List of 21st-century writers
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This is a partial list of 21st-century writers. This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction.
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C
- Peter Cameron
- W. Bruce Cameron
- Jacqueline Carey
- Peter Carey
- Ron Carlson
- Stephen L. Carter
- Eleanor Catton
- Michael Chabon
- Diane Chamberlain
- Jung Chang
- Kate Christensen
- Dan Chaon
- Kelly Cherry
- Tracy Chevalier
- Noam Chomsky
- Tom Clancy
- Cassandra Clare
- Susanna Clarke
- Chris Cleave
- Ernest Cline
- Harlan Coben
- Paulo Coelho
- J. M. Coetzee
- Eoin Colfer
- Suzanne Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Pat Conroy
- Claire Cook
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland
- Michael Cox
- Jim Crace
- Michael Crichton
- Justin Cronin
- John Crowley
- Clive Cussler
D
- Fred D'Aguiar
- Sandra Dallas
- Edwidge Danticat
- Kathryn Davis
- Richard Dawkins
- Jonathan Dee
- Frank Delaney
- Charles de Lint
- Tatiana de Rosnay
- Kiran Desai
- Pete Dexter
- Anita Diamant
- Junot Diaz
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- E. L. Doctorow
- Ivan Doig
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Sara Donati
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Emma Donoghue
- Keith Donohue
- Roddy Doyle
- Margaret Drabble
- Dinesh D'Souza
- John Dufresne
- Sarah Dunant
- Helen Dunmore
- Mark Dunn
- James Dashner
- Elisabetta Dami
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F
G
- Patricia Gaffney
- Neil Gaiman
- Nicole Galland
- Cristina García
- Jane Gardam
- Alex Garland
- Maggie Gee
- Lisa Genova
- Elizabeth George
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Julia Glass
- Francisco Goldman
- Adam Gopnik
- Mary Gordon
- Al Gore
- Jennifer Green
- John Green
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- Andrew Sean Greer
- Philippa Gregory
- John Grisham
- David Grossman
- Sara Gruen
- Sandra Gulland
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Beth Gutcheon
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- Mark Haddon
- Jennifer Haigh
- Pete Hamill
- Elizabeth Hand
- Brooks Hansen
- Jonathan Harr
- Charlaine Harris
- Joanne Harris
- Jim Harrison
- John Hart
- Kent Haruf
- Stephen Hawking
- Shirley Hazzard
- Lian Hearn
- Zoe Heller
- Mark Helprin
- Bobby Henderson
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Tobias Hill
- Victoria Hislop
- Christopher Hitchens
- Robin Hobb
- Alice Hoffman
- Chuck Hogan
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Ann Hood
- Nancy Horan
- Khaled Hosseini
- Silas House
- Arianna Huffington
- Michelle Huneven
- Siri Hustvedt
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K
- Lesley Kagen
- Michio Kaku
- Ken Kalfus
- Jeanne Kalogridis
- Joseph Kanon
- Jon Katz
- Susanna Kearsley
- Cathy Kelly
- James Kelman
- Thomas Keneally
- Haven Kimmel
- Lily King
- Stephen King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Sophie Kinsella
- Natsuo Kirino
- Walter Kirn
- Katrina Kittle
- Dean Koontz
- Elizabeth Kostova
- Jon Krakauer
- William Kent Krueger
- Hanif Kureishi
- Ray Kurzweil
- Jeff Kinney
L
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Wally Lamb
- Anne Lamott
- John Lanchester
- Stieg Larsson
- Mary Lawson
- Chang-rae Lee
- Don Lee
- Dennis Lehane
- Lawrence Lessig
- Jonathan Lethem
- Kathy Lette
- Steven Levitt
- Andrea Levy
- Ash Lieb
- Alan Lightman
- Elinor Lipman
- Laura Lippman
- S. E. Lister
- Penelope Lively
- Margot Livesey
- Lois Lowry
- Dimitris Lyacos
M
- Keith Maillard
- Amit Majmudar
- Thomas Mallon
- David Malouf
- Hilary Mantel
- Jo-Ann Mapson
- Javier Marias
- Juliet Marillier
- Yann Martel
- Charles Martin
- George R. R. Martin
- Valerie Martin
- Steve Martini
- Peter Matthiessen
- Simon Mawer
- Tucker Max
- Peter May
- Joyce Maynard
- James McBride
- Colum McCann
- Cormac McCarthy
- Jill McCorkle
- Alice McDermott
- Ian McEwan
- Dennis McFarland
- Jon McGregor
- Mameve Medwed
- James Meek
- Pauline Melville
- Dinaw Mengestu
- Claire Messud
- Marissa Meyer
- Philipp Meyer
- Stephenie Meyer
- China Mieville
- Lydia Millet
- Mark Mills
- Susan Minot
- David Mitchell
- Deborah Moggach
- Nadifa Mohamed
- Mary Alice Monroe
- Michael Moorcock
- Michael Moore
- Robert Morgan
- Laura Moriarty
- Liane Moriarty
- Michael Morpurgo
- Toni Morrison
- Kate Morton
- Andrew Motion
- Jojo Moyes
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Alice Munro
- Haruki Murakami
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P-Q
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Charles Palliser
- Orhan Pamuk
- Christopher Paolini
- James Patterson
- Laline Paull
- Nancy Pearl
- Iain Pears
- Stef Penney
- Tom Perrotta
- Jordan Peterson
- Per Petterson
- Arthur Phillips
- Jodi Picoult
- Padgett Powell
- Kevin Powers
- Richard Powers
- Terry Pratchett
- Philip Pullman
- Joe Queenan
- Anna Quindlen
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- Shan Sa
- Louis Sachar
- C. J. Sansom
- Sam Savage
- John Sayles
- Cathleen Schine
- John Searles
- W. G. Sebald
- Alice Sebold
- Diane Setterfield
- Jeff Shaara
- Darren Shan
- Ben Sherwood
- Carol Shields
- Anita Shreve
- Daniel Silva
- Paullina Simons
- Karin Slaughter
- Seth Grahame-Smith
- Sarah Smith
- Wilbur Smith
- Zadie Smith
- Jane Stevenson
- Harold Stewart
- James B. Stewart
- R. L. Stine
- Kathryn Stockett
- Sam Stone
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See also
- Lists of writers
- List of 20th-century writers
- 21st century in literature
- 21st century in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of avant-garde artists
- Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- List of playwrights
- List of crime writers
- List of authors of erotic works
- List of horror fiction writers
- List of science fiction authors
- List of sports writers
- List of fantasy authors
- Non-fiction
- Fiction
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas