Authors
The people who wrote the books.
Author records are published only with verified information supplied by the author, their agent or their publisher.
Author Spotlight
Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993; editor, essayist and author of eleven novels. Our featured selection is Beloved (1987), read alongside the interview and the reading life behind the work.
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Directory
Authors in the library
Virginia Woolf
United Kingdom · Mrs Dalloway
Toni Morrison
United States · Beloved
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia · One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom · Wolf Hall
Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom · The Remains of the Day
Zadie Smith
United Kingdom · White Teeth
Haruki Murakami
Japan · Kafka on the Shore
Jhumpa Lahiri
United States / Italy · Interpreter of Maladies
Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lanka / Canada · The English Patient
Anthony Doerr
United States · All the Light We Cannot See
Donna Tartt
United States · The Secret History
Ian McEwan
United Kingdom · Atonement
Margaret Atwood
Canada · The Handmaid's Tale
Cormac McCarthy
United States · The Road
Marilynne Robinson
United States · Gilead
Jeffrey Eugenides
United States · Middlesex
Ann Patchett
United States · Bel Canto
Elena Ferrante
Italy · My Brilliant Friend
Colson Whitehead
United States · The Underground Railroad
Celeste Ng
United States · Little Fires Everywhere
Sally Rooney
Ireland · Normal People
Hanya Yanagihara
United States · A Little Life
Jonathan Franzen
United States · The Corrections
Barbara Kingsolver
United States · Demon Copperhead
Kate Atkinson
United Kingdom · Life After Life
Emily St. John Mandel
Canada · Station Eleven
Tana French
Ireland · In the Woods
Amor Towles
United States · A Gentleman in Moscow
Ocean Vuong
United States · On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Richard Powers
United States · The Overstory