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List of historical novelists

Index List of historical novelists

This list provides a list of novelists who have written historical novels. [1]

322 relations: Alan Furst, Aleksey Chapygin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Duggan, Alfred John Church, Alison Weir, Alois Jirásek, Alys Clare, Amita Kanekar, Amy Ephron, Andrew Crumey, Andrew Vachss, Angus Donald, Anne Perry, Anthony Burgess, Anthony O'Neill, Anthony Trollope, Anya Seton, Arnab Jan Deka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Barbara Hambly, Barbara Mertz, Barbara Wood, Barry Unsworth, Benito Pérez Galdós, Benjamin Disraeli, Bernard Cornwell, Bernard Knight, Bolesław Prus, Borislav Pekić, Brian Cleeve, Bruce Alexander Cook, Bruno Frank, C. S. Forester, Caleb Carr, Candace Robb, Carola Oman, Carole Wilkinson, Catherine Webb, Celeste De Blasis, Cerridwen Fallingstar, Charles Dezobry, Charles Dickens, Charles Finch, Charles Kingsley, Charles Reade, ..., Charles Whistler, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Cheryl Lanham, Christian Jacq, Colleen McCullough, Conn Iggulden, Cormac McCarthy, Cynthia Harnett, D. K. Broster, Dale Furutani, Daniil Mordovtsev, Daphne du Maurier, David Anthony Durham, David Derek Stacton, David Donachie, David Liss, David Wishart, Debra A. Kemp, Dennis Bock, Diana Gabaldon, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Don DeLillo, Dorothy Dunnett, Douglas Reeman, Dudley Pope, E. L. Doctorow, Edith Pargeter, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Rutherfurd, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Eleanor Hibbert, Elena Maria Vidal, Elizabeth Chadwick, Elizabeth Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elliott Roosevelt, Emma Bull, Emma Donoghue, Emma Orczy, Erckmann-Chatrian, Erica Jong, Ernst Eckstein, Evelyn Waugh, F. Van Wyck Mason, Felix Dahn, Frank Yerby, Frans G. Bengtsson, Frederic Farrar, Frederick Busch, Frederick Sadleir Brereton, G. A. Henty, Gary Jennings, Geoffrey Trease, Georg Ebers, George Eliot, George Leonardos, George MacDonald Fraser, George Manville Fenn, George Payne Rainsford James, George Whyte-Melville, Georgette Heyer, Gerald Griffin, Geraldine Brooks (writer), Gil Adamson, Giles Kristian, Gillian Bradshaw, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Gore Vidal, Graham Diamond, Grigory Danilevsky, Gustav Freytag, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Vanderhaeghe, H. F. M. Prescott, H. Rider Haggard, Harry Turtledove, Henry Treece, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Herman Wouk, Hester Burton, Hilary Mantel, Historical fiction, Howard Fast, Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, J. G. Farrell, Jaan Kross, Jaclyn Reding, James A. Michener, James Alexander Thom, James Clavell, James Ellroy, James Grant (author), James Lee Burke, Jan de Hartog, Jane Lane (author), Jane Porter, Janet Laurence (author), Jason Goodwin, Jay Williams (author), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Jeff Shaara, Jill Paton Walsh, Jimmy Carter, Joan Grant, John Banim, John Boyne, John Buchan, John Dickson Carr, John Edward Jennings, John Gibson Lockhart, John Henry Newman, John Jakes, John Katzenbach, John Masters, Jonathan Coe, Joseph Alexander Altsheler, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Judith Cook, Judith Hand, Julia Golding, Julie Klassen, Karen Joy Fowler, Karl Ristikivi, Kate Sedley, Katharine McMahon, Kathleen Baldwin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kel Richards, Ken Follett, Kenneth Roberts (author), L. Sprague de Camp, Laura Joh Rowland, Lawrence Schoonover, Len Deighton, Leo Perutz, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Uris, Leopoldo Alas, Lew Wallace, Lindsey Davis, Lisa See, Lists of writers, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Luis López Nieves, Luo Guanzhong, Lynda Suzanne Robinson, Lynn Austin, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Frazer, Margaret George, Margaret Mitchell, Mariano José de Larra, Marie-Elena John, Mary Balogh, Mary Doria Russell, Mary Novik, Mary Renault, Mary Stewart (novelist), Matilde Asensi, Maurice Druon, Michael Cawood Green, Michael Jecks, Michael Shaara, Michel Faber, Miguel Delibes, Mika Waltari, Mikhail Zagoskin, Naguib Mahfouz, Naseem Hijazi, Neamat Imam, Nerida Newton, Nicholas Nicastro, Nicholas Wiseman, Nigel Tranter, Nikolai Gogol, Norah Lofts, Novelist, Pat Barker, Patrick O'Brian, Paul C. Doherty, Paul L. Maier, Paula Brackston, Perry Lentz, Peter Ackroyd, Peter Berresford Ellis, Peter Carey (novelist), Philippa Gregory, Phyllis Bentley, Posie Graeme-Evans, R. D. Blackmore, R. M. Ballantyne, Rafael Sabatini, Ralph Graves (writer), Ramón J. Sender, Rejecting Jane, Richard Flanagan, Richard S. Wheeler, Richard Woodman, Richard Zimler, Robert Graves, Robert Hugh Benson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Nye, Robert van Gulik, Romain Sardou, Rose Tremain, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Rosemary Sutcliff, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Sabine Baring-Gould, Salvador de Madariaga, Sam Barone, Samuel Shellabarger, Sarah Waters, Scott Oden, Sebastian Faulks, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Sharon Kay Penman, Sheri Holman, Simon Hawke, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Sjón, Stef Penney, Stephen Harrigan, Stephen Lewis, Stephen Marley (writer), Steven Pressfield, Steven Saylor, Susan Higginbotham, Susanna Clarke, Susanna Gregory, Thea Beckman, Thomas B. Costain, Thomas Mallon, Thomas Moore, Thomas Pynchon, Thornton Wilder, Tim Severin, Tom Holland (author), Tom Holt, Umberto Eco, Valerie Anand, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Valery Bryusov, Vasil Barnovi, Victor Hugo, Viktor Rydberg, Vivian Stuart, Vladimír Neff, W. Patrick Lang, Wallace Breem, Walter Besant, Walter Pater, Walter Scott, Wilbur Smith, Wilkie Collins, Willa Cather, William Carleton, William Golding, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Palmer (novelist), William Stearns Davis, William T. Vollmann, Winston Churchill (novelist), Yaa Gyasi, Yasushi Inoue, Zoé Oldenbourg. Expand index (272 more) »

Alan Furst

Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels.

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Aleksey Chapygin

Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin (Алексе́й Па́влович Чапы́гин; - 21 October 1937) was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.

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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy (Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й) (–), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870).

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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Алексе́й Никола́евич Толсто́й; – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic eraBasker, Michael.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père ("father"), was a French writer.

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Alfred Duggan

Alfred Duggan (1903–1964) was a British historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s.

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Alfred John Church

Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar.

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Alison Weir

Alison Weir (born 8 July 1951) is a British writer of history books, and latterly historical novels, mostly in the form of biographies about British royalty.

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Alois Jirásek

Alois Jirásek (August 23, 1851, Hronov, Kingdom of Bohemia – March 12, 1930, Prague) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays.

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Alys Clare

Alys Clare is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Harris (born 1944), author of English historical whodunnit novels primarily set in medieval times, featuring the characters of Abbess Helewise and Josse d'Acquin.

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Amita Kanekar

Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers, India.

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Amy Ephron

Amy Laura Ephron (born October 21, 1952) is an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and film producer.

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Andrew Crumey

Andrew Crumey (born 1961) is a novelist and former literary editor of the Edinburgh newspaper Scotland on Sunday.

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Andrew Vachss

Andrew Henry Vachss (born October 19, 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.

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Angus Donald

Angus Donald (born 1965 in China) is a British writer of historical fiction.

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Anne Perry

Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.

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Anthony O'Neill

Anthony O'Neill (born 1964 in Melbourne) is an Australian fiction writer.

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era.

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Anya Seton

Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990) was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels".

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Arnab Jan Deka

Arnab Jan Deka is a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, documentary film director, columnist, TV actor, jurist, river engineer and eco-technocrat.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist.

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Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction.

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Barbara Mertz

Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago.

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Barbara Wood

Barbara Wood (born January 30, 1947, in Warrington (Lancashire, England) is an American writer of historical romance novels. Her family moved to California, where she grew up.

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Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth FRSL (10 August 19304 June 2012) was an English writer known for his historical fiction.

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Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.

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Bernard Knight

Bernard Henry Knight, CBE (born 3 May 1931) is a British forensic pathologist and writer.

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Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus (pronounced: bɔ'lεswaf 'prus; 20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, is a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy and a distinctive voice in world literature.

