Lists of authors

The following are lists of writers:

[edit] By name

A – B – Y – Z

[edit] By type of writing or genre

• List of folklorists
• List of bestselling fiction authors
• List of biographers
• List of Buddhist authors
• List of business writers
• List of Catholic authors
• List of children's literature authors
• List of crime writers
• List of detective fiction authors
• List of dramatists
• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• List of early-modern women poets (UK)
• List of essayists
• List of fantasy authors
• List of historians
• List of historical novelists
• List of horror fiction authors
• List of humorists
• List of illustrators
• List of manga artists
• List of mystery writers
• List of new technologies writers
• List of non-fiction authors
• List of novelists
• List of occult writers
• List of playwrights
• List of poets
• List of political authors
• List of role-playing game writers
• List of romantic novelists
• List of science fiction authors
• List of screenwriters
• List of short story authors
• List of software authors (designer/programmers)
• List of thriller authors
• List of translators
• List of Western fiction authors
• List of young adult authors

[edit] By nationality, race, origin or gender

• List of Serbian writers
• List of Croatian authors
• Female Nobel Prize laureates
• List of African American writers
• List of African writers / by country
• List of Albanian writers
• List of Algerian writers
• List of Arab American writers
• List of Armenian authors
• List of Asian American writers
• List of Assyrian writers
• List of Australian authors
• List of Bangladeshi writers
• List of Belgian writers
• List of Beninese writers
• List of biographical dictionaries of women writers
• List of Brazilian writers
• List of British-Chinese writers
• List of Canadian writers
• List of Cuban American writers
• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• List of early-modern women poets (UK)
• List of female detective/mystery writers
• List of female poets
• List of Georgian writers
• List of Greek writers
• List of Hungarian writers
• List of Icelandic writers
• List of Indian writers
• List of Iranian writers
• List of Italian writers
• List of Jewish American writers
• List of LGBT writers
• List of Mexican American writers
• List of Moroccan writers
• List of Norwegian writers
• List of novelists by nationality
• List of American novelists
• List of Pakistani writers
• List of Peruvian writers
• List of Philippine poets
• List of Philippine writers
• List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth
• List of Polish writers
• List of Portuguese writers
• List of Panamanian writers
• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of Romanian writers
• List of Russian authors
• List of Scottish writers
• List of Sri Lankan Authors (Sinhala)
• List of Slovak authors
• List of Slovenian writers
• List of Swiss writers
• List of Taiwanese authors
• List of Uruguayan authors
• List of women comics writers and artists
• List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
• List of women rhetoricians
• List of women writers
• List of Native American writers
• List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
• List_of Irish Writers
• Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
• Women science fiction authors

[edit] By language (non-English)

• List of writers in Nepali
• Serbian
• Dutch|French
• Bengali
• 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
• Lithuanian
• Malayalam
• Oriya
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Sinhala
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Urdu
• Welsh

[edit] See also

• Lists of books
• List of literary awards