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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is a physician and author whose novels and memoirs join medicine with close observation of family, illness, migration and care.

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Adam Hochschild

American journalist and historian Adam Hochschild writes narrative nonfiction about empire, political repression, war, and the people who resist them.

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Adrian Solen

Narrative nonfiction author writing about identity, history, culture, and belonging.

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Agatha Christie

English crime writer (1890-1976) who created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 story collections, and also the long-running play The Mousetrap. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of her best-known Poirot books.

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Alan R. Clarke

Alan R. Clarke translates Portuguese and Spanish into English. He is the translator of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, the 1993 English version that introduced the novel to many readers worldwide, and of other Coelho and Brazilian fiction.

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Alastair Smith

Alastair Smith is an NYU political scientist who writes about political survival, institutions, elections and the incentives shaping leaders’ decisions.

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Aldous Huxley

English novelist and essayist (1894-1963) best known for Brave New World, his 1932 dystopia about a society kept content by conditioning and drugs. He also wrote satires, essays and books on mysticism and psychedelics.

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Alex Haley

American writer (1921-1992) who spent two decades in the Coast Guard before becoming a journalist. He is best known for Roots (1976), his saga of an African American family, and for co-writing The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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Alex Michaelides

Alex Michaelides is a Cypriot-born novelist and screenwriter known for psychological thrillers that combine murder mysteries, psychotherapy and Greek tragedy.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Zimbabwe-born Scottish writer and former professor of medical law at Edinburgh. He is best known for the Botswana-set No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He also writes the Edinburgh novels of 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie books.

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Alexander O. Smith

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Alexandre Dumas

French playwright and novelist (1802-1870) who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. His fast historical adventures are built on betrayal, revenge and loyalty.

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