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Lysa TerKeurst

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Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. Machado de Assis foi um escritor brasileiro, considerado por muitos críticos, estudiosos, escritores e leitores o maior nome da literatura brasileira. Escreveu em praticamente todos os gêneros literários, sendo poeta, romancista, cronista, dramaturgo, contista, folhetinista, jornalista e crítico literário.

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Mack Reynolds

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His work focused on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking explorations of utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric perspective. He was a popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fiction and fantasy magazines.

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Macky Pamintuan

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Mahmoud Darwish

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Manda Collins

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Mantak Chia

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Marc Levy

French novelist

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Margaret St. Clair

Margaret St. Clair was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. - Wikipedia

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Margarita Engle

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Marilyn Singer

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Mark Millar

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Marsha Canham

Marsha Canham (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian writer of historical romance novels since 1984. She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as multiple awards for individual books including Best Historical of the Year, Best Medieval of the Year, Best book of the Year, Storyteller of the Year, Best Swashbuckler of the Year. Canham was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she resides, to a policeman and a homemaker. Marsha has one son and two grandchildren. Her sister is Canadian politician Carolyn Parrish. In 1984, Marsha published her first historical romance, titled China Rose, and has seventeen such novels in print, including one contemporary romance. She is best known for her award-winning romance trilogies, one set in Scotland: The Pride of Lions, The Blood of Roses, and Midnight Honor. The other is set in Medieval England and deals with her own interpretation of the Robin Hood legend: Through a Dark Mist, In the Shadow of Midnight, and The Last Arrow. She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards, plus multiple individual awards including being listed as "One of the seven best mass market fiction books of the year" by Publishers Weekly for The Iron Rose. *wikipedia

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Marshall Karp

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Martha Kirkland

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Martin Fowler

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Martin Heidegger

German philosopher

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Marvin Kaye

American writer

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Mary Anne Wilson

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Mary Blayney

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Mary Burton

Mary Burton’s southern family has always enjoyed tall tales and a good yarns. Early on, she realized that Story had tremendous power to inspire strong responses such fear, laughter, love and even sorrow. It didn’t matter if the tale was found in the pages of a book, spoken in hushed tones around a Girl Scout campfire, or spouted at an old fashioned southern family reunion. This appreciation of story motivated she to earn an English degree from Virginia’s Hollins University, she gradued in 1983. After decade of working in marketing and sales, she was the marketing director for a one-hundred-person civil engineering firm, when she became convinced she could write and sell one of the many stories buzzing around her brain. She has worked as a freelance writer and written (or ghostwritten) dozens of articles for publications including The RWR, Virginia Review, and Innsbrook Today. She is also the author of The Insider’s Guide to Direct Marketing (1995 by Zwieg White Associates), a marketing manual geared toward architectural/engineering firms. Mary has been writing historical romance novels for several years. Fingers crossed, she left the marketing profession and devoted all her spare time to writing a novel. Soon after, she sold her fist book, a Harlequin Historical novel, A Bride for McCain in January 1999, and saw it published the following year in March. Her second book, The Colorado Bride, was a June 2001, Harlequin Historical novel. In 2005, The Unexpected Wife was a finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s RITA contest and Wise Moves was 2006 nominee for Romantic Times’ Critics Choice Award. Mary is based in Richmond, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and two children. She enjoys yoga, cooking, hiking and the occasional triathlon.

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Mary Stolz

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Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He lives with his wife, family, and menagerie of animals.

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Matthew Woodring Stover

Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He may be known best for his four Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. He has written four science-fiction/fantasy hybrid stories featuring a hero named Caine: Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife, with the most recent, Caine's Law, released April 4, 2012.

