n. 25B6; noun AUTHOR, wordsmith, man/woman of letters, penman; novelist, essayist, biographer; journalist, columnist, correspondent; scriptwriter, playwright, dramatist, dramaturge, tragedian; poet; informal scribbler, scribe, pen-pusher, hack. See list.
Writers
See also dramatist , poet . Lagerkvist, Pär (Swedish)
Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian) Lagerlöf, Selma (Swedish)
Ackroyd, Peter (English) Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di (Italian)
Addison, Joseph (English) La Rochefoucauld (French)
Aelfric (English) Lawrence, D. H. (English)
Aesop (Greek) Lawrence, T. E. (English)
Alain-Fournier (French) Le Carré, John (David Cornwell; English)
Alarcón, Pedro de (Spanish) Lee, Harper (American)
Alcott, Louisa May (American) Lee, Laurie (English)
Aldiss, Brian (English) Le Fanu, Sheridan (Irish)
Algren, Nelson (American) Le Guin, Ursula (American)
Amis, Kingsley (English) Leonard, Elmore (American)
Amis, Martin (English) Lesage, Alain-René (French)
Andersen, Hans Christian (Danish) Lessing, Doris (English)
Andri 0107; , Ivo (Serbian) Levi, Carlo (Italian)
Angelou, Maya (American) Levi, Primo (Italian)
Asimov, Isaac (American, b. in Russia) Lewis, C. S. (English)
Asturias, Miguel (Guatemalan) Lewis, Sinclair (American)
Atwood, Margaret (Canadian) Lindsay, Norman (Australian)
Austen, Jane (English) Lodge, David (English)
Bainbridge, Beryl (English) London, Jack (American)
Baldwin, James (American) Lowry, Malcolm (English)
Ballard, J. G. (British, b. in China) Lurie, Alison (American)
Balzac, Honoré de (French) Lyly, John (English)
Banks, Iain (Scottish) Lytton, Lord (English)
Barnes, Julian (English) Macaulay, Rose (English)
Barth, John (American) McCarthy, Mary (American)
Bates, H. E. (English) McCullers, Carson (American)
Bawden, Nina (English) McEwan, Ian (English)
Beckford, William (English) Mackenzie, Compton (English)
Beerbohm, Max (English) Maclean, Alistair (Scottish)
Behn, Aphra (English) Mahfouz, Naguib (Egyptian)
Belloc, Hilaire (British, b. in France) Mailer, Norman (American)
Bellow, Saul (American, b. in Canada) Malamud, Bernard (American)
Bennett, Arnold (English) Malory, Thomas (English)
Betti, Ugo (Italian) Malraux, André (French)
Beauvoir, Simone de (French) Mann, Thomas (German)
Bierce, Ambrose (American) Manning, Olivia (English)
Binchy, Maeve (Irish) Mansfield, Katherine (New Zealand)
Blackmore, Richard (English) Manzoni, Alessandro (Italian)
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Italian) Marryat, Frederick (English)
Böll, Heinrich (German) Marsh, Ngaio (New Zealand)
Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentinian) Maugham, Somerset (English)
Boswell, James (Scottish) Maupassant, Guy de (French)
Bowen, Elizabeth (British, b. in Ireland) Mauriac, François (French)
Boyd, Martin (Australian) Melville, Herman (American)
Bradbury, Malcolm (English) Meredith, George (English)
Bradbury, Ray (American) Mérimée, Prosper (French)
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (English) Miller, Henry (American)
Braine, John (English) Milne, A. A. (English)
Brink, André (South African) Mishima, Yukio (Kimitake Hiraoka; Japanese)
Brittain, Vera (English) Mitchell, Margaret (American)
Broch, Hermann (Austrian) Mitford, Nancy (English)
Brontë, Anne (English) Monsarrat, Nicholas (English)
Brontë, Charlotte (English) Montaigne, Michel de (French)
Brontë, Emily (English) Moore, Brian (Irish)
Brookner, Anita (English) Moore, George (Irish)
Browne, Thomas (English) Moravia, Alberto (Alberto Pincherle; Italian)
Buchan, John (Scottish) Morrison, Toni (American)
Bulgakov, Mikhail (Ukrainian) Munro, Alice (Canadian)
Bunyan, John (English) Murdoch, Iris (British, b. in Ireland)
Burgess, Anthony (English) Musil, Robert (Austrian)
Burney, Fanny (English) Mutanabbi, Abu al- (Persian)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (American) Nabokov, Vladimir (American, b. in Russia)
Burroughs, William S. (American) Naipaul, V. S. (British, b. in Trinidad)
Butler, Samuel (English) Narayan, R. K. (Indian)
Byatt, A. S. (English) Nesbit, E. (English)
Calvino, Italo (Italian) Newby, Eric (English)
Camus, Albert (French) Nin, Anaïs (American)
Canetti, Elias (British, b. in Bulgaria) O'Brian, Patrick (Irish)
Capote, Truman (American) O'Brien, Edna (Irish)
Carey, Peter (Australian) O'Brien, Flann (Brian O'Nolan; Irish)
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson; English) Oë, Kenzaburo (Japanese)
Carter, Angela (English) Okri, Ben (Nigerian)
Cartland, Barbara (English) Ondaatje, Michael (Canadian, b. in Sri Lanka)
Carver, Raymond (American) Orczy, Baroness (British, b. in Hungary)
Cary, Joyce (English) Orwell, George (Eric Blair; English)
Cather, Willa (American) Ouida (English)
Cela, Camillo José (Spanish) Parker, Dorothy (American)
Céline, Louis (L. F. Destouches; French) Pasternak, Boris (Russian)
Cervantes, Miguel de (Spanish) Pater, Walter (English)
Chandler, Raymond (American) Paton, Alan (South African)
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de (French) Pavese, Cesare (Italian)
Chatwin, Bruce (English) Paz, Octavio (Mexican)
Cheever, John (American) Peacock, Thomas Love (English)
Chesterton, G. K. (English) Peake, Mervyn (English)
Christie, Agatha (English) Pepys, Samuel (English)
Clarke, Arthur C. (English) Perec, Georges (French)
Coetzee, J. M. (South African) Perelman, S. J. (American)
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette; French) Perrault, Charles (French)
Collins, Wilkie (English) Pliny the Younger (Roman)
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (English) Plutarch (Greek)
Conrad, Joseph (Teodor Korzeniowski; British, b. in Poland) Poe, Edgar Allan (American)
Cookson, Catherine (English) Porter, Katherine Anne (American)
Cooper, James Fenimore (American) Potter, Beatrix (English)
Corelli, Marie (English) Powell, Anthony (English)
Crane, Stephen (American) Pratchett, Terry (English)
Crompton, Richmal (English) Priestley, J. B. (English)
Cronin, A. J. (Scottish) Pritchett, V. S. (English)
Dahl, Roald (English) Proust, Marcel (French)
d'Annunzio, Gabriele (Italian) Puzo, Mario (American)
Daudet, Alphonse (French) Pym, Barbara (English)
Davies, Robertson (Canadian) Pynchon, Thomas (American)
Defoe, Daniel (English) Queen, Ellery (Frederick Dannay; American)
Deighton, Len (English) Queneau, Raymond (French)
De Quincey, Thomas (English) Rabelais, François (French)
Dick, Philip K. (American) Radcliffe, Ann (English)
Dickens, Charles (English) Ransome, Arthur (English)
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen; Danish) Reade, Charles (English)
Doctorow, E. L. (American) Renault, Mary (Mary Chalans; British, resident in South Africa from 1948)
Dos Passos, John (American) Rendell, Ruth (English)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Russian) Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams; British, b. in Domenica)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Scottish) Rice, Anne (American)
Drabble, Margaret (English) Richardson, Samuel (English)
Dreiser, Theodore (American) Richler, Mordecai (Canadian)
Dumas, Alexandre (French) Robbe-Grillet, Alain (French)
Du Maurier, Daphne (English) Robbins, Harold (American)
Duras, Marguerite (French) Roth, Philip (American)
Durrell, Lawrence (English) Runyon, Damon (American)
Eco, Umberto (Italian) Rushdie, Salman (British, b. in India)
Edgeworth, Maria (Irish) Sackville-West, Vita (English)
Ehrenberg, Ilya (Russian) Sade, Marquis de (French)
Eichendorff, Josef (German) Sagan, François (French)
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans; English) Saint-Exupéry, Antoine (French)
Endo, Shusaku (Japanese) Saki (H. H. Munro; Scottish, b. in Burma)
Evelyn, John (English) Salinger, J. D. (American)
Farrell, J. G. (English) Sand, George (Amandine-Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant; French)
Faulkner, William (Cecil Lewis Troughton; American) Sargeson, Frank (New Zealand)
Fielding, Henry (English) Sarraute, Nathalie (French, b. in Russia)
FitzGerald, F. Scott (American) Sartre, Jean-Paul (French)
Flaubert, Gustave (French) Sayers, Dorothy L. (English)
Fleming, Ian (English) Scott, Walter (Scottish)
Follett, Ken (English) Seth, Vikram (Indian)
Ford, Ford Madox (English) Shadbolt, Maurice (New Zealand)
Forester, C. S. (English) Shelley, Mary (English)
Forster, E. M. (English) Sholokhov, Mikhail (Russian)
Forsyth, Frederick (English) Shute, Nevil (English)
Fowles, John (English) Sillitoe, Alan (English)
Frame, Janet (New Zealand) Simenon, Georges (Belgian)
France, Anatole (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault; French) Singer, Isaac Bashevis (American, b. in Poland)
Francis, Dick (English) Sitwell, Edith (English)
Franklin, Miles (Australian) Smollett, Tobias (Scottish)
Fuentes, Carlos (Mexican) Snow, C. P. (English)
Galsworthy, John (English) Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Russian)
García Márquez, Gabriel (Colombian) Soyinka, Wole (Nigerian)
Gaskell, Mrs (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson; English) Spark, Muriel (Scottish)
Genet, Jean (French) Spillane, Mickey (American)
Gibran, Khalil (American, b. in Lebanon) Stein, Gertrude (American)
Gibson, William (American) Steinbeck, John (American)
Gide, André (French) Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle; French)
Gissing, George (English) Sterne, Laurence (Irish)
Gogol, Nikolai (Russian) Stevenson, Robert Louis (Scottish)
Golding, William (English) Stoker, Bram (Irish)
Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish) Stowe, Harriet Beecher (American)
Goncharov, Ivan (Russian) Strachey, Lytton (English)
Goncourt, Edmond de (French) Surtees, Robert (English)
Goncourt, Jules de (French) Sutherland, Efua (Ghanaian)
Gordimer, Nadine (South African) Svevo, Italo (Ettore Schmitz; Italian)
Gorky, Maxim (Aleksei Peshkov; Russian) Swift, Jonathan (Irish)
Grahame, Kenneth (Scottish) Symons, Julian (English)
Grass, Günter (German) Thackeray, William Makepeace (British, b. in India)
Graves, Robert (English) Theroux, Paul (American)
Greene, Graham (English) Thompson, Flora (English)
Grisham, John (American) Thoreau, Henry (American)
Haggard, Rider (English) Tolkien, J. R. R. (British, b. in South Africa)
Hall, Radclyffe (English) Tolstoy, Leo (Russian)
Hammett, Dashiell (American) Tremaine, Rose (English)
Hamsun, Knut (Norwegian) Trevor, William (Irish)
Hardy, Thomas (English) Trollope, Anthony (English)
Hartley, L. P. (English) Trollope, Joanna (English)
Haek, Jaroslav (Czech) Turgenev, Ivan (Russian)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (American) Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens; American)
Hazlitt, William (English) Updike, John (American)
Heller, Joseph (American) Vargas Llosa, Mario (Peruvian)
Hemingway, Ernest (American) Verne, Jules (French)
Henry, O. (William Porter; American) Vidal, Gore (American)
Herriot, James (James Alfred Wight; English) Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet; French)
Hesse, Hermann (Swiss, b. in Germany) Vonnegut, Kurt (American)
Heyer, Georgette (English) Wain, John (English)
Highsmith, Patricia (American) Walker, Alice (American)
Hoffman, E. T. A. (German) Wallace, Edgar (English)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (American) Walpole, Horace (English)
Hornung, Ernest (English) Walton, Izaak (English)
Hugo, Victor (French) Warren, Robert Penn (American)
Huxley, Aldous (English) Waugh, Evelyn (English)
Irving, John (American) Webb, Mary (English)
Irving, Washington (American) Weldon, Fay (English)
Isherwood, Christopher (American, b. in England) Wells, H. G. (English)
Ishiguro, Kazuo (British, b. in Japan) Welty, Eudora (American)
Jacobs, W. W. (English) Wesley, Mary (English)
James, Henry (British, b. in America) West, Rebecca (Cicely Fairfield; English)
James, M. R. (English) Wharton, Edith (American)
James, P. D. (English) White, Patrick (Australian)
Jerome, Jerome K. (English) White, T. H. (British, b. in India)
Joyce, James (Irish) Wilder, Thornton (American)
Kadare, Ismail (Albanian) Williamson, Henry (English)
Kafka, Franz (Czech) Wilson, Angus (English)
Kawabata, Yasunari (Japanese) Wodehouse, P. G. (British)
Keneally, Thomas (Australian) Wolf, Christa (German)
Kerouac, Jack (American) Wolfe, Tom (American)
Kesey, Ken (American) Wollstonecraft, Mary (English)
King, Stephen (American) Wood, Mrs Henry (English)
Kingsley, Charles (English) Woolf, Virginia (English)
Kipling, Rudyard (British, b. in India) Wren, P. C. (English)
Koestler, Arthur (British, b. in Hungary) Wright, Richard (American)
Kundera, Milan (Czech) Wyndham, John (English)
La Bruyère, Jean de (French) Zola, Émile (French)
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de (French)