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Mary Buffett
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a prominent 19th-century American author of novels and short stories (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_Freeman>Wikipedia</a>).
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Matt Christopher
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Matt Doeden
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Matt Fraction
Matt Fritchman (born December 1, 1975), better known by the pen name Matt Fraction, is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer, known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, FF, The Immortal Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men, and Hawkeye for Marvel Comics; Casanova and Sex Criminals for Image Comics; and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen for DC Comics. source
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Max Brooks
Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972), best known as Max Brooks, is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York. Source: Max Brooks on Wikipedia
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M. D. Spenser
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Megan Alexander
Meg Alexander has been writing since childhood. Her first efforts were plays to be performed by her brothers, sister and cousins as family entertainment at Christmas time. She married at nineteen and had a son. During his childhood she concentrated on freelance journalism, writing on crime, psychology, gardening, travel and cookery. At thirty-eight the breakdown of her marriage brought the need to earn more money. For the next twenty years she claims to have ‘lived on her wits’, becoming a representative for a textile firm in the north of England, and a professional cook in exalted circles. Then she moved into administration, as Assistant Director of the British Red Cross Society’s Conference Centre, and later managing a large Hall of Residence for students of King’s College, London. During this time she gained a BA Degree from the Open University. When Meg retired she moved to Spain, where she wrote a weekly gardening column for an English language newspaper. The Costa Blanca News, and travel and cookery pieces for Inter-express. After eight years the call of grandchildren was too strong and she moved back to England, settling first in Kent and then in East Sussex. She began to write historical fiction, encouraged by winning first prize in a competition run by Writers’ News for the best opening chapter of a historical romance. The judge was a senior editor from Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd. She asked to see the rest of the book, but even after two re-writes it wasn’t considered suitable for publication. The same thing happened with a second book, but Meg was third-time lucky. The Last Enchantment, a Regency Romance was published in 1995.
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Megan Whalen Turner
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Melinda Cross
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Melissa James
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Melissa Wiley
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Michael E. Gerber
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Michael Foreman
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Michael McDowell
Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". His most well-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. Source: Wikipedia
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Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje (born 12 September 1943) is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry: in 1967 he published The Dainty Monsters, and in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted as a film in 1996, received the Booker Prize in 1992. It later won the Golden Man Booker Prize as the best of the first 51 Booker Prize winners. Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades' commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990), where he edited, among other authors, Daphne Marrlatt's early poems. His editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.
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Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
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Michel Lauricella
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Mick Inkpen
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Molly Harper
American writer of romantic fantasy novels
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Mona D. Sizer
Mona D. Sizer was a teacher, conference speaker and author of fiction and non-fiction works that included biography, history, poetry, memoir and short stories. A Valley native, Sizer was born and raised in Raymondville, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Texas Woman's University. Starting her career as a teacher, Sizer transitioned to becoming a writer. Sizer was the author of historical and contemporary romance novels set in the RGV under the pen name Deana James, histories and biographies for Taylor Trade Publishing, a self-published memoir, short stories and contributed to several anthologies. Sizer was a charter member of the Romance Writers of America® (RWA), was a member of the Narciso Marquez International Poetry Society and a lifetime member of the writer’s group Valley Byliners. (Source: Museum of South Texas History) Mona Dean Sizer wrote historical romances for Zebra as Deana James and a few romances as Rachel Davis.
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Munro Leaf
Wilbur Monroe Leaf (a.k.a. Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro_Leaf
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Munshi Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. He began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand". Munshi being an honorary prefix. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
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Myrna Mackenzie
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Nancy Farmer
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Nancy L. Carlson
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Nancy Richards-Akers
Nancy Linda Richards was born in 16 January 1954, the oldest of three children of a New England physician and his wife. She grew up in suburban Scarsdale, New York. In 1971, she graduated at Mount Vernon College. In her early career, she wrote speeches for a North Carolina congressman, and later worked at a firm that produced political ads. In 1976, Nancy met Jeremy Ray Akers, while both were staffers on Capitol Hill. He was a Vietnam War hero, awarded two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star for valor, who had gone on to graduate from the University of Virginia law school. After being pregnant, Nancy married Jeremy on 11 Agust 1977, in a small ceremony at Georgetown's Christ Church. But not long time later, he began to abuse her. In 1979, the family moved to Miami, where he worked as an assistant state attorney under Janet Reno. In 1983, they returned to to Washington, where he took a job with the Justice Department handling environmental cases, and she went to work for a time as a receptionist at a political consulting firm. But he did not like that she works outside, she cast about for something she could do at home, and came up with writing romances. Nancy became a member of the Washington chapter of the Romance Writers of America, and she collaborated researching on early novels with Mary