Abrahams, Peter (1919-____) South African novelist

Achebe, Chinua (1930-____) Nigerian novelist

Adams, Douglas (1952-____) English novelist

Ade, George (1866-1944) US humorist, playwright

Aesop, (620?-560? BC) Greek author

Agee, James (1909-1955) US novelist, poet

Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) US novelist

Aldiss, Brian (1925-____) English science-fiction writer

Aleichem, Sholom (1859-1916) Russian author

Algren, Nelson (1901-1981) US novelist

Allen, James (1849-1925) US novelist

Allingham, Margery (1904-1966) English detective story writer

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) Danish short-story writer, poet

Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) French novelist, critic

Asch, Sholem (1880-1957) US novelist

Ashford, Daisy (1881-1972) English novelist

Asquith, Margot (1864-1945) English author

Atwood, Margaret (1939-____) Canadian novelist, poet

Auchincloss, Louis (1917-___) US novelist

Austen, Jane (1775-1817) English novelist

Bach, Richard (1936-____) US novelist, author

Bagnold, Enid (1889-1981) English novelist, playwright

Baldwin, Faith (1893-1978) US novelist

Ballard, J. G. (1930-____) English novelist

Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) French author

Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995) US writer

Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982) US novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist

Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876-1972) US author

Barth, John (1930-____) US novelist

Bastos, Augusto Roa (1917-____) Latin-American novelist

Baum, Vicki (1888-1960) Austrian-USA novelist

Bellow, Saul (1915-____) US novelist, author

Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) English novelist

Bentley, Edmund Clerihew (1875-1956) English journalist, novelist

Bernanos, Georges (1888-1948) French novelist, polemical writer

Bibesco, Elizabeth Asquith () 

Blume, Judy (1938-____) US novelist, writer

Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973) Irish author

Bradbury, Malcolm (1932-____) English novelist

Bradbury, Ray (1920-____) US science-fiction writer

Bramah, Ernest (1867-1942) English humorous writer

Brien, Alan (1925-____) English novelist, journalist, critic

Brodie, Fawn M. (1915-1981) US author

Bront‰, Anne (1820-1849) English novelist, poet

Bront‰, Emily (1818-1848) English novelist

Brown, Rita Mae (1944-____) US writer, playwright

Buck, Pearl (1892-1973) US author

Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993) English novelist, critic, man of letters

Buxton, Charles (1823-1871) English author

Cabell, James Branch (1879-1958) US novelist, writer

Caldwell, Taylor (1900-1985) English novelist

Calvino, Italo (1923-1985) Italian journalist, short-story writer, novelist

Canetti, Elias (1905-1994) Swiss author

Capote, Truman (1924-1984) US novelist, short-story writer

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) English author

Carter, Angela (1940-1992) English novelist, short-story writer

Cartland, Barbara (1901-____) English novelist

Cary, Joyce (1888-1957) English novelist

Cather, Willa (1876-1947) US novelist, short-story writer

Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959) US short-story writer, novelist

Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) Russian short-story writer, dramatist

Chesnutt, Charles W. (1858-1932) US novelist, lawyer

Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936) English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet

Child, Lydia M. (1802-1880) US author

Christie, Agatha (1890-1976) English author, dramatist

Colette, (1873-1954) French author

Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) English novelist

Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1892-1969) English novelist

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short-story writer

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) US novelist

Craik, Dinah Mulock (1826-1887) English novelist

Crichton, Michael (1942-____) US novelist

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English novelist, dramatist

Dillard, Annie (1945-____) US author

Dinesen, Isak (1885-1962) Danish short-story writer

Doctorow, E. L. (1931-____) US author, editor

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881) Russian novelist

Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) US lecturer, author

Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Scottish author, physician

Drabble, Margaret (1939-____) English novelist, critic

DuMaurier, Daphne (1907-1989) English novelist

Dumas, pŠre, Alexandre (1802-1870) French novelist, dramatist

Durant, Ariel (1898-1981) US author

Eastman, Max (1883-1969) US author

Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) English children's author

Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994) US author

Ephron, Nora (1941-____) US author, screenwriter

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) US novelist

Ferber, Edna (1885-1968) US novelist

Field, Rachel (1894-1942) US children's author

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) English novelist

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) US author

Fitzgerald, Zelda (1900-1948) US writer, celebrity relative

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) French novelist

Fleming, Ian (1908-1964) English author

Forster, E. M. (1879-1970) English novelist

Frame, Janet (1924-____) New Zealander novelist, short-story writer, poet

France, Anatole (1844-1924) French author

Fulghum, Robert (1937-____) US author

Gaines, Ernest J. (1933-____) US author

Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) English author, dramatist

Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865) English novelist, short-story writer

