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Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was an American novelist, critic, and political commentator associated with Partisan Review, best known for Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and The Group.
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (Mary Jane Oliver, 1935–2019), American poet of Provincetown, Massachusetts; Pulitzer 1984 for American Primitive, National Book Award 1992; author of Wild Geese and more than 25 poetry collections.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851), British author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; also wrote The Last Man and edited Percy Shelley's poems.
Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587–1651/3) was an English poet of the Sidney family, the first Englishwoman to publish a sonnet sequence and a prose romance.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé, born Maryse Boucolon (1934–2024), was a French-language novelist from Guadeloupe known for Ségou and Moi, Tituba, and winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize.
Masamune Hakuchō
Masamune Hakuchō (正宗白鳥, 1879–1962), born Masamune Tadao, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and literary critic, a leading figure of the naturalist school known for Doko e.
Masashi Kishimoto
Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史), Japanese manga artist and creator of Naruto (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1999–2014, 72 volumes, 200+ million copies in 35 countries); twin brother of mangaka Seishi Kishimoto; supervises Boruto drawn by Mikio Ikemoto; also created Samurai 8.
Mashrab
Mashrab (Бобораҳим Машраб), also known as Rahim Baba Mashrab, was the pen name of Boborahim, a Sufi poet who wrote in Uzbek and Persian, executed in 1711.
Massa Makan Diabaté
Massa Makan Diabaté (1938–1988) was a French-language Malian writer and historian from Kita, best known for the Kouta trilogy, who carried the Manding griot oral tradition into the written novel.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (ಮಾಸ್ತಿ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್), who wrote under the pen name Srinivasa, was a Kannada writer and Jnanpith Award winner regarded as the father of the modern Kannada short story.
Mateo Alemán
Mateo Alemán (1547–1614) was a Spanish novelist of the Siglo de Oro, remembered for Guzmán de Alfarache, the novel that gave the picaresque genre its full form.
Mateo Booz
Mateo Booz was the pen name of Miguel Ángel Correa (1881–1943), an Argentine writer, journalist, and politician who set all his fiction in Santa Fe, known for the classic Santa Fe, mi país (1934).
Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski
Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski (Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, 1595–1640) was a Polish Jesuit court preacher and Neo-Latin poet, celebrated across Europe as the "Christian Horace" and the "Sarmatian Horace".
Mathias Mnyampala
Mathias Mnyampala (1917–1969) was a Tanzanian poet, lawyer, and writer in Kiswahili who created the ngonjera poetic genre, founded the poets' association UKUTA, and published more than 25 books.
Mati Unt
Mati Unt (1944–2005) was an Estonian writer, essayist, and theater director whose innovative prose shaped modernist and postmodernist Estonian literature; his best-known novel is Sügisball (1979).
Matija Čop
Matija Čop (1797–1835) was a Slovene philologist, literary historian, and librarian in Ljubljana, best known as the friend and mentor of the poet France Prešeren.
Matilde Serao
Matilde Serao (1856–1927) was an Italian journalist and novelist, one of the first women journalists of post-Unification Italy, who co-founded Il Mattino and wrote over forty books about Naples.
Matiram
Matiram (मतिराम) was a 17th-century Hindi Ritikal poet who wrote in Braj Bhasha at the court of the Hada kings of Bundi, best known for Rasraj and Lalitlalam.
Mats Traat
Mats Traat (1936–2022) was a prolific Estonian poet, prose writer, playwright, and translator known for chronicling rural life and history in southern Estonia and the Tartu language.
Matsue Shigeyori
Matsue Shigeyori (松江重頼, 1602–1680), also known as Ishū, was a Japanese haikai poet of the Teimon school who compiled the Enokoshū, the first printed early modern haikai anthology.
Matsunaga Teitoku
Matsunaga Teitoku (松永貞徳, 1571–1653) was a Japanese renga master, waka poet, and classical scholar who founded the Teimon school, the first haikai school to spread nationwide.
Matt Dinniman
Matt Dinniman is an American writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington, author of the LitRPG bestseller Dungeon Crawler Carl, self-published in 2020 and later picked up by Ace Books, with a Peacock TV adaptation greenlit.
Matt Haig
Matt Haig (born 1975, Sheffield) is an English author of The Midnight Library, the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, and A Boy Called Christmas; his fiction and non-fiction center on mental health, regret, and second chances.
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet and count of Scandiano who served the Este court of Ferrara and wrote the unfinished epic Orlando innamorato, which Ariosto continued.
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), English Victorian poet and critic, son of Rugby headmaster Thomas Arnold; school inspector and Oxford Professor of Poetry. Known for "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," Essays in Criticism, Culture and Anarchy, and "criticism of life."
Matthew Bracken
Matthew J. Bracken (born 1957, Baltimore) is an American novelist and former Navy SEAL, author of the self-published Enemies trilogy (Enemies Foreign and Domestic, 2003) and the Dan Kilmer series, and an InfoWars guest.
Matthew of Edessa
Matthew of Edessa (Mattʿēos Uṙhayecʿi) was an early-twelfth-century Armenian monk in Edessa whose Chronicle covers independent Armenia's fall, the Saljuq conquests, and the First Crusade.
Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly (born 1974, Sydney) is an Australian thriller author of Ice Station, the Scarecrow and Jack West Jr. series, and standalone novels; self-published Contest in 1996, sold over 8 million copies, and directed Netflix's Interceptor (2022).
Matthías Jochumsson
Matthías Jochumsson (1835–1920) was an Icelandic clergyman, poet, playwright, and translator, best known as author of the lyrics of the Icelandic national anthem, written in 1874.
Mattie Stepanek
Mattie J.T. Stepanek (1990-2004), American poet and MDA National Goodwill Ambassador, wrote seven New York Times bestselling Heartsongs poetry volumes while living with dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.