Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
novelist
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
James Joyce
Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic
Norton Juster
American academic, architect, and writer
Franz Kafka
German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award
Geoffrey Household
Prolific British novelist who specialised in thrillers
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker