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Jan Carew
Jan Carew, born Jan Rynveld Carew (1920–2012), was a Guyanese novelist, playwright, poet, broadcaster, and scholar, a leading figure in pan-African and Caribbean studies best known for the 1958 novel Black Midas.
Jan Chryzostom Pasek
Jan Chryzostom Pasek (c. 1636 – 1701) was a Polish soldier and memoirist whose vivid Memoirs depict seventeenth-century warfare and noble life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Jan Cremer
Jan Cremer (1940–2024) was a Dutch writer and visual artist whose debut novel Ik Jan Cremer (1964) broke 1960s sexual taboos and sold about 400,000 copies in the Netherlands.
Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison (Jan Ellison Baszucki), American novelist, author of the debut novel A Small Indiscretion (Random House, 2014), a USA TODAY bestseller and O. Henry Prize-winning short story writer.
Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold, born 1939 in Oslo, is a Norwegian modernist poet and translator who debuted in 1965 and became a central figure of the Profil generation.
Jan Frans Willems
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) was a Flemish philologist, poet, and literary historian known as the father of the Flemish movement, who edited medieval Dutch texts like Reinaert de Vos.
Jan Fridegård
Jan Fridegård (1897–1968) was a Swedish novelist and poet of proletarian literature, known for the autobiographical Lars Hård series and a Viking Age trilogy told from a slave's view.
Jan Gopal
Jan Gopal (जन गोपाल, c. 1563–1640) was a Hindi nirguṇ bhakti poet and merchant disciple of Dādū Dayāl, author of the Dādū Janma Līlā, the earliest account of Dādū's life.
Jan Guillou
Jan Guillou, born 1944, is a Swedish journalist and novelist known for the Carl Hamilton spy novels and exposing the secret intelligence agency IB in 1973.
Jan Herben
Jan Herben (1857–1936) was a Czech journalist, historian, and politician, founder and chief editor of the periodical Čas, the main press organ of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's Realist movement.
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch physician and poet and ship's doctor, one of the major Dutch poets of the interwar period.
Jan Karon
Jan Karon (Janice Meredith, born 1937) is the American author of the 15-novel Mitford series about Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh; a former advertising executive, she debuted at 57 and sold over 40 million books.
Jan Kjærstad
Jan Kjærstad (born 1953) is a Norwegian novelist and essayist, a central figure in recent Norwegian literature best known for the Jonas Wergeland trilogy, which earned the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2001.
Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793–1852) was a Slovak poet, Lutheran pastor, and Slavic scholar whose sonnet cycle Slávy dcera became a foundation of modern Slovak poetry and voiced Slavic reciprocity.
Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926–2020), born James Humphry Morris, Welsh travel writer, historian, and journalist; author of Pax Britannica, Venice, and the transition memoir Conundrum; reported the 1953 Everest first ascent for The Times.
Jan Neruda
Jan Neruda (1834–1891) was a Czech poet, journalist, and critic who led the Májovci generation and is best known for his 1878 story collection Tales of the Little Quarter.
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) was a Polish essayist, novelist, and translator best known for Mitologia (1924), his prose Odyssey, and 45 years as president of the Polish PEN Club.
Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki (1761–1815) was a Polish count, writer, traveler, and scholar who wrote in French and is best known for the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist of gentry life, author of six novels published 1811–1818 including Pride and Prejudice and Emma; pioneer of free indirect discourse, first published anonymously as "by a Lady".
Jane Cornwell
Jane Cornwell was an Australian-born, London-based journalist and critic covering jazz, global music, arts and travel; Evening Standard jazz critic from 2014, Songlines contributing editor, author of the 2015 memoir The Whirl.
Jane Fallon
Jane Fallon, full name Jane Elizabeth Mary Fallon, is an English novelist and TV producer whose comic novels about friendship and revenge include Getting Rid of Matthew (2007).
Jane Goldman
Jane Goldman (born 1970) is a British screenwriter and author, screenwriting debut Stardust (2007) with Matthew Vaughn; wrote Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black, Kingsman films, and Rebecca; not the American CHOW founder of the same name.
Jane Hawking
Jane Hawking, born Jane Wilde, English author and academic, first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking; married 1965, divorced 1995; wrote Music to Move the Stars (1999) and Travelling to Infinity (2007), basis of The Theory of Everything.
Jane Wagner
Jane Wagner (born 1935, Morristown, Tennessee) is an American playwright, director, and producer, wife of Lily Tomlin, known for J.T., the Tomlin specials, and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (1939–2026), American author of more than 400 books for children and adults, including Owl Moon, The Devil's Arithmetic, the How Do Dinosaurs...? series, and the Pit Dragon trilogy; called the Hans Christian Andersen of America.
Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich (born 1943) is an American novelist, creator of the Stephanie Plum bounty-hunter series beginning with One for the Money (1994), after a romance career as Steffie Hall; Hot Six was her first #1 New York Times bestseller.
Janet Frame
Janet Frame (Janet Paterson Frame) was a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet whose three-volume autobiography became Jane Campion's 1990 film An Angel at My Table.
Janette Oke
Janette Oke (born February 18, 1935) is the Canadian author of Love Comes Softly (1979), pioneer of inspirational romance with over 30 million copies sold, Hallmark adaptations, and ECPA, CBA, and Gold Medallion awards.
Janina Degutytė
Janina Degutytė (1928–1990) was a Lithuanian lyric poet, translator, and children's author who published nine poetry collections from 1959 to 1984 and won the 1968 LSSR State Prize.
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš (1877–1962) was a Latvian writer, poet, painter, and illustrator, a founder of Latvian children's book illustration, known for the Aija trilogy and Baltā grāmata.