Junot Diaz
Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review
novelist
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
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
Michael Crichton
American author and filmmaker
Edmund Crispin
Pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery , an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.
Eleanor Clark
American writer and “master stylist,” best known for her non-fiction accounts.