User:Chooserr/Catholic Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers
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This is a list of Science Fiction and Fantasy authors who are Catholic.
- Also see the Wikipedia page [1]List of Catholic Authors
- Robert Hugh Benson
- Anthony Boucher
- G.K. Chesterton
- Jo Clayton
- John Crowley
- Brian Doyle
- Michael Flynn
- James Patrick Kelly (Possibly)
- R.A. Lafferty
- Murray Leinster
- Julian May
- Sandra Miesel
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Michael D. O'Brien
- Tim Powers
- Fred Saberhagen
- Clifford D. Simak
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jules Verne
- Gene Wolfe
- John C. Wright
Here are some books/authors which are quite safe and highly recommended (excerpted from Michael D. O'Brien's [2]A Landscape with Dragons), though not necessarily in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre:
- Bess Streeter Aldrich-- A Lantern in Her Hand
- Jane Austin-- Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
- William Barrett-- The Lilies of the Field
- Hilaire Belloc-- The Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses;A Moral Alphabet; Cautionary Tales for Children:Designed for the Admonition of Children between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen years: Verses; New Cautionary Tales: Verses.
- Msgr. Hugh Benson--The Lord of the World
- Thyra Ferre Bjorn-- Mama's Way, Pappa's Wife, Pappa's Daughter
- R. D. Blackmore-- Lorna Doone
- Charlotte Bronte—Jane Eyre
- D. K. Broster—Ships in the Bay!; The Jacobite trilogy: The Flight of the Heron; The Dark Mile; The Gleam of the North.
- John Buchan—John McNab; Prester John; Witch Wood. The Dickson McCunn series: Huntingtower; Castle Gay. The Richard Hannay series: The Thirty-Nine Steps; Greenmantle; Mr. Standfast; The Power House; The Three Hostages; The Island of Sheep.
- Willa Cather—Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; Shadows on the Rock
- G K Chesterton—The Ballad of the White Horse; The Ball and the Cross; The Father Brown Omnibus; The Flying Inn; The Man Who Was Thursday; The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
- Erskine Childers—The Riddle of the Sands
- Isabel C. Clark—A Case of Conscience; Children of the Shadow, and others…
- Elizabeth Coatsworth—Here I Stay: A Maine Novel
- James Fenimore Cooper—The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans.
- Richard Dana—Two Years before the Mast
- Louis De Wohl—Citadel of God: A Novel about Saint Benedict; Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel about Saint Catherine of Siena; The Quiet Light: A Novel about Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Restless Flame: A Novel about Saint Francis Xavier; The Spear (about Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Christ.)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—The Lost World; The White Company; The Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.
- Loula Grace Erdman—The Edge of Time; The Years of the Locust; Lonely Passage.
- Kathryn Forbes—Mama’s Bank Account.
- Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey—Belles on Their Toes; Cheaper by the Dozen
- Rumer Godden—The Dark Horse; In This House of Brede
- Oliver Goldsmith—The Vicar of Wakesfield.
- Elizabeth Goudge—The Bird in the Tree; A City of the Bells; Dean’s Watch; Green Dolphin Street; Heart of the Family; Pilgrim’s Inn; The Rosemary Tree; The Scent of Water.
- Robin Lee Graham with Derek Gill—Dove
- Henry Rider Haggard—Allan Quatermain; King Solomon’s Mines; She.
- Louis Hermon—Maria Chapdelain
- James Herriot—All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Wise and Wonderful; All Things Bright and Beautiful; The Lord God Made Them All; Every Living Thing.
- James Hilton—Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Victor Hugo—les Miserables
- Helen Keller—The Story of My Life
- Rudyard Kipling—Captain Courageous
- Harper Lee—To Kill a Mockingbird
- C. S. Lewis—Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra: That Hideous Strength.
- Sally Magnusson—The Flying Scotsman.
- Catherine Marshall—Christy
- Jean Merrill—The Pushcart War
- Ralph Moody—The Little Britches; Man of the Family; The Fields of Home; The Home Ranch; Mary Emma and Company; Shaking the Nickel Bush; The Dry Divide; Horse of a Different Color.
- Charles Nordhoff—Mutiny on the Bounty
- Mary O’Hara—My Friend Flicka; Thunderhead; The Green Grass of Wyoming
- Baroness Orczy—The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Frances Gray Patton—Good Morning, Miss Dove
- Charles Portis—True Grit
- Chaim Potok—The Chosen; The Promise
- Rafael Sabitini—Captain Blood; Scaramouche; The Sea Hawk.
- Samuel Shellabarger—Prince of Foxes
- Henryk Sienkiewicz—Quo Vadis?
- J. R. R. Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings; The Simarillion
- Maria Augusta Trapp—Around the Year with the Trapp Family; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.*Meriol Trevor—Shadows and Images.
- Mark Twain—Joan of Arc
- Jules Verne—A Long Vacation (Original title: A Two Years’ Vacation)
- Leonard Wibberley—Epics of Everest; The Hands of Cormac Joyce; The Land That Isn’t There: An Irish Adventure; The Last Stand of Father Felix; The Shannon Sailors: A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland. The Mouse Series: Beware the Mouse! The Mouse that Roared; The Mouse on the Moon; The Mouse on Wall Street: The Mouse that Saved the West; As Leonard Holton: The Father Bredder mysteries.
- Owen Wister—the Virginian
- P. G. Wodehouse—French Leave; Heavy Weather; Laughing Gas; Man Upstairs and Other Stories; Something Fresh; Summer Lightning
- Percival Wren—Beau Geste
Some aditions to the above list:
- Kimberly Willis Holt--My Louisiana Sky; Waiting for Gregory; When Zachary Beaver Came to Town; Mister and Me; Dancing in Cadillac Light; Keeping Prairie Thunder
- Christopher Paolini-- The Inheritance Tilogy: Eragon; Eldest; Empire?
- Elena Maria Vidal-- Trianon; Madame Royale
Novels BY CATHOLIC AUTHORS on the [3]Top 100 Most Influential Novels and Books:
- Don Quixote (1605, 1630) Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
- War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy, Russian Orthodox
- Ulysses (1922) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
- In Search of Lost Time (1913-27) Marcel Proust, Jewish, Catholic
- The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Feodor Dostoevsky, Russian Orthodox
- Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert, Catholic
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Catholic
- The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catholic
- Finnegans Wake (1939) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
- The Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil, Catholic
- The Red and the Black (1830) Stendhal, Catholic
- Le Pere Goriot (1835) Honore de Balzac, Catholic
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
- The Tin Drum (1959) Gunter Grass, Catholic
- The Awakening (1899) Kate Chopin, Catholic
- Germinal (1855) Emile Zola, Catholic
- U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-38) John Dos Passos, Catholic
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) Alfred Doblin, Catholic
- The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Carlos Fuentes, Catholic
- A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway, Catholic
- Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh, Catholic
- The Betrothed (1827, 1840) Alessandro Manzoni, Catholic
- The Leopard (1958) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Catholic
- The Good Soldier Svejk (1921-23) Jaroslav Hasek, Catholic
- The Hound of Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle, Catholic; Spiritualist
- Gone with the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell, Catholic