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NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
Edward Abbey Author Desert Solitaire 29-Jan-1927 14-Mar-1989 DEAD
Lynn Abbey Author Thieves World 1948 TBD ADD
Edwin A. Abbott Author Flatland 20-Dec-1838 12-Oct-1926 DEAD
Jacob Abbott Author Franconia Stories 14-Nov-1803 31-Oct-1879 DEAD
Walter Abish Author Alphabetical Africa 24-Dec-1931 TBD ADD
M. H. Abrams Author The Mirror and the Lamp 23-Jul-1912 TBD ADD
André Aciman Author Out of Egypt 02-Jan-1951 TBD ADD
Kathy Acker Author Blood and Guts in High School 18-Apr-1947 30-Nov-1997 DEAD
Diane Ackerman Author A Natural History of the Senses 07-Oct-1948 TBD ADD
Forrest J. Ackerman Author Mr. Science Fiction 24-Nov-1916 04-Dec-2008 DEAD
Peter Ackroyd Author The Great Fire of London 05-Oct-1949 TBD ADD
Louis Adamic Author Laughing in the Jungle 23-Mar-1899 04-Sep-1951 DEAD
Douglas Adams Author Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 11-Mar-1952 11-May-2001 DEAD
James Truslow Adams Author The Epic of America 18-Oct-1878 18-May-1949 DEAD
Richard Adams Author Watership Down 09-May-1920 TBD ADD
William Taylor Adams Author Oliver Optic's Magazine 30-Jul-1822 27-Mar-1897 DEAD
Joseph Addison Author The Spectator 01-May-1672 17-Jun-1719 DEAD
George Ade Author Fables in Slang 09-Feb-1866 16-May-1944 DEAD
Aesop Author Purported author of Fables ? TBD DEAD
Shmuel Agnon Author 'Tmol Shilshom 17-Jul-1888 17-Feb-1970 DEAD
Allan Ahlberg Author Juvenile author, The Jolly Postman 1938 TBD ADD
Fouad Ajami Author Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS 09-Sep-1945 TBD ADD
Louisa May Alcott Author Little Women 29-Nov-1832 06-Mar-1888 DEAD
Brian Aldiss Author Supertoys Last All Summer Long 18-Aug-1925 TBD ADD
Sholem Aleichem Author Fiddler on the Roof 02-Mar-1859 13-May-1916 DEAD
Horatio Alger Author Ragged Dick 13-Jan-1832 18-Jul-1899 DEAD
Nelson Algren Author The Man with the Golden Arm 28-Mar-1909 09-May-1981 DEAD
David Allen Author Getting Things Done 28-Dec-1945 TBD ADD
Stephen E. Ambrose Author Band of Brothers 10-Jan-1936 13-Oct-2002 DEAD
Nicholas Amhurst Author The Craftsman 16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 DEAD
Martin Amis Author The Rachel Papers 25-Aug-1949 TBD ADD
Cleveland Amory Author The Cat Who Came for Christmas 02-Sep-1917 14-Oct-1998 DEAD
Rudolfo Anaya Author Bless Me, Ultima 30-Oct-1937 TBD ADD
Hans Christian Andersen Author Danish master of the fairy tale 02-Apr-1805 04-Aug-1875 DEAD
Margaret Anderson Author Founder of the Little Review 24-Nov-1886 18-Oct-1973 DEAD
Poul Anderson Author Tau Zero 25-Nov-1926 31-Jul-2001 DEAD
Sherwood Anderson Author The Triumph of the Egg 13-Sep-1876 08-Mar-1941 DEAD
V. C. Andrews Author Flowers in the Attic 06-Jun-1923 19-Dec-1986 DEAD
Ivo Andric Author The Bridge on the Drina 09-Oct-1892 13-Mar-1975 DEAD
Katharine Anthony Author Biographer, The Lambs 27-Nov-1877 20-Nov-1965 DEAD
Mary Antin Author The Promised Land 1881 15-May-1949 DEAD
William Apess Author A Son of the Forest 31-Jan-1798 00-Apr-1839 DEAD
Aharon Appelfeld Author In the Wilderness 16-Feb-1932 TBD ADD
Max Apple Author I Love Gootie 22-Oct-1941 TBD ADD
Apuleius Author The Golden Ass ? TBD DEAD
Pietro Aretino Author Sonetti lussuriosi 20-Apr-1492 21-Oct-1556 DEAD
Karen Armstrong Author A History of God 14-Nov-1944 TBD ADD
Sholem Asch Author Yiddish novelist 01-Nov-1880 01-Aug-1957 DEAD
Kate Ascher Author The Works: Anatomy of a City 1958 TBD ADD
Isaac Asimov Author Foundation 02-Jan-1920 06-Apr-1992 DEAD
Robert Asprin Author Thieves World 28-Jun-1946 22-May-2008 DEAD
Miguel Ángel Asturias Author Hombres de maíz 19-Oct-1899 09-Jun-1974 DEAD
Gertrude Franklin Atherton Author Black Oxen 30-Oct-1857 14-Jun-1948 DEAD
Margaret Atwood Author The Handmaid's Tale 18-Nov-1939 TBD ADD
Louis Auchincloss Author Portrait in Brownstone 27-Sep-1917 TBD ADD
Jane Austen Author Pride and Prejudice 16-Dec-1775 18-Jul-1817 DEAD
Mary Austin Author Land of Little Rain 09-Sep-1868 13-Aug-1934 DEAD
Sergei Averintsev Author Myth of the Peoples of the World 10-Dec-1937 21-Feb-2004 DEAD
Isaac Babel Author Soviet master of short stories 01-Jul-1894 17-Mar-1941 DEAD
Richard Bach Author Jonathan Livingston Seagull 23-Jun-1936 TBD ADD
Delia Bacon Author Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist 02-Feb-1811 02-Sep-1859 DEAD
Russell Baker Author Growing Up 14-Aug-1925 TBD ADD
Letitia Baldrige Author Etiquette columnist 1925 TBD ADD
Joseph G. Baldwin Author Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 00-Jan-1815 30-Sep-1864 DEAD
J. G. Ballard Author Empire of the Sun, Crash 18-Nov-1930 19-Apr-2009 DEAD
James Bamford Author The Puzzle Palace 1946 TBD ADD
Iain Banks Author Consider Phlebas 16-Feb-1954 TBD ADD
Russell Banks Author The Sweet Hereafter 28-Mar-1940 TBD ADD
Amiri Baraka Author Hates Whitey 07-Oct-1934 TBD ADD
R. H. Barlow Author Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft 18-May-1918 02-Jan-1951 DEAD
J. M. Barrie Author Peter Pan 09-May-1860 19-Jun-1937 DEAD
Donald Barthelme Author Come Back, Dr. Caligari 07-Apr-1931 23-Jul-1989 DEAD
John Bartlett Author Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 14-Jun-1820 03-Dec-1905 DEAD
Nicholas Basbanes Author A Gentle Madness 1943 TBD ADD
Greg Bear Author Eon 20-Aug-1951 TBD ADD
Ann Beattie Author Chilly Scenes of Winter 08-Sep-1947 TBD ADD
Pierre Beaumarchais Author The Barber of Seville 24-Jan-1732 18-May-1799 DEAD
William Thomas Beckford Author History of the Caliph Vatheck 01-Oct-1760 02-May-1844 DEAD
Donald P. Bellisario Author Wrote Battlestar Galactica, created Airwolf 08-Aug-1935 TBD ADD
Hilaire Belloc Author The Bad Child's Book of Beasts 27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 DEAD
Andrei Bely Author Petersburg 26-Oct-1880 08-Jan-1934 DEAD
Robert Benchley Author Humorist and screenwriter 15-Sep-1889 21-Nov-1945 DEAD
Brian Michael Bendis Author Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil 18-Aug-1967 TBD ADD
Stephen Vincent Benét Author John Brown's Body 22-Jul-1898 13-Mar-1943 DEAD
Gwendolyn Bennett Author Harlem Renaissance writer 08-Jul-1902 30-May-1981 DEAD
Mildred Wirt Benson Author Ghostwriter of the Nancy Drew mystery series 10-Jul-1905 28-May-2002 DEAD
Charles Berlitz Author Language lessons and specultive non-fiction 20-Nov-1914 18-Dec-2003 DEAD
Daniel Berrigan Author The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 09-May-1921 TBD ADD
Wendell Berry Author A Place on Earth 05-Aug-1934 TBD ADD
Pierre Berton Author Canadian writer and TV personality 12-Jul-1920 30-Nov-2004 DEAD
Sir Walter Besant Author All Sorts and Conditions of Men 14-Aug-1836 09-Jun-1901 DEAD
Hakim Bey Author Temporary Autonomous Zone 1945 TBD ADD
Ambrose Bierce Author The Devil's Dictionary 24-Jun-1842 1914 DEAD
John Bigelow Author Ambassador to France, memoirist 25-Nov-1817 19-Dec-1911 DEAD
Poultney Bigelow Author The German Struggle for Liberty 10-Sep-1855 28-May-1954 DEAD
Green Bar Bill Author Prominent Scouter 06-Aug-1900 09-Nov-1992 DEAD
Josh Billings Author 19th century American humorist 21-Apr-1818 14-Oct-1885 DEAD
Susan Blackmore Author The Meme Machine 29-Jul-1951 TBD ADD
William Peter Blatty Author The Exorcist 07-Jan-1928 TBD ADD
H. P. Blavatsky Author Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine 12-Aug-1831 08-May-1891 DEAD
Steen Steensen Blicher Author Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk 11-Oct-1782 26-Mar-1848 DEAD
James Blish Author Cities in Flight 23-May-1921 30-Jul-1975 DEAD
Karen Blixen Author Babette's Feast and Out of Africa 17-Apr-1885 07-Sep-1962 DEAD
Roy Blount, Jr. Author Humorist 05-Oct-1941 TBD ADD
Judy Blume Author Author of children's books 12-Feb-1938 TBD ADD
Myrna Blyth Author Editor-in-Chief, Ladies' Home Journal 1939 TBD ADD
Giovanni Boccaccio Author Decameron 1313 21-Dec-1375 DEAD
Trajano Boccalini Author Ragguagli di Parnaso 1556 16-Nov-1613 DEAD
Johann Jakob Bodmer Author Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie 19-Jul-1698 02-Jan-1783 DEAD
Edward Bok Author Editor of Ladies' Home Journal 09-Oct-1863 09-Jan-1930 DEAD
Jorge Luis Borges Author The Garden of Forking Paths 24-Aug-1899 14-Jun-1986 DEAD
Tadeusz Borowski Author This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 12-Nov-1922 01-Jul-1951 DEAD
James Boswell Author The Life of Samuel Johnson 29-Oct-1740 19-May-1795 DEAD
Ben Bova Author Science fiction writer 28-Nov-1932 TBD ADD
James Bovard Author Lost Rights 1956 TBD ADD
John Bowe Author Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor 1964 TBD ADD
Elizabeth Bowen Author The Heat of the Day 07-Jun-1899 22-Feb-1973 DEAD
Paul Bowles Author The Sheltering Sky 30-Dec-1910 18-Nov-1999 DEAD
Sir John Bowring Author 4th Governor of Hong Kong 17-Oct-1792 23-Nov-1872 DEAD
Kay Boyle Author The Underground Woman 19-Feb-1902 27-Dec-1992 DEAD
T. C. Boyle Author The Tortilla Curtain 07-Dec-1948 TBD ADD
Henry de Bracton Author De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ? 1268 DEAD
Ray Bradbury Author The Martian Chronicles 22-Aug-1920 TBD ADD
Marion Zimmer Bradley Author The Mists of Avalon 03-Jun-1930 25-Sep-1999 DEAD
Gloria Brame Author Clinical sexologist 20-Aug-1955 TBD ADD
Sebastian Brant Author Ship of Fools 1457 10-May-1521 DEAD
Sasthi Brata Author Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater 1939 TBD ADD
Richard Brautigan Author So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away 30-Jan-1935 14-Oct-1984 DEAD
Donna Brazile Author Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager 15-Dec-1959 TBD ADD
André Breton Author Manifeste du Surréalisme 18-Feb-1896 28-Sep-1966 DEAD
Bertrand R. Brinley Author The Mad Scientists' Club 19-Jun-1917 20-Oct-1994 DEAD
Poppy Z. Brite Author Are You Loathsome Tonight? 25-May-1967 TBD ADD
Vera Brittain Author Testament of Youth 29-Dec-1893 29-Mar-1970 DEAD
Fred Brooks Author The Mythical Man-Month 19-Apr-1931 TBD ADD
Terry Brooks Author The Shannara series 08-Jan-1944 TBD ADD
Brigid Brophy Author Black Ship to Hell 12-Jun-1929 07-Aug-1995 DEAD
Claude Brown Author Manchild in the Promised Land 23-Feb-1937 02-Feb-2002 DEAD
Dan Brown Author The Da Vinci Code 22-Jun-1964 TBD ADD
Helen Gurley Brown Author Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97 18-Feb-1922 TBD ADD
Rita Mae Brown Author Rubyfruit Jungle 28-Nov-1944 TBD ADD
Rosellen Brown Author Before and After 12-May-1939 TBD ADD
Sir Thomas Browne Author Pseudodoxia Epidemica 19-Oct-1605 19-Oct-1682 DEAD
John Brunner Author The Shockwave Rider 24-Sep-1934 25-Aug-1995 DEAD
Jean de La Bruyère Author Les Caractères de Théophraste 16-Aug-1645 10-May-1696 DEAD
John Buchan Author The Thirty-Nine Steps 26-Aug-1875 11-Feb-1940 DEAD
Edna Buchanan Author The Corpse Had a Familiar Face 1939 TBD ADD
Pearl S. Buck Author The Good Earth 26-Jun-1892 06-Mar-1973 DEAD
Algis Budrys Author Rogue Moon 09-Jan-1931 TBD ADD
Charles Bukowski Author Love is a Dog from Hell 16-Aug-1920 09-Mar-1994 DEAD
Thomas Bulfinch Author Bullfinch's Mythology 15-Jul-1796 27-May-1867 DEAD
Mikhail Bulgakov Author The Master and Margarita 03-May-1891 10-Mar-1940 DEAD
Ivan Bunin Author Russian short story writer, Light Breathing 10-Oct-1870 08-Oct-1953 DEAD
Edward Bunker Author Animal Factory 31-Dec-1933 19-Jul-2005 DEAD
John Bunyan Author Pilgrim's Progress 00-Nov-1628 31-Aug-1688 DEAD
Augusten Burroughs Author Running With Scissors 23-Oct-1965 TBD ADD
William S. Burroughs Author Naked Lunch 05-Feb-1914 02-Aug-1997 DEAD
Robert Burton Author The Anatomy of Melancholy 08-Feb-1577 25-Jan-1640 DEAD
Richard de Bury Author Philobiblon 24-Jan-1286 24-Apr-1345 DEAD
Leo Buscaglia Author Dr. Hug 31-Mar-1924 11-Jun-1998 DEAD
Alban Butler Author Lives of the Saints 24-Oct-1710 15-May-1773 DEAD
Robert Olen Butler Author A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 20-Jan-1945 TBD ADD
Samuel Butler Author Erewheon 04-Dec-1835 18-Jun-1902 DEAD
Rhonda Byrne Author The Secret 1945 TBD ADD
George W. Cable Author Old Creole Days 12-Oct-1844 31-Jan-1925 DEAD
Meg Cabot Author The Princess Diaries 01-Feb-1967 TBD ADD
Thomas Cahill Author How the Irish Saved Civilization 1940 TBD ADD
Erskine Caldwell Author Tobacco Road 17-Dec-1903 11-Apr-1987 DEAD
Pat Califia Author FTM transgendered sex writer 08-Mar-1954 TBD ADD
Italo Calvino Author Se una notte d'inverno un viaggatore 15-Oct-1923 18-Sep-1985 DEAD
L. Sprague de Camp Author Lest Darkness Fall 27-Nov-1907 06-Nov-2000 DEAD
Joseph Campbell Author The Power of Myth 26-Mar-1904 31-Oct-1987 DEAD
Elias Canetti Author Crowds and Power 25-Jul-1905 14-Aug-1994 DEAD
Karel Capek Author R.U.R. 09-Jan-1890 25-Dec-1938 DEAD
Philip Caputo Author A Rumor of War 10-Jun-1941 TBD ADD
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Author Cheaper by the Dozen 04-Apr-1908 04-Nov-2006 DEAD
Dale Carnegie Author How to Win Friends and Influence People 24-Nov-1888 01-Nov-1955 DEAD
Nicholas G. Carr Author Does IT Matter? 1959 TBD ADD
Jim Carroll Author The Basketball Diaries 01-Aug-1950 TBD ADD
Lewis Carroll Author Alice in Wonderland 27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 DEAD
Angela Carter Author Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 07-May-1940 16-Feb-1992 DEAD
Emily Carter Author Glory Goes and Gets Some 1960 TBD ADD
Barbara Cartland Author Wrote way too many romance novels 09-Jul-1901 21-May-2000 DEAD
Lisa Carver Author Rollerderby, Suckdog 1968 TBD ADD
Raymond Carver Author Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 25-May-1938 02-Aug-1988 DEAD
Giacomo Casanova Author World-renowned paramour 02-Apr-1725 04-Jun-1798 DEAD
Adolfo Bioy Casares Author La invención de Morel 15-Sep-1914 18-Mar-1999 DEAD
Jack Cashill Author What's The Matter With California? 15-Dec-1947 TBD ADD
Carolyn Cassady Author Wife of Neal Cassady 28-Apr-1923 TBD ADD
Neal Cassady Author The Holy Goof 08-Feb-1926 04-Feb-1968 DEAD
Carlos Castaneda Author The Teachings of Don Juan 25-Dec-1925 27-Apr-1998 DEAD
Baldassare Castiglione Author Il Cortegiano 06-Dec-1478 07-Feb-1529 DEAD
Dionysius Cato Author Dionysii Catonis Disticha ? TBD DEAD
David Caute Author Comrade Jacob 16-Dec-1936 TBD ADD
Jacques Cazotte Author Diable Amoureux 17-Oct-1719 25-Sep-1792 DEAD
Lord David Cecil Author Melbourne 09-Apr-1902 01-Jan-1986 DEAD
Camilo José Cela Author La familia de Pascual Duarte 11-May-1916 17-Jan-2002 DEAD
Censorinus Author De Die Natali ? TBD DEAD
Jack L. Chalker Author SF author, wrote Well World series 17-Dec-1944 11-Feb-2005 DEAD
Robert Chambers Author Chambers's Book of Days 10-Jul-1802 17-Mar-1871 DEAD
Whittaker Chambers Author Accuser of Alger Hiss 01-Apr-1901 09-Jul-1961 DEAD
Raymond Chandler Author Invented hard-boiled detective novel 23-Jul-1888 26-Mar-1959 DEAD
Eileen Chang Author Lust, Caution 30-Sep-1920 08-Sep-1995 DEAD
Iris Chang Author Author of The Rape of Nanking 28-Mar-1968 09-Nov-2004 DEAD
François-René de Chateaubriand Author Génie du christianisme 04-Sep-1768 04-Jul-1848 DEAD
Bruce Chatwin Author In Patagonia 13-May-1940 18-Jan-1989 DEAD
Geoffrey Chaucer Author Canterbury Tales 1343 25-Oct-1400 DEAD
John Cheever Author The Enormous Radio 27-May-1912 18-Jun-1982 DEAD
Ron Chernow Author The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton 1949 TBD ADD
C. J. Cherryh Author Cyteen and Downbelow Station 01-Sep-1942 TBD ADD
G. K. Chesterton Author The Man Who Was Thursday 29-May-1874 14-Jun-1936 DEAD
Deepak Chopra Author Ageless Body, Timeless Mind 22-Oct-1946 TBD ADD
Cicero Author Roman orator and rhetorician ? TBD DEAD
Sandra Cisneros Author The House on Mango Street 20-Dec-1954 TBD ADD
Hugo Claus Author The Sorrow of Belgium 05-Apr-1929 19-Mar-2008 DEAD
Beverly Cleary Author Children's author, Ramona Quimby series 12-Apr-1916 TBD ADD
Rachel Cline Author What to Keep ? TBD ADD
Irvin S. Cobb Author Old Judge Priest 23-Jun-1876 10-Mar-1944 DEAD
Andrei Codrescu Author Exquisite Corpse 20-Dec-1946 TBD ADD
Larry Collins Author Is Paris Burning? 14-Sep-1929 20-Jun-2005 DEAD
Francesco Colonna Author Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 1433 02-Oct-1527 DEAD
Aaron Cometbus Author Zine author, Cometbus 1968 TBD ADD
Ralph Connor Author Canadian pulp author, Black Rock 13-Sep-1860 31-Oct-1937 DEAD
Joseph Conrad Author Heart of Darkness 03-Dec-1857 03-Aug-1924 DEAD
Pat Conroy Author The Prince of Tides 26-Oct-1945 TBD ADD
Robert Cormier Author I am the Cheese 17-Jan-1925 02-Nov-2000 DEAD
Julio Cortázar Author Argentine fantasy short story writer 26-Aug-1914 12-Feb-1984 DEAD
John Costello Author The Pacific War ? TBD ADD
Norman Cousins Author Editor of The Saturday Review 24-Jun-1912 30-Nov-1990 DEAD
Malcolm Cowley Author Exile's Return 24-Aug-1898 27-Mar-1989 DEAD
Herbert Croly Author The Promise of American Life 23-Jan-1869 17-May-1930 DEAD
John Crowley Author Little, Big 01-Dec-1942 TBD ADD
Clive Cussler Author Raising the Titanic 15-Jul-1931 TBD ADD
Dinesh D'Souza Author Conservative author 25-Apr-1961 TBD ADD
Amy Dacyczyn Author The Tightwad Gazette 1956 TBD ADD
Roald Dahl Author James and the Giant Peach 13-Sep-1916 23-Nov-1990 DEAD
Richard Henry Dana Author Two Years Before the Mast 01-Aug-1815 06-Jan-1882 DEAD
Gabriele D'Annunzio Author Anarchist Dictator of Fiume, 1919-20 12-Mar-1863 01-Mar-1938 DEAD
Edwidge Danticat Author The Dew Breaker 19-Jan-1969 TBD ADD
Guy Davenport Author Thasos and Ohio 23-Nov-1927 04-Jan-2005 DEAD
Robertson Davies Author Fifth Business 28-Aug-1913 03-Dec-1995 DEAD
Richard Harding Davis Author Yellow-era journalist 18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 DEAD
Clarence Day Author Life with Father 18-Nov-1874 28-Dec-1935 DEAD
Thomas De Quincey Author Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 15-Aug-1785 08-Dec-1859 DEAD
Marquis de Sade Author 120 Days of Sodom 02-Jun-1740 02-Dec-1814 DEAD
Daniel Defoe Author Robinson Crusoe 00-Sep-1660 24-Apr-1731 DEAD
Lester del Rey Author Founder of Del Rey Books 02-Jun-1915 10-May-1993 DEAD
Margaret Deland Author Old Chester Tales 23-Feb-1857 13-Jan-1945 DEAD
Samuel R. Delany Author Triton 01-Apr-1942 TBD ADD
Grazia Deledda Author Novels of Sardinia 27-Sep-1871 15-Aug-1936 DEAD
Ovid Demaris Author The Last Mafioso 06-Sep-1919 12-Mar-1998 DEAD
Demosthenes Author Attic orator and statesman ? TBD DEAD
Mark Dery Author Culture Jamming 1959 TBD ADD
Camille Desmoulins Author Touched off the French Revolution 02-Mar-1760 05-Apr-1794 DEAD
Diablo Cody Author Candy Girl 14-Jun-1978 TBD ADD
Thomas Frognall Dibdin Author English bibliographer 1776 18-Nov-1847 DEAD
Kate DiCamillo Author The Tale of Despereaux 25-Mar-1964 TBD ADD
Joan Didion Author Slouching Toward Bethlehem 05-Dec-1934 TBD ADD
Annie Dillard Author Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 30-Oct-1945 TBD ADD
Thomas Dixon Author The Clansman 11-Jan-1864 03-Apr-1946 DEAD
Assia Djebar Author So Vast the Prison 04-Aug-1936 TBD ADD
E. L. Doctorow Author The Book of Daniel 06-Jan-1931 TBD ADD
Betty Dodson Author Sex for One 24-Aug-1929 TBD ADD
Anthony Doerr Author The Shell Collector 1973 TBD ADD
Stephen R. Donaldson Author Author of the Thomas Covenant series 13-May-1947 TBD ADD
Ignatius Donnelly Author Atlantis, the Antediluvian World 03-Nov-1831 01-Jan-1901 DEAD
Ducky DooLittle Author Crackpot sexologist 03-Jun-1970 TBD ADD
Ann Druyan Author Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan 13-Jun-1949 TBD ADD
Daphne Du Maurier Author Rebecca 13-May-1907 19-May-1989 DEAD
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Author Harlem Renaissance influence 19-Jul-1875 18-Sep-1935 DEAD
Lois Duncan Author I Know What You Did Last Summer 28-Apr-1934 TBD ADD
Dominick Dunne Author High society novelist and true crime writer 29-Oct-1925 TBD ADD
Finley Peter Dunne Author Creator of Mr. Dooley 10-Jul-1867 24-Apr-1936 DEAD
John Gregory Dunne Author True Confessions 25-May-1932 30-Dec-2003 DEAD
Henry van Dyke Author The Unknown Quantity 10-Nov-1852 10-Apr-1933 DEAD
Max Eastman Author Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism 12-Jan-1883 25-Mar-1969 DEAD
Isabelle Eberhardt Author Transvestite Muslim author 17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 DEAD
Umberto Eco Author Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose 05-Jan-1932 TBD ADD
David Eddings Author The Belgariad 07-Jul-1931 02-Jun-2009 DEAD
Leon Edel Author Biographer of Henry James 09-Sep-1907 05-Sep-1997 DEAD
Maria Edgeworth Author Castle Rackrent 01-Jan-1767 22-May-1849 DEAD
Dave Eggers Author A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1970 TBD ADD
Barbara Ehrenreich Author Nickel and Dimed 26-Aug-1941 TBD ADD
Einhard Author Biographer, friend of Charlemagne ? TBD DEAD
David Eisenhower Author Camp David namesake 31-Mar-1948 TBD ADD
Warren Ellis Author Transmetropolitan 16-Feb-1968 TBD ADD
Harlan Ellison Author I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 27-May-1934 TBD ADD
Garth Ennis Author Creator of Preacher comic book 16-Jan-1970 TBD ADD
Nora Ephron Author When Harry Met Sally 19-May-1941 TBD ADD
Péter Esterházy Author Celestial Harmonies 14-Apr-1950 TBD ADD
Jeffrey Eugenides Author The Virgin Suicides 08-Mar-1960 TBD ADD
John Evelyn Author English diarist 31-Oct-1620 27-Feb-1706 DEAD
Judith Exner Author JFK mistress 11-Jan-1934 25-Sep-1999 DEAD
John Fante Author Bukowski's idol 08-Apr-1909 08-May-1983 DEAD
Nuruddin Farah Author From a Crooked Rib 1945 TBD ADD
Oliver La Farge Author Laughing Boy 19-Dec-1901 02-Aug-1963 DEAD
Philip Jose Farmer Author Riverworld saga 26-Jan-1918 25-Feb-2009 DEAD
William Faulkner Author The Sound and the Fury 25-Sep-1897 06-Jul-1962 DEAD
François Fénelon Author Télémaque 06-Aug-1651 07-Jan-1715 DEAD
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Author Understood Betsy 17-Feb-1879 09-Nov-1958 DEAD
F. Scott Fitzgerald Author The Great Gatsby 24-Sep-1896 21-Dec-1940 DEAD
Caitlin Flanagan Author Antifeminist ? TBD ADD
Theodor Fontane Author Before the Storm 30-Dec-1819 20-Sep-1898 DEAD
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts 11-Feb-1657 09-Jan-1757 DEAD
Shelby Foote Author Shiloh 17-Nov-1916 27-Jun-2005 DEAD
John M. Ford Author Growing Up Weightless 10-Apr-1957 24-Sep-2006 DEAD
E. M. Forster Author Howards End 01-Jan-1879 07-Jun-1970 DEAD
John Forster Author Life of Charles Dickens 02-Apr-1812 02-Feb-1876 DEAD
Frederick Forsyth Author The Day of the Jackal 25-Aug-1938 TBD ADD
Alan Dean Foster Author Author of many movie novelizations 18-Nov-1946 TBD ADD
Janet Frame Author Kiwi author, subject of An Angel at My Table 28-Aug-1924 29-Jan-2004 DEAD
Thomas Frank Author Founding editor, The Baffler 1965 TBD ADD
Waldo Frank Author American cultural critic and social historian 25-Aug-1889 09-Jan-1967 DEAD
Jonathan Franzen Author The Corrections 17-Aug-1959 TBD ADD
Marilyn French Author The Women's Room 21-Nov-1929 02-May-2009 DEAD
James Frey Author Addiction memoirist, A Million Little Pieces 12-Sep-1969 TBD ADD
Northrop Frye Author Fearful Symmetry 14-Jul-1912 23-Jan-1991 DEAD
Francis Fukuyama Author The End of History and the Last Man 27-Oct-1952 TBD ADD
Margaret Fuller Author Woman in the Nineteenth Century 23-May-1810 19-Jul-1850 DEAD
Michael Fumento Author Conservative science writer 04-Jan-1960 TBD ADD
Mavis Gallant Author Prolific Canadian short story author 11-Aug-1922 TBD ADD
Gabriel García Márquez Author One Hundred Years of Solitude 06-Mar-1928 TBD ADD
Roger Martin du Gard Author Les Thibault 23-Mar-1881 22-Aug-1958 DEAD
Chris Gardner Author The Pursuit of Happyness 09-Feb-1954 TBD ADD
Hamlin Garland Author A Son of the Middle Border 14-Sep-1860 04-Mar-1940 DEAD
Helen Garner Author The First Stone 07-Nov-1942 TBD ADD
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Author Cranford 29-Sep-1810 12-Nov-1865 DEAD
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author The Signifying Monkey 16-Sep-1950 TBD ADD
Tom Gegax Author Tires Plus, later self-help guru 1947 TBD ADD
Antonio Genovesi Author Lezioni di Commercio 01-Nov-1712 22-Sep-1769 DEAD
Phyllis George Author Miss America 1971 25-Jun-1949 TBD ADD
Hugo Gernsback Author Founded Amazing Stories in 1926 16-Aug-1884 19-Aug-1967 DEAD
William Gibson Author Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction 17-Mar-1948 TBD ADD
André Gide Author Le Voyage d'Urien 22-Nov-1869 19-Feb-1951 DEAD
Barry Gifford Author Wild at Heart 18-Oct-1946 TBD ADD
Elizabeth Gilbert Author Eat, Pray, Love 18-Jul-1969 TBD ADD
Ellen Gilchrist Author In the Land of Dreamy Dreams 20-Feb-1935 TBD ADD
Karl Gjellerup Author The Pilgrim Kamanita 02-Jun-1857 11-Oct-1919 DEAD
Louise Glück Author The Wild Iris 22-Apr-1943 TBD ADD
Jim Goad Author ANSWER Me! 12-Jun-1961 TBD ADD
Goethe Author Most influential German writer 28-Aug-1749 22-Mar-1832 DEAD
Nikolai Gogol Author Dead Souls, The Overcoat 19-Mar-1809 21-Feb-1852 DEAD
Jake Goldenflame Author Overcoming Sexual Terrorism ? TBD ADD
Oliver Goldsmith Author The Vicar of Wakefield 10-Nov-1730 04-Apr-1774 DEAD
Nadine Gordimer Author South African novelist 20-Nov-1923 TBD ADD
Edward Gorey Author Amphigorey 22-Feb-1925 15-Apr-2000 DEAD
Sue Grafton Author A Is for Alibi, B Is for ... 24-Apr-1940 TBD ADD
Stedman Graham Author Oprah's boyfriend, self-help author 06-Mar-1951 TBD ADD
Günter Grass Author German novelist, The Tin Drum 16-Oct-1927 TBD ADD
C. Hartley Grattan Author The Southwest Pacific 19-Oct-1902 25-Jun-1980 DEAD
James Grauerholz Author William S. Burrough's assistant 14-Dec-1953 TBD ADD
Mike Gray Author The China Syndrome 1936 TBD ADD
Horace Greeley Author The Tribune 03-Feb-1811 29-Nov-1872 DEAD
Brian Greene Author The Elegant Universe 09-Feb-1963 TBD ADD
Andy Griffiths Author The Day My Bum Went Psycho 03-Sep-1961 TBD ADD
David Grossman Author The Smile of the Lamb 25-Jan-1954 TBD ADD
Margaret Peterson Haddix Author Juvenile novelist, Among the... series 09-Apr-1964 TBD ADD
Mark Haddon Author The Curious Incident 1962 TBD ADD
Jessica Hagedorn Author Dogeaters 1949 TBD ADD
Richard Hakluyt Author Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation 1552 23-Nov-1616 DEAD
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane Author Descartes: His Life and Times 27-May-1862 24-Dec-1937 DEAD
Edward Everett Hale Author The Man Without a Country 03-Apr-1822 10-Jun-1909 DEAD
Lucretia Peabody Hale Author The Peterkin Papers 02-Sep-1820 12-Jun-1900 DEAD
Sarah Josepha Hale Author Editor, Godey's Lady's Book 24-Oct-1788 30-Apr-1879 DEAD
Ludovic Halévy Author French vaudevillain author 01-Jan-1834 08-May-1908 DEAD
Joseph Hall Author Virgidemiarum 01-Jul-1574 08-Sep-1656 DEAD
Dashiell Hammett Author The Maltese Falcon 27-May-1894 10-Jan-1961 DEAD
Helene Hanff Author 84, Charing Cross Road 15-Apr-1916 09-Apr-1997 DEAD
Barry Hannah Author High Lonesome 23-Apr-1942 TBD ADD
Joseph Hansen Author Dave Brandstetter detective series 19-Jul-1923 24-Nov-2004 DEAD
Roger Hargreaves Author Creator of Mr. Men juvenile books 1935 12-Sep-1988 DEAD
Sir John Harington Author The Metamorphosis of Ajax 1561 20-Nov-1612 DEAD
Heinrich Harrer Author Subject of biopic Seven Years in Tibet 06-Jul-1912 07-Jan-2006 DEAD
Frank Harris Author My Life and Loves 14-Feb-1856 26-Aug-1931 DEAD
George Washington Harris Author Sut Lovingood 20-Mar-1814 11-Dec-1869 DEAD
Sam Harris Author The End of Faith 1967 TBD ADD
Josephine Hart Author Damage ? TBD ADD
Bret Harte Author Master of the western short story 25-Aug-1836 05-May-1902 DEAD
Gabriel Harvey Author Literary opponent of Robert Greene 1545 1630 DEAD
Jaroslav Hasek Author The Good Soldier Svejk 30-Apr-1883 03-Jan-1923 DEAD
Gayelord Hauser Author Look Younger, Live Longer 1895 26-Dec-1984 DEAD
John Hawkesworth Author Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere 1715 16-Nov-1773 DEAD
Sir John Hawkins Author History of Music 30-Mar-1719 21-May-1789 DEAD
Nathaniel Hawthorne Author The House of the Seven Gables 04-Jul-1804 19-May-1864 DEAD
Lafcadio Hearn Author Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation 27-Jun-1850 26-Sep-1904 DEAD
William Least Heat-Moon Author Blue Highways 27-Aug-1939 TBD ADD
Sadeq Hedayat Author The Blind Owl 17-Feb-1903 09-Apr-1951 DEAD
Verner von Heidenstam Author The Charles Men 06-Jul-1859 20-May-1940 DEAD
Robert A. Heinlein Author Starship Troopers 07-Jul-1907 08-May-1988 DEAD
Heliodorus Author Aethiopica ? TBD DEAD
Joseph Heller Author Catch-22 01-May-1923 12-Dec-1999 DEAD
Mark Helprin Author Winter's Tale 28-Jun-1947 TBD ADD
Ernest Hemingway Author The Old Man And The Sea 21-Jul-1899 02-Jul-1961 DEAD
O. Henry Author The Gift of the Magi 11-Sep-1862 05-Jun-1910 DEAD
Frank Herbert Author Dune 08-Oct-1920 11-Feb-1986 DEAD
Felisberto Hernández Author Nadie encendía las lámparas 20-Oct-1902 13-Jan-1964 DEAD
Hermann Hesse Author Siddhartha 02-Jul-1877 09-Aug-1962 DEAD
Paul von Heyse Author L'Arrabbiata 15-Mar-1830 02-Apr-1914 DEAD
Carl Hiaasen Author Team Rodent: How Disneyland Devours the World 12-Mar-1953 TBD ADD
Laura Hillenbrand Author Seabiscuit 1967 TBD ADD
Chester Himes Author Lonely Crusade 19-Jul-1909 12-Nov-1984 DEAD
S. E. Hinton Author The Outsiders, Rumble Fish 22-Jul-1948 TBD ADD
Jane Stanton Hitchcock Author Trick of the Eye ? TBD ADD
Shere Hite Author The Hite Report on sexuality 02-Nov-1942 TBD ADD
John Hodgman Author The Areas of My Expertise 1971 TBD ADD
Syd Hoff Author Danny and the Dinosaur 04-Sep-1912 12-May-2004 DEAD
Eric Hoffer Author The True Believer 25-Jul-1902 21-May-1983 DEAD
E. T. A. Hoffmann Author Das Fräulein van Scuderi 24-Jan-1776 25-Jun-1822 DEAD
Douglas Hofstadter Author Author of Godel, Escher, Bach 15-Feb-1945 TBD ADD
Ludvig Holberg Author Founder of Danish literature 03-Dec-1684 28-Jan-1754 DEAD
Xaviera Hollander Author The Happy Hooker 15-Jun-1943 TBD ADD
Oliver Wendell Holmes Author The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 29-Aug-1809 07-Oct-1894 DEAD
William Hone Author The Every-Day Book 03-Jun-1780 06-Nov-1842 DEAD
Francis Hopkinson Author The Ballad of the Kegs 02-Oct-1737 09-May-1791 DEAD
Horapollon Author Hieroglyphics ? TBD DEAD
Paul Horgan Author Great River: The Rio Grande 01-Aug-1903 08-Mar-1995 DEAD
Nick Hornby Author High Fidelity 17-Apr-1957 TBD ADD
Robert E. Howard Author Original Conan series 24-Jan-1906 11-Jun-1936 DEAD
William Dean Howells Author The Rise of Silas Lapham 01-Mar-1837 11-May-1920 DEAD
William Howitt Author The Book of the Seasons 18-Dec-1792 03-Mar-1879 DEAD
Edmond Hoyle Author According to Hoyle 1672 29-Aug-1769 DEAD
Bohumil Hrabal Author Closely Watched Trains 28-Mar-1914 03-Feb-1997 DEAD
Elbert Hubbard Author Founder of Roycroft Press 19-Jun-1856 07-May-1915 DEAD
W. H. Hudson Author Green Mansions 04-Aug-1841 18-Aug-1922 DEAD
Richard Hughes Author A High Wind in Jamaica 19-Apr-1900 28-Aug-1976 DEAD
Shirley Hughes Author Alfie's Feet 1927 TBD ADD
Thomas Hughes Author Tom Brown's School Days 20-Oct-1822 22-Mar-1896 DEAD
Victor Hugo Author Les Miserables 26-Feb-1802 23-May-1885 DEAD
Josephine Humphreys Author Rich in Love 02-Feb-1945 TBD ADD
Samuel P. Huntington Author The Clash of Civilizations 18-Apr-1927 24-Dec-2008 DEAD
Aldous Huxley Author Brave New World 26-Jul-1894 22-Nov-1963 DEAD
Joris-Karl Huysmans Author Decadent author, À Rebours 05-Feb-1848 12-May-1907 DEAD
David Icke Author Uncovered global cabal of reptilian ET's 29-Apr-1952 TBD ADD
Michael Ignatieff Author Blood and Belonging 12-May-1947 TBD ADD
Robert G. Ingersoll Author Orator, politician, agnostic 11-Aug-1833 21-Jul-1899 DEAD
Washington Irving Author Legend of Sleepy Hollow 03-Apr-1783 28-Nov-1859 DEAD
Walter Isaacson Author Former Managing Editor for Time 20-May-1952 TBD ADD
Christopher Isherwood Author The Berlin Stories 26-Aug-1904 04-Jan-1986 DEAD
Harriet Ann Jacobs Author Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1813 07-Mar-1897 DEAD
Jane Jacobs Author The Death and Life of Great American Cities 04-May-1916 25-Apr-2006 DEAD
W. W. Jacobs Author The Monkey's Paw 08-Sep-1863 01-Sep-1943 DEAD
Susan Jacoby Author Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism 1945 TBD ADD
Rona Jaffe Author Mazes & Monsters 12-Jun-1932 30-Dec-2005 DEAD
Henry James Author Portrait of a Lady 15-Apr-1843 28-Feb-1916 DEAD
M. R. James Author Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 01-Aug-1862 12-Jun-1936 DEAD
P. D. James Author Adam Dalgliesh series, etc. 03-Aug-1920 TBD ADD
Fredric Jameson Author The Political Unconscious 14-Apr-1934 TBD ADD
Johannes V. Jensen Author The Long Journey 20-Jan-1873 25-Nov-1950 DEAD
Jerome K. Jerome Author Three Men in a Boat 02-May-1859 14-Jun-1927 DEAD
Sarah Orne Jewett Author The Country of the Pointed Firs 03-Sep-1849 24-Jun-1909 DEAD
John of Salisbury Author Policraticus and Metalogicon 1120 25-Oct-1180 DEAD
Eyvind Johnson Author Rain at Dawn 29-Jul-1900 25-Aug-1976 DEAD
James Weldon Johnson Author God's Trombones 17-Jun-1871 26-Jun-1938 DEAD
Phillip Johnson Author Intelligent Design theorist 1940 TBD ADD
James Jones Author From Here to Eternity 06-Nov-1921 09-May-1977 DEAD
Erica Jong Author Fear of Flying 26-Mar-1942 TBD ADD
Robert Jordan Author Wheel of Time series 17-Oct-1948 16-Sep-2007 DEAD
James Joyce Author Ulysses 02-Feb-1882 13-Jan-1941 DEAD
Heidi Julavits Author The Mineral Palace 1968 TBD ADD
Sebastian Junger Author The Perfect Storm 17-Jan-1962 TBD ADD
Norton Juster Author The Phantom Tollbooth 02-Jun-1929 TBD ADD
Younghill Kang Author The Grass Roof 10-May-1903 11-Dec-1972 DEAD
MacKinlay Kantor Author Andersonville 04-Feb-1904 11-Oct-1977 DEAD
Justin Kaplan Author Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain 05-Sep-1925 TBD ADD
Mary Karr Author The Liars' Club 1954 TBD ADD
Steven T. Katz Author Professor of Religion 1944 TBD ADD
Yasunari Kawabata Author The Masters of Go 11-Jun-1899 16-Apr-1972 DEAD
Guy Gavriel Kay Author Silmarillion 07-Nov-1954 TBD ADD
Kitty Kelley Author Controversial biogratrix 04-Apr-1942 TBD ADD
Yasar Kemal Author Mehmet, My Hawk 06-Oct-1923 TBD ADD
Thomas Keneally Author Schindler's Ark 07-Oct-1935 TBD ADD
Imre Kertész Author Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel 09-Nov-1929 TBD ADD
Rashid Khalidi Author Resurrecting Empire 1950 TBD ADD
Tracy Kidder Author The Soul of a New Machine 12-Nov-1945 TBD ADD
Cassandra King Author The Sunday Wife ? TBD ADD
Barbara Kingsolver Author Prodigal Summer 08-Apr-1955 TBD ADD
Maxine Hong Kingston Author The Woman Warrior 27-Oct-1940 TBD ADD
Sophie Kinsella Author Shopaholic series 12-Dec-1969 TBD ADD
Rudyard Kipling Author The Jungle Book 30-Dec-1865 18-Jan-1936 DEAD
Russell Kirk Author The Conservative Mind 19-Oct-1918 29-Apr-1994 DEAD
Lincoln Kirstein Author Co-Founder, New York City Ballet 04-May-1907 05-Jan-1996 DEAD
Robert Kiyosaki Author Rich Dad, Poor Dad 08-Apr-1947 TBD ADD
Andrew Klavan Author True Crime 1954 TBD ADD
Naomi Klein Author The Shock Doctrine 1970 TBD ADD
Sarah Kemble Knight Author The Journal of Mme. Knight 19-Apr-1666 25-Sep-1727 DEAD
Arthur Koestler Author Darkness at Noon 03-Sep-1905 03-Mar-1983 DEAD
Lawrence J. Korb Author The Joint Chiefs of Staff 09-Jul-1939 TBD ADD
Jerzy Kosinski Author Being There 14-Jun-1933 03-May-1991 DEAD
Jon Krakauer Author Into Thin Air 12-Apr-1954 TBD ADD
Paul Krassner Author Editor, The Realist 09-Apr-1932 TBD ADD
Alfred Kreymborg Author Founder of The Glebe 10-Dec-1883 00-Aug-1966 DEAD
Patrick Kroupa Author Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox 20-Jan-1968 TBD ADD
Thomas Kuhn Author Structure of Scientific Revolutions 18-Jul-1922 17-Jun-1996 DEAD
Milan Kundera Author The Unbearable Lightness of Being 01-Apr-1929 TBD ADD
Madeleine L'Engle Author A Wrinkle In Time 29-Nov-1918 06-Sep-2007 DEAD
Lynda La Plante Author Prime Suspect 15-Mar-1943 TBD ADD
Pär Lagerkvist Author Barabbas 23-May-1891 11-Jul-1974 DEAD
Selma Lagerlöf Author First female Nobel Prize for Literature 20-Nov-1858 16-Mar-1940 DEAD
Jhumpa Lahiri Author Interpreter of Maladies 11-Jul-1967 TBD ADD
Charles Lamb Author Essays of Elia 10-Feb-1775 27-Dec-1834 DEAD
Anne Lamott Author Operating Instructions 10-Apr-1954 TBD ADD
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Author Il gattopardo 23-Dec-1896 23-Jul-1957 DEAD
Andrew Lang Author Scottish man of letters, historian, author 31-Mar-1844 20-Jul-1912 DEAD
Valery Larbaud Author Poèmes par un riche amateur 29-Aug-1881 02-Feb-1957 DEAD
Christopher Lasch Author The Culture of Narcissism 01-Jun-1932 14-Feb-1994 DEAD
J. D. Lasica Author Darknet ? TBD ADD
Owen Lattimore Author Scholar of Mongolia 29-Jul-1900 31-May-1989 DEAD
T. E. Lawrence Author Lawrence of Arabia 16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 DEAD
Halldór Laxness Author Iceland's Bell 23-Apr-1902 08-Feb-1998 DEAD
Stephen Leacock Author Literary Lapses 30-Dec-1869 28-Mar-1944 DEAD
Munro Leaf Author The Story of Ferdinand 04-Dec-1905 21-Dec-1976 DEAD
Fran Lebowitz Author Social satirist, Metropolitan Life 27-Oct-1950 TBD ADD
Fritz Leiber Author Ship of Shadows 24-Dec-1910 05-Sep-1992 DEAD
Michel Leiris Author Surrealist, ethnographer, autobiographer 20-Apr-1901 30-Sep-1990 DEAD
Stanislaw Lem Author Solaris 12-Sep-1921 27-Mar-2006 DEAD
Siegfried Lenz Author Deutschstunde 17-Mar-1926 TBD ADD
Andrew Leonard Author Wired, Slate contributor ? TBD ADD
Jonathan Lethem Author Gun with Occasional Music 19-Feb-1964 TBD ADD
Primo Levi Author Survival in Auschwitz 31-Jul-1919 11-Apr-1987 DEAD
Bernard-Henri Lévy Author Who Killed Daniel Pearl? 05-Nov-1948 TBD ADD
Shawn Levy Author Rat Pack Confidential 1961 TBD ADD
Steven Levy Author Hackers ? TBD ADD
Anthony Lewis Author Gideon's Trumpet 27-Mar-1927 TBD ADD
Michael Lewis Author Liar's Poker 15-Oct-1960 TBD ADD
Willy Ley Author The Conquest of Space 02-Oct-1906 24-May-1969 DEAD
Mark Leyner Author The Tetherballs of Bougainville 1956 TBD ADD
Hilary Liftin Author Candy and Me: A Love Story 1969 TBD ADD
Astrid Lindgren Author Pippi Longstocking 14-Nov-1907 28-Jan-2002 DEAD
Brink Lindsey Author The Age of Abundance 1962 TBD ADD
Richard Lingeman Author Biographer of Theodore Dreiser 1931 TBD ADD
Charles de Lint Author The Onion Girl 22-Dec-1951 TBD ADD
Alain Locke Author Leader in the Harlem Renaissance 13-Sep-1886 09-Jun-1954 DEAD
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Author Georgia Scenes 09-Jul-1790 09-Jul-1870 DEAD
Barry Lopez Author Of Wolves and Men 06-Jan-1945 TBD ADD
Audre Lorde Author A Burst of Light 18-Feb-1934 17-Nov-1992 DEAD
Jean-Baptiste Louvet Author Mémoires de Louvet de Couvrai 12-Jun-1760 25-Aug-1797 DEAD
H. P. Lovecraft Author Necronomicon and Cthulhu mythos author 20-Aug-1890 15-Mar-1937 DEAD
James Russell Lowell Author The Biglow Papers 22-Feb-1819 12-Aug-1891 DEAD
Lois Lowry Author The Giver 19-Feb-1937 TBD ADD
Lucian Author Dialogues of the Dead ? TBD DEAD
Gaius Lucilius Author Earliest Roman satirist ? TBD DEAD
Emil Ludwig Author German biographer 25-Jan-1881 17-Sep-1948 DEAD
Mabel Dodge Luhan Author Movers and Shakers 26-Feb-1879 13-Aug-1962 DEAD
Eugene Lyons Author Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury 01-Jul-1898 1985 DEAD
Peter Maas Author Serpico 27-Jun-1929 23-Aug-2001 DEAD
George MacDonald Author At the Back of the North Wind 10-Dec-1824 18-Sep-1905 DEAD
Arthur Machen Author Welsh horror novelist, The Great God Pan 03-Mar-1863 30-Mar-1947 DEAD
Niccolò Machiavelli Author The Prince 03-May-1469 22-Jun-1527 DEAD
Seumas MacManus Author A Lad of the O'Friels 1869 1960 DEAD
Salvador de Madariaga Author Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards 23-Jul-1886 14-Dec-1978 DEAD
Haki R. Madhubuti Author Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? 23-Feb-1942 TBD ADD
Alfred Thayer Mahan Author The Influence of Sea Power upon History 27-Sep-1840 01-Dec-1914 DEAD
Naguib Mahfouz Author The Cairo Trilogy 11-Dec-1911 30-Aug-2006 DEAD
