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Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan poet, novelist, and playwright of the Generación del 45 whose colloquial verse and 1960 novel La tregua brought international fame.
Mário de Andrade
Mário de Andrade (Mário Raul de Morais Andrade) was a Brazilian poet and novelist, a central figure of modernism and the 1922 Modern Art Week in São Paulo.
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890–1916) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and short-story writer who died by suicide in Paris at 26, a principal figure of the magazine Orpheu, which introduced modernism to Portugal.
Mário Faustino
Mário Faustino (1930, Teresina – 1962) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and critic who published one book of poems, O homem e sua hora, in 1955.
Mário Filho
Mário Filho, full name Mário Rodrigues Filho (1908–1966), was a Brazilian sports journalist credited with inventing sports journalism in Brazil; Rio's Maracanã stadium bears his name.
Mario Levrero
Mario Levrero was the pen name of Uruguayan novelist Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero (1940–2004), whose cult books include the involuntary trilogy, El discurso vacío, and La novela luminosa.
Mario Monteforte Toledo
Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911–2003) was a Guatemalan writer, sociologist, and politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala and wrote more than fifty works of fiction and essay.
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1920-1999), American novelist and screenwriter of The Godfather (1969), which sold over 21 million copies; he co-wrote the three Godfather screenplays with Coppola, winning two Oscars, and also wrote The Sicilian, The Last Don, and Superman.
Mário Quintana
Mário Quintana, full name Mario de Miranda Quintana, was a Brazilian poet and translator of Brazilian Modernism, known for short, ironic, formally simple verse until his death in 1994.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025), Peruvian-Spanish novelist of the Latin American Boom, Nobel laureate 2010, author of La ciudad y los perros and La fiesta del Chivo, and 1990 Peruvian presidential candidate.
Marion Chesney
Marion Chesney (Marion McChesney, 1936-2019), also M.C. Beaton, Scottish novelist of over 100 Regency romances under multiple pseudonyms and creator of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mystery series.
Marion Wiesel
Marion Wiesel (Mary Renate Erster, 1931–2025), Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and translator; translated fourteen of Elie Wiesel's books including the 2006 Night, co-founded his Foundation, received the Legion of Honor.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American science fiction and fantasy author of the Darkover series and The Mists of Avalon; also editor of Sword and Sorceress; reputation later damaged by abuse allegations.
Marissa Stapley
Marissa Stapley is a Canadian novelist and journalist, author of five novels including the bestselling Lucky (2021), a Reese's Book Club pick adapted for Apple TV.
Marja-Liisa Vartio
Marja-Liisa Vartio, born Marja-Liisa Sairanen (1924–1966), was a Finnish poet and prose writer among the central modernists of 1950s Finnish literature, best known for her posthumous novel Hänen olivat linnut (1967).
Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov (Марк Александрович Алданов), born Mark Aleksandrovich Landau, was a Russian émigré novelist and trained chemist, best known for fiction and essays bitterly critical of the Soviet system.
Mark Greaney (novelist)
Mark Greaney (born 1968, Memphis) is the #1 New York Times bestselling American thriller novelist behind the Gray Man series starring Court Gentry, adapted by Netflix in 2022, and author or co-author of seven Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels.
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 1962, Northampton) is an English novelist, poet, and screenwriter; author of Whitbread-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and Microsoap, living in Oxford.
Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin (born 1947) is an American novelist and political essayist, author of Winter's Tale (1983), A Soldier of the Great War, and Paris in the Present Tense; PEN/Faulkner and Prix de Rome winner, Dole 1996 speechwriter.
Mark Judge (writer)
Mark Judge (Mark Gauvreau Judge, born 1964) is an American writer in Washington, D.C., author of the alcoholism memoir Wasted, Damn Senators, and God and Man at Georgetown Prep, and Brett Kavanaugh's Georgetown Prep classmate named in the 2018 Ford allegation.
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky (born 1948) is an American journalist and author of Cod, Salt, Paper, Milk!, 1968, and The Basque History of the World, known for single-commodity world histories and a former foreign correspondent.
Mark Lawrence (author)
Mark Lawrence, British-American fantasy author of Prince of Thorns and the Broken Empire, Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, and Library Trilogy series; former AI research scientist and founder of the SPFBO contest.
Mark Millar
Mark Millar (born 1969, Coatbridge, Scotland) is a Scottish comic writer of Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Wanted, Civil War, Old Man Logan, and Superman: Red Son; his Millarworld company became Netflix's first acquisition in August 2017, and he is President of its Netflix Millarworld Division.
Mark Strand
Mark Strand (1934–2014) was a Canadian-born American poet who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and served as US poet laureate from 1990 to 1991.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), American humorist and novelist born in Florida, Missouri; author of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1884), licensed Mississippi riverboat pilot, Hartford resident 1874–1891, bankrupt investor.
Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren (1894–1972), American poet, critic, and Columbia professor; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1940 for Collected Poems; pioneer of the General Honors great books course and teacher of Merton, Ginsberg, Berryman, and Trilling.
Mark Waid
Mark Waid (born 1962, Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer and editor known for The Flash, Kingdom Come with Alex Ross, Daredevil, Superman: Birthright, and current DC titles World's Finest and Justice League Unlimited.
Mark Wales
Mark Wales is an Australian former SAS troop commander, 16-year military veteran with four Afghanistan deployments (2006-2010), author of Survivor: Life in the SAS (2021), Wharton MBA, McKinsey consultant, Kill Kapture founder, and winner of Australian Survivor: Blood V Water 2022.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski is an American experimental novelist, author of House of Leaves (2000), National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, and the five-volume series The Familiar; born in New York City, based in Los Angeles.
Markiyan Shashkevych
Markiyan Shashkevych (Маркіян Шашкевич, 1811–1843) was a Ukrainian poet and Greek Catholic priest who led the literary revival in western Ukraine and initiated the almanac Rusalka Dnistrovaia of 1837.