Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist
novelist
Bruce Duffy
American author
Alexandre Dumas
French writer
Ross E. Dunn
American historian and writer, the author of several books including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, and coauthor of the highly cited History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past
Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction
Lawrence Durrell
Expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
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