American LGBTQ novelists

Playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, novelist (1937-2023)

American writer

author (1858–1942)

American poet, novelist and essayist (1901-1987)

American actor and writer (born 1954)

American writer (1972-2019)

American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction

American author of fantasy and young adult literature

American actor

American writer (1920–2010)

American historian (1952–2024)

American writer (born 1948)

American writer

American children's writer (1928–1974)

Puerto Rican writer

American author of speculative fiction

novelist (1937–2005)

American writer

American filmmaker and screenwriter

Michael Iver Peterson is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. In 2011, after eight years in prison, Peterson was released from prison after being granted a new trial. In a review of an appeal, the judge had ruled that a critical prosecution witness in the first trial gave misleading testimony. Peterson was out on bail and under house arrest while awaiting a new trial.

American writer

American comics artist and writer

Australian writer

American writer

novelist

American photographer and writer (1913–2002)

American writer (1918–2022)

American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter (1923-2004)

Australian writer (1885-1959)

American writer (1954–2012)

Australian writer (1917–1991)

novelist, short story writer (1857–1929)

American writer and attorney

American writer

American novelist

American-Canadian writer

American writer, podcaster, actor, comedian, and LGBTQ activist

Fiction writer

American novelist

American writer and playwright (1914-1992)

American writer

American writer

Singapore-American novelist and short story writer

American novelist, actor, and activist

American writer

American writer

American writer (1949–2022)

American poet, author, and playwright

American writer

American writer

African American novelist, memoirist (1955–2009)

Colombian American author, poet, and journalist

American writer (1977-)

American comic writer

anonymous American erotic writer

American writer

American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer (1909–1993)

American painter and poet (1941–2023)

American writer

American writer