Taylor Branch
American author and historian best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement
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Stewart Brand
American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog
Dan Brown
American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons , The Da Vinci Code , The Lost Symbol , Inferno , and Origin . His novels are treasure hunts which usually take place over a period of 24 hours
Margaret Wise Brown
American writer of children’s books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
Saul Bellow
Canadian-born American writer
Ludwig Bemelmans
Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children’s books and adult novels
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.
Bob Woodward
American investigative journalist
Alfred Bester
American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books