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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American novelist of Cooperstown, New York, author of Precaution, The Spy, and the five Leatherstocking Tales featuring Natty Bumppo; former U.S. Navy midshipman and best-known American novelist of the early 19th century.
James Frey
James Frey, American author born 1969 in Cleveland; wrote A Million Little Pieces (2003), a memoir exposed as largely fabricated by The Smoking Gun in 2006 and disowned by Oprah Winfrey; later reinvented as a novelist with Bright Shiny Morning and as creator of the Pittacus Lore Lorien Legacies series.
James Gould Cozzens
James Gould Cozzens was an American novelist who wrote thirteen novels between 1924 and 1968 and won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Guard of Honor.
James Herbert
James Herbert (1943-2013), British horror novelist, author of The Rats, The Fog, and Haunted; 23 novels, tens of millions sold, OBE 2010; distinct from Frank Herbert of Dune.
James Hogg
James Hogg (1770–1835), known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was a Scottish writer whose novel The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) is now a recognized masterpiece.
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist novelist, short story writer, and poet; author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939); lived in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris; Ulysses banned until the 1933 Woolsey decision.
James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter (James Keir Baxter, 1926–1972) was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and religious commentator, pre-eminent poet of his generation, who founded a commune at Jerusalem in 1969.
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke (born 1936, Houston) is an American crime novelist, creator of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux (The Neon Rain, 1987) and the Holland family series; two-time Edgar winner, 2009 MWA Grand Master, 2024 CWA Diamond Dagger co-recipient.
James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy (1927-1993) was a Detroit-born American novelist, playwright, and actor; Blue Denim (1958) and Midnight Cowboy (1965) distinguished him from contemporaries, the latter becoming the only X-rated Best Picture Oscar winner.
James Macpherson
James Macpherson (1736–1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, and literary collector known as the "translator" of the Ossian poems, which sparked a famous authenticity controversy.
James McAuley
James McAuley was an Australian poet, critic, and academic who co-created the Ern Malley hoax in 1944 and founded the literary journal Quadrant in 1956.
James McBride (writer)
James McBride (born 1957) is an American author, musician, and screenwriter from Brooklyn, known for The Color of Water, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (1926–1995) was an American poet who won two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, best known for the Ouija-inspired epic The Changing Light at Sandover.
James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall (1887–1951), American author and Lafayette Escadrille aviator from Colfax, Iowa; co-author with Charles Nordhoff of Mutiny on the Bounty and the Bounty trilogy; settled in Tahiti.
James P. Hogan (writer)
James P. Hogan (James Patrick Hogan, 1941–2010) was a British hard science fiction author, author of Inherit the Stars and the Giants series, a two-time Prometheus and three-time Seiun Award winner, distinct from other writers named James Hogan.
James Patterson
James Patterson (born 1947, Newburgh, New York) is the American author of the Alex Cross thrillers and the world's best-selling living novelist, with 400 million-plus copies sold, a Guinness record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and a co-author outline system.
James Rollins
James Rollins, pen name of James Paul Czajkowski (born 1961), American thriller author and former Sacramento veterinarian; creator of the 18-book Sigma Force series, also writes fantasy as James Clemens.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American poet, critic, and diplomat, a Fireside Poet from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
James Salter
James Salter, born James Horowitz, was an American novelist and screenwriter who flew more than 100 combat missions in Korea before leaving the Air Force to write.
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler (1923–1991) was an American poet, novelist, and art critic, a central member of the New York School who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell (1904–1979) was an American novelist and leading naturalist whose Studs Lonigan trilogy, drawn from his South Side Chicago childhood, became a modern classic.
James Tiptree Jr.
James Tiptree Jr., pen name of Alice B. Sheldon (1915–1987), American psychologist and feminist science fiction writer; male pseudonym revealed 1976; three Nebulas, two Hugos; namesake of the Otherwise Award.
James Welch (writer)
James Welch (1940–2003), Blackfeet-Gros Ventre novelist and poet of Browning, Montana; author of Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow, The Indian Lawyer, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk; forerunner of the Native American Renaissance.
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), American poet, lyricist, diplomat, lawyer, and NAACP leader; wrote 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' (1900), the Black National Anthem, and led the NAACP as its first Black executive secretary.
James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet (1849-1916), was an American dialect poet and performer from Greenfield, Indiana, author of "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and namesake of Riley Hospital for Children.
Jamgon Kongtrul
Jamgon Kongtrul, also known as Jamgön Kongtrül the Great and born Yonten Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and treasure revealer who co-founded the Rimé movement and compiled the Five Great Treasuries.
Jamie Hewlett
Jamie Hewlett (born 1968) is a British illustrator and designer, co-creator of Tank Girl (1988, Deadline, with Alan Martin) and of the virtual band Gorillaz with Damon Albarn, and Designer of the Year 2006.
Jamil Buthayna
Jamil Buthayna (جميل بثينة), the poet Jamil ibn Abdallah, was an Umayyad-era Arabian master of ghazal ʿudhri, chaste love poetry devoted wholly to Buthayna; he died in 701.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish Baroque poet and diplomat, Grand Treasurer of the Crown, often considered the best poet of the Polish Baroque, and a paid agent of Louis XIV.
Jan Blahoslav
Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571) was a Czech bishop of the Unity of Brethren, humanist scholar, and translator of the Czech New Testament of 1564, predecessor of the Bible kralická.