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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into film…
Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks was a Scottish author who published fiction under two names that marked a clear generic distinction: as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction, as Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction, though the boundary between the two was alwa…
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, includin…
Mercedes Lackey
American novelist and short story writer
Andre Norton
Andre Norton was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of rug company owner and his wife. She began writing while she was in high school, and she was the editor of a literary page in the school's paper. She also wrote her…
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian was an English novelist, born Richard Patrick Russ in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, in 1914, whose Aubrey-Maturin sequence is widely held to be the finest historical naval fiction in the language. A prodigy who publis…
J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for the Harry Potter series, seven novels published between 1997 and 2007 following a young wizard's education and his confrontation with the dark wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. The…
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author known for his intricate and imaginative works in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sanderson developed a passion for writing at a young age…
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and…
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novel…
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novell…
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "s…
Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson is the pen name of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian author and archaeologist born on 7 October 1959 in Toronto, Ontario. His background in archaeology and anthropology shapes the Malazan world at every level - the series approac…
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic f…
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very…
Hergé
Creator of Tintin. Illustrator, artist, writer.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author and physician whose creation of Sherlock Holmes placed him among the most influential writers in the history of popular fiction. Born in Edinburgh in 1859, he trained as a doctor before turning to wri…
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy…
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was an American author widely regarded as one of the most significant prose stylists in the history of American literature. His work spans Appalachian gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic fiction, united by a preoccupation…
Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–18…
John Scalzi
John Scalzi is an American science fiction writer, born in California in 1969, and one of the genre's most reliably entertaining and commercially successful figures. A journalist and film critic by training, he was blogging at his site Wha…
J.M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated au…
John Flanagan
John Anthony Flanagan is an Australian fantasy author best known for his medieval fantasy series, the Ranger's Apprentice, and its sister series, the Brotherband Chronicles. Some of his other works include his Storm Peak duology, as well as…
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story Burning Chrome and later popularized the concept…
