Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
novelist
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
Patrick Leigh Fermor
English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot
Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian 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