English > writer: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
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| Synonym | author |
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| Instances | Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken | United States writer (1889-1973) |
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| Alger, Horatio Alger | United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys |
| Algren, Nelson Algren | United States writer (1909-1981) |
| Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen | A Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875) |
| Anderson, Sherwood Anderson | United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941) |
| Aragon, Louis Aragon | French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982) |
| Asch, Sholem Asch, Shalom Asch, Sholom Asch | United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957) |
| Asimov, Isaac Asimov | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992) |
| Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss, Louis Stanton Auchincloss | United States writer (born in 1917) |
| Austen, Jane Austen | English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817) |
| Baldwin, James Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin | United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism / racism (1924-1987) |
| Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones | United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict / conflict (born in 1934) |
| Barth, John Barth, John Simmons Barth | United States novelist (born in 1930) |
| Barthelme, Donald Barthelme | United States author of sometimes surrealistic stories (1931-1989) |
| Baum, Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Brown | United States writer of children's books (1856-1919) |
| Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir | French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) |
| Beckett, Samuel Beckett | A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France |
| Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm | English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956) |
| Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc | English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953) |
| Bellow, Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow | United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005) |
| Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley | United States humorist (1889-1945) |
| Benet, William Rose Benet | United States writer |
| Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce | United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914) |
| Boell, Heinrich Boell, Heinrich Theodor Boell | German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985) |
| Bontemps, Arna Wendell Bontemps | United States writer (1902-1973) |
| Borges, Jorge Borges, Jorge Luis Borges | Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986) |
| Boswell, James Boswell | Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) |
| Boyle, Kay Boyle | United States writer (1902-1992) |
| Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury | United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) |
| Bronte, Charlotte Bronte | English novelist |
| Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell | English novelist |
| Bronte, Anne Bronte | English novelist |
| Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward | United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867) |
| Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China / China (1892-1973) |
| Bunyan, John Bunyan | English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688) |
| Burgess, Anthony Burgess | English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993) |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett | United States writer (born in England) remembered for her novels for children (1849-1924) |
| Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs | United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) |
| Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs | United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) |
| Butler, Samuel Butler | English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902) |
| Cabell, James Branch Cabell | United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) |
| Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Preston Caldwell | United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) |
| Calvino, Italo Calvino | Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987) |
| Camus, Albert Camus | French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated / isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) |
| Canetti, Elias Canetti | English writer born in Germany (1905-1994) |
| Capek, Karel Capek | Czech writer who introduced the word 'robot' into the English language (1890-1938) |
| Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | English author |
| Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Sibert Cather | United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947) |
| Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) |
| Chandler, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Thornton Chandler | United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959) |
| Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand | French statesman and writer |
| Cheever, John Cheever | United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982) |
| Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion |
| Chopin, Kate Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin | United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904) |
| Christie, Agatha Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie | prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976) |
| Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II |
| Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain | United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) |
| Cocteau, Jean Cocteau | French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963) |
| Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Colette | French writer of novels about women (1873-1954) |
| Collins, Wilkie Collins, William Wilkie Collins | English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889) |
| Conan Doyle, A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930) |
| Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski | English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924) |
| Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper | United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) |
| Crane, Stephen Crane | United States writer (1871-1900) |
| Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr. | United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) |
| De Quincey, Thomas De Quincey | English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859) |
| Defoe, Daniel Defoe | English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731) |
| Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) |
| Didion, Joan Didion | United States writer (born in 1934) |
| Dinesen, Isak Dinesen, Blixen, Karen Blixen, Baroness Karen Blixen | Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962) |
| Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow, Edgard Lawrence Doctorow | United States novelist (born in 1931) |
| Dos Passos, John Dos Passos, John Roderigo Dos Passos | United States novelist remembered for his portrayal of life in the United States (1896-1970) |
| Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski, Dostoevsky, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Feodor Dostoevski, Fyodor Dostoevski, Feodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky | Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881) |
| Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser | United States novelist (1871-1945) |
| Dumas, Alexandre Dumas | French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870) |
| Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence George Durrell | English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990) |
| Ehrenberg, Ilya Ehrenberg, Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenberg | Russian novelist (1891-1967) |
| Eliot, George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans | British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) |
| Ellison, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Ellison | United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994) |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson | United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882) |
| Farrell, James Thomas Farrell | United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) |
| Ferber, Edna Ferber | United States novelist |
| Fielding, Henry Fielding | English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754) |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940) |
| Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert | French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880) |
| Fleming, Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming | British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964) |
| Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer | English writer and editor (1873-1939) |
| Forester, C. S. Forester, Cecil Scott Forester | English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) |
| France, Anatole France, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault | French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924) |
| Franklin, Benjamin Franklin | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics |
| Fuentes, Carlos Fuentes | Mexican novelist (born in 1928) |
| Gaboriau, Emile Gaboriau | French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873) |
| Galsworthy, John Galsworthy | English novelist (1867-1933) |
| Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner | writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970) |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell | English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865) |
| Geisel, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss | United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) |
| Gibran, Kahlil Gibran | United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931) |
| Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide | French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) |
| Gjellerup, Karl Gjellerup | Danish novelist (1857-1919) |
| Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol | Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852) |
| Golding, William Golding, Sir William Gerald Golding | English novelist (1911-1993) |
| Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith | Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774) |
| Gombrowicz, Witold Gombrowicz | Polish author (1904-1969) |
| Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt | French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896) |
| Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt | French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870) |
| Gordimer, Nadine Gordimer | South African novelist and short-story writer / writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923) |
| Gorky, Maksim Gorky, Gorki, Maxim Gorki, Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov | Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories |
| Grahame, Kenneth Grahame | English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) |
| Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass | German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) |
| Graves, Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves | English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985) |
| Greene, Graham Greene, Henry Graham Greene | English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991) |
| Grey, Zane Grey | United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939) |
| Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm | The older of the two Grimm / Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories |
| Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm | The younger of the two Grimm / Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) |
| Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard | British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) |
| Haldane, Elizabeth Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane | Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937) |
| Hale, Edward Everett Hale | prolific United States writer (1822-1909) |
| Haley, Alex Haley | United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back / back to Africa (1921-1992) |
| Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) |
| Hammett, Dashiell Hammett, Samuel Dashiell Hammett | United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961) |
| Hamsun, Knut Hamsun, Knut Pedersen | Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952) |
| Hardy, Thomas Hardy | English novelist and poet (1840-1928) |
| Harris, Frank Harris, James Thomas Harris | Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) |
| Harris, Joel Harris, Joel Chandler Harris | United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908) |
| Harte, Bret Harte | United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902) |
| Hasek, Jaroslav Hasek | Czech author of novels and short stories (1883-1923) |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne | United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864) |
| Hecht, Ben Hecht | United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946) |
| Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein | United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988) |
| Heller, Joseph Heller | United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999) |
| Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway | An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) |
| Hesse, Hermann Hesse | Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962) |
| Heyse, Paul Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | German writer (1830-1914) |
| Heyward, DuBois Heyward, Edwin DuBois Hayward | United States writer (1885-1940) |
| Higginson, Thomas Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson | United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911) |
| Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann | German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes | United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894) |
| Howells, William Dean Howells | United States writer and editor (1837-1920) |
| Hoyle, Edmond Hoyle | English writer on card games (1672-1769) |
| Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard | A United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986) |
| Hughes, Langston Hughes, James Langston Hughes | United States writer (1902-1967) |
| Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) |
| Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley | English writer |
| Irving, John Irving | United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942) |
| Irving, Washington Irving | United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859) |
| Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood | United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986) |
| Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson | United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust / unjust / unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885) |
| Jacobs, Jane Jacobs | United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916) |
| Jacobs, W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs | English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) |
| James, Henry James | writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916) |
| Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) |
| Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson | English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784) |
| Jong, Erica Jong | United States writer (born in 1942) |
| Joyce, James Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce | influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations / innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) |
| Kafka, Franz Kafka | Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) |
| Keller, Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller | United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months |
| Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac | United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) |
| Kesey, Ken Kesey, Ken Elton Kesey | United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) |
| Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling | English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936) |
| Koestler, Arthur Koestler | British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983) |
| La Fontaine, Jean de La Fontaine | French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695) |
| La Rochefoucauld, Francois de La Rochefoucauld | French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680) |
| Lardner, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner | United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933) |
| Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence | English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) |
| Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia | Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks |
| Leonard, Elmore Leonard, Elmore John Leonard, Dutch Leonard | United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925) |
| Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov | Russian writer (1814-1841) |
| Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing | English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) |
| Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis | English critic and novelist |
| Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Harry Sinclair Lewis | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) |
| London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney | United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) |
| Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry | English novelist (1909-1957) |
| Lyly, John Lyly | English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606) |
| Lytton, First Baron Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton | English writer of historical romances / romances (1803-1873) |
| Mailer, Norman Mailer | United States writer (born in 1923) |
| Malamud, Bernard Malamud | United States writer (1914-1986) |
| Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory | English writer who published a translation of romances / romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471) |
| Malraux, Andre Malraux | French novelist (1901-1976) |
| Mann, Thomas Mann | German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) |
| Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp | New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923) |
| Manzoni, Alessandro Manzoni | Italian novelist and poet (1785-1873) |
| Marquand, John Marquand, John Philip Marquand | United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960) |
| Marsh, Ngaio Marsh | New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982) |
| Mason, A. E. W. Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason | English writer (1865-1948) |
| Maugham, Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham | English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965) |
| Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant | French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893) |
| Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Francois Charles Mauriac | French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire and religious belief (1885-1970) |
| Maurois, Andre Maurois, Emile Herzog | French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967) |
| McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, Mary Therese McCarthy | United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989) |
| McCullers, Carson McCullers, Carson Smith McCullers | United States novelist (1917-1967) |
| McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Marshall McLuhan | Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980) |
| Melville, Herman Melville | United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891) |
| Merton, Thomas Merton | United States religious and writer (1915-1968) |
| Michener, James Michener, James Albert Michener | United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) |
| Miller, Henry Miller, Henry Valentine Miller | United States novelist whose novels were originally / originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980) |
| Milne, A. A. Milne, Alan Alexander Milne | English writer of stories for children (1882-1956) |
| Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell | United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949) |
| Mitford, Nancy Mitford, Nancy Freeman Mitford | English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) |
| Mitford, Jessica Mitford, Jessica Lucy Mitford | United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996) |
| Montaigne, Michel Montaigne, Michel Eyquem Montaigne | French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592) |
| Montgomery, L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery | Canadian novelist (1874-1942) |
| More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More | English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded |
| Morrison, Toni Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford | United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931) |
| Munro, H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Saki | British writer of short stories (1870-1916) |
| Murdoch, Iris Murdoch, Dame Jean Iris Murdoch | British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999) |
| Musset, Alfred de Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de Musset | French poet and writer (1810-1857) |
| Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir vladimirovich Nabokov | United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977) |
| Nash, Ogden Nash | United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971) |
| Nicolson, Harold Nicolson, Sir Harold George Nicolson | English diplomat and author (1886-1968) |
| Norris, Frank Norris, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. | United States writer (1870-1902) |
| O'Brien, Edna O'Brien | Irish writer (born in 1932) |
| O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Flannery O'Connor | United States writer (1925-1964) |
| O'Flaherty, Liam O'Flaherty | Irish writer of short stories (1896-1984) |
| O'Hara, John Henry O'Hara | United States writer (1905-1970) |
| Oates, Joyce Carol Oates | United States writer (born in 1938) |
| Ondaatje, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Michael Ondaatje | Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943) |
| Orczy, Baroness Emmusca Orczy | British writer (born in Hungary) (1865-1947) |
| Orwell, George Orwell, Eric Blair, Eric Arthur Blair | imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) |
| Page, Thomas Nelson Page | United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) |
| Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Rothschild Parker | United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967) |
| Pasternak, Boris Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published / published abroad (1890-1960) |
| Paton, Alan Paton, Alan Stewart Paton | South African writer (1903-1988) |
| Percy, Walker Percy | United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990) |
| Petronius, Gaius Petronius, Petronius Arbiter | Roman satirist (died in 66) |
| Plath, Sylvia Plath | United States writer and poet (1932-1963) |
| Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history |
| Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus | Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder |
| Poe, Edgar Allan Poe | United States writer and poet (1809-1849) |
| Porter, William Sydney Porter, O. Henry | United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910) |
| Porter, Katherine Anne Porter | United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980) |
| Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post | United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) |
| Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound | United States writer who lived in Europe |
| Powys, John Cowper Powys | British writer of novels about nature |
| Powys, Theodore Francis Powys | British writer of allegorical novels |
| Powys, Llewelyn Powys | British writer of essays |
| Pyle, Howard Pyle | United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911) |
| Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon | United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937) |
| Rand, Ayn Rand | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) |
| Richler, Mordecai Richler | Canadian novelist (born in 1931) |
| Roberts, Kenneth Roberts | United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957) |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962) |
| Roth, Philip Roth, Philip Milton Roth | United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933) |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland |
| Runyon, Damon Runyon, Alfred Damon Runyon | United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946) |
| Rushdie, Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Salman Rushdie | British writer of novels who was born in India |
| Russell, George William Russell, A.E. | Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935) |
| Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade | French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term 'sadism' (1740-1814) |
| Salinger, J. D. Salinger, Jerome David Salinger | United States writer (born 1919) |
| Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876) |
| Sandburg, Carl Sandburg | United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967) |
| Saroyan, William Saroyan | United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981) |
| Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers | English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957) |
| Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | German romantic writer (1759-1805) |
| Scott, Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott | British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832) |
| Service, Robert William Service | Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958) |
| Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw | British playwright (born in Ireland) |
| Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley | English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway | English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) |
| Simenon, Georges Simenon, Georges Joseph Christian Simenon | French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989) |
| Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Upton Beall Sinclair | United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968) |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) |
| Smollett, Tobias Smollett, Tobias George Smollett | Scottish writer of adventure novels (1721-1771) |
| Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn | Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) |
| Sontag, Susan Sontag | United States writer (born in 1933) |
| Spark, Muriel Spark, Dame Muriel Spark, Muriel Sarah Spark | Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918) |
| Spillane, Mickey Spillane, Frank Morrison Spillane | United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918) |
| Stael, Madame de Stael, Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein | French romantic writer (1766-1817) |
| Steele, Sir Richrd Steele | English writer (1672-1729) |
| Stein, Gertrude Stein | experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) |
| Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck | United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968) |
| Stendhal, Marie Henri Beyle | French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842) |
| Stephen, Sir Leslie Stephen | English writer (1832-1904) |
| Sterne, Laurence Sterne | English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766) |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson | Scottish author (1850-1894) |
| Stockton, Frank Stockton, Francis Richard Stockton | United States writer (1834-1902) |
| Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker | Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe | United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) |
| Styron, William Styron | United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) |
| Sue, Eugene Sue | French writer whose novels described the sordid / sordid side of city life (1804-1857) |
| Symonds, John Addington Symonds | English writer (1840-1893) |
| Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore | Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941) |
| Tarbell, Ida Tarbell, Ida M. Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarbell | United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray | English writer (born in India) (1811-1863) |
| Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) |
| Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville | French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859) |
| Toklas, Alice B. Toklas | United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967) |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) |
| Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy | Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910) |
| Trollope, Anthony Trollope | English writer of novels (1815-1882) |
| Turgenev, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev | Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883) |
| Undset, Sigrid Undset | Norwegian novelist (1882-1949) |
| Untermeyer, Louis Untermeyer | United States writer (1885-1977) |
| Updike, John Updike, John Hoyer Updike | United States author (born 1932) |
| Van Doren, Carl Van Doren, Carl Clinton Van Doren | United States writer and literary critic (1885-1950) |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa | Peruvian writer (born in 1936) |
| Verne, Jules Verne | French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905) |
| Vidal, Gore Vidal, Eugene Luther Vidal | United States writer (born in 1925) |
| Voltaire, Arouet, Francois-Marie Arouet | French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778) |
| Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut | United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922) |
| Wain, John Wain, John Barrington Wain | English writer (1925-1994) |
| Walker, Alice Walker, Alice Malsenior Walker | United States writer (born in 1944) |
| Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace | English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932) |
| Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford | English writer and historian |
| Walton, Izaak Walton | English writer remember for his treatise on fishing / fishing (1593-1683) |
| Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward | English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) |
| Warren, Robert Penn Warren | United States writer and poet (1905-1989) |
| Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh | English author of satirical novels (1903-1966) |
| Webb, Beatrice Webb, Martha Beatrice Potter Webb | English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943) |
| Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells | prolific English writer / writer best known for his science-fiction novels |
| Welty, Eudora Welty | United States writer about rural southern life (1909-2001) |
| Werfel, Franz Werfel | United States writer (1890-1945) |
| West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield | British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) |
| Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton | United States novelist (1862-1937) |
| White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White | United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) |
| White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White | Australian writer (1912-1990) |
| Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel | United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) |
| Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde | Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) |
| Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder | United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) |
| Wilson, Sir Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson | English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991) |
| Wilson, Harriet Wilson | author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870) |
| Wister, Owen Wister | United States writer (1860-1938) |
| Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975) |
| Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe | United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938) |
| Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. | United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931) |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women |
| Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood | English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) |
| Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf | English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue |
| Wouk, Herman Wouk | United States writer (born in 1915) |
| Wright, Richard Wright | United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression / oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) |
| Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine | United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) |
| Zangwill, Israel Zangwill | English writer (1864-1926) |
| Zweig, Stefan Zweig | Austrian writer (1881-1942) |
| cummings, e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings | United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) |
| du Maurier, George du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier | English writer and illustrator |
| du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier, Dame Daphne du Maurier | English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989) |
| le Carre, John le Carre, David John Moore Cornwell | English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931) |
| Narrower | Gothic romancer | A writer of Gothic romances |
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| abstractor, abstracter | One who makes abstracts or summarizes information |
| alliterator | A speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration |
| authoress | A woman author |
| biographer | someone who writes an account of a person's life |
| coauthor, joint author | A writer who collaborates with others in writing something |
| commentator, reviewer | A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day |
| compiler | A person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) |
| contributor | A writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book |
| cyberpunk | A writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology |
| drafter | A writer of a draft |
| dramatist, playwright | someone who writes plays |
| essayist, litterateur | A writer of literary works |
| folk writer | A writer of folktales |
| framer | someone who writes a new law or plan |
| gagman, gagster, gagwriter | someone who writes comic material for public performers |
| ghostwriter, ghost | A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else |
| hack, hack writer, literary hack | A mediocre and disdained writer |
| journalist | A writer for newspapers and magazines |
| librettist | author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta |
| lyricist, lyrist | A person who writes the words for songs |
| novelist | One who writes novels |
| pamphleteer | A writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) |
| paragrapher | A writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) |
| poet | A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) |
| polemicist, polemist, polemic | A writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) |
| rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser | A writer who composes rhymes |
| scenarist | A writer of screenplays |
| scriptwriter | someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas |
| space writer | A writer paid by the area of the copy |
| speechwriter | A writer who composes speeches for others to deliver |
| tragedian | A writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies |
| word-painter | A writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power |
| wordmonger | A writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning |
| wordsmith | A fluent and prolific writer |
| Broader | communicator | A person who communicates with others |
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| Spanish | autora, autor, escritora, escritor |
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| Catalan | autora, autor, escriptor |
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| Verbs | write | produce a literary work |
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