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Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs was an American novelist, visual artist, essayist and social critic. Renovator of narrative language and one of the main figu...
Truman Capote
Truman Streckfus Persons, better known as Truman Capote, was an American journalist and writer, mainly known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and his novel-...
Orson Scott Card
American writer, writes science fiction and other literary genres (fantasy). His best known work is Ender's game.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known for his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican, logical, mathematician, photographer and British writer.
Michael Chabon
Novelista, guionista y ensayista estadounidense considerado una de las voces más destacadas de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa. Su obra ...
Stephen Chbosky
He is an American writer, writer and director, known mainly for being the author of the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as well as for writing ...
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British Catholic writer, philosopher and journalist from the early 20th century. He cultivated, among other genres, the...
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is a successful writer of historical novels. His career began with the book "The Blue of the Virgin" but he reached fame with his nove...
Lee Child
Lee Child, pseudonym for Jim Grant, is a British thriller writer. The protagonist of his novels is Jack Reacher, a former U.S. military police officer...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known by the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specializing in police, for whose w...
Tom Clancy
He was an American writer, known for his novels of espionage and military intelligence set in the Cold War and later times.
Mary Higgins Clark
She was an American mystery novel writer. Each of his mystery novels has become a sales success in the United States and in several European countries...
Arthur Charles Clarke
British writer and scientist. Author of scientific and science fiction outreach works, such as the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sentinel or Rama C...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He was an English poet, critic and philosopher, one of the founders, along with his friend William Wordsworth, of Romanticism in England -
Wilkie Collins
Born in London in 1824, he is recognized as one of the creators of the genre of the police novel. Author of "The Lady of White" and "The Moon Stone," ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and doctor, creator of the famous fiction detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose w...
Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known as Joseph Conrad, was a Polish novelist who adopted English as a literary language.
Robin Cook
Robin Cook is an American doctor and novelist who writes about medicine and issues that affect public health. It is well known for combining medical w...
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist. He wrote thirty-four adventure novels, in which he recounts the life of the pioneers and their clashes...
Louise Cooper
Louise Cooper was a British writer of fantastic literature, recognized for her imaginative and poetic style, as well as her ability to create worlds o...
Bernard Cornwell
Novelist and English journalist, born in London in 1944, son of a Canadian aviator and a component of the Women's Assistant Air Force of Great Britain...
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell, born Patricia Carroll Daniels, is an American mystery writer, known mainly for her series of novels starring forensic doctor Kay Sc...
