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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, British Conservative politician and bestselling novelist (Kane and Abel, 300 million books sold in 47 languages), jailed for perjury in 2001, died October 2026 aged 86.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides, American novelist born in Detroit in 1960, author of The Virgin Suicides (1993), Pulitzer-winning Middlesex (2002), The Marriage Plot (2011), and Fresh Complaint (2017).
Jehane Markham
Jehane Markham (1949–2024), British poet, playwright, and lyricist; wrote BBC Radio 4 plays, the Play for Today Nina (1978), five poetry collections, and performed with her jazz trio.
Jelena Dimitrijević
Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945) was a self-taught Serbian writer and feminist, recognized as the first Serbian woman world traveler who focused on the lives of women in the East.
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan, American novelist and journalist born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco; author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011 Pulitzer Prize), Look at Me, Manhattan Beach, and The Candy House.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan (born 1958) is an American author of 19 books, formerly James Finney Boylan; her 2003 memoir She's Not There was the first bestselling work by a transgender American, and she is former PEN America president and GLAAD co-chair.
Jennifer Hillier
Jennifer Hillier (born 1974) is a Filipino-Canadian thriller author of Jar of Hearts, Little Secrets, Things We Do in the Dark, and Heart of Glass; ITW Thriller Award winner living in Oakville, Ontario.
Jennifer Lash
Jennifer Lash (Jini Fiennes, 1938–1993), English novelist and painter, author of The Burial, The Climate of Belief, and the posthumous Blood Ties; mother of Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Jennifer Saint
Jennifer Saint is a British novelist and Classics scholar who studied at King's College, London. She is known for her retellings of Greek mythology, including Elektra and Atalanta.
Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth (1935-2011), born Jennifer Louise Lee, was a British nurse-midwife, musician, and writer whose Call the Midwife trilogy of memoirs of 1950s East End midwifery became UK bestsellers and inspired the BBC series.
Jenny Han
Jenny Han (born 1980, Richmond, Virginia) is an American YA romance author of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty series, adapted into Netflix films and the Prime Video and Netflix series she showruns via Jenny Kissed Me.
Jens Baggesen
Jens Baggesen (Jens Immanuel Baggesen, 1764–1826) was a Danish poet and prose writer of European outlook who wrote partly in German, best remembered for the travel work Labyrinten.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, a central figure of Denmark's Modern Breakthrough who translated Darwin's major works into Danish.
Jeong Ji-yong
Jeong Ji-yong (정지용) was a leading Korean modernist poet of the Japanese colonial period, known for "Glass Window" and "Nostalgia"; he vanished during the Korean War in 1950.
Jeph Loeb
Jeph Loeb (born 1958), American comic book, film, and television writer-producer; known for Tim Sale collaborations (Batman: The Long Halloween, Hush with Jim Lee) and as Marvel's Head of Television (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Jessica Jones).
Jeppe Aakjær
Jeppe Aakjær, born Jeppe Jensen (1866–1930), was a Danish poet and novelist from Jutland known for nature poetry and social realism about the rural poor.
Jeremias Gotthelf
Jeremias Gotthelf was the pen name of Albert Bitzius, a Swiss pastor and writer whose novels of peasant life in the Emmental made him a leading Swiss author.
Jeremy Lloyd
Jeremy Lloyd (1930–2014) was an English comedy writer and actor, co-creator of Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!, and recipient of an O.B.E. for services to British comedy.
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome (Jerome Klapka Jerome, 1859–1927), English humorist and editor, author of Three Men in a Boat (1889) and Three Men on the Bummel; leading New Humour writer, founder of To-Day and co-editor of The Idler.
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024) was an American poet, translator, and anthologist who founded ethnopoetics, the study of oral and tribal poetries, and published more than eighty books over a sixty-year career.
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (1933-2017), American hard SF and military science fiction author, co-author with Larry Niven of The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer, creator of the CoDominium sequence, Byte columnist, and space policy advisor.
Jerry Siegel
Jerry Siegel (Jerome Siegel, 1914-1996), American comic book writer who co-created Superman with Joe Shuster, debuting in Action Comics #1, June 1938; sold the rights for $130, fought decades of losing legal battles, and won restored credit and a $20,000-a-year stipend in 1975.
Jerry Stahl
Jerry Stahl is an American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist best known for Permanent Midnight (1995), a heroin-addiction memoir adapted into a 1998 film starring Ben Stiller.
Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000) was a Polish editor and political writer who founded the Literary Institute and edited the Paris-based émigré monthly Kultura from 1947 until his death.
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (Jerzy Kosinski, born Jerzy Lewinkopf), Polish-American novelist (1933-1991), author of The Painted Bird, Steps (National Book Award), and Being There; PEN president, undone by 1982 Village Voice plagiarism and ghostwriting accusations, died by suicide in 1991.
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977) is an American novelist from DeLisle, Mississippi, author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing, the only woman to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice, plus Men We Reaped, Let Us Descend, and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro, born 1944 in Landskrona, is a Swedish poet and classical philologist who has lived in Paris since the 1970s and joined the Swedish Academy in 2006.
Jessica Durlacher
Jessica Durlacher is a Dutch novelist, columnist, and screenwriter born in Amsterdam in 1961, known for novels about children of Holocaust survivors, including the bestseller De dochter (2000).
Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn, born Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, is a Filipino American playwright, novelist, poet, and performance artist best known for her debut novel Dogeaters (1990), which won the American Book Award.
Jessie R. Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961), American novelist, poet, and literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) and The Brownies' Book; author of four novels including Plum Bun; mentor of Hughes, Cullen, McKay, and Toomer.