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Josep Pla
Josep Pla (1897–1981) was a Catalan writer and journalist, a central figure of 20th-century Catalan literature whose diary El quadern gris is among the most esteemed works of autobiography in Catalan.
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, and Whig politician, co-wrote The Spectator with Richard Steele (274 of 555 papers), wrote Cato (1713), and set Johnson's model of the middle prose style.
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) was a French philologist and medievalist at the Collège de France known for Les Légendes épiques and his retelling of Tristan and Iseut.
Joseph Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский)
Joseph Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 1940–1996), Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 and US poet laureate 1991–1992. Born Leningrad, tried for parasitism, exiled 1972, wrote poetry in Russian and self-translated into English, died in New York, buried in Venice.
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac (born 1942) is an American poet, storyteller, and writer of Abenaki heritage whose more than 180 books center on Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Joseph Buttigieg
Joseph A. Buttigieg (1947–2019), Maltese-born American literary scholar and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of English at Notre Dame; editor-translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks critical edition (1992–2007), International Gramsci Society founding president, father of Pete Buttigieg.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Nałęcz Korzeniowski, 1857–1924), Polish-born British novelist and ex-merchant-marine captain who wrote in English, his third language; known for Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and Marlow.
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller (1923–1999), American novelist and WWII bombardier from Coney Island, Brooklyn; author of Catch-22 (1961), which sold over ten million copies, plus Something Happened, God Knows, and Closing Time.
Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996) was an American journalist and New Yorker staff writer whose profiles of New York street characters became famous; he published nothing after 1964 yet stayed on staff.
Joseph Mundassery
Joseph Mundassery (1903–1977) was a Malayalam literary critic, author of Kavya Peetika and theorist of Roopabhadrata, who served as Kerala's first Minister for Education in the E.M.S. Namboodiripad ministry.
Joseph Plunkett
Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916), Irish poet, journalist, and Easter Rising leader; signatory of the Proclamation, IRB director of military operations, author of The Circle and the Sword and 'I See His Blood Upon the Rose'.
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth (Moses Joseph Roth, 1894–1939), Austrian-Jewish novelist and journalist from Brody, Galicia; author of The Radetzky March (1932) and Job; Frankfurter Zeitung feuilletonist, Paris exile from 1933.
Joseph Victor Widmann
Joseph Victor Widmann (1842–1911) was a Swiss journalist, poet, and leading literary critic who edited the feuilleton of Bern's Der Bund from 1880 until his death.
Joseph von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) was a German lyric poet and novelist of the Romantic movement, born in Silesia, best known for the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts.
Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh (1937–2025), American crime writer and former LAPD detective sergeant, author of The New Centurions, The Onion Field, and The Blooding, creator of Police Story, and reinventer of the police novel.
Joseph Zobel
Joseph Zobel (1915–2006) was a Martinican novelist and poet best known for La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950), adapted by Euzhan Palcy into the 1983 film Rue Cases-Nègres.
Josh Silver (author)
Josh Silver (born 1989, Lake District) is an English author, RADA-trained actor turned mental health nurse, writer of the HappyHead YA dystopian series, Traumaland (YA Book Prize 2026 winner), and the 2026 adult debut bestseller Fruit Fly, optioned by A24. Distinct from other people named Josh Silver.
Joshua Braff
Joshua Braff (born 1967) is an American novelist, brother of actor Zach Braff, author of The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green (2004), Peep Show (2010), and the self-published The Daddy Diaries (2015).
Joshua John Miller
Joshua John Miller (born 1974, Los Angeles) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director, son of Jason Miller of The Exorcist; child star of River's Edge and Near Dark, co-writer of The Final Girls, director of The Exorcism (2024).
Joshua Williamson
Joshua Williamson (born 1981, Portland, Oregon) is an American comic book writer of The Flash, Superman, Dark Crisis, Nailbiter, Birthright, and Skybound's G.I. Joe, distinct from the evangelist and other namesakes.
Josip Jurčič
Josip Jurčič (1844–1881) was a Slovenian writer, journalist, and editor, regarded as the first great Slovenian narrator and author of the first Slovenian novel, Deseti brat (1866).
Josip Kosor
Josip Kosor (1879–1961) was a Croatian dramatist and short-story writer, called the Croatian Maxim Gorky, whose expressionist play Požar strasti reached German stages in 1911.
Josué Guimarães
Josué Guimarães (1921–1986) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the trilogy A Ferro e Fogo on German colonization.
Josué Montello
Josué Montello, full name Josué de Sousa Montello (1917–2006), was a Brazilian novelist and journalist best known for Os tambores de São Luís (1975), a novel on slavery.
Jotamario Arbeláez
Jotamario Arbeláez, pen name of José Mario Arbeláez Ramos (born 1940, Cali), is a Colombian poet who led the Nadaísmo movement in Cali and won national poetry prizes.
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay (ဂျာနယ်ကျော် မမလေး), born Ma Tin Hlaing, was a Burmese writer and publisher known for the novels Not Out of Hate and Thway.
Jovan Dučić
Jovan Dučić (Јован Дучић, 1871–1943) was a Serbian poet and career diplomat born near Trebinje, a leading figure of Serbian Symbolism and the first ambassador in Yugoslav diplomatic history.
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Јован Јовановић Змај) was a Serbian poet and physician who laid the foundations of Serbian children's poetry; he also edited the satirical magazine Zmaj.
Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić (Јован Скерлић) was a Serbian literary historian and critic, professor at the University of Belgrade, editor of Srpski književni glasnik, and advocate of Yugoslav unity.
Joy Davidman
Joy Davidman (Helen Joy Davidman Gresham, 1915–1960), American poet and novelist, Yale Younger Poets winner for Letter to a Comrade; wife of C. S. Lewis from 1956, subject of Shadowlands, and author of Smoke on the Mountain.