Yann Martel
Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories
novelist
George R. R. Martin
American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer
Armistead Maupin
American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
Robert Ludlum
American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series
Peter Mayle
British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence .
Valeria Luiselli
Mexican author living in the United States
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
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