Tag: American author

Born: 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died: 27 April 1882 (age 78 years), Concord, Massachusetts, United States Influenced by: Henry David Thoreau, Plato, Immanuel Kant · See more Education: Harvard Divinity School, Boston Latin School (BLS), Harvard College Children: Edward...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden. Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England.

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction.

Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation.

James Brendan Patterson is an American author. He is largely known for his novels about fictional psychologist Alex Cross, the protagonist of the Alex Cross series.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska,[2] and his sixth novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.

Judith Rumelt, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.

Khaled Hosseini is the bestselling Afghan born American author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4, 1965.