Authors by country of birth
M.L. Rio
American writer, has a master's degree in Shakespeare studies awarded by King's College in London.
Rick Riordan
American writer, best known for being the author of the Percy Jackson saga and the Olymo gods, Olymo Heroes.
Alexandra Ripley
She was an American writer better known as Scarlett's author (1991), written as a sequel to What the wind took away
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick James Rothfuss is an American fantasy writer and assistant professor of English literature and philology at the University of Wisconsin.
Patrick Ryan
Patrick Eugene Ryan (born in Washington, D.C., in 1965) is an American novelist and short story writer raised in Florida. His books include Send Me, T...
Steven Saylor
American writer of historical novel. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied history and classics.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American writer. His best known work is Hyperion, winner of the Hugo and Locus science fiction awards.
Upton Sinclair
American writer, famous for "The Jungle," which exposes the conditions of the meat industry.
Betty Smith
American novelist, who achieved international fame and success with his 1943 best seller A tree grows in Brooklyn.
Art Spiegelman
From the underground, he became in the early 1980s one of the most influential alternative historians in his country, both for his own work ("Maus") a...
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of well-known novels such as Mice and Men, The grape...
Elizabeth Strout
She's an American fiction writer. In 2009 he won the Pulitzer Fiction Award for his novel Olive Kitteridge, a collection of stories about a woman, her...
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is a renowned American writer, known for her well-developed novels and her distinctive literary style.
Amor Towles
Novelista estadounidense conocido por sus elegantes novelas históricas y su estilo narrativo refinado. Estudió en la Universidad de Yale y posteriorme...
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, was a popular American writer, speaker and humorist.
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer, famous for "Matadero 5," known for his satirical style and science fiction.
Irving Wallace
In addition to his journalistic works and his screenplays for film and television, the works that gave Irving Wallace the most fame have been his nove...
Lewis Wallace
He was an American lawyer, military, political, diplomat and writer, known for being the author of Ben-Hur.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, single Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was an American writer and designer.
