Novelist

This page lists 20,576 biographies of novelists, covering lives from 100 to 2003. Featuring Jean-Pierre Luminet, W. E. B. Du Bois and A. L. Kennedy. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Jesmyn Ward

b. 1977

Bret Lott

b. 1958

Kate Novak

b. 1950

Florence James

1902 – 1993

Jodi Picoult

b. 1966

Joseph Hergesheimer

1880 – 1954

Alia Tabaï

b. 1961

John Edward Jennings

1906 – 1973

Janelle Taylor

b. 1944

K-Ske Hasegawa

Koshi Kurumizawa

1925 – 1994

Delano Ames

1906 – 1987

Sebastian Rotella

b. 1950

Tom Corcoran

1943 – 2023

Robert Goddard

b. 1954

John Barnes

b. 1957

Ghamar Mahmoud

b. 1980

Brian Thomsen

1959 – 2008

Natsuo Kirino

b. 1951

Eduardo Lalo

b. 1962

Sade Adeniran

b. 1960

David A. Evans

1893 – 1966

Hakan Günday

b. 1976

Mohammad Nasir Ali

1910 – 1975

Amanda Brown

b. 1977

Issui Ogawa

b. 1975

Yun Ko-eun

b. 1980

Maria Susanna Cooper

1737 – 1807

Lalchand Amardinomal

1885 – 1956

Teru Takakura

1891 – 1986

Simon Kernick

b. 1966

G. Sheila Donisthorpe

1898 – 1946

Megan Hart

b. 1971

Robert J. Randisi

b. 1951

Nicole Jordan

b. 1954

James McNeish

1931 – 2016

Mary Castillo

b. 1974

Toshio Shimao

1917 – 1986

Béa Gonzalez

b. 1962

Hank Phillippi Ryan

b. 1951

Frances Tiernan

1846 – 1920

George Dawes Green

b. 1954

Caroline A. Soule

1824 – 1903

Joe Ide

b. 1958

Speed Lamkin

1928 – 2011

Jason Brown

b. 1969

Nina Bouraoui

b. 1967

Charles Samuels

1902 – 1982

Robert Laxalt

1923 – 2001

Emma Lou Thayne

1924 – 2014

Ruth Cardello

William W. Johnstone

1938 – 2004

Lynne Cheney

b. 1941

Romain Coolus

1868 – 1952

Marta Randall

b. 1948

William F. Wu

b. 1951

André Beaunier

1869 – 1925

Arie Kaplan

James Lane Allen

1849 – 1925

Andrea Kleine

b. 1970

John Bergin

b. 1966

Alfian Sa'at

b. 1977

Paul Dayton Bailey

1906 – 1987

Marie-Alice Théard

b. 1948

Edison Marshall

1894 – 1967

Tawny Taylor

b. 1966

Li Kotomi

b. 1989

Katya Alpert Gilden

1914 – 1991

Mary Hobhouse

1864 – 1901

Anna Katharine Green

1846 – 1935

Fran Ross

1935 – 1985

Toshio Moriuchi

1936 – 2023

Christine Johnston

b. 1950

Daniel Hecht

b. 1950

Joan Chase

1936 – 2018

Kay Thorpe

b. 1935

Emily Hester Melvill

1846 – 1906

Rebecca Rush

1779 – 1850

R. Rajasree

John Lescroart

b. 1948

Christopher McKitterick

b. 1967

Lucy Herndon Crockett

1914 – 2002

Thomas Louis Berger

1924 – 2014

Neon Yang

b. 1980

Gina Berriault

1926 – 1999

Eliza Clark

b. 1963

Anita Diamant

b. 1951

Richard Webster

b. 1946

Celia Brayfield

b. 1945

Donald Windham

1920 – 2010

Luis Alberto Urrea

b. 1955

Nate Kenyon

b. 1971

Iris Rainer Dart

b. 1944

Laurice Schehadé

1908 – 2009

Robin Wasserman

b. 1978

Dörthe Binkert

b. 1949

Elizabeth Hand

b. 1957

Charles Perry

1924 – 1969

Desmond Barry

b. 1954

Lady Pansy Lamb

1904 – 1999