Lists of writers

The following are lists of writers:

Alphabetical indices
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 genre
• Bestsellers

• Biographers

• Buddhism

• Business theorists

• Catholicism

• Children's literature

• Christian fiction

• Cricket

• Crime

• Detective fiction

• Drama

• Essays

• Fantasy

• History

• Historical novels

• Horror fiction

• Horsemanship

• Illustrations

• Manga

• Music theory

• Mysteries

• Non-fiction

• Novels

• Occult

• Plays

• Poetry

• Politics

• Role-playing games

• Romantic novels

• Science fiction

• Self-help

• Short stories

• Software

• Technical writers

• Thrillers

• Translations

• Western fiction

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Lists by language (non-English)
• Ancient Greek

• Arabic

• Bengali

• Catalan

• Chichewa

• Dutch

• French

• German

• Gujarati

• Greek

• Hebrew

• Hindi

• Leonese

• Lithuanian

• Malayalam

• Marathi

• Nepali

• Odia

• Pukhto or Pashto

• Persian

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Russian

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Tamil

• Turkish

• Ukrainian

• Urdu

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Lists by ethnicity or nationality
• African writers

• African-American writers

• Albanian writers

• Algerian writers

• American writers

• Arab American writers

• Armenian authors

• Asian-American writers

• Assyrian writers

• Australian authors

• Bangladeshi writers

• Barbadian writers

• Beninese writers

• Black British writers

• Bosniak writers

• British Jewish writers

• Brazilian writers

• Canadian writers

• Chinese writers

• Colombian writers

• Croatian writers

• Cuban writers

• Cuban American writers

• Dominican writers

• English writers

• Egyptian writers

• Gambian writers

• Georgian writers

• German writers

• Ghanaian writers

• Greek writers

• Grenadian writers

• Guyanese writers

• Hungarian writers

• Icelandic writers

• Indian writers

• Iranian writers

• Irish writers

• Italian writers

• Jamaican writers

• Jewish American writers

• Kenyan writers

• Korean American writers

• Macedonian writers

• Mexican writers

• Malawian writers

• Mexican American writers

• Moroccan writers

• Native American writers

• Nepali writers

• New Zealand writers

• Nigerian writers

• Norwegian writers

• Pakistani writers

• Peruvian writers

• Philippine writers

• Polish writers

• Portuguese writers

• Puerto Rican writers

• Romanian writers

• Russian authors

• Saudi Arabian writers

• Scottish writers

• Serbian writers

• Slovak authors

• Slovenian writers

• Somali writers

• Spanish writers

• South African writers

• Surinamese writers

• Taiwanese authors

• Tanzanian writers

• Trinidad and Tobago writers

• Ukrainian writers

• Ugandan writers

• Uruguayan authors

• Venezuelan writers

• Zimbabwean writers

• General

• Exophonic writers

• LGBT writers

• Non-binary writers

• Military writers

• Novelists by nationality

• Playwrights by nationality and date of birth

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Lists of women writers and works
Main list By country • Albanian women writers
 * Women writers: (A-L), (M-Z)

• Algerian women writers

• Argentine women writers

• Austrian women writers

• Azerbaijani women writers

• Bangladeshi women writers

• Belgian women writers

• Bolivian women writers

• Bosnia and Herzegovina women writers

• Brazilian women writers

• Bulgarian women writers

• Chilean women writers

• Chinese women writers

• Colombian women writers

• Croatian women writers

• Cuban women writers

• Czech women writers

• Danish women writers

• Dutch women writers

• Ecuadorian women writers

• Egyptian women writers

• Estonian women writers

• Faroese women writers

• Filipino women writers

• Finnish women writers

• French women writers

• German women writers

• Ghanaian women writers

• Greek women writers

• Guatemalan women writers

• Guyanese women writers

• Hungarian women writers

• Icelandic women writers

• Indian women writers

• Indonesian women writers

• Iranian women writers

• Irish women writers

• Italian women writers

• Ivorian women writers

• Japanese women writers

• Jamaican women writers

• Kenyan women writers

• Korean women writers

• Latvian women writers

• Lebanese women writers

• Lithuanian women writers

• Luxembourg women writers

• Macedonian women writers

• Malaysian women writers

• Mexican women writers

• Moroccan women writers

• New Zealand women writers

• Nicaraguan women writers

• Nigerian women writers

• Norwegian women writers

• Pakistani women writers

• Panamanian women writers

• Paraguayan women writers

• Peruvian women writers

• Polish women writers

• Portuguese women writers

• Puerto Rican women writers

• Romanian women writers

• Russian women writers

• Senegalese women writers

• Serbian women writers

• Slovak women writers

• Slovenian women writers

• South African women writers

• Spanish women writers

• Swedish women writers

• Swiss women writers

• Trinidad and Tobago women writers

• Tunisian women writers

• Turkish women writers

• Ugandan women writers

• Ukrainian women writers

• Uruguayan women writers

• Welsh women writers

• Zimbabwean women writers Other lists of women writers

• Women comics creators

• Women cookbook writers

• Early-modern British women novelists

• Early-modern British women playwrights

• Early-modern British women poets

• Women electronic writers

• Women experimental writers

• Women detective/mystery writers

• Women Nobel laureates

• Women poets

• Modernist women writers

• Women printers/publishers before 1800

• Women rhetoricians

• Women science fiction authors

• Biographical dictionaries of women writers in English

• Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

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Lists by publisher

 * List of Alfred A. Knopf authors
 * List of Minerva Press authors

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