| Edward Abbey | 1927 - 1989 |
| Lynn Abbey | 1948 |
| Lyman Abbott | 1835 - 1922 |
| Peter Ackroyd | 1949 |
| Louis Adamic | 1898 - 1951 |
| Aesop | 620 BC - 560 BC |
| Conrad Aiken | 1889 - 1973 |
| George Alec Effinger | 1947 - 2002 |
| Charles Alexander Eastman | 1858 - 1939 |
| Scott Alexander | |
| Horatio Alger | 1832 - 1899 |
| Hervey Allen | 1889 - 1949 |
| James Allen | 1864 - 1912 |
| Martin Amis | 1949 |
| Virginia C. Andrews | 1923 - 1986 |
| Miguel Angel Ruiz | 1952 |
| Kenneth Anger | 1930 |
| Daisy Ashford | |
| Robert Asprin | 1946 |
| Margot Asquith | 1864 - 1945 |
| Ama Ata Aidoo | 1942 |
| Athenaeus | |
| Berthold Auerbach | 1812 - 1882 |
| Paul Auster | 1947 |
| Bagehot | 1826 - 1877 |
| Enid Bagnold | 1889 - 1981 |
| James A. Baldwin | 1924 - 1987 |
| J. G. Ballard | 1930 |
| Sarah Ban Breathnach | |
| Russell Banks | 1940 |
| Neal Barnard | |
| Bruce Barton | 1886 - 1967 |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856 - 1919 |
| Peter S. Beagle | 1939 |
| James Beard | 1903 - 1985 |
| Evelyn Beatrice Hall | 1868 - 1919 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811 - 1896 |
| Edward Bellamy | 1850 - 1898 |
| Ludwig Bemelmans | 1898 - 1962 |
| Peter Benchley | 1940 - 2006 |
| A. C. Benson | 1862 - 1925 |
| Nicolas Bentley | 1907 - 1978 |
| Michael Bergdahl | 1954 |
| Georges Bernanos | 1888 - 1948 |
| Pierre Berton | 1920 |
| Augustine Birrell | 1850 - 1933 |
| James Blish | 1921 - 1975 |
| William Blum | 1933 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313 - 1375 |
| Tom Bodett | 1909 |
| Louis E. Boone | 1941 |
| Hal Borland | 1900 - 1978 |
| George Borrow | 1803 - 1881 |
| Anthony Bourdain | 1956 |
| James Bovard | 1909 |
| Stewart Brand | 1938 |
| Chris A. Bridges | 1965 |
| David Brin | 1950 |
| Poppy Z. Brite | 1967 |
| David Brock | 1909 |
| Fawn M. Brodie | 1915 - 1981 |
| Harold Brodkey | 1930 - 1996 |
| Dan Brown | 1964 |
| Tammy Bruce | 1962 |
| Steven Brust | 1955 |
| Vincent Bugliosi | 1934 |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920 - 1994 |
| Gelett Burgess | 1866 - 1951 |
| John Burroughs | 1837 - 1921 |
| Leo Buscaglia | 1924 - 1998 |
| Amir Butler | |
| Charles Buxton | 1823 - 1871 |
| John Byrne | |
| Meg Cabot | 1967 |
| Taylor Caldwell | 1900 - 1985 |
| Julia Cameron | 1948 |
| Joseph Campbell | 1904 - 1987 |
| Elias Canetti | 1905 - 1994 |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 1879 - 1958 |
| Eric Carle | 1929 |
| Richard Carlson | |
| Marie Carmichael Stopes | 1880 - 1958 |
| Humphrey Carpenter | 1946 - 2005 |
| Howie Carr | 1909 |
| Jonathan Carroll | 1949 |
| Lewis Carrol | 1832 - 1898 |
| Willa Cather | 1873 - 1947 |
| Michael Chabon | 1963 |
| Jack L. Chalker | 1944 - 2005 |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | 1796 - 1865 |
| Linda Chavez | 1947 |
| Cher | 1949 |
| Kate Chopin | 1850 - 1904 |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805 - 1875 |
| Hans Christian Anderson | 1805 - 1875 |
| Thomas Churchyard | 1520 - 1604 |
| Sandra Cisneros | 1954 |
| Kenneth Clark | |
| Beverly Cleary | 1916 |
| Natalie Clifford Barney | 1876 - 1972 |
| Daniel Clowes | 1961 |
| Edward Cocker | 1631 - 1672 |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940 |
| Sara Coleridge | 1802 - 1852 |
| Jackie Collins | 1939 |
| Alex Comfort | 1920 - 2000 |
| Michael Connelly | 1956 |
| Jilly Cooper | 1937 |
| Robert Cormier | 1925 - 2000 |
| Jerome Corsi | 1946 |
| John Cotton Dana | 1856 - 1929 |
| Michael Crichton | 1942 |
| Herbert Croly | 1869 - 1930 |
| Phil Crosby | 1926 - 2001 |
| Amanda Cross | 1926 |
| Edwidge Danticat | 1969 |
| Paula Danziger | 1944 - 2004 |
| Marcia Davenport | 1903 |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817 - 1862 |
| William Davis | 1933 |
| Clarence Day | 1874 - 1935 |
| Thomas Day | 1748 - 1789 |
| L. Sprague de Camp | 1907 - 2000 |
| Marquis De Custine | 1790 - 1857 |
| Teresa de Lauretis | |
| Julie de Lespinasse | 1732 - 1776 |
| Thomas de Quincey | 1785 - 1859 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 1946 |
| William Dean Howells | 1837 - 1920 |
| Vine Deloria, Jr. | 1933 - 2005 |
| Nelson DeMille | 1943 |
| Barbara Deming | 1917 - 1984 |
| Patrick Dennis | 1921 - 1976 |
| Jared Diamond | 1937 |
| Kate DiCamillo | 1964 |
| Gordon R. Dickson | 1923 - 2001 |
| Joan Didion | 1934 |
| Annie Dillard | 1945 |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931 |
| Neale Donald Walsch | |
| Frederick Douglass | 1817 - 1895 |
| Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont | 1846 - 1870 |
| Ariel Durant | 1898 - 1981 |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921 - 1990 |
| Gregg Easterbrook | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858 - 1939 |
| Max Eastman | 1883 - 1969 |
| Eknath Easwaran | 1910 - 1999 |
| David Eddings | 1931 |
| Sherwood Eddy | |
| George Eliot | 1819 - 1880 |
| Stanley Elkin | 1930 - 1995 |
| Warren Ellis | 1968 |
| Ralph Ellison | 1914 - 1994 |
| Shusaku Endo | 1923 - 1996 |
| Nora Ephron | 1941 |
| Cliff Fadiman | |
| William Feather | 1889 - 1981 |
| Raymond E. Feist | 1945 |
| Owen Felltham | 1602 - 1668 |
| Helen Fielding | 1909 |
| Jack Finney | 1911 - 1995 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896 - 1940 |
| Robert Fitzgerald | 1910 - 1985 |
| Fannie Flagg | 1941 |
| Ian Fleming | 1908 - 1964 |
| Ken Follet | 1949 |
| Ken Follett | 1949 |
| Shelby Foote | 1916 - 2005 |
| Esther Forbes | 1891 - 1967 |
| Richard Ford | 1944 |
| Margaret Forster | 1938 |
| Frederick Forsyth | 1938 |
| Emmet Fox | 1886 - 1951 |
| Kate Fox | |
| Dick Francis | 1920 |
| Bruno Frank | 1878 - 1945 |
| Thomas Frank | 1965 |
| Antonia Fraser | 1932 |
| Marilyn French | 1929 |
| Nancy Friday | 1933 |
| Robert Fulghum | 1937 |
| Cornelia Funke | 1958 |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960 |
| Mavis Gallant | 1922 |
| John Galsworthy | 1867 - 1933 |
| Timothy Garton Ash | 1955 |
| Aulus Gellius | |
| Elizabeth George | 1949 |
| Jerry Gillies | |
| Elinor Glyn | 1864 - 1943 |
| Jim Goad | 1961 |
| Herbert Gold | |
| Natalie Goldberg | 1948 |
| Daniel Goleman | 1946 |
| Edward Gorey | 1925 - 2000 |
| Richard Grant | 1952 |
| Gunther Grass | 1927 |
| John Gray | |
| Celia Green | 1935 |
| William Greider | |
| Zane Grey | 1872 - 1939 |
| Gerald Griffin | 1803 - 1840 |
| John Gross | 1935 |
| William Gurnall | 1617 - 1679 |
| David Guterson | 1956 |
| Margaret Haddix | 1964 |
| Ludovic Halevy | 1834 - 1908 |
| Margaret Halsey | 1910 |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894 - 1961 |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859 - 1952 |
| Charles Handy | |
| Frank Harris | 1856 - 1931 |
| Thomas Harris | 1909 |
| Harry Harrison | 1925 |
| Bret Harte | 1836 - 1902 |
| Louise L. Hay | |
| Lafcadio Hearn | 1850 - 1904 |
| Catherine Helen Spence | 1825 - 1910 |
| Jean Henri Fabre | 1823 - 1915 |
| John Henrik Clarke | 1915 - 1998 |
| Jack Henry Abbott | 1944 - 2002 |
| William Henry Hudson | 1841 - 1922 |
| William Henry Irwin | 1873 - 1948 |
| Oliver Herford | 1863 - 1935 |
| Herman Hesse | 1877 - 1962 |
| Wolfgang Hildesheimer | 1916 |
| Napolean Hill | 1883 - 1970 |
| Laura Hillenbrand | 1909 |
| Tony Hillerman | 1925 |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1949 |
| Edward Hoagland | 1932 |
| Christina Hoff Sommers | |
| Benjamin Hoff | 1946 |
| Alice Hoffman | 1952 |
| James P. Hogan | 1941 |
| Jean Houston | |
| Vernon Howard | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802 - 1885 |
| Evan Hunter | 1926 - 2005 |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1867 - 1957 |
| Dean Inge | 1860 - 1954 |
| David Irving | 1938 |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904 - 1986 |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954 |
| Derrick Jensen | |
| Jerome K. Jerome | 1859 - 1927 |
| Eyvind Johnson | 1900 - 1976 |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709 - 1784 |
| William Joyce | 1906 - 1946 |
| H. Stanley Judd | |
| Erich Kästner | 1899 - 1974 |
| Anna Katharine Green | 1846 - 1935 |
| Sam Keen | |
| Sam Keith | |
| Helen Keller | 1880 - 1968 |
| Yoshida Kenko | 1283 - 1350 |
| Rose Kennedy | 1890 - 1995 |
| Ken Kesey | 1935 - 2001 |
| Tracy Kidder | 1945 |
| Stephen King | 1947 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | 1947 |
| Grenville Kleiser | 1868 - 1953 |
| E. L. Konigsburg | 1930 |
| Dean Koontz | 1945 |
| Louis L'Amour | 1908 - 1988 |
| Mercedes Lackey | 1950 |
| Lactantius | 240 - 320 |
| Carmen Laforet | 1921 - 2004 |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858 - 1940 |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 1967 |
| Wally Lamb | |
| Anne Lamott | 1954 |
| James Lane Allen | 1849 - 1925 |
| John Le Carré | 1931 |
| Violette Leduc | 1907 - 1972 |
| Katharine Lee Bates | 1859 - 1929 |
| James Lee Burke | |
| Vernon Lee | 1856 - 1935 |
| Ursula K. LeGuin | 1929 |
| Patrick Leigh Fermor | 1915 |
| Charlotte Lennox | 1727 - 1804 |
| Donna Leon | 1942 |
| Sam Levenson | 1911 - 1980 |
| Eliphas Levi | 1810 - 1875 |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898 - 1963 |
| Wyndham Lewis | 1882 - 1957 |
| Astrid Lindgren | 1907 - 2002 |
| Penelope Lively | 1933 |
| David Lodge | 1935 |
| Hugh Lofting | 1886 - 1947 |
| Haniel Long | 1888 - 1956 |
| Barry Lopez | 1945 |
| Walter Lord | 1917 - 2002 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | 1922 - 2002 |
| Anne Louise Germaine de Stael | 1766 - 1817 |
| Thomas Love Peacock | 1785 - 1866 |
| Robert Lowth | 1710 - 1787 |
| Ann Macbeth | 1875 - 1948 |
| James MacGregor Burns | 1918 |