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
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
Joan Didion
American writer
Annie Dillard
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction
Isak Dinesen
Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English
E. L. Doctorow
American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction
Ivan Doig
American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West
John Dos Passos
American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: , US: ; Russian: , tr. Fydor Mikhylovich Dostoyvskiy, IPA: [fdr mxajlvd dstjefskj] (listen); 11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century …