Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor
novelist
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
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer
Anton Chekhov
Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the world
G. K. Chesterton
English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic