- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
- Dan Brown (1964-)
- Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019)
- John le Carré (1931-2020)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
- Dame Agathe Christie (1890-1976)
- Tom Clancy (1947-2013)
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
- Ken Follett (1949-)
- E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- John Grisham (1955-)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
- James A. Michener (1907-1997)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- J.K. Rowling (1965-)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Danielle Steel (1947-)
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