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Matt Ruff

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May Sarton

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Megumi Biddle

Megumi Biddle is an illustrator and paper artist. She has illustrated and published origami book together his husband Steve Biddle. Megumi is one of the foremost Japanese paper artists working in Washi hand-made Japanese paper, and her work has received many top awards in Japan and abroad. She has designed for some of Japan's top fashion designers, and has worked on many award-winning commercials for Japanese television. Since their return to England, Steve and Megumi have taken their craft all over the country to schools, festivals and arts centres, and have designed for television and feature films. They present origami as entertainment, art and education to young and old alike. Source: The Christmas Book Origami

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Meg Wolitzer

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Melanie Watt

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Melissa Peterson

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Meredith Ann Pierce

Meredith Ann Pierce received both a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Florida and an M.L.S. from Florida State University, and spends her days as a librarian. By night, she writes. Her hobbies include composing music and playing the harp. She lives in the woods south of Micanopy, Florida in a house powered by solar energy.

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Michael Ashley

Mike Ashley is a full-time writer and researcher and a former local government officer and auditor. He has specialised in the history of science fiction, fantasy and other popular fiction for 30 years with over 50 books and 500 articles to his credit. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award in 2002 for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship.

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Michael Dante DiMartino

Michael Dante DiMartino (born July 18, 1974) is an American animation director, author and best known (along with Bryan Konietzko) as the co-creator, executive producer, and story editor of the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, both on Nickelodeon. Source: Michael Dante DiMartino on Wikipedia

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Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel (born 1953) is an American political philosopher. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the "most influential foreign figure of the year" (China Newsweek). He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Source: Michael J. Sandel on Wikipedia.

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Michael Parenti

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Michelle Moran

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Michelle Tea

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Micol Ostow

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Mikel Santiago

Mikel Santiago nació en Portugalete (Vizcaya) en 1975. Consagró su juventud a tocar en bandas de rock y más tarde comenzó publicando relatos y novelas cortas por internet, con las que consiguió llegar a la lista de Best-Sellers en España y Estados Unidos. Su primera novela “La Última Noche En Tremore Beach” fue un éxito rotundo de crítica y publico. Ha vivido en Irlanda y Paises Bajos durante casi una década y ahora combina su actividad como escritor con una banda de rock y el mundo del software. Mikel Santiago is a Basque author known for his thrillers, noir, and fantasy novels. Born in Portugalete in 1975, he began his career by self-publishing e-books online, which became bestsellers on platforms like Amazon and iTunes. He has lived in Ireland and Amsterdam, and currently resides in Bilbao. His works have sold millions worldwide and been translated into many languages, and some are in the process of being adapted for film and television.

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Millicent E. Selsam

Millicent Ellis Selsam was born in New York City on May 30, 1912. She became interested in biology during her high school years, and went on to study biology at Brooklyn College. She was then offered a fellowship teaching at Columbia University while completing an M.A. in botany. After she received her M.A., she taught high school science. In 1946 she left teaching to write science discovery books for children. Her first published book was Egg to Chick (1946), which started a science series of "I Can Read" books for Harper. Over the course of her career she wrote approximately 130 children’s books. Her books received many awards, including the Thomas Alva Edison Award for the best juvenile science book, ''Biography of an Atom'' (1965).

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Miranda Richardson

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Mitsumasa Anno

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Molly O'Keefe

Molly O'Keefe has always known she wanted to be a writer (except when she wanted to be a florist or a chef and the brief period of time when she considered being a cowgirl). And once she got her hands on some romances, she knew exactly what she wanted to write. She published her first Harlequin romance at age 25 and hasn't looked back. She loves exploring every character's road towards happily ever after. Originally from a small town outside of Chicago, she went to university in St. Louis where she met and fell in love with the editor of her school newspaper. They followed each other around the world for several years and finally got married and settled down in Toronto, Ontario. They welcomed their son into their family in 2006. Dishing It Out, her last Harlequin Flipside won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for best Flipside in 2005.

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Monette Cummings

Monette A. Cummings was an American writer of pulp fiction of various genres including regency romance and planetary romance. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work was collected in Exile and Other Tales of Fantasy, published in 1968. Her novel The Beauty’s Daughter was awarded a RITA Award for Best Regency Historical Romance in 1986. Cummings died in Lawrence, Kansas in 1999. -- from Wikipedia

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Morgan Llywelyn

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Nancy Friday

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Nancy K. Robinson

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Natalie Babbitt

American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Nathan D. Wilson

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Nathan Hale

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