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• Rafael Ábalos
  Rafael Ábalos
  Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity...
  
  , author of Grimpow
• Lynn Abbey
  Lynn Abbey
  Lynn Abbey is an American computer programmer and author.-Background:Born in Peekskill, New York, Abbey was daughter of Ronald Lionel and Doris Lorraine . She attended the University of Rochester, where she began as an astrophysics major. She earned a A.B...
  
   (born 1948)
• Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy.-Early life:Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England...
  
  
• Daniel Abraham
  Daniel Abraham (author)
  Daniel Abraham is a prolific American science fiction / fantasy author who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. His novelette Flat Diane was nominated for the Nebula Award...
  
  
• Richard Adams, (born 1920) author of Watership Down
  Watership Down
  Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...
  
  
• Joan Aiken
  Joan Aiken
  Joan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken , her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist....
  
  , (1924–2004)
• Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec is an author and TV host. She has written several books, including the epic fantasy series, Chronicles of Brothers. Along with her husband Rory Alec, she is the co-founder of GOD TV, and co-host of The Rory & Wendy Alec Show. She is also the GOD TV’s Creative Director.- Biography :Alec...
  
  , author of the Chronicles of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers is a series of seven fantasy novels written by GOD TV co-founder Wendy Alec. Set in the First Heaven, Earth and Hell the books follow the stories of three angelic brothers, Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel and three earthly brothers, Jason, Adrian and Nick De Verre...
  
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• Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...
  
  , (1924–2007) author of the Chronicles of Prydain
• Alan Burt Akers
  Kenneth Bulmer
  Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...
  
  , pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
  
  , (1805–1875) authored fairy tales, including The Little Mermaid
  The Little Mermaid
  "The Little Mermaid" is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince...
  
  
• Poul Anderson
  Poul Anderson
  Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
  
  , (1926–2001)
• Ilona Andrews
  Ilona Andrews
  Ilona Andrews is the pen name used by urban fantasy novelist Ilona Gordon with her spouse Andrew Gordon, also known as Gordon.Ilona was born in Russia and came to the United States as a teenager. She attended Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry and met her husband...
  
  , husband and wife writing team. Author of the Kate Daniels series and The Edge series
• F. Anstey, (1856–1934)
• Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
  
  , (born 1934) author of Xanth
  Xanth
  Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth.-History:The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books...
  
  
• K.A. Applegate, (born 1956) author of Everworld
  Everworld
  Everworld is a fantasy novel series written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001. It consists of twelve books.-Premise and Plot:...
  
  
• Tom Arden
  Tom Arden
  Tom Arden is the pseudonym of a British science fiction and fantasy writer, who was born in Australia. His main work is the five volume Orokon saga, as well as the novels Shadow Black, The Translation of Bastian Test and the Doctor Who novella Nightdreamers.Arden was born in 1966 and grew up in...
  
  , (born 1966)
• Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.She has published sixteen fantasy novels , set in the world of the Women of the Otherworld and the Darkest Powers series, also two crime novels in 2007 and 2009...
  
  , author of the Women of the Otherworld
  Women of the Otherworld
  Women of the Otherworld is the name of a fantasy series by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong.The books feature werewolves, witches, necromancers, and vampires struggling to fit as "normal" in today's world...
  
  
• Danilo Arona
  Danilo Arona
  Danilo Arona is an Italian writer, journalist, freelance writer and essayist, born in Alessandria, Piedmont, where he currently lives.He has also been involved for years with fantasy literature and cinema, and has followed any reference or appearance of fantasy in the news and in Italian...
  
  
• Sarah Ash
  Sarah Ash
  Sarah Ash is a British novelist. She began writing at a very young age, and at the age of twelve completed her first fantasy novel which was called "The Miglas". She trained as a musician at Cambridge University for four years and her interests in music and drama led her into becoming a...
  
  
• Mike Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
  
• Nancy Asire
  Nancy Asire
  Nancy Asire is an American fantasy and science fiction author, best known for her Twilight's Kingdoms fantasy trilogy and her contributions to the shared universe series Heroes in Hell, Sword of Knowledge and Merovingen Nights....
  
  
• Robert Lynn Asprin
  Robert Asprin
  Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
  
  , (1946–2008) author of the Myth Adventures and contributing author to Thieves World
  Thieves World
  Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by such science fiction authors as Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J. Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, Chris Morris...
  
  
• A.A. Attanasio, (born 1951)
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was just fourteen years old...
  
  , (born 1984)
• Anselm Audley
  Anselm Audley
  Anselm Audley is a British fantasy writer.Anselm Audley is a college graduate of Ancient and Modern History, but he started writing his epic Aquasilva novels when still a pupil at school...
  
  , (born 1982)
• Fiona Avery
  Fiona Avery
  Fiona Kai Avery is a comic book and television writer. Avery was hired as a reference editor for the fifth season of Babylon 5, and later continued in that role for the failed spin-off Crusade...
  
  

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• Keith Baker
• R. Scott Bakker
  R. Scott Bakker
  Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in Literature and later an MA in Theory and Criticism...
  
  , (born 1967) author of the Prince of Nothing
  Prince of Nothing
  The Prince of Nothing is a series of three fantasy novels by the Canadian author R. Scott Bakker, first published in 2004, part of a wider series known as "The Second Apocalypse". This trilogy details the emergence of Anasûrimbor Kellhus, a brilliant monastic warrior, as he takes control of a holy...
  
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• Catherine Banner
  Catherine Banner
  Catherine Banner is a British fantasy author, living in Cambridge, England. She gained international attention with her first book, The Eyes of a King, which she began writing when she was fourteen and still a school student....
  
  , author of The Last Descendants-series.
• Gloria Barberi
  Gloria Barberi
  Gloria Barberi is an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer based in Liguria; she started publishing in the early 1980s in various fanzines and magazines....
  
  , (born 1955)
• James Barclay
  James Barclay
  James Barclay is a high fantasy authorHe has written two trilogies, Chronicles of The Raven and Legends of The Raven, and a related novella, Light Stealer....
  
  
• Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  , author of the The Books of Abarat
  The Books of Abarat
  The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by Clive Barker. The series is intended to contain five books, of which three have so far been published...
  
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• William Barnwell
  William Barnwell
  William Barnwell is an American author of science fiction, and of other genres. He has written the Blessing Trilogy, set in a future Ireland, and which has metaphysical content...
  
  , (born 1943) author of the Blessing Papers series
• J.M. Barrie
• T.A. Barron
• Don Bassingthwaite
  Don Bassingthwaite
  Don Bassingthwaite was born in Meaford, Ontario, and now lives and works in Toronto. He has degrees in anthropology and museum studies and is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. Many of his works are set in the fictional universes of role-playing games...
  
  
• Samit Basu
  Samit Basu
  Samit Basu is the author of five novels: The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India, Terror on the Titanic a YA novel published by Scholastic India, and Turbulence, a...
  
  
• Gael Baudino
  Gael Baudino
  Gael Baudino is a contemporary American fantasy author who also writes under the pseudonyms of Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, and G.A. Kathryns. She attended college at the University of Southern California...
  
  
• L. Frank Baum
  L. Frank Baum
  Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
  
  , (1856–1919) author of the Land of Oz
  Land of Oz
  Oz is a fantasy region containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, one of many fantasy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a popularity that none of his other works attained, and after four years, he...
  
   series
• Peter S. Beagle
  Peter S. Beagle
  Peter Soyer Beagle is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. His most notable works include the novels The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and Tamsin, and the award-winning story "Two Hearts".-Career:Beagle won early recognition from The Scholastic Art &...
  
  , (born 1939)
• Frank Beddor
  Frank Beddor
  Frank Beddor is a former world champion freestyle skier, film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He is best known for his work as producer on Something About Mary and Wicked and as author of the New York Times best seller The Looking Glass Wars....
  
   author of the Alyss in Wonderland trilogy
• John Bellairs
  John Bellairs
  John Anthony Bellairs was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.-Biography:After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and...
  
  , (1938–1991)
• Hans Bemmann
  Hans Bemmann
  Hans Bemmann was an Austrian writer.Hans Bemmann studied German language and literature and musicology in Innsbruck. He worked as an editor at the Austrian Borromäuswerk, an association of Catholic libraries, since 1954 and continued to work in this function in Bonn from 1956 to 1987...
  
  , (1922-2003)
• Carol Berg
  Carol Berg
  Carol Berg is the author of several fantasy novels, including the books from the Rai-Kirah series, Song of the Beast, the books from The Bridge of D'Arnath series, and the Lighthouse novels...
  
  
• Steve Berman
  Steve Berman
  This article is about the writer. For the lawyer, see Steve Berman ; for the Mayor of Gilbert, Arizona see Steven M. Berman.Steve Berman is an American editor, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Julie Bertagna
  Julie Bertagna
  Julie Bertagna is a Scottish author who has written real life and science fiction novels for both children and young adults. Her books have been shortlisted for several literature awards, including the Carnegie Medal and her novel Exodus was the winner of the Lancashire County Library Children’s...
  
  
• Anne Bishop
  Anne Bishop
  Anne Bishop is an American fantasy writer. Her most noted work is The Black Jewels trilogy. She lives in upstate New York. She won the Crawford Award in 2000 for the first three novels in her The Black Jewels series: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness.-The Black...
  
  , author of the Black Jewels Trilogy
  Black Jewels Trilogy
  The Black Jewels is a series of fantasy novels by Anne Bishop. Originally conceived as a trilogy and published in that form, until the prequel The Invisible Ring was published in 2000.-Series:In publication order the titles are:...
  
  
• Holly Black
  Holly Black
  Holly Black née Riggenbach is an American writer and editor, best known for writing The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi.-Early life and education:...
  
  , (born 1971) author of the Spiderwick
  Spiderwick
  The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew...
  
   Chronicles and Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
• James P. Blaylock
  James Blaylock
  James Paul Blaylock is an American fantasy author.He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction....
  
  , (born 1950)
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
  Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
  Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff is a versatile author and performer, best known for her science fiction and fantasy works...
  
  , (born 1954)
• Pseudonymous Bosch
  Pseudonymous Bosch
  Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, author of the Secret Series children's books. The name plays off that of the artist Hieronymus Bosch, with the first name a combination of the words pseudonym and anonymous. The Secret Series is a pentalogy of novels based on the five senses:...
  
   author of The Name of This Book is Secret
  The Name of this Book is Secret
  The Name of this Book is Secret is a 2007 fantasy novel for young readers by Pseudonymous Bosch. It chronicles the adventures of two children, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they investigate the mysterious death of local Pietro Bergamo. As you find out later in the book, he is not really dead...
  
   and If you're reading this, it's too late
  If you're reading this, it's too late
  If You're Reading This, It's Too Late is the sequel to The Name of this Book is Secret in the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch. It was released in October 2008 and features the same characters as the first book...
  
  
• Hannes Bok
  Hannes Bok
  Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard , was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds...
  
  , (1914–1964)
• Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
   (born 1920)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
  
  , (1930–1999) author of the Darkover
  Darkover
  Darkover is the focus of the Darkover series of science fiction novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman...
  
   series and editor of the Sword and Sorceress series
  Sword and Sorceress series
  The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books. As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the sub-genre of sword and...
  
   of anthologies
• Rebecca Bradley
  Rebecca Bradley
  Rebecca Bradley is a Canadian novelist and archaeologist, with a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She is best known for her fantasy trilogy consisting of The Lady in Gil and its two sequels Scion's Lady and Lady Pain .While previously living in Hong Kong, Bradley wrote...
  
  
• Gillian Bradshaw
  Gillian Bradshaw
  Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain...
  
  , (born 1956) (also writes historical fiction and science fiction novels)
• Ernest Bramah
  Ernest Bramah
  Ernest Bramah , born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his...
  
   (1868–1942) author of the Kai Lung
  Kai Lung
  Kai Lung is a fictional character in a series of books by Ernest Bramah, consisting of The Wallet of Kai Lung , Kai Lung's Golden Hours , Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat , The Moon of Much Gladness , Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree , Kai Lung: Six and Kai Lung Raises His...
  
   stories
• Libba Bray
  Libba Bray
  Libba Bray is an author of young adult novels, including the books A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing and Going Bovine....
  
  
• Marie Brennan
  Marie Brennan
  Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include Doppelganger, its sequel Warrior and Witch, and numerous short stories. Her third novel, Midnight Never Come, was published on 1 May 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 1 June 2008 in the USA. It...
  
  , author of Doppelganger
  Doppelganger (novel)
  Warrior is a high fantasy novel written by Marie Brennan. It chronicles adventures by Miryo, a witch, and Mirage, Miryo's doppelgänger. It was originally titled Doppelgänger.-Plot introduction:...
  
  
• Peter V. Brett
  Peter V. Brett
  Peter V. Brett is an American writer of fantasy novels. He is the author of the ongoing Demon Series, whose first volume The Painted Man, was first published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in 2008...
  
   author of The Demon Trilogy
• Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell , Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx...
  
   author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books - The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
• Patricia Briggs
  Patricia Briggs
  Patricia Briggs is an American author, well-known for the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Briggs was born in Butte, Montana, and lived in various cities in the Pacific Northwest...
  
  , author of Moon Called
  Moon Called
  The Mercedes Thompson Series is a series of urban fantasy novels written by Patricia Briggs that follow the adventures of Mercedes Thompson, a Native American shapeshifter who was raised by Werewolves...
  
   and Blood Bound
• Kristen Britain
  Kristen Britain
  Kristen Britain is the author of Green Rider, First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, and Blackveil.-Background:Britain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine...
  
  , author of the Green Rider
  Green Rider
  Green Rider is the first novel written by Kristen Britain and is the first book in its series.-Plot summary:...
  
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• C. Dale Brittain
  C. Dale Brittain
  C. Dale Brittain is the author of 8 fantasy fiction novels, 6 of which are of one series in the world of Yurt. The other two books, "Voima" and "Count Scar" stand alone in their respective universes....
  
  , author of the Yurt
  Yurt
  A yurt is a portable, bent wood-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by Turkic nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises a crown or compression wheel usually steam bent, supported by roof ribs which are bent down at the end where they meet the lattice wall...
  
   novels
• Terry Brooks
  Terry Brooks
  Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...
  
  , (born 1944) author of the Shannara
  Shannara
  Shannara is an epic fantasy series of novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and continuing through Bearers of the Black Staff which was released on August 24, 2010, as well as a prequel, First King of Shannara...
  
   novels, Magic Kingdom of Landover novels and Word & Void series
• Steven Brust
  Steven Brust
  Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean...
  
  , (born 1955) author of the Dragaera novels
• Michael Buckley, author of The Sisters Grimm series
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
  , (born 1949) author of The Curse of Chalion
  The Curse of Chalion
  The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Awards in 2002....
  
   and its sequels
• Emma Bull
  Emma Bull
  Emma Bull is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder...
  
  
• Kenneth Bulmer
  Kenneth Bulmer
  Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...
  
  
• Chris Bunch
  Chris Bunch
  Christopher R. "Chris" Bunch was an American science fiction, fantasy and television writer, who wrote and co-wrote about thirty novels....
  
  
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
  , author of the Tarzan novels
• Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series. Butcher grew up as the only son of his parents, and has two older sisters. He currently lives in Independence with his wife, Shannon K...
  
  , (born 1971), author of Dresden Files and Codex Alera
  Codex Alera
  Codex Alera is a fantasy book series by Jim Butcher. The series chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man named Tavi in the realm of Alera, an empire similar to Rome, on the world of Carna. Every Aleran has some degree of command over elemental forces or spirits called furies, save for Tavi, who...
  
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• Rachel Caine
  Rachel Caine
  Rachel Caine is a pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and horror novels. She also publishes media tie-in novels as Julie Fortune.-Personal life:...
  
  , author of the Weather Warden and Morganville Vampires novels
• James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his...
  
  , (1879–1958)
• Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
  
  , author of "The Black Magician Trilogy
  The Black Magician (novel series)
  The Black Magician trilogy is a fantasy novel series by Australian author Trudi Canavan. The books follow a slum-dwelling girl named Sonea who, although born and raised in the slums of Imardin, discovers that she has natural magical abilities usually restricted to the upper classes...
  
  " and "Age of the Five
  Age of the Five
  Age of the Five is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Trudi Canavan, recounting the story of Auraya, a young priestess who rises to the highest rank in her world's religious hierarchy, only to find that there may be more to the Gods she worships than she was led to believe.-Plot Overview:Priestess of...
  
  " novels
• Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
  , author of the Ender's Game
  Ender's Game
  Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional...
  
   & Hart's Hope
  Hart's Hope
  -Setting:Hart's Hope takes place in a realm called Burland in the midst of its medieval ages. Like many fantasies, magic is a real and functional force in this story's world, but with a grisly twist: all magic, whatever its purpose, must be paid for in blood...
  
  
• Jacqueline Carey
  Jacqueline Carey
  Jacqueline Carey is an author and novelist, primarily of fantasy fiction.-Life:She attended Lake Forest College, receiving B.A.'s in psychology and English literature. During college, she spent 6 months working in a bookstore in London as part of a work exchange program. While there, she decided...
  
  , (born 1964) author of the Kushiel's Legacy
  Kushiel's Legacy
  Kushiel's Legacy is a series of fantasy novels by Jacqueline Carey, comprising the Phèdre Trilogy and the Imriel Trilogy...
  
   and The Sundering (series)
  The Sundering (series)
  -The Shapers:Haomane First-Born:The first of the Shapers and has become the leader of the Six in facing the Sunderer. He created the Ellylon, who are immortal except if killed by steel. His Gift is thought, for which he is named Lord-of-Thought. He gave this Gift only to Elyll and Man, making them...
  
  
• Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
  
  
• Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
  , (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832-1898) author of Alice in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
  
  
• Angela Carter
  Angela Carter
  Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...
  
  , (1940-1992)
• Lin Carter
  Lin Carter
  Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...
  
  , (1930–1988)
• Vittorio Catani
  Vittorio Catani
  Vittorio Catani is an Italian science fiction writer.Born in Lecce, he currently lives and works in Bari, Italy. A retired bank clerk, he started publishing essays and fiction in 1962, especially within the fantasy and science fiction genres...
  
  , (born 1940)
• Juraj Červenák
  Juraj Cervenák
  Juraj Červenák is a Slovak author best known for his short story and novel, which mix elements of sword and sorcery with historical fantasy and Slavic mythology....
  
  , (born 1974)
• Mark Chadbourn
  Mark Chadbourn
  Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy, science fiction and horror author with fifteen novels published around the world.Born in the English Midlands from a long line of coal miners...
  
  
• Karen Chance
  Karen Chance
  Karen Chance is an urban fantasy novelist. She grew up in Orlando, Florida. She has lived in France, Great Britain, Hong Kong and New Orleans, where she has taught history...
  
  , author of the Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab novels
• Robert W. Chambers
  Robert W. Chambers
  Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...
  
  , author of "The King in Yellow
  The King in Yellow
  The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance...
  
  "
• Jack L. Chalker
  Jack L. Chalker
  Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time...
  
  , (1944–2005)
• C. J. Cherryh
  C. J. Cherryh
  Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
  
  , (born 1942)
• G. K. Chesterton
  G. K. Chesterton
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....
  
  , (1874–1936)
• Massimo Citi
  Massimo Citi
  Massimo Citi is an Italian science fiction writer and reviewer. He was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, and has published a number of stories on various magazines and anthologies...
  
  , (born 1955)
• Cassandra Clare
  Cassandra Clare
  Cassandra Clare is an American author who has written the bestselling young adult saga The Mortal Instruments.- Personal life :Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran. As a child Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France...
  
  , author of The Mortal Instruments
• Susanna Clarke
  Susanna Clarke
  Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...
  
  
• David B. Coe
  David B. Coe
  David B. Coe is an author of fantasy novels and short stories.- Writing :He was the winner of the William L. Crawford Award for best first fantasy series, awarded at the International Conference on the Fantastic for Children of Amarid and The Outlanders, the first two novels of the LonTobyn...
  
  
• Ronan Coghlan
  Ronan Coghlan
  Ronan Coghlan is an Irish writer living in Bangor, County Down in Northern Ireland.Coghlan was born Dublin in 1948. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin ....
  
  , author of Sherlockian fantasy.
• Adrian Cole
  Adrian Cole
  Adrian Cole , writer.He was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the Omaran Saga and Star Requiem series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants....
  
  
• Eoin Colfer
  Eoin Colfer
  Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...
  
  , (born 1965), author of the "Artemis Fowl (series)
  Artemis Fowl (series)
  Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer and all the books are best sellers, starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. The author summed up the series as: "Die Hard with fairies." There are seven novels in the series; the first was published in...
  
  "
• Suzanne Collins
  Suzanne Collins
  Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist.-Early life:Suzanne Collins is the daughter of an Air Force officer. She graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her M.F.A. from New York University in Dramatic Writing....
  
  , author of The Hunger Games
  The Hunger Games
  The Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world...
  
  
• Storm Constantine
  Storm Constantine
  Storm Constantine is a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series.- Life and work :Since the late 1980s Constantine has written more than 20 novels, plus several non-fiction books...
  
  , (born 1956)
• Glen Cook
  Glen Cook
  Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1944) author of the Black Company
  The Black Company
  The Black Company is a series of fantasy novels by author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.- The Books of the North:#The...
  
   novels and Garrett P.I.
  Garrett P.I.
  Garrett P.I. is a series of books by author Glen Cook about Garrett, a freelance private investigator. The novels are written in a film noir-esque style, containing elements of traditional mystery and detective fiction, as well as plenty of dialogue-based humor. The Garrett P.I...
  
   novels
• Hugh Cook
  Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
  Hugh Cook was a cult author whose works blend fantasy and science fiction. He is best-known for his epic series The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.-Biography:...
  
  , (1956–2008) author of the Chronicles of an Age of Darkness
  Chronicles of an Age of Darkness
  The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness are a ten-volume series of cross-genre fantasy / science fiction novels created by cult author Hugh Cook.-The books:*The Wizards and the Warriors - 1986...
  
  
• Rick Cook
  Rick Cook
  Rick Cook is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such a...
  
  , author of the Wizardry
  Wizardry
  Wizardry is a series of computer role-playing games, developed by Sir-Tech, which were highly influential in the development of modern console and computer role playing games. The original Wizardry was a significant influence to early console RPGs, such as Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy. ...
  
   series
• Louise Cooper
  Louise Cooper
  Louise Cooper was a British fantasy writer who lived in Cornwall with her husband, Cas Sandall.Cooper was born in Hertfordshire. She began writing stories when she was at school to entertain her friends. She continued to write and her first full-length novel was published at the age of twenty...
  
  , (1952–2009)
• Susan Cooper
  Susan Cooper
  Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
  
  , (born 1935) author of The Dark Is Rising Sequence
  The Dark is Rising Sequence
  The Dark Is Rising is the name of a five-book series of children's contemporary fantasy novels by Susan Cooper, published in 1965–1977, which depicts the struggle between the forces of good, called The Light, and the forces of evil, known as The Dark...
  
  
• Elaine Corvidae
  Elaine Corvidae
  Elaine Corvidae is an American fantasy author.Corvidae says when she was eight years old, she came home from school and declared she would be a writer...
  
  
• John Crowley
  John Crowley
  John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
  
  , (born 1942)
• Elaine Cunningham
  Elaine Cunningham
  Elaine Cunningham is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her contributions to the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game campaign setting of Forgotten Realms, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa, Ruathym and Waterdeep.-Biography:Elaine Cunningham grew up in New...
  
  
• Jane Louise Curry
  Jane Louise Curry
  Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932 in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific writer of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers...
  
  

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• Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
  
  , (1916–1990) author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of the eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka....
  
  
• Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche...
  
  , (1923–1993)
• S. J. Day
  Sylvia Day
  Sylvia June Day is an American writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms S. J. Day and Livia Dare.Publishers Marketplace reports that Day's trilogy "in which angels, vampires, and lycans are all vying for power" went to auction in early 2010. New American Library was the winning...
  
  , (born 1973)
• Pamela Dean
  Pamela Dean
  Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.She was a member of the...
  
  , (born 1953)
• John DeChancie
  John DeChancie
  John DeChancie is an American author. A Pittsburgh native, he is most famous for his comic fantasy Castle series, and his science fiction Skyway series...
  
  
• L. Sprague de Camp
  L. Sprague de Camp
  Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
  
  , (1907–2000) author of The Compleat Enchanter
  The Compleat Enchanter
  The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea is an omnibus collection of three classic fantasy stories by science fiction and fantasy authors L...
  
   & Conan
  Conan the Barbarian
  Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...
  
   stories
• Alessandro Defilippi
  Alessandro Defilippi
  Alessandro Defilippi is an Italian writer and screenwriter.Born in Turin, he works as a psychoanalyst. His published works include the gothic tales collection Una lunga consuetudine and two novels, Locus Animae , a psychological thriller, and Angeli , a gothic novel with themes of mysticism,...
  
  
• Michael de Larrabeiti
  Michael de Larrabeiti
  Michael de Larrabeiti was an English novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing The Borrible Trilogy, which has been cited as an influence by writers in the New Weird movement.-Early life:...
  
  , (born 1934)
• Charles de Lint
  Charles de Lint
  Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and folk musician. He is also the chief book critic for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction....
  
  , (born 1951)
• Kathryn Deans
  Kathryn Deans
  Kathryn Deans is an Australian children's fantasy author. She was raised in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne in Australia.-Works:* All The Flowers Of Babylon, in issue 25/26 of the Speculative Fiction magazine Aurealis...
  
  , author of Shimmer
  Shimmer
  Shimmer may refer to:* Shimmer , a play by John O'Keefe* Shimmer , a DC Comics super-villain* Shimmer , by Eric Barnes.* Shimmer Magazine, or Shimmerzine, a speculative fiction magazine...
  
  
• Tom Deitz
  Tom Deitz
  Thomas Franklin Deitz was an American novelist from Georgia. He had the A.B. and M.A. in medieval English from the University of Georgia. He was the author of the "Soulsmith Trilogy," comprising the books Soulsmith, Dreambuilder, and Wordwright...
  
  , (1952–2009
• Joseph Delaney
  Joseph Delaney
  Joseph Henry Delaney is a British former educator and currently an author of science fiction and fantasy books.-Life and career:On first leaving school, Delaney started work as an apprentice engineer. Upon the completion of his schooling, he went on to become an English instructor, with his initial...
  
  , author of The Wardstone Chronicles
  The Wardstone Chronicles
  The Wardstone Chronicles is a dark fantasy series of books written by British author Joseph Delaney and published by Random House Publishing...
  
  
• Troy Denning
  Troy Denning
  Troy Denning is a fantasy and science fiction author and game designer.-Career:Denning joined TSR as a game designer in 1981, and was promoted a year later to Manager of Designers, before he moved to the book department...
  
  
• Graham Diamond
  Graham Diamond
  Graham Diamond is a fantasy and science fiction author.-Early life and education:Born in Manchester, England, after World War II, and his family moved to the United States when he was a young child. He was raised in New York City, on the Upper West Side, and graduated from the High School of...
  
  
• Stephen Donaldson
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...
  
  , (born 1947) author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• Sara Douglass
• Ann Downer
  Ann Downer
  Ann Downer is an American writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and young adults, as well as short fiction and poetry....
  
  , (born 1960)
• David Drake
  David Drake
  David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tobias Druitt
  Tobias Druitt
  Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling....
  
  , author of the Corydon Trilogy
• Diane Duane
  Diane Duane
  Diane Duane is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.-Biography :...
  
  , (born 1952) author of the Young Wizards
  Young Wizards
  Young Wizards is a series of novels by Diane Duane.The Young Wizards series presently consists of nine books, with a tenth in progress, focusing on the adventures of two young wizards named Nita and Kit. Each novel pits Nita and Kit against the "Lone Power", an entity ultimately bent on the...
  
  
• Dave Duncan
  Dave Duncan (writer)
  David Duncan is a Canadian fantasy author. He was born in 1933 in Scotland, and educated there at the High School of Dundee and at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955 he moved to Canada where he lived in Calgary, Alberta, and is currently situated on Vancouver Island in Victoria,...
  
  
• Lord Dunsany
  Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
  Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany...
  
  , (1878–1957) (Edward Plunkett)
• Jeanne DuPrau
  Jeanne DuPrau
  Jeanne DuPrau is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.-Home life:...
  
  
• David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War...
  
  , (born 1969) author of Acacia: The War With The Mein
  Acacia: The War with the Mein
  Acacia: The War with the Mein is a 2007 novel by American author David Anthony Durham. It marks his first foray into epic fantasy, although the novel shares some characteristics of his other works such as the historical novel, Pride of Carthage....
  
  

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• David Eddings
  David Eddings
  David Eddings was an American author who wrote several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels.-Biography:...
  
  , (1931–2009) author of Belgariad
  The Belgariad
  The Belgariad is a five-book fantasy epic written by David Eddings.The series tells the story of the recovery of the Orb of Aldur and coming of age of Garion, an orphaned farmboy. Garion is accompanied by his aunt Polgara and grandfather Belgarath as they try to fulfill an ancient prophecy that...
  
  , Malloreon
  The Malloreon
  The Malloreon is a five part fantasy book series written by David Eddings, which follows The Belgariad. The Malloreon is set in the same world as The Belgariad, but expands on several aspects of the setting, especially the eastern continent of Mallorea....
  
  , Elenium
  The Elenium
  The Elenium is a series of fantasy novels by David Eddings. The series consists of three volumes:* The Diamond Throne* The Ruby Knight* The Sapphire RoseThe series is followed by The Tamuli....
  
  , Tamuli
  The Tamuli
  The Tamuli is a series of fantasy novels by David Eddings. The series consists of three volumes:# Domes of Fire# The Shining Ones# The Hidden CityThe Tamuli is the sequel to The Elenium...
  
   and The Dreamers
  The Dreamers (book series)
  The Dreamers is the title of a fantasy series by David Eddings and his wife Leigh Eddings. The story revolves around four beings known as The Elder Gods residing in the land of Dhrall: Dahlaine of the North, Veltan of the South, Zelana of the West and Aracia of the East. They must recruit the help...
  
   novels
• E. R. Eddison
  Eric Rucker Eddison
  Eric Rücker Eddison was an English civil servant and author, writing under the name "E.R. Eddison."-Biography:...
  
  , (1882–1945) author of The Worm Ouroboros
  The Worm Ouroboros
  The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas...
  
  
• C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine.- Career :...
  
  , (1896-1967)
• Graham Edwards
  Graham Edwards (writer)
  Graham Edwards is an English author of fantasy and crime novels. His most popular books have generally featured dragons as their central characters....
  
   (born 1965) writer of the Dragoncharm
  Dragoncharm
  Dragoncharm is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1995 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the first book in the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, and its sequels are Dragonstorm and Dragonflame....
  
   and Stone and Sky
  Stone and Sky
  Stone and Sky is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1999 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the first book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sea and Stone and Sun...
  
   trilogies
• Phyllis Eisenstein
  Phyllis Eisenstein
  Phyllis Eisenstein is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and has lived there most of her life. While attending college at the University of Chicago, she met her future husband Alex at a weekly gathering of Chicago's science...
  
  , (born 1946), author of Shadow of Earth and Born to Exile
  Born to Exile
  Born to Exile is a fantasy novel by author Phyllis Eisenstein, the first of her two Alaric novels. It was originally published in 1978 by longtime U. S. specialty press Arkham House in a first edition trade hardcover of 4,148 copies; it has since been published in several mass-market paperback...
  
  
• Mircea Eliade
  Mircea Eliade
  Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
  
  , (1907–1986)
• Kate Elliott
  Kate Elliott
  Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen .-Writing:Although Rasmussen's first novels The Labyrinth Gate and The Highroad failed to become bestsellers, additional publishers liked her manuscripts but wanted a fresh name unconnected with the...
  
  , (born 1958) author of the Crown of Stars
  Crown of Stars (series)
  Crown of Stars is a series of epic fantasy novels by American author Alis A. Ramussen, under the pen-name Kate Elliott. The series consists of seven novels.-Novels:* King's Dragon * Prince of Dogs * The Burning Stone...
  
   series
• Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  , (born 1934)
• Steven Erikson
  Steven Erikson
  Steven Erikson is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist....
  
  , (born 1959), author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
  Malazan Book of the Fallen
  The Malazan Book of the Fallen is an epic fantasy series written by Canadian author Steven Erikson, published in ten volumes beginning with the novel Gardens of the Moon, published in 1999. The series was completed with the publication of The Crippled God in February 2011...
  
  
• Javier Abril Espinoza
  Javier Abril Espinoza
  Javier Abril Espinoza , Honduran writer based in Switzerland. He writes for the newspaper The Herald of Honduras and collaborates with various literary magazines of Latin America....
  
  , (born 1967)
• Ian Cameron Esslemont
  Ian Cameron Esslemont
  Ian Cameron Esslemont is a Canadian writer. He was trained and has worked as an archaeologist. He is best-known for his series Novels of the Malazan Empire, which is set in the same world as the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series popularised by his friend and collaborator, Steven Erikson...
  
  , author of the Novels of the Malazan Empire series
• Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
  Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
  Lloyd Arthur Eshbach was an American science fiction fan, publisher and writer, secular and religious publisher, and minister....
  
  , (1910–2003) author and proprietor of Fantasy Press
  Fantasy Press
  Fantasy Press was an American publishing house specialising in fantasy and science fiction titles. Established in 1946 by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach in Reading, Pennsylvania, it was most notable for publishing the works of authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and E. E. Smith...
  
  
• Rose Estes
  Rose Estes
  Rose Estes is the author of many fantasy and science fiction books, including full length novels and multiple choice gamebooks.-Career:After contributing extensively to TSR, Inc.'s Dungeons and Dragons Endless Quest series , she wrote her first full length novel, Children of the Dragon...
  
  

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• Karina Fabian
  Karina Fabian
  Karina Fabian is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, comedic horror, and devotionals. She is also known for her work in education writers, including founding the Catholic Writers Conference Online and teaching at various free workshops, including the MuseOnline Conference...
  
  
• Jennifer Fallon
  Jennifer Fallon
  Jennifer Fallon is an Australian fantasy/ science fiction author. She is also a businesswoman, trainer and business consultant. Her residence is in Oxford, New Zealand.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nancy Yi Fan, author of Swordbird
  Swordbird
  Swordbird is a children's fantasy novel written by Nancy Yi Fan. A prequel, Sword Quest, was released January 22, 2008. A sequel, Sword Mountain, based on Sword Mountain, home of an eagle tribe mentioned in Sword Quest, is to be published in early 2012.- Plot :The story begins with Turnatt, an evil...
  
  
• David Farland, author of The Runelords
  The Runelords
  The Runelords is a fantasy series by author David Farland. In the universe of The Runelords, there exists a unique magical system which relies on the existence of distinct bodily attributes, such as brawn, grace, and wit. These attributes can be transferred from one individual to another in a...
  
   series
• Nancy Farmer
  Nancy Farmer (author)
  Nancy Farmer is a prominent children's book author from the United States.Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  , (born 1941)
• Philip Jose Farmer
  Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....
  
  , (1918–2009) author of the Riverworld
  Riverworld
  Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer . Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods...
  
   saga
• Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan is an American romance-paranormal writer. She has published more than 26 novels, including five series, and numerous novellas since 1999.-Biography:...
  
  , author of the Dark
  Dark
  Dark commonly refers to darkness, the absence of light.Dark may also refer to:*Evil, sinister or malign*Dark , a term used to describe a broadcasting service that has ceased transmission...
  
   series
• Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
  , (born 1945) author of the Riftwar Saga
  Riftwar
  The Riftwar Saga is a series of fantasy novels by Raymond E. Feist, the first series in The Riftwar Cycle.-Magician:"To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan called Pug came to study with the Master Magician Kulgan...
  
  
• Jean-Louis Fetjaine
  Jean-Louis Fetjaine
  Jean-Louis Fetjaine is a French fantasy writer, most famous for his trilogy about elves, Merlin and Uther Pendragon. He has written a number of novels which include the elf-trilogy: "Le crepuscule de elfes" , "la nuit des elfes" , "L'heure des elfes" and the Merlin-Cycle consisting of two...
  
  , (born 1956)
• Jasper Fforde
  Jasper Fforde
  Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and begun two more independent series: The Last Dragonslayer...
  
  , (born 1961) author of the Thursday Next
  Thursday Next
  Thursday Next is the main protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was first introduced in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on July 19, 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. , the series comprises six books, in two...
  
   series
• Charles G. Finney
  Charles G. Finney
  Charles G. Finney was an American fantasy novelist and newspaperman. His full name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently in honor of his great-grandfather, famous evangelist Charles Grandison Finney.-Biography:...
  
  , (1905–1984) author of The Circus of Dr. Lao
  The Circus of Dr. Lao
  The Circus of Dr. Lao is a 1935 novel written by Arizona newspaperman Charles G. Finney, and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Many later editions omit these illustrations.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Lynn Flewelling
  Lynn Flewelling
  Lynn Flewelling is a fantasy fiction author, best known for two internationally acclaimed fantasy series: the Nightrunner books and Tamír Triad.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Eric Flint
  Eric Flint
  Eric Flint is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.- Career :...
  
  , author of the Belisarius series
  Belisarius series
  The Belisarius Series is a fictional saga in the alternate history and military history sub-genres of science fiction, written by American authors David Drake and Eric Flint...
  
  
• John M. Ford
  John M. Ford
  John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.Ford was regarded as an extraordinarily intelligent, erudite and witty man. He was a popular contributor to several online discussions...
  
  , (1957–2006) author of The Dragon Waiting
  The Dragon Waiting
  The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History is a fantasy novel by John M. Ford, published in 1983. It won the 1984 World Fantasy Award.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Kate Forsyth
  Kate Forsyth
  Kate Forsyth is an Australian fantasy author, best known for the Witches of Eileanan series, and the Rhiannon's Ride series, which is also set in Eileanan....
  
  , (born 1966) author of the The Witches of Eileanan series
• Alan Dean Foster
  Alan Dean Foster
  Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts...
  
  , (born 1946) author of the Humanx Commonwealth
  Humanx Commonwealth
  The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth takes its name from its two major sapient species, who jointly inhabit Commonwealth planets and administer both the political and...
  
   novels, particularly those involving Flinx
  Flinx
  Philip Lynx is a fictional character, an adventurous young man with unusual qualities in a series of books set in the "Humanx Commonwealth", written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Del Rey Books.-Character biography:...
  
  
• Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos is an American author born February 9, 1960. She has written mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories. She has published one mystery novel, Saint Oswald's Niche, which is currently out of print, and The Broadway Musical Quiz Book...
  
  , (born 1960)
• Steven Frankos
  Steven Frankos
  Steven Frankos is an American fantasy author. He is the brother of mystery, fantasy and science fiction author Laura Frankos and the brother-in-law of science fiction author Harry Turtledove....
  
  
• C. S. Friedman
• Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...
  
  , author of Inkworld trilogy
  Inkworld trilogy
  The Inkheart trilogy is a series of three fantasy novels written by German author Cornelia Funke, comprising Inkheart , Inkspell , and Inkdeath...
  
  , The Thief Lord
  The Thief Lord
  The Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company...
  
  , and Dragon Rider
  Dragon Rider (novel)
  Dragon Rider is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell...
  
  
• Maggie Furey
  Maggie Furey
  Maggie Furey was born in Northeast England, UK, in 1955. She is a qualified teacher but has also reviewed books on BBC Radio Newcastle, been an advisor in the Durham Reading Resources Centre and organized children's book fairs. She now lives in County Wicklow in Ireland...
  
  

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• Diana Gabaldon
  Diana Gabaldon
  Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
  
  , (born 1952) author of Outlander (novel)
  Outlander (novel)
  Outlander is the first novel in a series of seven by Diana Gabaldon. The book focuses on two main characters, Claire Randall and James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, and takes place in 18th- and 20th-century Scotland...
  
   and its sequels
• Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  , (born 1960) author of novels, short stories, The Books of Magic
  The Books of Magic
  The Books of Magic is a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, published by DC Comics, and later an ongoing series under the imprint Vertigo. Since its original publication, the mini-series has also been published in a single-volume collection under the Vertigo...
  
   and other graphic novels
• Sara Gallardo
  Sara Gallardo
  Sara Gallardo was an influential Argentine author, noted, among other things, for her magical realism.-Early life:Gallardo was born in Buenos Aires to an upper class family with extensive agricultural property...
  
   (1931–1988), Argentinian
• Craig Shaw Gardner
  Craig Shaw Gardner
  Craig Shaw Gardner is an American author, best known for producing fantasy parodies similar to those of Terry Pratchett.He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America , a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized...
  
  , (born 1949)
• Richard Garfinkle
  Richard Garfinkle
  Richard Garfinkle is an American writer of science fiction.He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997....
  
   (fl. 1990s), author of All of an Instant
• Alan Garner
  Alan Garner
  With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget...
  
  , (born 1934) author of Elidor
  Elidor
  -Plot introduction:Originally written as a short radio play, the book concerns the adventures of a group of young teenagers as they struggle to hold back a terrible darkness by fulfilling a prophecy from another world...
  
   and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a children's fantasy novel by English author Alan Garner, first published in 1960. The novel is set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, and tells the story of two children, Colin and Susan, who are staying with some old friends of their mother...
  
  
• Richard Garnett
  Richard Garnett
  Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....
  
   (1835–1906) author of The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales
  The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales
  The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Richard Garnett, generally considered a classic in the genre...
  
  
• Randall Garrett
  Randall Garrett
  Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s...
  
  , (born 1927) author of the Lord Darcy
  Lord Darcy (fiction)
  Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world very different from our own.-Title character:...
  
   novels
• David Gemmell
  David Gemmell
  David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore...
  
  , (1948–2006) author of the Drenai novels
• Mary Gentle
  Mary Gentle
  -Literary career:Mary Gentle's first published novel was Hawk in Silver , a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the Orthe duology, which consists of Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light ....
  
  
• ElizaBeth Gilligan
  Elizabeth Gilligan
  Elizabeth Gilligan is a fantasy author who lives in San Francisco, California. Her short story Iron Joan was on the preliminary Nebula Award ballot in 2003...
  
  
• Christie Golden
  Christie Golden
  Christie Golden is an award-winning author who lives in Loveland, Colorado, United States. She has written over thirty novels and several short stories in fantasy, horror and science fiction.-Career:...
  
  
• Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
  
  
• Julia Golding
  Julia Golding
  Julia Golding is a British novelist.Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge. She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland...
  
   author of the Companions Quartet
• Terry Goodkind
  Terry Goodkind
  Terry Goodkind is an American writer and author of the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines, which has ties to his fantasy series, and The Omen Machine, which is a direct sequel thereof. Before his success as an author Goodkind worked...
  
  , (born 1948) author of The Sword of Truth
  The Sword of Truth
  The Sword of Truth is a series of thirteen epic fantasy novels written by Terry Goodkind. The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander on their quest to defeat oppressors who seek to control the world and those who wish to unleash evil upon the world of...
  
   novels
• Gayle Greeno
  Gayle Greeno
  Gayle Greeno is an American fantasy author.-Ghatti's Tale:* Finders Seekers * MindSpeaker's Call * Exiles' Return -External links:...
  
  
• Jim Grimsley
  Jim Grimsley
  -Biography:Born to a troubled rural family in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Grimsley said of his childhood that "for us in the South, the family is a field where craziness grows like weeds"....
  
  , author of the high fantasy
  High fantasy
  High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel worlds. High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, whose major fantasy works were published in the 1950s...
  
   novel Kirith Kirin
• Jeff Grubb
  Jeff Grubb
  Jeff Grubb is an author and game designer. He has worked on a number of computer and role-playing games and has written a number of successful novels, short stories and comics...
  
  , author of the Finder's Stone
  Finder's Stone
  The Finder's Stone trilogy is a set of three novels in the Forgotten Realms setting based on the campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.The novels in this trilogy are:* Azure Bonds...
  
   trilogy with Kate Novak
• Jyoti Guptara
  Jyoti Guptara
  Jyoti Guptara is a young novelist of British and Indian heritage, best known as co-author of the Insanity Saga .-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1988) twin co-author of Conspiracy of Calaspia
  Conspiracy of Calaspia
  Conspiracy of Calaspia is a fantasy novel written by twin teenage novelists Suresh and Jyoti Guptara. It is the first book of the Insanity Saga that follows the story of Bryn Bellyset - a 16 year old heir to an enormously successful drink empire - his fellow barue and others as they race to save...
  
  
• Suresh Guptara, (born 1988) twin co-author of Conspiracy of Calaspia
  Conspiracy of Calaspia
  Conspiracy of Calaspia is a fantasy novel written by twin teenage novelists Suresh and Jyoti Guptara. It is the first book of the Insanity Saga that follows the story of Bryn Bellyset - a 16 year old heir to an enormously successful drink empire - his fellow barue and others as they race to save...
  
  
• Gary Gygax
  Gary Gygax
  Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games....
  
  , (1938–2008) author of Dungeons and Dragons, other game rules, and fantasy books

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• Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Greg Hamerton
  Greg Hamerton
  Greg Hamerton is a South African fantasy novelist and extreme sports writer.- Biography :He was educated at Waldorf school . He matriculated from South African College Schools in 1991 and completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Cape Town in 1994...
  
  , (born 1973) author of the Tale of the Lifesong series
• Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...
  
  , (born 1963) author of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series
• Traci Harding
  Traci Harding
  Traci Harding is an Australian novelist.Her work combines fantasy, facts, history and esoteric beliefs. She has recently sold the film rights to The Alchemist Key, with production recommencing in 2011...
  
  
• Lyndon Hardy
  Lyndon Hardy
  Lyndon Maurice Hardy is an American physicist, fantasy author, and business owner.-Biography:He is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He attended California Institute of Technology as an undergraduate and the University of California Berkeley for his Ph.D.In his college years he...
  
  
• Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...
  
  
• Geraldine Harris
  Geraldine Harris
  Geraldine Harris , aka Geraldine Harris Pinch, is an author and Egyptologist. She is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford....
  
  
• Edith Ogden Harrison
  Edith Ogden Harrison
  Edith Ogden Harrison was a well-known and prolific author of children's books and fairy tales in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was also the wife of Carter Harrison, Jr., five-term mayor of Chicago....
  
  
• Kim Harrison
  Kim Harrison
  Kim Harrison is a nom de plume of American author Dawn Cook. Under the name of Harrison, she is best known for her Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series set in an alternate history where a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's...
  
  
• M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison , known as Mike Harrison, is an English author and critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, , Climbers , and the Kefahuchi Tract series which begins with Light . He currently resides in London.-Early years:Harrison was born in Rugby,...
  
  , (born 1945)
• Petra Hartmann
  Petra Hartmann
  Petra Hartmann is a German literature scientist, journalist and author.-Life:Petra Hartmann grew up in Sillium, a little village near Hildesheim. She visited a humanistic secondary school in Hildesheim and studied German language and literature, philosophy and politics at the University of Hannover...
  
  , (born 1970)
• Simon Hawke
  Simon Hawke
  Simon Hawke is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Hayami Yuji
  Hayami Yuji
  is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer.-References:Born in Aomori prefecture, he started writing in 1982 for SF Izumu magazine. Afterwards he collaborated on a number of published works...
  
  , (born 1961)
• Elizabeth Haydon
  Elizabeth Haydon
  Elizabeth Haydon is a fantasy author. She has written two fantasy series set within the same universe, The fantasy/romance/whodunit fusion called The Symphony of Ages and the young adult series The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme....
  
  
• Bernhard Hennen
  Bernhard Hennen
  Bernhard Hennen is a German writer of fantasy.Hennen is one of the best known German writers of fantasy. Many of his books especially his Die Elfen-Saga are translated and published in all major European languages except English. He is married and lives in Krefeld...
  
  , (born 1966)
• Frank Herda, (born 1947), Author of the Chronicles of the Dragons of the Magi series.
• Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Raye Hickman is a best-selling fantasy author, best known for his work on Dragonlance as a game designer and co-author with Margaret Weis, while he worked for TSR...
  
  , author of the Dragonlance
  Dragonlance
  Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
  
   novels
• Jim C. Hines
  Jim C. Hines
  Jim C. Hines is an American fantasy writer. He was a first-place winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award in 1998 with his story "Blade of the Bunny". He is the author of the Goblin Quest fantasy trilogy, comprising Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War. He also edited the...
  
  , (born 1974)
• Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction....
  
  , (born 1952) pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who also writes as Megan Lindholm
• John C. Hocking
  John C. Hocking
  John C. Hocking is an American fantasy writer, the author of a Conan novel published by Tor Books and a number of short stories. One of his stories, "The Face in the Sea", won the 2009 Harper's Pen Award for Sword and Sorcery fiction....
  
  , (born 1960)
• P. C. Hodgell
  P. C. Hodgell
  Patricia "Pat" Christine Hodgell is an American fantasy writer, artist and professor.Dr. Hodgell holds a master's in English literature and a doctorate in 19th-century English literature, both of which were earned from the University of Minnesota...
  
  , (born 1951)
• William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...
  
  , (1877–1918)
• E. T. A. Hoffmann, (1776–1822) author of "The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
  
  " and other fantastic stories
• Wolfgang Hohlbein
  Wolfgang Hohlbein
  Wolfgang Hohlbein is a German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike, is also a writer and often works with her husband. She often comes up with the story ideas and therefore is generally credited as co-author...
  
   (born 1953)
• Robert Holdstock
  Robert Holdstock
  Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....
  
   (1948–2009)
• Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  , (born 1961) writes mostly humorous fantasy
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.-Profile:Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983...
  
  , (born 1955)
• Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...
  
  , author of The Power of Five
  The Power of Five
  The Power of Five is a series of fantasy and suspense novels, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. Four installments have been published to date but another one is to be released...
  
   and Groosham Grange
  Groosham Grange
  Groosham Grange is a 1988 children's fantasy book by best-selling British author Anthony Horowitz. It received the French Prix Européen du Roman Pour Enfants in 1993...
  
  .
• Robert E. Howard
  Robert E. Howard
  Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
  
  , (1906–1936) creator of Conan the Barbarian
  Conan the Barbarian
  Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...
  
  
• Tanya Huff
  Tanya Huff
  Tanya Sue Huff is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science-fiction series. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood...
  
  
• Barry Hughart
  Barry Hughart
  Barry Hughart in Peoria, Illinois, is an American author of fantasy novels.- Background :Hughart was born in Peoria, Illinois on March 13, 1934. His father, John Harding Page, served as a naval officer. His mother, Veronica Hughart, was an architect.Hughart was educated at Phillips Academy...
  
  , writes Chinese historical fantasies
• Robert Don Hughes
  Robert Don Hughes
  Dr. Robert Don Hughes , is an American educator and writer, author of both mainstream fantasy and science fiction and evangelical non-fiction.-Education:...
  
  , (born 1949)
• Stephen Hunt, author of the Jackelian novels

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• Francisco Javier Illán Vivas
  Francisco Javier Illán Vivas
  Francisco Javier Illán Vivas is a writer and poet from Murcia.-Biography:Illán Vivas has almost always been related to the media world....
  
  , (born 1958)
• Ian Irvine
  Ian Irvine
  Ian Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...
  
  , (born 1950)
• Eva Ibbotson
  Eva Ibbotson
  Eva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her award-winning children's books as well as her novels for adults - several of which have been successfully reissued for the young adult readership in recent years.-Personal life:Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner...
  
  ,

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• Brian Jacques
  Brian Jacques
  James Brian Jacques was an English author best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.-Biography:Brian Jacques was born...
  
  , (1939-2011) author of the Redwall
  Redwall
  Redwall, by Brian Jacques, is a series of fantasy novels. It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, the name of the Abbey featured in the book, and the name of an animated TV series based on three of the novels , which first aired in 1999...
  
   series
• L. Dean James
  L. Dean James
  L. Dean James is an American fantasy and horror writer. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with Chris Curry, was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.-Novels:*Sorcerer's Stone...
  
  , (born 1947)
• Tove Jansson
  Tove Jansson
  Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
  
  , (1914–2001) author of the Moomin
  Moomin
  The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses...
  
   novels
• K. V. Johansen
  K. V. Johansen
  K.V. Johansen is a Canadian fantasy, science fiction, and children's author.Born in Kingston, Ontario, Johansen holds Master's degrees in Medieval Studies and English literature.She lives in Sackville, New Brunswick....
  
  , (born 1968)
• Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  , (1934-2011) author of the Chrestomanci
  Chrestomanci
  The Chrestomanci series is a children's fantasy series by Diana Wynne Jones. The word "Chrestomanci" may be derived from the Greek khrestos, meaning "useful," and -mancy, "divination."...
  
   series
• Ivan Jones (author)
  Ivan Jones (author)
  Ivan Jones is a British writer of fiction. His work includes novels, picture books, plays, poetry anthologies, television series and many adaptations for BBC Radio.-Novels and Picture Books:...
  
  , The Ghost Hunter Series
• J. V. Jones
• Robert Jordan
  Robert Jordan
  Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly.-Biography:Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina...
  
   (pseudonym of James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), (1948–2007) author of The Wheel of Time
  The Wheel of Time
  The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, the length was increased by increments; at the time of Rigney's death, he expected it to be 12, but it will actually...
  
   series

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• Lene Kaaberbøl
  Lene Kaaberbøl
  Lene Kaaberbøl is a Danish writer of fantasy novels living in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Writing :Lene Kaaberbøl tends to write fantasy books set in the medieval period...
  
  , (born 1960) author of the Shamer series
• Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid...
  
  , (born 1954) author of The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, set partly in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar. It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by...
  
   and Tigana
  Tigana
  -Setting:The world where Tigana takes place is a planet orbited by two moons. Kay notes that some of his readers tried to connect Tigana with A Song for Arbonne speculating the stories take place on the same fictional world, orbited by two moons; Kay explained that he only repeated the same theme...
  
  
• Paul Kearney
  Paul Kearney
  Paul Kearney is a Northern Irish fantasy author. He is noted for his work in the epic fantasy subgenre and his work has been compared to that of David Gemmell.-Life:...
  
  , (born 1967)
• David Keck
  David Keck
  David Keck is a Canadian author, and teacher, who has Masters Degrees in English Literature, History, and Education. He is best known for his novels based around the protagonist Durand Col. His works have received generally positive reviews from critics, yet have not reached the mainstream so...
  
  , author of Durand Col series
• Sylvia Kelso
  Sylvia Kelso
  Sylvia Kelso is an author of both fantasy and science fiction, usually set in analogue or outright Australian landscapes. She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate North Queenslands and she earned her Ph.D...
  
  
• Debra A. Kemp
  Debra A. Kemp
  Debra A. Kemp is an American author.She writes historical fiction. She draws inspiration for her House of Pendragon series from the Arthurian legends. She originally studied nursing and earned her degree from Indiana University in 1981.-Literary career:Kemp published her first Arthurian novel The...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Paul S. Kemp
  Paul S. Kemp
  Paul S. Kemp is a fantasy author most known for his Forgotten Realms novels. Some examples of his work include Resurrection, the final installation of War of the Spider Queen series...
  
  
• Katharine Kerr
  Katharine Kerr
  Katharine Kerr is a science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry.- Biography :...
  
  , (born 1944) author of the Deverry
  Deverry
  Deverry is a fictional kingdom in the Deverry cycle, a series of novels by Katharine Kerr.It was settled by a fictional Gallic tribe, known as the Devetii, which fled Gaul to escape the Romans near the end of the 1st century CE. Using magical means, the Devetii were transported to an entirely...
  
   novels and others
• Greg Keyes
  Gregory Keyes
  Gregory Keyes is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names "J. Gregory Keyes" and "Greg Keyes". He is famous for his quartet The Age of Unreason, a steampunk/alchemical story starring Benjamin Franklin and Isaac...
  
  
• Caitlin R. Kiernan
  Caitlin R. Kiernan
  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including seven novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes, and numerous scientific papers.- Overview :Born in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States...
  
  , (born 1964)
• Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
   author of The Eyes of the Dragon
  The Eyes of the Dragon
  The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by Stephen King published in 1987. Previously, it was published as a limited edition hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984. The mass-market version had been slightly revised for publication. At the time it was a surprising deviation from the norm for King, who is...
  
   and The Dark Tower Series
• Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and a novelist. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Canterbury, and currently lectures at the University of Waikato in Hamilton...
  
  , (born 1961) author of Fire of Heaven trilogy
• Mindy L. Klasky
  Mindy L. Klasky
  Mindy Klasky is a American fantasy novelist. Klasky graduated from Princeton University and eventually became a lawyer. Once she realized this did not allow her to write, she became a librarian instead...
  
  
• Annette Curtis Klause
  Annette Curtis Klause
  Annette Curtis Klause is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born in Bristol, England, she now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her...
  
  
• Richard A. Knaak
  Richard A. Knaak
  Richard A. Knaak is the author of Dragonlance novels, Dragonrealm, six novels for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, and nine works in the Warcraft universe...
  
  , (born 1961)
• Feliks W. Kres
  Feliks W. Kres
  Feliks Wiktor Kres is a popular Polish fantasy writer. He debuted with his short story "Mag" , submitted to a writing contest of the Fantastyka magazine. Since then, he has published seven novels and dozens of short stories...
  
  
• Katherine Kurtz
  Katherine Kurtz
  Katherine Kurtz is the author of numerous fantasy novels, most notably the Deryni novels. Although born in America, for the past several years, up until just recently, she has lived in a castle in Ireland...
  
  , (born 1944) author the Deryni novels
  Deryni novels
  The Deryni novels are a series of historical fantasy books written by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. The first novel in the series to be published was Deryni Rising in 1970, and the most recent novel in the series, Childe Morgan, was published on December 5, 2006...
  
  
• Ellen Kushner
  Ellen Kushner
  Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, who for many years was the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International.- Background and personal life :...
  
  

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• Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  , (born 1950) author of the Velgarth
  Velgarth
  Velgarth is the planetary setting created by Mercedes Lackey, the author of the Valdemar Saga novels. The continents are not named. The Valdemar Saga primarily focuses on the story of the nation of Valdemar, and according to Mercedes Lackey’s , there are twenty-seven novels and six anthologies.-...
  
  /Valdemar novels
• R.A. Lafferty, (1914–2002)
• Sterling E. Lanier
  Sterling E. Lanier
  Sterling Edmund Lanier was an American editor, science fiction author and sculptor who published as both Sterling Lanier and Sterling E. Lanier. He is perhaps known best as the editor who championed the publication of Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel Dune.-Life:Lanier was born in New York City...
  
  , (1927–2007)
• Josh Lanyon
  Josh Lanyon
  Josh Lanyon is an American writer of LGBT mystery and adventure fiction, usually with a strong romantic subplot.Over the past decade Lanyon has written numerous novels, novellas and short stories as well as the non-fiction writing guide Man, Oh Man! Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h...
  
  
• Rick Law
  Rick Law
  Rick Law is an American entertainment illustrator and producer. His clients have included Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and MTV, among others....
  
  , (born 1969)
• Stephen R. Lawhead
  Stephen R. Lawhead
  Stephen R. Lawhead, born , is a best-selling American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and more recently, historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction...
  
  , (born 1950)
• Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
  
  , (born 1947) author of the Tales from the Flat Earth
  Tales from the Flat Earth
  Tales From The Flat Earth is a fantasy novel series by Tanith Lee.Novels*Night's Master *Death's Master *Delusion's Master...
  
   series
• Lee Yeongdo
  Lee Yeongdo
  Lee Yeongdo is a Korean novelist known for his work in fantasy and science fiction genre. He is best known for his Dragon Raja series of fantasy novels which is also his debut work, serialised on an online forum from 1997 and published on its completion in 1998.At the time Dragon Raja was first...
  
  , (born 1972) author of the Dragon Raja
  Dragon Raja
  Dragon Raja is the first series of fantasy novels written by Lee Yeongdo, one of the most famous fantasy novelists in South Korea. The books chronicle the adventures of a 17-year-old boy Hoochie Nedval, his mentor Karl Heltant and his friend Sanson Percival, all of whom are from the poor town of...
  
  
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
  , (born 1929) author of the Earthsea
  Earthsea
  Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964. Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The...
  
   novels
• Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  , (1910–1992) author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by Fritz Leiber . They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories....
  
   stories
• Valery Leith, (born 1968) pseudonym of Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith....
  
  
• Madeleine L'Engle
  Madeleine L'Engle
  Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...
  
  , (1918–2007) author of A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and...
  
  
• C.S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
  , (1898–1963) author of The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
  
   series, The Space Trilogy
  The Space Trilogy
  The Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis, famous for his later series The Chronicles of Narnia. A philologist named Elwin Ransom is the hero of the first two novels and an important character in the third.The books in the trilogy...
  
  , and The Screwtape Letters
  The Screwtape Letters
  The Screwtape Letters is a satirical Christian apologetics novel written in epistolary style by C. S. Lewis, first published in book form in February 1942...
  
  
• Astrid Lindgren
  Astrid Lindgren
  Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
  
  , (1907–2002), author of Pippi Longstocking
  Pippi Longstocking
  Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...
  
  
• Megan Lindholm, (born 1952) pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who also writes as Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction....
  
  
• David Lindsay
  David Lindsay (novelist)
  David Lindsay was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus .-Biography:...
  
  , (1876–1945)
• Jane Lindskold
  Jane Lindskold
  Jane M. Lindskold is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels.Jane M. Lindskold was born in 1962, at the Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the first of four siblings: Ann M. Lindskold Nalley, Graydon M. Lindskold, and Susan M. Lindskold Speer. Lindskold's...
  
  , author of the Firekeeper saga
• Holly Lisle
  Holly Lisle
  Holly Lisle is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She is also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love And Money, the Forward Motion Writers' Community web site, and her...
  
  , (born 1960) author of The Secret Texts
  The Secret Texts
  The Secret Texts, is a fantasy book series by Holly Lisle. Books in this series are Diplomacy of Wolves , Vengeance of Dragons , and Courage of Falcons . Vincalis the Agitator is a prequel to this series....
  
   and Korre series
• Massimo Lo Jacono
  Massimo Lo Jacono
  Massimo Lo Jacono is an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer.In 1963 he was one of the editors of the science fiction magazine Futuro. In the first issue of the magazine he published the story "L'ultima finzione di Basilide" under an pseudonym...
  
  
• H. P. Lovecraft
  H. P. Lovecraft
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
  
  , (1890–1937) author of the Cthulhu
  Cthulhu
  Cthulhu is a fictional character that first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P...
  
   mythos stories
• Lois Lowry
  Lois Lowry
  Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s...
  
  , (born 1937)
• Elizabeth A. Lynn
  Elizabeth A. Lynn
  Elizabeth A. Lynn is a US writer most known for fantasy and to a lesser extent science fiction. She is particularly known for being one of the first writers in science fiction or fantasy to introduce gay and lesbian characters; in honor of Lynn, the GLBT bookstore "A Different Light" took its...
  
  
• Scott Lynch
  Scott Lynch (author)
  Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author, best known for his Gentleman Bastard series of novels. He resides in Western Wisconsin in the city of New Richmond, Wisconsin. According to his website, he had a variety of jobs including dishwasher, waiter, web designer, freelance writer and office manager...
  
  , (born 1978) author of The Gentleman Bastard
  The Lies of Locke Lamora
  The Lies of Locke Lamora is a fantasy novel by Scott Lynch. It follows the adventures of a group of con artists known as the Gentlemen Bastards. They live in a city called Camorr, heavily based on late medieval Venice. The book is divided into two interspersed stories...
  
   sequence

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• Julian May
  Julian May
  Julian May is an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also uses several literary pseudonyms, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu Series books.- Background and early career :Julian May grew up in Elmwood Park, Illinois, a suburb of...
  
  
• R. A. MacAvoy
  R. A. MacAvoy
  Roberta Ann MacAvoy is a fantasy and science fiction author in the United States. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Zen themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1949)
• George MacDonald
  George MacDonald
  George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S...
  
  , (1824–1905) author of Lilith
  Lilith
  Lilith is a character in Jewish mythology, found earliest in the Babylonian Talmud, who is generally thought to be related to a class of female demons Līlīṯu in Mesopotamian texts. However, Lowell K. Handy notes, "Very little information has been found relating to the Akkadian and Babylonian view...
  
  
• D. J. MacHale, (born 1956) author of the Pendragon series
• Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  , (1863–1947)
• Violette Malan
  Violette Malan
  Violette Malan is a Canadian editor and fantasy writer. She has a PhD in 18th-Century English Literature and has worked as a teacher and a book reviewer.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Juliet Marillier
  Juliet Marillier
  Juliet Marillier is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, especially historical fantasy. She currently lives in Western Australia. While Marillier writes mostly for adults, her recent books have included Cybele's Secret, a sequel to her novel for young adults Wildwood Dancing. Cybele's Secret won...
  
  , author of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
• Stephen Marley
  Stephen Marley (writer)
  Stephen Marley is a British author and video game designer, best known for his Chia Black Dragon series. He was born in Derby of Irish parents and was educated in Bemrose School in Derby and at Nottingham. He graduated in Social Anthropology in 1971 in London, gained an M.Sc in the Sociology of...
  
  , author of the Chia Black Dragon
  Chia Black Dragon
  Chia Black Dragon is the eponymous anti-hero of a dark fantasy series of novels written by Stephen Marley. Chia is identified in the novels as "The most dangerous woman in the history of man". The term "Chinese Gothic" was coined to describe the world of Chia Black Dragon.-Character overview:Chia...
  
   series
• George R. R. Martin
  George R. R. Martin
  George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
  
  , (born 1948) author of A Song of Ice and Fire
  A Song of Ice and Fire
  A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996. Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of five published volumes; a further two...
  
  
• Thomas K. Martin
  Thomas K. Martin
  Thomas Kieth Martin is an American fantasy author.-The Delgroth Trilogy:*A Two-Edged Sword ISBN 0441833446*A Matter of Honor ISBN 0441001076*A Call to Arms ISBN 0441002420...
  
  , (born 1960)
• Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
  , (born 1926) author of the Dragonriders of Pern
  Dragonriders of Pern
  Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by the late American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 22 novels and several short...
  
   novels and the Brainship
  Brainship
  A brainship is a fictional concept of an interstellar starship. A brainship is made by inserting the disembodied brain and nervous system of a human being into a life-support system, and connecting it surgically to a series of computers via delicate synaptic connections The brain "feels" the ship ...
  
   stories
• Fiona McIntosh
  Fiona McIntosh
  Fiona McIntosh is a fantasy author who lives in Australia. She was born in Brighton, England and between the ages of three and eight, travelled a lot to Africa due to her father's work. At the age of nineteen, she travelled first to Paris and later to Australia, where she has lived ever since...
  
  
• Juliet E. McKenna
  Juliet E. McKenna
  Juliet E. McKenna is a British fantasy author. She was born in Lincolnshire in 1965, and studied Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford...
  
  
• Dennis L. McKiernan
  Dennis L. McKiernan
  Dennis Lester McKiernan, born , is an American writer best known for his high fantasy The Iron Tower. His genres include high fantasy , science fiction, horror fiction, and crime fiction.- Biography :...
  
  , (born 1932)
• Patricia A. McKillip
  Patricia A. McKillip
  Patricia Anne McKillip is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels. Her novels have been winners of the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award and Mythopoeic Award. In 2008, she was a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement...
  
  , (born 1948)
• Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley is a distinguished author of fantasy and children's books who has written sixteen books to date. Her latest book Pegasus was published in 2010...
  
  , (born 1952) author of the Damar
  Damar
  Damar can refer to:* Damar gum, also dammar gum, a resin produced by the Dipterocarpaceae family of trees* Damar Island, an island of Indonesia, part of the Barat Daya Islands* Damar, Kansas, a town in the United States...
  
   stories
• Virginia G. McMorrow
  Virginia G. McMorrow
  Virginia G. McMorrow is a fantasy/young adult author.-External links:*...
  
  
• O.R. Melling
• Abraham Merritt, (1884–1943)
• Gustav Meyrink
  Gustav Meyrink
  Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem.-Childhood:...
  
  , (1868–1932)
• Stephenie Meyer
  Stephenie Meyer
  Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...
  
  , Twilight series
• China Miéville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
  , (born 1972)
• A.A. Milne - Author of Winnie The Pooh
• Hope Mirrlees
  Hope Mirrlees
  Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, a modernist poem which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity,...
  
  , (1887–1978) author of Lud-in-the-Mist
  Lud-in-the-Mist
  Lud-in-the-Mist is the third of three novels by Hope Mirrlees, and the only one still in print . It continues the author's exploration of the themes of Life and Art, by a method already described in the preface of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists : "to turn from time to time...
  
  
• L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
  L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is an author of 56 science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce....
  
  , (born 1943) author of the Recluce novels
• Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1945)
• Michael Moorcock
  Michael Moorcock
  Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
  
  , (born 1939) author of the Eternal Champion
  Eternal Champion
  The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels.-About the Eternal Champion:...
  
   sequence
• Christopher Moore
• Caiseal Mór
  Caiseal Mor
  Caiseal is Gaelic for "great stone fort".Caiseal Mór is a bestselling fantasy novelist. He is an Australian of Irish descent. Irish folklore is an inspiration for his works. Mor also composes and records music, with twelve albums so far and another one on the way over the next year. He is well...
  
  , author of 12 novels including The Wanderers and The Watchers trilogies.
• John Morressy
  John Morressy
  John Morressy was a science fiction and fantasy writer and a professor of English at Franklin Pierce College.-Del Whitby series:* Starbrat...
  
  
• Chris Morris
  Chris Morris (author)
  Christopher Crosby Morris is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Janet Morris
  Janet Morris
  Janet Ellen Morris is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a nonlethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.-Writing:...
  
  , (born 1946)
• William Morris
  William Morris
  William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
  
  , (1834–1896) author of The Wood Beyond the World
  The Wood Beyond the World
  The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. It was first published in hardcover by Morris's Kelmscott...
  
   and The Well at the World's End
  The Well at the World's End
  The Well at the World's End is a fantasy novel by the British artist, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably in two parts as the twentieth and twenty-first volumes of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August...
  
  
• H. Warner Munn
  H. Warner Munn
  Harold Warner Munn was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry. He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn...
  
  , (1903–1981)
• C. E. Murphy
  C. E. Murphy
  C. E. Murphy is an American born author that writes in the fantasy and romance genres. She is the author of the Walker Papers series, The Negotiator Trilogy, and the Inheritor's Cycle as well as The Strongbox Chronicles which were written under a pseudonym. She has also written the graphic novel...
  
  
• Pat Murphy
• Gary Myers
  Gary Myers (writer)
  Gary Myers is an American writer of fantasy and horror. He is a resident of Fullerton, California. His first book, The House of the Worm, was a collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories in the fantasy manner of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany; it was published by Arkham House in 1975 and is now out...
  
  , (born 1952)
• John Myers Myers
  John Myers Myers
  John Myers Myers was an American writer, best known for his literary fantasy novel Silverlock.-Life:Myers was born in Northport, Long Island on January 11, 1906 to John Caldwell Myers and Alice MacCorry Myers and grew up in various places in New York, including New Paltz and NYC. He knew from the...
  
  , (1906–1988)

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• Robert Nathan
  Robert Nathan
  Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry...
  
  , (1894–1985) author of Portrait of Jennie
• Geoff Nelder
  Geoff Nelder
  Geoff Nelder is a British freelance editor and author of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers.He was born in Hannover, Germany, grew up in Gloucestershire, Britain, was university educated in Sheffield, Yorkshire and lived in Chester, Cheshire...
  
  , (born 1947) author of the Exit, Pursued by a Bee
• Robert Newcomb
  Robert Newcomb
  Robert Newcomb is the author of a series of fantasy books published by Del Rey books. The books are:In The Chronicles of Blood and Stone*The Fifth Sorceress *The Gates of Dawn *The Scrolls of the Ancients...
  
  
• William Nicholson
  William Nicholson (writer)
  William Nicholson FRSL is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.-Family:A native of Lewes, Sussex, William Nicholson was raised in a Catholic family in Gloucestershire. By the time he reached his tenth birthday, he had decided to become a writer. He was educated at Downside School,...
  
  , (born 1948)
• Douglas Niles
  Douglas Niles
  Douglas Niles is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles was one of the creators of the Dragonlance world and the author of the first three Forgotten Realms novels, and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game.-Early life:Niles was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, and...
  
  , author of the Watershed trilogy and other series
• Jenny Nimmo
  Jenny Nimmo
  Jenny Nimmo is a British author of numerous books for children, including many fantasy and adventure novels, beginning reader books, and picture books....
  
  , author of the Charlie Bone series and The Magician Trilogy
  The Magician Trilogy
  The Magician Trilogy, also published in an omnibus edition as The Snow Spider Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's fantasy novels by Jenny Nimmo, author of the Children of the Red King series...
  
  
• Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
  , (born 1963) author of Sabriel
  Sabriel
  Sabriel is a fantasy novel by Garth Nix, first published in 1995. It is the first in his Old Kingdom trilogy, and is followed by Lirael and Abhorsen.-Plot introduction:...
  
   and sequels
• John Norman
  John Norman
  John Frederick Lange, Jr. , better known under his pen name John Norman, is a professor of philosophy and an author. He is best known for his Gor novel series.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1931) author of the Gor
  Gor
  Gor , the Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for a series of 30 novels by John Norman that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction...
  
   series
• Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  , (born 1912)
• Kate Novak
  Kate Novak
  Kate Novak grew up in Pittsburgh, where she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS in Chemistry. She is a fantasy author primarily published in the Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft shared worlds....
  
  , author of the Finder's Stone
  Finder's Stone
  The Finder's Stone trilogy is a set of three novels in the Forgotten Realms setting based on the campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.The novels in this trilogy are:* Azure Bonds...
  
   trilogy with Jeff Grubb
• Naomi Novik
  Naomi Novik
  Naomi Novik is an American novelist. She is a first-generation American; her father is of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and her mother is an ethnic Pole. She studied English Literature at Brown University, and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University...
  
  , author of the Temeraire
  Throne of Jade
  Throne of Jade is the second novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik.The story is set during an alternate history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are used as a staple of aerial warfare in Asia and Europe...
  
   series
• Eric S. Nylund
  Eric S. Nylund
  Eric S. Nylund is an American novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.Sc. in chemical physics from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  

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• Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
   (born 1983) author of the Inheritance Cycle
  Inheritance Cycle
  The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy novels by Christopher Paolini. It was previously titled the Inheritance Trilogy until Paolini's announcement on October 30, 2007 that there would be a fourth book...
  
  
• Michelle Paver
  Michelle Paver
  Michelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...
  
   author of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
• Diana L. Paxson
  Diana L. Paxson
  Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...
  
   (born 1943)
• Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
  
  , (1911–1968) author of the Gormenghast series
  Gormenghast series
  The Gormenghast series comprises three novels by Mervyn Peake, featuring Castle Gormenghast, and Titus Groan, the title character of the first book.-Works in the series:...
  
  
• Frank E. Peretti
  Frank E. Peretti
  Frank Edward Peretti is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural. To date, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Peretti is best known for his novels This Present Darkness and The Oath...
  
  , (born 1951) author of This Present Darkness
  This Present Darkness
  This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by Frank E. Peretti. Published in 1986 by Crossway Books, This Present Darkness was Peretti's first published novel for adults and shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for...
  
   and The Oath
  The Oath (Peretti)
  The Oath is an allegorical 1995 contemporary Christian fiction horror/fantasy novel by Frank E. Peretti. The recipient of the 1996 ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award for Best Fiction, The Oath is one of Peretti's most critically acclaimed and layered novels, having sold over one million copies worldwide...
  
  
• Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  , (born 1938)
• Nick Perumov
  Nick Perumov
  Nick Perumov is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov , a Russian fantasy and science fiction writer.- Biography :Perumov was born November 21, 1963 in Leningrad, USSR. He began writing short stories since he was a teenager, and after reading The Lord of the Rings in the early 1980s, he...
  
  , (born 1963) author of "Ring of Darkness", "Chronicles of Hjorward" and "Keeper of Swords" series.
• Uroš Petrović
  Uros Petrovic
  Uroš Petrović is a Serbian writer , best known for his epic fantasy novel Aven , Riddle Tales serial, Mysteries of Ginkgo Street Uroš Petrović (Serbian cirilic Урош Петровић) is a Serbian writer (born April 8, 1967, in Gornji Milanovac, Socialist Republic of Serbia within Yugoslavia, now Serbia),...
  
  , (born 1967)
• Eden Philpotts (1862–1960)
• Meredith Ann Pierce
  Meredith Ann Pierce
  Meredith Ann Pierce - is a fantasy writer and librarian. Her books deal in fantasy worlds with mythic settings and frequently feature young women who first wish only to love and be loved, yet who must face hazard and danger to save their way of life, their world, and so on, usually without being...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce is an author of fantasy literature for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna...
  
  , (born 1954) author of the Tortall books, The Song of the Lioness
  The Song of the Lioness
  The Song of the Lioness is a series of young adult fantasy novels published in the 1980s by Tamora Pierce. The series consists of four books: Alanna: The First Adventure , In the Hand of the Goddess , The Woman Who Rides Like a Man and Lioness Rampant .-Plot Summary:Alanna of Trebond wants to be a...
  
   series and the Circle of Magic
  Circle of Magic
  Circle of Magic is a quartet of fantasy novels by Tamora Pierce, set in Emelan, a fictional realm in a pseudo-medieval and renaissance era. It revolves around four young mages, each specializing in a different kind of magic, as they learn to control their extraordinary and strong powers and put...
  
   books
• Ricardo Pinto
  Ricardo Pinto
  Ricardo Pinto is a computer game programmer and fantasy author.His family moved to London when he was six and then to Dundee in Scotland. In 1979, he commenced a degree in Mathematics at the University of Dundee. In 1983, he moved to London to work as a programmer writing computer games...
  
  , (born in 1961) author of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
  The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
  The Stone Dance of the Chameleon is a fantasy trilogy by Ricardo Pinto. It consists of The Chosen , The Standing Dead and The Third God .The chameleon is the sign of the house of Suth of which the leading character is a son...
  
   series
• Tim Powers
  Tim Powers
  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...
  
  , (born 1952) author of The Anubis Gates
  The Anubis Gates
  The Anubis Gates is a time travel fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It won the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award and 1984 Science Fiction Chronicle Award.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
  
  , (born 1948) author of Discworld
  Discworld
  Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....
  
  
• Fletcher Pratt
  Fletcher Pratt
  Murray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
  
  , (1897–1956)
• Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
  
  , (born 1946) author of His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass...
  
   trilogy

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• Melanie Rawn
  Melanie Rawn
  Melanie Rawn is an author of fantasy literature. She received a BA in history from Scripps College and worked as a teacher and editor before becoming a writer....
  
  , (born 1954) author of Dragon Prince
  Dragon Prince
  Dragon Prince, is a fantasy novel written by author Melanie Rawn. It is the first book of the Dragon Prince trilogy.-Plot summary:Rohan, Prince of the Desert, is newly come to the throne. He must outwit the High Prince Roelstra in order to protect his vast lands and to maintain peace throughout the...
  
  
• Mickey Zucker Reichert
  Mickey Zucker Reichert
  Mickey Zucker Reichert is an American fantasy fiction author of several best selling novels. She is known for her Renshai series, which provides a different perspective on traditional Norse mythology.-Volume 1:...
  
  , (pseudonym of Miriam Susan Zucker Reichert, born 1962)
• Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
  
  , author of The Vampire Chronicles
  The Vampire Chronicles
  The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century....
  
  
• Rick Riordan
  Rick Riordan
  Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series...
  
  , author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy fiction books authored by Rick Riordan. The series consists of five books, as well as spin-off titles such as The Demigod Files and Demigods and Monsters. Set in the United States, the books are predominantly based on Greek...
  
   series
• Jennifer Roberson
  Jennifer Roberson
  Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...
  
  ,
• Katherine Roberts
  Katherine Roberts
  Katherine Roberts is an English author, best known for her fantasy trilogy The Echorium Sequence. She was born in Torquay, England and spent most of her childhood in Devon and Cornwall, England...
  
  , (born 1962) author of The Echorium Sequence
  The Echorium Sequence
  The Echorium Sequence is a fantasy trilogy by Katherine Roberts. The trilogy comprises Song Quest , Crystal Mask , and Dark Quetzal ....
  
   trilogy
• Kenneth Robeson
  Kenneth Robeson
  Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger. Many authors wrote under this name, though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent:...
  
  , (pseudonym of Lester Dent
  Lester Dent
  Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
  
   among others) Doc Savage
  Doc Savage
  Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L...
  
   stories
• Michael Scott Rohan
  Michael Scott Rohan
  Michael Scott Rohan is a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author.He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J...
  
  
• Joel Rosenberg
  Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author)
  Joel Rosenberg was a Canadian American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his long-running "Guardians of the Flame" series. Rosenberg was also a guns rights activist...
  
  , (born 1954)
• Patrick Rothfuss
  Patrick Rothfuss
  Patrick James Rothfuss is an American fantasy writer and college lecturer. He is the author of the projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.- Biography :...
  
  , (born 1973) author of The Name of the Wind
  The Name of the Wind
  The Name of the Wind is a fantasy novel by Patrick Rothfuss, the first book in a series called The Kingkiller Chronicle. It was published in 2007 by DAW books with two possible hardcovers: one features the face of the Green Man with the title letters in silver and the other shows the figure of...
  
  
• J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
  
  , (born 1965) author of the Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
  
   books
• Don Roff
  Don Roff
  Don Roff is a writer and filmmaker.Roff grew up in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. He worked at the local drive-in theater and made Super 8 mm and VHS movies with his neighborhood friends. He graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in 1985. Roff joined the United States Army in 1989 and became a US...
  
  , (born 1966)
• Matt Ruff
  Matt Ruff
  Matthew Theron Ruff is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream....
  
  , (born 1960) Fey
  Fey (novels)
  The Fey Series is a series of fantasy novels by Kristine Kathryn Rusch features a warlike elfin race of that name with powerful magick.-Plot summary:...
  
   series and others, former editor of F&SF
• Sean Russell
  Sean Russell (author)
  Sean Russell is a Canadian author of fantasy & historical naval literature. Also writes under his full name Sean Thomas Russell.- Life :...
  
  
• Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill is a British Fantasy author from the West Country. She was born in 1959. She studied at King's College, Cambridge and the College of Law, working as a solicitor for 13 years. Her travels have provided some of the inspiration for her writing. She was a founder member of the Write...
  
  , (born 1959)

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• Fred Saberhagen
  Fred Saberhagen
  Fred Thomas Saberhagen was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F...
  
  , (1930–2007)
• Michelle Sagara West
  Michelle Sagara West
  Michelle Michiko Sagara is a Japanese-Canadian author of fantasy literature, active since the early 1990s. She has published as Michelle Sagara, as Michelle West and as Michelle Sagara West....
  
  
• Angie Sage
  Angie Sage
  Angie Sage is the author of the Septimus Heap series which includes Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren, and Darke. She is also the illustrator and/or writer of many children's books, and is the new writer of the Araminta Spook series.Angie Sage grew up in Thames Valley, London and Kent. Her...
  
  , author of the Septimus Heap
  Septimus Heap
  Septimus Heap is a series of fantasy novels featuring a protagonist of the same name written by English author Angie Sage. Six novels, entitled Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren and Darke, have been published, the first in 2005 and the most recent in 2011...
  
   series
• R.A. Salvatore, (born 1959) author of the Drizzt novels
• Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
  
  
• Andrzej Sapkowski
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1948)
• Charles R. Saunders
  Charles R. Saunders
  Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Martin Scott, (born 1959), author of "Thraxas
  Thraxas
  Thraxas is a series of eight fantasy novels written by Martin Millar under the pseudonym of Martin Scott. They take place in a mythical, Middle-earth-type World, that includes Humans, Orcs, Elves, and a variety of magical creatures...
  
  "
• Darren Shan
  Darren Shan
  Darren O'Shaughnessy , who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish author. Darren Shan is also the main character in Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan young-adult fiction series. He also wrote The Demonata series as well as the stand-alone books, Koyasan and The Thin Executioner...
  
  , author of The Saga of Darren Shan
  The Saga of Darren Shan
  The Saga of Darren Shan is a young adult 12 part book series written by Darren Shan about the struggle of a boy who has become involved in the world of vampires. As of October 2008, the book is published in 37 countries around the world, in 30 different languages...
  
  , The Demonata
  The Demonata
  The Demonata is a series of books by best selling author Darren Shan. It deals with the world of demons . The series is told by three different protagonists: Grubbs Grady, Kernel Fleck, and Bec MacConn, the latter of which is the first female protagonist in a Darren Shan book...
  
   and short stories
• Robert Sheckley
  Robert Sheckley
  Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...
  
  , (born 1928)
• Mary Shelley
  Mary Shelley
  Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
  
  , (1797–1851) author of Frankenstein
  Frankenstein
  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
  
   and short stories
• Will Shetterly
  Will Shetterly
  Will Shetterly is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his novel Dogland . The novel is inspired by his childhood at the tourist attraction Dog Land owned by his parents...
  
  
• Tony Shillitoe
  Tony Shillitoe
  Tony Shillitoe started writing professionally in 1992 when Pan Macmillan published the novel Guardians, the first of the successful Andrakis fantasy series, recently republished by Altair Books Pty Ltd under new titles with some minor editorial alterations...
  
   (born 1955) author of The Andrakis Trilogy
• Sharon Shinn
  Sharon Shinn
  Sharon Shinn is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University.Sharon is a...
  
  
• Gary Shipman
  Gary Shipman
  Gary Lee Shipman is an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is father to three children.-Biography:Shipman, with wife Rhoda Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, both plotting out the stories together and Gary scripting, lettering, penciling, and...
  
  , (born 1966) author of Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land is an epic all-ages fantasy story created by husband and wife team, Gary and Rhoda Shipman. Originating as a critically hailed comic book series, the story was written by the pair with Gary Shipman illustrating the series....
  
  
• Rhoda Shipman
  Rhoda Shipman
  Rhoda Shipman is an American comic book writer and mother to three children.-Biography:Shipman, with husband Gary Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, writing and editing the series...
  
  , (born 1968) author of Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land is an epic all-ages fantasy story created by husband and wife team, Gary and Rhoda Shipman. Originating as a critically hailed comic book series, the story was written by the pair with Gary Shipman illustrating the series....
  
  
• Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  , (born 1935)
• William Mark Simmons (Wm. Mark Simmons), (born 1953)
• Johanna Sinisalo
  Johanna Sinisalo
  Aila Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...
  
  , (1902–1991)
• Clark Ashton Smith
  Clark Ashton Smith
  Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...
  
  , (1893–1961)
• Guy Smith (writer)
  Guy Smith (writer)
  Guy Smith is a San Francisco based writer. Smith has published both fiction and non-fiction, and bills himself as a "writer, songwriter, and political provocateur."...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Mark Andrew Smith
  Mark Andrew Smith
  Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...
  
  , author of The New Brighton Archeological Society
  The New Brighton Archeological Society
  The New Brighton Archeological Society is an original graphic novel series of books written by Mark Andrew Smith & illustrated by Matthew Weldon. The first volume, titled "The Castle of Galomar" debuted in March 2009...
  
  
• Sherwood Smith
  Sherwood Smith
  Sherwood Smith writes fantasy and science fiction for young adult as well as adults. She has participated in and organized writing groups for many years.Smith's works include the YA novel Crown Duel...
  
  
• Thorne Smith
  Thorne Smith
  James Thorne Smith Jr. , was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction.He is best known today for the three Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction that sold millions of copies in the early 1930s...
  
  , (1892–1934)
• S.P. Somtow, pseudonym of Somtow Sucharitkul
• Alison Spedding
  Alison Spedding
  Dr. Alison Louise Spedding is a British anthropologist and fantasy author.Spedding studied Archaeology and Anthropology and later Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, receiving her BA degree in 1982. She received a PhD from the London School of Economics in 1989. She wrote a trilogy of...
  
  
• Wen Spencer
  Wen Spencer
  Wen Spencer is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes. In 2003, she was the winner of the John W...
  
  , (born 1963)
• Nancy Springer
  Nancy Springer
  Nancy Connor Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award, and she has also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.-Series:Book of the Isle* 1. The White Hart * 2...
  
  , (b.1948)
• Michael A. Stackpole, (born 1957)
• Christopher Stasheff
  Christopher Stasheff
  Christopher Stasheff is an American science fiction author and fantasy author whose novels include The Warlock in Spite of Himself and Her Majesty's Wizard . He has a PhD. in Theatre and also teaches radio and television at Eastern New Mexico University in New Mexico...
  
  , (born 1944)
• Brooke Stevens
  Brooke Stevens
  Brooke Stevens is an American novelist. His first novel, The Circus of the Earth and the Air, was a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer's Award in 1994 and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 1995. He has published two subsequent novels, not works of fantasy, and has...
  
  , author of The Circus of the Earth and the Air
• Mary Stewart
  Mary Stewart
  Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...
  
  , (born 1916)
• Paul Stewart
  Paul Stewart (writer)
  Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell...
  
  , author of The Edge Chronicles
  The Edge Chronicles
  The Edge Chronicles is a young-adult fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It consists of three trilogies, plus three additional books, and others . Originally published in the United Kingdom, this series has since been published in the United States, Canada and Australia. To...
  
  
• Caroline Stevermer
  Caroline Stevermer
  Caroline Stevermer is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for two series of historical fantasy novels.With Patricia C...
  
  
• Frank R. Stockton
  Frank R. Stockton
  Frank Richard Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century...
  
  , (1834–1902)
• James Stoddard
• David Lee Stone
  David Lee Stone
  David Lee Stone , is an English fantasy author best known for his series of books The Illmoor Chronicles.His books have been published in many countries and in several different languages...
  
  , author of The Illmoor Chronicles
  The Illmoor Chronicles
  The Illmoor Chronicles is a series of fantasy books for children written by English author David Lee Stone. The books are all set in the world of Illmoor, a fictional continent.The first book, The Ratastrophe Catastrophe was released on June 2003...
  
  
• Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and young adults.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories...
  
  , author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith....
  
  , (born 1968) writes as Valery Leith
• Michael J. Sullivan
  Michael J. Sullivan (author)
  Michael J. Sullivan is a contemporary American author of epic fantasy as well as an artist. He cites the following major influences on his writing:...
  
  , (born 1961) author of The Riyria Revelations
• Thomas Burnett Swann
  Thomas Burnett Swann
  Thomas Burnett Swann was an American poet, critic and fantasy author.His criticism includes works on the poetry of H.D. and Christina Rossetti.-Poetry:...
  
  , (1928–1976)
• Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
  
  , (1667–1745)
• Mitzi Szereto
  Mitzi Szereto
  Mitzi Szereto is an author, blogger, and web TV entrepreneur. She has written novels and short stories, edited fiction and non-fiction anthologies, has her own blog "Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog", and is the creator/presenter of "Mitzi TV," a Web TV channel that covers the quirky side...
  
  , author of In Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales

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• Yoshiki Tanaka
  Yoshiki Tanaka
  Dr. Yoshiki Tanaka is a Japanese novelist. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and took his doctorate degree in Japanese Language and Literature in the Graduate School of Gakushūin University in Tokyo....
  
  , author of The Heroic Legend of Arslan
  The Heroic Legend of Arslan
  is the title of a Japanese fantasy novel series. The author, Yoshiki Tanaka, started writing Arslan in 1986 and is still writing it as of 2008, with the current number of books at 13 novels and one side story in the official guidebook Arslan senki tokuhon...
  
  
• Charles R. Tanner
  Charles R. Tanner
  Charles R. Tanner was an American science fiction and fantasy author who wrote in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Tanner's first short story was "The Color of Space," published in Science Wonder Stories in 1930...
  
  , (1896–1974)
• Judith Tarr
  Judith Tarr
  Judith Tarr is an American author, best known for her fantasy books. She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University...
  
  
• Roger Taylor
  Roger Taylor (author)
  Roger Taylor is an English fiction and non-fiction author. He was born in Heywood, [Lancashire], and now lives in the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, aikido instructor, and a piano player....
  
  , author of the Chronicles of Hawklan
• Adrian Tchaikovsky
  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  Adrian Czajkowski is a British fantasy author. His best known work is the ongoing Shadows of the Apt series.-Biography:...
  
  , author of the Shadows of the Apt series
• Tais Teng
  Tais Teng
  Tais Teng is a pseudonymous Dutch fantasy fiction and science fiction writer, illustrator and sculptor.His real name is Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen and he was born in 1952 in The Hague....
  
  
• Patrick Tilley
  Patrick Tilley
  Patrick Tilley is a British science fiction author best known for The Amtrak Wars series of books - a futureworld epic set on the eve of the third millennium in a world emerging from the ravages of a dimly understood global holocaust. The name "Amtrak" - appropriated by a specific group of...
  
  , (born 1928) author of The Amtrak Wars
  The Amtrak Wars
  The Amtrak Wars is a series of novels written by British author Patrick Tilley. The series is a post-apocalyptic science fiction with some fantasy elements such as the existence of magic. Six novels and an illustrated companion guidebook were published between 1983 and 1990, with additional books...
  
   series
• Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri Stewart Tepper is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant....
  
  
• Eldon Thompson
  Eldon Thompson
  Eldon Thompson is a professional author and screenwriter known for his epic fantasy series The Legend of Asahiel, published by HarperCollins . His debut novel, The Crimson Sword, was released in 2005, followed by The Obsidian Key in 2006 and The Divine Talisman in 2008...
  
  , (born 1974) author of The Legend of Asahiel
  Legend of Asahiel
  The Legend of Asahiel is a series of epic fantasy novels written by author/screenwriter Eldon Thompson and published by HarperCollins . The series was launched in May 2005 with the hardcover release of The Crimson Sword. The Obsidian Key followed in 2006...
  
   series
• Kate Thompson
  Kate Thompson (author)
  Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
  
   (born 1956)
• J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
  , (1892–1973) author of The Hobbit
  The Hobbit
  The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...
  
  , The Lord of the Rings
  The Lord of the Rings
  The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...
  
   and The Silmarillion
  The Silmarillion
  The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R...
  
  
• Licia Troisi
  Licia Troisi
  Licia Troisi is an Italian fantasy writer.Her first published book was Nihal della terra del vento , published in 2004. This is the first book of a fantasy trilogy entitled Cronache del mondo emerso...
  
  , (born 1980) author of the Cronache del Mondo Emerso (Chronicles of the Emerged World) and the Le guerre del Mondo Emerso (Wars of the Emerged World)
• Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
  , (born 1949) author of the Videssos
  Videssos
  Videssos is a series of fantasy novels series by Harry Turtledove.-The Videssos novels:*The Videssos cycle**The Misplaced Legion **An Emperor for the Legion **The Legion of Videssos...
  
   series and Darkness series

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• Eric van Lustbader
  Eric Van Lustbader
  Eric Van Lustbader is a writer of thriller and fantasy novels.He is a graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master.-The Pearl Saga:...
  
  , author of ao. The Pearl Saga
• Jack Vance, (born 1916) (John Holbrook Vance) author of the Dying Earth series, the Lyonesse Trilogy
  Lyonesse Trilogy
  The Lyonesse Trilogy is a group of three fantasy novels by Jack Vance, set in the European Dark Ages, in the mythical Elder Isles west of France and southwest of Britain, a generation or two before the birth of King Arthur...
  
   and the Demon Princes
  Demon Princes
  The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his childhood...
  
   series
• Jules Verne
  Jules Verne
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
  
  

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• Tim Waggoner
  Tim Waggoner
  Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels, two short story collections, and over one hundred published stories in the Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller genres. He graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Concentration...
  
  
• Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
  
  , (1945–1994) author of Kane
  Kane (fantasy)
  Kane is a literary character created by Karl Edward Wagner in a series of sword and sorcery novels and short stories between 1970 and 1985. The stories are set in a grim, pre-medieval world which is nonetheless ancient and rich in history...
  
  
• Mervyn Wall
  Mervyn Wall
  Mervyn Wall is an Irish writer who was born in Dublin. Wall attended Belvedere College and worked as a civil servant. His wife, Frances Feehan, was a music critic....
  
  , (1908–1997)
• Evangeline Walton
  Evangeline Walton
  Evangeline Walton was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American author of fantasy fiction. She remains popular in North America and Europe because of her “ability to humanize historical and mythological subjects with eloquence, humor and compassion”. Evangeline Walton (24 November 1907...
  
  
• Jo Walton
  Jo Walton
  Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award...
  
  , (born 1964)
• Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...
  
  , (born 1954)
• Catherine Webb
  Catherine Webb
  Catherine Webb is a British author, educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and the London School of Economics. She was 14 years old when she completed Mirror Dreams, which was written during her school summer vacation...
  
  , (born 1986)
• David Weber
  David Weber
  David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs"....
  
  
• Margaret Weis
  Margaret Weis
  Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in fantastic worlds.-Early life:Margaret Weis was born in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended...
  
  , (born 1948) co-author of several Dragonlance
  Dragonlance
  Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
  
   books
• Manly Wade Wellman
  Manly Wade Wellman
  Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
  
  , (1903–1986)
• Angus Wells
  Angus Wells
  Angus Wells was a British writer of genre fiction, including fantasy and westerns. Wells wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Andrew Quiller , James A. Muir, Charles R. Pike , William S. Brady , J. D. Sandon , Charles C...
  
  
• Martha Wells
  Martha Wells
  -Biography:Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories...
  
  , (born 1964)
• Suzanne Weyn
  Suzanne Weyn
  Suzanne Weyn is an American author. She primarily writes children's and young adult science fiction and fantasy novels. she has written over fifty novels and short stories, and is best known for The Bar Code Tattoo and The Bar Code Rebellion books...
  
  , (born 1955)
• Chuck Whelon
  Chuck Whelon
  Chuck Whelon is the creator artist and co-writer of the webcomic Pewfell. He lives with his wife and son in the city of San Francisco California where he works as an Art Director for Ogilvy & Mather...
  
  , (born 1969)
• T.H. White, (1906–1964) (Terence Hanbury White) author of The Once and Future King
  The Once and Future King
  The Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T. H. White. It was first published in 1958 and is mostly a composite of earlier works written in a period between 1938 and 1941....
  
  
• Kit Whitfield
  Kit Whitfield
  Kit Whitfield is an English novelist. Her first novel, titled Bareback in the UK and Benighted in the US, was published by Random House in August 2006. It has subsequently been purchased by Warner Brothers for an undisclosed six-figure sum, and is currently being adapted as a film called Benighted...
  
  
• Jack Whyte
  Jack Whyte
  Jack Whyte is a Scottish-Canadian novelist of historical fiction. Born and raised in Scotland, Whyte has been living in Canada since 1967. He resides in Kelowna, British Columbia....
  
  , (born 1939)
• Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand....
  
  , (1930–2002) author of The Wanderer
• Paul O. Williams
  Paul O. Williams
  Paul O. Williams was an American science fiction writer and haiku poet. Williams was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois....
  
  , (born 1935)
• Tad Williams
  Tad Williams
  Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....
  
  , (born 1957) author of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is Tad Williams's epic fantasy trilogy, comprising The Dragonbone Chair , Stone of Farewell , and To Green Angel Tower...
  
   trilogy
• Terri Windling
  Terri Windling
  Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award...
  
  , (born 1958) author of the Bordertown
  The Borderland Series
  Borderland is a series of urban fantasy novels and stories created for teenage readers by Terri Windling. The series is set in Bordertown, a dystopian metropolis that lies along the border between "the Elflands" and "The World". The series consists of five anthologies and three novels to date...
  
   series
• Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
  , (born 1931)
• Patricia Wrede
  Patricia Wrede
  Patricia Collins Wrede is an American fantasy writer from Chicago, Illinois.The eldest of five children, she graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in Biology, married James Wrede in 1976 , and obtained an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977.She finished her first book in 1978,...
  
  , author of the Lyra
  Lyra
  Lyra is a small constellation. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Its principal star, Vega — a corner of the Summer Triangle — is one of the brightest...
  
   books
• John C. Wright, (born 1961) author of the Orphans of Chaos
  Orphans of Chaos
  Orphans of Chaos is a 2005 fantasy novel by John C. Wright. It is the first volume of a trilogy that continues with the novels Fugitives of Chaos and Titans of Chaos .-Plot synopsis:...
  
   and Last Guardian of Everness
  Last Guardian of Everness
  Last Guardian of Everness is a fantasy novel by John C. Wright...
  
   series.
• Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series, including the Wars of Light and Shadow, The Cycle of Fire trilogy, several stand-alone novels, a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond...
  
  , author of the Wars of Light and Shadow and the Empire Trilogy
  Empire Trilogy
  The Empire Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of novels written by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. It traces the story of Mara of the Acomas rise to power from a convent novitiate to the most powerful woman in the fictional world of Kelewan...
  
   (with Raymond E. Feist)

See also

• Fantasy
  Fantasy
  Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
  
  
• List of fantasy novels
• List of high fantasy fiction
• List of horror fiction authors
• List of science fiction authors
• List of Clarion South Writers Workshop Alumni
• List of Clarion South Writers Workshop Instructors
• List of Clarion West Writers Workshop Alumni
• List of Clarion West Writers Workshop Instructors
• List of Clarion Writers Workshop Alumni
• List of Clarion Writers Workshop Instructors
• Lists of authors

External links

• website for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
  Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
  Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA...