Lists of writers

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The following are lists of writers:

Lists by name

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z

Lists by type of writing or genre

• Bestselling fiction authors
• Biographers
• Buddhist authors
• Business writers
• Catholic authors
• Children's literature authors
• Christian fiction authors
• Crime writers
• Detective fiction authors
• Dramatists
• Early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• Early-modern women poets (UK)
• Essayists

Fantasy authors Historians Historical novelists Horror fiction authors Horsemanship writers Humorists Illustrators Manga artists

Music theorists Mystery writers New technologies writers Non-fiction authors notable 20th-century writers Novelists Occult writers Playwrights Poets

Political authors Role-playing game writers Romantic novelists Science fiction authors List of Self Help Books Short story authors Software authors (i.e., designers/programmers)

Thriller authors Translators Western fiction authors Young adult authors

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Lists by nationality, race, origin or gender

African American writers African writers or by country Albanian writers Algerian writers Arab American writers Armenian authors Asian American writers Assyrian writers Australian authors Bangladeshi writers Beninese writers Biographical dictionaries of women writers Brazilian writers Canadian writers Croatian authors Cuban American writers Early-modern women playwrights (UK)

Early-modern women poets (UK) English writers Female detective/mystery writers Female Nobel laureates Female poets Georgian writers Greek writers Hungarian writers Icelandic writers Indian writers Iranian writers Irish writers Italian writers Jewish American writers LGBT writers Macedonian writers Mexican writers

Mexican American writers Moroccan writers Native American writers New Zealand writers Norwegian writers Novelists by nationality American novelists Pakistani writers Peruvian writers Philippine writers Playwrights by nationality and date of birth Polish writers Portuguese writers Puerto Rican writers Romanian writers Russian authors Scottish writers

Slovak authors Slovenian writers Somali writers Spanish writers Taiwanese authors Ukrainian writers Uruguayan authors Venezuelan writers Women comics writers and artists Women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature Women rhetoricians Women writers Writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing Norton Anthology of Literature by Women Women science fiction authors

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Lists by language (non-English)

Bengali Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Dutch French German

Hebrew Hindi Italian List of Japanese authors: A B C D E F G H I J K M N O R S T U W Y Z Leonese

Lithuanian Malayalam Oriya Persian Polish Portuguese Russian

Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Ukrainian Urdu Welsh

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See also

• Lists of books
• List of literary awards
• List of prolific writers

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