Norman Mailer Author Armies of the Night 31-Jan-1923 10-Nov-2007 DEAD
Bernard Malamud Author The Fixer 26-Apr-1914 18-Mar-1986 DEAD
Carl Malamud Author Founder of Internet Multicasting Service 1959 TBD ADD
Sir Thomas Malory Author Le Morte d'Arthur 1410 14-Mar-1471 DEAD
Mahmood Mamdani Author When Victims Become Killers ? TBD ADD
David Mamet Author Glengarry Glen Ross 30-Nov-1947 TBD ADD
William Manchester Author The Arms of Krupp 01-Apr-1922 01-Jun-2004 DEAD
Bernard de Mandeville Author The Fable of the Bees 00-Nov-1670 21-Jan-1733 DEAD
Charles C. Mann Author 1491: New Revelations ? TBD ADD
Katherine Mansfield Author Bliss 14-Oct-1888 09-Jan-1923 DEAD
George Perkins Marsh Author Ecologist and camel enthusiast 15-Mar-1801 23-Jul-1882 DEAD
Harriet Martineau Author Maid of All Work 12-Jun-1802 27-Jun-1876 DEAD
José Martínez Ruiz Author Generation of '98 08-Jun-1873 04-Mar-1967 DEAD
Richard Matheson Author I Am Legend 20-Feb-1926 TBD ADD
Harry Mathews Author My Life in CIA 14-Feb-1930 TBD ADD
Guy de Maupassant Author French short story writer 05-Aug-1850 06-Jul-1893 DEAD
Armistead Maupin Author Tales of the City series 13-May-1944 TBD ADD
André Maurois Author French biographer 26-Jul-1885 09-Oct-1967 DEAD
Robert McAlmon Author Village: As It Happened 09-Mar-1896 02-Feb-1956 DEAD
Anne McCaffrey Author Pern series 01-Apr-1926 TBD ADD
Mary McCarthy Author The Group 21-Jun-1912 25-Oct-1989 DEAD
Robert W. McChesney Author Rich Media, Poor Democracy 1955 TBD ADD
Frank McCourt Author Angela's Ashes 19-Aug-1930 TBD ADD
Carson McCullers Author The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 19-Feb-1917 29-Sep-1967 DEAD
Harold McGee Author On Food and Cooking 1951 TBD ADD
Terence McKenna Author Mushrooms, UFOs, end of fractal time 16-Nov-1946 03-Apr-2000 DEAD
Ruth McKenney Author My Sister Eileen 18-Nov-1911 25-Jul-1972 DEAD
Robin McKinley Author The Hero and the Crown 16-Nov-1952 TBD ADD
Marshall McLuhan Author The medium is the message 21-Jul-1911 31-Dec-1980 DEAD
Larry McMurtry Author Reclusive author of Lonesome Dove 03-Jun-1936 TBD ADD
John McPhee Author Annals of the Former World 08-Mar-1931 TBD ADD
James Alan McPherson Author Elbow Room 16-Sep-1943 TBD ADD
Norris McWhirter Author Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records 12-Aug-1925 19-Apr-2004 DEAD
Ross McWhirter Author Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records 12-Aug-1925 27-Nov-1975 DEAD
Walter Russell Mead Author Special Providence 12-Jun-1952 TBD ADD
Ved Mehta Author Face to Face 21-Mar-1934 TBD ADD
Carolyn Meinel Author Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory 1946 TBD ADD
Herman Melville Author Moby Dick 01-Aug-1819 28-Sep-1891 DEAD
Prosper Mérimée Author Carmen 28-Sep-1803 23-Sep-1870 DEAD
Thomas Merton Author The Seven Storey Mountain 31-Jan-1915 10-Dec-1968 DEAD
Diane Middlebrook Author Biographer of Anne Sexton 16-Apr-1939 15-Dec-2007 DEAD
Frank Miller Author The Dark Knight Returns 27-Jan-1957 TBD ADD
Henry Miller Author Tropic of Cancer 26-Dec-1891 07-Jun-1980 DEAD
Steven Millhauser Author Martin Dressler 03-Aug-1943 TBD ADD
A. A. Milne Author Winnie the Pooh 18-Jan-1882 31-Jan-1956 DEAD
Yukio Mishima Author The Sea of Fertility 14-Jan-1925 25-Nov-1970 DEAD
Donald Grant Mitchell Author Reveries of a Bachelor 12-Apr-1822 15-Dec-1908 DEAD
Joseph Mitchell Author The New Yorker 27-Jul-1908 24-May-1996 DEAD
Jessica Mitford Author The American Way of Death 11-Sep-1917 23-Jul-1996 DEAD
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Author Letters 26-May-1689 21-Aug-1762 DEAD
Rick Moody Author Purple America 18-Oct-1961 TBD ADD
Michael Moorcock Author Wrote the Elric series 18-Dec-1939 TBD ADD
Alan Moore Author Created The Watchmen 18-Nov-1953 TBD ADD
Robin Moore Author The Green Berets 31-Oct-1925 21-Feb-2008 DEAD
Edmund Morris Author The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 27-May-1940 TBD ADD
Willie Morris Author North Toward Home 29-Nov-1934 02-Aug-1999 DEAD
Toni Morrison Author Beloved 18-Feb-1931 TBD ADD
Thomas Morton Author New English Canaan 1590 1647 DEAD
Walter Mosley Author Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins mysteries 12-Jan-1952 TBD ADD
Willard Motley Author The original Bud Billiken 14-Jul-1909 04-Mar-1965 DEAD
Farley Mowat Author Never Cry Wolf 12-May-1921 TBD ADD
Malcolm Muggeridge Author Highly iconoclastic English wit 24-Mar-1903 14-Nov-1990 DEAD
Nina Munk Author Fools Rush In 1968 TBD ADD
Alice Munro Author Dance of the Happy Shades 10-Jul-1931 TBD ADD
Dervla Murphy Author Irish cyclist, travel writer 28-Nov-1931 TBD ADD
Albert L. Murray Author Stomping the Blues 12-May-1916 TBD ADD
Charles Murray Author The Bell Curve 1943 TBD ADD
V. S. Naipaul Author A House for Mr. Biswas 17-Aug-1932 TBD ADD
R. K. Narayan Author Swami and Friends 10-Oct-1906 13-May-2001 DEAD
Petroleum V. Nasby Author The Nasby Papers 20-Sep-1833 15-Feb-1888 DEAD
Thomas Nashe Author The Unfortunate Traveller 1567 1601 DEAD
George Jean Nathan Author American Mercury 14-Feb-1882 08-Apr-1958 DEAD
A. Edward Newton Author A Magnificent Farce 1863 29-Sep-1940 DEAD
John Nichols Author Dick: The Man Who Is President ? TBD ADD
Joe Nickell Author Professional skeptic 01-Dec-1944 TBD ADD
Anaïs Nin Author Diary of Anaïs Nin 21-Feb-1903 14-Jan-1977 DEAD
Larry Niven Author Ringworld and Known Space series 30-Apr-1938 TBD ADD
Albert Jay Nock Author Memoirs of a Superfluous Man 13-Oct-1870 19-Aug-1945 DEAD
John Norman Author Chronicles of Gor 03-Jun-1931 TBD ADD
Andre Norton Author Witch World series 17-Feb-1912 17-Mar-2005 DEAD
Richard Nugent Author Harlem Renaissance writer 02-Jul-1906 27-May-1987 DEAD
Conor Cruise O'Brien Author Irish Parliamentarian and Scholar 03-Nov-1917 18-Dec-2008 DEAD
Fitz-James O'Brien Author The Diamond Lens 31-Dec-1828 06-Apr-1862 DEAD
Flann O'Brien Author At Swim-Two-Birds 05-Oct-1911 01-Apr-1966 DEAD
Flannery O'Connor Author A Good Man Is Hard To Find 25-Mar-1925 03-Aug-1964 DEAD
Frank O'Connor Author Guests of the Nation 17-Sep-1903 10-Mar-1966 DEAD
John O'Hara Author Appointment in Samarra 31-Jan-1905 11-Apr-1970 DEAD
P. J. O'Rourke Author Political satirist 14-Nov-1947 TBD ADD
Joyce Carol Oates Author Author of over 40 novels 16-Jun-1938 TBD ADD
Kenzaburo Oé Author A Personal Matter 31-Jan-1935 TBD ADD
Ben Okri Author The Famished Road 15-Mar-1959 TBD ADD
Laurence Oliphant Author Scientific Religion 1829 23-Dec-1888 DEAD
Tillie Olsen Author Tell Me a Riddle 14-Jan-1913 01-Jan-2007 DEAD
Lynne Olson Author Freedom's Daughters 1949 TBD ADD
Robert Orben Author Prolific jokewriter 04-Mar-1927 TBD ADD
Orm Author Ormulum ? TBD DEAD
Suze Orman Author The Road to Wealth 05-Jun-1951 TBD ADD
Norman Ornstein Author American Enterprise Institute 1948 TBD ADD
George Orwell Author Author of 1984 and Animal Farm 25-Jun-1903 21-Jan-1950 DEAD
Cynthia Ozick Author The Puttermesser Papers 17-Apr-1928 TBD ADD
George Packer Author The Assassins' Gate 1960 TBD ADD
Thomas Nelson Page Author In Ole Virginia 23-Apr-1853 01-Nov-1922 DEAD
Camille Paglia Author Self-described feminist 02-Apr-1947 TBD ADD
Chuck Palahniuk Author Fight Club 21-Feb-1962 TBD ADD
Grace Paley Author The Little Disturbances of Man 11-Dec-1922 22-Aug-2007 DEAD
Jay Parini Author The Last Station 02-Apr-1948 TBD ADD
Barbara Park Author Junie B. Jones series 21-Apr-1947 TBD ADD
Dorothy Parker Author Constant Reader known for acerbic quips 22-Aug-1893 07-Jun-1967 DEAD
James Parton Author American biographer 09-Feb-1822 17-Oct-1891 DEAD
Étienne Pasquier Author Recherches de la France 07-Jun-1529 30-Aug-1615 DEAD
John Dos Passos Author U.S.A. Trilogy 14-Jan-1896 28-Sep-1970 DEAD
Boris Pasternak Author Doctor Zhivago 10-Feb-1890 30-May-1960 DEAD
Alan Paton Author Cry, the Beloved Country 11-Jan-1903 12-Apr-1988 DEAD
James Patterson Author Along Came a Spider 22-Mar-1947 TBD ADD
M. Scott Peck Author The Road Less Traveled 22-May-1936 25-Sep-2005 DEAD
Harvey Pekar Author American Splendor 1939 TBD ADD
Samuel Pepys Author London diarist 23-Feb-1633 26-May-1703 DEAD
Thomas Percy Author Percy Reliques 13-Apr-1729 30-Sep-1811 DEAD
Walker Percy Author The Moviegoer 28-May-1916 10-May-1990 DEAD
S. J. Perelman Author New Yorker humorist 01-Feb-1904 17-Oct-1979 DEAD
Cristina Peri Rossi Author Los Museos Abandonados 12-Nov-1941 TBD ADD
George R. Perkovich Author India's Nuclear Bomb 1959 TBD ADD
Charles Perrault Author Tales of Mother Goose 12-Jan-1628 16-May-1703 DEAD
Persius Author Satires ? TBD DEAD
Fernando Pessoa Author Heteronymous author, The Book of Disquiet 13-Jun-1888 30-Nov-1935 DEAD
Tom Peters Author In Search of Excellence 07-Nov-1942 TBD ADD
Michael Peterson Author The Staircase 23-Oct-1943 TBD ADD
Petronius Arbiter Author Satyricon ? TBD DEAD
Phaedrus Author Roman fabulist ? TBD DEAD
William Pierce Author The Turner Diaries 11-Sep-1933 23-Jul-2002 DEAD
Ricardo Piglia Author The Absent City 24-Nov-1941 TBD ADD
Christopher Pike Author Last Vampire, Spooksville, series 00-Nov-1954 TBD ADD
Nicholas Pileggi Author Goodfellas screenwriter 22-Feb-1933 TBD ADD
Dan Pink Author A Whole New Mind 1964 TBD ADD
Daniel Pinkwater Author The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death 15-Nov-1941 TBD ADD
Robert Pirsig Author Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 06-Sep-1928 TBD ADD
Charles Platt Author Science fiction novelist 1945 TBD ADD
George Plimpton Author Paper Lion 18-Mar-1927 25-Sep-2003 DEAD
Pliny the Elder Author Naturalis Historia ? TBD DEAD
Pliny the Younger Author Epistulae ? TBD DEAD
Plutarch Author Lives ? TBD DEAD
Norman Podhoretz Author Prominent neocon author 16-Jan-1930 TBD ADD
Edgar Allan Poe Author Macabre short story writer and poet 19-Jan-1809 07-Oct-1849 DEAD
Frederik Pohl Author Futurian science fiction writer 26-Nov-1919 TBD ADD
Michael Pollan Author The Omnivore's Dilemma 06-Feb-1955 TBD ADD
Henrik Pontoppidan Author Lucky Peter 24-Jul-1857 21-Aug-1943 DEAD
Hal Porter Author A Handful of Pennies 16-Feb-1911 29-Sep-1984 DEAD
Katherine Anne Porter Author Ship of Fools 15-May-1890 18-Sep-1980 DEAD
Charles Portis Author True Grit 28-Dec-1933 TBD ADD
Jerry Pournelle Author Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven 07-Aug-1933 TBD ADD
Samantha Power Author A Problem From Hell 1970 TBD ADD
Richard Preston Author The Hot Zone 05-Aug-1954 TBD ADD
Reynolds Price Author A Long and Happy Life 01-Feb-1933 TBD ADD
V. S. Pritchett Author Midnight Oil 16-Dec-1900 20-Mar-1997 DEAD
E. Annie Proulx Author The Shipping News 22-Aug-1935 TBD ADD
Marcel Proust Author In Search of Lost Time 10-Jul-1871 18-Nov-1922 DEAD
James Purdy Author Eustance Chisholm and the Works 17-Jul-1914 13-Mar-2009 DEAD
George Puttenham Author The Arte of English Poesie 1529 1590 DEAD
Carol Queen Author Prolific sexologist 1957 TBD ADD
Rabanus Maurus Author Carolingian religious scholar ? TBD DEAD
François Rabelais Author Gargantua and Pantagruel 1494 09-Apr-1553 DEAD
Yordan Radichkov Author Bulgarian writer 24-Oct-1929 21-Jan-2004 DEAD
David Rakoff Author Don't Get Too Comfortable 27-Nov-1964 TBD ADD
Ayn Rand Author Atlas Shrugged 02-Feb-1905 06-Mar-1982 DEAD
R. E. Raspe Author The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1737 1794 DEAD
Opie Read Author Jucklins 22-Dec-1852 02-Nov-1939 DEAD
Pauline Réage Author Histoire d'O 23-Sep-1907 27-Apr-1998 DEAD
John Rechy Author City of Night 10-Mar-1934 TBD ADD
Judith Reisman Author Hates Kinsey 1935 TBD ADD
Marc Reisner Author Cadillac Desert 14-Sep-1948 21-Jul-2000 DEAD
Robert K. Ressler Author Whoever Fights Monsters 15-Feb-1937 TBD ADD
James Reston, Jr. Author The Conviction of Richard Nixon 1941 TBD ADD
Alfonso Reyes Author Visión de Anáhuac 17-May-1889 27-Dec-1959 DEAD
Wladyslaw Reymont Author The Peasants 07-May-1867 05-Dec-1925 DEAD
Howard Rheingold Author The Virtual Community 07-Jul-1947 TBD ADD
James Ford Rhodes Author History of the Civil War 01-May-1848 22-Jan-1927 DEAD
Bernardim Ribeiro Author Menina e Moça 1482 00-Oct-1552 DEAD
Boyd Rice Author Satanist 1955 TBD ADD
Alexandra Ripley Author Wrote Scarlett 08-Jan-1934 10-Jan-2004 DEAD
John Robbins Author Celebrity vegan 26-Oct-1947 TBD ADD
Tony Robbins Author Toothy motivational speaker 29-Feb-1960 TBD ADD
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Author The Great Meadow 30-Oct-1881 13-Mar-1941 DEAD
François de la Rochefoucauld Author Maxims 15-Sep-1613 16-Mar-1680 DEAD
Thomas Rockwell Author How to Eat Fried Worms 13-Mar-1933 TBD ADD
Peter Mark Roget Author Roget's Thesaurus 18-Jan-1779 12-Sep-1869 DEAD
Anne Roiphe Author Up the Sandbox! 25-Dec-1935 TBD ADD
Frederick Rolfe Author Baron Corvo 22-Jul-1860 25-Oct-1913 DEAD
Wayne Allyn Root Author The Zen of Gambling 1963 TBD ADD
João Guimarães Rosa Author The Devil to Pay in the Backlands 27-Jun-1908 19-Nov-1967 DEAD
Leo Rosten Author The Joys of Yiddish 11-Apr-1908 19-Feb-1997 DEAD
Henry Roth Author Call It Sleep 08-Feb-1906 13-Oct-1995 DEAD
Mary Rowlandson Author Narrative of the Captivity 1635 05-Jan-1711 DEAD
J. K. Rowling Author Author of Harry Potter series 31-Jul-1965 TBD ADD
Susanna Rowson Author Charlotte, a Tale of Truth 1762 02-Mar-1824 DEAD
Arundhati Roy Author The God of Small Things 24-Nov-1961 TBD ADD
Ann Rule Author Prolific true crime paperback writer 22-Oct-1937 TBD ADD
Jane Rule Author Desert of the Heart 28-Mar-1931 27-Nov-2007 DEAD
Michael Rumaker Author Beat author, The Butterfly 05-Mar-1932 TBD ADD
Kristine Kathryn Rusch Author Science fiction and fantasy author, editor 1960 TBD ADD
Douglas Rushkoff Author Cyberculture analyst 18-Feb-1961 TBD ADD
Joanna Russ Author The Female Man 22-Feb-1937 TBD ADD
Charles Edward Russell Author The Greatest Trust in the World 25-Sep-1860 23-Apr-1941 DEAD
Luigi Russolo Author Authored the manifesto The Art of Noises 30-Apr-1885 06-Feb-1947 DEAD
Vita Sackville-West Author The Land 09-Mar-1892 02-Jun-1962 DEAD
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Author The Little Prince 29-Jun-1900 31-Jul-1944 DEAD
Henri de Saint-Simon Author Nouveau Christianisme 17-Oct-1760 19-May-1825 DEAD
R. A. Salvatore Author Created the dark elf Drizzt 20-Jan-1959 TBD ADD
George Sand Author Lélia 01-Jul-1804 08-Jun-1876 DEAD
Carl Sandburg Author Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer 06-Jan-1878 22-Jul-1967 DEAD
Mari Sandoz Author Crazy Horse 11-May-1896 10-Mar-1966 DEAD
José Saramago Author Baltasar and Blimunda 16-Nov-1922 TBD ADD
Severo Sarduy Author De donde son los Cantantes 25-Feb-1937 08-Jun-1993 DEAD
William Saroyan Author The Time of Your Life 31-Aug-1908 18-May-1981 DEAD
George Saunders Author In Persuasion Nation 02-Dec-1958 TBD ADD
Richard Scarry Author Delightful children's book author and artist 05-Jun-1919 30-Apr-1994 DEAD
Orville Schell Author Prominent sinologist 20-May-1940 TBD ADD
Herbert I. Schiller Author Mass Communications and American Empire 05-Nov-1919 29-Jan-2000 DEAD
Eric Schlosser Author Fast Food Nation 17-Aug-1959 TBD ADD
Sir Walter Scott Author Ivanhoe 15-Aug-1771 21-Sep-1832 DEAD
William Seabrook Author Thoroughly sodden traveling author 22-Feb-1886 20-Sep-1945 DEAD
David Sedaris Author Contributor to This American Life 26-Dec-1956 TBD ADD
Hubert Selby Author Requiem for a Dream 23-Jul-1928 26-Apr-2004 DEAD
Maurice Sendak Author Where The Wild Things Are 10-Jun-1928 TBD ADD
Seneca Author Epistulae Morales ? TBD DEAD
Rod Serling Author Creator of The Twilight Zone 25-Dec-1924 28-Jun-1975 DEAD
Anya Seton Author Dragonwyck 23-Jan-1906 08-Nov-1990 DEAD
Dr. Seuss Author The Cat in the Hat 02-Mar-1904 24-Sep-1991 DEAD
Madame de Sévigné Author Eminent French letter writer 05-Feb-1626 17-Apr-1696 DEAD
Michael Shaara Author The Killer Angels 23-Jun-1929 05-May-1988 DEAD
Alan Shalleck Author Curious George writer 14-Nov-1929 06-Feb-2006 DEAD
Robert Shea Author Illuminatus Trilogy 14-Feb-1933 10-Mar-1994 DEAD
