Herta Muller
Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
Creator
Larry Niven
American science fiction writer
Tillie Olsen
American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
Alice Munro
Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro’s work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time
Charles Nordhoff
American novelist and traveler, born in England
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer
Kathleen Norris
American novelist and newspaper columnist
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period
Patrick O’Brian
English novelist and translator, best known for his AubreyMaturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the IrishCatalan physician Stephen Maturin
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher