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Willa Muir

Scottish novelist, essayist and translator (1890-1970). With Edwin Muir she brought Kafka and Broch into English, and her novel Imagined Corners looks hard at women's lives in a small Scottish town.

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William Dalrymple

British historian, travel writer and broadcaster known for narrative histories of India, empire and cultural exchange, including The Anarchy, White Mughals and The Last Mughal.

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William Faulkner

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William Goldman

American novelist, playwright, and Oscar-winning screenwriter whose fiction ranges from the playful fairy-tale adventure The Princess Bride to thrillers such as Marathon Man and Magic.

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William James

American psychologist and philosopher William James wrote about consciousness, belief, religious experience and pragmatism, bringing close observation to large questions about how people think and live.

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William Peter Blatty

American novelist and screenwriter (1928–2017), author of The Exorcist. He began as a comic writer, won an Oscar for adapting his own novel, and went on to write a trilogy of fiction about faith, evil and doubt.

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William Styron

American novelist from Virginia's Tidewater (1925-2006). He wrote Southern family tragedy, slavery and the Holocaust into fiction, and later a short memoir of depression. Best known for Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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Yaa Gyasi

Ghanaian American novelist Yaa Gyasi writes literary fiction about family, history, faith and the forces that shape Black lives across generations.

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Yann Martel

Canadian novelist born in Spain in 1963 and best known for Life of Pi, which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. A francophone who writes in English, he works in fiction that keeps coming back to identity, imagination and storytelling.

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bell hooks

bell hooks was an American feminist writer, cultural critic and teacher whose work joined questions of race, gender and class with searching arguments about education, love and freedom.

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