Robert Sheckley Author Science fiction genius 16-Jul-1928 09-Dec-2005 DEAD
Wilfrid Sheed Author Office Politics 27-Dec-1930 TBD ADD
Sidney Sheldon Author Annie Get Your Gun 11-Feb-1917 30-Jan-2007 DEAD
Ann Allen Shockley Author Loving Her 21-Jun-1927 TBD ADD
Mikhail Sholokhov Author The Silent Don 24-May-1905 21-Feb-1984 DEAD
Irving Shulman Author The Amboy Dukes 21-May-1913 23-Mar-1995 DEAD
Brian Sibley Author Penned dramatizations for LOTR 14-Jul-1949 TBD ADD
Sir Philip Sidney Author The Defence of Poesie 30-Nov-1554 17-Oct-1586 DEAD
Jerry Siegel Author Creator of Superman 17-Oct-1914 28-Jan-1996 DEAD
Henryk Sienkiewicz Author Quo Vadis? 05-May-1846 15-Nov-1916 DEAD
Frans Eemil Sillanpää Author The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life 16-Sep-1888 03-Jun-1964 DEAD
Josias Simmler Author De Alpibus Commentarius 1550 1576 DEAD
Dan Simmons Author Hyperion 04-Apr-1948 TBD ADD
David Simon Author The Wire 1960 TBD ADD
Iain Sinclair Author Downriver 11-Jun-1943 TBD ADD
Isaac Bashevis Singer Author Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy 14-Jul-1904 24-Jul-1991 DEAD
Clark Ashton Smith Author Horror/fantasy author 13-Jan-1893 14-Aug-1961 DEAD
Cordwainer Smith Author The Rediscovery of Man 11-Jul-1913 06-Aug-1966 DEAD
H. Allen Smith Author Low Man on a Totem Pole 19-Dec-1907 24-Feb-1976 DEAD
Lemony Snicket Author A Series of Unfortunate Events 28-Feb-1970 TBD ADD
C. P. Snow Author The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution 15-Oct-1905 01-Jul-1980 DEAD
Stephen D. Solomon Author Ellery's Protest 1949 TBD ADD
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Author The Gulag Archipelago 11-Dec-1918 03-Aug-2008 DEAD
Christina Hoff Sommers Author Who Stole Feminism? 1950 TBD ADD
Susan Sontag Author Novelist, critic, intellectual 16-Jan-1933 28-Dec-2004 DEAD
Aaron Sorkin Author The West Wing, Sports Night 09-Jun-1961 TBD ADD
Vladimir Sorokin Author Wrote Goluboe Salo (Blue Lard) 07-Aug-1955 TBD ADD
Peter Sotos Author Transgressive author, Pure 1960 TBD ADD
Jared Sparks Author Life and Writings of George Washington 10-May-1789 14-Mar-1866 DEAD
Mickey Spillane Author Mike Hammer novels 09-Mar-1918 17-Jul-2006 DEAD
Norman Spinrad Author SF author, Little Heroes 15-Sep-1940 TBD ADD
Madame de Staël Author Important French romanticist 22-Apr-1766 14-Jul-1817 DEAD
Jerry Stahl Author Permanent Midnight 1953 TBD ADD
Francis Steegmuller Author Cocteau: A Biography 03-Jul-1906 20-Oct-1994 DEAD
Richard Steele Author The Spectator 1672 01-Sep-1729 DEAD
Wallace Stegner Author The Angle of Repose 18-Feb-1909 13-Apr-1993 DEAD
Charlotte von Stein Author Friend of Goethe and Schiller 25-Dec-1742 06-Jan-1827 DEAD
Gertrude Stein Author Avant-garde writer, salon 03-Feb-1874 27-Jul-1946 DEAD
Stendhal Author Le Rouge et le Noir 23-Jan-1793 23-Mar-1842 DEAD
Bruce Sterling Author Schismatrix 14-Apr-1954 TBD ADD
W. Richard Stevens Author UNIX Network Programming 1951 01-Sep-1999 DEAD
Robert Louis Stevenson Author Treasure Island 13-Nov-1850 03-Dec-1894 DEAD
Rick Steves Author Europe Through the Back Door 1955 TBD ADD
Donald Ogden Stewart Author The Philadelphia Story 30-Nov-1894 02-Aug-1980 DEAD
George R. Stewart Author Earth Abides 31-May-1895 22-Aug-1980 DEAD
Adalbert Stifter Author Studien 23-Oct-1805 28-Jan-1868 DEAD
R. L. Stine Author Goosebumps series 08-Oct-1943 TBD ADD
Stobaeus Author Compiler of classic Greek authors ? TBD DEAD
Bram Stoker Author Dracula 08-Nov-1847 20-Apr-1912 DEAD
Cliff Stoll Author The Cuckoo's Egg ? TBD ADD
Debbie Stoller Author Knitterati, Stitch 'n Bitch ? TBD ADD
John Stow Author Antiquary, Survey of London 1525 06-Apr-1605 DEAD
Lytton Strachey Author Eminent Victorians 01-Mar-1880 21-Jan-1932 DEAD
William Strunk Author Elements of Style 01-Jul-1869 26-Sep-1946 DEAD
Theodore Sturgeon Author More Than Human 26-Feb-1918 08-May-1985 DEAD
Danny Sugerman Author Manager/Biographer for The Doors 11-Oct-1954 05-Jan-2005 DEAD
Patrick Süskind Author Perfume, The Story of a Murderer 26-Mar-1949 TBD ADD
Jonathan Swift Author Gulliver's Travels 30-Nov-1667 19-Oct-1745 DEAD
Anthony Swofford Author Jarhead 12-Aug-1970 TBD ADD
Plum Sykes Author Bergdorf Blondes 04-Dec-1969 TBD ADD
Antonio Tabucchi Author The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa 23-Sep-1943 TBD ADD
Gay Talese Author Honor Thy Father 07-Feb-1932 TBD ADD
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux Author Historiettes 02-Oct-1619 10-Nov-1692 DEAD
Amy Tan Author The Joy Luck Club 19-Feb-1952 TBD ADD
Sam Tanenhaus Author Editor, New York Times Book Review 31-Oct-1955 TBD ADD
Bayard Taylor Author Europe seen with Knapsack 11-Jan-1825 19-Dec-1878 DEAD
Peter Taylor Author A Summons to Memphis 08-Jan-1917 02-Nov-1994 DEAD
Esaias Tegnér Author Frithjofs Saga 13-Nov-1782 02-Nov-1846 DEAD
Ruy Teixeira Author The Emerging Democratic Majority 1955 TBD ADD
Sheri S. Tepper Author The Gate to Women's Country 1929 TBD ADD
Studs Terkel Author Working 16-May-1912 31-Oct-2008 DEAD
Abigail Thernstrom Author Opponent of Affirmative Action 1936 TBD ADD
Henry David Thoreau Author Walden 12-Jul-1817 06-May-1862 DEAD
James Thurber Author Short story writer and cartoonist 08-Dec-1894 02-Nov-1961 DEAD
Wallace Thurman Author The Blacker the Berry 16-Aug-1902 22-Dec-1934 DEAD
Henrik Tikkanen Author A Winter's Day 1924 1984 DEAD
Alvin Toffler Author Future Shock 04-Oct-1928 TBD ADD
J. R. R. Tolkien Author Lord of the Rings 03-Jan-1892 02-Sep-1973 DEAD
Leo Tolstoy Author Russian novelist 28-Aug-1828 20-Nov-1910 DEAD
Jean Toomer Author Cane 26-Dec-1894 30-Mar-1967 DEAD
Kevin Trudeau Author Natural Cures, fraudster 06-Feb-1963 TBD ADD
Dalton Trumbo Author Johnny Got His Gun 09-Dec-1905 10-Sep-1976 DEAD
Robert W. Tucker Author The Inequality of Nations 1925 TBD ADD
Edward Tufte Author Yale professor 14-Mar-1942 TBD ADD
Ivan Turgenev Author Fathers and Sons 09-Nov-1818 03-Sep-1883 DEAD
Mark Twain Author Huckleberry Finn 30-Nov-1835 21-Apr-1910 DEAD
Anne Tyler Author The Accidental Tourist 25-Oct-1941 TBD ADD
Sun Tzu Author The Art of War ? TBD DEAD
Francis Henry Underwood Author Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town 12-Jan-1825 07-Aug-1894 DEAD
Sigrid Undset Author Kristin Lavransdåtter 20-May-1882 10-Jun-1949 DEAD
Thomas Urquhart Author Translator of Rabelais 1611 1660 DEAD
Andrew Vachss Author Burke author and attorney for children 19-Oct-1942 TBD ADD
Laurens van der Post Author The Lost World of the Kalahari 13-Dec-1906 15-Dec-1996 DEAD
Carl Van Doren Author The American Novel 10-Sep-1885 18-Jul-1950 DEAD
Jennifer Vanderbes Author Easter Island 1974 TBD ADD
Jeff Vandermeer Author The Book of Lost Places 1968 TBD ADD
Immanuel Velikovsky Author Worlds in Collision 10-Jun-1895 17-Nov-1979 DEAD
Jules Verne Author Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 08-Feb-1828 24-Mar-1905 DEAD
Gore Vidal Author Visit to a Small Planet 03-Oct-1925 TBD ADD
Bruce Vilanch Author The fat guy who writes everyone's jokes 23-Nov-1948 TBD ADD
Joan D. Vinge Author Eyes of Amber 02-Apr-1948 TBD ADD
Vernor Vinge Author A Fire Upon The Deep 10-Feb-1944 TBD ADD
Cynthia Voigt Author Juvenile author, Tillerman Cycle 25-Feb-1942 TBD ADD
William T. Vollmann Author An Afghanistan Picture Show 28-Jul-1959 TBD ADD
Voltaire Author Enlightenment author of Candide 21-Nov-1694 30-May-1778 DEAD
Erich von Däniken Author Chariots of the Gods? 14-Apr-1935 TBD ADD
Jacobus de Voragine Author Golden Legend 1228 13-Jul-1298 DEAD
Helen Waddell Author The Wandering Scholars 31-May-1889 05-Mar-1965 DEAD
Alice Walker Author The Color Purple 09-Feb-1944 TBD ADD
DeWitt Wallace Author Founder of Reader's Digest 12-Nov-1889 30-Mar-1981 DEAD
Irving Wallace Author The Book of Lists 19-Mar-1916 29-Jun-1990 DEAD
Horace Walpole Author Wrote the first Gothic novel 24-Sep-1717 02-Mar-1797 DEAD
Eric Walrond Author Tropic Death 18-Dec-1898 08-Aug-1966 DEAD
Izaak Walton Author The Compleat Angler 09-Aug-1593 15-Dec-1683 DEAD