roberts
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Denise Robins (1897-1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- Patricia Robins (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
- Andrew Robinson, (born 1957)
- Bill Robinson, (1918-2007)
- Bruce Robinson
- Kim Stanley Robinson, (born 1952)
- Spider Robinson, (born 1948)
- Suzanne Robinson
- Lucia St. Clair Robson, {born 1942}
- Ross Rocklynne, (1913–1988)
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Pitti, (born 1971)
- Gene Roddenberry, (1921–1991)
- Bruce Holland Rogers
- Rosemary Rogers
- Dan Roodt
- Ginny Rorby
- Joel Rosenberg, (born 1954)
- Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
- Renee Roszel
- Tony Rothman
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Christopher Rowley
- J. K. Rowling, (born 1965)
- Arundhati Roy
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- Sabir Hussain Sabir (born in Poonch)
- Sarojini Sahoo, (born 1956)
- Fred Saberhagen, (born 1930)
- Louis Sachar
- Nelly Sachs
- Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55)
- Carl Sagan, (1934–1996)
- Nick Sagan (born 1970)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900–1944)
- Sait Faik
- Pedro Salinas
- Jerome David Salinger (born 1919)
- Wolfgang W.E. Samuel (born 1935)
- Fay Sampson (born 1935)
- Alex Sanchez, (born 1957)
- Michal Šanda, (1965- )
- David Saperstein
- José Saramago
- Pamela Sargent, (born 1948)
- Al Sarrantonio
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947)
- Fernando Savater
- Malcolm Saville (1901-1982)
- Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)
- Allen Say, (born 1937)
- Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana, pen name "Agyeya"
- Richard Scarry – (1919–1994)
- Nat Schachner
- Peter Schechter
- James H. Schmitz, (1911–1974)
- Stanley Schmidt, (born 1944)
- Arthur Schnitzler, (1862–1931)
- Robin Schone
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Sandra Scofield, (born 1943)
- Thomas N. Scortia, (1926–1986)
- Alicia Scott
- Ann Scott
- Andrew Murray Scott
- Robyn Scott
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771–1832)
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- William Bueller Seabrook, (1886-1945)
- Catharine Sedgwick (1789-1867)
- Benjamin Sehene (born 1959)
- Hubert Selby Jr. (1928-2004)
- Gerd Semmer (1919–1967)
- Amartya Sen (born 1933)
- Maurice Sendak, (born 1928)
- Luis Sepúlveda, (born 1949)
- Rod Serling, (1924–1975)
- Anya Seton, (1906–1990)
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel (1904–1991)
- Anna Sewell, (1820–1878)
- Ram Sharan Sharma (born1919)
- Michael Shaara, (1928–1988)
- Lawrence Shainberg
- William Shakespeare
- David Shannon
- Tom Sharpe, (born 1928)
- William Shatner, (born 1931)
- Richard S. Shaver, (1907–1975)
- George Bernard Shaw
- Bob Shaw, (1931–1996)
- Robert Shaw
- Bernard Shaw 1930
- Scott Shaw
- Maggie Shayne
- Charles Sheffield, (1935–2002)
- Robert Sheckley, (born 1928)
- Kirit Shelat, (born 1946)
- Sidney Sheldon
- Mary Shelley, (1797–1851)
- Lucius Shepard
- Joel Shepherd, (born 1974)
- Barbara Sher
- T.L. Sherred
- Will Shetterly (born 1955)
- Gary Shipman, (born 1966)
- Rhoda Shipman, (born 1968)
- John Shirley, (born 1953)
- Alexander Shirvanzade, (1858–1935)
- Izya Shlosberg, (born 1950)
- William Shunn, (born 1967)
- Nevil Shute, (1899–1960) (Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway)
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- Charles E. Silberman
- Ron Silliman
- Burton Silver
- Robert Silverberg, (born 1935)
- Roger Silverwood (Creator of DI Angel)
- Shel Silverstein, (1930–1999)
- Clifford D. Simak, (1904–1988)
- Dan Simmons, (born 1948)
- Francesca Simon, (born 1955)
- Les Simons (pseudonym of Kathryn Ptacek)
- John W. Simpson
- Rebecca Sinclair
- Marilyn Singer
- Jaspreet Singh
- Johanna Sinisalo, (born 1958)
- James Sites, (born 1924)
- Susan Sizemore
- John Skoyles
- Christina Skye
- John Sladek, (1937–2000)
- Eugene Sledge
- William Sleator
- Joan Slonczewski
- Bertrice Small
- Adam Smith
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Barbara Dawson Smith
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893–1961)
- Cordwainer Smith, (1913–1966) (Pseudonym of Paul M.A. Lindebarger)
- Jean Edward Smith
- Bernard Shaw (born 1930 Dartford Kent) Writer of poems and Fairy-Tales:
- E. E. Smith, (1890–1965), (Edward E. "Doc" Smith)
- Edwin E. Smith
- Karen Rose Smith
- L. J. Smith (author)
- Patti Smith
- George O. Smith, (1911–1981)
- Anthony Neil Smith
- L. Neil Smith
- Mark Smith
- Lemony Snicket – (pen name of Daniel Handler)
- Lucy A. Snyder
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder, (born 1927)
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- Donald J. Sobol, (born 1924)
- Jerry Sohl, (1913–2002)
- Alexandra Sokoloff
- Dag Solstad
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918)
- Walid Soliman, (born 1975)
- Suzanne Somers
- Maris Soule
- Ivan Southall, (1921–2008)
- Terry Southern, (1924–1995)
- Wole Soyinka
- Tom Spanbauer
- Albert Speer, (1905–1981)
- Eleanor Spence, (1928–2008)
- Lee Spence, (Dr. E. Lee Spence), (pen name of Charles King), born 1947
- LaVyrle Spencer
- Norman Spinrad, (born 1940)
- Armstrong Sperry (1897–1976)
- Lysander Spooner, (1808–1887)
- Johanna Spyri, (1827–1901)
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- Matthew Stadler
- Rebecca St. James, (born 1977)
- Michael A. Stackpole, (born 1957)
- Olaf Stapledon, (1886–1950)
- Christopher Stasheff
- Danielle Steel, (born 1947)
- Allen Steele
- Jessica Steele, (born 1933)
- John Steinbeck, (1902–1968)
- Stendhal
- Joanne Stepaniak
- Neal Stephenson, (born 1959)
- Bruce Sterling, (born 1954)
- Laurence Sterne, (1713–1768)
- W. Richard Stevens, (1951–1999)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850–1894)
- Fred Mustard Stewart (1932–2007)
- Mariah Stewart
- Mary Stewart, (born 1916)
- R. L. Stine, (born 1943)
- S. M. Stirling, (born 1953)
- Frank R. Stockton, (1834–1902)
- Bram Stoker
- Katherine Stone
- Walter Scott Story, (1879–1955)
- Lytton Strachey, (1880–1932)
- J. Michael Straczynski, (born 1954)
- Darin Strauss
- Charles Stross, (born 1964)
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (sometimes listed contrariwise), a.k.a. the Strugatsky brothers (1925–1991) (born 1933)
- Alex Stuart (1914-1986) (a pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann)
- Robyn Stuart (1914-1986) (a pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann)
- V.A. Stuart (1914-1986) (a pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann)
- Vivian Stuart (1914-1986) (a pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann)
- Theodore Sturgeon, (1918–1985)
- William Styron, (1925–2006)
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- Andrew Vachss
- Paul Valéry
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Jack Vance, (born 1916)
- Janwillem van de Wetering, (born 1931)
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944)
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- John Varley, (born 1947)
- Ivan Vazov
- Lisa Ann Verge
- Jules Verne, (1828–1905)
- Caroline Vernon
- David Vernon
- Patricia Veryan
- Frederick Bert Vickers
- Cynthia Victor
- Juan José Videgain, (born 1975)
- Rene Villanueva, (born 1954)
- Judith Viorst
- Joan D. Vinge, (born 1948)
- Vernor Vinge, (born 1944)
- A. E. van Vogt, (1912–2000)
- Voltaire, (1694–1778)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (1922–2007)
- Vesna Dencic, (born 1963)
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- Roland C. Wagner, (born 1960)
- Howard Waldrop, (born 1946)
- Christian Walford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
- Alice Walker, (born 1944)
- Barbara G. Walker, (born 1930)
- Elizabeth Walker
- Bronwen Wallace, (1945-1989)
- David Foster Wallace
- Edgar Wallace, (1875-1932)
- Ian Wallace, (1912–1998)
- Pamela Wallace
- Jill Paton Walsh, (born 1937)
- Sheila Walsh (1928-2009) (a pseudonym of Sheila O'Nions Walsh)
- Kenneth Walton, (born 1967)
- J. R. Ward
- Pat Warren
- Ian Watson
- Lawrence Watt-Evans, (born 1954)
- Gerard Way, (born 1977)
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- Catherine Webb
- David Weber
- Stanley G. Weinbaum, (1902–1935)
- Debra Weinstein
- Alison Weir
- Theresa Weir
- Denton Welch
- H. G. Wells, (1866–1946)
- Martha Wells, (born 1964)
- Irvine Welsh, (born 1961)
- K. D. Wentworth
- Bernard Werber
- Cornel West (born 1953)
- Wallace West
- Scott Westerfeld
- Dennis Wheatley, (1897–1977)
- Donald J. Wheeler
- Evelyn Whitaker, (1857–1903)
- E.B. White, (1899–1985)
- Ellen G. White, (1827–1915)
- James White, (1928–1999)
- Patrick White, (1912–1990)
- Steve White, (born 1946)
- Theodore White
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- Elie Wiesel, (born 1928)
- Michael Wiesenberg, (born 1943)
- Kate Douglas Wiggin, (1856–1923)
- Susan Wiggs
- Jennifer Wilde
- Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, (1867–1957)
- Kate Wilhelm, (born 1928)
- Gina Wilkins (pen name of Gina Ferris)
- Eileen Wilks
- Margery Williams, (1881-1944)
- Paul A. Williams, (born 1956)
- Walter Jon Williams, (born 1953)
- Jack Williamson, (1908-2006)
- Michael Z. Williamson, (born 1967)
- Penelope Williamson
- Connie Willis, (born 1945)
- A. N. Wilson, (born 1950)
- Angus Wilson, (1913-1991)
- Brandon Wilson, (born 1953)
- Clement Wilson, (born 1976)
- Rachel Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson, (1932-2007)
- Robert Charles Wilson, (born 1953)
- William Upski Wimsatt, (born 1977)
- R. Foster Winans, (born 1948)
- Gerard Windsor, (born 1944)
- Harry de Windt Explorer, adventurer and author, (1856-1933).
- David Wingrove, (born 1952)
- Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003)
- William Winter (1836-1917), American author
- Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, (1937–1995)
- Kari-Lynn Winters, (born 1969)
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- Rachel Zadok, born 1972
- Timothy Zahn, (born 1951)
- Janusz A. Zajdel, (1938–1985)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, (1884–1937)
- Jessica Zafra
- George Zebrowski, (born 1945)
- Roger Zelazny, (1937–1995)
- Sarah Zettel, (born 1966)
- Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, (born 1964)
- Aleksandar Ziljak, (born 1963)
- Richard Zimler, (born 1956)
- David Zindell, (born 1952)
- Darko Žlebnik, (born 1951)
- Émile Zola, (born 1840)
- Charlotte Zolotow
- Eugeniusz Zytomirski, (1911–1975)
- Zahid Hussain, (1972)
- Zillur Rahman John, (born 1952)