Ludwig Bemelmans
Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children’s books and adult novels
Creator
Judy Blume
American writer of children’s, young adult and adult fiction
Alan Bennett
English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
Felice Benuzzi
Mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist
John Berendt
American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Roberto Bolano
Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist
John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature