Writers of modern Arthurian fiction

The list Writers of modern Arthurian fiction includes Marion Zimmer Bradley, Hal Foster, T A Barron, Bernard Cornwell and T.H. White. The list consists of 66 members.

1.

Mark Twain

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Overview: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1835

Date of death: 21 April 1910

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Christian abolitionists 358T

Anti-vivisectionists 128T

Writers from Elmira, New York 15T
2.

John Steinbeck

American writer (1902–1968)

Overview: John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1902

Date of death: 20 December 1968

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Lost Generation writers 38T

American anti-capitalists 134T

Esquire (magazine) people 59T
3.

J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

Overview: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who authored the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1892

Date of death: 2 September 1973

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Writers from Oxford 10T

British academics of English literature 32T

People from Headington 10T
4.

John Cowper Powys

British writer

Overview: John Cowper Powys (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of St ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1872

Date of death: 17 June 1963

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century British philosophers 250T

Anti-Stalinist left 50T

Male essayists 1,373T
5.

Jack Vance

American mystery and speculative fiction writer

Overview: John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1916

Date of death: 26 May 2013

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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United States Merchant Mariners of World War II 79T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Walter Scott

Novelist

Overview: Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English- ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1771

Date of death: 21 September 1832

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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19th-century Scottish judges 67T

19th-century diarists 166T

18th-century diarists 69T
7.

Thomas Berger

Novelist

Overview: Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and ma ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1924

Date of death: 13 July 2014

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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People from Lockland, Ohio 8T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
8.

Kazuo Ishiguro

British novelist

Overview: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to England in 1960 when he was five.

Date of birth: 8 November 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

21st-century British male writers 720T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T
9.

Susan Cooper

English fantasy writer

Overview: Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1935

Age: 90

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Margaret A. Edwards Award winners 29T

People educated at Upton Court Grammar School 21T

World Fantasy Award winning writers 174T
10.

Anthony Burgess

British writer and composer (1917–1993)

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

Date of birth: 25 February 1917

Date of death: 25 November 1993

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century pseudonymous writers 865T

20th-century British screenwriters 454T

20th-century British composers 720T
11.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

American author (1930–1999)

Overview: Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1930

Date of death: 25 September 1999

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Pseudonymous women writers 644T

Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

Writers from Albany, New York 63T
12.

Hal Foster

Canadian-American illustrator

Overview: Harold Rudolf Foster (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1892

Date of death: 25 July 1982

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

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Prince Valiant 15T

People from Redding, Connecticut 47T

20th-century Canadian artists 226T
13.

T.H. White

Author

Overview: Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his most memorable ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1906

Date of death: 17 January 1964

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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20th-century British short story writers 272T

Burials at the First Cemetery of Athens 75T

English male novelists 1,096T
14.

T A Barron

American writer

Overview: Thomas Archibald Barron (born March 26, 1952) is an American writer of fantasy literature, books for children and young adults, and nature books.

Date of birth: 26 March 1952

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
15.

Roger Zelazny

American speculative fiction writer

Overview: Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award ...

Date of birth: 13 May 1937

Date of death: 14 June 1995

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Novelists from Ohio 259T

20th-century American short story writers 1,412T

Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico 51T
16.

Bernard Cornwell

British writer

Overview: Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is a British author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1944

Age: 81

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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People with acquired American citizenship 943T

21st-century English novelists 580T

20th-century English novelists 1,317T
17.

Peter David

American entertainment writer (born 1956)

Overview: Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Kathleen O'Shea David (Married)

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Marvel Comics writers 65T

American male bloggers 573T

People from Fort Meade, Maryland 12T
18.

Rosalind Miles

English author

Overview: Rosalind Miles (born Rosalind Mary Simpson on January 6, 1943) is an English author, who has written 23 works of fiction and non-fiction. She has two grown children, and is married to the historian Robin ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Women literary critics 456T

21st-century English novelists 614T

20th-century English novelists 1,343T
19.

Sidney Lanier

American musician and poet (1842 – 1881)

Overview: Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which ...

Date of birth: 3 February 1842

Date of death: 7 September 1881

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Tuberculosis deaths in North Carolina 5T

American male organists 374T

Poets of the Confederacy 6T
20.

Jo Walton

Welsh Canadian writer

Overview: Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Canadian women bloggers 39T

British women bloggers 60T

20th-century Welsh women writers 96T