Category
page 1Novelists from Ohio
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
Roger Zelazny
U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1937–1995)
R. L. Stine
American novelist (born 1943)
Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972)
Harlan Ellison
American writer (1934–2018)
Michael Cunningham
American novelist and screenwriter

Lois McMaster Bujold
American novelist (born 1949)

Daniel Keyes
American author
James Thurber
American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)
Zane Grey
American novelist (1872–1939)
Fredric Brown
American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
Anthony Doerr
American writer

William Dean Howells
American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)

Walter Tevis
American writer (1928–1984)

Andre Norton
American writer of science fiction and fantasy (1912–2005)

John Scalzi
American science fiction writer (born 1969)

Paul Laurence Dunbar
American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906)
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and comics (born 1974)
Elizabeth George
American mystery and thriller writer
Edmund White
American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
Louis Bromfield
American author and conservationist (1896-1956)
Earl Derr Biggers
American novelist and playwright (1884–1933)
Ernest Cline
American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter
Stephen R. Donaldson
novelist
Kate Wilhelm
American science fiction writer (1928-2018)
Anna Todd
American author and screenwriter.
Edmond Hamilton
American science fiction writer (1904–1977)
Jacqueline Woodson
American children's writer and novelist (born 1963)
Mike Resnick
American writer (1942-2020)
William H. Gass
American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
Ellen Kushner
American writer
George Alec Effinger
novelist, short story writer (1947–2002)
Geoffrey A. Landis
American aerospace engineer and science fiction author
David Weber
American science fiction and fantasy writer (born 1952)
Lloyd C. Douglas
American novelist (1877–1951)
Dav Pilkey
American cartonist and author
Christopher Moore
American writer of comic fantasy
Thomas Louis Berger
American novelist (1924–2014)
Josephine Johnson
American novelist, nature writer, poet (1910-1990)
Lauren Kate
American writer
Charles Chesnutt
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, activist (1858–1932)
W. R. Burnett
novelist, screenwriter (1899-1982)
James Purdy
writer (1914–2009)
Brian Azzarello
American comic book writer
Kay Boyle
American writer, educator, political activist (1902–1992)
Joan Slonczewski
American microbiologist and writer
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
American writer (1917–1994)
Fannie Hurst
American novelist (1889–1968)
Natalie Babbitt
American children's writer and illustrator (1932–2016)
Karen Marie Moning
American novelist
Keefe Brasselle
American actor, producer (1923-1981)

Curtis Sittenfeld
American novelist (1975-)
Jack Schaefer
American writer (1907–1991)
Claire Messud
American writer
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
American writer
Theresa Rebeck
writer, playwright, novelist

Margaret Peterson Haddix
American author
Ernest Tidyman
writer (1928–1984)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
American writer