novelist

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

Rose Macaulay

English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature

Compton Mackenzie

English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist

Norman Mailer

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor