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F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist and short-story writer (1896-1940) who defined the Jazz Age in fiction. He completed four novels, including The Great Gatsby, and more than 150 short stories about ambition, money and love gone wrong.

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Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) was an American science-fiction writer best known for Dune, a far-future epic about ecology, political power, religion and the dangers of heroic leadership.

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Franz Kafka

Prague-born, German-language writer (1883-1924) whose short stories and unfinished novels set bewildering, dreamlike events inside ordinary, bureaucratic life. Best known for The Metamorphosis and The Trial.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist (1821-1881) whose psychological fiction, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, probes guilt, freedom and faith through characters driven by ideas.

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Gene Kim

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote as George Orwell (1903–1950), was an English novelist, essayist and journalist. He is best known for the satirical fable Animal Farm and the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, and for plain-spoken writing against totalitarianism.

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George Saunders

American author of darkly comic, compassionate fiction, best known for his short stories and the Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

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George Spafford

George Spafford is an IT researcher and author who writes about DevOps, cybersecurity and the practical work of improving technology operations.

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George Steiner

George Steiner (1929–2020) was a Paris-born critic, essayist and teacher who wrote about language, translation and literature after the Holocaust. He also wrote fiction and introduced the Everyman's Library edition of Kafka's The Trial.

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Gillian Flynn

American novelist and screenwriter Gillian Flynn writes dark psychological thrillers about damaged relationships, unreliable storytellers and women capable of cruelty.

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Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright and artist from Danzig, Nobel laureate of 1999. His first novel, The Tin Drum, turned Nazi-era and postwar Germany into a grotesque, darkly funny fable.

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H. G. Wells

English novelist, journalist and historian (1866–1946) who helped found modern science fiction with The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. He also wrote comic novels of ordinary life and a bestselling popular history.

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