Douglas Adams
English writer and humorist, known mainly for his comic science fiction novel "The Guide to Galactic Self-Stopist." Adams also worked as a television ...
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Eric Ambler
British author of suspended novels, especially spy novels, which introduced a new realism in the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter and used the ...
Anselm Audley
He is a fantastic literature writer from the UK. He studied ancient and modern history, and while he was in secondary education he began writing the e...
Christina Baker Kline
She's an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and is a co-author or editor of five non-fiction books.
J.M. Barrie
He was a Scottish novelist and playwright. Although he wrote 20 novels and more than 30 plays, his fame is due especially to the creation of the chara...
Mary Beard
English academic specializing in classical studies. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge, and a professor of ancient literature at the Roy...
Louis Berniéres (de)
Graduated at Victoria University in Manchester, he became famous for his novel "The Mandolin of Captain Corelli," with which he won the Commonwealth W...
Enyd Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton Pollock Darrell Waters, born Enid Mary Blyton, was an English writer of children's literature who signed 762 youth works, both with h...
Anthony Burgess
He was a British writer and composer, who performed a prolific literary and musical work, being generally known for the novel A Clockwork Orange in 19...
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known for his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican, logical, mathematician, photographer and British writer.
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British Catholic writer, philosopher and journalist from the early 20th century. He cultivated, among other genres, the...
Lee Child
Lee Child, pseudonym for Jim Grant, is a British thriller writer. The protagonist of his novels is Jack Reacher, a former U.S. military police officer...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known by the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specializing in police, for whose w...
Arthur Charles Clarke
British writer and scientist. Author of scientific and science fiction outreach works, such as the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sentinel or Rama C...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He was an English poet, critic and philosopher, one of the founders, along with his friend William Wordsworth, of Romanticism in England -
Wilkie Collins
Born in London in 1824, he is recognized as one of the creators of the genre of the police novel. Author of "The Lady of White" and "The Moon Stone," ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and doctor, creator of the famous fiction detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose w...
Louise Cooper
Louise Cooper was a British writer of fantastic literature, recognized for her imaginative and poetic style, as well as her ability to create worlds o...
Bernard Cornwell
Novelist and English journalist, born in London in 1944, son of a Canadian aviator and a component of the Women's Assistant Air Force of Great Britain...
Roald Dahl
Novelist and author of British stories of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for children and adults. Author of jewels such as "Charlie and the cho...