Madame de Stael
French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker
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Michael Shaara
American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
Rafael Sabatini
Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , and Bellarion the Fortunate .
In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist
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
Martin Middlebrook
English military historian and author.
Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist
Amin Maalouf
Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages