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Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899), was a Brazilian military engineer, politician, historian, and novelist born in Rio de Janeiro, best known for the regionalist novel Inocência (1872).
Alfredo Espino
Alfredo Espino, in full Edgardo Alfredo Espino Najarro, was a Salvadoran lyric poet (1900–1928) whose single posthumous book, Jícaras tristes, became required reading in Salvadoran schools.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English Victorian poet and critic, Pre-Raphaelite associate, author of Atalanta in Calydon (1865) and the scandalous Poems and Ballads (1866), advocate of art for art's sake.
Algonquin Round Table
The Algonquin Round Table, or Vicious Circle, was a New York literary luncheon group of writers, critics, actors, and press agents, including Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Harold Ross, that met daily at the Algonquin Hotel from June 1919 into the late 1920s, famous for the wit disseminated through Franklin P. Adams's column The Conning Tower and the 1922 revue No Sirree!.
Ali Ahmad Bakathir
Ali Ahmad Bakathir (علي أحمد باكثير; 1910–1969) was a Hadrami-born Egyptian poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in Egypt and led the twentieth-century Islamic historical novel in Arabic.
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (c. 1879–1956) was an Iranian lexicographer and satirical journalist who spent over forty years compiling the Loghat-nama, a monumental Persian dictionary of over 343,000 entries.
Ali al-Jarim
Ali al-Jarim (علي الجارم, 1881–1949) was an Egyptian poet, prose writer, and educator who served as chief inspector of Arabic in Egypt and co-wrote the grammar series al-Nahw al-Wadih.
Ali Haider
Ali Haider (علی حیدر, Ali Haider Multani) was a Punjabi and Seraiki Sufi poet of the Punjab, 1690 to 1785, known for his si-harfi verse.
Ali Mahmud Taha
Ali Mahmud Taha (علي محمود طه) was an Egyptian Romantic poet of the Apollo school, nicknamed the Poet of the Gondola for his poem "Al-Jundul".
Ali Novak
Ali Novak, pen name of Alexandra DeWalt, is an American young adult romance author best known for My Life with the Walter Boys, adapted by Netflix in 2023.
Ali Sardar Jafri
Ali Sardar Jafri (علی سردار جعفری) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and filmmaker, a leading figure of the Progressive Writers' Movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1997.
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born 1952), American novelist, author of Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and The Marriage of Opposites, known for magical realism, women-centered fiction, and the Anne Frank novel When We Flew Away.
Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves (1852-1934), daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; met Dodgson in 1856, boat trip 4 July 1862, received the Under Ground manuscript 1864, married Reginald Hargreaves 1880.
Alice Munro
Alice Munro (1931–2024), Canadian short story writer, Nobel Literature 2013, first Canadian woman laureate. Author of 14 story collections including Dance of the Happy Shades and Dear Life, set in rural southwestern Ontario.
Alice Oseman
Alice Oseman (born 1994) is a British author, illustrator, and screenwriter, creator of the Heartstopper webcomic, graphic novel series, and Emmy-winning Netflix adaptation, and author of the YA novels Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless.
Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold (born 1963), American novelist and memoirist, author of Lucky, The Lovely Bones, and The Almost Moon, all #1 New York Times bestsellers; known for the 2021 exoneration of Anthony Broadwater.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker (born 1944), American novelist, poet, and activist from Eatonton, Georgia; author of The Color Purple (1982), the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, also winner of the 1983 National Book Award.
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Alicia Gaspar de Alba (born 1958) is an American Chicana novelist, poet, and scholar. A UCLA professor since 1994, she wrote Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders and Sor Juana's Second Dream.
Alicia Ghiragossian
Alicia Ghiragossian (Armenian: Կիրակոսյան), born Alisia Kirakosyan, was an Argentinian-Armenian poet and translator who wrote in Spanish, Armenian, and English and died in Los Angeles in 2014.
Alioum Fantouré
Alioum Fantouré is the pen name of Mohammed Touré, a Guinean French-language novelist and economist born in 1938 whose fiction denounces dictatorship in post-independence Africa.
Alioune Diop
Alioune Diop (1910–1980) was a Senegalese intellectual and publisher who founded the journal and publishing house Présence Africaine in Paris in 1947, organizing the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists.
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel (born 1960) is an American cartoonist, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008), author of Fun Home, and namesake of the Bechdel test for gender representation in film.
Alison Espach
Alison Espach, American novelist and Providence College creative writing professor, author of The Adults (2011), Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (2022), and the New York Times bestseller The Wedding People (2024), a ReadwithJenna pick and Goodreads Choice Award winner.
Alison Tyler
Alison Tyler is an American erotica author, editor, and publisher (also writing category romance as Elise Title), known for the Erotic Alphabet series, Best Bondage Erotica anthologies, and the Dark Secret Love BDSM trilogy.
Alka Saraogi
Alka Saraogi (अलका सरावगी), born 1960, is an Indian novelist who writes in Hindi from Kolkata and won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for her first novel Kalikatha: Via Bypass.
Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston is a British-born author, editor, and writing teacher, daughter of Ricki Soma, John Huston, and John Julius Norwich. Known for the memoir Love Child (2009), the novel A Stolen Summer, and co-founding the Imaginative Storm writing method with James Navé.
Allen Curnow
Allen Curnow (Thomas Allen Monro Curnow, 1911 to 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist who wrote 21 volumes of poems and edited landmark anthologies of New Zealand verse.
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), American Beat poet, author of "Howl" (1956) and "Kaddish"; obscenity trial, National Book Award, Naropa co-founder, Stanford archive, 2026 centennial.
Allison Pataki
Allison Pataki (born 1984, New York) is an American novelist and former journalist, Yale English graduate, and New York Times bestselling author of eleven books including The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, Sisi: Empress on Her Own, and Finding Margaret Fuller.
Ally Louks
Ally Louks, born Amelia Mary Louks, is an English literary academic at Cambridge who studies smell and literature and went viral in 2024 when her PhD thesis drew mass abuse online.