James Baldwin02 August 1924, American
Novelist
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934, Indian
Writer
Philip K. Dick16 December 1928, American
Novelist
Ray Bradbury22 August 1920, American
Writer
Nassim Nicholas Taleb1960 AD, Lebanese, British, American
Essayist
Simone de Beauvoir09 January 1908, French
Writer
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Evelyn Waugh28 October 1903, British
Writer
Umberto Eco05 January 1932, Italian
Italian Semiotician, Philosopher
V. S. Naipaul17 August 1932, British
Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa28 March 1936, Peruvian
Writer
Theodor W. Adorno11 September 1903, German
Philosopher
Jhumpa Lahiri11 July 1967, British, American
Writer
Alain de Botton20 December 1969, Swiss, British
Author
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919, Indian
Writer
Nick Hornby17 April 1957, British
Author & Editor
Amiri Baraka07 October 1934, American
Writer
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
Adrienne Rich16 May 1929, American
American poet
Barbara Kingsolver08 April 1955, American
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Joseph Brodsky24 May 1940, Russian
Essayist & Poet
Czesław Miłosz30 June 1911, Polish
Poet
George Saunders02 December 1958, American
Writer
Junot Díaz31 December 1968, Dominican, American
Writer
Sandra Cisneros20 December 1954, American
Writer
Jamaica Kincaid25 May 1949, American
Novelist
Wisława Szymborska02 July 1923, Polish
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Henry Lawson17 June 1867, Australian
Writer
Hélène Cixous05 June 1937, Algerian
Professor
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
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Herta Müller17 August 1953, German
Writer
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Andre Dubus11 August 1936, American
Short story writer
Al Alvarez05 August 1929, British
Poet
Assia Djebar30 June 1936, Algerian
Author
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
Anais Nin21 February 1903, American
Essayist
Drago Jančar13 April 1948, Slovenian
Writer
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12 October 1908, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Jože Javoršek20 October 1920, Slovenian
Playwright
James Gunn23 July 1923, American
Writer
W. Kamau Bell26 January 1973, American
Comedian
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21 January 1908, Indian
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Henry Louis Gates Jr.16 September 1950, American
Author
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961, Indian
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Joan Didion05 December 1934, American
Screenwriter, Novelist, Journalist, Writer,
Paul Krugman28 February 1953, American
Columnist, Economist, Essayist, Blogger,
Fareed Zakaria20 January 1964, American
Journalist, Reporter, Essayist, Writer, Economist
Flannery O'Connor25 March 1925, American
Novelist
Zadie Smith25 October 1975, British
Writer, Novelist, Essayist
Thomas Pynchon08 May 1937, American
Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Science fiction writer
Larry Kramer25 June 1935, American
Playwright
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972, Indian
Actor
Sylvia Browne19 October 1936, American
Essayist, Psychic
Maajid Nawaz02 November 1977, British
Activist
Hilary Mantel06 July 1952, British
Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Film critic, Poet
Cheryl Strayed17 September 1968, American
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder31 May 1945, German
Film maker
Jaron Lanier03 May 1960, American
Computer scientist, Composer, Programmer, Writer,
Neal Stephenson31 October 1959, American
Novelist
Robert Christgau18 April 1942, American
Journalist, Reporter, Essayist, Writer, Music
Pierre Bourdieu01 August 1930, French
Philosopher, Sociologist, Anthropologist,
Don DeLillo20 November 1936, American
Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist,
Elif Shafak25 October 1971, French, Turkish
Writer
Masaru Emoto22 July 1943, Japanese
Essayist, Writer
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Poet, Film director, Songwriter, Essayist,
Michael Chabon24 May 1963, American
Writer, Essayist, Screenwriter, Novelist,
Jonathan Franzen17 August 1959, American
Novelist
Edsger W. Dijkstra11 May 1930, Netherlands Antilles, Dutch
Computer scientist
Robert Anton Wilson18 January 1932, American
Writer, Novelist, Philosopher, Essayist,
James Ellroy04 March 1948, American
Writer
Sarah Vowell27 December 1969, American
Historian
Ishmael Reed22 February 1938, American
Poet
Samuel R. Delany01 April 1942, American
Writer
Italo Calvino15 October 1923, Italian, American
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Reporter,
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Harry Turtledove14 June 1949, American
Novelist
Janet Frame28 August 1924, New Zealander
Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Writer, Short story
Taslima Nasrin25 August 1962, Bangladeshi
Poet, Physician, Novelist, Essayist, Writer,
Guy Debord28 December 1931, French
Film maker, Artist, Philosopher, Film director,
Madeleine L'Engle29 November 1918, American
Author
John Perry Barlow03 October 1947, American
Poet
Tom Robbins22 July 1932, American
Writer
Edward Abbey29 January 1927, American
Essayist
Rebecca Solnit24 June 1961, American
Writer
Jim Harrison11 December 1937, American
Poet
Marilynne Robinson26 November 1943, American
Novelist
John Gregory Dunne25 May 1932, American
Novelist
Jean Rhys24 August 1890, Dominican, British
Writer
Linda Moulton Howe20 January 1942, American
Journalist, Essayist
Fredric Jameson14 April 1934, American
Essayist, Political scientist, Writer, Professor,
Daniel Tammet31 January 1979, British
Writer
Kenzaburō Ōe31 January 1935, Japanese
Writer