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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is an anthropologist whose inventive ethnographies examine globalization, environmental damage and the shared lives of humans and other species.

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Anne Serre is a French novelist and short story writer born in Bordeaux in 1960, known for surreal, fabulist fiction that interrogates the nature of narration. Winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle.

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Annie Ernaux

French writer Annie Ernaux turns personal memory into precise studies of class, gender, shame and social change. She received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish physician turned writer (1859-1930) who created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. He also wrote historical novels, plays, and the Professor Challenger adventure The Lost World.

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Asa Yoneda

Japanese-to-English literary translator, born in Osaka and based in Bristol. Her translation of Hiromi Kawakami's Under the Eye of the Big Bird was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, public-health leader and New Yorker writer whose nonfiction examines medical error, complex systems, aging and end-of-life care.

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Ayn Rand

Russian-born American novelist and philosopher (1905–1982), author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Her fiction centers on the uncompromising individual, and she called her philosophy Objectivism.

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Banu Mushtaq

Kannada-language writer, lawyer and women's rights activist from Hassan, Karnataka. Her stories follow women and girls in Muslim communities of southern India. Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, won the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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Barbara Kingsolver

American novelist, essayist and poet Barbara Kingsolver writes socially engaged, character-rich books about family, place, inequality and the natural world.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman was an American historian celebrated for vivid narrative histories of war, diplomacy, political failure, and societies under strain.

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Basil Creighton

British novelist and translator (died 1989) who brought German authors into English between the wars. His 1929 version of Hesse's Steppenwolf, later revised by Joseph Mileck, was for decades the standard English text.

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Beatrice Sparks

American youth counselor and writer (died 2012) behind Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal and Annie's Baby, books presented as the real diaries of troubled teenagers. Copyright records list her as their author.

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