| Goodman Ace | 1899 - 1982 |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930 |
| Annie Adams Fields | 1834 - 1915 |
| Douglas Adams | 1952 - 2001 |
| Phillip Adams | 1939 |
| Joseph Addison | 1672 - 1719 |
| Robert Aitken | 1917 |
| Mitch Albom | 1958 |
| Richard Aldington | 1892 - 1962 |
| Brian Aldiss | 1925 |
| Sholom Aleichem | 1859 - 1916 |
| Lloyd Alexander | 1924 |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966 |
| Leonard Alfred George Strong | 1896 - 1958 |
| William R. Alger | 1823 - 1905 |
| Alphonse Allais | 1854 - 1905 |
| Isabel Allende | 1942 |
| Margery Allingham | 1889 - 1966 |
| Dorothy Allison | 1949 |
| Steve Almond | |
| Stewart Alsop | |
| Eric Alterman | 1960 |
| Jorge Amado | 1912 - 2001 |
| Eric Ambler | 1909 - 1998 |
| Dave Anderson | 1929 |
| Kevin J. Anderson | 1962 |
| Poul Anderson | 1926 - 2001 |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876 - 1941 |
| Walter Anderson | 1885 - 1962 |
| Wes Anderson | 1969 |
| Ivo Andric | 1892 - 1975 |
| Norman Angell | 1872 - 1967 |
| Roger Angell | 1920 |
| Harriet Ann Jacobs | 1813 - 1897 |
| Charles Anthon | 1797 - 1867 |
| Katharine Anthony | 1877 - 1965 |
| Piers Anthony | 1934 |
| Antiphanes | 408 BC - 334 BC |
| Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 |
| Michael Arlen | 1895 - 1956 |
| Karen Armstrong | 1909 |
| Roger Ascham | 1515 - 1568 |
| Issac Asimov | 1920 - 1992 |
| Mary Astell | 1666 - 1731 |
| Eileen Atkins | 1934 |
| John Aubrey | 1626 - 1697 |
| Jean M. Auel | 1936 |
| Erich Auerbach | 1892 - 1957 |
| Jane Austen | 1775 - 1817 |
| Mary Austin | 1868 - 1934 |
| George Axelrod | 1922 - 2003 |
| Nathan Bailey | |
| Fredrik Bajer | 1837 - 1922 |
| Monica Baldwin | |
| Iain Banks | 1954 |
| Amiri Baraka | 1934 |
| Robert Barclay | 1648 - 1690 |
| Clive Barker | 1952 |
| Julian Barnes | 1946 |
| William Barnes | 1801 - 1886 |
| Georges Bataille | 1897 - 1962 |
| Otto Bauer | 1881 - 1938 |
| Greg Bear | 1951 |
| Ann Beattie | 1947 |
| Melody Beattie | |
| Warren Bennis | |
| Stella Benson | 1892 - 1933 |
| Alexander Berkman | 1870 - 1936 |
| Al Bernstein | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1940 |
| Henry Beston | |
| Bruno Bettelheim | 1903 - 1990 |
| Peter Bichsel | 1935 |
| Isabella Bird | 1831 - 1904 |
| Susan Blackmore | 1951 |
| Robert Bloch | 1917 - 1994 |
| Roy Blount, Jr. | 1941 |
| Ludwig Borne | 1786 - 1837 |
| Randolph Bourne | 1886 |
| Kay Boyle | 1902 - 1992 |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920 |
| Ernest Bramah | 1868 - 1942 |
| Max Brand | 1892 - 1944 |
| Dorothea Brande | 1893 - 1948 |
| Dorthea Brande | |
| Richard Brautigan | 1935 - 1984 |
| Gerald Brenan | 1894 - 1987 |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939 |
| Susie Bright | 1958 |
| Vera Brittain | 1893 - 1970 |
| Hermann Broch | 1886 - 1951 |
| Terry Brooks | 1944 |
| Claude Brown | 1937 - 2002 |
| Eric Brown | 1960 |
| Harry Browne | 1933 - 2006 |
| Wilson Bryan Key | |
| Eustace Budgell | 1686 - 1737 |
| Thomas Bulfinch | 1796 - 1867 |
| Emma Bull | 1954 |
| David D. Burns | |
| Augusten Burroughs | 1909 |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914 - 1997 |
| Robert Burton | 1577 - 1640 |
| Candace Bushnell | 1959 |
| Octavia Butler | 1947 - 2006 |
| Robert Byron | 1905 - 1941 |
| Toni Cade Bambara | 1939 - 1995 |
| Charles Caleb Colton | 1780 - 1832 |
| Ada Cambridge | 1844 - 1926 |
| John W. Campbell | 1910 - 1971 |
| Karel Capek | 1890 - 1938 |
| Andreas Capellanus | |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888 - 1955 |
| Robert Caro | 1935 |
| Liz Carpenter | 1920 |
| Forrest Carter | 1925 - 1979 |
| Raymond Carver | 1938 - 1988 |
| Neal Cassady | 1926 - 1968 |
| Carlos Castaneda | 1931 |
| Carlos Castenada | 1925 - 1998 |
| Margaret Cavendish | 1623 - 1673 |
| David Cecil | 1902 - 1986 |
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1894 - 1961 |
| Henry Chadwick | 1824 - 1908 |
| Robert Chambers | 1802 - 1871 |
| Whittaker Chambers | 1901 - 1961 |
| Nicolas Chamfort | 1741 - 1794 |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888 - 1959 |
| Jung Chang | 1952 |
| William Chappell | 1809 - 1888 |
| Leslie Charteris | 1907 - 1993 |
| Stuart Chase | |
| John Cheever | 1912 - 1982 |
| Marc Cherry | 1962 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874 - 1936 |
| Lee Child | 1954 |
| Joseph Chilton Pearce | |
| Frank Chodorov | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890 - 1976 |
| Henry Christopher Bailey | |
| Clement Clarke Moore | 1779 - 1863 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 |
| John Clellon Holmes | 1926 - 1988 |
| Hal Clement | 1922 - 2003 |
| Andrew Cohen | 1955 |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826 - 1890 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859 - 1930 |
| Joe Conason | |
| Pat Conroy | 1945 |
| Benjamin Constant | 1767 - 1830 |
| Peter Cook | 1937 - 1995 |
| Mason Cooley | |
| Caroline B. Cooney | 1947 |
| Alan Coren | 1939 |
| Richard Corliss | |
| Patricia Cornwell | 1956 |
| Julio Cortazar | 1914 - 1984 |
| Douglas Coupland | 1961 |
| Richard Cowper | 1926 - 2002 |
| Stephen Crane | |
| Robert Cringely | |
| Quentin Crisp | 1908 - 1999 |
| Harry Crosby | 1898 - 1929 |
| Catherine Crowe | 1800 - 1876 |
| John Crowley | 1942 |
| Martin Cruz Smith | 1942 |
| Ely Culbertson | 1891 - 1955 |
| Michael Cunningham | 1952 |
| Will Cuppy | 1884 - 1949 |
| Richard Curtis | 1956 |
| Clive Cussler | 1931 |
| Robert A. Dahl | 1915 |
| Rene Daumal | 1908 - 1944 |
| Guy Davenport | 1927 - 2005 |
| Elizabeth David | 1913 - 1992 |
| Robyn Davidson | 1950 |
| Paul Davies | 1946 |
| Christopher Dawson | 1889 - 1970 |
| Barbara de Angelis | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908 - 1986 |
| Alain de Botton | 1969 |
| Jean de Brunhoff | 1899 - 1937 |
| Richard de Bury | 1907 - 1907 |
| Michel De Certeau | |
| Nicolas de Chamfort | 1741 - 1794 |
| Malcolm De Chazal | 1902 - 1981 |
| Edmond de Goncourt | 1822 - 1896 |
| Jan de Hartog | 1914 - 2002 |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | 1613 - 1680 |
| Charles de Lint | 1951 |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850 - 1893 |
| Alfred de Musset | 1810 - 1857 |
| Anna de Noailles | 1876 - 1933 |
| Francisco de Quevedo | 1580 - 1645 |
| Roger de Rabutin | 1618 - 1693 |
| Madame de Sevigne | 1626 - 1696 |
| Madame de Stael | 1766 - 1817 |
| Bernard De Voto | 1897 - 1955 |
| Jeffery Deaver | 1950 |
| Guy Debord | 1931 - 1994 |
| Frank Deford | |
| Grazia Deledda | 1871 - 1936 |
| Nigel Dennis | 1912 - 1989 |
| Lester Dent | 1904 - 1959 |
| Savitri Devi | 1905 - 1982 |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928 - 1982 |
| Monica Dickens | 1915 - 1992 |
| Jonathan Dimbleby | 1944 |
| Isak Dinesen | 1885 - 1962 |
| Leslie Dixon | |
| Anthony Doerr | 1909 |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | 1947 |
| Norman Douglas | 1868 - 1952 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen | 1897 - 1973 |
| Henry Drummond | 1851 - 1897 |
| Ann Druyan | 1949 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 1868 - 1963 |
| Diane Duane | 1952 |
| Andre Dubus | 1936 - 1999 |
| James Duff | |
| Gerald Durrell | 1925 - 1995 |
| Lawrence Durrell | 1912 - 1990 |
| Will Durst | |
| Monica Edwards | 1912 |
| Dave Eggers | 1970 |
| Ilya Ehrenburg | 1891 - 1967 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941 |
| Alfred Einstein | 1880 - 1952 |
| Charles Eliot Norton | 1827 - 1908 |
| Mary Elizabeth Lease | 1853 - 1933 |
| William Ellery Channing | 1780 - 1842 |
| Joseph J. Ellis | 1943 |
| Harlan Ellison | 1934 |
| James Ellroy | 1948 |
| Michael Ende | 1929 - 1995 |
| Garth Ennis | 1970 |
| Louise Erdrich | 1954 |
| Evan Esar | |
| Joe Eszterhas | 1944 |
| Clifton Fadiman | 1904 - 1999 |
| Nan Fairbrother | |
| Edward Fairfax | |
| Susan Faludi | 1959 |
| Eleanor Farjeon | 1881 - 1965 |
| Martin Farquhar Tupper | 1810 - 1889 |
| Charles Farrar Browne | 1834 - 1867 |
| Warren Farrell | 1943 |
| Bruce Feirstein | 1956 |
| Marilyn Ferguson | |
| Ernst Fischer | 1899 - 1972 |
| Stanley Fish | 1938 |
| Elizabeth Fishel | |
| M. F. K. Fisher | 1908 - 1992 |
| Zelda Fitzgerald | 1900 - 1948 |
| Andrew Fletcher | 1653 - 1716 |
| John Florio | 1553 - 1625 |
| Duncan Forbes | 1798 - 1868 |
| John M. Ford | 1957 - 2006 |
| Luke Ford | 1966 |
| Charles Fort | 1874 - 1932 |
| David Foster Wallace | 1962 |
| John Foxe | 1516 - 1587 |
| Mary Frances Berry | |
| Anne Frank | 1929 - 1945 |
| Miles Franklin | 1879 - 1954 |
| Clement Freud | 1924 |
| Rose Fyleman | 1877 - 1957 |
| Frank Gaffney | 1953 |
| Ernest Gaines | 1933 |
| Maggie Gallagher | |
| Paul Gallico | 1897 - 1976 |
| Marguerite Gardiner | 1789 - 1849 |
| Francois Gautier | 1950 |
| Theodor Geisel | 1904 - 1991 |
| Larry Gelbart | 1928 |
| John George Nicolay | 1832 - 1901 |
| W. L. George | 1882 - 1926 |
| Michael Gerber | 1969 |
| Paul Gerhardt | 1606 - 1676 |
| David Gerrold | 1944 |
| Ricky Gervais | 1961 |
| James Gibbons Huneker | |
| Wolcott Gibbs | 1902 - 1958 |
| Hutton Gibson | 1909 |
| William Gibson | 1948 |
| George Gilder | 1939 |
| Joseph Glanvill | 1636 - 1680 |
| Charles Godfrey Leland | 1824 - 1903 |
| William Godwin | 1756 - 1836 |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809 - 1852 |
| Bernard Goldberg | 1945 |
| Arthur Golden | 1956 |
| Harry Golden | 1902 - 1981 |
| Olivia Goldsmith | 1949 - 2004 |
| Michel Gondry | 1909 |
| Terry Goodkind | 1909 |
| Paul Goodman | 1911 - 1972 |
| Caroline Gordon | 1895 - 1981 |
| Mary Gordon | 1949 |
| Annie Gottlieb | 1946 |