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Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is an Australian author. He has written nine novels, including the best sellers of the New York Times Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect ...
Toni Morrison
American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In his works, Morrison talks about the lives of peopl...
Alice Munro
Canadian narrator, especially of stories. It is considered one of the most prominent writers in English today. In 2013 he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...
Vladimir Nabokov
He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but became internationally famous as a teacher of the novel with his work written in English, especially...
Katherine Neville
Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American writer, known mainly for her novel El Ocho, which was a world-wide sales success, later ratified...
Maggie O’Farrell
North Irish writer recognized for her highly sensitive and prose-lyrical novels. His most famous work, Hamnet (2020), inspired by the death of Shakesp...
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blai, better known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was a British writer and journalist. In his work they highlight the essential "Rebellio...
Richard Osman
Richard Thomas Osman is a comedian, producer, television presenter, English writer and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One Pointless TV show.
Raquel Palacio
She is an American writer who is a descendant of Colombians. He is the author of youth novels, including The August Lesson (Wonder), on which is based...
Louise Penny
Canadian writer, author of the saga of which Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the protagonist, set in the Québec.
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Mertz was an American author who wrote under her own name and with the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer, poet, critic and romantic journalist - American, generally recognized as one of the universal teachers of the short story, of which he was one...
Terry Pratchett
Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE was a British writer of fantasy and science fiction, creator of the hilarious Discomundo.
Julia Quinn
She is an American writer, author of American historical romance. His novels based on the Bridgerton family have reached great popularity.
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a British writer of police novel. His best known works are those starring Inspector John Rebus.
Shelley Read
American writer recognized for her debut novel, "Go as a River," published in 2023. This work has been translated into more than thirty languages and ...
Mike Resnick
Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick "was an American writer, specialized in science fiction. He was executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe magazine.
M.L. Rio
American writer, has a master's degree in Shakespeare studies awarded by King's College in London.
Rick Riordan
American writer, best known for being the author of the Percy Jackson saga and the Olymo gods, Olymo Heroes.
Alexandra Ripley
She was an American writer better known as Scarlett's author (1991), written as a sequel to What the wind took away
Cristina Rivera Garza
Escritora mexicana que vive desde 1989 en los Estados Unidos. Es profesora distinguida en el departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de ...
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick James Rothfuss is an American fantasy writer and assistant professor of English literature and philology at the University of Wisconsin.
J.K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at the Yate General Hospital (England) and grew up in Chepstow (Gwent), where he studied at the Wyedean Comprehen...