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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…
Mercedes Lackey
American novelist and short story writer
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hergé
Creator of Tintin. Illustrator, artist, writer.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Robin Furth
Robin Furth is the personal research assistant to Stephen King and the author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Complete Concordance, which was published by Scribner on December 5, 2006. It is a compilation of her two previous encycloped…
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and e…
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantas…
Roy
Roy is the pen name of the Japanese author best known for writing the light novel series By the Grace of the Gods (known in Japan as Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko). While Roy wrote the original story, the manga adaptation (which began in 2…
Guy Antibes
Guy Antibes is an American author of sword-and-sorcery and epic fantasy, and one of the more prolific independent writers in the genre, with some eighty books across around ten series published under his own CasiePress imprint. Writing fro…
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married.…
