Writers

Mario Desiati

10 photographers

Winner of the 2022 Strega prize, Italy's highest literary award, Mario Desiati started out as a political and sports journalist for Il Corriere della Valle d'Itria, the local newspaper in his... ›

Andrew O'Hagan

16 photographers

Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish writer of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Glasgow in 1968 he has been nominated three times for the Booker Prize, including his debut novel "Our Fathers" (1999) and... ›

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

8 photographers

Jonas Hassan Khemiri is a Swedish author, writer of five novels, six plays, and numerous plays, short stories and essays. His novels have been translated into over thirty other languages. His first... ›

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout

4 photographers

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

13 photographers

Marisa Silver

12 photographers

Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer

12 photographers

Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg

6 photographers

David Mamet

11 photographers

Ali Smith

16 photographers

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

14 photographers

Erica Jong

7 photographers

Edna O'Brien

12 photographers

Born in a small village in the West of Ireland, Edna O'Brien is nowadays the doyenne of Irish literature. Her first book, semi-autobiographical and written in 1960 after she moved to London, ... ›

Matthew Thomas

6 photographers

Teju Cole

12 photographers

Louise Erdrich

5 photographers

Jonathan Galassi

Jonathan Galassi

14 photographers

E. L. Doctorow

8 photographers

EL (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931 - 2015) was born in the Bronx to second generation Russian Jewish parents. He was even named after Edgar Allen Poe and started writing as a child for his school... ›

Anna Funder

1 photographer

Phillip Lopate

8 photographers

Siri Hustvedt

4 photographers

Siri Hustvedt is an American writer of Norwegian descent. At university she graduated in history before moving to New York and studying English at the Columbia University. While studying she wrote... ›

Jhumpa Lahiri

11 photographers

Writer Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London to Bengali parents. When she was two years old the family moved to Rhode Island, where she was brought up. She feels herself to be an American. After facing... ›

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

2 photographers

Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943 and moved to England in 1954. In 1962 he moved again, this time to Canada where he took Candadian citizenship. His work blends reality with fantasy in... ›

Adam Johnson

3 photographers

Adam Johnson graduated in journalism from the Arizona State University but his real passion lay in writing fiction, often inventing fantastical stories. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for his... ›

Paul Auster

2 photographers

Paul Auster, American writer and director born to Jewish parents of Polish descent has enjoyed the status of cult writer since the 1980s, when, early in his creative years he was acclaimed as the ... ›

Zadie Smith

3 photographers

Zadie Smith (born Sadie) was born in North London to an English father and Jamaican mother. Her first novel, "White Teeth" brought Smith into the public eye even before it was published, when, in... ›

George Saunders

George Saunders

9 photographers

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

21 photographers

New York born and bred novelist Colson Whitehead has written five novels and one non-fiction book. After graduating from Harvard in 1991 he started writing for the "Village Voice" where he started... ›

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8 photographers

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie studied Medicine and Pharmacology at University, until she emigrated to the United States where she obtained a Bachelors in Communication and Political... ›

Jeremy Rifkin

12 photographers

American environmental activist, political advisor, writer, public speaker and economist Jeremy Rifkin has to date written over twenty books on environmental issues and against the present world... ›

Wole Soyinka

14 photographers

Nigerian writer, poet and playwright Wole Soyinka, (full name Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka,) became the first African to win a Nobel Prize in 1986. He studied in Nigeria and the UK, but back in... ›

Stefan Merrill Block

Stefan Merrill Block

6 photographers

Joshua Ferris

17 photographers

Joshua Ferris is an American writer whose first book, "When We Come to the End," published in 2007, won the PEN/Hemingway Award of the same year. His second full length book, The "The Unamed," came... ›

Peter Cameron

4 photographers

Salman Rushdie

6 photographers

Sir Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay in 1947, is a British-Indian writer of fiction, short stories, non-fiction and drama. Famous for having a fatwa pronounced against him by Ayatollah Khomeini of... ›

David Nicholls

9 photographers

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

7 photographers

Writer Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinatti and grew up in Pasadena, California. He currently lives in New York and is professor of creative writing at Yale University. In 1999 his book "The... ›

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

5 photographers

Jonathan Lethem is a Brooklyn born short storyist, novelist and essayist. He published his first book, "Gun, with Occasional Music," in 1994 and has since written numerous novels, including ... ›

Lila Azam Zanganeh

Lila Azam Zanganeh

13 photographers

Born in Paris to Iranian parents, Lila Azam Zangeneh lives and works in New York. She serves on the board of the International Rescue Committee and the advisory board of Words Without Frontiers.... ›

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

12 photographers

American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. Author of "Everthing is Illuminated," "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and "Tree of Codes." ›

Nicole Krauss

10 photographers

American writer Nicole Krauss. Author of "Man Walks Into A Room," "The History of Love," and "Great House." ›

Priya Basil

5 photographers

Author Priya Basil was born in London in 1977 but grew up in Kenya before returning to the UK to study English literature at Bristol University. She then embarked on a career in advertising before... ›

Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

3 photographers

Ian McEwan

3 photographers

Ian McEwan is an English novelist and screenwriter. He writes Gothic novels that are often about disfunctional relationships and friendships. He was awarded a CBE in 2000, and is a fellow of the... ›

Martin Amis

9 photographers

Martin Amis; influential and sometimes controversial British author and son of writer Kingsley Amis. He first started his writing career alongside Christopher Hitchens for the "New Statesman. His... ›

David Sedaris

3 photographers

David Sedaris is an American writer, comedian, humourist and radio contributor of Greek descent on his father's side. He was born in 1956 in New York state but grew up in North Carolina. His first... ›

Tom Stoppard

15 photographers

Sir Tom Stoppard is a highly acclaimed and multi award winning British playwright who has written extensively for television, film, radio and the theatre. Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in... ›

Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano

12 photographers

Italian writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, author of the book "Gomorrah" about the Neopolitan mafia La Camorra, (2006) since made into a film. In 2011 awarded the Olaf Palme prize. Scrittore e... ›

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

3 photographers

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's in Antigua. She has written a number of short stories and essays (some of which about gardening) including "Girl," "At the Bottom of the River," "A Small... ›

Jo Nesbo

7 photographers

Norwegian author, musician and songwriter Jo Nesbø, Writer of the Harry Hole crime novels. Titles include "The Bat," "Phantom," "The Snowman," "The Redbreast" and "The Leopard." Musicista e... ›