novelist

Hilary Mantel

British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories

Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist

Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories

American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction

English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.

American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti

American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter

British-Zimbabwean novelist

Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer

American novelist, playwright, and songwriter