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Judith Merril

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Judith Michael

Judith Michael is the pseudonym of the husband-and-wife writing team of Judith Barnard (February 17, 1932 – May 6, 2026) and Michael Fain (born 1936).

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Judith S. Beck

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Judson Brewer

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Judy Hall

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Judy Hindley

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Julee Rosso

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Jule McBride

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Julia Navarro

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Julia Serano

Julia Michelle Serano is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, transgender and bisexual activist, and biologist. She is known for her transfeminist books. She is also a public speaker who has given many talks at universities and conferences. Her writing is frequently featured in queer, feminist, and popular culture magazines.

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Julia Templeton

An avid reader all her life, Julia discovered historical romance when she was nineteen... and hasn't stopped reading them since, to this day she still gets excited when she walks into a bookstore. Married to her high-school sweetheart and the mother of two grown children, she resides in beautiful Brush Prairie, Washington, where she is currently at work on her next sensual romance. Julia is a member of Romance Writers of America: National, Rose City Writers, and Faith, Hope, and Love Chapters. Aside from writing spicy historical, time-travel, vampire and contemporary romance, she enjoys collecting research books, traveling and spending time with friends and family. Please stop by her website at www.juliatempleton.com to learn more about Julia and her books or email her at julia@juliatempleton.com. She loves hearing from her readers!

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Julie Berry

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Julie Buxbaum

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Julie Fogliano

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Julie Schwartz Gottman

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Julie Smith

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Juliet Shore

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Julie Wellsley

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June Hur

June Hur (허주은) is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of YA Korean historicals, including The Silence of Bones, The Forest of Stolen Girls, The Red Palace, A Crane Among Wolves and Behind Five Willows. Born in South Korea, June spent her formative years in the USA, Canada, and South Korea before studying History and Literature at the University of Toronto and working at the city’s public library. Her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, CBC, Vogue Korea, and KBS. She resides in Toronto with her family and can be spotted writing in coffee shops. 허주은 JUNE (JU EUN) HUR ‘Hur’ pronounced ‘her’ Photo credit: Julie Tang

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Jung Chang

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991. With her husband, Jon Halliday, she is also the author of Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, nonfiction). Source

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Junji Itō

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Juno Dawson

Juno Dawson (born 10 June 1981), also credited as James Dawson until 2015, is a British transgender activist and an author of young adult fiction and non-fiction. Dawson's notable works include This Book Is Gay, Mind Your Head, Margot & Me, The Gender Games, Clean and Meat Market. wiki

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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.

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Justin A. Reynolds

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Kai Cheng Thom

Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, is an internationally known writer, poet, healer, sex educator, and conflict transformation practitioner based in Toronto, Canada. Her work in the areas of trauma recovery, Transformative Justice, and intimacy education has been featured in Teen Vogue, the New York Times, CTV's The Social, and more. Her novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir was selected for actress Emma Watson's Feminist Book Club, and her children's book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish In the Sea was read aloud by Dame Julie Andrews on the podcast Julie's Library.

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Kai Meyer

Kai Meyer is a German writer.

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Kaiu Shirai

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Kālidāsa

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Kalynn Bayron

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Kana Riley

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Kandi Steiner

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

American basketball player and author

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Karen Blumenthal

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Karen Hamaker-Zondag

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Karen Harper

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Karen Tei Yamashita

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Karen Toller Whittenburg

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Karl Jay Shapiro

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Karl Marx

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Karl Sabbagh

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Karrine Steffans

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Kate Banks

Kate Banks is the author of many acclaimed books for children, including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner And If the Moon Could Talk. She lives in the South of France. Source: Please, Papa (text on jacket).

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Kate Beaton

Canadian comics artist

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Kate Duke

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Kate Haxell

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Kate Novak

American writer

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Kate Summerscale

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Kate White

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Katherine Ayres

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Katherine Coville

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