Writers and literary biographies

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scottish poet, critic, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for editing the twelve colored Fairy Books, compiling 437 tales from 1889 to 1910.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), English metaphysical poet and MP for Hull, Milton's Latin secretary and later his rescuer; author of "To His Coy Mistress," "The Garden," and Upon Appleton House, whose lyric reputation rose after Eliot's 1921 essay.

Andrew Michael Hurley

Andrew Michael Hurley (born 1975, Preston) is a British folk-horror novelist, author of The Loney (Costa First Novel Award), Devil's Day, Starve Acre, Barrowbeck, and Saltwash; he lectures in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Andrew Morton (writer)

Andrew Morton, British journalist and royal biographer, author of Diana: Her True Story (1992), written with Princess Diana's secret tape-recorded cooperation via Dr James Colthurst; also biographer of Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson, and Queen Elizabeth II.

Andrew Salkey

Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) was a Caribbean novelist, poet, and broadcaster born in Panama to Jamaican parents. At the BBC he championed West Indian writers and co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in 1966.

Andrii Malyshko

Andrii Malyshko (1912–1970) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and translator whose song Pisnia pro rushnyk is so widely sung many take it for a folk song.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski (born 1948, Łódź), Polish fantasy author of the Witcher saga about Geralt of Rivia; over 35 million copies in 40+ languages, Hussite trilogy, World Fantasy Award 2016.

Andy Weir

Andy Weir (born 1972) is the American science-fiction author of The Martian (2014), Artemis (2017), and Project Hail Mary (2021); a former software engineer whose self-published debut became a $630-million film franchise.

Ángel del Campo

Ángel del Campo (1868–1908), a Mexican writer and journalist who wrote under the pseudonyms Micrós and Tick-Tack, is counted among the leading costumbristas of late nineteenth-century Mexico.

Ángel González

Ángel González (1925–2008) was a Spanish poet from Oviedo, a leading voice of the Generation of the 50 whose ironic, colloquial poetry won the Premio Príncipe de Asturias in 1985.

Àngel Guimerà

Àngel Guimerà (1845–1924) was a Catalan poet and playwright born in Tenerife whose drama Terra baixa (1896) became the most performed and translated Catalan play.

Angela Carter

Angela Carter (1940-1992) was an English novelist and journalist known for The Bloody Chamber (1979), feminist fairy-tale rewritings, The Sadeian Woman, and magic-realist novels like Nights at the Circus and Wise Children.

Ángeles Mastretta

Ángeles Mastretta, full name María de los Ángeles Mastretta Guzmán, is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Puebla in 1949, known for Arráncame la vida and Mal de amores.

Angelo de Gubernatis

Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913) was an Italian Indologist and comparative mythologist who held the Sanskrit chair at Florence from 1863, founded orientalist journals and institutions, and wrote Zoological Mythology.

Angelos Sikelianos

Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) was a leading 20th-century Greek lyric poet, born on Leucas in 1884, best known for staging the Delphic Festivals of 1927 and 1930.

Angelus Silesius

Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler (1624–1677), was a Silesian mystic and Baroque poet who converted to Catholicism in 1653 and is known for the Cherubinic Wanderer, a collection of mystical epigrams first published in 1657.

Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas (born 1988, Jackson, Mississippi) is the American YA author of The Hate U Give, the #1 NYT bestseller adapted by Fox 2000; also wrote On the Come Up, Concrete Rose, and the Nic Blake fantasy series.

Angkarn Kalayanapong

Angkarn Kalayanapong (อังคาร กัลยาณพงศ์) was a Thai poet and painter who broke Thai verse out of its fixed classical meters and was named a National Artist in 1989.

Angkatan 50

Angkatan 50 is the label for the generation of Indonesian writers prominent in the 1950s, after the revolutionary Angkatan 45, including Taufiq Ismail, NH Dini, and Goenawan Mohamad.

Ango Sakaguchi

Ango Sakaguchi (坂口安吾, 1906–1955), real name Sakaguchi Heigo, was a Japanese novelist and essayist in the Buraiha decadent school, best known for his 1946 essay "Discourse on Decadence."

Angus Fletcher (literary scholar)

Angus Fletcher is an American scholar, Professor of Story Science at Ohio State, who studies how stories affect the mind and trains creativity in the U.S. Army.

Anis Frayha

Anis Frayha (أنيس فريحة, 1903–1993) was a Lebanese author, journalist, folklorist, and professor of Semitic languages who documented traditional Lebanese village life and the Lebanese dialect.

Anisuzzaman

Anisuzzaman, also known as Anisuzzaman in Bengali script as আনিসুজ্জামান, was a Bangladeshi academic and literary critic who taught Bengali literature at the University of Dhaka.

Anita Desai

Anita Desai (Anita Mazumdar, born 1937, Mussoorie) is an Indian novelist writing in English, author of Cry, the Peacock, Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting; three-time Booker shortlistee and mother of Kiran Desai.

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie, born Charlotte Ann Beattie in 1947, is an American short-story writer and novelist whose New Yorker fiction about disaffected young people inspired talk of a "Beattie Generation."

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves, British crime writer of the Vera Stanhope, Shetland (Jimmy Pérez), and Matthew Venn series; Raven Black won the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger; adapted into ITV's Vera and BBC One's Shetland.

Ann Jäderlund

Ann Jäderlund, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish poet, playwright, and translator whose difficult second collection, Som en gång varit äng (1988), triggered the Jäderlund debate.

Ann Liang

Ann Liang, Chinese-Australian author born in Beijing and based in Melbourne, writes bestselling YA and adult fiction including If You Could See the Sun, This Time It's Real, A Song to Drown Rivers, and I Am Not Jessica Chen.

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett (born 1963) is an American novelist and co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books, author of Bel Canto, The Dutch House, Tom Lake, and Whistler, winner of the Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award.