Author List

Name Born Died Picture Origin
Abbey, Edward 1927 1989   American
Abrahams, Marc     American
Aczel, Amir 1950   Israeli
Adams, Cecil     American
Adams, Douglas 1951 2001   British
Adele, Deborah 1949   American
Aeschylus -525 -456   Greek
Albom, Mitch 1958   American
Albran, Kehlog     Unknown
Allen, Woody 1935   American
Alterman, Eric 1960   American
Angell, Roger 1920   American
Appignanesi, Richard 1940   Canada
Aristotle -384 -322   Greek
Asimov, Isaac 1920 1992   Russian
Aslan, Reza 1972   Iran
Atwood, Margaret 1939   Canada
Auel, Jean M. 1936   American
Aurelius, Marcus 121 180   Roman
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     America
Baldacci, David 1960   America
Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1950   French
Barbellion, W. N. P. 1889 1919   England
Barrett, Andrea 1954   United States
Barry, Dave 1947   American
Bauby, Jean-Dominique 1952 1997   French
Beckett, Samuel 1906 1989   Irish
Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898   American
Bergson, Henri 1859 1941   France
Berlinski, David     American
Bernd, Heinrich 1940   German
Bernstein, Leonard 1918 1990   American
Boethius 480 524   Italian
Borges, Jorge Luis 1899 1986   Argentinian
Boukreev, Anatoli 1958 1997   Russian
Bradbury, Ray 1920   American
Brecht, Bertolt 1898 1956 German
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw     Britain
Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 England
Brontë, Emily 1818 1848   British
Brown, Dan 1964   American
Brown, Daniel James 1951   American
Bryson, Bill 1951   American
Buck, Pearl S 1892 1973   American
Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867   American
Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924   English
Burns, David     American
Byrd, James Dean Day 1963   American
Cadenhead, Rogers     American
Cain, Susan     American
Calaprice, Alice     American
Cameron, Julia 1948   American
Campbell, Joseph 1904 1987   American
Camus, Albert 1913 1960   Algerian
Capra, Fritjof 1939   Austrian
Carville, James 1944   American
Cather, Willa 1873 1947   American
Cavalier, Robert     American
Cervantes, Miguel de 1547 1616   Spanish
Chapman, Matthew     British
Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343 1400   British
Chesterton, G.K. 1874 1936   British
Chodron, Pema 1936   American
Chomsky, Noam 1928   American
Chopin, Kate 1850 1904   America
Christensen, Max     America
Christie, Agatha 1890 1976   British
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 1909 1971   American
Close, Frank 1945   British
Coben, Harlan 1962   American
Cockell, Charles 1967   Britain
Coelho, Paulo 1947   Brazilian
Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924   Polish
Contreras, Ingrid Rojas     Columbia
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789 1851   American
Crane, Stephen 1871 1900   American
Crichton, Michael 1942 2008   America
Crockford, Douglas     American
Cunningham, Katie     American
Cuny, Lynn Marie 1951   America
Dawkins, Richard 1941   Kenyan
de Botton, Alain 1969   Swiss
de Caussade, Jean-Pierre 1675 1751   French
Defoe, Daniel 1660 1731   England
de Maupassant, Guy 1850 1893   France
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine 1909 1944   France
Diamond, Jared 1937   American
Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982   American
Dickens, Charles 1812 1870   British
Didion, Joan 1934   American
Dillard, Annie 1945   American
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881   Russian
Doughty, Caitlin 1984   American
Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859 1930   British
Dreher, Diane 1951   American
Dubal, David     American
Dubin, William     American
Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870   French
Durant, Will 1885 1981   American
Eckel, Malcolm     American
Eckhart, Meister 1260 1328   German
Eco, Umberto 1932   Italian
Eimerl, Sarel     American
Einstein, Albert 1879 1954   German
Eliot, George 1819 1880   England
Eliot, T.S. 1888 1965   British
Ellenberg, Jordan 1971   American
Elliott, Chris 1960   American
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882   American
Epictetus 55 135   Greek
Evans-Wentz, Walter 1878 1965   American
Faulkner, William 1897 1962 American
Feynman, Richard 1918 1988   American
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896 1940   American
Fotiyev, Izolda and Dmitriy     American
Franken, Al 1951   American
Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790   American
Fraser, George MacDonald 1925 2008   British
Frazier, Charles     American
Fromm, Erich 1900 1980   German
Galbraith, John Kenneth 1908 2006   Canadian
Galilei, Galileo 1564 1642   Italian
Garner, Joe     American
Gawande, Atul 1965   America
Geldard, Richard 1935   America
Geller, Valerie     American
Gibran, Kahlil 1883 1931   Lebanese
Gildea, Robert 1952   British
Gilligan, James     American
Gladstone, Brooke 1955   American
Gladstone-Miller, Lynne     Scottish
Gladwell, Malcolm 1963   American
Gleick, James 1954   American
Gogol, Nikolai 1809 1852   Russian
Golden, Arthur     American
Golding, William 1911 1993   British
Goswami, H.D.     American
Gottlieb, Anthony 1956   British
Gould, Stephen Jay 1941 2002   American
Grady, Stephen 1925   French
Graff, Chris 1954   USA
Grant, John     British
Grant, Ulysses S 1822 1885   American
Graves, Robert 1895 1986   British
Greanier, Todd     American
Greene, Brian 1963   American
Greene, Graham 1904 1991   British
Grey, Zane 1872 1939   America
Gribbin, John     British
Grimwood, Ken 1944 2003   American
Grisham, John 1955   American
Groom, Winston 1943 2020   America
Guralnick, Peter 1943   American
Gwynne, S.C.     American
Gyatsu, Tenzin 1935   Tibetan
Haddon, Mark 1962   British
Hale, J. R. 1923 1999   British
Hamilton (editor), Edith 1867 1963   American
Handey, Jack 1949   America
Hanh, Thich Nhat 1926 2022   Vietnamese
Hansberry, Lorraine 1930 1965   American
Harari, Yuvul Noah 1976   Israel
Hardy, G.H. 1877 1947   British
Hawking, Stephen 1942 2018   British
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864   American
Heller, Joseph 1923 1999   American
Hemingway, Ernest 1899 1961   American
Henry, O. 1862 1910   American
Hersey, John 1914 1993   American
Hesiod -750 -670   Greek
Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962   German
Higgins, Jack 1929   British
Hillendbrand, Laura     American
Hitchens, Christopher 1949 2011   British
Hoffer, Eric 1902 1983   American
Hoffman, Eva 1945   Polish
Hogan, Ray 1918 1998   American
Holt, Jim 1951   American
Homer -800 -720   Greek
Hoskyns, Barney     British
Hugo, Victor 1802 1885   French
Huneker, James 1857 1921   American
Huxley, Aldous 1894 1963   British
Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906   Norwegian
Irving, John 1942   American
Ivins, Molly 1944 2007   American
Jaynes, Julian 1920 1997   American
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson     British
Johnson, Chalmers 1931 2010   American
Johnson, Steven 1968   American
Joyce, James 1882 1941   Irish
Jung, Carl 1875 1961   Swiss
Kafka, Franz 1883 1924   Czech
Kahane, Howard     American
Kaplan, Robert     American
Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883 1957   Greek
Keillor, Garrison 1942   American
Kelly, Amy     American
Kelsey and Switzer, Merebeth and Elin     Unknown
Kemery, Becky     American
Kesey, Ken 1935 2001   American
Kidd, Sue Monk 1948   American
King, Ross 1962   Canadian
Kingsolver, Barbara 1955   America
Knowles, John 1926 2001   American
Knowlton, Christopher     England
Körner, Stephan 1913 2000   Czech
Kosko, Bart 1960   American
Krakauer, Jon 1954   American
Krugman, Paul 1953   American
Kuehn, Manfred 1947   German
Kul-Want, Christopher     England
Kundera, Milan 1929   Czech
Kuralt, Charles 1934 1997   American
Lamott, Anne 1954   American
Lao-Tzu -550 -500   Chinese
Larson, Erik     American
Larsson, Stieg 1954 2004   Swedish
Le Carré, John 1931   British
Lederman, Leon 1922   American
Lee, Harper 1926   American
Lehane, Dennis 1965   America
Levitin, Daniel     American
Lewis, C.S. 1898 1963   British
Lewis, Sinclair 1885 1951   American
Lieh-tzu -400   China
Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865   American
Lockhart, Paul     American
London, Jack 1876 1916   American
Lorenz, Konrad 1903 1989   Austrian
Lowry, Lois 1937   American
Lyons, Charles     British
MacEachern, Jenna     American
Machiavelli, Nicolo 1469 1527   Italian
Mackay, Charles 1814 1889   Scotland
MacMillan, Margaret 1943   Canada
Madrigal, Alexis 1982   America
Maher, Bill     American
Malthus, Thomas 1766 1834   British
Mann, Thomas 1875 1955   German
Maor, Eli     American
Marchal, Benoit     Belgian
Marcus, Du Sautoy 1965   British
Marsh, Dave 1950   American
Martin, Steve 1945   American
Marx, Karl 1818 1883   German
Mazet, Véronique     French
McCarthy, Cormac 1933   American
McConnell, Steve     American
Mehta, Gita 1943   Indian
Melville, Herman 1819 1891   American
Merton, Thomas 1915 1968   France
Merullo, Roland 1953   American
Messner, Reinhold 1944   Italy
Miller, Arthur 1915 2005   American
Miller, Henry 1891 1980   American
Miller, Susan Martins     American
Mlodinow, Leonard 1954   American
Montaigne, Michel de 1533 1592   French
Moro, Simone 1967   Italian
Morton, Jacqueline     Unknown
Mowat, Farley 1921 2014   Canadian
Neihardt, John 1881 1973   American
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844 1900   German
Nin, Anaïs 1903 1977   French
Norman, Philip 1943   British
Novello, Don 1943   American
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938   American
Obama, Barack 1961   American
Obama, Michelle 1964   America
Oe, Kenzaburo 1935   Japanese
O\'Flaherty, Wendy     American
Oh, Sadaharu 1940   Japanese
Olbermann, Keith     American
O'Nan, Stewart 1961   American
Orwell, George 1903 1950   British
O'Sullivan, Patrick     Irish
Pagels, Elaine 1943   American
Parini, Jay     American
Perrin, Valerie 1967   France
Péter, Rózsa 1905 1977   Hungarian
Piketty, Thomas 1971   France
Plato -428 -348   Greek
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849   American
Pollard, A.J. 1941   England
Portis, Charles 1933 1920   America
Prather, Hugh 1938   American
Proust, Marcel 1871 1922   France
Putnam, James     British
Quint, Michel     French
Remarque, Erich Maria 1898 1970   German
Richards, Keith 1943   British
Richter, Conrad 1890 1968   American
Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875 1924   Austrian
Roberts, David 1943 2021   America
Roberts, Jeremy     Unknown
Rolland, Romain 1866 1944   French
Romer, John 1941   British
Ron Hall and Denver Moore     American
Roth, Phillip 1933   American
Rothery, David A     England
Rovelli, Carlo 1956   Italy
Rowling, J.K. 1965   British
Russell, James M.     England
Ryan, Mark     American
Sacks, Oliver 1933 2015   British
Safransky, Sy 1947   American
Sagan, Carl 1934 1996   American
Salinger, J.D. 1919 2010   American
Salzberg, Sharon     American
Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905 1980   French
Satrapi, Marjane 1969   Iran
Scheina, Robert     American
Schonberg, Harold 1915 1997   American
Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788 1860   German
Sedaris, David     American
Seife, Charles 1972   America
Service, Robert 1874 1958   British
Shakespeare, William 1564 1616   British
Shandling, Garry 1949   American
Shelley, Mary 1797 1851   British
Sheridan, Richard 1751 1816   Irish
Sherman, Russell     American
Short, Martin 1950   Canadian
Silber, Joan 1945   America
Simpson, Joe 1960   British
Slocum, Joshua 1844 1909   Canadian
Smith, Betty 1896 1972   American
Smolin, Lee 1955   America
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 1918 2008   Russian
Sophocles -496 -406   Greek
Soros, George 1930   Hungarian
Sosa, Bill     American
Spong, John Shelby 1931 2021   America
Springsteen, Bruce 1949   America
Steel, Mark 1960   England
Steinbeck, John 1902 1968   American
Stendahl 1783 1842   French
Stevens, Anthony 1933   British
Stevens, John     American
Stevenson, Jay     American
Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894   Scottish
Stoker, Bram 1847 1912   Ireland
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896   American
Strathern, Paul 1940   British
Stravinsky, Igor 1882 1971   Russian
Strunk/White     American
Stuart, Colin     England
Sullivan, J.W.N. 1886 1937   British
Suzuki, Daisetz 1870 1966   Japanese
Suzuki, Shinichi 1898 1998   Japan
Suzuki, Shunryu 1904 1971   Japanese
Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745   Irish
Tendzin, Osel 1943 1990   American
Thomas, Lewis 1913 1993   American
Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862   American
Thurow, Lester 1938   American
Tibballs, Geoff     British
Tolkien, J.R.R. 1892 1973   British
Tolstoy, Leo 1828 1910   Russian
Toole, John Kennedy 1937 1969   American
Torbjornsen, Tom     American
Trumbo, Dalton 1905 1976   American
Trump, Mary L. 1965   America
Twain, Mark 1835 1910   American
Unknown     Unknown
Updike, John 1932   American
Valéry, Paul 1871 1945   French
Various     Various
Verne, Jules 1828 1905   French
Vian, Boris 1920 1959   French
Vincent, William S.     America
Volta, Ornella     French
Voltaire 1694 1778   French
Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007   American
Walsch, Neal Donald     American
Weatherhead, Leslie 1893 1976   British
Wei, Wei Wu 1895 1986   British
Weinberg, Steven 1933   American
Weiner, Jennifer 1970   American
Wells, H.G. 1866 1946   British
Welty, Eudora 1909 2001   American
Westberg, Granger 1913 1999   American
White, E.B. 1899 1985   American
White, Theodore 1915 1986   American
Whitman, Walt 1819 1892   American
Wiesel, Elie 1928   Hungarian
Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900   Irish
Wilder, Thornton 1897 1975   American
Will, George 1941   American
Wilson, Edward O. 1929   American
Wise, Jeff     American
Wohlleben, Peter 1964   German
Woit, Peter 1957   American
Wood, Jr., Ed 1924 1978   American
Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941   British
Xenophon -431 -355   Greek
Yalom, Irvin D. 1931   America
Yogananda, Paramahansa 1893 1952   Indian
Yousafzai, Malala 1997   Pakistani
Yun, Hsing     Chinese
Zahn, Gordon 1918 2007   America
Zamyatin, Yevgeny 1884 1937   Russian
Zelazny, Roger 1935 1995   American
Zinn, Howard 1922 2010   American
Zola, Émile 1840 1902   French