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Maurice Bowra
Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and literary critic who was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), French journalist and novelist born in Rouen, creator of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin (1905, Je sais tout); 17 Lupin novels and 39 novellas, Herlock Sholmès rename, science fiction, Netflix Lupin (2021).
Maurice Magre
Maurice Magre (1877–1941) was a French poet, dramatist, librettist, novelist, and occultist from Toulouse who moved from lyric poetry to esoteric fiction and travel writing on Indian religion, winning two Académie française prizes.
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), American children's book author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There; Caldecott, Andersen, Wilder, and Astrid Lindgren award winner and opera designer.
Mauricio Rosencof
Mauricio Rosencof (born 1933) is a Uruguayan playwright and writer who was a founding leader of the Tupamaros and a political hostage from 1973 to 1985.
Maurycy Mochnacki
Maurycy Mochnacki (1803–1834) was a Polish literary critic, historian, pianist, and revolutionary who announced the November Uprising in Warsaw in 1830 and later wrote a history of it.
Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant (born Mavis de Trafford Young, 1922–2014) was a Canadian writer who settled in Paris in 1960 and became one of the most admired short-story writers in English.
Max Aub
Max Aub (Max Aub Mohrenwitz) was a Spanish writer, born in Paris in 1903, known for the six-novel cycle El laberinto mágico about the Spanish Civil War.
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist famous from the mid-1890s for satirical drawings of London celebrities and for the comic novel Zuleika Dobson.
Max Bewer
Max Bewer (1861–1921) was a German poet, publicist, and librettist who won fame defending Bismarck after 1890 and later wrote antisemitic pamphlets and patriotic verse.
Max Brand
Max Brand, pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), King of the Pulps, wrote The Untamed, Destry Rides Again, and Dr. Kildare, producing roughly 30 million words before dying as a war correspondent in Italy in 1944.
Max Brooks
Max Brooks (born 1972), son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, American author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War; also wrote Minecraft: The Island, Devolution, and The Harlem Hellfighters, and holds Modern War Institute and Atlantic Council fellowships.
Max Frisch
Max Frisch (1911–1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist whose works on identity and guilt include I'm Not Stiller, Homo Faber, The Fire Raisers, and Andorra.
Max Mell
Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian poet and playwright, praised by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose mystery play Das Apostelspiel was the most popular amateur drama of the interwar period.
Max Porter (writer)
Max Porter is a British writer of hybrid prose-poetry novels: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon, and Shy (2023), a former Granta Books editorial director whose fiction, marked by typographic experiment, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was Booker-longlisted.
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky (Maxim Gorky; real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov), 1868-1936, Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, and founder of socialist realism, author of The Lower Depths, Mother, and the autobiographical trilogy, never a Communist Party member.
Maximianus
Maximianus is a sixth-century Latin elegiac poet of Italy, author of six elegies on lost youth and love, sometimes called the last of the Roman poets.
Maximilian Harden
Maximilian Harden, born Felix Ernst Witkowski, was a German journalist and critic who founded the weekly Die Zukunft and provoked the Eulenburg scandal of 1906 to 1909.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is an American writer whose blend of memoir, myth, and fiction made her a leading figure in Asian American literature; The Woman Warrior appeared in 1976.
Maxwell Perkins
Maxwell Perkins, born William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, was an American book editor at Charles Scribner's Sons who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (Marguerite Annie Johnson, 1928–2014), American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist; author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and reader of "On the Pulse of Morning" at Clinton's 1993 inauguration, the second inaugural poet after Frost.
Maya Henry
Maya Henry, American model and writer from South Texas, daughter of lawyer Thomas J. Henry; ex-fiancée of Liam Payne; author of the 2024 debut novel Looking Forward, a fiction inspired by true events that drew attention after Payne's October 2024 death. Distinct from the Toronto actress and the Columbia journalist of the same name.
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and professor, born in 1966, known for Sirena Selena vestida de pena and for founding the Festival de la Palabra.
Mazisi Kunene
Mazisi Kunene (1930–2006) was a South African poet who wrote in Zulu, best known for the epic Emperor Shaka the Great and named South Africa's first poet laureate in 2005.
Mbari Club
The Mbari Club was a writers' and artists' club founded in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1961 that published early work by leading African writers and hosted exhibitions.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild of Magdeburg, also Matilda of Magdeburg, was a 13th-century German Beguine mystic who wrote The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the earliest visionary work in German.
Medardo Ángel Silva
Medardo Ángel Silva (1898–1919) was an Ecuadorian modernist poet, novelist, and chronicler from Guayaquil, the last member of the Generación Decapitada, whose poem "El alma en los labios" became a beloved pasillo.
Medieval literature
Medieval literature: writing in Latin and vernaculars from roughly 476–1500 (or c. 600–1450 by book history), spanning epic, romance, saga, and mysticism across European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions.
Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy (Tamil: மீனா கந்தசாமி), born 1984 in Chennai, is an Indian poet, novelist, and anti-caste activist whose novel When I Hit You was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Meenakshisundaram Pillai
Meenakshisundaram Pillai (மீனாட்சிசுந்தரம் பிள்ளை; 1815–1876) was a Tamil poet honored as Mahavidran who wrote roughly 80 classical works, including 22 talapuranams, and taught U.V. Swaminatha Iyer.