N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
novelist
L. M. Montgomery
Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables
Michael Moorcock
English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction
C. L. Moore
American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore
Elsa Morante
Italian novelist, poet, translator and children’s books author
Cormac McCarthy
American writer who has written ten novels, two plays, five screenplays and two short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres
Jan Morris
Welsh historian, author and travel writer
Carson McCullers
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet
Toni Morrison
American novelist
Larry McMurtry
American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas