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Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989), American postmodern short story writer and novelist, author of Snow White, The Dead Father, and Sixty Stories; a New Yorker regular whose collage-style fiction won the 1972 National Book Award.
Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), American crime novelist also known as Richard Stark, wrote over 100 novels under 15 or 16 pen names, creating the thief Parker and comic thief John Dortmunder, winning three Edgar Awards.
Donald Hall
Donald Hall (1928–2018) was an American poet and essayist who served as 14th US Poet Laureate in 2006–2007, writing from his family farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
Donald Horne
Donald Horne (Donald Richmond Horne, 1921–2005) was an Australian journalist, editor, and social critic, best known as the author of The Lucky Country (1964) and a leading public intellectual.
Donald Justice
Donald Rodney Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems and taught many noted writers.
Donna Leon
Donna Leon is an American crime writer born in 1942. She is best known for her long-running series of novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, which are set in Venice.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, American novelist born 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, author of The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; known for decade-long gaps between novels and writing by hand in pencil.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg (born 1987) is an American classicist, author of Not All Dead White Men on antifeminist uses of classical texts, and founding editor-in-chief of the online classics publication Eidolon (2015–2020).
Dora Melegari
Dora Melegari, full name Dorette Marie Melegari (1849–1924), was a Swiss-born novelist and journalist who wrote in French and Italian and co-founded Italy's national council of women.
Doris Kareva
Doris Kareva, born in Tallinn in 1958 to composer Hillar Kareva, is an Estonian poet, translator, and UNESCO official, one of Estonia's leading and most translated poets.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an American presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner for No Ordinary Time; author of Team of Rivals, basis for Spielberg's Lincoln, and An Unfinished Love Story (2024).
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (Doris May Taylor, 1919-2013), British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) was an American author and educational reformer who popularized the Montessori method, helped choose books for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and wrote Understood Betsy.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), English crime writer, poet, playwright, and translator, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey (Whose Body?, 1923), co-founder of the Detection Club, Queens of Crime figure, later religious dramatist and Dante translator.
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild, 1893–1967), American poet, critic, and screenwriter of the Algonquin Round Table and The New Yorker's founding editorial board; author of Enough Rope (1926) and Oscar-nominated co-writer of A Star Is Born.
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) was a British diarist, prose writer, and poet, sister of William Wordsworth, whose Grasmere journals recorded Lake District life and fed his poetry.
Dorrit Willumsen
Dorrit Willumsen, born in 1940 in Copenhagen, is a Danish author whose modernist novels center on women's experience; she won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1997 for Bang.
Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović (Доситеј Обрадовић), born Dimitrije, was a Serbian Enlightenment writer and language reformer who founded the University of Belgrade's predecessor and became Serbia's first education minister in 1811.
Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton (Dorothy Marguerite Easton, born 1944) is an American San Francisco marriage and family therapist and author; with Janet W. Hardy she wrote The Ethical Slut (1997), a foundational polyamory guide, plus BDSM handbooks.
Doug Moench
Doug Moench (born 1948, Chicago) is an American comic book writer, co-creator of Moon Knight, Deathlok, and Black Mask, and writer of two major Batman runs and Knightfall.
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), British comic writer, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy across radio, novels, TV, games and film; also Dirk Gently novels, Last Chance to See, Doctor Who scripts, and tech ventures.
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland, born 1961, is a Canadian novelist and visual artist whose debut novel Generation X (1991) named a generation and coined the term "McJob".
Douglas Gresham
Douglas Gresham (born 1945, New York City) is C. S. Lewis's stepson, author of Lenten Lands and Jack's Life, co-producer of the 2005 Narnia film, and a custodian of the Lewis estate.
Douglas Livingstone (poet)
Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996) was a South African poet, playwright, and marine bacteriologist, often cited as South Africa's leading twentieth-century poet; his major late work was A Littoral Zone (1991).
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss is the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), American children's author and cartoonist of The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham; over 60 books, 1984 Pulitzer Prize, six titles withdrawn in 2021.
Dr. Seuss bibliography
Dr. Seuss bibliography: the complete book list of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), also published as Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone; 48 lifetime books from Mulberry Street (1937) to Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990), plus posthumous and withdrawn titles.
Dragotin Kette
Dragotin Kette (1876–1899) was a Slovene poet, one of the four central figures of the Slovene Moderna, known for his modernized sonnets and lyric poetry.
Dramatist
A dramatist is a writer who creates drama meant to be performed rather than read alone: playwrights write scripts for theatrical productions, and screenwriters write for film and television, as original stories or adaptations.
Du Xunhe
Du Xunhe (杜荀鹤, 846–904) was a late Tang dynasty poet from Chizhou, modern Anhui, whose plain regulated verse depicted the suffering of common people under war and heavy taxation.
DuBose Heyward
DuBose Heyward (Edwin DuBose Heyward, 1885-1940), Charleston novelist, poet, and playwright, author of the 1925 novel Porgy, source of the play Porgy (1927) and Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935); also wrote Mamba's Daughters and co-founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina.