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John Scalzi
John Scalzi (born 1969), American science fiction author of Old Man's War and Redshirts, Hugo and Locus Award winner, former SFWA president, blogger at Whatever since 1998.
John Skelton
John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) was an English poet, satirist, and priest who served the Tudor court as tutor to the young Henry VIII and was later named orator regius.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (1902–1968), Salinas-born American novelist and 1962 Nobel laureate, author of Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize), East of Eden, and Travels with Charley.
John Suckling
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641 or 1642) was an English Cavalier poet, playwright, and courtier of Charles I, known for witty love lyrics like "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, and critic, author of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy and two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, chronicler of middle-class American life.
John W. Campbell
John W. Campbell (John Wood Campbell, Jr., 1910–1971), American science fiction editor of Astounding/Analog 1937–1971 and author of Who Goes There?; shaped the Golden Age, discovered Asimov and Heinlein, controversial for racism and Dianetics advocacy.
John William Polidori
John William Polidori (1795-1821), English physician to Lord Byron, wrote The Vampyre (1819), first published under Byron's name; it created the aristocratic vampire Lord Ruthven and founded English vampire fiction.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), Restoration courtier, poet, and satirist under Charles II; leader of the libertine "Merry Gang," author of A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind, later converted through Gilbert Burnet; only three poems printed in his lifetime, canon fixed by Vieth's 1968 edition.
John Wyndham
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris), 1903–1969, English science fiction author of The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, and The Midwich Cuckoos; labelled master of the cosy catastrophe.
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes, pen name of Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 1969), is an English novelist known for Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse (born 1959, Haugesund) is a Norwegian Nynorsk-language novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright; author of Septology and over 40 plays, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Nynorsk laureate.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, an Icelandic novelist and poet born in Reykjavík in 1963, made his international breakthrough with the Trilogy About the Boy, set in remote Icelandic fishing communities.
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969) is an American presidential biographer and former Newsweek editor who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for American Lion and holds a chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
Jón Þorláksson
Jón Þorláksson á Bægisá (1744–1819) was an Icelandic poet and priest who pioneered the Enlightenment in Iceland, best known for translating Milton's Paradise Lost into Icelandic.
Jonas Aistis
Jonas Aistis (1904–1973), born Jonas Aleksandravičius, was a Lithuanian lyric poet and essayist, a leading figure of the interwar neoromantic generation who lived in exile in the United States.
Jonas Biliūnas
Jonas Biliūnas (1879–1907) was a Lithuanian writer considered the founder of the Lithuanian lyrical psychological novella; he died of tuberculosis at 28 in Zakopane, Poland, in 1907.
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807–1845) was an Icelandic poet and natural scientist who co-founded the journal Fjölnir and is regarded as the father of Icelandic Romanticism and one of Iceland's greatest poets.
Jonas Lie
Jonas Lie, full name Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (1833–1908), was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, one of the four greats of nineteenth-century Norwegian literature alongside Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Kielland.
Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames (born 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and TV writer, author of The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!, and You Were Never Really Here, and creator of HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt Talk.
Jonathan Baumbach
Jonathan Baumbach (1933–2019), American experimental novelist, film critic, and Brooklyn College professor; co-founded the Fiction Collective/FC2 with Peter Spielberg; author of Reruns, B, and Dreams of Molly; father of filmmaker Noah Baumbach.
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing house founded in January 1921 by Jonathan Cape and George Wren Howard, now a Vintage imprint of Penguin Random House.
Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Carroll (Jonathan Samuel Carroll), American novelist living in Vienna, author of The Land of Laughs (1980) and Mr. Breakfast (2023); blends realism and the fantastic ('impossible realism'), winner of World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen, born 1959, American novelist and essayist; author of The Twenty-Seventh City, The Corrections (2001 National Book Award), Freedom, Purity, and Crossroads; known for the Oprah Book Club controversy and the 2010 Time 'Great American Novelist' cover.
Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall (born 1972) is an American literary scholar at Washington & Jefferson College known for applying evolutionary theory to literature in books including The Storytelling Animal and The Rape of Troy.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), also known for Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, is an American-Jewish novelist; his experimental, typographically playful novels treat Holocaust and 9/11 trauma.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish satirist and Church of Ireland clergyman, dean of St Patrick's, Dublin; author of Gulliver's Travels (1726), A Tale of a Tub (1704), and A Modest Proposal (1729).
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) was a Dutch poet and playwright of the Dutch Golden Age, known for the tragedies Gysbreght van Aemstel and Lucifer.
Jordan Ngubane
Jordan Ngubane was a South African journalist and author who co-founded the Congress Youth League and edited the newspaper Inkundla ya Bantu from 1944 to 1951.
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado (Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, 1912–2001) was a Brazilian journalist and novelist of Bahia whose books, including Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, made him Brazil's most translated 20th-century writer.
Jorge Barbosa
Jorge Barbosa (Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa, 1902–1971) was a Cape Verdean poet who cofounded the review Claridade in 1936, and whose 1935 debut Arquipélago began modern Cape Verdean poetry.