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Johannes Ewald
Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) was a Danish poet and dramatist, considered his country's leading lyricist, who wrote the royal anthem "Kong Christian stod ved høien Mast".
Johannes Jørgensen
Johannes Jørgensen, born and died in Svendborg, was a Danish lyric poet and critic who introduced Symbolism to Denmark and converted to Catholicism in 1896.
Johannes Linnankoski
Johannes Linnankoski, pen name of Vihtori Peltonen (1869–1913), was a Finnish author whose 1905 novel Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta became the first Finnish bestseller; he also founded the newspaper Uusimaa.
Johannes Pauli
Johannes Pauli (c. 1450/1455 – after 1519) was a German Franciscan preacher remembered for Schimpf und Ernst, the first German-language Schwank book, printed in 1522.
Jóhannes úr Kötlum
Jóhannes úr Kötlum, born Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson (1899–1972), was an Icelandic poet, novelist, translator, and member of parliament, best known internationally for his 1932 children's verse book Jólin koma.
Johannes V. Jensen
Johannes V. Jensen was a Danish author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944, best known for Kongens Fald and the evolutionary cycle Den lange Rejse.
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) was an English poet and cultural historian, author of the seven-volume Renaissance in Italy and a pioneer in the study of homosexuality.
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735) was a Scottish physician, mathematician, and satirist who served as physician to Queen Anne, created John Bull as the standard personification of England in 1712, and wrote the first significance test in statistics.
John Ashbery
John Ashbery (1927–2017) was an American poet of the New York School whose collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror won three major awards in 1976.
John Banville
John Banville (born 1945, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist who won the 2005 Booker Prize for The Sea and wrote crime novels as Benjamin Black, including the Quirke series, retiring that pseudonym in 2020.
John Barth
John Barth (1930–April 2, 2024) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a leading postmodernist known for The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, and Lost in the Funhouse.
John Berryman
John Berryman, born John Allyn Smith, Jr., was an American confessional poet whose 385-poem sequence The Dream Songs won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, broadcaster, and conservationist, UK Poet Laureate 1972–1984; author of Collected Poems (1958), which sold over 100,000 copies, and champion of Victorian architecture.
John Boyne
John Boyne is an Irish novelist who has published 22 works in more than 30 years. He is most famous for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
John Brunner (author)
John Brunner (1934–1995), British science fiction author of the Club of Rome quartet: Stand on Zanzibar (1969 Hugo), The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider, which coined the term 'worm' for a computer virus.
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), Scottish novelist and Governor-General of Canada; author of The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the Richard Hannay thriller adapted by Hitchcock in 1935.
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Nonconformist tinker-turned-preacher jailed twelve years in Bedford, wrote about sixty books including The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Grace Abounding (1666), and The Holy War (1682).
John Cheever
John Cheever (1912–1982), American short story writer and novelist, the 'Chekhov of the suburbs'; author of The Wapshot Chronicle, 'The Swimmer', and the Pulitzer-winning The Stories of John Cheever.
John Clare
John Clare (13 July 1793 to 1864), the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, was an English Romantic-era poet and naturalist of rural life, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820), who spent his last decades in asylums.
John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke (born 1949, Salford), the 'punk poet' and 'Bard of Salford', rose on the late-1970s punk scene, scored a 1979 Top 40 hit with Gimmix! Play Loud, and gained new fame via Arctic Monkeys' I Wanna Be Yours; first poet to headline a UK arena (2025).
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) was a British novelist and itinerant lecturer in America who wrote Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance, and is ranked among the great 20th-century novelists.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald (John Dann MacDonald, 1916–1986), American suspense writer, creator of the 21-book Travis McGee series and The Executioners (filmed as Cape Fear); 78 books, over 75 million copies, National Book Award 1980.
John Donne
John Donne (1572–1631), English metaphysical poet and Anglican Dean of St Paul's, known for conceits like the compass comparison, his secret marriage to Anne, and his 20th-century reputation revival.
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos (1896-1970), American modernist novelist of Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the U.S.A. trilogy (1930-1936), known for Newsreel, Camera Eye, and biography collage techniques.
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born 1941) is an American novelist, essayist, and memoirist from Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice.
John Figueroa
John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920–1999) was a Jamaican poet, broadcaster, and anthologist, the first West Indian to hold a professorship at the University of the West Indies.
John Fowles
John Fowles (1926–2005), English novelist of The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman; Oxford-educated, lived reclusively at Lyme Regis, wrote existentialist, metafictional bestsellers and nature non-fiction.
John Foxe
John Foxe (1516/17–1587) was an English martyrologist and church historian whose Actes and Monuments, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, first printed in 1563, shaped English Protestantism.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English novelist and dramatist who first wrote as John Sinjohn; author of The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and the play Justice, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Gardner (British writer)
John Edmund Gardner (1926–2007), British thriller writer, author of over 50 novels, sixteen James Bond continuation novels from Licence Renewed (1981), the Boysie Oakes spoofs, and Moriarty and Herbie Kruger series; distinct from the American novelist John Gardner.