Genet, Jean (1910-1986) French dramatist, author

Gide, Andre (1869-1951) French novelist, essayist

Gilman, Dorothy (1923-____) US mystery novelist

Ginzburg, Natalia (1916-1991) Italian author

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945) US author

Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) English novelist, short-story writer

Godwin, Gail (1937-____) US novelist, short-story writer, journalist

Golding, William (1911-1993) English novelist

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) Irish-British poet, dramatist, author

Gordimer, Nadine (1923-____) South African novelist

Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936) Russian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist

Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932) Scottish author

Guest, Judith (1936-____) US novelist

Haley, Alex (1921-1992) US novelist, journalist

Halsey, Margaret (1910-____) US author

Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952) Norwegian novelist

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) English novelist, poet

Harte, Bret (1836-1902) US short-story writer, verse writer

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) US novelist, short-story writer

Heinlein, Robert (1907-1988) US science-fiction writer

Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) US novelist

Hemingway, Ernest (1889-1961) US journalist, novelist, short-story writer

Henry, O. (1862-1910) US short-story writer, journalist

Hesse, Hermann (1877-1962) German-Swiss novelist

Homer, (750 -??? BC) Greek author

Howe, Edgar Watson (1853-1937) US editor, novelist, essayist

Hughes, Richard (1900-1976) Welsh author, dramatist

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) English novelist, critic

Irving, Washington (1783-1859) US short-story writer, essayist

Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885) US novelist, poet, essayist

Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965) US novelist

James, P. D. (1920-____) English mystery novelist

James, Jr., Henry (1843-1916) English author

Janowitz, Tama (1957-_____) US novelist

Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927) English author

Jewett, Sarah Orne (1848-1909) US author

Jong, Erica (1942-____) US author, poet

Joyce, James (1882-1941) Irish novelist, poet, playwright

Kafka, Franz (1882-1924) Austrian author, poet

King, Stephen (1947-____) US novelist, short-story writer

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875) English clergyman, writer

Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-____) US author

Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983) Hungarian-English novelist, essayist

Konigsburg, E. L. (1930-____) US children's author

Krantz, Judith (1928-____) US novelist

L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988) US author

L'Engle, Madeleine (1918-____) US novelist

LaRochefoucauld, Francois (1613-1680) French author

Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) English novelist, short-story writer, poet

Le Guin, Ursula (1929-____) US science-fiction writer

LeCarre, John (1931-____) English novelist

Lee, Harper (1926-____) US novelist

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) US novelist, playwright

London, Jack (1876-1916) US novelist

Loos, Anita (1893-1981) US screenwriter, dramatist, author

Lover, Samuel (1797-1868) Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, painter

MacDonald, George (1824-1905) Scottish novelist

Malamud, Bernard (1914-1986) US novelist, short-story writer

Malraux, Andre (1901-1976) French novelist, art historian, public official

Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) German-USA novelist

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) New Zealander author

Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) English novelist, short-story writer, playwright

Mauriac, Francois (1885-1970) French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright

McCarthy, Mary (1912-1989) US novelist, critic

McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) US novelist, short-story writer

McFee, William (1881-1966) US author

McKillip, Patricia (1948-____) US science fiction writer

Melville, Herman (1819-1891) US novelist

Meredith, George (1828-1909) English novelist, poet

Metalious, Grace (1924-1964) US novelist

Michener, James (1907-1997) US novelist

Miller, Henry (1891-1980) US novelist

Milne, A. A. (1882-1965) English humorist, children's author

Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) US novelist

Mitchison, Naomi (1897-1999) Scottish novelist

Mitford, Nancy (1904-1973) English novelist

Montagu, Mary Worley (1689-1762) English author

Moore, George (1852-1933) Irish author, poet, dramatist

Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) US novelist, journalist

Morrison, Toni (1931-____) US novelist

Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999) Irish author

Naipaul, V. S. (1932-____) West Indian novelist, journalist

Nin, Anais (1903-1977) US author

Norris, Frank (1870-1902) US novelist

Norris, Kathleen (1880-1960) US novelist

O'Brien, Edna (1932-____) Irish novelist, pacifist

O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964) US author

Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-____) US novelist, poet, educator

Olsen, Tillie (1912-____) US novelist

Orwell, George (1903-1950) English novelist, critic

Ouida, (1839-1908) English novelist, social critic

Ozick, Cynthia (1928-___) US novelist, short-story writer

Palmer, Vance (1885-1959) Australian novelist

Paterson, Katherine () US children's writer

Paul, Jean (1763-1825) German novelist, humorist

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart () US novelist

Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960) English novelist, playwright, dramatist

Plath, Sylvia () US novelist, poet

Plutarch, (46-120) Greek author

Porter, Eleanor H. (1868-1920) US novelist

Porter, Katherine Anne (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer

Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) English author

Powell, Anthony (1905-____) English novelist

Pritchett, V. S. (1900-1997) English novelist, short-story writer, critic

Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) French author

Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) US author

Reade, Charles (1814-1884) English novelist

Reed, Ishmael (1938-____) US author

Renault, Mary (1905-1983) English African novelist

Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) English novelist

Rice, Anne (1941-____) US novelist

Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) English novelist

Richter, Jean Paul (1763-1825) German novelist

Ripley, Alexandra (1934-____) US novelist

Rosten, Leo (1908-____) US novelist

Rule, Jane (1931-____) US novelist, critic

Rushdie, Salman (1947-____) Indian-English novelist

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de (1900-1944) French novelist, aviator

Saki, (1870-1916) Scottish short-story writer

Salinger, J. D. (1919-____) US novelist, short-story writer

Sand, George (1804-1876) French author

Sayers, Dorothy L. (1893-1957) English author

Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920) South African novelist

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet, historian, biographer

Segal, Erich (1937-____) US novelist, dramatist

Seredy, Kate (1899-1975) Hungarian children's writer, illustrator

Serling, Rod (1924-1975) US writer

Seuss, Dr. (1904-1991) US author, illustrator

Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) English novelist

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) English author

Sherwood, Mary Martha (1775-1851) English children's author

Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968) US novelist

Singer, Isaac (1904-1991) Polish-USA novelist, short-story writer

Sitwell, Osbert (1892-1969) English author

Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904) Scottish author

Smith, Lillian (1897-1966) US novelist, educator

Snow, C. P. (1905-1980) English novelist, scientist, government official

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (1918-____) Russian novelist

Spark, Muriel (1918-____) Scottish novelist, satirist

Spillane, Mickey (1918-____) US author

Stafford, Jean (1915-1979) US short-story writer, novelist

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) US author

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) US novelist

Stendhal, (1783-1842) French novelist

Stephens, James (1882-1950) English author, poet

Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) English novelist

Stewart, Mary (1916-____) English novelist

Stone, Robert (1937-____) US author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) US author

Swetchine, Anne Sophie (1782-1857) Russian-French writer

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, author, clergyman

Tan, Amy (1952-____) US novelist

Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946) US novelist, dramatist

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) English novelist

Theroux, Paul (1941-____) US novelist

Thurber, James (1894-1961) US novelist, humorist, cartoonist

Toffler, Alvin (1928-____) US author

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) English novelist, scholar

Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) Russian novelist, philosopher

Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) US author, poet

Tremain, Rose (1942-____) English novelist, playwright

Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) English author

Turgenev, Ivan (1818-1883) Russian novelist, short-story writer

Tyler, Anne (1941-____) US novelist, short-story writer

Updike, John (1932-____) US novelist, short-story writer, poet

Vidal, Gore (1925-____) US novelist, dramatist, critic

Viorst, Judith (1931-____) US novelist, poet

Walker, Alice (1944-____) US author

Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) English novelist, letter writer

Walpole, Hugh (1884-1941) English novelist, critic, dramatist

Warner, Susan (1819-1885) US novelist

Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989) US novelist, poet, critic, teacher

Webb, Mary (1881-1927) English novelist

Weldon, Fay (1931-____) English novelist

Wells, Carolyn (1869-1942) US author

Welty, Eudora (1909-____) US author

West, Jessamyn (1902-1984) US author

Westcott, Edward (1846-1898) US novelist, banker

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) US novelist, short-story writer

White, E. B. (1899-1985) US humorist, essayist, novelist

Wiesel, Elie (1928-____) Romanian-USA novelist

Wodehouse, P. G. (1881-1975) English novelist, humorist

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938) US novelist

Wouk, Herman (1915-) US novelist

Wright, Richard (1908-1960) US novelist, short-story writer

Yezierska, Anzia (1885-1970) US novelist

Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) Belgian-USA novelist, essayist

Zola, Emile (1840-1902) French author, journalist

von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie (1830-1916) Austrian novelist