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Ann Rule
Ann Rule, also known as Ann Rae Rule, was an American true-crime writer whose 1980 book The Stranger Beside Me recounted her friendship with Ted Bundy.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), born Anna Gorenko (1889–1966), Russian Acmeist poet of Evening, Rosary, Requiem, and Poem without a Hero; suppressed in 1925 and 1946, honored with the 1964 Etna Taormina prize and a 1965 Oxford doctorate.
Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns was a South Netherlandish poet and schoolteacher of Antwerp, born 1493 and died 1575, best known for her refreinen attacking Martin Luther in Dutch.
Anna Brigadere
Anna Brigadere (1861–1933) was a Latvian writer, playwright, and poet, one of the best-known authors of Latvian literature, best remembered for the fairy-tale play Sprīdītis.
Anna de Noailles
Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), born Anna-Élisabeth Bibesco-Brancovan, was a French-language poet and salonnière, the first woman Commander of the Legion of Honour and first woman member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Anna Enquist
Anna Enquist is the pseudonym of Dutch poet and novelist Christa Broer, born in Amsterdam in 1945, one of the most widely read authors in Dutch literature.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin (1743–1825), was an English poet, essayist, and educator whose Poems (1773) made her famous; her 1812 poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ended her career.
Anna Leonowens
Anna Leonowens was an Indian-born British educator and writer whose memoirs of teaching at the Siamese court of King Mongkut from 1862 to 1867 inspired the musical The King and I.
Anna Maria Lenngren
Anna Maria Lenngren, née Malmstedt (1754–1817), was a Swedish poet and translator, counted among the foremost Gustavian-era authors; she published almost all her mature poetry anonymously in Stockholms Posten.
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling/Radványi, 1900–1983), German-Jewish communist writer born in Mainz; exile in France and Mexico; author of Das siebte Kreuz (1942) and Transit (1944); Büchner Prize 1947; led the GDR Writers' Union 1952–1978.
Anna Todd
Anna Renee Todd (born 1989), American novelist; wrote After as imaginator1D on Wattpad from 2013, One Direction fanfiction turned five-book series, 12 million copies in 35 languages, films, and Frayed Pages Media.
Annabhau Sathe (अण्णाभाऊ साठे)
Annabhau Sathe (अण्णाभाऊ साठे), born Tukaram Bhaurao Sathe (1920-1969), was a Marathi Dalit lokshahir and novelist of the Matang community, author of Fakira, and a CPI-affiliated cultural activist of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, commemorated with a 2022 Moscow statue.
Annada Shankar Ray
Annada Shankar Ray (অন্নদাশঙ্কর রায়, 1904–2002) was a Bengali poet, novelist, and essayist who also wrote in Odia and left the Indian Civil Service in 1951 for literature.
Anne Askew
Anne Askew (c.1521–1546), also Anne Kyme, English Protestant martyr tortured on the rack and burned at Smithfield under Henry VIII; author of the two Examinations, first published by John Bale in 1546–47.
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), born Anne Dudley, Puritan poet of Massachusetts Bay; first American book of poetry, The Tenth Muse (London, 1650), published without her knowledge; known for Contemplations and love poems.
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), youngest Brontë sister, English novelist and poet writing as Acton Bell; author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), suppressed by Charlotte after her death.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist, born in Toronto in 1950, who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for genre-blending works like Autobiography of Red.
Anne Charlotte Leffler
Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849–1892) was a Swedish author and playwright, a leading writer of the modern breakthrough in Scandinavia, known for socially critical dramas like Sanna kvinnor; she also became Duchess of Cajanello.
Anne Enright
Anne Enright is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering and was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (born 1954, San Francisco) is an American novelist and memoirist, author of twenty books including Bird by Bird (1994), Operating Instructions (1993), Traveling Mercies (1999), and Help, Thanks, Wow (2012), known for candid, humorous writing on faith, addiction, and motherhood.
Anne Lister
Anne Lister (1791–1840), Yorkshire landowner and diarist of Shibden Hall, Halifax, called the first modern lesbian; her four-to-five-million-word diary, partly in cipher, records her relationships with women, estate management, and mountaineering firsts.
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1926–2011) was an American-born Irish science fiction writer, creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series and the first woman to win both a Hugo and a Nebula Award.
Anne Perry
Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme, 1938-2023) was a British crime novelist of the Victorian Pitt and Monk detective series, convicted of the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder in New Zealand and unmasked in 1994.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (1941–2021), born Howard Allen O'Brien, American Gothic novelist, author of Interview with the Vampire (1976) and the 13-book Vampire Chronicles, the Mayfair Witches trilogy, and erotica as Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (Anne Gray Harvey, 1928–1974), American confessional poet of mental illness and family life; Pulitzer Prize 1967 for Live or Die; studied under Robert Lowell with Sylvia Plath at Boston University.
Anne Summers
Anne Summers, born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in 1945, is an Australian feminist author and journalist whose 1975 book Damned Whores and God's Police became a landmark of Australian feminism.
Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born 1941, Minneapolis) is an American novelist of Baltimore-set domestic realist fiction, author of If Morning Ever Comes (1964), The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and the 1989 Pulitzer-winning Breathing Lessons; her 25th novel is Three Days in June (2025).
Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb, born Anna Mathilde Kolb (1870–1967), was a German-French novelist, essayist, and translator whose pacifist Briefe einer Deutsch-Französin (1916) brought bans, exile, and persecution by the Third Reich.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) was a German poet, prose writer, and composer from Westphalia, best known for the novella Die Judenbuche (1842) and her landscape lyric.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (Meta Ann Doak, 1945–2026), American author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction; also wrote Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, and The Maytrees; National Humanities Medal 2015.