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CJ Skuse
CJ Skuse (Claire Joanna Skuse, born 1980, Weston-super-Mare) is an English novelist, author of five YA novels including Pretty Bad Things and Monster, and the Sweetpea adult crime series adapted for Sky Atlantic TV in 2024.
Claire Clairmont
Claire Clairmont (Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, 1798–1879), stepsister of Mary Shelley, mother of Byron's daughter Allegra, governess in Russia, and keeper of Shelley journals and 190 letters inspiring The Aspern Papers.
Claire Douglas
Claire Douglas is a British Sunday Times bestselling author of standalone psychological thrillers such as The Couple at No 9 and The Wrong Sister. Former journalist; won the 2013 Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with The Sisters; published a thriller a year through her twelfth book.
Clamp (manga artists)
CLAMP (クランプ) is the all-female four-member Japanese manga collective of Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Nekoi, and Mokona; 1989 RG Veda debut, over 100 million copies sold, creators of Cardcaptor Sakura and xxxHOLiC.
Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado, born in Buenos Aires in 1950, is an Argentine writer living in Madrid since her 1976 exile, known for short fiction and novels.
Clara Reeve
Clara Reeve (1729–1807) was an English novelist and critic from Ipswich, Suffolk, whose Gothic novel The Old English Baron and literary history The Progress of Romance made her an early shaper of the Gothic genre.
Claribel Alegría
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) was a Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet, novelist, and journalist, one of Central America's leading writers, whose more than forty books won the Casa de las Américas and Neustadt prizes.
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (Chaya Pinkhasovna Lispector, 1920–1977), Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and journalist of the introspective school; author of Perto do Coração Selvagem, A Paixão Segundo G.H., Água Viva, and A Hora da Estrela.
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American poet, sculptor, and weird-fiction author of the Weird Tales trio with Lovecraft and Howard; creator of Zothique, Hyperborea, Averoigne, and the Dying Earth tales.
Claude McKay
Claude McKay (Festus Claudius McKay, 1889–1948), Jamaican-born poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance; author of "If We Must Die," Harlem Shadows, and Home to Harlem; later Catholic convert who died in Chicago.
Claude Simon
Claude Simon (1913–2005) was a French novelist who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, associated with the Nouveau Roman and known for La Route des Flandres.
Claudian
Claudian (Claudius Claudianus, c. 370 – c. 404) was a Latin poet from Greek-speaking Egypt who served as court poet to the emperor Honorius and his minister Stilicho from 395.
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American technology writer and NYU professor, author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus, and NYU's vice provost for AI in education.
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) was a German poet and writer, a leading figure of the Heidelberg Romantics best known for co-editing the folk-song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Achim von Arnim.
Clement Marot
Clément Marot (1496?–1544) was a French Renaissance poet, valet de chambre to François I, whose French verse translations of the Psalms formed the nucleus of the Geneva Psalter.
Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji
Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji (Clémentine Madiya Faïk-Nzuji), born in 1944 in Tshofa, Congo, is a Congolese philologist and writer who studies African oral literatures and founded CILTADE.
Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 1952, Liverpool) is a British horror and dark fantasy author, filmmaker, and artist, creator of Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart, and the Hellraiser franchise, now returning with Library of the Dead and Hellraiser: Revival.
Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler (1931–2020), American adventure novelist, creator of the Dirk Pitt series and five other thriller series, author of over eighty books, and founder of the wreck-hunting NUMA.
Clive James
Clive James (Vivian Leopold James, 1939–2019), Australian-born critic, poet, memoirist, and TV presenter based in England; Observer TV critic 1972–1982, host of Clive James on Television, author of Unreliable Memoirs, Cultural Amnesia, and Dante's Divine Comedy translation.
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo (1887–1959) was a Venezuelan poet, novelist, and travel writer nominated for the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature by philologist Manuel María Villalobos.
Cockney School
The Cockney School was a pejorative label invented by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in October 1817 for London-based Romantic writers including Leigh Hunt, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Coco Mellors
Coco Mellors (born 1989, London) is a British novelist, NYT bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022) and Blue Sisters (2024), both translated into over thirty languages and adapted for screen.
Coelho Neto
Coelho Neto, full name Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (1864–1934), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, journalist, and politician, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Cola Debrot
Cola Debrot (1902–1981) was a Dutch Antillean writer, poet, physician, and diplomat who served as the first Antillean-born governor of the Netherlands Antilles from 1962 to 1970.
Colette
Colette, in full Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), was a French novelist, journalist, and performer whose work drew closely on her own life, including Chéri and the Claudine novels.
Colette Khoury
Colette Khoury (كوليت خوري) was a Syrian novelist and journalist, granddaughter of prime minister Faris al-Khoury, whose frank debut novel Days with Him (1959) made her a pioneer of Arab feminist literature.
Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter, full name Norman Colin Dexter, was an English crime writer who created Inspector Morse, the Oxford detective of thirteen novels and a hit television series.
Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover, born 1979 in Sulphur Springs, Texas, is the American 'CoHo' author of Slammed and It Ends with Us; self-published from 2012, boosted by BookTok, with 35+ million books sold and film adaptations underway.
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015), Australian novelist and neurophysiologist, author of The Thorn Birds (over 30 million copies sold) and the seven-volume Masters of Rome series on the late Roman Republic.
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist (born 1955, Enniscorthy, County Wexford), author of The Master, Brooklyn, Nora Webster, and The Magician; three-time Booker shortlistee, Costa and IMPAC winner, Columbia professor, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022–2024.