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Deepa Bhasthi

Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and translator from Kodagu, southern India, who works between Kannada and English. Her translation of Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp won the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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Derek Owusu

Derek Owusu is a British novelist and poet from North London, of Ghanaian heritage, whose work explores mental health, Black British identity and the porous line between art and life. His debut That Reminds Me won the 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize.

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Diane Ravitch

American historian of education and public-school advocate whose nonfiction examines school reform, testing, curriculum, privatization and the history of public education.

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Dodie Smith

English playwright and novelist (1896-1990). She wrote the 1930s stage hits Autumn Crocus and Dear Octopus, then the novels I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an American novelist who writes historical fiction about Black life, including Wench, Take My Hand and Happy Land. She also wrote the introduction to the 75th anniversary edition of Orwell's 1984.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was an English writer and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a comic science-fiction series shaped by absurd logic, cosmic mishaps and earthly bureaucracy.

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Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss was the pen name of American writer and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991). He wrote rhymed children's books full of invented creatures and nonsense words, from The Cat in the Hat to The Lorax.

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E. H. Gombrich

E. H. Gombrich was a Vienna-born British art historian who wrote lucid studies of art, visual perception and cultural tradition. He is best known for The Story of Art.

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E. M. Butler

E. M. Butler (Eliza Marian Butler, 1885–1959) was a Cambridge professor of German who wrote on German literature and the history of magic. She also translated extra material for the definitive English edition of Kafka's The Trial.

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Ed Glinert

Ed Glinert is a London-born journalist and walking-tour guide who writes about the hidden history of London and Manchester. He is best known for The London Compendium and East End Chronicles, and he wrote the notes for Penguin's Sherlock Holmes editions.

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Edmund de Waal

British ceramic artist and writer whose nonfiction explores objects, memory, exile and inheritance. He is best known for the family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes.

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