Fiction Authors
- Donald Aamodt
- Lynn Abbey
- Kobo Abe
- Shana Abe
- Pearl Abraham
- Peter Abrahams
- Kathy Acker
- J.R. Ackerley
- Peter Ackroyd
- Anna Adams
- Douglas Adams
- Glenda Adams
- Jane Adams
- Jessica Adams
- Noah Adams
- Richard Adams
- Robert Adams
- Sheila Kay Adams
- Sade Adeniran
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Patrick H Adkins
- Elizabeth Adler
- Cecelia Ahern
- Jerry Ahern
- Paco Ahlgren
- Robert Aickman
- Pamela Aidan
- Ginny Aiken
- Joan Aiken
- Edward Albee
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Louisa May Alcott
- Alma Alexander
- Lloyd Alexander
- Tamera Alexander
- Monica Ali
- Dante Alighieri
- Bryony Allen
- Charlotte Vale Allen
- Catherine Alliott
- Dorothy Allison
- Madelyn Alt
- Steve Alten
- Julia Alvarez
- Eric Ambler
- Kingsley Amis
- Catherine Anderson
- Kevin J Anderson
- Poul Anderson
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- Mary Kay Andrews
- Piers Anthony
- Aristophanes
- Kelley Armstrong
- Kay Arthur
- Reed Arvin
- Matilde Asensi
- Neal Asher
- Ashokamitran
- Isaac Asimov
- Nancy Atherton
- Kate Atkinson
- Margaret Atwood
- Jean M. Auel
- Jane Austen
- Paul Auster
- Lynn Austin
- Lori Avocato
- Marcel Aymé
- Richard Bach
- Murray Bail
- Deb Baker
- Nicholson Baker
- S. H. Baker
- David Baldacci
- James Baldwin
- J.G. Ballard
- Honoré de Balzac
- Iain Banks
- Lynne Reid Banks
- Russell Banks
- Abby Bardi
- Pat Barker
- Robert Barnard
- Julian Barnes
- Ken Barnett
- Lorna Barrett
- J. M. Barrie
- L.L. Bartlett
- Tracey Bateman
- Richard Bausch
- Stephen Baxter
- Greg Bear
- Philip Beard
- M. C. Beaton
- Ann Beattie
- Andrea Beaty
- Angela Becerra
- Louis Begley
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Joel ben Izzy
- Carrie Bender
- Mario Benedetti
- Alan Bennett
- Charles Benoit
- Ron & Janet Benray
- Elizabeth Berg
- Anne Bernays
- Alfred Bester
- Kristin Billerbeck
- Maeve Binchy
- Florence W. Biros
- Anne Bishop
- Rosanne Bittner
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Gary Blackwood
- Annette Blair
- Jon Blake
- Peter Blauner
- Francesca Lia Block
- Lawrence Block
- Stephen Bly
- Enid Blyton
- Chris Bohjalian
- William Borden
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Mary Christner Borntrager
- Herman Charles Bosman
- Sam Bourne
- Paul Bowles
- Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Ray Bradbury
- James Bradley
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Melvyn Bragg
- Max Brand
- Kathy Brandt
- Lilian Jackson Braun
- André Breton
- Elizabeth Bright
- David Brin
- André Brink
- Harold Brodkey
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Carl Brookins
- Christopher Brookmyre
- Geraldine Brooks
- Dan Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
- Wanda E Brunstetter
- Pearl S. Buck
- Julia Buckley
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Charles Bukowski
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Emma Bull
- T. Davis Bunn
- John Bunyan
- Mark Burnell
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- George Gordon (Lord) Byron
- Italo Calvino
- Andrea Camilleri
- Aifric Campbell
- Chester D. Campbell
- Phyllis Campbell
- Albert Camus
- Trudi Canavan
- Xueqin Cao
- Karel Capek
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott Card
- Lisa Carey
- Peter Carey
- Melody Carlson
- Isobelle Carmody
- Pedro Carolino
- Jonathan Carroll
- Lewis Carroll
- Angela Carter
- Stephen L. Carter
- Justin Cartwright
- Lisa Carver
- John Case
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Elizabeth Chadwick
- Diane Chamberlain
- Raymond Chandler
- Dan Chaon
- Mavis Cheek
- John Cheever
- Anton Chekhov
- C. J. Cherryh
- G. K. Chesterton
- Jennifer Chiaverini
- Harold Hannyngton Child
- Lee Child
- Lincoln Child
- Laura Childs
- Tom Clancy
- Dorothy Clark
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Mary Jane Clark
- Jeff Clark-Meads
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Cheril N. Clarke
- Jon Cleary
- Jane K. Cleland
- Judy Clemens
- Samuel Clemens
- David Clement-Davies
- Harlan Coben
- Paulo Coelho
- J. M. Coetzee
- Jeffrey Cohen
- Martina Cole
- Catherine Anne Collins
- Jackie Collins
- Eden Collinsworth
- Laurie Colwin
- Michael Connelly
- Shirley Kiger Connolly
- Joseph Conrad
- Pat Conroy
- Glen Cook
- Robin Cook
- Susan Cooper
- Robert Coover
- Lori Copeland
- Bernard Cornwell
- Patricia Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland
- Bryce Courtenay
- Eliot Cowley
- Joseph Cowley
- Cleo Coyle
- Robert Crais
- Sharon Creech
- Michael Crichton
- Carolyn Crimi
- Quentin Crisp
- A. J. Cronin
- Aleister Crowley
- John Crowley
- Lonnie Cruse
- Jennifer Crusie
- Chris Crutcher
- Crystalwizard
- Elizabeth Cunningham
- Karen Cushman
- Rachel Cusk
- Clive Cussler
- Sandra Dallas
- Trevor Dalton
- Spencer Dane
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
- Meghan Daum
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Luke Davies
- Robertson Davies
- Kathryn Davis
- Lindsey Davis
- Lydia Davis
- Marele Day
- Charles De Lint
- Thomas de Quincy
- Marquis de Sade
- Jeffery Deaver
- Nelson Demille
- Nigel Dennis
- Traci DePree
- Robert Dessaix
- Pete Dexter
- Anita Diamant
- Kate DiCamillo
- Philip K. Dick
- Peter Dickinson
- Athol Dickson
- Denis Diderot
- Joan Didion
- Isak Dinesen
- Garry Disher
- Chitra Divakaruni
- Linley Dodd
- Harriet Doerr
- Ivan Doig
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Deborah Donnelly
- James Doohan
- Kate Douglas-Wiggins
- Siobhan Dowd
- Roddy Doyle
- Margaret Drabble
- Theodore Dreiser
- Robert Drewe
- Eileen Dreyer
- Andre Dubus
- Sarah Dunant
- Alice Duncan
- Helen Dunmore
- Carola Dunn
- John Gregory Dunne
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Lon Milo DuQuette
- Francis Durbridge
- Doranna Durgin
- Lawrence Durrell
- Nick Earls
- Umberto Eco
- David Eddings
- Julie Andrews Edwards
- Kim Edwards
- Dave Eggers
- Deborah Eisenberg
- Out el Kouloub
- Stanley Elkin
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Paige Lee Elliston
- James Ellroy
- Michael Elsmere
- Shusaku Endo
- Per Olov Enquist
- Anne Enright
- Amy Ephron
- Louise Erdrich
- Barbara Erskine
- Sharon Ervin
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Euripides
- Janet Evanovich
- Jimmie Ruth Evans
- Nicholas Evans
- Barbara Ewing
- A. B. Facey
- Linda Fairstein
- Delia Falconer
- Sebastian Faulks
- Monica Ferris
- Jasper Fforde
- Helen Fielding
- Joy Fielding
- Terri Fields
- Timothy Findley
- Jack Finney
- Tibor Fischer
- Suzanne Woods Fisher
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Fannie Flagg
- Richard Flanagan
- Gustave Flaubert
- Ian Fleming
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Mick Foley
- Ken Follett
- Ford Madox Ford
- Richard Ford
- C. S. Forester
- Earlene Fowler
- Kathryn Fox
- Mem Fox
- Paula Fox
- Janet Frame
- Dick Francis
- Jonathan Franzen
- Antonia Fraser
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Michael Frayn
- Shelly Fredman
- Allen French
- Jackie French
- Nicci French
- Tana French
- C. S. Friedman
- David D. Friedman
- Stephen Fry
- Athol Fugard
- Jostein Gaarder
- Diana Gabaldon
- Neil Gaiman
- John Galavan
- Patrick Gale
- Damon Galgut
- John Galsworthy
- Alton Gansky
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Alan Garner
- Helen Garner
- Julie Garwood
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Campbell Geeslin
- David Gemmell
- Nikki Gemmell
- Anne George
- Elizabeth George
- Margaret George
- Adele Geras
- Amitav Ghosh
- Kaye Gibbons
- May Gibbs
- William Gibson
- Michael Gilbert
- Deeanne Gist
- Hal Glatzer
- Victoria Glendinning
- Rumer Godden
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nikolai Gogol
- Glen David Gold
- William Golding
- Syd Goldsmith
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Nadine Gordimer
- Alan Gordon
- Mary Gordon
- Lisa Gornick
- Elizabeth Goudge
- Elizabeth Gouge
- Louise M. Gouge
- Sue Grafton
- Caroline Graham
- Valena Graham
- Robert Graves
- Alasdair Gray
- Richard Grayson
- John Green
- Graham Greene
- Kerry Greenwood
- Kristiana Gregory
- Susannah Gregory
- Lois Greiman
- Kate Grenville
- Zane Grey
- Martha Grimes
- John Grisham
- Patricia Grossman
- JoAnn A. Grote
- Michael Gruber
- Philip Gulley
- Robin Jones Gunn
- Joyce Hackett
- Mark Haddon
- H. Rider Haggard
- Matt Haig
- Carolyn Haines
- Karen Hall
- Julie Halpern
- Patrick Hamilton
- Dashiell Hammett
- Knut Hamsun
- Barry Hannah
- Kristin Hannah
- Thomas Hardy
- Cyril Hare
- Karen Harper
- Joanne Harris
- Robert Harris
- Thomas Harris
- Harry Harrison
- Kathryn Harrison
- Jon Hassler
- Robin Lee Hatcher
- Shirley Hazzard
- Ursula Hegi
- Robert Heinlein
- Kristen Heitzmann
- Joseph Heller
- Zoë Heller
- Mark Helprin
- Dee Henderson
- Kathy Hepinstall
- Frank Herbert
- Ethel Herr
- John Hersey
- Hermann Hesse
- Karen Hesse
- David Hewson
- Georgette Heyer
- Liz Curtis Higgs
- Patricia Highsmith
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Fiona Hill
- Patti Ann Hill
- Reginald Hill
- Lynne Hinton
- Tami Hoag
- Russell Hoban
- Robin Hobb
- J. M. Hochstetter
- Peter Hoeg
- Eric Hoffer
- Alice Hoffman
- Roy Hoffman
- Andrew Holleran
- Sheri Holman
- A. M. Homes
- Kay Hooper
- Terry Hoover
- Marya Hornbacher
- Nick Hornby
- William Horwood
- Khaled Hosseini
- Michel Houellebecq
- Silas House
- Lindy S. Hudis
- W.H. Hudson
- Langston Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Marion Husband
- Siri Hustvedt
- Carol Hutton
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Conn Iggulden
- John Irving
- Christopher Isherwood
- Roberta Isleib
- Deborah Jackson
- Derek Jackson
- Joshilyn Jackson
- Lucy Jackson
- Shirley Jackson
- Kate Jacobs
- Brian Jacques
- Dean James
- Henry James
- P.D. James
- Pamela James
- Tove Jansson
- Norma L. Jarrett
- Gish Jen
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Iris Johansen
- Sahr Johnny
- Joyce Johnson
- Maureen Johnson
- Shaun Johnson
- Annie Jones
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Veda Boyd Jones
- Robert Jordan
- Ward Just
- Norton Juster
- Carrie Kabak
- Franz Kafka
- Jeanne Kalogridis
- Laura Kalpakian
- Jan Karon
- Brian Kavanagh
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- M. M. Kaye
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- John Keats
- Lauren Kelly: penname of Joyce Carol Oates, q.v.
- Mary Jean Kelso
- Harry Kemelman
- Thomas Keneally
- Douglas Kennedy
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Jack Kerley
- Katherine Kerr
- Ken Kesey
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Gretel Killeen
- Claire Kilroy
- Garry Kilworth
- Michael Kimball
- Alice Kimberly
- Haven Kimmel
- Dave King
- Florence King
- Laurie R King
- Stephen King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Jane Kirkpatrick
- Ivan Klima
- Arthur Koestler
- Dean Koontz
- Amy Koppelman
- Joyce Reiser Kornblatt
- Jon Krakauer
- Nicole Krauss
- Judith Kristen
- Lynn Kurland
- Mercedes Lackey
- Al and Joanna Lacy
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Wally Lamb
- Anne Lamott
- Giuseppe di Lampedusa
- Jill Lanchbery
- Vicki Lane
- Lori Lansens
- RD Larson
- Victoria Laurie
- Stephen Lawhead
- D. H. Lawrence
- Halldor Laxness
- John le Carre
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stephen Leather
- David Leavitt
- Maurice Leblanc
- Anne LeClaire
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Debra Lee
- Gus Lee
- Harper Lee
- Min Jin Lee
- Dennis Lehane
- Lyn LeJeune
- Stanislaw Lem
- Bonnie Leon
- Donna Leon
- Elmore Leonard
- Doris Lessing
- Jonathan Lethem
- Billie Letts
- Jenifer Levin
- Paul Levine
- Beverly Lewis
- Brian Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Astrid Lindgren
- Norman Lindsay
- Laura Lippman
- Sam Lipsyte
- David Liss
- Brad Listi
- Penelope Lively
- Joyce Livingston
- David Lodge
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Gabrielle Lord
- Maud Hart Lovelace
- Peter Lovesey
- Malcolm Lowry
- Robert Ludlum
- Sergei Lukyanenko
- Alison Lurie
- Ed Lynskey
- D. R. MacDonald
- John D. MacDonald
- Joaquim Machado de Assis
- Patrick Mackeown
- Alistair MacLeod
- Debbie Macomber
- Molly MacRae
- Michelle Magorian
- Gregory Maguire
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Norman Mailer
- Andrei Makine
- Bernard Malamud
- David Malouf
- David Mamet
- Henning Mankell
- Olivia Manning
- Hilary Mantel
- Irene Marcuse
- Javier Marias
- Jeffrey Marks
- Ngaio Marsh
- Yann Martel
- George R.R. Martin
- Steve Martin
- Daniel Mason
- Felicia Mason
- Francine Mathews
- Alice Mattison
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Armistead Maupin
- Joyce Maynard
- Anne McCaffrey
- Charles McCarry
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Lorena McCourtney
- Carson McCullers
- Colleen McCullough
- Val McDermid
- Yona McDonough
- Joseph McElroy
- Ian McEwan
- Andrew McGahern
- Patrick McGrath
- Jay McInerney
- Fiona McIntosh
- Ami McKay
- G. A. McKevett
- Patricia A. McKillip
- Robin McKinley
- Tom McNab
- Zakes Mda
- George Meredith
- Claire Messud
- Deon Meyer
- James A. Michener
- China Mieville
- Alex Miller
- Judith Miller
- Maryann Miller
- Sue Miller
- Steven Millhauser
- Alan Mills
- A. A. Milne
- John Milton
- Susan Minot
- Yukio Mishima
- Rohinton Mistry
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- David Mitchell
- Elyne Mitchell
- Nancy Mitford
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
- Madeleine Monette
- Paul Monette
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rick Moody
- Thomas Moran
- Kathleen Morgan
- Richard K. Morgan
- Michael Morpurgo
- Ruth Axtell Morren
- Gilbert Morris
- Mary Morris
- Toni Morrison
- Di Morrissey
- James Morrow
- John Mortimer
- Brian Morton
- Walter Mosely
- Nancy Moser
- Kate Moses
- Howard Moss
- Haruki Murakami
- Shikibu Murasaki
- Michael Murphy
