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Annabel Steadman, born in 1992, writes fantasy for children as A. F. Steadman. She studied law at Selwyn College, Cambridge, before completing a master's degree in creative writing. In 2020 she signed a seven-figure, three-book deal for...
Alice Oseman, born October 16, 1994, is an English author and illustrator who secured her first publishing deal at 17 and published her debut novel Solitaire in 2014. Her Heartstopper webcomic, begun in 2016, became a graphic-novel series...
Callie Hart, born December 5, 1983 in Truro, Cornwall, is a British author of romance and fantasy. Her romantasy novel Quicksilver, sent to BookTok creators after she self-published it in 2024, debuted at number one on the New York Times...
Carley Fortune, born February 7, 1984, is a Canadian writer from Toronto who worked as a journalist and editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life before turning to fiction. Her debut Every Summer After became...
Chloe Gong was born in Shanghai in 1998 and moved to New Zealand as a child, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in English and International Relations. She wrote her 2020 debut novel, These Violent Delights...
Christopher Ruocchio is an American science fiction and fantasy author and a former assistant editor at Baen Books. Empire of Silence, the opening novel of his Sun Eater sequence, earned the 2019 Manly Wade Wellman Award, and its sequel...
Liu Cixin, born June 23, 1963, is a Chinese computer engineer turned science fiction writer, a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award, and the 2015 Hugo Award winner for The Three-Body Problem. Death's End took the 2017 Locus Award, and...
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian writer and one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century, publishing around 400 novels and selling over 500 million copies. His fictional Paris police detective Jules Maigret appeared in 75...
Gillian McAllister, born February 28, 1985, is a British author of ten bestselling standalone thrillers translated into 40 languages. Wrong Place Wrong Time became a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller, That...
Holly Jackson, born December 6, 1992, is a British author of mystery novels best known for the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, which won the 2020 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award. Her standalone...
Jeff Smith is the American cartoonist behind Bone, a fantasy comic he wrote, illustrated, and largely self-published through his company Cartoon Books across 55 issues from 1991 to 2004. The series mixes comedy with dark fantasy, has won...
John Patrick Green is an American author and illustrator who created the InvestiGators graphic novels, following alligator agents Mango and Brash, and earlier illustrated the comic Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden. His other children's...
Katherine Arden, born in 1987, is an American novelist best known for the Winternight trilogy, fantasy novels set in medieval Russia that drew Hugo and Locus Award nominations. She also writes the Small Spaces series of middle-grade horror...
Kazu Kibuishi was born in Tokyo in 1978 and moved to the United States in 1982. He created the comic anthology Flight, whose second volume earned a 2006 Eisner Award nomination, and the webcomic Copper. Scholastic published his fantasy...
Matt Dinniman is an American author best known for Dungeon Crawler Carl, a science-fantasy LitRPG series that follows a Coast Guard veteran and his ex-girlfriend's cat through an alien-run dungeon reality show. Before that series he wrote...
Peter Brown, born February 24, 1979, is an American writer and illustrator of children's books who won the 2013 Caldecott Medal for illustrating Creepy Carrots!. His middle-grade novel The Wild Robot, about the robot Roz learning to...
Rachel Gillig, born September 23, 1989, is an American author of gothic romantic fantasy who prefers duologies, saying she likes her books to feel like one long book with an intermission between. Her Shepherd King duology, One Dark Window...
Rebecca Ross is an American author of young adult novels and adult fantasy. Her Letters of Enchantment duology, which opens with Divine Rivals, reached the New York Times bestseller list, and her Elements of Cadence duology set on the...
TurtleMe is the author of The Beginning After the End, a web novel serialized on Tapas since January 2017 that follows King Grey's reincarnation into a world of magic. The series grew into a webtoon that Yen Press publishes in print and an...
Abraham Verghese, born May 30, 1955, is an American physician and author who teaches medicine at Stanford, where he is a Provostial Professor and Vice Chair. President Barack Obama presented him with the National Humanities Medal in 2015...
Adam Silvera, born June 7, 1990, is an American author of young adult fiction whose work centers on queer characters and themes of identity, grief, and mortality. His 2017 novel They Both Die at the End was optioned for television in 2019...
Alex Aster, born August 4, 1995, is the pen name of Alexandra Pierson, a Colombian and American young adult author. She wrote the middle grade Emblem Island books before Lightlark, the fantasy romance saga she famously pitched on TikTok...
Alexis Hall is an English author of urban fantasy, science fiction, and LGBTQ romance whose work has been nominated three times for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance. Boyfriend Material, his fake-dating romcom about Luc and Oliver...
Andrea Mara is an Irish crime novelist whose bestseller All Her Fault became a Peacock TV drama starring Sarah Snook, Dakota Fanning, and Abby Elliott. Since her 2017 debut The Other Side of the Wall she has published a new standalone...