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Borislav Pekić

Borislav Pekić (Борислав Пекић,; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian writer and political activist.

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Brian Cleeve

Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 – 11 March 2003) was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories.

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Bruce Alexander Cook

Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective.

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Bruno Frank

Bruno Frank (Stuttgart, June 13, 1887 - Beverly Hills, June 20, 1945) was a German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist.

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C. S. Forester

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars.

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Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955, New York City) is an American military historian and author.

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Candace Robb

Candace Robb (born 1950) is an historical novelist, with works set in medieval England.

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Carola Oman

Carola Oman (1897–1978) was an English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer, best known for her retelling of the Robin Hood legend and a 1946 biography of Admiral Lord Nelson.

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Carole Wilkinson

Carole Wilkinson (born 1950, Derby, England) is an award-winning Australian writer, best known for Dragonkeeper (2003).

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Catherine Webb

Catherine Webb (born 1986) is a British author, educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and the London School of Economics.

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Celeste De Blasis

Celeste De Blasis (1946–2001) was a successful American author of historical romance novels.

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Cerridwen Fallingstar

Cerridwen Fallingstar (born Cheri Lesh, November 15, 1952), is an American Wiccan Priestess, Shamanic Witch, and author.

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Charles Dezobry

Louis Charles Dezobry (4 March 1798 – 16 August 1871) was a 19th-century French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Finch

Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic, notable for his series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England and his prize-winning criticism.

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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist.

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Charles Reade

Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

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Charles Whistler

The Reverend Charles Watts Whistler MRCS, LSA, (November 14, 1856 - June 10, 1913) was a writer of historic fiction that plays between 600 and 1100 AD, usually based on early English/Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish Sagas and archaeological discoveries.

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Charlotte Mary Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901) was an English novelist who wrote to the service of the church.

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer.

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Cheryl Lanham

Cheryl Arguile (b. November 10, 1948, in Richwood, West Virginia) is an American writer who also writes under her maiden name Cheryl Lanham and the pseudonyms Sarah Temple and Emily Brightwell.

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Christian Jacq

Christian Jacq (born April 28, 1947) is a French author and Egyptologist.

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Colleen McCullough

Colleen Margaretta McCullough (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson;. Retrieved 2 February 2015 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi, the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy.

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Conn Iggulden

Conn Iggulden (born) is a British author who writes historical fiction, most notably the ''Emperor'' series and ''Conqueror'' series.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Cynthia Harnett

Cynthia Harnett (22 June 1893 – 25 October 1981) was an English author and illustrator, mainly of children's books.

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D. K. Broster

Dorothy Kathleen Broster (2 September 1877 – 7 February 1950), usually known as D. K. Broster, was a British novelist and short-story writer.

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Dale Furutani

Dale Furutani (born December 1, 1946, in Hilo, Hawaii) is the first Asian American to win major mystery writing awards.

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Daniil Mordovtsev

Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev (December 19, 1830, Danilovka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire — June 23, 1905, Kislovodsk, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer and historian.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham (born March 23, 1969) is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.

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David Derek Stacton

David Derek Stacton (born Arthur Lionel Kingsley Evans, May 27, 1923 – January 19, 1968) was an American novelist, historian and poet.

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David Donachie

David Donachie (born 1944) is a Scottish nautical historical novelist.

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David Liss

David Liss (born March 16, 1966) is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books.

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David Wishart

David Wishart (born 1952) is a Scottish author.

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Debra A. Kemp

Debra A. Kemp (March 7, 1957 – February 8, 2015) was an American author.

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Dennis Bock

Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, lecturer at the University of Toronto, travel writer and book reviewer.

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Diana Gabaldon

Diana J. Gabaldon (born January 11, 1952) is an American author, known for the ''Outlander'' series of novels.

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Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (p; – December 9, 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett (née Halliday, 25 August 1923 – 9 November 2001) was a Scottish historical novelist.

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Douglas Reeman

Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.

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Dudley Pope

Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 – 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels.

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E. L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction.

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Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

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Eduardo Mendoza Garriga

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (born 11 January 1943 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish novelist.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician.

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Edward Rutherfurd

Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born 1948 in Salisbury, England).

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Edwin Abbott Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884).

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Eleanor Hibbert

Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.

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Elena Maria Vidal

Elena Maria Vidal (born 1962) is a historical novelist and noted blogger living in Easton, Maryland.

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Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick is an author of historical fictions.

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Elizabeth Eyre

Elizabeth Eyre is a pen name used by authors Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey for their Sigismondo series of novels.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

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Elliott Roosevelt

Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990) was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces.

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Emma Bull

Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Emma Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

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Erckmann-Chatrian

Erckmann-Chatrian was the name used by French authors Émile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890), nearly all of whose works were jointly written.

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.

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Ernst Eckstein

Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845, Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse –18 November 1900) was a German humorist, novelist and poet.

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Evelyn Waugh

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F. Van Wyck Mason

Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and novelist.

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Felix Dahn

Felix Dahn (9 February 1834 – 3 January 1912) was a German law professor, German nationalist author, poet and historian.

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Frank Yerby

Frank Yerby (–) was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.

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Frans G. Bengtsson

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (4 October 1894 – 19 December 1954) was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer.

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Frederic Farrar

Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author.

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Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch (August 1, 1941 – February 23, 2006) was an American writer.

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Frederick Sadleir Brereton

Frederick Sadleir Brereton CBE (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) was a decorated soldier and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.

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G. A. Henty

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent.

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Gary Jennings

Gary Jennings (September 20, 1928 – February 13, 1999) was an American author who wrote children's and adult novels.

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Geoffrey Trease

(Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 in Nottingham – 27 January 1998 in Bath) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 (Bows Against the Barons) and 1997 (Cloak for a Spy).

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Georg Ebers

Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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George Leonardos

George Leonardos (Γιώργος Λεονάρδος; born 1937) is a Greek author of historical novels.

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George MacDonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays.

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George Manville Fenn

George Manville Fenn (3 January 1831 in Pimlico – 26 August 1909 in Isleworth) was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.

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George Payne Rainsford James

George Payne Rainsford James (9 August 1799 – 9 June 1860), was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London.

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George Whyte-Melville

George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports, and also a poet.

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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist.

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Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin (12 December 1803 – 12 June 1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.

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Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Gil Adamson

Gillian "Gil" Adamson (born 1 January 1961) is a Canadian writer.

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Giles Kristian

Giles Kristian (born 1975) is a bestselling novelist, known for his action adventure novels in the historical fiction genre.

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Gillian Bradshaw

Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain.

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 – July 26, 1957) was an Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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Graham Diamond

Graham Diamond (born 18 August 1949, Manchester, England) is a speculative fiction, fantasy and science fiction author.

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Grigory Danilevsky

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (Григо́рий Петро́вич Даниле́вский; &ndash) was a Russian historical novelist.

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Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag (13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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Guy Vanderhaeghe

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West.

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H. F. M. Prescott

Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott, more usually known as H. F. M. Prescott (22 February 1896 – 1972), was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author, academic, and historian.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Henry Treece

Henry Treece (22 December 1911 – 10 June 1966) was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor.

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known by the pseudonym "Litwos"; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate.

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Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is an American author.

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Hester Burton

Hester Burton (6 December 1913 – 17 September 2000) was an English writer, mainly of historical fiction for children and young adults.

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Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, (née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Ioan Mihai Cochinescu

Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (born April 16, 1951) is a Romanian novelist and essayist.

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J. G. Farrell

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent who spent much of his adult life in Ireland.

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Jaan Kross

Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer.

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Jaclyn Reding

Jaclyn Reding (born March 23 in Ohio, United States) is an American writer of historical romance novels.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history.

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James Alexander Thom

James Alexander Craig Thom (born May 26, 1933 in Gosport, Indiana) is an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research.

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James Clavell

James Clavell (10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was a British (and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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James Grant (author)

James Grant (1822–1887) was a Scottish novelist and miscellaneous writer.

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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.

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Jan de Hartog

Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.

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Jane Lane (author)

Jane Lane (1905–1978) was the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers, a British historical novelist and biographer distantly related to the Jane Lane who aided Charles II after his defeat at Worcester.

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Jane Porter

Jane Porter (17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850) was a historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure.

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Janet Laurence (author)

Janet Laurence, (born 1937 as Janet Duffell Retrieved on 5 February 2014.), also known by her pen name Julia Lisle, is a British author and cookery writer.

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Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin (born 1964) is an English writer and historian.

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Jay Williams (author)

Jay Williams (May 31, 1914 – July 12, 1978) was an American author of science fiction (often for children), fantasy, historical fiction, non-fiction, and radical theatre.

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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews.

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Jeff Shaara

Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara.

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Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Joan Grant

Joan Marshall Grant Kelsey (London, 12 April 1907 – 3 February 1989) was an English author of historical novels and a reincarnationist.

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John Banim

John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature.

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John Boyne

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist.

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.

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John Edward Jennings

John Edward Jennings (1906–1973) was an American historical novelist, author of many best-selling novels of American history and seagoing adventure.

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John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart (14 July 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor.

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John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was a poet and theologian, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

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John Jakes

John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction.

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John Katzenbach

John Katzenbach (born June 23, 1950) is a United States author of popular fiction.

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John Masters

Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO, OBE (26 October 1914 – 7 May 1983) was a British officer of the Indian Army and later a novelist.

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.

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Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Joseph Victor von Scheffel (16 February 1826 – 9 April 1886) was a German poet and novelist.

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Judith Cook

Judith Cook (9 July 1933 – 12 May 2004) was an anti-nuclear campaigner, historical novelist, journalist and lecturer in theatre at the University of Exeter.

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Judith Hand

Judith L. Hand is an evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist (ethologist), novelist, and pioneer in the emerging field of peace ethology.

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Julia Golding

Julia Golding (born March 1969), pen names Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards, is a British novelist best known for her Cat Royal series and The Companions Quartet.

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Julie Klassen

Julie Klassen is an American author of Regency romance novels.

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Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction.

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Karl Ristikivi

Karl Ristikivi (in Pärnumaa, Saulepi Parish, Lääne County (now Kilgi, Varbla Parish, Pärnu County) – 19 July 1977 in Solna, Stockholm) was an Estonian writer.

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Kate Sedley

Kate Sedley is the pen-name of Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman Clarke, an English historical novelist.

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Katharine McMahon

Katharine McMahon is a British writer born in north-west London.

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Kathleen Baldwin

Kathleen Baldwin (born Arizona, USA) is an American writer of comic romance novels set in the Regency period.

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.

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Kel Richards

Kelvin Barry "Kel" Richards (born 8 February 1946) is an Australian author, journalist, radio personality and lay Christian.

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Ken Follett

Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett, (born 5 June 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.

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Kenneth Roberts (author)

Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957) was an American writer of historical novels.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

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Laura Joh Rowland

Laura Joh Rowland is a detective/mystery author best known for her series of historical mystery novels set in the late days of feudal Japan, mostly in Edo during the late 17th century.

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Lawrence Schoonover

Lawrence Schoonover (1906–1980) was an American novelist.

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Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author.

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Leo Perutz

Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote two bestselling books, Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).

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Leopoldo Alas

Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora.

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Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.

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Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.

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Lisa See

Lisa See is an American writer and novelist.

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Lists of writers

The following are lists of writers.

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Lucia St. Clair Robson

Lucia St.

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Luis López Nieves

Luis López Nieves (born January 17, 1950) is one of the most influential and best-selling Puerto Rican authors in history.

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Luo Guanzhong

Luo Ben (c. 1330–1400, or c.1280–1360), better known by his courtesy name Guanzhong (Mandarin pronunciation), was a Chinese writer who lived during the Yuan and Ming periods.

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Lynda Suzanne Robinson

Lynda Suzanne Robinson (born July 6, 1951 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American writer, author of romance (under the name Suzanne Robinson) and mystery novels (under the name Lynda S. Robinson).

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Lynn Austin

Lynn Austin is the author of many Christian fiction novels and holds the record for most Christy Awards won: eight.

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Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller is an American novelist, whose debut novel was The Song of Achilles.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Margaret Frazer

Margaret Frazer, born Gail Lynn Brown (November 26, 1946 – February 4, 2013), was an American historical novelist, best known for more than twenty historical mystery novels and a variety of short stories.

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Margaret George

Margaret George is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies.

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Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist under the pseudonym Peggy Mitchell.

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Mariano José de Larra

Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 – 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romantic writer best known for his numerous essays and his infamous suicide.

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Marie-Elena John

Marie-Elena John (born 1963) is a Caribbean writer whose first novel, Unburnable, was published in 2006.

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Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh (rhymes with Kellogg, born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944 in Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance.

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Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Mary Novik

Mary Novik is a Canadian novelist.

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Mary Renault

Mary Renault (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), born Eileen Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

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Mary Stewart (novelist)

Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow; 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014), was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations.

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Matilde Asensi

Matilde Asensi Carratalá (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer, specialised mainly in historical novels.

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Maurice Druon

Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.

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Michael Cawood Green

Michael Cawood Green (born 10 April 1954) is a South African born academic and writer.

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Michael Jecks

Michael Jecks (born 1960, Surrey) is a writer of historical mystery novels.

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Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction.

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Michel Faber

Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction, including his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White.

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Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes Setién MML (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen).

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Mikhail Zagoskin

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin (Михаил Николаевич Загоскин), (July 25, 1789 – July 5, 1852), was a Russian writer of social comedies and historical novels.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ,; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Naseem Hijazi

Sharif Hussain (Urdu), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu:, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (c. 1914–2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist.

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Neamat Imam

Neamat Imam (নেয়ামত ইমাম; born 5 January 1971) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian author of literary fiction.

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Nerida Newton

Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel, The Lambing Flat won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

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Nicholas Nicastro

Nicholas Nicastro is an author and film critic.

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Nicholas Wiseman

Nicholas Wiseman (2 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.

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Nigel Tranter

Nigel Tranter OBE (23 November 1909 – 9 January 2000) was a Scottish author.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian speaking dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

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Norah Lofts

Norah Lofts, née Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th-century best-selling British author.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

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Paul C. Doherty

Paul Charles Dominic Doherty (born 21 September 1946) is an award-winning English author, educator, lecturer and historian.

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Paul L. Maier

Paul L. Maier (born May 31, 1930) is a historian and novelist.

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Paula Brackston

Paula Brackston (aka P. J. Brackston and P. J. Davy) is the ''New York Times'' bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter and other historical fantasy novels.

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Perry Lentz

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Peter Ackroyd

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Peter Berresford Ellis

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Peter Carey (novelist)

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Philippa Gregory

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Phyllis Bentley

Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, OBE (19 November 1894 – 27 June 1977), was an English novelist.

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Posie Graeme-Evans

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R. D. Blackmore

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R. M. Ballantyne

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Rafael Sabatini

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Ralph Graves (writer)

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Ramón J. Sender

Ramón José Sender Garcés (February 3, 1901 – January 16, 1982) was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist.

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Richard Flanagan

Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist from Tasmania.

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Richard S. Wheeler

Richard Shaw Wheeler is an American author and former newspaper editor.

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Richard Woodman

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Richard Zimler

Richard Zimler (born 1 January 1956 in Roslyn Heights, New York) is a best-selling author of fiction.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Robert Hugh Benson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.

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Robert Nye

Robert Nye FRSL (15 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an English poet and author.

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Robert van Gulik

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Romain Sardou

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Rose Tremain

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Rosemary Hawley Jarman

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Rosemary Sutcliff

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Rosie Malek-Yonan

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Sabine Baring-Gould

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Salvador de Madariaga

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978) was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist.

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Sam Barone

Sam Barone is an American historical novelist with novels centered on early Antiquity.

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Samuel Shellabarger

Samuel Shellabarger (1888–1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels.

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Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.

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Scott Oden

Scott Oden (born June 24, 1967) is an American writer best known for his historical novels set in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece.

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Sebastian Faulks

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

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Sharon Kay Penman

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Sheri Holman

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Simon Hawke

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Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet

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Sjón

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Stef Penney

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Stephen Harrigan

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Stephen Lewis

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Stephen Marley (writer)

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Steven Pressfield

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Steven Saylor

Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels.

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Susan Higginbotham

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Susanna Clarke

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Susanna Gregory

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Thea Beckman

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Thomas B. Costain

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Thomas Mallon

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Thomas Moore

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Thomas Pynchon

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Thornton Wilder

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Tim Severin

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Tom Holland (author)

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Tom Holt

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Umberto Eco

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Valerie Anand

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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Valery Bryusov

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Vasil Barnovi

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Victor Hugo

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Viktor Rydberg

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Vivian Stuart

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Vladimír Neff

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W. Patrick Lang

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Wallace Breem

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Walter Besant

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Walter Pater

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Walter Scott

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Wilbur Smith

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Wilkie Collins

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Willa Cather

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William Carleton

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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

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William Harrison Ainsworth

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.

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William Palmer (novelist)

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William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis (April 30, 1877 – February 15, 1930) was an American educator, historian, and author.

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William T. Vollmann

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Winston Churchill (novelist)

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Yaa Gyasi

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Yasushi Inoue

was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.

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Zoé Oldenbourg

Zoé Oldenbourg (Зоя Серге́евна Ольденбург) (31 March 1916 – 8 November 2002) was a Russian-born French historian and novelist who specialized in medieval French history, in particular the Crusades and Cathars.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_novelists

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