List of authors by name: M

List of authors by name:

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z

Ma

• Martina Cole (born 1959), fictional British crime writer
• Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016)
• Amin Maalouf (born 1949)
• Darko Macan (born 1966)
• Ann-Marie MacDonald (born 1958)
• Betty MacDonald (1908–1958)
• John D. MacDonald (1916–1986)
• Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1899–1970)
• Patricia MacLachlan (born 1938)
• Katherine Maclean (born 1925)
• Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005)
• Ken MacLeod (born 1954)
• Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956)
• Debbie Macomber (born 1948)
• Maddox (born 1978)
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
• Gregory Maguire (born 1954)
• Naguib Mahfouz (born 1911)
• Norman Mailer (1923–2007)
• Arthur Maimane (1932–2005)
• William Makepeace (1811–1863)
• Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957)
• Rosie Malek-Yonan (born 1965)
• Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
• Susan Mallery
• Hector Malot (1830–1907)
• Barry Malzberg (born 1939)
• Andrew Mango (born 1926)
• Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
• Anne Manning (novelist) (1807–1879)
• Laurence Manning (1899–1972)
• Lauren Manning (born 1961)
• Richard Manning
• Jill Mansell
• Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
• Cristina Marcano
• Marcel Marceau (1923–2007)
• Jill March (born 1950) (pseudonym of Nora Roberts)
• Stella March
• Ben Marcus (born 1967)
• Jan Marcussen
• Leo Margulies (1900–1975)
• Javier Marías (born 1951)
• David Markson (1927–2010)
• Deb Marlowe
• Paul Marlowe
• Damian Marrett
• John Marsden (born 1950)
• Geoffrey Marsh (1942–2006)
• Ronald James Marsh (1914–1987)
• Yann Martel
• Ann M. Martin (born 1955)
• George R. R. Martin (born 1948)
• J. P. Martin (1880–1966)
• Kat Martin (born 1947)
• Sandra Marton
• Karl Marx (1818–1883)
• Connie Mason (born 1937)
• Alexander Masters
• Dary Matera (born 1955)
• Carol Matas (born 1949)
• Anne Mather (born 1946)
• Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
• Deborah Mathis
• Laura Matthews
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
• Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
• Armistead Maupin (born 1944)
• André Maurois (1885–1967)
• Tucker Max (born 1975)
• Kathleen Maxwell (born 1952) (pseudonym of Kathryn Ptacek)
• Patricia Maxwell (born 1942)
• Julian May (born 1931)
• Peter May (born 1951)
• Richard Maybury (born 1946)
• Anne Mayfield (pseudonym of Kathryn Ptacek)
• D. J. MacHale (born 1955)

Mc

• Anne McAllister
• Robert McAlmon (1896–1956)
• Paul J. McAuley (born 1955)
• Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011)
• Cormac McCarthy (born 1933)
• Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005)
• Helen McCarthy (born 1951)
• Sharron McClellan (born 1963)
• Frank McCourt (born 1930)
• Robert McCloskey (1915–2003)
• Josephine Clifford McCracken (1839–1921)
• Johnston McCulley (1883–1958)
• Colleen McCullough (1937-2015)
• David McCullough (born 1933)
• Jack McDevitt (born 1935)
• Ian McEwan (born 1948)
• Leslie McFarlane (1902–1977)
• May McGoldrick
• Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1915–2000)
• Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959)
• Terence McKenna (1946–2000)
• Dennis L. McKiernan (born 1932)
• Robin McKinley (born 1952)
• Meagan McKinney (born 1961)
• Barbara McMahon
• Larry McMurtry (born 1936)
• Judith McNaught (born 1944)

Me

• Richelle Mead
• Teresa Medeiros
• Thomas Meehan
• Capt. S.P. Meek
• Jhaverchand Meghani (1896–1947)
• Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891)
• Pauline Melville (born 1948)
• Robert Menasse (born 1954)
• Brandon Mendelson (born 1983)
• Eduardo Mendoza
• Holdemar Menezes (1921–1996)
• Christina Merlin (1911–1995) (pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
• Judith Merril (1923–1997)
• A. Merritt (1884–1943)
• Marissa Meyer (born 1984)
• Nicholas Meyer (born 1945)
• Stephenie Meyer (born 1973)
• Walter Dean Meyers (born 1937)
• Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932)

Mi

• Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (1911–1938)
• Judith Michael
• Barbara Michaels (born 1927)
• Fern Michaels
• Leigh Michaels (born 1954)
• Richard Michelson (born 1953)
• China Miéville (born 1972)
• Jack Miles (born 1942)
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
• Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
• Frank Miller (born 1957)
• Grazyna Miller (1957–2009)
• Henry Miller (1891–1980)
• James Russell Miller (1840–1912)
• Linda Lael Miller (born 1949)
• P. Schuyler Miller (1912–1974)
• Serena B. Miller
• Steve Miller (born 1957)
• Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923–1996)
• Steven Millhauser (born 1943)
• Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)
• A.A. Milne (1882–1956)
• Donna Milner
• Franco Mimmi (born 1942)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda (born 1980)
• Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973)
• David Mitchell
• Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908)
• Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996)
• Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind
• Minae Mizumura

Mo

• L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (born 1948)
• Donald Moffitt (born 1936)
• Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981)
• Molière Jean Baptiste Poquelin
• Karyn Monk
• Richard Montanari
• Montesquieu (1689–1755)
• E.J. Montini (born 1955)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1936–2014)
• Raymond Almiran Montgomery (1874–1942)
• Elizabeth Moon (born 1945)
• Michael Moorcock (born 1939)
• Alan Moore (born 1953)
• C. L. Moore (1911–1987)
• Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)
• Patrick Moore (born 1923)
• Ward Moore (1903–1978)
• Wes Moore (born 1978)
• Daniel Keys Moran (born 1962)
• Alberto Moravia (1907–1990)
• Diana Morgan (1908–1996), screenwriter
• Diana Morgan, novelist
• Liane Moriarty (born 1966)
• Dick Morris (born 1946)
• Gerald Morris (born 1963)
• Toni Morrison (born 1931)
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001)
• Carole Mortimer (born 1960)
• Andrew Morton (born 1953)
• Sam Moskowitz, (1920–1997)
• Kate Mosse (born 1961)
• Andrew Motion (born 1952)
• Jojo Moyes (born 1969)

Mp–Mu

• Phaswane Mpe (1970–2004)
• Robert Muchamore(born 1972)
• Paul Muldoon (born 1951)
• John Mulholland (born 1940)
• Alice Munro (born 1931)
• Robert Munsch (born 1945)
• K. M. Munshi (1887–1971)
• Haruki Murakami (born 1949)
• Iris Murdoch
• C. E. Murphy (born 1973)
• Jim Murphy
• Pat Murphy
• Margaret Murphy (born 1959)
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
• Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975)
• Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
• Lauren Myracle (born 1969)

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