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Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot (born 1967, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American author of The Princess Diaries, the Mediator series, and over 100 books sold in 38 countries, adapted into Disney films.
Meg Johnson
Meg Johnson, American poet and editor, author of Inappropriate Sleepover (2014), The Crimes of Clara Turlington (2015), and Without: Body, Name, Country (2020); NEOMFA MFA; distinct from the Utah motivational speaker of the same name.
Meg Mason
Meg Mason (born 1978) is a New Zealand-born novelist in Sydney, author of Sorrow and Bliss (2020), a Women's Prize-shortlisted international bestseller, and Sophie, Standing There (2026).
Mehdi Akhavan Sales
Mehdi Akhavan Sales (مهدی اخوان ثالث), pen name M. Omid, was an Iranian poet of the Nimaic school of modern Persian poetry, best known for Zemestān (Winter, 1956).
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (مهدی حمیدی شیرازی) was an Iranian poet, critic, and University of Tehran professor known for defending classical Persian verse against Nima Yooshij's modernist poetry.
Mehmed Rauf
Mehmed Rauf (1875–1931) was an Ottoman and Turkish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist of the Servet-i Fünûn movement, best known for Eylül (1901), regarded as the first psychological novel in Turkish literature.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (Mehmed Âkif Ersoy, 1873–1936) was a Turkish poet, veterinarian, and teacher best known for writing the Turkish national anthem, İstiklal Marşı, adopted in 1921, and the seven-book corpus Safahat.
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (Köprülüzâde Mehmed Fuad, 1890–1966) was a Turkish literary historian and politician who founded modern Turkish historiography and co-founded the Democrat Party in 1946.
Mehrdad Bahar
Mehrdad Bahar (مهرداد بهار) was an Iranian literary scholar and mythologist, son of the poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, known for Pajuheshi dar Asatir-e Iran and editions of Middle Persian texts.
Mei Hachimoku (八目迷)
Mei Hachimoku (八目迷), Japanese light novelist born 1994, debut The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (Gagaga Bunko, 2019), adapted into a 2022 CLAP anime film; works published by Shogakukan, Seven Seas, Yen Press.
Mei Zengliang
Mei Zengliang (梅曾亮, 1786–1856), courtesy name Boyan, was a Chinese classical prose writer of the Tongcheng school and the leading proponent of ancient prose in Beijing during the Daoguang reign.
Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier (מאיר ויזלטיר; 1941–2023) was an Israeli poet, translator, and editor, a central member of the Tel Aviv poets and winner of the 2000 Israel Prize.
Meleager
Meleager was a Greek epigrammatist from Gadara, active around 100 BCE, whose Garland anthology of epigrams became the principal root of the Greek Anthology tradition.
Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday, born Muzaffer Melih (1915-2002), was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator who co-founded the Garip movement, the free-verse revolution in modern Turkish poetry.
Mempo Giardinelli
Mempo Giardinelli (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist from Resistencia, Chaco, exiled in Mexico in 1976 to 1984 during the military dictatorship.
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim (מנדלי מוכר ספרים) was the pen name of Shalom Yaakov Abramovitch, a Yiddish and Hebrew writer regarded as the grandfather of both modern literatures.
Mengistu Lemma
Mengistu Lemma (1928–1988) was an Ethiopian playwright, poet, scholar, and diplomat who wrote in Amharic, remembered as Ethiopia's leading comic dramatist for comedies like Marriage of Unequals and Marriage by Abduction.
Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak (1902–1940) was a Dutch writer, essayist, and literary critic, a leading figure of interwar Dutch intellectual life who co-founded the journal Forum and opposed National Socialism.
Menotti Del Picchia
Menotti Del Picchia (Paulo Menotti del Picchia, 1892–1988) was a Brazilian poet and co-organizer of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna, best known for his long poem Juca Mulato.
Meore Dasi
Meore Dasi (მეორე დასი, "Second Group") was a bourgeois-democratic current of Georgia's 1860s intelligentsia, led by Giorgi Tsereteli, Niko Nikoladze, and Sergo Meskhi around the newspaper Droeba.
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908–1983) was a Catalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright, the most translated Catalan fiction author; her novel La plaça del Diamant appeared in 37 languages.
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Juana Mercedes Cabello Llosa, 1845–1909) was a Peruvian novelist and essayist who initiated the realist novel in Peru and advocated women's education.
Mercedes de Acosta
Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968) was an American poet, playwright, and Hollywood scriptwriter remembered for her lesbian relationships with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as much as her writing.
Merle Collins
Merle Collins, born in 1950, is a Grenadian poet, novelist, and academic whose work centers on Grenada and the 1979–1983 Grenada Revolution; her books include the novel Angel (1987).
Merlin Holland
Merlin Holland (Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland, b. 1945, London), Oscar Wilde's only grandson, biographer and editor, estate administrator, author of The Wilde Album and After Oscar, and adapter of the 1895 trial transcript.
Merve Emre
Merve Emre (born 1985, Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish American literary critic and Shapiro-Silverberg Professor at Wesleyan University, author of The Personality Brokers and Paraliterary, New Yorker contributing writer, and host of The Critic and Her Publics podcast.
Metaphysical poets
The Metaphysical poets were 17th-century English poets led by John Donne, with Herbert, Marvell, Cowley, Crashaw, and Vaughan, known for conceits, argument, and paradox; named by Johnson, revived by Grierson and Eliot.
Mi Heng
Mi Heng (祢衡), courtesy name Zhengping, was an Eastern Han dynasty writer and eccentric scholar from present-day Shandong, known for the Parrot Rhapsody and killed in 198 after insulting the warlord Huang Zu.
Mia Couto
Mia Couto, pen name of António Emílio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican novelist, poet, and biologist born in 1955 in Beira, known for fiction shaped by Mozambique's wars.
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (میاں محمد بخش, 1830–1907) was a Sufi saint and Punjabi poet of the Qadiri order, born at Khari Sharif near Mirpur and best known as the author of the epic Saif-ul-Malook.