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Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn, American Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, creator of Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade; his 1991 Heir to the Empire topped the New York Times bestseller list and launched the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy.
Tin Ujević
Tin Ujević, full name Augustin, was a Croatian poet, essayist, and translator born in Vrgorac in 1891, regarded as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the twentieth century.
Tina Seelig
Tina Seelig is an American author and neuroscientist who teaches creativity and entrepreneurship at Stanford University and wrote What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20.
Tirumangai Alvar
Tirumangai Alvar (திருமங்கை ஆழ்வார்) was an eighth-century Tamil Vaishnava poet-saint, the last of the twelve Alvars, whose 1,253 hymns in six Divya Prabandham works include the Periya Tirumozhi.
Tô Hoài
Tô Hoài (1920–2014), born Nguyễn Sen, was a Vietnamese writer of nearly 200 works, best known for the children's classic The Adventures of a Cricket (1941).
Tố Hữu
Tố Hữu, born Nguyễn Kim Thành (1920–2002), was a Vietnamese poet and political leader, considered a central figure of revolutionary poetry and winner of the 1996 Hồ Chí Minh Prize.
Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, and editor best known for Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker, published in the year of his death.
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff (born 1945, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American short-story writer, memoirist, and novelist, author of This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, The Barracks Thief (PEN/Faulkner), and Old School; Stanford professor, National Medal of Arts 2015. Not the philosopher Christian Wolff or economist Richard Wolff.
Toeti Heraty
Toeti Heraty (1933–2021) was an Indonesian philosopher and poet, rector of the Jakarta Institute of the Arts and founder of PEN Indonesia, whose feminist lyric prose Calon Arang appeared in 2000.
Togolok Moldo
Togolok Moldo (Kyrgyz: Тоголок Молдо), real name Bayymbet Abdrakhmanov, 1860–1942, was a Kyrgyz manaschy, poet, and educator known for recording his own 98,703-line written version of the Manas epic.
Tokunaga Sunao
Tokunaga Sunao (徳永直, 1899–1958) was a Japanese proletarian writer best known for Taiyo no nai machi (A Street Without Sun, 1929), based on his experience of a printing-plant strike.
Tokutomi Roka
Tokutomi Roka, real name Tokutomi Kenjiro, was a Japanese novelist and essayist of the Meiji and Taisho periods known for Hototogisu and Shizen to Jinsei.
Tologon Kasymbekov
Tologon Kasymbekov (Төлөгөн Касымбеков) was a Kyrgyz writer, People's Writer of Kyrgyzstan and Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic, best known for the historical novel The Broken Sword (1966).
Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) was an American novelist who popularized the techno-thriller; his 1984 debut The Hunt for Red October began the bestselling Jack Ryan series.
Tom King (writer)
Tom King (born 1978) is an American comic book writer and former CIA counterterrorism officer, known for The Vision, Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and his DC Batman run.
Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.
Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta, born Thomas R. Perrotta in 1961, is an American novelist and screenwriter whose comic satires of suburban life include Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers.
Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene Robbins, 1932 to 2025) was an American novelist whose comic countercultural novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, drew a cult following from the 1970s.
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), American journalist and novelist, founder of New Journalism; wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities; famous for white suits and exclamation-marked prose.
Tomás Carrasquilla
Tomás Carrasquilla was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, regarded as the leading figure of Antioquia's literary tradition and best known for La Marquesa de Yolombó.
Tomás de Iriarte
Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791) was a Spanish Neoclassical fabulist, poet, playwright, and translator, best known for the Fábulas literarias of 1782, original verse fables on literary themes.
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934–2010) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, and Rutgers professor whose novels La novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995) blend history and myth about Peronism.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator, regarded as the leading Swedish poet of his generation, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.
Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova, born in 1937 in Klaipėda, is a Lithuanian poet, essayist, translator, and literary scholar, a Yale professor emeritus, and a founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group.
Tomato Soup (トマトスープ) (manga artist)
Tomato Soup (トマトスープ) is a Japanese manga artist from Gunma, a Tama Art University engraving graduate known for historical manga: The Delicious Adventures of Dampier and A Witch's Life in Mongol, winner of the 55th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize.
Tommaso Landolfi
Tommaso Landolfi (1908–1979) was an Italian writer, poet, and translator of Russian and German literature, a leading figure in Italian fantastic literature who won the Strega Prize in 1975.
Tomris Uyar
Tomris Uyar (Tomris Gedik) was a Turkish short-story writer and translator from English, born in Istanbul in 1941, who won the Sait Faik award twice.
Ton'a
Ton'a (頓阿, 1289–1372), born Nikaidō Sadamune, was a Japanese poet-monk of the Nijō school of waka, named one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Waka and compiler of the imperial anthology Shinshui Wakashū.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford (1931–2019), American novelist and editor; wrote 11 novels including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved; Pulitzer Prize 1988; first African American woman Nobel Literature laureate, 1993.
Tõnu Õnnepalu
Tõnu Õnnepalu, who also writes as Emil Tode, is an Estonian writer whose 1993 novel Piiririik, translated as Border State, became one of Estonia's most translated works.