Lawrence Durrell
Expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
novelist
Umberto Eco
Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic and political and social commentator
E. R. Eddison
English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison
Jennifer Egan
American novelist and short-story writer
George Eliot
English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act , a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory . The New York Times dubbed him “among the gods of America’s literary Parnassus.” A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Jeffrey Eugenides
American novelist and short story writer
Frederick Exley
American writer
William Faulkner
American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life