James Baldwin02 August 1924, American
Novelist
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934, Indian
Writer
Philip K. Dick16 December 1928, American
Novelist
Simone de Beauvoir09 January 1908, French
Writer
Ray Bradbury22 August 1920, American
Writer
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Nassim Nicholas Taleb1960 AD, Lebanese, British, American
Essayist
Jhumpa Lahiri11 July 1967, British, American
Writer
Anais Nin21 February 1903, American
Essayist
Umberto Eco05 January 1932, Italian
Italian Semiotician, Philosopher
Evelyn Waugh28 October 1903, British
Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa28 March 1936, Peruvian
Writer
Theodor W. Adorno11 September 1903, German
Philosopher
V. S. Naipaul17 August 1932, British
Writer
Alain de Botton20 December 1969, Swiss, British
Author
Nick Hornby17 April 1957, British
Author & Editor
George Saunders02 December 1958, American
Writer
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919, Indian
Writer
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
Adrienne Rich16 May 1929, American
American poet
Sandra Cisneros20 December 1954, American
Writer
Amiri Baraka07 October 1934, American
Writer
Barbara Kingsolver08 April 1955, American
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Junot Díaz31 December 1968, Dominican, American
Writer
Joseph Brodsky24 May 1940, Russian
Essayist & Poet
Jamaica Kincaid25 May 1949, American
Novelist
Czesław Miłosz30 June 1911, Polish
Poet
Wisława Szymborska02 July 1923, Polish
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Hélène Cixous05 June 1937, Algerian
Professor
Henry Lawson17 June 1867, Australian
Writer
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Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Herta Müller17 August 1953, German
Writer
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Assia Djebar30 June 1936, Algerian
Author
Al Alvarez05 August 1929, British
Poet
Andre Dubus11 August 1936, American
Short story writer
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
Drago Jančar13 April 1948, Slovenian
Writer
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12 October 1908, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Jože Javoršek20 October 1920, Slovenian
Playwright
John Hughes18 February 1950, American
Filmmaker
Flannery O'Connor25 March 1925, American
Novelist
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961, Indian
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Joan Didion05 December 1934, American
Screenwriter, Novelist, Journalist, Writer,
Henry Louis Gates Jr.16 September 1950, American
Author
Thomas Pynchon08 May 1937, American
Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Science fiction writer
Paul Krugman28 February 1953, American
Columnist, Economist, Essayist, Blogger,
Orson Scott Card24 August 1951, American
Novelist
W. Kamau Bell26 January 1973, American
Comedian
Serge Monast1945 AD, Canadian
Journalist
Rainer Werner Fassbinder31 May 1945, German
Film maker
Zadie Smith25 October 1975, British
Writer, Novelist, Essayist
Droz07 April 1969, American
Essayist
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972, Indian
Actor
Neal Stephenson31 October 1959, American
Novelist
Sylvia Browne19 October 1936, American
Essayist, Psychic
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Author
Hilary Mantel06 July 1952, British
Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Film critic, Poet
Michael Chabon24 May 1963, American
Writer, Essayist, Screenwriter, Novelist,
Robert Christgau18 April 1942, American
Journalist, Reporter, Essayist, Writer, Music
Masaru Emoto22 July 1943, Japanese
Essayist, Writer
Cheryl Strayed17 September 1968, American
Writer
Don DeLillo20 November 1936, American
Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist,
Edsger W. Dijkstra11 May 1930, Netherlands Antilles, Dutch
Computer scientist
Maajid Nawaz02 November 1977, British
Activist
Jonathan Franzen17 August 1959, American
Novelist
Stanisław Lem12 September 1921, Polish
Writer
Jaron Lanier03 May 1960, American
Computer scientist, Composer, Programmer, Writer,
James Ellroy04 March 1948, American
Writer
Elif Shafak25 October 1971, French, Turkish
Writer
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Italo Calvino15 October 1923, Italian, American
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Reporter,
Larry Kramer25 June 1935, American
Playwright
Harry Turtledove14 June 1949, American
Novelist
Robert Anton Wilson18 January 1932, American
Writer, Novelist, Philosopher, Essayist,
Mary Karr16 January 1955, American
Poet
Marilynne Robinson26 November 1943, American
Novelist
Sarah Vowell27 December 1969, American
Historian
Andre Aciman02 January 1951, Egyptian, American
Writer
Samuel R. Delany01 April 1942, American
Writer
Tom Robbins22 July 1932, American
Writer
Colm Toibin30 May 1955, Irish
Novelist
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21 January 1908, Indian
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Edward Abbey29 January 1927, American
Essayist
Madeleine L'Engle29 November 1918, American
Author
Fredric Jameson14 April 1934, American
Essayist, Political scientist, Writer, Professor,
John Gregory Dunne25 May 1932, American
Novelist
Jim Harrison11 December 1937, American
Poet
John Perry Barlow03 October 1947, American
Poet
Linda Moulton Howe20 January 1942, American
Journalist, Essayist
Jean Rhys24 August 1890, Dominican, British
Writer
Janet Frame28 August 1924, New Zealander
Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Writer, Short story
Ismail Kadare28 January 1936, Albanian
Novelist