Louis Auchincloss
Novelist, author, writer
Agatha Christie
Novelist, author of Partners in Crime, And Then There Were None
Aldous Huxley
Author of a Brave New World, writer, novelist, communist philosopher
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
novelist, author of the Gulag Archipelago, Live Not by Lies (1974), philosopher, historian, Nobel Prize for Literature, victim of Bolshevism
Catherine Coulter living
Author, FBI books, novelist
1942- (83)
catherinecoulter.com
Charles Dickens
novelist, author of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations
C.S. Lewis
author, writer, science fiction novelist of The Space Trilogy ("Cosmic Trilogy"), theologian, pioneer in shamanism, broadcaster, scholar, member of the Inklings
1898-1963 (65)
cslewis.com
Daniel Quinn
Author, novelist, Ishmael
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David Foster Wallace
novelist, author of Infinite Jest, This Is Water, philosopher, pioneer in self-perception
1962-2008 (46)
Douglas J. Hagmann
Author of murder investigation novels, private investigator, private detective
Edgar Allan Poe
Novelist, writer, detective series, detectives, creator of detective stories
Emily Post
Novelist, author of Etiquette in Society, writer, socialite
1872-1960 (88)
emilypost.com
George Orwell
novelist, writer, author of 1984, Animal Farm (1945), suffered from tuberculosis, MI5/MI6 intelligence officer
1903-1950 (47)
Graham Greene
author of The Power and the Glory (1940), Our Man in Havana (1958), journalist with a Nobel Prize in Literature, novelist, writer of Catholic novels
1904-1991 (87)
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist, writer, author of Madame Bovary, pioneer in literary realism
1821-1880 (59)
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird, novelist, travel agent in New York
1926-2016 (90)
Harriet Adams
Novelist of kid's books, literary critic, writer, publisher of childrens stories, helped her father Edward Stratemeyer with the Nancy Drew series, author of The Ringmaster's Secret
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Hyatt Bass
Novelist, author, philanthropist
hyattbass.com
Ian Fleming
Novelist, writer, author of the James Bond spy series, journalist, MI5/MI6 naval intelligence officer
1908-1964 (56)
Jackie Collins
Romance novelist, writer, author
1937-2015 (78)
jackiecollins.com
James Joyce
novelist, writer, author of Ulysses (1920), literary critic, poet, teacher, pioneer in the modernist movement
1882-1941 (59)
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Jane Austen
novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice (1813), writer, money, riches
1775-1817 (42)
janeausten.org
John LeCarre
Novelist, author of Our Kind of Traitor and other spy novels
J.R.R. Tolkien
Novelist, author of The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, writer, poet, academic, philologist, literary critic, member of the Inklings
1892-1973 (81)
tolkiensociety.org
Kevin Kwan
Novelist, author of Crazy Rich Asians
kevinkwanbooks.com
Leo Tolstoy
novelist, writer, bestselling author of War & Peace (1867), Anna Karenina (1878), How Much Land Does A Man Need?
1828-1910 (82)
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, writer, short stories, author of Little Women, Little Men, Good Wives, Jo's Boys
1832-1888 (56)
louisamayalcott.org
Miguel de Cervantes
Renaissance novelist, author of Don Quixote, one of the greatest Spanish language writers
1547-1616 (69)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark romance novelist, short story writer
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Philip Pullman living
Novelist, fantasy writer
1946- (79)
philip-pullman.com
Marcel Proust
Novelist aka Marcel Proust, writer, essayist, author, À la recherche du temps perdu
1871-1922 (51)
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, novelist, author of Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien), pioneer in modernism
1875-1926 (51)
Romain Rolland
Art historian, literary critic, writer, novelist, dramatist, mystic, pioneer in idealism and for the love of truth
1866-1944 (78)
Salman Rushdie
author of The Satanic Verses, novelist, won the Booker Prize in 1981
Saul Bellow
Pulitzer Prize writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, novelist, author of Ravelstein, Letters
1915-2005 (90)
Thomas Mann
Novelist, author, short story writer, essayist, social critic, philanthropist
William Faulkner
Writer, author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essayist
1897-1962 (65)
nobelprize.org
William Gibson living
Writer, author, science fiction novelist, coined the term "Cyberspace" for the Internet in 1982
1948- (77)
williamgibsonbooks.com