Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:

See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors

Contents

1 Albania 2 Ancient Latin Authors 3 Argentina 4 Armenia 5 Australia 6 Austria 7 Belarus 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9 Brazil 10 Canada 11 Catalonia 12 Chile 13 China 14 Colombia 15 Cosmopolitan 16 Croatia 17 Czech Republic 18 Denmark 19 Egypt 20 England 21 Finland 22 France 23 Germany 24 Hungary 25 Iceland 26 India 27 Ireland 28 Israel 29 Italy 30 Japan 31 Kenya 32 Lebanon 33 Netherlands 34 Nigeria 35 Norway 36 Pakistan 37 Peru 38 Poland 39 Portugal 40 Romania 41 Russia 42 Scotland 43 Serbia and Montenegro 44 South Africa 45 Spain 46 Sweden 47 Switzerland 48 Turkey 49 United States 50 Venezuela 51 Wales 52 Yiddish

Albania

• Ismail Kadare

Ancient Latin Authors

• Petronius

Argentina

• Julio Cortázar, (1914 - 1984)
• Ricardo Güiraldes , (1886-1927) Don Segundo Sombra
• Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

Armenia

• Alexander Shirvanzade

Australia

• Amy Witting
• Bryce Courtenay
• Carmel Bird
• Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
• Clinton Walker
• D.B.C. Pierre, 2003 Booker Prize
• David Foster
• David Malouf
• Dorothy Hewett
• Elizabeth Jolley
• Frank Moorhouse
• George Johnston
• Gerald Murnane
• Greg Egan, science fiction
• Helen Garner
• Henry Handel Richardson
• James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of Shogun
• Jessica Anderson
• John Birmingham
• John Marsden, author of the Tomorrow series
• Joseph Furphy
• Kate Grenville
• Kerry Greenwood
• Lily Brett , author of Just Like That (1994)
• Marcus Clarke
• Matthew Reilly
• Miles Franklin
• Murray Bail
• Nevil Shute
• Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature (1973), noted for his examinations of his native land
• Peter Carey
• Peter Goldsworthy
• Randolph Stow
• Richard Flanagan
• Rolf Boldrewood
• Thea Astley
• Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979)
• Tim Winton
• Traci Harding
• Xavier Herbert

Austria

(see also German literature)

• Hugo Bettauer
• Peter Handke, (1942- )
• Josef Haslinger
• Peter Henisch
• Robert Musil, (1880 - 1942), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities)
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942)

Belarus

• Vasil Bykov (1924-2003)
• Uladzimir Karatkevich
• Yakub Kolas (Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskevich)
• Yanka Kupala (Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Ivo Andrić, (1892-1975), Nobel Prize for Literature (1961)

Brazil

• Paulo Coelho, (1947- )
• Holdemar Menezes, (1921-1996), writer

Canada

(see also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers)

• Margaret Atwood, (1939- ), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Pierre Berton, (1920- )
• Marie-Claire Blais, (1939- )
• Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
• Deborah Joy Corey, (1958- ) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
• Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author of Fifth Business
• Réjean Ducharme
• Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (See also France)
• Hugh MacLennan,
• Margaret Laurence,
• Stephen Leacock
• Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
• Rohinton Mistry, (1952- )
• Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942)
• Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885)
• Farley Mowat
• Alice Munro, (1931- )
• Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ), author of The English Patient (1993)
• Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
• Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)
• Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
• Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899)
• Jane Urquhart, (1949- )

Catalonia

• Raimon Llull, (1235-1315), author of Libre de meravelles
• Ramon Muntaner, (circa 1270-1336), author of Cronica
• Joanot Martorell, (1413-1468), author of Tirant lo Blanc
• Narcís Oller, (1846-1930), author of La febre d'or
• Mercè Rodoreda, (1909-1983), author of La plaça del diamant

Chile

• Isabel Allende
• Manuel Rojas
• Francisco Coloeane

China

(see also: Chinese literature)

• Lao She, (1899-1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
• Zhang Ailing, (1920-1995), female romantic story writer
• Qian Zhongshu, (1910-1998), author of "Wei Cheng
• Lu Xun, (1881-1936), author of The True Story of Ah Q
• Mao Dun, (1896-1981), author of Zi Ye

Colombia

• Gabriel García Márquez, (1928- ), author of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), journalist, publisher, avatar of magical realism
• José Eustasio Rivera, (1888-1928), author of La vorágine

Cosmopolitan

• Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer
• Franz Kafka, (1883-1924) lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature
• Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
• Milan Kundera, (1929- ) born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer .
• Salman Rushdie, (1947- ) born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, placed under fatwah (death sentence) by Muslim clerics

Croatia

(see also: Croatian literature)

• Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981)
• Ivo Andric (1892-1975)
• Ivan Aralica (1930-)
• Tomislav Ladan (1932-)

Czech Republic

(see also: Literature of the Czech Republic)

• Karel Čapek, (1890-1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
• Jaroslav Hasek, (1883-1923), author of The Good Soldier Svejk
• Václav Havel, (born 1936, President of Czech Republic (1993-2003) and famous playwright)
• Bohumil Hrabal, (1914-1997), author of Closely Watched Trains , died trying to feed pigeons.
• Milan Kundera, (born 1929) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)

Denmark

(see also: Danish Literature)

• Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
• Isak Dinesen, (1885-1962) (real name: Karen Blixen), author of Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
• Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873-1950), Nobel Prize for Literature (1944)
• Peter Kjaerulff (1946 - )

Egypt

• Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.

England

See also List of novelists by country: England

• J. R. Ackerley
• Kingsley Amis
• Martin Amis
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817), author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
• Nicola Barker
• Sir Thomas Browne, (1605-82)
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)author of Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1855), author of Wuthering Heights
• Wallace Breem, (1926-1990)
• Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), philosopher, logician, photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
• Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author of A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch
• Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of James Bond
• James Follet, (born 1939), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio and television.
• E. M. Forster, (1879-1970), author of A Passage to India and Maurice
• John Fowles, (born 1926)
• Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865)
• Alistair Gentry
• William Golding,(1911-1993), author of Lord of the Flies
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author of The Quiet American and The Heart of the Matter
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd
• Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
• Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986)
• P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
• Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
• Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim and The Jungle Book, Nobel Prize for Literature (1907)
• C. H. B. Kitchin
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Golden Notebook
• W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), playwright, author of Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge
• A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), poet, playwright, author of Winnie the Pooh
• George Orwell, (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm and 1984
• Charles Palliser
• Nevil Shute (1899-1960), author of On the Beach
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882)
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), author of Brideshead Revisited
• H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), essayist, science fiction author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist, author of Mrs. Dalloway

Finland

• Tove Jansson, (1914-2001) she wrote in Swedish
• Aino Kallas , (1878-1956), female
• Aleksis Kivi, (1834-1872)
• Väinö Linna, (1920-1992)
• Frans Emil Sillanpää, (1888-1964), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1939)
• Mika Waltari, (1908-1979)

France

See also List of novelists by country: France

(see also: French literature)

• Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine , a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
• Albert Camus, (1913-1960)
• Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870), perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; The Count of Monte Cristo has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since films were first made.
• Michel Houellebecq, Impact award winner
• Gustave Flaubert, (1821-1880)
• Anatole France
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
• Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)
• François Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1964) (rejected)
• Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
• Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
• Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist

Germany

(see also German literature)

• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Alfred Doblin, (1878-1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), polymath.
• Günter Grass, (1927- ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
• Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
• Siegfried Lenz , (1926- )
• Thomas Mann, (1875-1955)
• Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Patrick Süskind (1949- ), author of Perfume

Hungary

• György Dalos, (1943- )
• Imre Kertész, (1929- ), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (2002)
• Mór Jókai, (1825-1904)
• István Örkény , (1912-1979)

Iceland

• Snorri Sturluson, (1179-1241), author of the Younger Edda
• Halldor Laxness, (1903-1998)

India

• Munshi Premchand, (1880, 1936) - Hindi
• Salman Rushdie, (1947- ), English
• R.K. Narayan, (1906-2001), English
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994)

Ireland

See also Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists, List of Irish short story writers

• Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989), Nobel Prize for Literature (1969)
• Brendan Behan, (1923-1964)
• Roddy Doyle, (1958-)
• Thomas Flanagan , (1923-2002)
• James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)
• Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
• Brian O'Nolan, (1911-1966) better known as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn...
• Laurence Sterne, (1713-1768) played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
• Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) author of biting satires. Gulliver's Travels was Bowdlerised into children's literature.
• Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), also a playwright, imprisoned for homosexual acts

Israel

• Gabriela Avigur-Rotem , author of Heatwave and Crazy Birds
• David Grossman , author of See Under: Love, The Smile of the Lamb
• Amos Oz, author of Black Box, My Michael
• Meir Shalev , suthor of The Blue Mountain, Four Meals
• A. B. Yehoshua , author of Mr. Mani

Italy

• Riccardo Bacchelli
• Alessandro Baricco
• Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985) is most popular work in English
• Alberto Bevilacqua
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Vitaliano Brancati
• Gesualdo Bufalino
• Aldo Busi
• Dino Buzzati
• Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
• Luigi Capuana
• Andrea Camilleri
• Carlo Cassola
• Carlo Collodi
• Carmen Covito
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, revolutionary
• Massimo D'Azeglio
• Grazia Deledda
• Giuseppe Dessi
• Umberto Eco
• Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Primo Levi, resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Emilio Lussu
• Alessandro Manzoni
• Dacia Maraini
• Franco Mimmi
• Elsa Morante
• Alberto Moravia
• Cesare Pavese
• Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Vasco Pratolini
• Andrea di Robilant
• Salvatore Satta
• Alberto Savinio
• Leonardo Sciascia
• Ignazio Silone
• Mario Soldati
• Italo Svevo
• Susanna Tamaro
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
• Giovanni Verga
• Elio Vittorini

Japan

(see also Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors)

• Kobo Abe (1924-1993) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa, (1892-1927), Rashomon
• Osamu Dazai, (1909-1948), No Longer Human, Melos, Run!
• Fumiko Enchi (1905-1986) A Tale of False Fortunes, The Waiting Years
• Shusaku Endo, (1923-1996) Silence, Deep River
• Ichiyo Higuchi, (1872-1896) Child's Play, The Thirteenth Night
• Masuji Ibuse, (1898-1993) Black Rain
• Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Snow Country, The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize, 1968)
• Yukio Mishima, (1925-1970), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask
• Kenji Miyazawa, (1896-1933) Night Train to the Stars, Matasaburo the Wind Imp
• Ogai Mori, (1862-1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
• Soseki Natsume, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994)
• Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
• Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965)

Kenya

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, (1938-), The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari

Lebanon

• Amin Maalouf

Netherlands

• Harry Mulisch
• Tip Marugg
• Cees Nooteboom
• Willem Frederik Hermans
• Jan Wolkers
• Gerard van het Reve
• A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Nigeria

• Chinua Achebe, (1930- ) Things Fall Apart, stories about the dissolution of traditional African society.

Norway

(see also: Norwegian literature)

• Ingvar Ambjørnsen
• Lars Saabye Christensen
• Olav Duun
• Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
• Erik Fosnes Hansen
• Knut Hamsun, Hunger
• Roy Jacobsen
• Alexander Kielland
• Jan Kjærstad
• Jonas Lie
• Axel Sandemose
• Gabriel Scott
• Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavandsdatter

Pakistan

(see also: Pakistani literature)

• Ahmed Ali
• Zulfikar Ghose
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Tariq Ali

Peru

• Mario Vargas Llosa, (1936- ), ran for president, author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Poland

(see also: Polish literature)

• Witold Gombrowicz, (1904-1969)
• Stanislaw Lem, (1921- )
• Eliza Orzeszkowa , (1841-1910)
• Boleslaw Prus, (1847-1912)
• Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925) Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of national epic The Peasants
• Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, Quo Vadis
• Stefan Zeromski, (1864-1925)

Portugal

• António Lobo Antunes
• Fernando de Campos
• Eça de Queirós
• Aqulino Ribeiro
• Albino Forjaz de Sampaio , (1884-1949)
• José Saramago, (1922- ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998

Romania

(see also: Romanian literature)

• Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), O scrisoare pierdută (1884),
• Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor II (2002),
• Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Précis de décomposition (1949),
• Ion Creangă (1839-1889),
• Mircea Eliade (1907-1986),
• Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889),
• Panait Istrati (1884-1935),
• Eugen Ionescu (1909-1994), Elegii pentru fiinţe mici (1931), Nu (1934), Englezeşte fără profesor (1945), Rinocerii (1959) ,
• Camil Petrescu (1894-1957), Patul lui Procust (1933),
• Marin Preda (1927-1980), Moromeţii (1956),
• Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944), Ion (1920),
• Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961), Fraţii Jderi (1935-1942) ,
• Ioan Slavici (1848-1925), Moara cu noroc (1860),
• Vasile Voiculescu (1884-1963), Zahei orbul 1952;

Russia

(see also: Russian literature)

• Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
• Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940, author of The Master and Margarita
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
• Nikolai Gogol, (1809-1852), author of Dead Souls
• Ivan Goncharov, (1812-1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841)
• Nikolai Leskov, (1831-1895)
• Eduard Limonov, author of It's Me, Eddie and Memoir of a Russian Punk
• Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
• Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837)
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826-1889)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918- ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
• Aleksey K. Tolstoy , (1817-1875)
• Aleksey N. Tolstoy , (1883-1945)
• Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910) of whose greatest book it was said, "Loved the war, hated the peace".

Scotland

• William Auld writes mainly in Esperanto
• Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (1954- ) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second.
• J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan among others.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of the Lost World, believer in fairies.
• James Kelman
• Helen Clark MacInnes wrote suspense novels
• Ken MacLeod, (1954- ), science fiction
• Ian Rankin
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), author of Treasure Island
• Mary Stewart, (1916- )
• Nigel Tranter, (1909-2000), Scottish historical novels.
• Irvine Welsh, (1961- )

Serbia and Montenegro

• Desanka Maksimovic
• Milorad Pavic, (1929- )
• Petar Petrovic Njegos

South Africa

• Sheila Gordon

Spain

• Leopoldo Alas , author of 'La Regenta'
• Miguel de Cervantes, : El Quijote, or Don Quixote
• Pérez Galdós
• Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
• Juan Marsé : La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (Premio planeta )
• Eduardo Mendoza : La ciudad de los prodigios, Sin Noticias de Gurp, El Misterio de la cripta embrujada
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte : El Club Dumas
• Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir

Sweden

• Marianne Fredriksson
• Gustaf Fröding
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Guillou
• Eyvind Johnson
• Pär Lagerkvist
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Astrid Lindgren
• Harry Martinson
• Vilhelm Moberg
• Per Nilsson
• Peter Pohl
• August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)
• Esaias Tegnér

See also: List of Swedish language writers

Switzerland

• Max Frisch (1911 - 1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)

Turkey

• Cem Akas
• Ertugrul Oguz Firat , author of "Sevicira "
• Metin Kacan
• Bilge Karasu , author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
• Yahya Kemal
• Yasar Kemal , author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
• Orhan Pamuk, author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
• Aziz Nesin
• Haldun Taner

United States

See also List of novelists by country: United States

• Kathy Acker, (1943-1997)
• Robert H. Adleman (1919-1995)
• Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women
• Nicholson Baker (born 1957), author of The Mezzanine and Vox
• Ray Bradbury, (born 1920), author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Illustrated Man
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet & novelist, author of Post Office, Factotum
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997), author of Naked Lunch
• Truman Capote, (1924-1984), author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood
• Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959), author of The Big Sleep
• Tom Clancy, (born 1947), author of The Hunt for Red October
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), aouthor of The Red Badge of Courage
• John Fante, (1909-1983), author of Ask the Dust
• William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Nobel Prize winning author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom!
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night
• Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961), author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables
• Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale
• Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
• Frank Herbert, (1920-1986), author of Dune
• John Irving, (born 1942), author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules
• Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road
• Stephen King, prolific horror author.
• Jack London, (1876-1916), author of The Call of the Wild
• David Markson, (born 1927), author of This is Not a Novel and Wittgenstein's Mistress
• Herman Melville, (1819-1891), author of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick
• Henry Miller (1891-1980), author of Tropic of Cancer
• Toni Morrison, (born 1931), Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved
• Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937), author of Gravity's Rainbow
• Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain
• J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
• William Saroyan
• John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men
• William Styron author of Sophie's Choice
• Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
• Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five
• Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), journalist and author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), author of Look Homeward, Angel

Venezuela

• Rómulo Gallegos, (1884-1969) Canaima , Doña Bárbara

Wales

• English language
  • Mary Balogh
  • Amy Dillwyn
  • Ken Follett
  • Richard Hughes, (1900-1976), A High Wind in Jamaica
  • Jack Jones, (1884-1970)
  • Richard Llewellyn, (1907-1983), How Green Was My Valley
  • Jean Rhys
  • Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief
  • Howard Spring, (1889-1965)
• Welsh language
  • Daniel Owen , (1836-1895)
  • Kate Roberts, (1891-1985)

Yiddish

• Sholom Aleichem, (1859-1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories
• Sholom Asch , (1880-1957)
• Mendele Moykher Sforim, (1836-1917), pseud. for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
• Yitzok Lebesh Peretz , (1852-1915)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991)