Alfred Bester
American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books
short story
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet and short-story writer
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
Diana Athill
British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor
James Baldwin
American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos
Honore de Balzac
French novelist and playwright
John Barth
American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
L. Frank Baum
American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels