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Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author of narrative nonfiction about the Great Migration, racial hierarchy and the historical forces shaping everyday life.

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Ishmael Beah

Sierra Leonean author of the memoir A Long Way Gone and the novels Radiance of Tomorrow and Little Family. He writes about children and young people shaped by war, and is UNICEF's first Advocate for Children Affected by War.

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J. M. Coetzee

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J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and Oxford philologist (1892-1973) who created Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion, edited by his son Christopher, gathers his mythic tales of that invented world, published after his death.

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Jack Farchy

Jack Farchy is a Bloomberg journalist covering commodities and natural resources. With Javier Blas, he wrote The World for Sale, an investigation of the traders who move the world’s oil, metals and food.

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James Clavell

Australian-born British-American novelist, screenwriter and director. Drawing on his years as a Japanese prisoner of war, he wrote the six-novel Asian Saga about Europeans in Asia, including Shogun, King Rat and Tai-Pan.

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James Herriot

James Herriot was the pen name of Alf Wight, a Yorkshire vet who turned his working life in the Dales into warm, funny stories. All Creatures Great and Small is the best-known title in a series that has stayed in print for decades.

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Jane Austen

English novelist Jane Austen wrote sharply comic fiction about courtship, money, class and women’s limited choices, including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion.

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Javier Blas

Javier Blas is a journalist and author who covers energy and commodities. With Jack Farchy, he wrote The World for Sale, an investigation of commodity traders and their political and economic power.

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Javier Fuentes

Spanish American writer born in Barcelona. His debut novel, Countries of Origin, follows an undocumented pastry chef sent back to Spain and won the 2024 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.

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Jeannette Walls

American author and former journalist best known for The Glass Castle, a memoir of family instability, poverty and self-reliance. She also writes fiction shaped by difficult families and determined young women.

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Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell is an American journalist and nonfiction author whose reporting examines climate change, energy and the physical risks of a warming planet.

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