Kilchenstein (Mary Kirk), under the pseudonym Mary Alice Kirk. In 1987, she published her first single-handed book, "The Mayfair Season", and began a solid career as romance novelist. In 1997 her last book "Wild Irish Skies" was named one of the top 10 romance novels of that year by The Washington Post. Her husband's own environmental consulting firm, started in 1990, began to falter, and his bills and financial mismanagement, were eaten up all her income. The strain on their relationship intensified, and finally, she decided escape. She moved to live with a friend, Jim Lemke, a 26 truck driver and aspiring poet, who later became her boyfriend. One year later, the Saturday 5 June 1999, although the legal fight for custody of their children was about to begin, her husband, who had lately appeared more reasonable, agreed to let her take Zeb, 11, and Isabelle, 9, to McDonald's. When she brought the children back to their father around 10 p.m., he headed over to the red Jeep Wrangler where she sat parked. As the kids drifted toward the porch, he offered to take his wife back one last time. When she said no, he pulled out a .22-cal. handgun and shot her twice in the back of the head. He fled in his SUV as Isabelle cried, "Daddy, we love you, don't leave!", while Zeb called 911. A little more than two hours later, U.S. Park Police officer Vincent Guadioso spotted Jeremy near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the muzzle of a shotgun pointing toward his mouth. No sooner had the officer hustled three tourists to safety than Jeremy pulled the trigger. On the morning after their parents' memorial service, Zeb and Isabelle bundled into a car with their father's younger brother Tom and his wife Carolyn, for the drive to Alabama, where they will begin their new lives.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
French-Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
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Natalie Rivers
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Neville Astley
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Norma Jean Lutz
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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (México, DF, 31 de marzo de 1914 - 19 de abril de 1998) fue un poeta, escritor, ensayista y diplomático mexicano, fue miembro de El Colegio Nacional y ganador del premio Nobel de Literatura (1990). Se le considera uno de los más grandes escritores del siglo XX y uno de los grandes poetas hispanos de todos los tiempos. Fue un escritor prolífico cuya obra abarcó varios géneros, entre los que sobresalieron textos poéticos, el ensayo y traducciones diversas.
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Omar Tyree
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Pam Conrad
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Pamela Bauer
Pamela Muelhbauer was born and raised in Minnesota, one of six children. She and her husband Gerr, live in a small community just northwest of Minneapolis. They have two children, Amy and Aaron, and a bichon-poo that thinks he’s human. The marriage spend much of their recreational time in the lakes region of northern Minnesota. They enjoy roasting marshmallows over an open fire and listening to the call of the loons in the summer, and in the winter they trek through the woods on snowshoes and fish through a hole in the ice. Is it romantic? Ask a Minnesotan and you’ll likely get the answer, "You betcha!" says Pamela, who treasures those moments "up north." Since selling her first romance in 1986, Pamela Bauer has gained fans around the world for her heartwarming stories about love and family relationships. She plans to continue to write stories about people falling in love and living happily ever after. She hopes that when you read one of her books you’ll smile and maybe even laugh out loud, but more important, when you’ve finished the story you’ll feel good — about families, about life, and about love. She often uses the Midwest as a setting for her books, because she believes there’s something special about the region that makes it the perfect setting for stories about love and family. It’s also the place where she fell in love with her real-life hero, her husband.
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Pamela Clare
Pamela Clare writes historical romance and comtemporary romantic suspense books. She loves history, having studied Archaeology in college, and has traveled extensively, living for almost three years in Denmark, which feels like home to her. She attributes her love of historical romance with the years she spent visiting ruins and castles in Europe. She says: "I love nothing more than the moment my characters come alive in their own time period and begin interacting with the world they inhabit. Through them, I am able to travel to other times and places -- colonial America, 18th-century Ireland, the Viking age". She began her writing career as a columnist and investigative reporter and eventually became the first woman editor-in-chief of two different newspapers. Along the way, she and her team won numerous state and national honors, including the First Amendment Award and the National Journalism Award for Public Service. This year, she was honored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists with their Keeper of the Flame Lifetime Achievement Award for her work. As romance novelist is a RITA finalist (Surrender, 2006) and a three-time Daphne du Maurier finalist (I-Team series). A single mother with two teenage sons, Alec and Benjamin, she lives in Boulder, Colorado, next to the unbelievable beauty of the Rocky Mountains. She loves to hike and enjoys watching birds and wildlife with her two sons. Her other interests include drawing and painting, quilting, listening to music, horseback riding, world travel and reading.
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Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Pat Barker
Patricia Mary W. Barker (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and for a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls.
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Pat Murphy
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Patricia Knoll
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Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (formerly Pat Califia and Patrick Califia-Rice) is a poet, erotica author, and writer of nonfiction on gender and sexuality.
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Patrick Modiano
French novelist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014.
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Paula Guran
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Peggy Fortnum
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Peggy Nicholson
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Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön (formerly known as Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an American woman who was ordained as a Buddhist nun in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981, and a teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. A prolific author, she has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is resident teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Percival L. Everett
American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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Peter Abrahams
AKA Spencer Quinn
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Peter Brown
American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books
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