Find out more about the greatest 20th Century Novelists, including William Gibson, Lady Colin Campbell, J. K. Rowling, Roald Dahl and David Foster Wallace
George R. R. Martin20 September 1948, American
Screenwriter, Novelist
Toni Morrison18 February 1931, American
Novelist
J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892, British, South African
Writer
Ernest Hemingway21 July 1899, American
Journalist
J. K. Rowling31 July 1965, British
Author
Neil Gaiman10 November 1960, British
Author
George Orwell25 June 1903, British
Writer
Hunter S. Thompson18 July 1937, American
Journalist and Author
Leonard Cohen21 September 1934, Canadian
Singer-songwriter
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919, Indian
Writer
Roald Dahl13 September 1916, British, Welsh
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Margaret Atwood18 November 1939, Canadian
Writer, Environmental Activist
Dr. Seuss02 March 1904, American
Writer, Cartoonist
Truman Capote30 September 1924, American
Author
Kurt Vonnegut11 November 1922, American
American writer
Charles Bukowski16 August 1920, German, American
Poet
David Foster Wallace21 February 1962, American
Writer
John Steinbeck27 February 1902, American
Author
Haruki Murakami12 January 1949, Japanese
Tom Clancy12 April 1947, American
Novelist
James Baldwin02 August 1924, American
Novelist
Ian Fleming28 May 1908, British
Author of James Bond Series
Philip K. Dick16 December 1928, American
Novelist
J. D. Salinger01 January 1919, American
Writer
R. K. Narayan10 October 1906, Indian
H. G. Wells21 September 1866, British
Writer
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Harper Lee28 April 1926, American
Novelist
John Grisham08 February 1955, American
American writer
Nicholas Sparks31 December 1965, American
Novelist
Ray Bradbury22 August 1920, American
Writer
William S. Burroughs05 February 1914, American
Novelist, Short Story Writer
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Paulo Coelho24 August 1947, Brazilian
Brazilian lyricist
Lucy Hawking02 November 1970, British
Journalist, Novelist, Writer
Richard Belzer04 August 1944, American
Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Author
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
James Patterson22 March 1947, American
Writer
Zelda Fitzgerald24 July 1900, American
Novelist
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Simone de Beauvoir09 January 1908, French
Writer
George Kennedy18 February 1925, American
Actor
Bruce Boxleitner12 May 1950, American
Actor
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn11 December 1918, Russian, Russian
Author
Chinua Achebe16 November 1930, Nigerian
Nigerian novelist
Shirley Jackson14 December 1916, American
Author
Chuck Palahniuk21 February 1962, American
Novelist & Journalist
Kazuo Ishiguro08 November 1954, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Khushwant Singh02 February 1915, Indian
Novelist, Lawyer, Journalist & Politician
Dirk Blocker31 July 1957, American
Actor
Dee Dee Ramone18 September 1951, American
Musician
Dalton Trumbo09 December 1905, American
Screenwriter, Novelist
Philip Roth19 March 1933, American
Novelist
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
William Gibson17 March 1948, Canadian, American
Speculative Fiction Writer
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Umberto Eco05 January 1932, Italian
Italian Semiotician, Philosopher
Danielle Steel14 August 1947, American
Novelist
Sterling Hayden26 March 1916, American
Actor
Harlan Ellison27 May 1934, American
Writer
Robert E. Howard22 January 1906, American
Pulp Fiction Writer
Khaled Hosseini04 March 1965, American
Novelist
Mona Simpson14 June 1957, American
Author
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Martha Gellhorn08 November 1908, American
Journalist & Writer
Isabel Allende02 August 1942, Chilean, Peruvian, American
Writer
Bernard Cornwell23 February 1944, British
Author of Historical Novels
V. S. Naipaul17 August 1932, British
Writer
Mulk Raj Anand12 December 1905, Indian
Jhumpa Lahiri11 July 1967, British, American
Writer
Milan Kundera01 April 1929, Czech, French
Writer
Anthony Burgess25 February 1917, British
William Golding19 September 1911, British
Novelist
Alain de Botton20 December 1969, Swiss, British
Author
John Irving02 March 1942, American
Tove Jansson09 August 1914, Finnish
Novelist
Vikram Seth20 June 1952, Indian
Writer
Philip Larkin09 August 1922, British
Poet
J. M. Coetzee09 February 1940, South African
Novelist, Author
Saul Bellow10 June 1915, American
Novelist
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
James A. Michener03 February 1907, American
Nick Hornby17 April 1957, British
Author & Editor
Anne Morrow Lindbergh22 June 1906, American
Renowned Author & Aviator
Panio Gianopoulos07 July 1975, American
Author
Larry McMurtry03 June 1936, American
Novelist
Orhan Pamuk07 June 1952, Turkish
José Saramago16 November 1922, Portuguese
Writer
Michael Ondaatje12 September 1943, Canadian
Canadian poet
Leonora Carrington06 April 1917, Mexican
Mexican Artist & Surrealist Painter
John Cheever27 May 1912, American
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Marjane Satrapi22 November 1969, French, Iranian
Graphic Novelist
Pat Conroy26 October 1945, American
Writer
Romain Gary21 May 1914, French
Diplomat
R. A. Salvatore20 January 1959, American
Novelist
Edward Gorey22 February 1925, American
Jill Gascoine11 April 1937, British
Actress