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Mibu no Tadamine
Mibu no Tadamine (壬生忠岑) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period, active around 898 to 920, and one of the four compilers of the Kokin Wakashū.
Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond (1926–2017), English author and BBC cameraman, creator of Paddington Bear; A Bear Called Paddington (1958) sold over 35 million copies in 40 languages; also wrote Olga da Polga and Monsieur Pamplemousse; OBE 1997, CBE 2015.
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon, American novelist (born 1963, Washington, D.C.), Pulitzer Prize winner for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; also wrote Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Moonglow; showrunner of Star Trek: Picard; lives in Berkeley with Ayelet Waldman.
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly, born in 1956, is an American crime novelist and former newspaper reporter best known for the Harry Bosch series and the Lincoln Lawyer legal thrillers.
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton (John Michael Crichton, 1942–2008) was an American writer, physician, and filmmaker who wrote techno-thrillers like Jurassic Park and created the television series ER.
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Ideas Mirrour and the long chorographical poem Poly-Olbion.
Michael Ende
Michael Ende (Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende, 1929–1995), German fantasy and children's author of Jim Knopf, Momo and The Neverending Story; 54+ languages, 40+ million copies, son of painter Edgar Ende.
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত), 1824–1873, Bengali poet and playwright, pioneer of blank verse and the sonnet in Bengali; author of the epic Meghnadbadh Kavya (1861), a Miltonic Ramayana retelling.
Michael McClure
Michael McClure (1932–2020) was an American poet, playwright, and songwriter associated with the Beat Generation, known for reading at the 1955 Six Gallery event where Allen Ginsberg first read "Howl."
Michael McDowell (author)
Michael McDowell, or Michael McEachern McDowell, was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter of Southern Gothic horror, known for works like The Amulet and Beetlejuice.
Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock, born 1939, is an English science fiction and fantasy writer best known for his Elric of Melniboné novels and for editing the magazine New Worlds.
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo (born 1943, St Albans), English children's author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, Children's Laureate 2003–2005, knighted 2018, co-founder of Farms for City Children.
Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghue was an American comedy writer and performer known as Mr. Mike who co-founded National Lampoon and served as the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje (Philip Michael Ondaatje), Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist and editor; author of The English Patient (Booker 1992, Golden Booker 2018), Anil's Ghost, Running in the Family; five Governor General's Awards; Companion of the Order of Canada; lives in Toronto.
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen (born 1946) is a British children's poet, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Michael Rosen's Sad Book, Children's Laureate 2007–2009, Goldsmiths professor, BBC broadcaster, and 2023 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
Michael Sadleir
Michael Sadleir, born Michael Sadler, was an English novelist, publisher, and leading bibliographer of Victorian fiction; his novel Fanny by Gaslight (1940) was his most successful, and his collection went to UCLA.
Michel Butor
Michel Butor (1926–2016) was a French novelist, essayist, and poet associated with the nouveau roman, known for La Modification, winner of the 1957 Prix Renaudot.
Michel de Ghelderode
Michel de Ghelderode, born Adémar Martens, was a Belgian dramatist who wrote some 80 plays in French, including Escurial and Barabbas, and found worldwide fame in the 1950s.
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (Michel Thomas), French novelist and poet born 1956 on Réunion; author of Les Particules élémentaires, Plateforme, Soumission, and Goncourt winner La Carte et le territoire; known for succès de scandale reception and prizes.
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 1942) is a Québécois playwright and novelist from Montreal whose joual play Les Belles-soeurs (1968) founded new Québécois dramaturgy; his tragicomic works about working-class Montreal have been translated into some 30 languages.
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson, born in 1948 in Antananarivo, is a Malagasy novelist and journalist who writes in French and Malagasy and went into political exile in France in 1983.
Mick Herron
Mick Herron, British novelist born in Newcastle, author of the Slough House spy thrillers (Slow Horses, Jackson Lamb) and the Zoë Boehm series; CWA Gold Dagger and Diamond Dagger winner, adapted by Apple TV+.
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane, born Frank Morrison Spillane (1918–2006), was an American crime novelist who created hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer in I, the Jury (1947), selling over 225 million books.
Mieko Kanai
Mieko Kanai (金井美恵子, born 1947) is a Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist from Takasaki, Gunma, known for an anti-realist style and sensuous prose.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat who in 1967 became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Miguel Cabello de Balboa
Miguel Cabello Valboa, who signed himself so rather than Cabello de Balboa, was a Spanish cleric and chronicler best known for the Miscelánea Antártica of 1586.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish author of Don Quixote (two parts, 1605 and 1615), also wrote the twelve Exemplary Novels; fought at Lepanto in 1571, returned from captivity in 1580, and is honored by the April 23 Cervantes Prize.
Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864 to 1936) was a Spanish writer and philosopher of the Generation of '98, rector of the University of Salamanca.
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes (Miguel Delibes Setién, 1920–2010) was a Spanish novelist and journalist whose work centers on rural Castile; he won the Premio Cervantes in 1993.
Miguel Oscar Menassa
Miguel Oscar Menassa (1940–2024) was an Argentine poet, psychoanalyst, novelist, and painter who founded Grupo Cero, joining poetry and psychoanalysis, and lived in Spain from the mid-1970s.