Thomas Mallon
American novelist, essayist, and critic
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Hilary Mantel
British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories
Madame de Lafayette
French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Georgette Heyer
English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres
William Golding
British novelist, playwright, and poet
Robert Graves
British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist