Lista över 1900-talsförfattare
Detta är en ofullständig lista över 1900-talsförfattare . Denna lista inkluderar anmärkningsvärda konstnärer, författare, filosofer, dramatiker, poeter, vetenskapsmän och andra viktiga och anmärkningsvärda bidragsgivare till litteraturen. De två mest grundläggande skriftliga litterära kategorierna inkluderar skönlitteratur och facklitteratur .
A
- Edward Abbey
- Kōbō Abe
- Chinua Achebe
- Kathy Acker
- Forrest J. Ackerman
- Peter Ackroyd
- Douglas Adams
- Richard Adams
- Lucia H. Faxon Additon
- Mirza Adeeb
- Adunis
- John Agard
- James Agee
- Samuel Agnon
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Conrad Aiken
- Anna Akhmatova
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Alain-Fournier
- Edward Albee
- Rafael Alberti
- Richard Aldington
- Julia Carter Aldrich
- Sholom Aleichem
- Sherman Alexie
- Nelson Algren
- Woody Allen
- Isabel Allende
- Eunice Gibbs Allyn
- Julia Alvarez
- Jorge Amado
- Eric Ambler
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Yehuda Amichai
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- AR Ammons
- Regina M. Anderson
- Sherwood Andersson
- VC Andrews
- Ivo Andrić
- Roger Angell
- Maya Angelou
- Gabriele d'Annunzio
- A. Manette Ansay
- Piers Anthony
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Louis Aragon
- Jeffrey Archer
- Hannah Arendt
- Sarah Louise Arnold
- Antonin Artaud
- Sholem Asch
- John Ashbery
- Isaac Asimov
- Miguel Ángel Asturien
- Diana Athill
- Kate Atkinson
- Margaret Atwood
- WH Auden
- Jean M. Auel
- Paul Auster
B
- Elnora Monroe Babcock
- Isaak Babel
- Richard Bach
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Howard Bahr
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Larry Baker
- Nicholson Baker
- James Baldwin
- JG Ballard
- Melissa Bank
- Iain Banks
- John Banville
- Nick Bantock
- Amiri Baraka
- Alessandro Baricco
- Annie Maria Barnes
- Djuna Barnes
- Julian Barnes
- Margaret Ayer Barnes
- JM Barrie
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- Roland Barthes
- Georges Bataille
- Margret Holmes Bates
- Emma Pow Bauder
- L. Frank Baum
- Peter S. Beagle
- Clara Bancroft Beatley
- Ann Beattie
- Sally Beauman
- Samuel Beckett
- Max Beerbohm
- Adaline Hohf Beery
- Brendan Behan
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Hilaire Belloc
- Saul Bellow
- Jacinto Benavente
- Peter Benchley
- Robert Benchley
- Mario Benedetti
- Emma Lee Benedict
- Hester A. Benedict
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Arnold Bennett
- John Berger
- Thomas Berger
- Henri Bergson
- Thomas Bernhard
- John Berryman
- Alfred Bester
- Mongo Beti
- Doris Betts
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph
- Ella A. Bigelow
- Jennie M. Bingham
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Emily Montague Mulkin biskop
- Andrei Bitov
- Suessa Baldridge Blaine
- Maurice Blanchot
- Emily Rose Bleby
- Karen Blixen
- Alexander Blok
- Allan Bloom
- Harold Bloom
- Judy Blume
- Elizabeth Baker Bohan
- Roberto Bolaño
- Yves Bonnefoy
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Paul Bowles
- William Boyd
- Kay Boyle
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Brada
- Ray Bradbury
- Anna Braden
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Gillian Bradshaw
- John Braine
- Adelia Pope Branham
- Richard Brautigan
- Marion Howard Brazier
- Bertolt Brecht
- André Breton
- Eve Brodlique
- Joseph Brodsky
- Louis Bromfield
- Rupert Brooke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Terry Brooks
- Alice Williams Brotherton
- Martha A. Boughton
- Dan Brown
- Dee Brown
- Eva Maria Brown
- Martin Buber
- John Buchan
- Frank Buck
- Pearl S. Buck
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Fredrik Buechner
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Charles Bukowski
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Emma Bull
- Ivan Bunin
- Basilikasparv
- Anthony Burgess
- James Lee Burke
- Emeline S. Burlingame
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Clementina Butler
- Octavia Butler
- Michel Butor
- Dino Buzzati
- AS Byatt
C
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- James M. Cain
- Erskine Caldwell
- Italo Calvino
- Margaret Cameron
- John W. Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
- Albert Camus
- Matilde Camus
- Elias Canetti
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott-kort
- Jan Carew
- Peter Carey
- Robert Caro
- Alejo Carpentier
- Jonathan Carroll
- Rachel Carson
- Angela Carter
- Barbara Cartland
- Raymond Carver
- Joyce Cary
- Carlos Castaneda
- Rosario Castellanos
- Willa Cather
- Sarah Caudwell
- Konstantin P. Kavafis
- Edgar Cayce
- Camilo José Cela
- Paul Celan
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Blaise Cendrars
- Elizabeth Chadwick
- Raymond Chandler
- René Char
- Bruce Chatwin
- John Cheever
- Kelly Cherry
- CJ Cherryh
- GK Chesterton
- Tracy Chevalier
- Lee Child
- Erskine Childers
- Irma Chilton
- Noam Chomsky
- Agatha Christie
- Nicholas Christopher
- Daria Chubata
- Eugenia Chuprina
- Winston Churchill
- Carolyn Chute
- Tom Clancy
- Fanny Clar
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Kenneth Clark
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Paul Claudel
- James Clavell
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Ethlyn T. Clough
- Harlan Coben
- Sarah Johnson Cocke
- Jean Cocteau
- Jonathan Coe
- JM Coetzee
- Leonard Cohen
- Yolande Cohen
- H. Maria George Colby
- Isabel Colegate
- Alice Blanchard Coleman
- Colette
- John Collier
- Jackie Collins
- Laurie Colwin
- Michael Connelly
- Joseph Conrad
- Pat Conroy
- Thomas B. Costain
- Robin Cook
- Glenn Cooper
- Robert Coover
- Cid Corman
- Bernard Cornwell
- Gregory Corso
- Julio Cortázar
- Jayne Cortez
- Thomas B. Costain
- Douglas Coupland
- Bryce Courtenay
- Noël Coward
- James Gould Cozzens
- Jim Crace
- Sara Jane Hantverk
- Hart Crane
- Robert Creeley
- René Crevel
- Michael Crichton
- Quentin Crisp
- AJ Cronin
- Harry Crosby
- Aleister Crowley
- John Crowley
- Anne Virginia Culbertson
- Belle Caldwell Culbertson
- Greve Cullen
- EE Cummings
- Michael Cunningham
- Martha E. Sewall Curtis
- Nannie Webb Curtis
- Clive Cussler
D
- Roald Dahl
- Sandra Dallas
- Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Cora Linn Daniels
- Edwidge Danticat
- Rubén Darío
- Iris Rainer Dart
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Robertson Davis
- Angela Davis
- HL Davis
- Lydia Davis
- Richard Harding Davis
- Osamu Dazai
- Samuel R. Delany
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Louis de Bernières
- Len Deighton
- Charles de Lint
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Bhabananda Deka
- Nalini Prava Deka
- Miguel Delibes
- Don DeLillo
- Nelson DeMille
- Anita Desai
- Robert Desnos
- Pete Dexter
- Anita Diamant
- Philip K. Dick
- James Dickey
- Joan Didion
- Annie Le Porte Diggs
- Pietro di Donato
- Annie Dillard
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Stephen Dixon
- Alfred Döblin
- Louisa Emily Dobrée
- EL Doctorow
- Anna Bowman Dodd
- Harriet Doerr
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- JP Donleavy
- Hilda Doolittle ( HD )
- Michael Dorris
- Ella Loraine Dorsey
- John Dos Passos
- Fjodor Dostojevskij
- Sara Douglass
- Rita Dove
- Alice Mary Dowd
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodor Dreiser
- Allen Drury
- WEB Du Bois
- Andre Dubus III
- John Dufresne
- Daphne du Maurier
- David James Duncan
- Helen Dunmore
- Dorothy Dunnett
- John Dunning
- Will Durant
- Marguerite Duras
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Gerina Dunwich
- Bohdana Durda
- Emile Durkheim
- Ella Hamilton Durley
- Gerald Durrell
- Lawrence Durrell
- Bob Dylan
E
- Mary Tracy Earle
- Roger Ebert
- José Echegaray
- Umberto Eco
- David Eddings
- ER Eddison
- David Edgar
- Russell Edson
- Helen Merrill Egerton
- Ilja Ehrenburg
- Albert Einstein
- Mircea Eliade
- TS Eliot
- Stanley Elkin
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Havelock Ellis
- Harlan Ellison
- Ralph Ellison
- James Elroy
- Paul Éluard
- Odysseas Elytis
- James Emanuel
- Buchi Emecheta
- Nora Ephron
- Joseph Epstein
- Louise Erdrich
- Barbara Erskine
- Laura Esquivel
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Nicholas Evans
- Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell
- Elizabeth Hawley Everett
- Nellie Blessing Eyster
F
- Hans Fallada
- John Fante
- Nuruddin Farah
- Abdul Haque Faridi
- Richard Fariña
- Philip José Farmer
- JG Farrell
- James T. Farrell
- Howard Fast
- William Faulkner
- Raymond Feist
- Mary Fels
- Edna Ferber
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Laura Dayton Fessenden
- Helen Fielding
- Jack Finney
- Ronald Firbank
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Raymond Flanagan
- Martin Flavin
- Ian Fleming
- Dario Fo
- Ken Follett
- Horton Foote
- Edith Willis Linn Forbes
- Ford Madox Ford
- Harriet Ford
- Richard Ford
- CS Forester
- EM Forster
- Frederick Forsyth
- Jessie Forsyth
- Alan Dean Foster
- Michel Foucault
- Connie May Fowler
- Karen Joy Fowler
- John Fowles
- Paula Fox
- Esther G. Frame
- Anatole Frankrike
- Anne Frank
- Jonathan Franzen
- Michael Frayn
- Charles Frazier
- Pauline Fréchette
- Sigmund Freud
- Betty Friedan
- Bruce Jay Friedman
- Milton Friedman
- Thomas Friedman
- Erich Fromm
- Robert Frost
- Emma Sheridan Fry
- Susanna MD Fry
- Agnes Moore Fryberger
- Northrop Frye
- Carlos Fuentes
- Athol Fugard
- Buckminster Fuller
- Alan Furst
G
- Diana Gabaldon
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- William Gaddis
- Neil Gaiman
- Ernest J. Gaines
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Mary Onahan Gallery
- Rómulo Gallegos
- Barbara Galpin
- John Galsworthy
- Mary Ninde Gamewell
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Gao Xingjian
- Jane Gardam
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- John Gardner
- William H. Gass
- Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss )
- David Gemmell
- Jean Genet
- Ella M. George
- Kaye Gibbons
- Stella Gibbons
- Kahlil Gibran
- William Gibson
- André Gide
- Jack Gilbert
- Annie Somers Gilchrist
- Florence Magruder Gilmore
- Allen Ginsberg
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Jean Giono
- Nikki Giovanni
- Jean Giraudoux
- Ellen Glasgow
- Louise Glück
- Gail Godwin
- John Henry Goldfrap
- William Golding
- Emma Goldman
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Lorna Goodison
- Terry Goodkind
- Allegra Goodman
- Paul Goodman
- Nadine Gordimer
- Mary Gordon
- Noah Gordon
- Maxim Gorkij
- Stephen Jay Gould
- William Goyen
- Kenneth Grahame
- Günter Grass
- Mary H. Graves
- Robert Graves
- Charlotte E. Gray
- Gerald Green
- Henry Green
- Julia Boynton Green
- Clement Greenberg
- Cordelia A. Greene
- Frances Nimmo Greene
- Graham Greene
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- Germaine Greer
- Philippa Gregory
- Kate Grenville
- Zane Grey
- WEB Griffin
- John Grisham
- João Guimarães Rosa
- Sandra Gulland
- Nikolay Gumilev
- John Gunther
- George Gurdjieff
- Ivor Gurney
- David Guterson
H
- Arthur Hailey
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- David Halberstam
- Alex Haley
- James Norman Hall
- Radclyffe Hall
- Edith Hamilton
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Dashiell Hammett
- Earl Hamner
- Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Knut Hamsun
- James Hanley
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Lillian Resler Harford
- Donald Harington
- Ethel Hillyer Harris
- Joanne Harris
- Robert Harris
- Wilson Harris
- Constance Cary Harrison
- Jim Harrison
- Kathryn Harrison
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Mary R. Platt Hatch
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Václav Havel
- John Hawkes
- Robert Hayden
- Friedrich Hayek
- Kate Simpson Hayes
- Melinda Haynes
- Shirley Hazzard
- Dermot Healy
- Seamus Heaney
- Roy Heath
- Eliza Putnam Heaton
- Ursula Hegi
- Martin Heidegger
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Lillian Hellman
- Mark Helprin
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Frank Herbert
- James Leo Herlihy
- Michael Herr
- John Hersey
- Hermann Hesse
- Juliette Heuzey
- Emma Churchman Hewitt
- Paul Heyse
- Patricia Highsmith
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Agnes Leonard Hill
- Susan Hill
- James Hilton
- Chester Himes
- Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
- Christopher Hitchens
- Russell Hoban
- Robin Hobb
- Peter Hög
- Alice Hoffman
- Robert Holdstock
- Cecilia Holland
- Norah M. Holland
- Lizzie Holmes
- Hilda Mary Hooke
- Nick Hornby
- Corinne Stocker Horton
- Ödön von Horváth
- AE Housman
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Robert E. Howard
- Emeline Harriet Howe
- Bohumil Hrabal
- L. Ron Hubbard
- William Henry Hudson
- Pauline von Hügel
- Langston Hughes
- Richard Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Keri Hulme
- E. Howard Hunt
- Florence Huntley
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Sibyl Marvin Huse
- Taha Hussein
- Aldous Huxley
I J
- David Ignatow
- Marilla Baker Ingalls
- William Inge
- Eugène Ionesco
- Mary E. Irland
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Muhammad Iqbal
- John Irving
- Christopher Isherwood
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Oksana Ivanenko
- Alice Emma Ives
- Edmond Jabès
- Shirley Jackson
- Max Jacob
- Ada Jafarey
- Henry James
- PD James
- William James
- Stormen Jameson
- Randall Jarrell
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Theodora R. Jenness
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Orrick Johns
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Maria I. Johnston
- Gayl Jones
- James Jones
- Erica Jong
- juni Jordanien
- Robert Jordan
- Rebecca Richardson Joslin
- Alice Jouenne
- James Joyce
- CG Jung
- Ernst Jünger
K
- Pauline Kael
- Franz Kafka
- Jan Karon
- George S. Kaufman
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Jackie Kay
- Terry Kay
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Harry Stephen Keeler
- Eliza D. Keith
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Yaşar Kemal
- Thomas Keneally
- AL Kennedy
- William Kennedy
- Lady Amabel Kerr
- Imre Kertész
- Jack Kerouac
- Katharine Kerr
- Ken Kesey
- John Maynard Keynes
- Daniel Kharms
- Joyce Kilmer
- Maria Brace Kimball
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Lily King
- Stephen King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Alfred Kinsey
- Velimir Khlebnikov
- Arthur Koestler
- Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Dean Koontz
- Sonya Koshkina
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Jon Krakauer
- Karl Kraus
- William Kent Krueger
- Maxine Kumin
- Milan Kundera
- Stanley Kunitz
- Katherine Kurtz
L
- Louis L'Amour
- Oliver La Farge
- Pär Lagerkvist
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Harold Lamb
- Wally Lamb
- Anne Lamott
- John Lanchester
- Margaret Landon
- Mary Lewis Langworthy
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Ring Lardner
- Philip Larkin
- Margaret Laurence
- DH Lawrence
- TE Lawrence
- Halldór Laxness
- Timothy Leary
- John le Carré
- JMG Le Clézio
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Harper Lee
- Stan Lee
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Michel Leiris
- Mabel Johnson Leland
- Stanisław Lem
- Magdalena León de Leal
- Elmore Leonard
- Doris Lessing
- Jonathan Lethem
- Billie Letts
- Maurice nivå
- Lilian Levridge
- Denise Levertov
- Primo Levi
- Ira Levin
- CS Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Wyndham Lewis
- AJ Liebling
- Sigrid de Lima
- José Lezama Lima
- Fannie B. Linderman
- Astrid Lindgren
- Norman Lindsay
- Vachel Lindsay
- Elinor Lipman
- Walter Lippmann
- Clarice Lispector
- Penelope Lively
- Richard Llewellyn
- Morgan Llywelyn
- David Lodge
- Jack London
- Helen Dortch Longstreet
- Anita Loos
- Federico García Lorca
- Audre Lorde
- Bret Lott
- HP Lovecraft
- Earl Lovelace
- Robert Lowell
- Malcolm Lowry
- Mina Loy
- Dulce María Loynaz
- Lu Xun
- Robert Ludlum
M
- Rose Macaulay
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
- Antonio Machado
- Alistair MacLean
- Archibald MacLeish
- Della Campbell MacLeod
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Norman Mailer
- Mary Ann Maitland
- Bernard Malamud
- Michael Malone
- David Malouf
- André Malraux
- David Mamet
- Osip Mandelstam
- Heinrich Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Maria Emma Mannarelli
- Olivia Manning
- Katherine Mansfield
- Hilary Mantel
- William March
- Sándor Márai
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Paule Marshall
- George RR Martin
- Margaret Maruani
- John Masefield
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Dan Masterson
- Richard Matheson
- Harry Mathews
- Sophie Dora Spicer Maude
- W. Somerset Maugham
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
- Vladimir Majakovskij
- James McBride
- Lida Rose McCabe
- Patrick McCabe
- Colum McCann
- Cormac McCarthy
- Mary McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- David McCullough
- Ian McEwan
- John McGahern
- Jay McInerney
- Patricia McKillip
- Robin McKinley
- Katie McKy
- Alistair McLeod
- Marshall McLuhan
- Larry McMurtry
- Margaret Mead
- Mameve Medwed
- Pauline Melville
- HL Mencken
- Marguerite Merington
- James Merrill
- Magdalena Merritt
- Thomas Merton
- Lillian Rozell Messenger
- Grace Metalious
- Henri Michaux
- James A. Michener
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Arthur Miller
- Grażyna Miller
- Henry Miller
- Mrs Alex. McVeigh Miller
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- AA Milne
- Frances Margaret Milne
- Czesław Miłosz
- Anchee Min
- Yukio Mishima
- Gabriela Mistral
- Rohinton Mistry
- Margaret Mitchell
- Nancy Mitford
- Ferenc Molnár
- N. Scott Momaday
- Natyaguru Nurul Momen
- Bob Monkhouse
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Michael Moorcock
- Alan Moore
- Lorrie Moore
- Marianne Moore
- Henry Charles Frank Morant
- Alberto Moravia
- AR Morlan
- Toni Morrison
- Honoré Willsie Morrow
- Walter Mosley
- Lewis Mumford
- Clara Mulholland
- Heiner Müller
- Herta Müller
- Lewis Mumford
- Alice Munro
- Haruki Murakami
- Iris Murdoch
- Robert Musil
NEJ
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Ellen Torelle Nagler
- VS Naipaul
- Chūya Nakahara
- Atsushi Nakajima
- Ogden Nash
- Emma Huntington Nason
- Gloria Naylor
- Irène Némirovsky
- Pablo Neruda
- Edith Nesbit
- Aziz Nesin
- Katherine Neville
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Grace Nichols
- Lorine Niedecker
- Anaïs Nin
- Jeff Noon
- Charles Nordhoff
- Howard Norman
- Frank Norris
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Patrick O'Brian
- Flann O'Brien
- Tim O'Brien
- Seán O'Casey
- Flannery O'Connor
- Frank O'Connor
- Joseph O'Connor
- Clifford Odets
- John O'Hara
- Maude Andrews Ohl
- Ben Okri
- Robert Olmstead
- Charles Olsson
- Katharine A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney
- Stewart O'Nan
- Michael Ondaatje
- Eugene O'Neill
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Brian O'Nolan
- AR Orage
- PJ O'Rourke
- José Ortega och Gasset
- Joe Orton
- George Orwell
- John Osborne
- PD Ouspensky
- Wilfred Owen
- Amos Oz
- Cynthia Ozick
PQ
- Elizabeth Fry Page
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Grace Paley
- Charles Palliser
- Orhan Pamuk
- Dorothy Parker
- Amy Parkinson
- Atena Pashko
- Boris Pasternak
- Alan Paton
- James Patterson
- Richard North Patterson
- David Payne
- Octavio Paz
- Mervyn Peake
- Iain Pears
- TR Pearson
- Harvey Pekar
- Sharon Kay Penman
- Walker Percy
- Georges Perec
- SJ Perelman
- Pauline Periwinkle
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Anne Perry
- Fernando Pessoa
- Julia Peterkin
- Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan
- Jodi Picoult
- Marge Piercy
- Arturo Uslar Pietri
- Rosamund Pilcher
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Boris Pilnyak
- Robert Pinsky
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Sylvia Plath
- Andrei Platonov
- Francis Ponge
- Fanny Runnells Poole
- Delia Lyman Porter
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Robert Percival Porter
- Chaim Potok
- Beatrix Potter
- Dennis Potter
- Anna M. Longshore Potts
- Ezra Pound
- Anthony Powell
- Padgett Powell
- Tim Powers
- John Cowper Powys
- TF Powys
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Terry Pratchett
- Jacques Prévert
- JB Priestley
- Edna Dean Proctor
- Annie Proulx
- Marcel Proust
- Manuel Puig
- Philip Pullman
- Mario Puzo
- Barbara Pym
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ellery Queen
- Raymond Queneau
- Anna Quindlen
R
- Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan
- Nazım Hikmet Ran
- Ayn Rand
- Dora Knowlton Ranous
- Raja Rao
- Terence Rattigan
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- James Redfield
- Beatrice Redpath
- Ishmael Reed
- John Reed
- Wilhelm Reich
- Emma May Alexander Reinertsen
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Mary Renault
- Ludwig Renn
- John Rewald
- Władysław Reymont
- Charles Reznikoff
- Jean Rhys
- Fru Riazuddin
- Anne Rice
- Grantland ris
- Tim Rice
- Adrienne Rich
- Dorothy Richardson
- Hester Dorsey Richardson
- John Richardson
- Mordecai Richler
- EJ Richmond
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Yannis Ritsos
- Augusto Roa Bastos
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Harold Robbins
- Tom Robbins
- Nora Roberts
- Frances Forbes-Robertson
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Mercè Rodoreda
- Theodore Roethke
- Emma Winner Rogers
- Romain Rolland
- Martha Parmelee Rose
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Henry Roth
- Joseph Roth
- Philip Roth
- JK Rowling
- Mike Royko
- Robert Ruark
- Ella Giles Ruddy
- Juan Rulfo
- Damon Runyon
- Norman Rush
- Salman Rushdie
- Bertrand Russell
- Mary Doria Russell
- Richard Russo
S
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Ernesto Sabato
- Nelly Sachs
- Anna T. Sadlier
- Carl Sagan
- Saki
- Tayeb Salih
- JD Salinger
- Mark Salzman
- Sonia Sanchez
- Carl Sandburg
- Aksel Sandemose
- José Saramago
- Nathalie Sarraute
- William Saroyan
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Henriette Sauret
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Jack Schäfer
- Meyer Schapiro
- Bernhard Schlink
- Bruno Schultz
- James Schuyler
- André Schwarz-Bart
- Paul Scott
- Gil Scott-Heron
- WG Sebald
- Alice Sebold
- David Sedaris
- George Seferis
- Anna Seghers
- Gertrude Woodcock Seibert
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Hubert Selby
- Emily McGary Selinger
- Samuel Selvon
- Maurice Sendak
- Olive Senior
- Iryna Senyk
- Vikram Seth
- Anya Seton
- Mary Lee Settle
- Anne Sexton
- Michael Shaara
- Ntozake Shange
- Karl Shapiro
- Emma Augusta Sharkey
- Harriette R. Shattuck
- George Bernard Shaw
- Irwin Shaw
- Lurana W. Sheldon
- Sidney Sheldon
- Sam Shepard
- MP Shiel
- Carol Shields
- William L. Shirer
- Dora Adele skomakare
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