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Darío Jaramillo Agudelo
Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, born 1947 in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia, is a poet, novelist, and essayist and a leading renovator of Colombian love poetry.
Darren O'Shaughnessy
Darren O'Shaughnessy (b. 1972, London), Irish author known as Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak, The Demonata, Zom-B) and Darren Dash for adult novels; 60+ books, over 25 million copies sold.
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj (Дашдоржийн Нацагдорж; 1906–1937) was a Mongolian poet and writer regarded as one of the founders of modern Mongolian literature, known for the poem "My Homeland" and the musical drama Three Fateful Hills.
Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey (born 1966) is an American children's author-illustrator, creator of Captain Underpants (1997, 90M+ copies) and Dog Man (2016, 60M+ copies), a 1997 Caldecott Honor winner for The Paperboy whose dyslexia and ADHD shaped his career.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is an American science writer, former New York Times science reporter, and author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Glass Universe, and The Elements of Marie Curie.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born 1970) is an American author and publisher of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Circle, and Newbery winner The Eyes and the Impossible; founder of McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 Valencia.
Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer (David James Pelzer, born 1960) is the American author of the 1995 abuse memoir A Child Called "It" and its sequels, a bestselling self-help writer, motivational speaker, and Jefferson Award recipient whose account has been disputed by one brother and supported by another.
Davi Arrigucci Jr.
Davi Arrigucci Jr. (Davi Arrigucci Júnior), born 1943, is a Brazilian literary critic, essayist, and retired professor of literary theory at the University of São Paulo.
David Baldacci
David Baldacci (born 1960) is an American thriller novelist, author of Absolute Power (1996), 54 adult novels in series such as Amos Decker and Will Robie, and founder of the Wish You Well Foundation.
David Bergelson
David Bergelson (דוד בערגעלסאָן, 1884–1952) was a Yiddish novelist, dramatist, and literary editor, considered the first and most important Yiddish modernist prose writer of the twentieth century.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski is an author and critic trained in philosophy, known for popular books on mathematics, The Devil's Delusion against the New Atheism, and a critique of Darwinian evolution.
David Diop
David Diop is the name of two French-language writers tied to Senegal: a Négritude poet (1927–1960) and a novelist who won the 2021 International Booker Prize.
David Eddings
David Eddings (1931-2009), American fantasy author of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, written with wife Leigh Eddings; also The Elenium, The Tamuli, and The Dreamers; first novel High Hunt (1973).
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), American novelist and essayist, author of Infinite Jest (1996); known for maximalist, footnote-heavy prose, New Sincerity, essays, This Is Water, and posthumous The Pale King.
David Gemmell
David Andrew Gemmell (1948–2006), British heroic fantasy author; debut Legend (1984) began the Drenai Saga of 11 standalone novels featuring Druss and Waylander; over 30 novels; Troy Trilogy finished by Stella Gemmell.
David Grann
David Grann (born 1967, New York) is an American narrative nonfiction author and New Yorker staff writer since 2003, known for Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, and The Wager.
David Guramishvili
David Guramishvili (დავით გურამიშვილი) was a Georgian poet, 1705 to 1792, a classic of Georgian poetry known for the autobiographical collection Davitiani, written largely in Ukraine.
David Malouf
David Malouf (1934–2026) was an Australian novelist, poet, and essayist known for Johnno and Remembering Babylon; he won the Miles Franklin Award twice and the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
David Markson
David Markson (1927-2010), American experimental novelist from Albany, New York, author of Wittgenstein's Mistress and the Notecard Quartet (Reader's Block through The Last Novel), collage novels of fragments; also wrote the parodic Western The Ballad of Dingus Magee.
David McCloskey
David McCloskey, American spy novelist and former CIA analyst (eight years, Syria desk, Arab Spring) and McKinsey consultant; author of Damascus Station, Moscow X, The Seventh Floor, The Persian, and London Station; co-host of The Rest is Classified podcast.
David McCullough
David McCullough (1933–2022) was an American popular historian, author of Truman, John Adams, 1776, The Great Bridge, and The Pioneers, two-time Pulitzer and National Book Award winner and narrator of The Civil War.
David Mestre
David Mestre was the pen name of Luís Filipe Guimarães da Mota Veiga, an Angolan poet, journalist, and literary critic born in Portugal in 1948.
David Mitchell (author)
David Mitchell (born 1969) is the English novelist of Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Utopia Avenue, twice Booker-shortlisted and known for genre-hopping interlinked novels sharing one universe. Not the comedian of the same name.
David Nicholls (writer)
David Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter, known for his third novel One Day, a multimillion-selling bestseller adapted for film and television, and the BAFTA-winning screenplay Patrick Melrose.
David Rubadiri
David Rubadiri (James David Rubadiri, 1930–2018) was a Malawian poet, novelist, academic, and diplomat who served as Malawi's first permanent representative to the United Nations before decades of exile.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris, American humorist and essayist, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Calypso; NPR Santaland Diaries; diarist since 1977; lives in West Sussex with Hugh Hamrick; 14 bestselling books.
Davíð Stefánsson
Davíð Stefánsson (1895–1964), known as Davíð Stefánsson frá Fagraskógi, was an Icelandic poet, playwright, and novelist whose 1919 debut Svartar fjaðrir made him famous almost overnight.
David Unaipon
David Unaipon (Ngunaitponi), 1872–1967, Ngarrindjeri preacher, inventor, and first published Aboriginal author from Point McLeay Mission, South Australia; patented a 1909 sheep-shearing handpiece, wrote Native Legends (1929), and appears on the Australian $50 note.
David Viñas
David Viñas was an Argentine novelist, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who co-founded the review Contorno in 1953 and read Argentine literature through its political history.
Dayā Bāl
Dayā Bāl (दया बाल) is an unattested name for a supposed 18th-century bhakti poet; no manuscript, sectarian record, or scholarly publication confirms that such a figure existed.