Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright
novelist
Dino Buzzati
Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera
A. S. Byatt
English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist
Alison Bechdel
American cartoonist
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
Lillian Beckwith
English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye
Saul Bellow
Canadian-born American writer
John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet