Famous Novelists

The list Famous Novelists includes Saleem Dabbour, Gardner McKay, Polly Samson, Alice Walker and Danielle Steel. The list consists of 12,859 members.

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Saleem Dabbour

A palestinian writer and scenarist.

Overview: Saleem Dabbour (Arabic: سليم دبور‎) (born 18 September 1970), is a Palestinian novelist, scenarist, director, producer, and film critic. Dabbour became popular for his "straight-forward and daring work" ...

Date of birth: 18 September 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: Palestinian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Palestinian dramatists and playwrights 9T

Birzeit University 6T

Birzeit University alumni 30T
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Gardner McKay

American actor and artist

Overview: George Cadogan Gardner McKay (June 10, 1932 – November 21, 2001) was an American actor, artist, and author. He is best known for the lead role in the TV series Adventures in Paradise, based loosely on ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1932

Date of death: 21 November 2001

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male short story writers 1,326T
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Polly Samson

English writer

Overview: Polly Samson (born 29 April 1962) is an English novelist, lyricist and journalist. She is married to musician David Gilmour, and has written the lyrics to many of Gilmour's works, both as a solo artist ...

Date of birth: 29 April 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: David Gilmour (Married)

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English women novelists 908T

David Gilmour 10T

English women journalists 199T
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Emma Forrest

British-American film director, screenwriter and novelist

Overview: Emma Forrest (born 26 December 1976) is an English film director, screenwriter and novelist.

Date of birth: 26 December 1977

Age: 46

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 7,939T

English women non-fiction writers 457T

21st-century English women 965T
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Patrick O'Brian

British writer

Overview: 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 ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1914

Date of death: 2 January 2000

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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20th-century British translators 188T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T
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Alice Walker

Writer

Overview: Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Novelists from Mississippi 69T

Novelists from Massachusetts 401T

20th-century African-American people 185T
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Danielle Steel

American, Novelist

Overview: Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Novelists from San Francisco 42T

Novelists from New York City 357T

Writers from Manhattan 616T
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Clémentine Igou

French, Novelist

Nationality: French

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Laura Esquivel

Mexican writer

Overview: Laura Esquivel (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies (2012-2018) for the Morena Party. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1950

Age: 73

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Mexican women writers 33T

Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) 695T

20th-century Mexican women writers 84T
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Jenna Black

American writer

Overview: Jennifer Black is an American author of paranormal romance novels, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy novels. She began writing under the pen name Jenna Black in 2006. She published one novel earlier ...

Date of birth: 12 June 1993

Age: 31

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Tyler Joseph (Married)

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21st-century pseudonymous writers 522T

Pseudonymous women writers 1,143T

Novelists from North Carolina 124T
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Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817)

Overview: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1775

Date of death: 18 July 1817

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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People from Chawton 11T

People from Deane, Hampshire 5T

People from Steventon, Hampshire 9T
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Jackie Collins

English novelist (1937–2015)

Overview: Jacqueline Jill Collins OBE (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which ...

Date of birth: 4 October 1937

Date of death: 19 September 2015

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

20th-century English women writers 690T

21st-century English women writers 392T
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Vanna Bonta

American, Novelist

Overview: Vanna Bonta (April 3, 1953 – July 8, 2014) was an Italian-American writer, actress, and inventor. She wrote Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel. As an actress, Bonta played "Zed's Queen" in The Beastmaster ...

Date of birth: 3 April 1953

Date of death: 8 July 2014

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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American poets of Italian descent 24T

21st-century American women writers 7,289T

20th-century American women writers 6,967T
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Tom Clancy

American novelist

Overview: Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an insurance agent turned American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1947

Date of death: 1 October 2013

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Reagan Era 19T

Loyola Blakefield alumni 11T

Catholics from Maryland 113T
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Tara Moss

Australian writer

Overview: Tara Moss (born 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival.

Date of birth: 2 October 1973

Age: 50

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Dr. Berndt Sellheim (Married)

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Models from Sydney 55T

Scarlet Stiletto award winners 4T

Writers from Victoria, British Columbia 66T
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Karin Slaughter

American writer

Overview: Karin Slaughter (born January 6, 1971) is an American crime writer. The author of eighteen novels, Slaughter has sold more than 35 million copies of her books, which have been published in 37 languages ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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American LGBT novelists 448T

Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) 147T

21st-century American women writers 7,170T
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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet (1816–1855)

Overview: Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature ...

Date of birth: 21 April 1816

Date of death: 31 March 1855

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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19th-century pseudonymous writers 511T

19th-century English women writers 426T

Pseudonymous women writers 1,102T
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Alice B. Toklas

American writer

Overview: Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein.

Date of birth: 30 April 1877

Date of death: 7 March 1967

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 4' 11" (150 cm)

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American women memoirists 620T

Gertrude Stein 3T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
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Zelda Fitzgerald

American writer (1900–1948)

Overview: Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, socialite, and painter.

Date of birth: 24 July 1900

Date of death: 10 March 1948

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Writers with disabilities 57T

Novelists from Alabama 93T

Writers from Asheville, North Carolina 32T
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Patricia Cornwell

American crime writer (born 1956)

Overview: Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was i ...

Date of birth: 9 June 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Staci Ann Gruber (Married)

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McLean Hospital people 27T

Conspiracy theories in Europe 35T

Novelists from Florida 170T