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Jesús G. Maestro
Jesús G. Maestro (Jesús González Maestro, born 1967, Gijón) is a Spanish professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universidade de Vigo, author of the 25-volume Crítica de la razón literaria based on Gustavo Bueno's philosophical materialism, and a viral YouTube lecturer on Cervantes.
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez (born 1974) is an American cartoonist from San Jose who created Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, and I Feel Sick for Slave Labor Graphics, and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim (2001), later revived as Oni Press comics and the 2019 Netflix film Enter the Florpus.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri, British-American novelist and translator, born 1967 London; Pulitzer 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies; wrote The Namesake and The Lowland, then Italian works like In altre parole and Whereabouts.
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (贾平凹), born 1952 in Shaanxi, is a Chinese novelist and essayist whose fiction about rural life won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for Qinqiang (2005).
Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino, Canadian-American essayist and screenwriter, New Yorker staff writer since 2016, author of the 2019 essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Won the 2023 National Magazine Award for abortion writing; formerly deputy editor of Jezebel.
Jiang Guangci
Jiang Guangci (蒋光慈), born Jiang Ruheng, was a Chinese poet, novelist, and early Communist Party member who pioneered revolutionary literature and founded the Sun Society in 1928.
Jiang Shiquan
Jiang Shiquan (蔣士銓, 1725–1785) was a Qing dynasty poet, playwright, and literary critic from Jiangxi, one of the three great masters of the Qianlong era.
Jiao Tong
Jiao Tong (焦桐) is the pen name of Ye Zhen-fu, a Taiwanese poet, essayist, editor, and professor born in Kaohsiung in 1956, known for establishing and promoting dietary literature.
Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das (জীবনানন্দ দাশ; 1899–1954) was a Bengali modernist poet and professor, born in Barisal and known for Banalata Sen and Rupasi Bangla, who died in a tram accident in Kolkata in 1954.
Jie Xisi
Jie Xisi (揭傒斯) was a Chinese poet, prose writer, calligrapher, and historian of the mid-Yuan dynasty, ranked among the four great Yuan poets and four great prose writers.
Jigar Moradabadi
Jigar Moradabadi, born Ali Sikandar (1890–1960), was an Indian Urdu ghazal poet known for his stirring mushaira recitals; his collection Atish-i-Gul won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958.
Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren (Jillian Lauren Shriner), American author of the memoirs Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (2010) and Everything You Ever Wanted (2015), the novel Pretty, and Behold the Monster (2023) about serial killer Samuel Little; wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper (Jill Sallitt, 1937-2025), British journalist and author of the Rutshire Chronicles including Riders and Rivals, creator of the bonkbuster genre, selling over 11 million UK copies.
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is an American fantasy author and New York Times bestseller known for The Dresden Files, urban fantasy novels about Chicago wizard detective Harry Dresden.
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, full name James Dennis Carroll, was an American poet and musician whose 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries became a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
Jim Davis (born 1945), American cartoonist from Marion, Indiana, creator of the Garfield comic strip (debuted June 19, 1978) and founder of Paws, Inc.; not the actor Jim Davis of Dallas.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison (1937–2016), American poet, novelist, and essayist from Grayling, Michigan; author of Legends of the Fall, Plain Song, and food writing; considered himself a poet first.
Jimmy Keene
Jimmy Keene, or James Keene, is an American author and former drug dealer who went undercover in prison to elicit a confession from suspected serial killer Larry Hall.
Jin Shengtan
Jin Shengtan (金圣叹, 1608–1661) was a Chinese literary critic of the late Ming and early Qing who annotated the Water Margin and Romance of the Western Chamber.
Jin Yong
Jin Yong, pen name of Zha Liangyong, also known as Louis Cha (1924–2018), was a Hong Kong wuxia novelist and Ming Pao founder whose fifteen martial-arts novels are among the most adapted in Chinese fiction.
Jing Cha
Jing Cha (景差) was a Warring States poet of Chu, named alongside Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Chu ci tradition, remembered for the disputed poem Da Zhao.
Jippensha Ikku
Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) was a Japanese comic-fiction writer of the late Edo period, author of the bestselling Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige about the travelers Yaji and Kita.
Jiří Třanovský
Jiří Třanovský, also Juraj Tranovský or Georgius Tranoscius (1592–1637), was a Lutheran pastor and hymnwriter called the father of Slovak hymnody, who compiled the Cithara Sanctorum.
Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø, born Jon Nesbø in Oslo in 1960, is a Norwegian crime writer and musician whose Harry Hole series has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
Joachim Camerarius
Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574) was a German humanist, classical philologist, and Lutheran reformer, counted the most distinguished German philologist of the 16th century after Erasmus and a close collaborator of Philipp Melanchthon.
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz, pen name of Hans Gustav Bötticher (1883–1934), was a German writer, cabaret performer, and painter known for his comic verse and the sailor figure Kuttel Daddeldu.
Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa (Joan Brossa i Cuervo, 1919–1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, and visual poet from Barcelona and a founder of the avant-garde group Dau al Set.
Joan Vollmer
Joan Vollmer (1923-1951), also Joan Vollmer Burroughs, hosted the New York apartment where Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg formed the Beat circle; her common-law husband William S. Burroughs shot her dead in Mexico City in 1951.
Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist (1762–1851) whose Plays on the Passions traced single emotions like love and hate; she published 28 plays and was compared to Shakespeare.
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (1937–2011), American feminist science fiction writer, critic, and University of Washington professor; author of The Female Man (1975), Picnic on Paradise, and How to Suppress Women's Writing; Hugo and Nebula winner.