| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| A. N. Wilson |
English |
October 27, 1950 |
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| Abraham Polonsky |
American |
December 5, 1910 |
October 26, 1999 |
| Ada Cambridge |
English |
1844 |
1926 |
| Adam Hochschild |
American |
1942 |
|
| Agatha Christie |
English |
September 15, 1890 |
January 12, 1976 |
| Agnes Repplier |
American |
April 1, 1855 |
November 15, 1950 |
| Al Bernstein |
American |
|
|
| Alain de Botton |
English |
December 20, 1969 |
|
| Alan Coren |
British |
June 27, 1938 |
October 18, 2007 |
| Alan Lomax |
American |
January 31, 1915 |
July 19, 2002 |
| Alan Moore |
British |
November 18, 1953 |
|
| Alan Sillitoe |
English |
March 4, 1928 |
|
| Alexander Berkman |
Russian |
November 21, 1870 |
June 28, 1936 |
| Alexander John Ellis |
English |
June 14, 1814 |
October 28, 1890 |
| Alexandra Ripley |
American |
January 8, 1934 |
January 10, 2004 |
| Alfred de Musset |
French |
December 11, 1810 |
May 2, 1857 |
| Alfred Einstein |
German |
December 30, 1880 |
February 13, 1952 |
| Alfred Jarry |
French |
September 8, 1873 |
November 1, 1907 |
| Alice James |
American |
August 7, 1848 |
March 6, 1892 |
| Alice Koller |
American |
|
|
| Alice Munro |
Canadian |
July 10, 1931 |
|
| Alice Thomas Ellis |
British |
September 9, 1932 |
March 8, 2005 |
| Alphonse Allais |
French |
October 20, 1854 |
October 28, 1905 |
| Amos Oz |
Israeli |
May 4, 1939 |
|
| Andre Dubus |
American |
August 11, 1936 |
February 24, 1999 |
| Andre Maurois |
French |
July 26, 1885 |
October 9, 1967 |
| Andre Norton |
American |
February 17, 1912 |
March 17, 2005 |
| Andreas Capellanus |
French |
|
|
| Andrei Platonov |
Russian |
September 1, 1899 |
January 5, 1951 |
| Andrew Cohen |
American |
1955 |
|
| Andrew Fletcher |
Scottish |
1653 |
1716 |
| Andrew Marvell |
English |
March 31, 1621 |
August 16, 1678 |
| Anita Loos |
American |
April 26, 1893 |
August 18, 1981 |
| Ann Beattie |
American |
September 8, 1947 |
|
| Ann Druyan |
American |
June 13, 1949 |
|
| Ann Rule |
American |
October 22, 1935 |
|
| Anna de Noailles |
Romanian |
November 1, 1876 |
April 30, 1933 |
| Anna Jameson |
British |
May 17, 1794 |
March 17, 1860 |
| Anna Seward |
English |
December 12, 1747 |
March 25, 1809 |
| Anna Sewell |
English |
March 30, 1820 |
April 25, 1878 |
| Anne Frank |
German |
June 12, 1929 |
1945 |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
American |
June 22, 1906 |
February 7, 2001 |
| Annie Gottlieb |
American |
1946 |
|
| Anthony Doerr |
American |
|
|
| Anthony Hope |
British |
February 9, 1863 |
July 8, 1933 |
| Anthony Sampson |
British |
August 3, 1926 |
December 18, 2004 |
| Antiphanes |
Greek |
408 |
334 |
| Antonio Tabucchi |
Italian |
September 23, 1943 |
|
| Antony Jay |
British |
April 20, 1930 |
|
| Antony Sher |
South African |
June 14, 1949 |
|
| Anya Seton |
American |
January 23, 1904 |
November 8, 1990 |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
English |
December 16, 1917 |
March 19, 2008 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
British |
May 22, 1859 |
July 7, 1930 |
| Arthur Golden |
American |
1956 |
|
| Arthur Murphy |
Irish |
December 27, 1727 |
June 18, 1805 |
| Arthur Young |
English |
November 11, 1741 |
April 20, 1820 |
| Augusten Burroughs |
American |
October 23, 1965 |
|
| Augustus Hare |
English |
March 13, 1834 |
January 22, 1903 |
| Axel Munthe |
Swedish |
October 31, 1857 |
February 11, 1949 |
| Ayn Rand |
Russian |
February 2, 1905 |
March 6, 1982 |
| Azar Nafisi |
Iranian |
1955 |
|
| Barbara de Angelis |
American |
|
|
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
American |
August 26, 1941 |
|
| Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
American |
September 14, 1934 |
April 24, 2002 |
| Bede Jarrett |
|
1881 |
1937 |
| Ben Hecht |
American |
February 28, 1894 |
April 18, 1964 |
| Bernard De Voto |
American |
January 11, 1897 |
November 13, 1955 |
| Bernard Goldberg |
American |
May 31, 1945 |
|
| Bernard Werber |
French |
September 18, 1961 |
|
| Bernardo Bertolucci |
Italian |
March 16, 1940 |
|
| Bernie Taupin |
English |
May 22, 1950 |
|
| Bessie Head |
South African |
July 6, 1937 |
April 17, 1986 |
| Bette Howland |
American |
|
|
| Beverley Nichols |
English |
September 9, 1898 |
September 15, 1983 |
| Beverly Jones |
American |
1927 |
|
| Bill Bryson |
American |
December 8, 1951 |
|
| Bill James |
American |
October 5, 1949 |
|
| Boris Vian |
French |
March 10, 1920 |
June 23, 1959 |
| Bram Stoker |
Irish |
November 8, 1847 |
April 20, 1912 |
| Brenda Ueland |
American |
October 24, 1891 |
March 5, 1985 |
| Breyten Breytenbach |
South African |
September 16, 1939 |
|
| Brian Aldiss |
English |
August 18, 1925 |
|
| Brian Lumley |
English |
February 2, 1937 |
|
| Brian Sibley |
English |
July 14, 1949 |
|
| Bruce Feirstein |
American |
1956 |
|
| Bruce Sterling |
American |
April 14, 1954 |
|
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Italian |
August 28, 1903 |
March 13, 1990 |
| Budd Schulberg |
American |
March 27, 1914 |
|
| C. J. Cherryh |
American |
September 1, 1942 |
|
| Camilo Jose Cela |
Spanish |
May 11, 1916 |
January 7, 2002 |
| Candace Bushnell |
American |
December 1, 1959 |
|
| Carl Hiaasen |
American |
March 12, 1953 |
|
| Carl Van Vechten |
American |
June 17, 1880 |
December 21, 1964 |
| Carlo Collodi |
Italian |
November 24, 1826 |
October 26, 1890 |
| Carlos Castaneda |
American |
December 25, 1931 |
April 27, 1998 |
| Carlos Castenada |
Peruvian |
December 25, 1925 |
April 27, 1998 |
| Caroline B. Cooney |
American |
May 10, 1947 |
|
| Caroline Gordon |
American |
October 6, 1895 |
April 11, 1981 |
| Carolyn Heilbrun |
American |
January 13, 1926 |
|
| Carroll Quigley |
American |
November 9, 1910 |
January 3, 1977 |
| Catherine Crowe |
British |
1800 |
1876 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen |
American |
January 1, 1897 |
November 1, 1973 |
| Charles Anthon |
American |
November 19, 1797 |
July 29, 1867 |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
English |
1780 |
1832 |
| Charles de Lint |
Canadian |
December 22, 1951 |
|
| Charles Edward Pogue |
|
|
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| Charles Eliot Norton |
American |
November 16, 1827 |
October 21, 1908 |
| Charles Farrar Browne |
American |
April 23, 1834 |
March 6, 1867 |
| Charles Fort |
American |
August 6, 1874 |
May 3, 1932 |
| Charles Godfrey Leland |
American |
1824 |
1903 |
| Charley Reese |
American |
January 29, 1937 |
|
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
American |
July 3, 1860 |
August 17, 1935 |
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
American |
September 15, 1942 |
|
| Chinua Achebe |
Nigerian |
November 16, 1930 |
|
| Chris Bunch |
American |
December 22, 1943 |
July 4, 2005 |
| Christa Wolf |
German |
March 18, 1929 |
|
| Christine de Pisan |
Italian |
1364 |
1430 |
| Christine Pelosi |
|
1966 |
|
| Christopher Dawson |
English |
1889 |
1970 |
| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
American |
|
|
| Claire Wolfe |
American |
|
|
| Clarence Budington Kelland |
American |
1881 |
1964 |
| Claude McKay |
Jamaican |
September 15, 1889 |
May 22, 1948 |
| Claude Simon |
|
October 10, 1913 |
July 6, 2005 |
| Clayton Rawson |
American |
1906 |
1971 |
| Clement Clarke Moore |
American |
July 15, 1779 |
July 10, 1863 |
| Clement Freud |
British |
April 24, 1924 |
|
| Clifford D. Simak |
American |
August 3, 1904 |
April 25, 1988 |
| Clifford Irving |
American |
November 5, 1930 |
|
| Clifton Fadiman |
American |
May 15, 1904 |
June 20, 1999 |
| Clifton Paul Fadiman |
|
|
|
| Clive Barker |
English |
October 5, 1952 |
|
| Clive Cussler |
American |
July 15, 1931 |
|
| Clive James |
Australian |
October 7, 1939 |
|
| Colin Henry Wilson |
British |
June 26, 1931 |
|
| Colin Wilson |
English |
June 26, 1931 |
|
| Connie Willis |
American |
December 31, 1945 |
|
| Cormac McCarthy |
American |
July 20, 1933 |
|
| Crane Wilbur |
American |
November 17, 1886 |
October 18, 1973 |
| Curtis Sittenfeld |
American |
1975 |
|
| Cynthia Heimel |
American |
|
|
| Daisaku Ikeda |
Japanese |
January 2, 1928 |
|
| Daisy Ashford |
English |
April 7, 1881 |
January 15, 1972 |
| Dale Carnegie |
American |
November 24, 1888 |
November 1, 1955 |
| Dan Savage |
American |
October 7, 1964 |
|
| Dana Fox |
American |
1976 |
|
| Daniel Keys Moran |
American |
November 30, 1962 |
|
| Daniel Taradash |
American |
January 29, 1913 |
February 22, 2003 |
| Dave Anderson |
American |
May 6, 1929 |
|
| Dave Eggers |
American |
January 8, 1970 |
|
| Dave Pelzer |
American |
December 29, 1960 |
|
| David D. Burns |
|
|
|
| David Foster Wallace |
American |
February 21, 1962 |
December 12, 2008 |
| David Gerrold |
American |
January 24, 1944 |
|
| David Herbert Lawrence |
English |
September 11, 1885 |
March 2, 1930 |
| David Horowitz |
American |
January 10, 1939 |
|
| David Sedaris |
American |
December 26, 1956 |
|
| David Starr Jordan |
American |
January 19, 1851 |
September 19, 1931 |
| David Wain |
American |
August 1, 1969 |
|
| Dawn Powell |
American |
November 28, 1896 |
November 14, 1965 |