Edwidge Danticat
Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
novelist
J. M. Coetzee
South African-Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor
Colette
French author and woman of letters
Suzanne Collins
American television writer and author
Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer
Cyril Connolly
English literary critic and writer
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language