- Elizabeth Musser
- An Na
- Magdalen Nabb
- R. K. Narayan
- Tom Neale
- Geoff Nicholson
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Jenny Nimmo
- Larry Niven
- Garth Nix
- Andre Norton
- Amélie Nothomb
- Andrew Nugent
- Sigrid Nunez
- Judy Nunn
- Ann O'Bannon
- Patrick O'Brian
- Flann O'Brien
- Flannery O'Connor
- Tawni O'Dell
- John O'Hara
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Janette Oke
- Ben Okri
- Michael Ondaatje
- George Orwell
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Sharon Owens
- Amos Oz
- Ruth Ozeki
- Cynthia Ozick
- ZZ Packer
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Grace Paley
- Ellen Pall
- Catherine Palmer
- Orhan Pamuk
- Christopher Paolini
- Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters)
- Robert B. Parker
- Delia Parr
- Sandra Parshall
- Tony Parsons
- Eva Pasco
- Ann Patchett
- A. B. Paterson
- Alan Paton
- James Patterson
- Richard North Patterson
- Beth Pattillo
- Gary Paulsen
- Konstantin Paustovsky
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Mervyn Peake
- Iain Pears
- Jane Peart
- Judith Pella
- Ruth Pennebaker
- Louise Penny
- Walker Percy
- Lewis Perdue
- Elliot Perlman
- Fernando Pessoa
- Corris Peter
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters (Ellis Peters is a pen name; please see "Edith Pargeter")
- Tracie Peterson
- K.M. Peyton
- Arthur Phillips
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Michael Phillips
- Cathy Pickens
- Jodi Picoult
- Rosamunde Pilcher
- Allison K. Pittman
- Neil Plakcy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Marguerite Poland
- Gene Stratton Porter
- Chaim Potok
- Beatrix Potter
- John Cowper Powys
- Emily Prager
- Terry Pratchett
- Michael Prescott
- Douglas Preston
- Reynolds Price
- E. Annie Proulx
- Marcel Proust
- Philip Pullman
- Mario Puzo
- Barbara Pym
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ellery Queen
- Anna Quindlen
- Jonathan Raban
- Ann Radcliffe
- Ayn Rand
- Ian Rankin
- Arthur Ransome
- Phyllis Raphael
- Edeet Ravel
- Wilson Rawls
- Jeanne Ray
- Cornelia Read
- Colleen L. Reece
- Kathy Reichs
- Matthew Reilly
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Mary Renault
- Alastair Reynolds
- Sheri Reynolds
- Jean Rhys
- Anne Rice
- Emilie Richards
- Arleta Richardson
- Samuel Richardson
- Emma Richler
- Mordecai Richler
- Mike Ricksecker
- Steven Rigolosi
- G. Riley Mills
- Ann Rinaldi
- Karen Rispin
- Francine Rivers
- Tom Robbins
- Gregory David Roberts
- Nora Roberts
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Marilynne Robinson
- Peter Robinson
- Spider Robinson
- Emily Rodda
- Lee Roddy
- James Rollins
- Thane Rosenbaum
- Ann B. Ross
- Henry Roth
- J. K. Rowling
- Arundhati Roy
- S. J. Rozan
- José Rúben Moreno
- Jed Rubenfeld
- Gillian Rubenstein
- Gwyn Hyman Rubio
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Juan Rulfo
- Salman Rushdie
- Mary Doria Russell
- Richard Russo
- Edward Rutherfurd
- Cynthia Rylant
- Vita Sackville-West
- Francoise Sagan
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- James Salter
- R. A. Salvatore
- Mark Salzman
- Lisa Samson
- John Sandford
- C. J. Sansom
- Jose Saramago
- Marjane Satrapi
- George Saunders
- Tom Savage
- Glenn Savan
- Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- John Scalzi
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Bernhard Schlink
- Patricia Schonstein
- Olive Schreiner
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Ken Scott
- John Searles
- W. G. Sebald
- Alice Sebold
- David Sedaris
- Lisa See
- Will Self
- Anna Sewell
- Kitty Sewell
- George Shaffner
- Dani Shapiro
- William Shatner
- Irwin Shaw
- June Shaw
- Owen Sheers
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Rachel Sherman
- Ben Sherwood
- Hoshi Shinichi
- Carole B. Shmurak
- Anita Shreve
- Georges Simenon
- Dan Simmons
- Paullina Simons
- Ginger Simpson
- Mona Simpson
- Murray Sinclair
- Upton Sinclair
- Israel Joshua Singer
- Edith Skom
- Karin Slaughter
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Betty Smith
- Cordwainer Smith
- Deborah Smith
- Dodie Smith
- L. Neil Smith
- Lee Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Sherwood Smith
- Wilbur Smith
- Zadie Smith
- Lauraine Snelling
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- Maria V. Snyder
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Sophocles
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- Wole Soyinka
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- Elizabeth George Speare
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Dana Spiotta
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- Christina Stead
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- Neal Stephenson
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- Vikas Swarup
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- Jonathan Swift
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- Junichiro Tanizaki
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- Judith Tarr
- T. L. Tedrow
- Peter Temple
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Josephine Tey
- William Thackeray
- Carroll Thomas
- Jim Thompson
- Wendy Tokunaga
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- Sue Townsend
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- Rachael Treasure
- Rose Tremain
- William Trevor
- Adriana Trigiani
- Calvin Trillin
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- Monique Truong
- Lynne Truss
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- Anne Tyler
- Miguel de Unamuno
- John Updike
- Leon Uris
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- Ivan Vladislavic
- Cynthia Voigt
- William T. Vollmann
- Heinrich Von Kleist
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Bruce Wagner
- Alice Walker
- Minette Walters
- Robert Penn Warren
- Sarah Waters
- Jan Watson
- Larry Watson
- Peter Watt
- Evelyn Waugh
- Janice Weber
- Jennifer Weiner
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- Fay Weldon
- H.G. Wells
- Irvine Welsh
- Patricia Wentworth
- Mary Wesley
- Scott Westerfeld
- William Wharton
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- E. B. White
- Patrick White
- T. H. White
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- Lori Wick
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Thornton Wilder
- Sharon Wildwind
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- Celia Wilkins
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- Connie Willis
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- Jeanette Winterson
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- Suzanne Wolfe
- Thomas Wolfe
- Tom Wolfe
- Hilma Wolitzer
- David Wolstencroft
- Virginia Woolf
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- Herman Wouk
- Kirby Wright
- Richard Wright
- Xinran
- Karen Tei Yamashita
- Steve Yarbrough
- A. B. Yehoshua
- Jane Yolen
- Banana Yoshimoto
- Lee Zacharias
- Markus Zusak
- Stefan Zweig