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Author Last Name Index:
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B
- Bagnold, Enid
- Baldacci, David
- Baldwin, James
- Barker, Pat
- Barrie, J.M.
- Barth, John
- Baum, L. Frank
- Baxter, Stephen
- Bear, Greg
- Beckett, Samuel
- Bellow, Saul
- Bemelmans, Ludwig
- Benford, Gregory
- Bester, Alfred
- Bethke, Bruce
- Bishop, Michael
- Blake, Quentin
- Blake, William
- Blaylock., James P
- Blish, James
- Blume, Judy
- Blyton, Enid
- Bond, Michael
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- BONTEMPS, ARNA
- Bourdain, Anthony
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bradford, Barbara
- Brin, David
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Brookner, Anita
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brooks, Terry
- Brown, Dan
- Brown, Marc
- Brunner, John
- Bryan, Ashley
- Bryson, Bill
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Bujold, Lois McMaster
- Bukowski, Charles
- Burke, James Lee
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Burnford, Sheila
- Burns, Robert
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Butler, Octavia
- Byatt, A. S.
C
- Cadigan, Pat
- Caldecott, Randolph
- Cameron, W Bruce
- Campbell, Joseph
- Camus, Albert
- Card, Orson Scott
- Carey, Peter
- Carle, Eric
- Carnegie, Dale
- Carr, Emily
- Carroll, Lewis
- Cartland, Barbara
- Castaneda, Carlos
- Cather, Willa
- Cerf, Bennett
- Chabon, Michael
- Chandler, Raymond
- Cheever, John
- Cherryh., C. J.
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Child, Julia
- Child, Lee
- Chomsky, Noam
- Christie, Agatha
- Ciccone, Madonna
- Clancy, Tom
- Clark - Poet, Leonard
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Cleary, Beverly
- Clifton, Mark
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Colfer, Eoin
- Collins, Billy
- Collins, Wilkie
- Connelly, Michael
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Corsi, Jerome
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Crace, Jim
- Crocker, Betty
- Cunningham, Michael
- Cussler, Clive
D
- Dahl, Roald
- Davidson, Lionel
- Dawkins, Richard
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- De Brunhoff, Jean
- de Cervantes, Miguel
- de Lint, Charles
- de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Defoe, Daniel
- Delany, Samuel R.
- DeLillo, Don
- DeMille, Nelson
- Deveraux, Jude
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
- Dick, Philip K
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickey, James
- Dickinson, Emily
- Didion, Joan
- Dillard, Annie
- Dixon, Franklin W.
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Dorsey, Candas Jane
- Douglass, Frederick
- Doyle, Roddy
- Dr. Seuss
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Dumas, Henry
- Duncan, Dave
E
F
- Farmer, Philip Jose
- Faulkner, William
- Fauset, Jessie
- Ferber, Edna
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Field, Rachel
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Fitzgerald, Zelda
- Fleming, Ian
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Follett, Ken
- Ford, John M
- Ford, Richard
- Forsyth, Frederick
- Foucault, Michel
- Fox, Paula
- Francis, Dick
- Frankl, Viktor
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Frazier, Charles
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friedan, Betty
- Frost, Robert
- Fry, Stephen
G
- Gabaldon, Diana
- Gaboriau, Émile
- Gaddis, William
- Gag, Wanda
- Gaiman, Neil
- Gaines, Ernest
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Garrison, Jim
- George, Elizabeth
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Gibran, Kahlil
- Gibson, William
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Glasse, Hannah
- Gluck, Louise
- Golden, Christopher
- Golding, William
- Goldman, Emma
- Goldwater, Barry
- Goodkind, Terry
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Gorey, Edward
- Gotlieb, Phyllis
- Grafton, Sue
- Graham, Billy
- Grant, Richard
- Grau, Shirley Ann
- Greene, Graham
- Grey, Zane
- Griffith, Nicola
- Grimm, Brothers
- Grisham, John
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
- Gygax, Gary
H
- Habermas, Jurgen
- Haldeman, Joe
- Hale, Edward
- Hall, Radclyffe
- Hamilton, Laurell K.
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harris, Kamala
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Heaney, Seamus
- Heinlein, Robert A
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Henry, O
- Herbert, Frank
- Herbert, James
- Herge
- Herriot, James
- Hersey, John
- Hesse, Herman
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Hibbert, Eleanor
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Hill, Napoleon
- Hillerman, Tony
- Hinton, S.E.
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Hobb, Robin
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Hooks, Bell
- Horne, Charles
- Horwitz, Tony
- Hosseini, Khaled
- Howe, Julia
- Hubbard, L. Ron
- Hulme, Keri
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Huxley, Aldous
J
K
L
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- La Fountaine, George
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- le Carre, John
- Le Guin, Ursula
- Leaf, Munro
- Lee, Harper
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Leiber, Fritz
- Leon, Donna
- Leonard, Elmore
- Lesieg, Theo
- Lessing, Doris
- Lewis, C.S.
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lindsey, Hal
- Lindsey, Johanna
- Lofting, Hugh
- London, Jack
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lowrey, Janette Sebring
- Lucas, George
- Ludlum, Robert
- Lurie, Alison
M
- MacArthur, John F.
- MacDonald, George
- MacLachlan, Patricia
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Marquand, John Phillips
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Martel, Yann
- Marter, Ian
- Martin, Ann
- Martin, Malachi
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- McAuley, Paul J
- McBain, Ed
- McCaffrey, Anne
- McCarthy, Cormac
- McCloskey, Robert
- McDaniel, Lurlene
- McEwan, Ian
- McGuire, Seanan
- McKillip, Patricia A
- McMurtry, Larry
- McPherson, James Alan
- Melville, Herman
- Merton, Thomas
- Michener, James A.
- Mieville, China
- Millar, Margaret
- Milne, A A
- Mitchell, David
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Montgomery, L M
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud
- Morrison, Toni
- Moshfegh, Ottessa
- Munro, Alice
- Murdoch, Iris
- Murnane, Gerald
- Murphy, Pat
O
P
- Panshin, Alexei
- Paolini, Christopher
- Park, Barbara
- Parker, Robert B
- Patron, Susan
- Patterson, James
- Paulsen, Gary
- Penny, Louise
- Percy, Walker
- Perry, Anne
- Peters, Elizabeth
- Pfister, Marcus
- Piercy, Marge
- Pike, Christopher
- Piper, Watty
- Plath, Sylvia
- Plato
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pohl, Frederik
- Politi, Leo
- Poole, Ernest
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Potter, Beatrix
- Powers, Tim
- Pratchett, Terry
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Pullman, Philip
- Pyle, Howard
- Pynchon, Thomas
R
- Rand, Ayn
- Ransome, Arthur
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Rawls, Wilson
- Ray, Rachel
- Redmond, Eugene
- Rey, H A
- Rhys, Jean
- Rice, Anne
- Richter, Conrad
- Rinehart, Mary
- Riordan, Rick
- Roberts, Nora
- Roberts, Oral
- Robinson, Kim Stanley
- Rossetti, Christina
- Roth, Philip
- Rowling, J.K.
- Roy, Arundhati
- Rubens, Bernice
- Rucker, Rudy
- Rushdie, Salman
- Russell, Bertrand
- Russell, Mary Doria
- Ryman, Geoff
S
- Sachar, Louis
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Sagan, Carl
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sawyer, Robert J
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Sendak, Maurice
- Sewell, Anna
- Shaara, Michael
- Shakespeare, William
- Sheldon, Sidney
- Shields, Carol
- Silverberg, Robert
- Simak, Clifford D
- Simenon, Georges
- Simmons, Dan
- Sinclair, Upton
- Smiley, Jane
- Smith, Michael Marshall
- Smith, Wilbur
- Snicket, Lemony
- Sontag, Susan
- Sophocles
- Sparks, Kerrelyn
- Sparks, Nicholas
- Speare, Elizabeth George
- Spiegelman, Art
- Spinelli, Jerry
- Springsteen, Bruce
- Stafford, Jean
- Steadman, Ralph
- Steel, Danielle
- Stegner, Wallace
- Steinbeck, John
- Steiner, Rudolf
- Stephenson, Neal
- Sterling, Bruce
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Stewart, James B.
- Stewart, Sean
- Stine, R.L.
- Stone, Robert
- Strunk, William
- Styron, William
- Swanwick, Michael
- Swift, Graham
- Swift, Jonathan
T
V
W
- Wain, Louis
- Walcott, Derek
- Walker, Alice
- Wallace, Edgar
- Walton, Izaak
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Warren, Rick
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Weiss, Brian
- Wells, Helen
- Welty, Eudora
- Wentworth, Patricia
- West, Cornel
- West, Dorothy
- Wharton, Edith
- Wheatley, Phillis
- White, Elwyn Brooks
- Whitehead, Colson
- Whitney, Phyllis
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Wilder, Thornton
- Wilhelm, Kate
- Willems, Mo
- Williams, Margery
- Williams, Thomas Lanier
- Willis, Connie
- Wilson, Robert Charles
- Wolfe, Gene
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wolfe, Tom
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wordsworth, William
- Wortis, Edward Irving
- Wouk, Herman
- Wright, Charles