Authors

Isaac Asimov

American writer of science fiction and popular science.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian novelist, poet and critic.

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher. The Meditations were private notes never intended for publication.

Ray Bradbury

American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian novelist and playwright, largely unpublished in his lifetime.

Albert Camus

French-Algerian novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.

James Clear

Writer on habits, decision-making and continuous improvement.

Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary biologist and former Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.

Philip K. Dick

American science-fiction novelist.

Alexandre Dumas

French novelist and playwright.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist and short-story writer of the Jazz Age.

Gustave Flaubert

French novelist, known for his exacting prose.

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1982.

William Gibson

American-Canadian novelist who named cyberspace.

William Golding

English novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1983.

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for wide-angle histories of the species.

Joseph Heller

American satirical novelist.

Ernest Hemingway

American novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.

Frank Herbert

American science-fiction writer. Dune began as research into Oregon sand dunes.

Victor Hugo

French novelist, poet and dramatist.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher.

James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet, a central figure of literary modernism.

Franz Kafka

German-speaking Bohemian novelist, most of whose work was published after his death.

Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics (2002). With Amos Tversky he mapped the systematic ways human judgment departs from rational choice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

American novelist of science fiction and fantasy.

Harper Lee

American novelist, Pulitzer Prize 1961.

Herman Melville

American novelist and poet, largely unread in his own lifetime.

George Orwell

English novelist and essayist, born Eric Arthur Blair.

Marcel Proust

French novelist and critic.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

English novelist, author of Frankenstein at twenty.

John Steinbeck

American novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.

Neal Stephenson

American novelist of speculative and historical fiction.

Bram Stoker

Irish novelist and theatre manager.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Former options trader turned essayist on probability, risk and uncertainty.

Peter Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, early Facebook investor. Zero to One grew out of a Stanford course.

J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist, professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.

Leo Tolstoy

Russian novelist and moral philosopher.

Kurt Vonnegut

American novelist and satirist.

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet and playwright.