Alphabetical list by country: Please click on name or question mark to add factual information.
- Australia
- Jessica Anderson
- Thea Astley
- Murray Bail
- Carmel Bird
- Rolf Boldrewood
- Peter Carey
- Marcus Clarke
- James Clavell
- Richard Flanagan
- David Foster
- Miles Franklin
- Joseph Furphy
- Helen Garner
- Peter Goldsworthy
- Kerry Greenwood
- Kate Grenville
- Xavier Herbert
- Dorothy Hewett
- George Johnston
- Elizabeth Jolley
- Thomas Keneally
- Frank Moorhouse
- Gerald Murnane
- Henry Handel Richardson
- Christina Stead
- Tim Winton
- Amy Witting
- Austria (see also German literature)
- Brazil
- Canada
- Margaret Atwood
- Pierre Berton
- Robertson Davies
- C.J. Everon = See also: France
- Timothy Findley = See also: France
- Mavis Gallant = See also: France
- Arthur Hailey
- Nancy Huston= See also: France
- Robert N.Kucey
- Malcolm Lowry
- Alistair MacLeod
- Rohinton Mistry
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Alice Munro
- Michael Ondaatje
- Mordecai Richler
- David Adams Richards
- Gabrielle Roy
- Carol Shields
- Jane Urquhart
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Cosmopolitan
- Denmark
- Egypt
- England
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Jeffrey Archer
- Jane Austen
- J.G. Ballard
- Arnold Bennett
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- John Bunyan
- Anthony Burgess
- Samuel Butler
- Lewis Carroll
- Joseph Conrad
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Lawrence Durrell
- George Eliot
- Ian McEwan
- Henry Fielding
- Ford Madox Ford
- E. M. Forster
- Neil Gaiman
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Stella Gibbons
- William G. Golding
- Robert Graves
- Graham Greene
- Thomas Hardy
- William Horwood
- Aldous Huxley
- Christopher Isherwood
- Rudyard Kipling
- Arthur Koestler
- D. H. Lawrence
- C. S. Lewis
- William Somerset Maugham
- George Meredith
- George Orwell
- Ouida, (1839-1908)
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Terry Pratchett
- J.B. Priestley
- Barbara Pym
- Samuel Richardson
- Sax Rohmer
- J.K. Rowling
- Dorothy Sayers
- Will Self
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Anthony Trollope
- Evelyn Waugh
- Mary Webb
- H. G. Wells
- T.H. White
- Angus Wilson
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf
- France
- Honore de Balzac
- Albert Camus
- Louis Ferdinand Céline
- Gilbert Cesbron
- Emilie du Chatelet
- Colette
- Denis Diderot
- Alexandre Dumas
- C.J. Everon = See also: Canada
- Timothy Findley = See also: Canada
- Mavis Gallant = See also: Canada
- Nancy Huston = See also: Canada
- Andre Gide
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Gustave Flaubert
- Victor Hugo
- Alfred Jarry
- Choderlos de Laclos
- Andre Malraux
- Georges Perec
- Abbe Prevost
- Marcel Proust
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Marquis de Sade
- Georges Sand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Gertrude Stein = See also: United States
- Stendhal
- Jules Verne
- Voltaire
- Emile Zola
- Germany (see also German literature)
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Peru
- Portugal
- Russia
- Scotland
- Turkey
- United States
- Kathy Acker
- Henry Adams
- Louisa May Alcott
- Nelson Algren
- Sherwood Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Paul Auster
- Richard Bach
- James Baldwin
- Charles Baxter
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- Pearl S. Buck
- William S. Burroughs
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott Card
- Willa Cather
- Kate Chopin
- Tom Clancy
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Charles Cotton
- Douglas Coupland
- Stephen Crane
- Don Delillo
- Theodore Dreiser
- Louise Erdrich
- Ben K. Green
- John Dos Passos
- Ralph Ellison
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John Grisham
- Alex Haley
- Dashiell Hammett
- Barry Hannah
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John Irving
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- James Jones
- Jack Kerouac
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Murray Leinster
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Stephen King
- Norman Mailer
- David Mamet
- Frank McCourt
- Carson McCullers
- John D. MacDonald
- Larry McMurtry
- Herman Melville
- James Michener
- Henry Miller
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Flannery O'Connor
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ayn Rand
- Harold Robbins
- Tom Robbins
- Mike Royko
- J. D. Salinger
- Upton Sinclair
- Danielle Steel
- Gertrude Stein = See also: France
- John Steinbeck
- Amy Tan
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Studs Terkel
- Harry Turtledove
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- David Foster Wallace
- E.B. White
- Edith Wharton
- Tom Wolf
- Thomas Wolfe
- Wales
- English Language
- Welsh Language
- Yugoslavia
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