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Natalie Babbitt
Babbitt, Natalie

Natalie Babbitt (born 1932) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Her novels Tuck Everlasting and The Eyes of the Amaryllis have been made into films (the former twice). Her novel Knee-Knock Rise is a Newbery Honor book.

Chris Babu
Babu, Chris

Chris Babu is a lifelong math and science geek, with a math degree from MIT. For nineteen years, he worked as a bond trader on Wall Street. Now he writes full-time, indulging his love of young adult books. He splits his time between New York City and the east end of Long Island, where he lives with his wife Michelle, daughter Lily, and Great Dane Buddy. He's the author of The Initiation and The Expedition.

Rachel Bach
Bach, Rachel

A pseudonym of Rachel Aaron.

Richard Bach
Bach, Richard

Richard David Bach (born 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, and others. His books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance.

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Shelby Bach
Bach, Shelby

Shelby Bach grew up reading every book she could find and writing stories in battered notebooks. She also rarely came home with a clean shirt and had a lot of accidents that ended with a hunt for Band-Aids. Nowadays, she writes on her laptop rather than in a notebook, but not much else has changed. She is the author of the Ever After series, which includes Of Giants and Ice, Of Witches and Wind, Of Sorcery and Snow, and Of Enemies and Endings. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Tianxia Bachang
Bachang, Tianxia

Born in Tianjin in 1978, the year China’s reforms began, TIANXIA BACHANG (the pen name of Zhang Muye) is a child of the new China. His careers have been many and varied, a winding path of self-discovery that would never have been open to his parents’ generation. An avid gamer, his pen name comes from his online avatar, and his stories have been bestsellers within the gaming community. The City of Sand is his first book to be translated into English. He continues to write and maintain an active connection to his fans online.

Richard Bachman
Bachman, Richard

Richard Bachman is a pseudonym of Stephen King.

Stefan Bachmann
Bachmann, Stefan

Stefan Bachmann is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Peculiar and its acclaimed sequel, The Whatnot. He was born in Colorado, spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, and is now studying modern music at the Zürich University of the Arts. When he’s not writing, he can be found traveling to someplace chilly, or holed up beneath his college in the dimly lit labyrinth of practice rooms, which may have inspired the subterranean scenes in A Drop of Night. That... and the Paris catacombs, a weird dream about a golden corridor, and a general interest in history.

Paolo Bacigalupi
Bacigalupi, Paolo

Paolo Bacigalupi's writing has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the environmental journal High Country News. His non-fiction essays have appeared in Salon.com and High Country News, and have been syndicated into numerous western newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Salt Lake Tribune. He lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son.

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Lee Bacon
Bacon, Lee

Lee Bacon grew up in Texas with parents who never once tried to destroy the world (at least, not that he knew of). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Gavin Baddeley
Baddeley, Gavin

Gavin Baddeley is an ordained Reverend in the Church of Satan, and an experienced journalist who has worked for The Observer and Metal Hammer. He is the occult authority for the BBC and Channel 4, has addressed Cambridge University, and has been profiled in The Independent and The London Evening Standard.

Darcie Little Badger
Badger, Darcie Little

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache scientist and writer. After studying gene expression in toxin-producing phytoplankton, she has received a PhD from Texas A&M University. Her short fiction has appeared in several publications, including Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time, an anthology of speculative fiction by indigenous writers.

Hilary Badger
Badger, Hilary

Hilary Badger is the author of many books for children and teenagers. As a copywriter at an advertising agency, she has created campaigns from all kinds of products from underwear to cat food, chocolate bars and ice cream.

Julianna Baggott
Baggott, Julianna

Julianna Baggott (born 1969) is a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N. E. Bode and J. Q. Coyle (with Quinn Dalton). She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.

Travis Bagwell
Bagwell, Travis

I live in Austin, Texas with my wife and our three dogs. I'm an attorney by day and an avid video game enthusiast by night. Writing fiction had been a secret dream of mine for a while. However, between school and work, that dream seemed impossible to squeeze in. A couple of years ago, I had a bit more time on my hands and I finally decided to put my nerdy interests to work by trying my hand at writing science fiction and fantasy.

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Laura Lee Bahr
Bahr, Laura Lee

Laura Lee Bahr is an award-winning indie actor/playwrite/screenwriter with a gift for the hilariously, tragically absurd. Haunt is her first novel.

Dale Bailey
Bailey, Dale

Dale Bailey lives in North Carolina with his family, and has published three novels, "The Fallen", "House of Bones", and "Sleeping Policemen" (with Jack Slay, Jr.). His short fiction, collected in "The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories", has won the International Horror Guild Award and has been twice nominated for the Nebula Award.

Kristin Bailey
Bailey, Kristin

Kristin Bailey grew up in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley in California. In the course of her adventures, she has worked as a zookeeper, a balloon artist, and a substitute teacher. Now, in addition to an author, she is a military wife and the mother of two children and several very spoiled pets.

Len Bailey
Bailey, Len

Len Bailey is a professional radio-commercial and voice-over actor and sometime bagpipe player. He lives quietly with his wife and three boys in the western suburbs of Chicago.

Robert Bailey
Bailey, Robert

Robert Bailey is the bestselling author of the McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes The Final Reckoning, The Last Trial, Between Black and White, and The Professor. The first two novels in the series were Beverly Hills Book Awards legal thriller of the year winners, and Between Black and White was a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year.

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Robin Wayne Bailey
Bailey, Robin Wayne

Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He has written numerous novels and short stories. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies.

Tessa Bailey
Bailey, Tessa

New York Times Bestselling author Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. She lives on Long Island avoiding the sun and social interactions, then wonders why no one has called. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by Entertainment Weekly, Tessa writes with spice, spirit, swoon and a guaranteed happily ever after.

David Baillie
Baillie, David

David Baillie was born, raised, and educated in Hamilton, Ontario. He emigrated from Canada to the United States in 1996, and for the last seventeen years has been teaching modern and postmodern art and literature at a New England college preparatory school. What We Salvage is Baillie’s debut novel, a work that draws upon his own experiences in the post-boot culture music scene of the late ’80s-early ’90s. He currently lives in central Massachusetts with his two sons, his artist / educator wife Darcy, and her two daughters.

F. W. Bain
Bain, F. W.

Francis William Bain (1863–1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit.

Christian Baines
Baines, Christian

Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Christian Baines has since lived in Brisbane, Sydney, and Toronto, earning an MA in creative writing at University of Technology, Sydney along the way. His musings on travel, theatre, and gay life have appeared in numerous publications in both Australia and Canada.

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Alison Baird
Baird, Alison

Alison Baird is the author of The Hidden World, The Wolves of Woden, The Dragon's Egg, and White as the Waves. She was honored by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, is a Silver Birch Award regional winner, and she was a finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. She lives in Oakville, Ontario.

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Chandler Baker
Baker, Chandler

Chandler Baker grew up in Florida, went to college in Pennsylvania, and studied law in Texas, where she now lives with her family and an ever-growing pile of books. Although she loves spinning tales with a touch of horror, she is a much bigger scaredy-cat than her stories would lead you to believe. In addition to the High School Horror series, Chandler is the author of the young adult novel, Alive.

E. D. Baker
Baker, E. D.

E.D. Baker is the author of the Tales of the Frog Princess series, the Wide-Awake Princess series, the Fairy-Tale Matchmaker series, the Magic Animal Rescue series, and many other delightful books for young readers, including A Question of Magic, Fairy Wings, and Fairy Lies. Her first book, The Frog Princess, was the inspiration for Disney’s hit movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and their many animals in Maryland.

Eliot Baker
Baker, Eliot

Eliot Baker is from Seattle, Washington, USA. He now lives in Pori, Finland. 

 

Jacqueline Baker
Baker, Jacqueline

Jacqueline Baker is the author of A Hard Witching and Other Stories, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Horseman’s Graves, won wide critical acclaim and was a finalist for the Evergreen Award. Jacqueline resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Jen Baker
Baker, Jen

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in C19th and c20th Literature - teaches and lectures on the English and Comparative Literary Studies programme at the University of Warwick

Jo Baker
Baker, Jo

Jo Baker was born in Lancashire and educated at Oxford University and Queen’s University Belfast. She is the author of The Undertow, Offcomer, The Telling, and most recently, Longbourn. She lives in Lancaster, England.

Kage Baker
Baker, Kage

Kage Baker (19522010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Kage Baker was born in Hollywood, California and lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.

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Linda P. Baker
Baker, Linda P.

Linda P. Baker in an American fantasy and science fiction author. She has been writing for most of her life. Baker was discovered at a small science fiction and gaming convention in her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, by fantasy author and editor Margaret Weis. On the basis of the short story she submitted in a workshop presented by Ms. Weis, Linda made her first professional sale: a short story in the Dragonlance anthology, Dragons of Krynn. Baker lives in Mobile, Alabama, with her husband.

Mishell Baker
Baker, Mishell

Mishell Baker is the author of the Nebula and World Fantasy Award Finalist Borderline, which was also a Tiptree Honor book, as well as the second and third books in The Arcadia Project, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science FictionBeneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. She has a website at MishellBaker.com and frequently Tweets about writing, parenthood, mental health, and assorted geekery at @MishellBaker. When she’s not attending conventions or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

Nancy Baker
Baker, Nancy

Nancy Baker is a Toronto author who has written some of the first and most beloved and well-reviewed vampire novels featuring Canadian settings and characters. She has also published a collection of short stories (Discovering Japan). Her next novel, Cold Hillside, will be out from CZP in Fall 2014.

Richard Baker
Baker, Richard

Richard Baker (L. Richard Baker III) is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

 

Robin Baker
Baker, Robin

Robin Baker is a bestselling author in the field of sexual biology and his books include Sperm Wars, Baby Wars and Sex in the Future. From 1980 to 1996 he was Reader in Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster with over a hundred scientific papers and journalistic articles to his name. His work and ideas on the evolution of human behaviour have been featured in many television and radio programmes around the world. He now lives in the south of Spain with his family.

Scott Baker
Baker, Scott

Scott Baker (born 1947) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. After 20 years in Paris, he now lives in Monterey, California. His first novel, l'Idiot-roi, received the French "Apollo" award. This novel was science fiction. He won a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 1985 for Still Life with Scorpion.

Sharon Baker
Baker, Sharon

Sharon Baker (1938–1991) was an American science fiction author.

Stephen Baker
Baker, Stephen

Stephen Baker was born in the Philadelphia area, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and earned a masters in science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. For ten years, Baker was a senior technology writer at BusinessWeek. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. He is the author of two nonfiction books, The Numerati, and Final JeopardyMan vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything.

Timothy Baker
Baker, Timothy

Timothy Baker is a retired firefighter and an aspiring, perspiring, horror writer. He is published in Fading Light: Anthology of the Monstrous by Angelic Knight Press, and the forthcoming Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed from Tor. Tim has also received a commendation in the Australian Horror Writer’s Association 2009 Short Story Competition.

Kirsten Bakis
Bakis, Kirsten

Kirsten Bakis (born 1967 in Switzerland) is an American novelist.

R. Scott Bakker
Bakker, R. Scott

R. Scott Bakker is the author of 7 critically acclaimed books, including The Prince of Nothing, a trilogy that Publishers Weekly calls "a work of unforgettable power," as well as the Aspect-Emperor novels and the acclaimed thriller, Neuropath. He lives in London, Ontario, with his wife, Sharron, and his daughter, Ruby.

Milan Bakrania
Bakrania, Milan

Milan Bakrania is passionate about creative writing and has interests in desktop publishing, and fine arts. Milan believes his lifestyle, positive outlook and over active imagination give him tremendous energy to write. The Emissary is his first novel.

Nigel Balchin
Balchin, Nigel

Nigel Balchin (1908–1970) was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls From the Air, The Small Back Room (which popularised the terms "boffin" and "backroom boys") and Mine Own Executioner.

David Baldacci
Baldacci, David

David Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. (Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she'd given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then.") 

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Travis Baldree
Baldree, Travis

Travis is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate. Apparently, he now also writes books. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his very patient family and their small, nervous dog.

David Baldwin
Baldwin, David

David Baldwin was Margaret Weis' son.

Kathleen Baldwin
Baldwin, Kathleen

Kathleen Baldwin has written several award-winning traditional Regency romances for adults, including Lady Fiasco, winner of Cataromance's Best Traditional Regency, and Mistaken Kiss, a HOLT Medallion finalist. A School for Unusual Girls, Book 1 in the Stranje House series, was her first book for teens. She lives in Texas with her family.

Carol Balizet
Balizet, Carol

US, born 1933.

Jesse Ball
Ball, Jesse

Jesse Ball (1978-) Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently, the novel How To Set a Fire and Why. His prizewinning works of absurdity have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. The recipient of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Heinz foundation, and others, he is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Margaret Ball
Ball, Margaret

Margaret Ball is a science fiction and fantasy author who lives in Austin, Texas. Married and with two kids, she spends time writing, making quilts, embeadery, and taking care of kids at her home. She has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. She was a Professor at UCLA.

Philippa Ballantine
Ballantine, Philippa

Philippa Ballantine is a New Zealandian writer and podcaster.

Tony Ballantyne
Ballantyne, Tony

Tony Ballantyne is the author of Twisted Metal, Blood and Iron and the Recursion series. He has also written many short stories. Tony grew up in County Durham in the North East of England. He studied Maths at Manchester University before moving to London where he taught Maths and IT. His first SF sale was 'The Sixth VNM' which appeared in Interzone 138. Since then he has had short stories appear in magazines and anthologies worldwide. He has also written romantic fiction and satirical pieces for various magazines such as Private Eye. Recursion, his first novel, was published by Tor UK in 2004. He has been nominated for the BSFA and Philip K. Dick awards. He now lives in Oldham with his wife and two children. His hobbies are playing the piano, accordion and cornet. He also enjoys walking and cycling.

J. G. Ballard
Ballard, J. G.

James Graham Ballard (1930–2009) was a British novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the New Wave in science fiction in the mid- to late-1960s and whose work frequently focused on dystopian themes.

J. G. Ballard's best known books are the controversial novel Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. Both books were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Stephen Spielberg respectively.

Kait Ballenger
Ballenger, Kait

Kait Ballenger is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Seven Range Shifter paranormal romance series, where she weaves captivating tales of dark, sexy heroes who are cowboys by day, wolf shifters by night.

When Kait’s not preoccupied writing “intense and riveting” paranormal plots or “high-voltage” love scenes that make even seasoned romance readers blush, she can usually be found spending time with her family or with her nose buried in a good book. She lives in Florida with her husband and two young sons.

Nathan Ballingrud
Ballingrud, Nathan

Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.

Edwin Balmer
Balmer, Edwin

Edwin Balmer (1883-1959) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Chicago to Helen Clark (Pratt) and Thomas Balmer. In 1909, he married Katharine MacHarg, sister of the writer William MacHarg. After her death, he married Grace A. Kee in 1927.

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Cyn Balog
Balog, Cyn

Cyn Balog is an American author. She was born in Edison, New Jersey.  She went to Woodbrook Elementary, Woodrow Wilson, and J.P. Stevens High school. She spent most of her time at the desk in her bedroom, creating stories.  

During her summers, Cyn spent most of her time working at the Jersey Shore.  She would also write a lot, and wrote her first young adult novel when she was 15.  She worked at the Park Bakery in Seaside Park, as a waitress who could whip up a mean funnel cake and egg cream, as a cashier the A&P until she finally got her dream job of badge checker on the 7th Avenue beach.  The job was great and allowed for lots of writing and reading time!

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Christian Baloga
Baloga, Christian

Christian Baloga lives in rural Pennsylvania and was born just one day after Halloween, on the Day of the Dead. When not writing, he harbors a peculiar interest in urban exploring, paranormal investigation, traveling, and creating works of art.

Armand Baltazar
Baltazar, Armand

Armand Baltazar was born in Chicago’s North Side, not far from the famed Wrigley Field. After attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Armand began a visual storytelling career in feature animation as a background artist, visual development artist, and art director for DreamWorks Studios, Walt Disney, and Pixar Animation. He currently resides in Northern California with his family, creating the art and stories for the epic adventure series Timeless.

Henry A. Bamman
Bamman, Henry A.

Henry A. Bamman is an American author. His titles focus on adventure and science fiction. He has co-authored many books with Helen Huus and Robert J. Whitehead.

In 1978, he was invited to speak at Truman State University as a Baldwin Lecturer. He spoke on "Crisis and change".

Danielle Banas
Banas, Danielle

Danielle Banas is the author of The Supervillain and Me and The Good for Nothings. She earned a degree in communication from Robert Morris University, where she spent slightly too much time daydreaming about new characters instead of paying attention in class. When she isn't writing, Danielle can be found loudly singing show tunes, spouting off Disney World trivia, and snuggling with her puppy. She lives in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Josiah Bancroft
Bancroft, Josiah

Before settling down to write fantasy novels, Josiah Bancroft was a poet, college instructor, rock musician, and aspiring comic book artist. When he is not writing, he enjoys recording the Crit Faced podcast with his authorial friends, drawing the world of the Tower, and cooking dinner without a recipe. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Sharon, their daughter Maddie, and their two rabbits, Mabel and Chaplin.

Tracy Banghart
Banghart, Tracy

An Army wife and mom, Tracy Banghart has an MA in Publishing and an unhealthy affection for cupcakes. Her quiet childhood led to a reading addiction, writing obsession, and several serious book boyfriends. She currently lives in Hawaii with her husband and young son, where there are a lot of volcanoes, none of which she's made her home.

Elly Bangs
Bangs, Elly

Elly Bangs was raised in a New Age cult, had six wisdom teeth, and once rode her bicycle alone from Washington State to the Panama Canal. Now she lives in Seattle, where she spends her days fixing machines and her nights writing short stories, novellas, and novels. Her short fiction has appeared in ClarkesworldBeneath Ceaseless SkiesEscape PodFiresideStrange Horizons, and Galaxy’s Edge. Bangs is a 2017 graduate of the prestigious writing workshop, Clarion West. Unity is her debut novel.

Ashok K. Banker
Banker, Ashok K.

Ashok Kumar Banker (born 1964) is a novelist and short story writer living in Mumbai, India.

Angelica Banks
Banks, Angelica

Angelica Banks is not one writer but two. Heather Rose and Danielle Wood are both award-winning authors of adult literary fiction and have been friends for years. They had much more fun than you can imagine writing this book and spent a lot of time eating chocolate custard and strawberries.

Iain M. Banks
Banks, Iain M.

Iain Menzies Banks (officially Iain Banks, 1954-2013) was a Scottish writer. Iain Banks read English literature, philosophy and psychology at Stirling University. He moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Fife.

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L. A. Banks
Banks, L. A.

L. A. Banks (1959-2011) was a pseudonym of Leslie Esdaile Banks.

L. A. Banks was the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. She had a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a master's in fine arts from Temple University. Banks considered herself a shape-shifter. She wrote romance, women's fiction, crime and suspense, and of course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lived with her daughter in an undisclosed lair somewhere in Philadelphia.

Lynne Reid Banks
Banks, Lynne Reid

Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard' has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, 'The L-Shaped Room', was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults. Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

Michael Banks
Banks, Michael

Michael A. Banks (1917-1983) was an American author.

 

Megan Bannen
Bannen, Megan

Megan Bannen is a librarian and the author of The Bird and the Blade. In her spare time, she collects graduate degrees from Kansas colleges and universities. While most of her professional career has been spent in public libraries, she has also sold luggage, written grants, and taught English at home and abroad. She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, their two sons, and a few too many pets with literary names.

Catherine Banner
Banner, Catherine

Catherine Banner (born 1989) is a British author. The Eyes of a King is her first book.

Andrew Bannister
Bannister, Andrew

Born in 1965, Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. He studied Geology at Imperial College and went to work in the North Sea before becoming an Environmental Consultant. For the day job, he specialises in green transport and corporate sustainability, but he has always written - initially for student newspapers and fanzines before moving on, encouraged by creative writing courses, to fiction. He's always been a reader and has loved science fiction since childhood. From the classics of the 50s and 60s to the present day, he's wanted it all: space, stars, astonishment and adventure - and now he's discovered that writing it is even better. Andrew lives in Leicestershire.

John Banville
Banville, John

John Banville (born 1945) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. His breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence (1989) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He sometimes writes under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.

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Karen Bao
Bao, Karen

Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring scientist. She has a brother three years younger than her and a violin sixty years older than her. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen.

Dave Bara
Bara, Dave

Dave Bara has always loved space programs, astronauts, and science fiction. His writing is influenced by Herbert and Asimov, among many others. His Lightship Chronicles series launches a writing career sure to be full of heroic characters and intergalactic adventures.

D. D. Barant
Barant, D. D.

D. D. Barant lives in Vancouver, BC, and loves monsters, chocolate, animals, reading, comics and lying naked on the beach, while hating bullies, narrow-minded people, Sea Urchin Sushi and gluten. Awful, terrible, gluten.

Kate Baray
Baray, Kate

Kate Baray writes page-turning urban fantasy with relatable characters. When Kate's not tapping away at her keyboard or in deep contemplation of her next fanciful writing project, she's sweeping up hairy dust bunnies and watching British mysteries. Kate is from Austin, Texas (where many of her stories take place), but has recently migrated north to Boise, Idaho, where soup season (her favorite time of year) lasts more than two weeks. She's worked as an attorney, a dog trainer, and in various other positions, but writer is the hands-down winner. She's thankful readers keep reading, so she can keep writing! Kate's series include Lost Library and Spirelli Paranormal Investigations. Under the pen name Cate Lawley, Kate (aka Cate!) writes Vegan Vamp Mysteries, Night Shift Witch Mysteries, Death Retired Mysteries, and Fairmont Finds Canine Cozy Mysteries.

Adrienne Barbeau
Barbeau, Adrienne

Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born 1945) is an American actress and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Bea Arthur) in the sitcom Maude. In the early 1980s, Barbeau was a sex symbol, starring in several horror and science fiction films, including The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, and Escape from New York. During the 1990s, she became known for providing the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series and subsequent Batman cartoon series. In the 2000s (decade), she appeared in the HBO series Carnivàle as Ruthie the snake dancer.

Griffin Barber
Barber, Griffin

Griffin Barber spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages while holding down jobs in marinas, bars, cafés, and, memorably, cold-calling casino guests. Finally settled in Northern California with a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his wife and daughter. 1636: Mission to the Mughals, coauthored with Eric Flint, was his first novel; he has also written numerous short stories. Second Chance Angel is what he hopes to be the first of many collaborations with Kacey Ezell.

Kara Barbieri
Barbieri, Kara

"Hi, I'm Kara Barbieri, also known as Pandean. I'm 22 years old and a lover of fiction and nonfiction of any sort. White Stag is my debut novel and part of a trilogy. When I'm not writing I'm binge watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, jamming to IAMX, or twirling a fire staff. I also really like goats."

James Barclay
Barclay, James

James Barclay is in his fourties and lives in Teddington with his wife. He is a full-time writer.

Michele Bardsley
Bardsley, Michele

Michele Bardsley is an American author. She writes paranormal fiction for New American Library under their Signet Eclipse imprint. She lives in Texas with her son and their pets.

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Leigh Bardugo
Bardugo, Leigh

Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Yale University. These days, she hides out in Hollywood, where she indulges her fondness for glamour, ghouls, and costuming in her other life as a makeup artist in Hollywood. Her first novel, Shadow and Bone, was a New York Times bestseller.

Shaun Barger
Barger, Shaun

Shaun Barger is a Los Angeles-based novelist who detests cold weather, idiot plotting, and fascism. He splits his days between writing, resisting the siren’s call of Hollywood’s eternally mild summer climes, and appeasing a tyrannical three-pound Chihuahua with peanut butter and apple slices. Mage Against the Machine is his first novel.

Clive Barker
Barker, Clive

Clive Barker (born 1952) is an English fantasy and horror author, film director and visual artist.

David Barker
Barker, David

David Barker has been a hardcore Lovecraft fan since his college days. He began writing short horror fiction in the mid-1980s, publishing widely in that era's small-press magazines, and edited three of his own Lovecraftian journals before leaving the field in the '90s to focus on literary fiction and poetry. In 2011, his comic surreal novel, Death at the Flea Circus, was published, and in 2012, David returned to horror with the publication of a serialized novel, Electro-Thrall Zombies. David lives in Oregon with his wife and has four grown daughters and two grandsons.

Dominic Barker
Barker, Dominic

UK, born 1966.

Photo: Bloomsbury.

Emily Croy Barker
Barker, Emily Croy

Emily Croy Barker spent almost twenty years as a journalist. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently the executive editor at The American Lawyer magazine, where she oversees international coverage. She lives in New Jersey.

J. D. Barker
Barker, J. D.

J. D. Barker is the internationally bestselling author of Forsaken, The Fourth Monkey, and The Fifth to Die. He was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, and winner of the New Apple Medalist Award. His works have been translated into numerous languages and optioned for both film and television. Barker currently resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Dayna, and daughter, Ember.

M. A. R. Barker
Barker, M. A. R.

Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (born 1930 as Philip Barker) is a retired professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who has written fantasy novels under the pen name M. A. R. Barker.

Nicola Barker
Barker, Nicola

Nicola Barker (born 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer.

Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island. Her 2004 novel, Clear, is set in London during David Blaine's Above the Below 44 day fast in London in 2003.

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Pat Barker
Barker, Pat

Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics.

Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize; as well as seven other novels. She's married and lives in Durham, England.

RJ Barker
Barker, RJ

RJ Barker lives in Leeds with his wife, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy, odd art, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on, and has always been 'that one with the book in his pocket'. Having played in a rock band before deciding he was a rubbish musician, RJ returned to his first love, fiction, to find he is rather better at that. As well as his debut epic fantasy novel, Age of Assassins, RJ has written short stories and historical scripts which have been performed across the country. He has the sort of flowing locks any cavalier would be proud of.

Michael Barley
Barley, Michael

Michael Barley was born in England and came to Canada in 1948.

Jeffrey E. Barlough
Barlough, Jeffrey E.

Jeffrey E. Barlough is a trained biologist and veterinarian with a Ph.D. in Virology from Cornell, and has published over 60 research and review articles in scientific journals since 1979. He is also an armchair historian and has edited small press publications of minor and archaic English works.

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R. H. Barlow
Barlow, R. H.

Robert Hayward Barlow (1918–1951) was an American author, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico. He was also an expert in the Nahuatl language.

Toby Barlow
Barlow, Toby

Toby Barlow is executive creative director at the advertising agency JWT in Detroit and a contributor to the literary magazine n+1 and The Huffington Post. He splits his time between Detroit, Michigan, and New York City. Sharp Teeth is his first book.

Wayne Barlowe
Barlowe, Wayne

Wayne Douglas Barlowe (born 1958) is a science fiction and fantasy painter. He has painted over 300 book and magazine covers and illustrations for many major book publishers, as well as Life magazine, Time, and Newsweek. He is well known for his realistic paintings of surreal alien or fantastic life. He is married to fantasy and science fiction editor Shawna McCarthy and has two daughters, Cayley and Hillary.

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Caroline Barnard-Smith
Barnard-Smith, Caroline

Caroline Barnard-Smith is a speculative fiction author with too many ideas. She's written horror, epic fantasy, and sci-fi, and she adamantly refuses to pick a favourite.

Alongside her novels, Caroline's short stories have appeared in Crawling, Annihilation Radiation, and many other places. She is currently writing an epic fantasy trilogy while simultaneously drafting a weird sci-fi novel set in a planetary system that revolves around a colossal, sentient head. The effort may well tip her over the edge.

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Adrian Barnes
Barnes, Adrian

Adrian Barnes was born in Blackpool, England but moved to Canada in 1969. He teaches English at Selkirk College, British Columbia. He is married with two children. He received an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and Nod is his first published novel.

Eric Barnes
Barnes, Eric

Eric Barnes is the author of the novels Shimmer, an IndieNext Pick from Unbridled Books, and Something Pretty, Something Beautiful from Outpost19, which The Millions called a "remarkable book... where cars are freedom, stories are everything, and home is thick with ghosts." He has also published nearly forty short stories in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, The Literary Review, Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications. By day, he is publisher of newspapers in Memphis and Nashville that cover business, politics, the arts and more. On Fridays, he hosts a news talk show on his local PBS. In the past, he was a reporter and editor in Connecticut and New York. Years ago he drove a forklift in Tacoma, Washington, and then Kenai, Alaska, worked construction on Puget Sound, and, many years ago, he graduated from the MFA writing program at Columbia University.

J. S. Barnes
Barnes, J. S.

Jonathan is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Somnambulist, The Domino Men and Cannonbridge (“original and monumentally inventive” - Washington Post). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review and is the author of numerous adaptations of classic Victorian novels, including The Invisible Man (starring John Hurt) and Dracula (starring Mark Gatiss). He is married and lives on the fringes of London. Last year, he made a pilgrimage to Transylvania.

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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn

Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed young adult novels. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science, including graduate degrees from Cambridge University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Yale University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2012. Jen wrote her first published novel when she was nineteen-years-old and sold her first five books while still in college. In additional to writing YA novels, Jen has also written original pilot scripts for television networks like USA and MTV, and she is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of fandom and the cognitive science of fiction and the imagination more broadly. Jen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds a dual appointment in Psychology and Professional Writing.

John Barnes
Barnes, John

John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author.

Jonathan Barnes
Barnes, Jonathan

Jonathan was born in 1979 and was educated in Norfolk and at Oxford University. His first novel, The Somnambulist, was published in 2007 and his second, The Domino Men, in 2008. Between them they have been translated into eight languages. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review and has contributed to the Arts pages of The Lancet. He is also the author of several full-cast audio dramas from Big Finish Productions, featuring characters from Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein and Doctor Who.

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Julian Barnes
Barnes, Julian

Julian Barnes (born 1946) is a English writer.

Mark T. Barnes
Barnes, Mark T.

Mark T. Barnes is a graduate of the Clarion South Writer’s Workshop. Amongst his tutors were Scott Westerfeld, Michael Swanwick, Ian Irvine and Sean Williams.  His previous publications have been short fiction.

Rory Barnes
Barnes, Rory

Rory Barnes (born 1946) is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London, he has lived most of his life in Australia.

Steven Barnes
Barnes, Steven

Steven Barnes (born 1952) is an African-American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.

He has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette The Locusts, was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.

Troy Barnes
Barnes, Troy

Troy Barnes is an Australian author of dark fiction.

Vivi Barnes
Barnes, Vivi

Vivi Barnes was raised on a farm in East Texas where her theater-loving mom and cowboy dad gave her a unique perspective on life. Now living in the magic and sunshine of Orlando, Florida, she divides her time writing, working, goofing off with her husband and three kids, and avoiding dirty dishes.

Barbara Barnett
Barnett, Barbara

Barbara Barnett is author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel The Apothecary’s Curse. She is also Publisher/Executive Editor of Blogcritics Magazine, an online magazine of pop culture, politics and more, for which she has also contributed nearly 1,000 essays, reviews, and in-depth interviews with writers, actors and producers over the past decade.

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David Barnett
Barnett, David

David Barnett (born 1970) is an English journalist and author. He has several published books, including Hinterland (Immanion Press, 2005, re-issued 2008), Angelglass (Immanion Press, 2007) and The Janus House and Other Two-Faced Tales (Immanion Press, 2009). Born in Wigan, Lancashire, England, he has worked at the Telegraph & Argus.

Lisa A. Barnett
Barnett, Lisa A.

Lisa A. Barnett (1958–2006) was an American Lambda Literary Award winning science fiction writer.

Vanessa Barneveld
Barneveld, Vanessa

Australian Vanessa Barneveld lives in a 19th-century house in inner-city Sydney with a 21st-century husband, two eccentric cats and one ghost - all of whom provide inspiration for her spirited novels. In addition to her writing career, she’s part of a crack team that produces closed captions for deaf TV viewers and audio descriptions for the blind.

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Kelly Barnhill
Barnhill, Kelly

Kelly Barnhill is a poet and literary fiction writer. The Mostly True Story of Jack is her debut children's book. Kelly lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband and three children.

William Barnwell
Barnwell, William

William Barnwell (born 1943) is an author perhaps best known for The Blessing Trilogy. The trilogy is deeply concerned with metaphysics and set in a future Ireland.

Brandon Barr
Barr, Brandon

Brandon Barr is a USA Today bestselling author and is the creator of the Song of the Worlds Series.

Hailing from California. Brandon Barr writes in the genres of science fiction and fantasy and often combines the two, preferring stories where the science is soft, the fantastic is vivid, and the flesh and soul characters are front and center.

Angie Barrett
Barrett, Angie

Author Angie Barrett lives in a small town in Ontario, Canada in an old century home that is also known as the “cat house” because, well, Angie likes cats. A lot. She also likes shopping for books, or for anything really, and spending time RVing in the summer with her family. She has worked for sixteen years as a high school English teacher and Librarian and is currently a Curriculum Consultant for new teachers. Angie has always dreamed of being a published author and strives to create worlds where there are strong, relatable characters who maybe are not always perfect but who understand the meaning of friendship and loyalty and who will use their collective strengths to overcome adversity.

Edmond Barrett
Barrett, Edmond

Edmond Barrett is a native of the North-West of England and a resident of Dublin, Ireland. An amateur student of history, a fan of Terry Pratchett and low tech science fiction. He writes military science fiction and urban fantasy.

Redfern Jon Barrett
Barrett, Redfern Jon

Redfern Jon Barrett is author to novels including Proud Pink Sky, a speculative story set in the world’s first LGBTQ+ country (Bywater, 2023) and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights – which was a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards and featured in Paste Magazine’s ‘10 Audiobooks to Listen to During Pride Month (and Beyond)’.

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Shirley Barrett
Barrett, Shirley

Shirley Barrett is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She has written and directed three feature films and worked extensively as a director in television. Shirley was born in Melbourne, and lives in Sydney, Australia.

J. M. Barrie
Barrie, J. M.

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937) was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best known for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. He was made a baronet in 1913 and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922.

Peter Pan novels have been published and re-published over the years in several different editions.

Laird Barron
Barron, Laird

Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an award winning author and poet, much of whose critically acclaimed work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Washington.

Rena Barron
Barron, Rena

Rena Barron grew up in small-town Alabama where stories of magic and adventure sparked her imagination. After penning her first awful poem in middle school, she graduated to writing short stories and novels by high school.

Rena has an affinity for good cheese, wine, and nature. For a time, she lived in the Franche-Comté region of France, where she hiked to her heart’s content and explored the ruins of old castles. When she’s not writing, she can be found running along Lake Michigan or brushing up on her French.

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T. A. Barron
Barron, T. A.

Thomas Archibald Barron is an American author of fantasy literature. He writes books for children and young adults. He also writes nature books.

Carole E. Barrowman
Barrowman, Carole E.

Carole Emily Barrowman (born 1959) is Professor of English and Director of Creative Studies in Writing at Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a reviewer and crime fiction columnist for the Milwaukee Sentinel, also known for her writing contributions with younger brother John Barrowman.

John Barrowman
Barrowman, John

John Scot Barrowman (born 1967) is a Scottish–American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality.

Brunonia Barry
Barry, Brunonia

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry studied literature and creative writing at Green Mountain College in Vermont and at the University of New Hampshire. She has created Brain Teaser puzzles for Smart Games and lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with her husband and their beloved golden retriever, Byzantium.

Kevin Barry
Barry, Kevin

Kevin Barry is the author of the highly acclaimed novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane, he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author’s Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo in Ireland.

Max Barry
Barry, Max

Max Barry (born 1973) is a contemporary Australian author.

Quan Barry
Barry, Quan

Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, Quan Barry is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of four poetry books; her third book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was a PEN/Open Book finalist. She has received NEA Fellowships in both fiction and poetry, and her work has appeared in such publications as Ms. and The New Yorker. Barry lives in Wisconsin.

Yaroslav Barsukov
Barsukov, Yaroslav

After leaving his ball and chain at the workplace, Yaroslav Barsukov goes on to write stories that deal with things he himself, thankfully, doesn’t have to deal with. He’s a software engineer and a connoisseur of strong alcoholic beverages - but also, surprisingly, a member of SFWA and Codex (how did that happen?). At some point in his life, he’s left one former empire only to settle in another.

Kelsey Rae Barthel
Barthel, Kelsey Rae

Kelsey Rae Barthel grew up in the quiet town of Hay Lakes in Alberta, a sleepy place of only 500 people. Living in such a calm setting gave her a lot of spare time to imagine grand adventures of magic and danger, inspired by the comic books and anime she enjoyed. Upon graduating high school, Kelsey moved to Edmonton and eventually began working in the business of airline cargo, but she never stopped imagining those adventures. Beyond the Code is her first novel.

Donald Barthelme
Barthelme, Donald

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a reporter, editor and a professor at various universities.

James Bartholomeusz
Bartholomeusz, James

James Bartholomeusz lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his parents and two brothers, but is currently studying English Literature at the University of Exeter. When not reading or writing, he enjoys films and British comedy. He’s also interested in politics. His first young-adult novel, The White Fox, was published in December 2011 by Medallion Press.

Henry Bartholomew
Bartholomew, Henry

Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the English Department at XJTLU. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter, and has taught at both Exeter and the University of Plymouth. His research centers on Gothic and weird fiction, the ghost story, dark ecology, Speculative Realism, and the author Algernon Blackwood. He is the editor of three short story collections, one for the British Library (2020) and two for Handheld Press (2023; 2024). His other published work includes an essay on the uncanny for the journal Open Philosophy (2019) and a chapter on psychic vampires for The Palgrave Handbook to the Vampire (2023). He is currently working on two projects: a substantial, two-volume essay collection for Palgrave titled New Directions to the Ghost Story (due 2025), and a monograph - Gothic Immaterialism: Objects, Affects, and the Ghost Story, 1890-1920 - which examines how new theories about "objects" and "things" shine fresh light on the British ghost story tradition.

Claire Eliza Bartlett
Bartlett, Claire Eliza

Claire Eliza Bartlett is a US citizen who grew up in Colorado. She studied history and archaeology and spent time in Switzerland and Wales before settling in Denmark for good. When not at her computer telling mostly false stories, she works as a tour guide in Copenhagen, telling stories that are (mostly) true.

Matthew M. Bartlett
Bartlett, Matthew M.

Matthew M. Bartlett was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1970. At an early age he was given as a gift the novelization of The Omen; not long after that, he inherited a worn copy of Christine by Stephen King. He fell deeply in love with horror: with the Universal monsters, with Hammer films, with the rented videos from the horror section of that almost-gone artifact known as the Video Rental Store. He began writing poetry while in the English program at Central Connecticut State University. An abiding interest in horror fiction led him to start a Livejournal page whose posts were his first forays into fiction: bite-sized tales accompanied by doctored daguerreotypes and his own photographs taken in Leeds and Northampton, Massachusetts. These posts centered around a long-dead coven using radio waves to broadcast disturbing and dangerous transmissions from the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. His inspirations are varied and the foremost are certainly not atypical for the genre: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein. Other authors he admires include Donald E. Westlake, Richard Yates, J.D. Salinger, and Hunter S. Thompson. He also draws inspiration from the radio monologues and shows of Joe Frank; the poetry of Philip Larkin, of Mark Strand, of Stephen Crane; the movies of Wes Anderson, of Ben Wheatley, of the Coen Brothers. He continues to write dark and strange fiction at his home in Western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife Katie and an unknown number of cats.

Mira Bartók
Bartók, Mira

Mira Bartók is a writer and artist whose New York Times best-selling memoir, The Memory Palace: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. The Wonderling is her first novel for young readers. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

Amy A. Bartol
Bartol, Amy A.

Amy A. Bartol is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Secondborn Series, The Premonition Series, The Kricket Series, and a short story entitled “The Divided.” She has won numerous awards for her writing and been nominated for several more. She's a graduate of Hillsdale College, which inspired the setting of her Premonition Series. Amy lives in Michigan with her husband and two sons, but she travels often, sparking her imagination to create more worlds like the ones with hidden angels, doorways to alien landscapes, and fantastical futuristic societies and technologies.

Bree Barton
Barton, Bree

Bree Barton is a writer in Los Angeles. When she’s not lost in whimsy, she works as a ghostwriter and a dance teacher to teen girls. She is on Instagram and YouTube, where she posts funny videos with her melancholy dog. Bree is not a fan of corsets.

Erle Barton
Barton, Erle

Erle Barton is a pseudonym of R. L. Fanthorpe.

Lee Barton
Barton, Lee

Lee Barton is a pseudonym of R. L. Fanthorpe.

W. S. Barton
Barton, W. S.

W.S. Barton is a critically acclaimed best-selling author and ghostwriter for renowned sportsmen, actors and musicians. Recently, he has worked in Hollywood with the actor Charles Baker (Breaking Bad, the Blacklist, Wild) and in Texas with ‘the grandfather of US youth soccer’, Gordon Jago MBE. W.S. Barton – the football columnist for international sports broadcaster Setanta Sports – has been described by the Independent as ‘the leading writer on Manchester United on the period between Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson’ and has ghostwritten the autobiographies of Brian Greenhoff, Gordon Hill, Danny Higginbotham and Mike Duxbury. His books ‘Fergie’s Fledglings’ and ’74/75’ received widespread acclaim from the major UK broadsheets. ‘Coal House’ is his debut novel.

William Barton
Barton, William

William Renald Barton III (born 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.

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Christopher Barzak
Barzak, Christopher

Christopher Barzak (born 1975) is an American author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet in 1999. In 2007 he published his debut novel, One for Sorrow, which has won the 2008 Crawford Award, and was a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award as well as the Logo Channel's NewNowNext Award. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was placed on the 2008 James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List and was a 2009 Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. He has also worked as a teacher outside of Tokyo. Barzak holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State University, in Youngstown, Ohio.

Melissa Bashardoust
Bashardoust, Melissa

Melissa Bashardoust received her degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she rediscovered her love for creative writing, children’s literature, and fairy tales and their retellings. She currently lives in Southern California with a cat named Alice and more copies of Jane Eyre than she probably needs. Girls Made of Snow and Glass is her first novel.

Ennis Rook Bashe
Bashe, Ennis Rook

When Ennis' condition stopped them from partaking in physical activities as a teenager, they turned to fantasy fiction as a refuge. Today, as a writer, Ennis is passionate about creating literature for young LGBTQIA+ readers, inspiring others who are struggling with a rare genetic health condition, and speaking up on the need for more disabled voices and writers in media.

T. J. Bass
Bass, T. J.

T. J. Bass (Thomas J. Bassler, born 1932) is an American science fiction author and doctor.

Anya Bast
Bast, Anya

Anya Bast is the author of numerous works of romantic fiction, mostly all paranormal and mostly all scorching hot. She lives in the country with her husband, daughter, eight cats, a dog, and an odd assortment of rescued animals.

Somewhat reclusive by nature, she can be drawn out with a good bottle of red wine, classic movies, or good music. When she's not writing, she can be found trying to grow organic vegetables, shopping in thrift stores for that perfect piece of clothing, or dreaming about travel to some faraway country.

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Samit Basu
Basu, Samit

Samit Basu is an Indian novelist, graphic novelist and screenwriter.

Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India, Terror on the Titanic a YA novel, and Turbulence, a superhero novel set in India, Pakistan and England, published by Titan Books internationally. He currently lives and works in Delhi, India. "Resistance", the sequel to Turbulence, will be published in July 2014 internationally.

Allan Batchelder
Batchelder, Allan

Allan is a professional actor, educator and former stand-up comedian. In addition to Steel, Blood & Fire, he's also written plays, screenplays, online articles, dialogue for computer games, greeting card sentiments and more. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory and a Master's in Teaching from Seattle Pacific University. He is a huge fan of Shakespeare, Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Glen Cook, George R.R. Martin, Tad Williams, and R. Scott Bakker. Allan lives in Seattle with his wife and son, where he enjoys walks on the beach, reading in the garden and puttering around on his computer. Oh, and naps. He LOVES naps.

Sonya Bateman
Bateman, Sonya

Sonya Bateman lives in upstate New York with her husband, son, four cats, and a gerbil with half a tail. She enjoys reading and swimming, and wishes there were some feasible way to combine the two.

Callie Bates
Bates, Callie

Callie Bates is a writer, harpist and certified harp therapist, sometimes artist, and nature nerd. When she’s not creating, she’s hitting the trails or streets and exploring new places. She lives in the Upper Midwest. The Waking Land is her debut fantasy novel and first in a planned trilogy.

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Harry Bates
Bates, Harry

Harry Bates (1900–1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. He was a pioneering editor and author in the creation and development of twentieth century science fiction. His classic 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" was the basis of the landmark 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, which is widely regarded as the greatest science fiction movie of all-time.

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Lee Battersby
Battersby, Lee

Lee Battersby is the multiple-award winning author of the novels 'The Corpse-Rat King' (Angry Robot 2012) and 'Marching Dead' (Angry Robot 2013) as well as over 70 short stories, many of which are collected in 'Through Soft Air' (Prime Books 2006). He has appeared in markets as diverse as Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Volume 20; Year's Best Australian F&SF; Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror vol. 3; and Dr Who: Destination Prague.

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Jes Battis
Battis, Jes

Jes Battis was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1979. In addition to writing fiction, he has also published academic books and a variety of scholarly articles in the areas of fantasy, television, and queer studies.

He earned his PhD in English from Simon Fraser University in the Summer of 2007. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.

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Ian Baucom
Baucom, Ian

Ian Baucom is a professor and Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. He is the author of several books for adults and currently lives with his wife and children in Durham, North Carolina.

Gael Baudino
Baudino, Gael

Gael Baudino (born 1955) is a contemporary American fantasy author who also writes under the pseudonyms of Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, and G. A. Kathryns.

A. C. E. Bauer
Bauer, A. C. E.

A. C. E. Bauer has been telling stories ever since she could talk (some were real whoppers). After learning how to write them down, she began handing them out as gifts to her family. Ms. Bauer took a break from writing for a while when she was a lawyer helping poor people, writing legal briefs and telling stories about her clients. She has returned to fiction and now writes for children of all ages. Born and raised in Montreal, she spends most of the year in Cheshire, Connecticut, and much of the summer on a lake in Quebec. She lives with her husband, two children, and their dog, Speedy.

W. C. Bauers
Bauers, W. C.

W. C. Bauers works in sales and publishing during the day and writes military science fiction and space opera at night. His first novel, Unbreakable, was an Amazon and B&N "SF/F Best Book of the Month" pick for January 2015. His second, Indomitable, releases July 2016.

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L. Frank Baum
Baum, L. Frank

Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker. He is best known as the creator of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The Wizard of Oz). He wrote thirteen sequels and several other novels.

 

Celeste Baxendell
Baxendell, Celeste

Celeste Baxendell has always read anything she could get her hands on, but once she read her first fantasy novel, she was hooked and hasn’t looked back since.

Her love of magic, adventure, and romance hasn’t waned with age, and she endeavors to write devastatingly romantic stories with compelling, complex characters, and finding light in dark times.

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Jon F. Baxley
Baxley, Jon F.

Jon F. Baxley is an American author.

Kate Baxter
Baxter, Kate

Kate Baxter is a die-hard romantic with a thing for Shakespeare. She lives in the great northwest where she hides away to write about all things fanged, furry, and undead.

Stephen Baxter
Baxter, Stephen

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.

Barrington J. Bayley
Bayley, Barrington J.

Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008) was a British science fiction writer. He was born in Birmingham and educated in Shropshire. He died of complications from bowel cancer on October 14, 2008.

Bayley worked a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955. His first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in Vargo Statten Magazine.

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Joseph Bayly
Bayly, Joseph

Joseph Tate Bayly (1920–1986) was an American author and publishing executive.

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Bayly earned his BA at Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1940, and then entered Faith Theological Seminary to gain his BD in 1945. In 1944, Bayly married Mary Lou DeWalt, a classmate at Wheaton College. Bayly was awarded honorary doctorates from Sterling College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He was initial east coast staff director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, editor of His magazine, and director of InterVarsity Press. At the time of his death, Bayly was president of David C. Cook Publishing Company of Elgin, Illinois (now located in Colorado Springs, Colorado).

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Kalynn Bayron
Bayron, Kalynn

Kalynn Bayron is the author of Cinderella Is Dead and is classically trained vocalist. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. When she’s not writing you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, attending the theater, watching scary movies, and spending time with her kids. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.

Peter S. Beagle
Beagle, Peter S.

Peter Soyer Beagle (born 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, urban fantasy A Fine and Private Place (1960), when he was only 19 years old. Travel book I See By My Outfit (1965) is a nonfiction classic. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn (1968), a modern fantasy classic.

Beagle's work as a screenwriter interrupted his early career direction as a fiction author, but in the 1990s he returned to prose fiction. Beagle's own favourite is a literary fantasy novel The Innkeeper's Song (1993). Four years later Beagle returned to the land that was the novels setting for a collection of short stories The Magician of Karakosk and Other Stories (1997, known as Giant Bones).

In 2005 Beagle finally published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette entitled ”Two Hearts,” and began work on a full-novel sequel. In 2006, ”Two Hearts” won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and in 2007 it won the Nebula Award in the same category. The story was also nominated as a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award. In 2006, Beagle won the Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Peter S. Beagle lives today in Oakland, California.

George Beahm
Beahm, George

George Beahm is a New York Times bestselling author. He has written more literary companions than any other writer, and has published more than thirty books on pop culture icons, such as Michael Jordan, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Indiana Jones, Anne Rice, Patricia Cornwell, the Big Bang Theory T.V. show, Caribbean Pirates, censorship, and several books on Stephen King. A former U.S. Army officer, he served on active duty and in the National Guard and Army Reserve.

Clifford Beal
Beal, Clifford

Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Clifford Beal is an award-winning journalist and the former Editor of the authoritative London-based international news magazine Jane's Defence Weekly. He worked as a defence journalist for over 20 years in both the US and the UK before he began writing books.

Deborah Beale
Beale, Deborah

Deborah Beale was a longtime editor of books for adults and children in her native London before she began her career as a writer.

Fleur Beale
Beale, Fleur

Fleur Beale (née Corney, born 1945) is a New Zealand teenage fiction writer, best known for her novel I am not Esther, which has been published worldwide.

Theodore Beale
Beale, Theodore

Theodore Beale is the author of the Eternal Warriors series of Christian fantasy novels, as well as numerous short stories and novellas in a variety of fiction genres.

He also designs electronic games and writes book reviews, primarily focusing on the fantasy and science fiction genres. He is a member of the SFWA and served on the 2002 and 2004 Nebula award juries.

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Elizabeth Bear
Bear, Elizabeth

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Tideline, and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Shoggoths in Bloom. She is one of only few writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Greg Bear
Bear, Greg

Gregory Dale Bear (born 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children).

Henry N. Beard
Beard, Henry N.

US, born 1945.

Cassie Beasley
Beasley, Cassie

Cassie Beasley is from rural Georgia, where, when she's not writing, she helps out on the family pecan farm. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. The Bootlace Magician is the sequel to her first novel, Circus Mirandus, which was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times Notable Children's Book. Her second book, Tumble & Blue, was received with widespread critical acclaim.

Doug Beason
Beason, Doug

He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 with a dual major in physics and math. He started his first novel while at the Academy after returning there as an officer in the 1980s to teach physics. He is a retired Air Force Colonel with a PhD in physics.

E. J. Beaton
Beaton, E. J.

E. J. Beaton lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has a penchant for peregrination. She has lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, researched in New York, given papers in Scotland, England and Denmark, and travelled widely in Europe and Asia.

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Melinda Beatty
Beatty, Melinda

Melinda Beatty has had years of practice trying to explain to others why she was just having an imaginary conversation between two people that don’t exist, so becoming a writer seemed like the best way to stop everyone looking at her funny. After years of narrowboat living on the English canals, she and her British husband are now back on dry land in Maryland where by day, she’s a mild-mannered Indie bookseller, and by night, she wrangles words, craft projects, a Labrador and two fierce mini-women. Heartseeker is her debut novel.

Robert Beatty
Beatty, Robert

Robert Beatty is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series published by Disney Hyperion, a spooky mystery-thriller about a brave and unusual girl who lives secretly in the basement of the grand Biltmore Estate.

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Erin Beaty
Beaty, Erin

Erin Beaty was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, which means she can't drive a tractor, but she won't eat veggies that come from a can. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in rocket science and served in the fleet as a weapons officer and a leadership instructor. She and her husband have five children, two cats, and a vegetable garden and live wherever the Navy tells them to go.

Bradley P. Beaulieu
Beaulieu, Bradley P.

Bradley P. Beaulieu began writing his first fantasy novel in college, but in the way of these things, it was set aside as life intervened. As time went on, though, Brad realized that his love of writing and telling tales wasn't going to just slink quietly into the night. The drive to write came back full force in the early 2000s, at which point Brad dedicated himself to the craft, writing several novels and learning under the guidance of writers like Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Tim Powers, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson, and many more.

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Charles Beaumont
Beaumont, Charles

Charles Beaumont (1929–1967) was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", and "Printer's Devil", but also penned the screenplays for several cult horror and science fiction films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. As best-selling novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, "[Charles Beaumont was] one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre."

Ken Bebelle
Bebelle, Ken

Ken Bebelle has been an avid reader of fantasy, science fiction, and comic books his entire life. His first foray into writing was in the eighth grade with a sword and sorcery fantasy story stored on a 5.25” floppy disk.

Ken and his co-author, Julia Vee, recently finished Ebony Gate, an Asian-inspired contemporary fantasy set in the Pacific Rim.

Austin Beck
Beck, Austin

I am Austin Beck and I love Monster Girls! Action! Harem! Gamelit! Litrpg! Isekai! Slice of Life! I'm an Amazon bestselling fantasy harem light novel author and you should check my books out if you like having a good time! If you are kind enough to read one of my books, please leave a review for me! Reviews help out smaller authors like myself. 

Glenn Beck
Beck, Glenn

Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of TheBlaze television network, is a twelve-time #1 bestselling author and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. His recent fiction works include the thrillers Agenda 21, The Overton Window, and its sequel, The Eye of Moloch; his many nonfiction titles include Conform, Miracles and Massacres, Control, and Being George Washington.

Greig Beck
Beck, Greig

Greig Beck is an Australian author.

J. K. Beck
Beck, J. K.

J. K. Beck is a pseudonym of Julie Kenner.

Walt Becker
Becker, Walt

Walter William Becker (born 1968) is an American director, writer and actor best known for directing the films Van Wilder and Wild Hogs.

Becker graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television in 1995. He also wrote the novel Link in 1999. He has a son and a daughter with his wife, Lindsay.

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Bernard Beckett
Beckett, Bernard

Bernard Beckett, born in 1967, is a high school teacher based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he teaches Drama, Mathematics and English. Genesis was written while he was on a Royal Society genetics research fellowship investigating DNA mutations. Genesis won the Young Adult Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2007 and the 2007 Esther Glen award.

Chris Beckett
Beckett, Chris

Chris Beckett is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and two novels.

L. X. Beckett
Beckett, L. X.

Toronto author and editor L.X. Beckett frittered their misbegotten youth working as an actor and theater technician in Southern Alberta, before deciding to make a shift into writing science fiction. Their first novella, "Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling," will appear in the July/August issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2018, and takes place in the same universe as Gamechanger. Lex identifies as feminist, lesbian, genderqueer, married, and Slytherin.

Melody Beckett
Beckett, Melody

Melody has been a voracious reader of anything with a happy ending since she was old enough to pick up a book. As a teenager she would pull all-nighters reading under the covers with a torch. Not much has changed many years later, now that she has a backlit kindle! A writer for much of her life, she has married her love of science fiction and romance into her own stories, and hopes you enjoy reading them as much as she enjoyed writing them for you.

William Beckford
Beckford, William

William Beckford (1760–1844) was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician.

Jacey Bedford
Bedford, Jacey

Jacey Bedford is an English writer who lives and works behind a desk in Pennine Yorkshire. She's had stories published on both sides of the Atlantic and in November 2014 her first novel, Empire of Dust - A Psi-Tech Novel, is published by DAW in the USA as part of a three book deal.

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K. A. Bedford
Bedford, K. A.

K.A. Bedford was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1963. He attended Curtin and Murdoch Universities, and studied Writing, Theatre, and Philosophy.

H. Bedford-Jones
Bedford-Jones, H.

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical adventure fantasy and Science fiction writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. He wrote over 100 novels. His works appeared in a number of pulp magazines including The Magic Carpet, Golden Fleece, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Blue Book and Weird Tales.

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
Bedwell-Grime, Stephanie

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is an author of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and romance. She has written more than a dozen novels and many pieces of short fiction. She has been nominated for the Aurora Award five times.

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is married to Derek Grime, an artist in the field of animation and visual effects.

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Sean Beech
Beech, Sean

Sean Beech is an American author. He served in Iraq with the British armed forces. Saddened and appalled by the reading standards of the young infantry soldiers, and in an attempt to show them that reading can be done for pleasure, he began the writing of The Ice Crown.

Jonathan D Beer
Beer, Jonathan D

Jonathan D. Beer is a science fiction and alternative history writer, whose stories for Black Library have appeared in the anthologies Broken City and Sanction and Sin, and in the Warhammer Crime Week 2022.

Equally obsessed by the nineteenth century and the 41st millennium, he lives with his wife and assorted cats in the untamed wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mary Behre
Behre, Mary

Mary Behre is the lone female in a house full of males and the undisputed queen of her domain. She even has the glittery tiara to prove it. She loves stories with humor, ghosts, mysteries, and above all else, a good romance. When not writing, she enjoys reading, gluten-free baking, and spending time at the ocean with her family. Daily, she can be found in her office. With her Pomeranian at her feet and her hands on the keyboard, she spends her time plotting new ways to torture her characters before they find their happily ever afters.

Steve Bein
Bein, Steve

Steve Bein teaches Asian philosophy and Asian history at SUNY Geneseo. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and earned a third degree black belt and a first degree black belt in two American forms of combative martial arts.

Aviva Bel'Harold
Bel'Harold, Aviva

Aviva Bel'Harold writes young adult fiction: Horror, Science Fiction, Space Adventure, Urban Fantasy, etc. - as long as the characters are young, full of life and out for adventure. When writing, you'll find Aviva curled up on a sofa with her pen, a pad of paper, and a lap filled with adorable puppies. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Vancouver, Aviva Bel'Harold currently resides in Calgary with her husband, four children and 6 dachshunds.

Derrick Belanger
Belanger, Derrick

Derrick Belanger, PSI is an author and educator most noted for his books and lectures on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as his writing for the blogs I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog. Both volumes of his two-volume anthology, A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural were #1 best sellers on the Amazon.com U.K. Sherlock Holmes book list, and his MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes chapter book, Attack of the Violet Vampire! was also a #1 bestselling new release in the U.K. Through his press, Belanger Books, he has released a number of Sherlock Holmes anthologies as well as new editions of August Derleth’s original Solar Pons series. In 2019, Mr. Belanger received his investiture in the PSI as “Albert, the Dove”. In January 2020, Mr. Belanger was awarded the Susan Z. Diamond Award in recognition of outstanding efforts to introduce young people to Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Belanger’s academic work has been published in The Colorado Reading Journal and Gifted Child Today.

Michelle Belanger
Belanger, Michelle

Michelle Belanger is an American author, singer and prominent advocate of the vampire lifestyle community, a self-described "psychic vampire", and an active speaker and commentator for those interested in vampires and vampirism. She has authored several books on vampirism, paranormal and occult research, has appeared in television documentaries about magic and modern occultism, and formed a club or coven for psychic vampires, called House Kheperu. Belanger has performed as a vocalist with Gothic music bands, such as URN and Nox Arcana.

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David Belasco
Belasco, David

David Belasco (1853–1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.

R. S. Belcher
Belcher, R. S.

Rod Belcher won the Grand Prize in the Strange New Worlds SF-writing contest. He runs Cosmic Castle, a comic book shop in Roanoke, Virginia.

A. A. Bell
Bell, A. A.

Winner of the Prestigious 2011 Norma K Hemming Award for Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes (of race, gender, class, sexuality, disability etc) for Diamond Eyes.

First Writer to Win the Award twice! (Second time for Hindsight, in 2012)

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Alden Bell
Bell, Alden

Alden Bell is a pseudonym of Joshua Gaylord.

Alden Bell lives in New York with his wife, the Edgar-award-winning novelist Megan Abbott. For the past nine years, he has taught high school English at an Upper East Side prep school (a modern orthodox co-educational Yeshiva). Since 2002, he has also taught literature and cultural studies courses as an adjunct professor at the New School. Prior to coming to New York, he grew up in the heart of Orange County: Anaheim, home of Disneyland. He graduated from Berkeley with a degree in English and a minor in creative writing, where his instructors included Bharati Mukherjee, Leonard Michaels and Maxine Hong Kingston. In 2000, he received his Master's and Ph.D. in English at New York University, specializing in twentieth-century American and British literature.

Alex Bell
Bell, Alex

Alex Bell is a frighteningly talented law student, and an exceptionally able debut novelist.

Art Bell
Bell, Art

Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III (born 1945) is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland. Semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM since 2003, he hosted the show many weekends for the following four years.

Catrina Bell
Bell, Catrina

Catrina is a study in contrasts

- a creative at heart with a stable office job

- a social butterfly with uncontrolled resting-witch-face

- a serial hobbyist except when it comes to one thing - writing.

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Hilari Bell
Bell, Hilari

Hilari Bell (born in 1958) is an American fantasy author. She is the author of several science fiction and fantasy novels including the critically acclaimed Farsala Trilogy.

Jadrien Bell
Bell, Jadrien

Jadrien Bell is a pseudonym of Christie Golden.

Jay Bell
Bell, Jay

Jay Bell never gave much thought to Germany until he met a handsome foreign exchange student. At that moment, beer and pretzels became the most important thing in the world. After moving to Germany and getting married, Jay found himself desperate to communicate the feelings of alienation, adventure, and love that surrounded this decision, and has been putting pen to paper ever since.

Jennifer Bell
Bell, Jennifer

Londoner Jennifer Bell began working in children’s books as a specialist bookseller at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, one of the world’s most famous bookstores. After having the privilege of listening to children talk about their favorite books for many years, she started writing a book of her own on her lunch breaks.

Matt Bell
Bell, Matt

Matt Bell's first story collection, How They Were Found, was published in 2010 by Keyhole Press, and was reviewed in The BelieverAmerican Book Review, and Bookslut, among many other venues. In 2012, Cataclysm Baby, a novella, was published by Mud Luscious Press, with blurbs by Karen Russell, Lucy Corin, Lance Olsen, and Chris Bachelder. Bell's fiction has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2010Best American Fantasy 2, and 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers, and shortlisted in Best American Short Stories 2010 and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He serves as Senior Editor at Dzanc Books and teaches writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

P. G. Bell
Bell, P. G.

P. G. Bell is a native of south Wales, where he was raised on a diet of Greek mythology, ghost stories, and Doctor Who. He’s had all sorts of jobs over the years, from lifeguard to roller coaster operator, but has always wanted to write stories for a living. His dream came true with the publication of the Train to Impossible Places series. He currently works as a library assistant for Cardiff University and lives in Wales with his wife, Anna, and their two children.

Peter Bell
Bell, Peter

Peter Bell has written articles and stories for All Hallows, The Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter, Wormwood, Faunus, and Supernatural Tales; his work has also been published by Ash-Tree Press, Gray Friar Press, Side Real Press, The Scarecrow Press and Hippocampus Press. He is a historian, a native of Liverpool, an inhabitant of York, and likes to wander the hidden places of Scotland and the North of England.

Thornton Bell
Bell, Thornton

Thornton Bell is a pseudonym of R. L. Fanthorpe.

John Bellairs
Bellairs, John

John Anthony Bellairs (19381991) was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost, as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.

Edward Bellamy
Bellamy, Edward

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000.

Phoebe Belle
Belle, Phoebe

Phoebe Belle lives on Earth and dreams about the galaxy. She loves escaping into happily-ever-afters, her family - human, canine and maybe even alien (not willing to rule that out because you never know!) - coffee and cooking. She writes sci-fi romance with smokin’ hot alien cowboys. 

Brendan Bellecourt
Bellecourt, Brendan

A pseudonym of Bradley P. Beaulieu.

Brendan Bellecourt began writing his first fantasy novel in college, but in the way of these things, it was set aside as life intervened. As time went on, though, Brendan realized that his love of writing and telling tales wasn't going to just slink quietly into the night. He has written nine novels, two collections and countless short stories since then. He also runs the highly successful science fiction and fantasy podcast, Speculate.

Rhoda Belleza
Belleza, Rhoda

Rhoda Belleza was raised in Los Angeles, where she grew up writing X-Files fanfiction and stuffing her face with avocados. When she’s not writing, Rhoda obsesses over nail art tutorials, watches kung fu movies, and sews together crooked things that pass for clothes. She’s an editor at Paper Lantern Lit and of Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance, and her work has appeared on the rumpus.net. She lives in a sunny Brooklyn apartment with far too many bikes and far too many shoes. Empress of a Thousand Skies is her debut novel.

Joshua David Bellin
Bellin, Joshua David

Joshua David Bellin has been writing books since the age of eight (though his first few were admittedly very, very short). He is the author of Survival Colony 9 and its sequel, Scavenger of Souls. When he’s not writing, he spends his time drawing, catching amphibians, and watching monster movies with his kids. A Pittsburgh native, Josh has taught college English, published three nonfiction books (one about monsters!), and taken part in the movement to protect the environment.

John Claude Bemis
Bemis, John Claude

An inspiring speaker and entertaining performer, John Claude Bemis brings his passions for music, folklore, and spinning exciting tales to his novels and presentations. The first novel in his Clockwork Dark trilogy, The Nine Pound Hammer, was nominated for the North Carolina Children’s Book Award and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Children’s Book for Reading and Sharing. The trilogy continues with The Wolf Tree and The White City and has been described as “original and fresh” and “a unique way of creating fantasy.” His latest novel is The Prince Who Fell from the Sky. A musician and educator, John lives with his wife and daughter in Hillsborough, NC.

Jessica Bendinger
Bendinger, Jessica

Jessica Bendinger is a movie writer, producer, and director who lives in Los Angeles. She has written such screenplays as Bring It On andStick It. The Seven Rays is her first teen novel.

A. K. Benedict
Benedict, A. K.

A. K. Benedict read English at Cambridge and Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. She lives in Hastings and writes in a room filled with teapots and the severed head of a ventriloquist’s dummy. She did have a blow-up pirate but punctured it.

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Laura Benedict
Benedict, Laura

Laura Benedict's short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and a number of anthologies. For the past decade she has worked as a freelance book reviewer for The Grand Rapids Press in Michigan and other newspapers. She lives in southern Illinois, with her husband, Pinckney Benedict, and their two children. Isabella Moon is her first novel.

Barry Benefield
Benefield, Barry

Barry Benefield (John Barry Benefield, 1877–1971) was an American writer, some of whose books were adapted for the cinema. His being born and spending much of his life in Texas is more than a biographical detail: Benefield had been mentioned as "One of The Lone Star writers", who "Followed the Southern tradition".

Gregory Benford
Benford, Gregory

Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation’s Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape, and The Berlin Project. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Sean Benham
Benham, Sean

Sean Benham is a Toronto-based entertainment industry professional who has worked as an art director, graphic animator, writer and producer on everything from Emmy award-winning children's television programming to heavy metal music videos. Blope is his first novel.

Chloe Benjamin
Benjamin, Chloe

Chloe Benjamin is the author of THE IMMORTALISTS, a New York Times Bestseller, #1 Indie Next Pick for January 2018, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, #1 Library Reads pick, and Amazon Best Book of the Month.

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Curt Benjamin
Benjamin, Curt

Curt Benjamin is a pseudonym used by an author who normally writes contemporary fantasy. He has a degree in art from Antioch University. In his spare time, he is a designer and children's illustrator.

Kamilla Benko
Benko, Kamilla

Kamilla Benko spent most of her childhood climbing into wardrobes, trying to step through mirrors, and plotting to run away to an art museum. Now, she visits other worlds as a children’s book editor. She currently lives in New York with her bookshelves, teapot, and hiking boots. She is the author of The Unicorn Quest series.

Mitch Benn
Benn, Mitch

Mitch Benn found fame as the singer of spectacularly angry, clever and funny songs on the Now Show. He tours regularly and is in pretty much permanent residence with his band at the Phoenix Theatre in Bloomsbury. He is married and has a young daughter.

Danielle Bennett
Bennett, Danielle

Danielle Bennett is from Victoria, BC, where she studied English literature at Camosun College. She has never seen a firefly, but has held many interesting jobs that merely got in the way of writing, and knows exactly how to make your decaf iced Venti unsweetened one pump mocha soy café con leche. Her parts of Havemercy were written between four A.M. openings at Starbucks. This is her first published work, but definitely not her last.

Gary L. Bennett
Bennett, Gary L.

Gary L. Bennett (born 1940) is an American scientist and engineer, specializing in aerospace and energy. He has worked for NASA and the US Department of Energy (DOE) on advanced space power systems and advanced space propulsion systems. His professional career has included work on the Voyager, Galileo, and Ulysses space missions, and is currently working as a consultant in aerospace power and propulsion systems. He is also a science fiction author (The Star Sailors).

James Bennett
Bennett, James

James Bennett is a British writer of fantasy and horror. Born in Loughborough and raised in Sussex, South Africa and Cornwall, his travels have furnished him with an abiding love of different cultures, history and mythology. He's had several short stories published internationally and draws inspiration from long walks, deep forests and old stones. Also the odd bottle of wine. James Bennett currently lives in West Wales, his spiritual home.

Jenn Bennett
Bennett, Jenn

Jenn Bennett is an artist and RITA-nominated author of the Arcadia Bell urban fantasy series; the Roaring Twenties romance series, including Bitter Spirits, which was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014 and winner of RT Reviewers’ Choice Paranormal Romance Book of the Year; and Grave Phantoms, which was awarded RT’s May Seal of Excellence for 2015. She is also the author of The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (a.k.a. Night Owls in the UK); Alex, ApproximatelyStarry Eyes; and Serious Moonlight. She lives near Atlanta with one husband and two evil pugs.

Robert Jackson Bennett
Bennett, Robert Jackson

Robert Jackson Bennett is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was shortlisted for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. City of Blades was a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. City of Miracles is in stores now, and the entire Divine Cities trilogy is currently nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Series.

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Veronica Bennett
Bennett, Veronica

Veronica Bennett is a children's novelist. She previously worked part-time as an English Lecturer and now writes fiction full-time. She graduated from University College, Cardiff in 1975 with an Honors degree in English. She began her writing career as a freelance journalist, but soon moved into fiction. Her first book, Monkey, was published in 1998 and was acclaimed by The Times Educational Supplement as "an impressively well-written and audacious debut". Veronica Bennett is married with two children, and currently resides in Middlesex.

Pierre Benoît
Benoît, Pierre

Pierre Benoît (1886–1962) was a French novelist and member of the Académie française.

Pierre Benoît, born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoît spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant. His first novel, Koenigsmark, was published during 1918; L'Atlantide was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française. Benoît became a member of the Académie during 1931.

A. C. Benson
Benson, A. C.

Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925) was an English essayist, poet and author, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

A. C. Benson's poems and volumes of essays, such as From a College Window, were famous in his day, and he left one of the longest diaries ever written, some four million words. Today he is best remembered as the author of the words to one of Britain's best-loved patriotic songs, Land of Hope and Glory, and as a brother to novelist E. F. Benson.

Amber Benson
Benson, Amber

As an actress, Amber Benson has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the fan-favorite role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson wrote, produced, and directed the feature films Chance and Lovers, Liars and Lunatics.

E. F. Benson
Benson, E. F.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E. F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

R. H. Benson
Benson, R. H.

Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson. Benson was educated at Eton College, and then studied Classics and Theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1890 to 1893. In 1895, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father, Edward White Benson, who was then Archbishop of Canterbury.

C. F. Bentley
Bentley, C. F.

C. F. Bentley is a pseudonym of Irene Radford.

S. A. Bentley
Bentley, S. A.

S A Bentley was born and spent her childhood on the outskirts of London before marrying and moving to the Midlands. She has three children and three grandchildren and these, plus her love of the natural world, were the inspiration for The Fairies of King Oak: For Children of All Ages Who Believe in Fairies.

Sabrina Benulis
Benulis, Sabrina

Sabrina Benulis graduated with a masters from Seton Hill University. Her books include the first two entries in the Books of Raziel series, Archon and Covenant. She currently resides in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband and a spoiled cockatiel.

Derek Benz
Benz, Derek

Born in the wrong place, and unquestionably the wrong time, Derek spent most of his early years trying to figure out where he was and why he was different than everyone else. By the age of five, he had stumbled upon the answer: the rest of humanity was really nothing more than an elaborate hoax of cleverly disguised robots, and he was the only real human among them. Having overcome that mystery, he set out with other young members of the Grey Griffins (a super-secret club) to protect the world from darkness and bring about a better world through friendship, wit, and superbly-made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

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Sarah Beran
Beran, Sarah

Sarah lives in sunny southern California with her husband, two small children, and dog Pippin. An elementary music teacher by day, when she is not writing or devouring books she spends her free time running, making music, or playing make believe.

 

Sylvie Bérard
Bérard, Sylvie

Sylvie Bérard was born in Montreal in 1965. She completed her graduate studies at UQAM and holds a Ph. D. in Literature. She joined Trent University in 1998 and, after spending a year at Queen's University in 1999, returned to Trent and has been teaching Quebec literature in the Modern Languages and Literature Department there since that time.

Nancy Varian Berberick
Berberick, Nancy Varian

Nancy Varian Berberick also writes as Nancy Virginia Varian.

Dave Berenato
Berenato, Dave

Dave Berenato lives in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania where he attends the high school of Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware. He is currently 15, and lives with his two siblings, a dog, and his parents. His 16 year old brother Matt and his 12 year old sister Julia, along with his dog, Jagger, help him with his book and inspire him with new ideas everyday.

Carol Berg
Berg, Carol

Carol Berg is the author of several fantasy novels, including the books from the Rai-Kirah series, Song of the Beast, and the books from The Bridge of D'Arnath series.

Carol Berg holds a degree in mathematics from Rice University, and a degree in computer science from the University of Colorado. Before writing full-time, she designed software. She lives in Colorado, and is the mother of three boys.

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Stacey Berg
Berg, Stacey

Stacey Berg is a medical researcher who writes speculative fiction. Her work as a physician-scientist provides the inspiration for many of her stories. She lives with her wife in Houston and is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas. When she’s not writing, she practices kung fu and runs half marathons.

David Bergamini
Bergamini, David

David Bergamini (1928–1983) was an American author who wrote books on 20th century history and popular science, notably mathematics. Bergamini was interned as an Allied Civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother and father for the duration of World War II.

Robert D. Berger
Berger, Robert D.

Robert D. Berger, born in April 1963, spent most of his life travelling the world.

Following his father’s twenty-two year military career, Robert served in the US Navy for seven. The idea for his manuscript came to him deep beneath the ocean onboard the fast-attack submarine, USS Sunfish.

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E. P. Berglund
Berglund , E. P.

E. P. Berglund is a pseudonym of Edward P. Berglund.

Lisa Tawn Bergren
Bergren, Lisa Tawn

Lisa Tawn Bergren is the best-selling, award-winning author of over 35 books, with more than 2 million copies sold. 

Lisa’s time is split between managing home base, writing (including a fair amount of travel writing), consulting and freelance editing (with a little speaking here and there). She’s married to Tim, a liturgical sculptor, graphic designer and musician. They have three kids–Olivia (15), Emma (12) and Jack (7). 

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Elaine Bergstrom
Bergstrom, Elaine

Elaine Bergstrom is an American fantasy and horror author. She also writes as Marie Kiraly.

Ari Berk
Berk, Ari

Ari Berk is the author of the Undertaken trilogy and Nightsong, illustrated by Loren Long. He works in a library filled to the ceiling with thousands of arcane books and more than a few wondrous artifacts. When not writing, he moonlights as professor of mythology and folklore at Central Michigan University. He lives in Michigan with his wife and son.

Jon Berkeley
Berkeley, Jon

Jon Berkeley was born in Dublin at a time when suits were collarless and there were no bootprints on the moon. He was educated by stern men with elbow patches, in a school where you were allowed to go to the bathroom only if you asked in Irish.

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Janet Berliner
Berliner, Janet

1939-2012.

Steve Berman
Berman, Steve

Steve Berman has been writing stories both queer and strange for many years. He has had more than 80 articles and short stories sold and his work has appeared in the fantasy anthologies The Faery Reel and The Coyote Road. Mr. Berman has also edited the book So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction. He once worked as a professional bookbuyer to expand his personal library and he now lives in southern New Jersey surrounded by many old and odd books.

Michel Bernanos
Bernanos, Michel

Michel Bernanos (1924–1964) was a French author.

Christine Ruth Bernard
Bernard, Christine Ruth

 
Christine Ruth Bernard, 1926-2000, she was on the staff of Swift and Robin, a publisher of children’s comics, in the late 1950s and contributed to Swift Annual 6 and 7 (1959-60). From the mid-1960s, she edited a number of well-received horror anthologies for Fontana Books and Armada.

Rafe Bernard
Bernard, Rafe

Rafe Bernard is a pen name of Reginald Alec Martin

Romily Bernard
Bernard, Romily

Romily Bernard is the author of the Munchem Academy books: The Boy Who Knew Too Much and The Girl Who Knew Even More. Bernard graduated from Georgia State University with a literature degree. Her debut young adult book, Find Me, won the Golden Hearts Awards for YA Romance. She lives in Georgia with her husband and daughter.

Beth Bernobich
Bernobich, Beth

Beth Bernobich is a writer, reader, mother, geek, and sometime student of the martial arts. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Baen's Universe, Interzone, Polyphony, and Strange Horizons.

She also writes under the pseudonym of Claire O'Dell.

Jonathan Bernstein
Bernstein, Jonathan

Jonathan Bernstein is a Scottish-born, L.A.-based screenwriter, author and journalist, and has written articles for Entertainment Weekly, Arena, Spin, Teen People, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, and Time Out New York. Hottie is his first novel.

C. R. Berry
Berry, C. R.

C. R. Berry caught the writing bug at the tender age of four and has never recovered. His earliest stories were filled with witches, monsters, evil headteachers, Disney characters and the occasional Dalek. He realised pretty quickly that his favourite characters were usually the villains. He wonders if that’s what led him to become a criminal lawyer. It’s certainly why he’s taken to writing conspiracy thrillers, where the baddies are numerous and everywhere.

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Jedediah Berry
Berry, Jedediah

Jedediah Berry holds an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has been published in Best New American Voices 2008 (his story was described by Kirkus Reviews as a "mordant, gripping fantasy") as well as in literary magazines and online fiction sites. By day, he is an assistant editor at Small Beer Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Julie Berry
Berry, Julie

Julie Berry grew up in western New York. She holds a BS from Rensselaer in communication and an MFA from Vermont College in writing for children and young adults. She now lives in southern California with her husband and four sons.

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Kit Berry
Berry, Kit

Kit Berry is the author of the Stonewylde series, a fantasy series set in the fictional community of Stonewylde.

Steve Berry
Berry, Steve

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Cotton Malone adventures. His books have been translated into 41 languages with 25,000,000 copies in 52 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. Somewhere in the world, every thirty seconds, a Steve Berry book is sold.

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T. J. Berry
Berry, T. J.

T. J. Berry has been a political blogger, bakery owner, and spent a disastrous two weeks working in a razor blade factory. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Seattle with considerably fewer on the job injuries, and co-hosts the Warp Drives Podcast with her husband. Her fiction has appeared on Pseudopod and PodCastle.

Shane Berryhill
Berryhill, Shane

Shane Berryhill is a novelist and comic book writer. His work has been praised by Publishers Weekly, NPR, NBC Today.com, Wired Magazine, Horror World, and others. He's been a guest and speaker at events ranging from the National Council of English Teachers conference to San Diego Comic Con.

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Julie Bertagna
Bertagna, Julie

Julie Bertagna (born in 1962) is a Scottish author who has written real life and science fiction novels for both children and young adults. Her books have been shortlisted for several literature awards, including the Carnegie Medal and her novel Exodus was the winner of the Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award. Soundtrack, her second novel for young adults, won a Scottish Arts Council Award, the second highest award ever given to a Scottish children's writer.

Eddy C. Bertin
Bertin, Eddy C.

Eddy has published over twenty-five books, novels, story collections and three poetry collections for adults. Under various pseudonyms his work has included over sixty pulp novels and serials, westerns, novels with plenty of sex and horror, thrillers, murder mysteries, comic erotic novels, and so on. He remarked that, "It paid more than my literary work did". During the sixties and seventies he was very active in fan writing, working for some fifty fanzines, and finally publishing his own SF-Gids (SF Guide), which ran for 140 issues over eighteen years. When the boom in horror disappeared in the Netherlands in 1984, rather than switching to writing mystery or historical romances, he continued in the horror field, but now writing for children. However, he grumbles that, "All of my novels have to be cut because they are mostly too gruesome for younger readers!"

Joanne Bertin
Bertin, Joanne

Joanne Bertin is the author of the novels The Last DragonlordDragon and Phoenix and Bard’s Oath. She lives in Connecticut.

Lynne Bertrand
Bertrand, Lynne

Lynne Bertrand is the author of two books for very young readers. City of the Uncommon Thief is her first book for young adult readers. She works in A&R for a music label and lives with her family in Northampton, MA.

Amelinda Bérubé
Bérubé, Amelinda

Amelinda Bérubé has been a writer and editor with a small department in the Canadian public service since 2008. She holds a bachelor of humanities from Carleton University and a master of arts from McGill.

Tanvi Berwah
Berwah, Tanvi

Tanvi Berwah is a South Asian writer who grew up wanting to touch the stars and reach back in time. Her debut YA novel MONSTERS BORN AND MADE, a book that has something to say and isn’t afraid to say it to your face (Lightspeed Magazine), is out now. She graduated from the University of Delhi with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Literature of English, and always found ways to fit in The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones in her academic life. A history and space enthusiast, she would’ve loved to be an astronomer, had her lack of mathematical skills allowed it.

Alexander Besher
Besher, Alexander

Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951) is a San Francisco-based author, journalist and novelist, and former contributing editor to Infoworld magazine. He was born to Russian parents and raised and educated in Japan, graduating from Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan, in 1967.

Marshall Best
Best, Marshall

Marshall Best is an avid reader, father of six and business owner. In the past several years he has found his love of writing as well. What began as a desire to write a story for his children has evolved into a nine book series.

Marshall has done extensive research into the history behind the legends, people and places of England, Scotland and Ireland involved in his books. He loves being able to weave real people and legends into his stories making them come alive. He is definitely a writer that tends to the details often mapping out timetables, calendars, geneologies, etc. that pertain to his book to ensure that it is as realistic as possible.

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Alfred Bester
Bester, Alfred

Alfred Bester (1913–1987) was an American science fiction author. He won the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man.

John Gregory Betancourt
Betancourt, John Gregory

John Gregory Betancourt (born 1963) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels as well as short stories. He has worked as an assistant editor at Amazing Stories and editor of Horror: The Newsmagazine of the Horror Field, the revived Weird Tales magazine, the first issue of H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror (which he subsequently hired Marvin Kaye to edit), Cat Tales magazine (which he subsequently hired George H. Scithers to edit), and Adventure Tales magazine.

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Zillah Bethell
Bethell, Zillah

Zillah Bethell was born in a leprosy hospital in Papua New Guinea, spent her childhood barefoot playing in the jungle, and didn’t own a pair of shoes until she came to the United Kingdom when she was eight years old. She was educated at Oxford University and lives in Wales with her family. A Whisper of Horses was her first children’s book. She is also the author of The Extraordinary Colors of Auden Dare.

Bruce Bethke
Bethke, Bruce

Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author, best known for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term, and his novel, Headcrash.

Lauren Beukes
Beukes, Lauren

Lauren Beukes is a journalist who has contributed to The Big Issue, Colors, The Hollywood Reporter, Marie Claire, Nature Medicine, and The Sunday Times. She is the head writer for the TV cartoon Clockwork Zoo Animation, the cocreator of the show URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, and the author of Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past, which was nominated for the Sunday Times Alan Paton nonfiction award.

Katharine Beutner
Beutner, Katharine

Katharine Beutner grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA in classical studies from Smith College in 2003, and she recently completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is currently a PhD student in eighteenth-century British literature. Her work has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Alcestis is her first novel.

Jason Beveridge
Beveridge, Jason

Although I qualified as an environmental scientist, specialising in marine biology, range land ecology and freshwater limnology, fate took me into the world of business, working for major corporations.

My creative journey began while living in London, designing a fantasy board game titled the Middle Kingdom of Mu. In quiet moments, often travelling overseas, I had fun writing the lore and inventing the different realms. Why a board game? Back then, I thought digital games would deprive our two sons of social interaction and limit their development. How the world has since changed.

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Kirsten Beyer
Beyer, Kirsten

Kirsten Beyer is the author of Star Trek: Voyager - Protectors, The Eternal Tide, Children of the Storm, Unworthy, Full Circle, String Theory: Fusion, the APO novel Alias - Once Lost, and contributed the short story “Isabo’s Shirt” to the Distant Shores anthology. In 2006 Kirsten appeared at Hollywood’s Unknown Theater in their productions of Johnson Over Jordan, This Old Planet, and Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse, which the Los Angeles Times called “unmissable.” She also appeared in the Geffen Playhouse’s world premiere of Quills and has been seen on General Hospital, Passions, and the indie feature Stomping Grounds. She has also been featured in several commercials. She lives in Los Angeles.

Mike Bezemek
Bezemek, Mike

Mike Bezemek is a writer, photographer, editor, and teacher. He’s contributed work to a variety of publications, including Canoe & Kayak Magazine, Bull, Hobart, The Morning News, FalconGuides, and elsewhere. He’s not the Mike Bezemek that lives in Texas. He’s the other one.

Tanaz Bhathena
Bhathena, Tanaz

Tanaz Bhathena is the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl Like That, which received two starred reviews. It was also shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association White Pine Award, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, a Quill & Quire Book of the Year, a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens, and a New York Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens. Tanaz lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with her family.

James Bibby
Bibby, James

James Bibby is a fantasy author. He began his writing career in 1980 and wrote for, amongst others, Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry. He lives in Wirral with his family.

Ilsa J. Bick
Bick, Ilsa J.

Ilsa J. Bick is an award-winning science fiction author primarily known for her Star Trek novels and short stories, which began with publication in the Strange New Worlds anthology series. Her first Star Trek novel, Well of Souls, became a 2003 Barnes & Noble bestseller.

Ambrose Bierce
Bierce, Ambrose

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.

John Bierce
Bierce, John

John Bierce is a history buff, fantasy and science fiction lover, and fan of talking about himself in the third person. He also has a background in the earth sciences, and has been caught licking rocks before. For science.

John has also walked face first into automatic doors on multiple occasions. It's a real talent.

Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Biggle, Jr., Lloyd

Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923–2002), was a musician, author, and internationally known oral historian.

Enki Bilal
Bilal, Enki

Enes Bilal (born 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Slovak mother and a Bosniak father who had been Tito's tailor, he moved to Paris at the age of 9. At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story in 1972. In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin. Bilal is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (1980–1992). The books have been adapted into a movie Immortal (2004).

Franny Billingsley
Billingsley, Franny

While Billingsley's first novel, Well Wished (1997), was warmly received by critics, a year ago she was a virtual unknown within a publishing climate that regarded fantasy as a specialty genre. Today, her name is on the lips of booksellers and reviewers throughout the country. 

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David Bilsborough
Bilsborough, David

David Bilsborough grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and still lives there when not teaching overseas. His first novel (and first in this sequence) was The Wanderer’s Tale which is followed by A Fire in the North.

Eando Binder
Binder, Eando

Eando Binder is a pseudonym for two brothers, Earl Andrew Binder (1904–1965) and Otto Binder (1911–1974), who were science fiction authors in the mid-20th century. The name is derived from their first initials ("E and O Binder") and should perhaps be regarded as a "parapseudonym". In practice, many of the works of Eando Binder were written by Otto alone.

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Otto Binder
Binder, Otto

Otto Binder wrote several novels with his brother, Earl Andrew Binder, under the pseudonym of Eando Binder.

Otto Binder is perhaps best known as a writer for the Captain Marvel line of comic books published by Fawcett Comics (1941–1953).

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. His best known work is the novella The Invention of Morel (1940). Admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's postwar boom.

Carol Birch
Birch, Carol

Carol Birch is the author of ten novels including Scapegallows and Turn Again Home, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. She has won the Geoffrey Faber Award and the David Higham Award. She lives in Lancashire.

Chandler J. Birch
Birch, Chandler J.

Chandler J. Birch grew up ignoring the Rocky Mountains in favor of Middle Earth, Narnia, and Temerant. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Kelsey, and their two dogs, Winter and Bandit. The Facefaker’s Game is his first novel.

Kate Jarvik Birch
Birch, Kate Jarvik

Kate Jarvik Birch is a visual artist, author, playwright, daydreamer, and professional procrastinator. As a child, she wanted to grow up to be either a unicorn or mermaid. Luckily, being a writer turned out to be just as magical. Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review and Saint Ann’s Review. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and three kids.

Allyson Bird
Bird, Allyson

Allyson Bird lives on the edge of the South Yorkshire moors in England, with her husband and young daughter. Occasionally she is drawn to strange places and people and they are occasionally drawn to her. Her favourite playground, as a child and adult, has been the village graveyard. Once she wondered what would happen if she took one of the green stones from a grave. She has been looking over her shoulder ever since but has never given it back.

Amber Bird
Bird, Amber

Amber Bird is a writer, a rockstar, and a scifi girl. She is the author of the Peaceforger books, the front of post-punk/post-glam band Varnish, and an unabashed geek. An autistic introvert who found that music, books, and gaming saved her in many ways throughout her life, she writes (books, poems, lyrics, blogs) and makes music in hopes of adding to someone else's escape or rescue. And, yes, she was on that Magic card.

Carmel Bird
Bird, Carmel

Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania. She has written literary novels and collections of short fiction. She has also written books on the art of writing, and has edited six anthologies of essays and stories. She has taught fiction writing at the Universities of Melbourne, Deakin, Latrobe, Monash, Swinburne and RMIT. She has spoken at major literary events throughout Australia, as well as in England, Canada, USA, France and Spain.

Mikkel Birkegaard
Birkegaard, Mikkel

Mikkel Birkegaard is a Danish author of fantasy fiction. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Charles Birkin
Birkin, Charles

Sir Charles Lloyd Birkin, 5th Baronet (1907–1986) was an English author of horror short stories and the editor of the Creeps Library of anthologies. Typically working under the pseudonym Charles Lloyd, Birkin's tales tended towards the contes cruels rather than supernatural fiction.

John Birmingham
Birmingham, John

John Birmingham (born 1964) is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, and his Axis of Time trilogy.

 

David Bischoff
Bischoff, David

David F. Bischoff (born 1951) is an American author. He also writes as Mark Grant.

Cristin Bishara
Bishara, Cristin

Cristin Bishara has worked as a professional copywriter and graphic designer. Her writing has appeared on pasta boxes, in magazines and literary journals, as well as on countless pieces of junk mail. She has taught fiction writing and composition as an adjunct instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University, and fiction writing in the continuing education department at Edison Community College in Fort Myers, Florida.

Anne Bishop
Bishop, Anne

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop is a winner of the William L. Crawford Memorial Fantasy Award, presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, for The Black Jewels Trilogy. She is also the author of the Ephemera series, the Tir Alainn trilogy, and the Novels of the Others - including Etched in Bone, Marked in Flesh, Vision in Silver, Murder of Crows, and Written in Red. She lives in upstate New York.

David Bishop
Bishop, David

David Bishop is an award-winning screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD. He has since become a prolific author.

Jason Bishop
Bishop, Jason

We are a husband and wife writing team, with a deep affinity for high fantasy settings, epic storylines, and page-turning plots. We created the world of Cyrradon from a desire to tell a story in a fantasy world that feels familiar, but with some things you have never seen before. We write the stories we would want to read, with densely woven story arcs, memorable characters and compelling dialogue, politics, intrigue, and prophecy, all set against a well-developed world full of diverse cultures and colorful history. Writing these stories is our dream and our passion. Sharing them with your world is our privilege.

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Jeremy Bishop
Bishop, Jeremy

Jeremy Bishop is a pseudonym of Jeremy Robinson.

K. J. Bishop
Bishop, K. J.

K. J. Bishop (born 1972) is an Australian author. Her first novel is The Etched City (2003), which has invited comparison with Stephen King's Dark Tower series and China Mieville's imaginings. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.

Michael Bishop
Bishop, Michael

Michael Lawson Bishop (born 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

Michael Bishop has written mystery novels with Paul Di Filippo under the joint pseudonym Philip Lawson.

Rose Bishop
Bishop, Rose

We are a husband and wife writing team, with a deep affinity for high fantasy settings, epic storylines, and page-turning plots. We created the world of Cyrradon from a desire to tell a story in a fantasy world that feels familiar, but with some things you have never seen before. We write the stories we would want to read, with densely woven story arcs, memorable characters and compelling dialogue, politics, intrigue, and prophecy, all set against a well-developed world full of diverse cultures and colorful history. Writing these stories is our dream and our passion. Sharing them with your world is our privilege.

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Toby Bishop
Bishop, Toby

Toby Bishop is a pseudonym of Louise Marley.

Zealia Bishop
Bishop, Zealia

Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (1897–1968) was an American writer of short stories.

Her stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. However, they were extensively revised by H. P. Lovecraft to the point of being ghostwritten. At the time of Lovecraft's demise she owed an exorbitant amount to her ghostwriter and never paid him, leaving Lovecraft in crushing poverty.

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Terry Bisson
Bisson, Terry

Terry Ballantine Bisson (born 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

André Bjerke
Bjerke, André

Jarl André Bjerke (1918–1985) was a Norwegian writer and poet. He wrote a wide range of material: poems (both for children and adults), mystery novels (four of them under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge), essays, and articles. He translated works by Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe and Racine. Bjerke was known as a prominent proponent of the Riksmål language during the Norwegian language struggle, and of anthroposophy, especially in the 1950s. Several of Bjerke's poems have been set to music by Marcus Paus.

Aaron Blabey
Blabey, Aaron

Aaron Blabey is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author with around 30 million books in print. He is also the co-executive producer of The Bad Guys movie by DreamWorks Animation and the upcoming Netflix movie-musical adaptation of Thelma the Unicorn.

Bekka Black
Black, Bekka

Bekka Black is the pseudonym for mystery author Rebecca Cantrell, whose recent novel A Trace of Smoke received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. The book was reviewed by the New York Times, was chosen as a pick by numerous independent bookstores, and was a Writer's Digest Notable Debut.

D.D. Black
Black, D.D.

D.D. Black is the author of the Thomas Austin Crime Thrillers and other Pacific Northwest crime novels. When he's not writing, he can be found strolling the beaches of the Pacific Northwest, cooking dinner for his wife, and throwing a ball for his corgi over and over and over. To learn more, check out ddblackauthor.com, where you can join the VIP Reader Club for discounts, news, and more corgi photos than you ever knew you needed.

Gavin Black
Black, Gavin

Gavin Black lives with his wife and two boys in Reno, Nevada. Growing up, he spent his formative years in the hospital due to a congenital lung malady. He found an escape in fantasy and science fiction novels, beginning with the books of David Eddings and followed by so many of the greats: Tolkien, Heinlein, and Asimov, among others. He was always drawn to stories with deep character development and that defied readers’ expectations. When not writing, he can be found playing board games with his family and friends, reading, or discussing the varied merits of many a pop culture franchise.

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Holly Black
Black, Holly

Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award and the Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic Award, a Nebula, and a Newbery Honor. Her books have been translated into 32 languages worldwide and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library.

J. Patrick Black
Black, J. Patrick

J. Patrick Black has worked as a bartender, a small-town lawyer, a homebuilder, and a costumed theme park character, all while living a secret double life as a fiction writer. While fiction is now his profession, he still finds occasion to ply his other trades as well. Ninth City Burning is his first novel.

Jaid Black
Black, Jaid

Jaid Black (born 1972) is the pen name of Tina Engler, owner and founder of Ellora's Cave Publishing, Cerridwen Press, and Gothik Grounds. Under her pen name, she is a bestselling, prolific author of numerous erotic romance novels, typically adorned with a science fiction edge.

James Black
Black, James

Robin Hood vs the Plague Undead is James Black's debut novel. He loves blood and guts and bows and arrows equally, and is delighted he didn't have to choose between the two in this book! He lives in London, and only sometimes eats intestines for lunch.

Jenna Black
Black, Jenna

Jenna Black (born 1965) is an American author.

Jenna Black is your typical writer. Which means she's an "experience junkie." She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University. Once upon a time, she dreamed she would be the next Jane Goodall, camping in the bush making fabulous discoveries about primate behavior. Then, during her senior year at Duke, she did some actual research in the field and made this shocking discovery: primates spend something like 80% of their time doing such exciting things as sleeping and eating. Concluding that this discovery was her life's work in the field of primatology, she then moved on to such varied pastimes as grooming dogs and writing technical documentation.

Levi Black
Black, Levi

Levi Black lives in Metro Atlanta with his wife and an array of toys, books, records, and comics. He's been weird his whole life and is almost as scary as he looks.

Pansy E. Black
Black, Pansy E.

Pansy Ellen Beach, 1890 – 1957, known by the pen name Pansy E. Black, was an American stenographer and writer of science fiction and fantasy.

Paul Black
Black, Paul

Paul Black (born 1957) is an American graphic artist, designer and writer of science fiction. He is best known for his near-future science fiction trilogy, The Tels.

Robert Black
Black, Robert

Robert Black is a pseudonym of Robert Holdstock.

Shayla Black
Black, Shayla

Shayla Black is the nationally bestselling author of more than twenty sizzling contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances, including the Doomsday Brethren novels Tempt Me with Darkness and Possess Me at Midnight. Her novel Decadent was nominated for Best Erotic Romance of 2007 by Romantic Times. She lives in Texas with her family.

Tasha Black
Black, Tasha

Tasha Black is a USA Today bestselling author of SciFi, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance. She’s an adventurous soul who loves traveling, reading anything she can get her hands on, making up cozy, otherworldly stories, and sipping pumpkin spice lattes, even when she’s in warm climates!

John Blackburn
Blackburn, John

John Fenwick Blackburn (1923–1993) was a British novelist who wrote thrillers, horror novels, and The Flame and the Wind (1967), an unusual historical novel set in Roman times, in which a nephew of Pontius Pilate tries to discover the facts about the crucifixion of Jesus.

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Livia Blackburne
Blackburne, Livia

Livia Blackburne has a PhD in neuroscience from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducted research on the neural correlates of reading. She still blogs on the intersection of writing and brain science. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Midnight Thief is her debut novel.

Sabrina Blackburry
Blackburry, Sabrina

I'm Sabrina Blackburry, a fantasy writer with a love for morally gray characters, enemies to lovers, and fated mates. My characters are often looking for their foothold in the world, even if they don't know what they want that to look like at first. If I write for anything, I write to put love and magic into the world and I hope my books can bring a smile to a few faces.

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Malorie Blackman
Blackman, Malorie

Malorie Blackman OBE (born 1962) is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

Stephen Blackmoore
Blackmoore, Stephen

Stephen Blackmoore is the author of the urban fantasy novels City of the Lost and Dead Things and the 1930s pulp novel Khan of Mars. His short stories have appeared in the magazines Needle, Plots With Guns, Spinetingler, Thrilling Detective and Shots, as well as the anthologies Deadly Treats, Don’t Read This Book and Uncage Me.

Leigh Blackmore
Blackmore, Leigh

Leigh David Blackmore (born 1959) is an Australian horror writer, critic, and editor.

Thomas Blackthorne
Blackthorne, Thomas

Thomas Blackthorne is a pseudonym of John Meaney.

Charlotte Blackwell
Blackwell, Charlotte

Charlotte Blackwell is a Canadian author.

Juliet Blackwell
Blackwell, Juliet

Juliet Blackwell is the pseudonym for the New York Times bestselling author who writes the Witchcraft Mystery series and the Haunted Home Renovation series. She is also the author of Letters from Paris and The Paris Key. Together with her sister, Juliet wrote the Art Lover's Mystery series. The first in that series, Feint of Art, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

Paul E. Blackwell
Blackwell, Paul E.

Paul E. Blackwell never went over a waterfall himself, but he has jumped off a sixty-foot cliff. Once was enough. Undercurrent is his first book for teens. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Algernon Blackwood
Blackwood, Algernon

Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was a British author of fantasy, horror and weird fiction.

Emily Blackwood
Blackwood, Emily

Emily Blackwood is an emerging author of mature young adult and new adult fantasy novels. She has independently published multiple books, including the Wicked Flames Saga and the Fae of Rewyth series. Emily loves writing magical stories with strong heroines who overcome the impossible and defeat their inner demons. 

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Gary Blackwood
Blackwood, Gary

Gary Blackwood (born 1945) is an American author of popular books for young readers including The Shakespeare Stealer, Shakespeare's Scribe, and Shakespeare's Spy.

Marion Blackwood
Blackwood, Marion

Marion Blackwood is the author of 'The Oncoming Storm' series, the 'Court of Elves' series, and the 'Ruthless Villains' series. She has a Master’s Degree in English and History Education, and she worked as a high school teacher before becoming a full-time author. When she is not busy writing fantasy books or traveling the world, she reads, binges shows, and loses at video games. Marion has previously lived in the US and China, but now she once again calls the beautiful country of Sweden home.

Sage Blackwood
Blackwood, Sage

Sage Blackwood lives at the edge of a large forest, with thousands of books and a very old dog, and enjoys carpentry, cooking, and walking in the woods of New York State.

Adam Blade
Blade, Adam

Adam Blade is the house name for the Working Partners Ltd. ghostwriters who write the Beast Quest and Sea Quest series.

Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.

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Chris Blaine
Blaine, Chris

Chris Blaine is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Massie.

Bella Blair
Blair, Bella

I love alien romance and the variety it offers. 

Katharyn Blair
Blair, Katharyn

Katharyn Blair is a novelist and screenwriter. She graduated with her MFA in 2015 and is finishing her MA in literature. She’s been a social media coordinator for several films at 20th Century Fox, an intern at her city’s parks and recreation department, a gymnastics coach, and, most recently, a writing professor at Azusa Pacific University. She lives outside of Los Angeles with her family.

Melissa Blair
Blair, Melissa

Melissa (she/her/kwe) is an Anishinaabe-kwe of mixed ancestry living in Turtle Island. She splits her time between Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Canada. She has a graduate degree in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, loves movies, and hates spoons. Melissa has a BookTok account where she discusses her favourite kinds of books including Indigenous and queer fiction, feminist literature, and non-fiction. A Broken Blade is her first novel.

S. G. Blaise
Blaise, S. G.

Inspired by her own upbringing in Hungary under Soviet oppression, author S.G. Blaise wants young readers to know they don’t have to be perfect to be a hero. A Goodreads reader favorite – over 300 reviews for The Last Lumenian and a 4.5-STAR average – Blaise burst on the scene to scoop up over a dozen prestigious awards in 2020 and is on track to continue the trend in 2021. Her latest release True Teryn comes out in December 2021.

Andrew Blake
Blake, Andrew

Andrew Blake has taught cultural studies in London and Winchester, where he is Head of Cultural Studies at King Alfred's College. He has written and edited books on music, sport and fiction, and he reviews regularly for the Independent.

Bridget Blake
Blake, Bridget

Bridget Blake is an Australian living in the United Kingdom who devours smutty stories like it’s her job. If she can’t find what she wants to read, she writes it herself. The filthier, the better.

Her love of romance began with reading fan fiction on her family’s dial-up computer under the cloak of midnight, and her love for paranormal romance grew from there. Growly Alphas and sassy Omegas are what currently get her going.

When she isn’t writing something dirty, she enjoys gaming with her husband and cuddling their geriatric cat. She’s lived in coastal surfing villages, outback Australian mining towns, central London, and now the British countryside.

Her experiences shape her stories and she believes reading should be a delightful escape with happy endings. I’m an independent author and open to suggestions.

If you spot any mistakes or would like to chat, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.

David Blake
Blake, David

With number one bestsellers in both the UK and Australia, to date David has written twenty-three books along with a collection of short stories. He's currently working on his twenty-fourth, Swanton Morley, which is the next in his series of fast-paced crime thrillers. When not writing, David likes to spend his time mucking about in boats, often in the Norfolk Broads, where his crime fiction books are based.

E. C. Blake
Blake, E. C.

A pseudonym of Edward Willett.

Elly Blake
Blake, Elly

Elly Blake loves fairy tales, old houses, and owls. After earning a degree in English literature, she held a series of seemingly random jobs, including project manager, customs clerk, graphic designer, reporter for a local business magazine, and library assistant. She lives in Southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids, and a Siberian Husky mix that definitely shows frostblood tendencies.

Kasi Blake
Blake, Kasi

Kasi Blake is the author of several YA Paranormal Fantasy/Urban Fantasy novels. She wrote her first short story at the age of twelve. It's been a long and wild ride from writing The End on that story and getting published by an actual publishing house decades later. In her spare time she devours books in different genres (but YA Fantasy is her favorite), plays Words with Friends on FB, takes care of her animals (she lives on a farm), and she builds and decorates houses in her mind while trying to fall asleep.

Kendare Blake
Blake, Kendare

Kendare Blake grew up in the small city of Cambridge, Minnesota. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York and received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex University in London, England. She loves to travel, is an advocate for animals, and cheats a lot when she plays Final Fantasy. Adopted from South Korea at the age of seven months, she arrived with the following instruction: "Feed her chocolate." Though not medically advisable, she and her parents are eternally grateful for this advice.

Olivie Blake
Blake, Olivie

Olivie Blake is the pseudonym of Alexene Farol Follmuth, a lover and writer of stories, many of which involve the fantastic, the paranormal, or the supernatural, but not always. More often, her works revolve around what it means to be human (or not), and the endlessly interesting complexities of life and love.

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Quentin Blake
Blake, Quentin

Quentin Blake, (born 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.

Sarah Blake
Blake, Sarah

Sarah Blake's novel Naamah won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Blake is also the author of the poetry collections Mr. West and Let’s Not Live on Earth. In 2013, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in the U.K.

Sterling Blake
Blake, Sterling

Sterling Blake is a pseudonym of Gregory Benford.

Megan Frazer Blakemore
Blakemore, Megan Frazer

Megan Frazer Blakemore is the author of The Firefly Code, The Friendship Riddle, The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill, and The Water Castle, which was listed as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, and a New York Public Library Best Book for Reading and Sharing. She is also the author of the young adult novel Secrets of Truth and Beauty which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was on the ALA Rainbow list. A former middle-school librarian, Megan lives in Maine with her family.

Jay D. Blakeney
Blakeney, Jay D.

Jay D. Blakeney is a pseudonym of Deborah Chester.

James Blakey
Blakey, James

James Blakey is a three-time finalist for the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award, winning in 2019 for his story "The Bicycle Thief." He leads critique groups in Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and Shenandoah County. His paranormal thriller SUPERSTITION will be published by City Owl Press in the fall of 2024. When James isn’t writing, he's on the hiking trail—he’s climbed forty of the fifty US state high points—or bike-camping his way up and down the East Coast. He lives in Broadway, Virginia.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is a recent graduate of Barnard College. She is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Mary Gordon Fiction Scholarship Award and the 2009-2010 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Prose. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

T. M. Blanchet
Blanchet, T. M.

T.M. is a former reporter, editor, and award-winning humor columnist, as well as the author of the "Dog-Friendly" travel series from Countryman Press and The Cow Crashed in to the Moon: Messing Up Motherhood in 7 Easy Steps. She founded the nonprofit organization Operation Delta Dog: Service Dogs for Veterans in 2013.

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Maurice Blanchot
Blanchot, Maurice

Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.

Bob Blanton
Blanton, Bob

Bob Blanton has been an avid reader ever since his mother first took him to a library at age five. He has toyed with writing for years since college but was always too busy to start a novel. He’s been working on the Delphi in Space series for two years.. After he retired to the beach in Mexico, the only thing that competes with writing is the sound of the ocean and sunsets over the water. Now that he has published his series, he hopes you enjoy reading them as much as he has had writing them. Check back for other books as he continues to ply his new trade.

William Peter Blatty
Blatty, William Peter

William Peter Blatty (1928-2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III. Some of his other notable works are the novels Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010).

H. P. Blavatsky
Blavatsky, H. P.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (born as Helena von Hahn, 1831–1891) was a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.

James P. Blaylock
Blaylock, James P.

James P. Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded ­– along with Powers and Jeter – as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and Philip K. Dick Award, he currently directs the creative writing programs at Chapman University. Blaylock lives in Orange CA with his wife. They have two sons.

H. G. Bleackley
Bleackley, H. G.

H. G. Bleackley grew up in Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. She loves the West Coast, and currently lives in Vancouver. Sleep Over is her first novel.

Alex Bledsoe
Bledsoe, Alex

Alex Bledsoe grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland and twenty minutes from Nutbush. He's been a reporter, editor, photographer and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lives between two big lakes in Wisconsin, writes before six in the morning and tries to teach his two sons to act like they've been to town before. He's published more than fifty short stories on topics as diverse as big-game hunters, mermaids, modern witches, Victorian gentlemen and country musicians. The Sword-Edged Blonde is his first novel.

Candace Blevins
Blevins, Candace

Candace Blevins writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, epic fantasy contemporary BDSM romance, and two kick-ass motorcycle club series. She’s published more than fifty books. Candace lives with her husband of twenty-two years and their two teenaged daughters. The family’s beloved, goofy, retired racing greyhounds are usually at her side as she writes, quietly keeping her company. Or sometimes not so quietly.

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James Blish
Blish, James

James Benjamin Blish (1921–1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr.

Picture: Gravestone of James Blish, Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, England.

Lola Blix
Blix, Lola

Sci-fi and contemporary romance author. It may get steamy in here!

Robert Bloch
Bloch, Robert

Robert Albert Bloch (1917–1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction.

Francesca Lia Block
Block, Francesca Lia

Francesca Lia Block (born 1962) is the author of many young adult books, most famously the Weetzie Bat series.

Alexandra Blogier
Blogier, Alexandra

Alexandra Blogier was raised in Boston and on the beaches of Cape Cod. She earned a degree in history from the University of Maryland and now lives and works in Brooklyn. The Last Girl on Earth is her first novel.

Harold Bloom
Bloom, Harold

Harold Bloom (born 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his aesthetic approach to literature and opposition to feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. He is additionally known for his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary critic. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Penelope Bloom
Bloom, Penelope

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestselling author Penelope is most known around the house for using every pot, pan, and utensil in the entire kitchen to butter a piece of bread. Penelope writes mostly rom coms and prides herself on her relatable characters, fun, light-hearted stories, and avoiding the dreaded "if they would just talk to each other like adults, none of that would have ever happened" trope.

Edward Bloor
Bloor, Edward

Edward William Bloor (born 1950) is an American author of young adult novels best known for Tangerine and London Calling.

Penny Blubaugh
Blubaugh, Penny

Penny Blubaugh is the critically acclaimed author of Serendipity Market, which was named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Young Adult Books of 2009. Penny lives in Chicago with her husband.

Ally Blue
Blue, Ally

Ally Blue is acknowledged by the world at large (or at least by her heroes, who tend to suffer a lot) as the Popess of Gay Angst. She has a great big suggestively-shaped hat and rides in a bullet-proof Plexiglas bubble in Christmas parades. Her harem of manwhores does double duty as bodyguards and inspirational entertainment. Her favorite band is Radiohead, her favorite color is lime green and her favorite way to waste a perfectly good Saturday is to watch all three extended version LOTR movies in a row. Her ultimate dream is to one day ditch the evil day job and support the family on manlove alone. She is not a hippie or a brain surgeon, no matter what her kids’ friends say.

J. M. Blum
Blum, J. M.

J. M. Blum was born in ’77, in a forest grove of the Pacific Northwest. Comic books and Commodores informed his childhood, along with tales of wonder from books, radio, tele, movies, and even stories spoken over rotary telephones. But games around tables co-creating meaningful stories has always been a great passion.

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Jonathan Blum
Blum, Jonathan

Jonathan Blum (born 1972) is an American writer most famous for his work for various Doctor Who spin-offs, usually with his wife Kate Orman although he has also been published on his own. He currently lives in Australia, where he moved after meeting and falling in love with Orman on the Doctor Who newsgroup rec.arts.drwho (RADW).

Yorick Blumenfield
Blumenfield, Yorick

Yorick Blumenfeld (born Amsterdam 1933) is an American writer and futurologist living in Cambridge, England. He has written or edited 25 books, including the best-selling novel Jenny, (1983), and more than 2,000 published articles and essays.

Michael Blumlein
Blumlein, Michael

Michael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains and X, Y. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short stories have been collected in anthologies and published in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others.

Giles Blunt
Blunt, Giles

Giles Blunt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter born in 1952 in Windsor, Ontario.

Anastasis Blythe
Blythe, Anastasis

Anastasis Blythe makes her home in central Texas with her husband and their two adorable but rather whiny cats. When she's not writing, she is dreaming about future novels, reading an unhealthy amount of fantasy novels, and trying to keep up with the laundry.

Enid Blyton
Blyton, Enid

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. Once described as a "one-woman fiction machine", she is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.

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Garrett Boatman
Boatman, Garrett

Born in Georgia, Garrett grew up in Jersey City a few blocks from the Holland Tunnel. His obsession with horror began with his grandmother’s Bloody Bones tales. She had a few variations, all ending with "I gotcha!" and tickling. Later, a steady diet of Chiller Theatre, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and horror novels left him with a burning desire to contribute to the madness.

Michael Boatman
Boatman, Michael

Michael Patrick Boatman (born 1964) is an Image Award-nominated American actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as U.S. Army Specialist Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, and as sports agent Stanley Babson in the HBO comedy series Arli$$.

Rick Boatright
Boatright, Rick

Rick Boatright is exactly the same age as Bill Gates and like Bill has been a software developer since the early 1970s, but in Rick's case a developer for not-for-profit social service agencies. He's been a moderator of online forums as long as online forums have existed. Since 2001 he's been a writer and editor, as well as the Head Geek, for Eric Flint's 1632 alternate history world. He also held the Head Geek title for Jim Baen's Universe magazine. He is the perpetrator of the annual "Weird Tech" lectures associated with the 1632 minicon and was the creator of Ring of Fire series character, Dr. Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist.

Leah Bobet
Bobet, Leah

Leah Bobet’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award. She received a 2008 emerging writers’ development grant from the Toronto Arts Council. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Chelsea Bobulski
Bobulski, Chelsea

Chelsea Bobulski was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised on Disney movies, classic musicals, and Buckeye pride. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in history, and promptly married her high school sweetheart. As a writer, she has a soft spot for characters with broken pasts, strange talents, and obstacles they must overcome for a brighter future. She now lives in Northwest Ohio with her husband, daughter, and one very emotive German Shepherd/Lab mix. Her debut young adult novel, The Wood, is out now, and her second YA novel, Remember Me, was published in 2019.

Mike Bockoven
Bockoven, Mike

Mike Bockoven writes thriller/horror novels while his kids are in gymnastics class or at piano lessons. He lives with his wife, Sarah, two daughters, Emaline and Tessa and an exceptionally dumb wiener dog names Sherlock.

N. E. Bode
Bode, N. E.

N. E. Bode is a pseudonym of Julianna Baggott.

S. A. Bodeen
Bodeen, S. A.

S. A. Bodeen's first novel, The Compound, earned her a "Flying Start" from Publishers Weekly and was chosen by YALSA as a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. She's also the author of The Gardener and The Raft. She lives in Oregon with her family.

Liliana Bodoc
Bodoc, Liliana

Liliana Bodoc was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1958. She took a Modern Literature degree at the National University of Cuyo. Her narrative works, including the fantasy trilogy La Saga de los Confines, are bestsellers in Latin America.

Virginia Boecker
Boecker, Virginia

Virginia Boecker recently spent four years in London obsessing over English medieval history, which formed the basis of her debut novel, The Witch Hunter. She now lives in the Bay Area, California with her husband and spends her days writing, reading, running, and chasing around her two children and a dog named George. In addition to English kings, nine-day queens, and Protestant princesses, her other obsessions include The Smiths, art museums, champagne, and Chapstick.

Jillian Boehme
Boehme, Jillian

Jillian Boehme is known to the online writing community as Authoress, hostess of Miss Snark's First Victim, a blog for aspiring authors. In real life, she holds a degree in Music Education, sings with the Nashville Symphony Chorus, and homeschools her remaining youngster-at-home. She's still crazy in love with her husband of more than thirty years and is happy to be surrounded by family and friends amid the rolling knolls of Middle Tennessee.

Sheena Boekweg
Boekweg, Sheena

Sheena Boekweg, author of Glitch Kingdom, grew up reading books with tree branches peeking over her shoulder. She studied theatre at Weber State University, married a handsome nerd who taught her about video games, and then had three kids who stole her heart and her controllers. She lives in Utah with her family and the world’s most spoiled puppy.

Rob Boffard
Boffard, Rob

Rob. Thirty. Author. Journalist. Sound Engineer. Snowboarder. Hip-hop artist. Tall. Basketball-player-length arms. Lots of tattoos. Glasses. Bad hair. Proud South African. Born in Johannesburg. Splits time between London and Vancouver. Digs New York. Doesn’t dig Vegas. Loves New Orleans. Not a helicopter pilot.

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Martyn Boggon
Boggon, Martyn

Martyn Boggon (1934-1997) was a British author.

Norman Bogner
Bogner, Norman

Norman Bogner (born 1935) is a New York Times bestselling author whose range of work has included several novels such as Seventh Avenue, The Deadliest Art, To Die in Provence and The Madonna Complex, as well as stage plays, and movie and television scripts. His writing career spans nearly 50 years, with his first novel, In Spells No Longer Bound, published in 1961 and his most recent novel, 99 Sycamore Place, published in 2009. As of 2001, His books, which explore drama and intrigue as they play out between family members and lovers, have sold over 25 million copies worldwide.

Kevin Bohacz
Bohacz, Kevin

Kevin Bohacz is a novelist and a writer for national computer magazines, founder and president of an e-commerce and software development company KJB Software Development Inc., a scientist and engineer for over 28 years, and the inventor of an advanced electric car system – the ESE Engine System (circa 1978).

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Chris Bohjalian
Bohjalian, Chris

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 books. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies and an Emmy-nominated TV series.

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954) is an American author.

 Boichi
Boichi,

Originally from Seoul, Mu-jik Park aka Boichi began as a Korean manhwa artist before turning to Japanese-language manga in 2004.

Hannes Bok
Bok, Hannes

Hannes Bok was the pseudonym of Wayne Woodard (1914–1964). He was an American artist and illustrator. He was also an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry.

Melanie Bokstad Horev
Bokstad Horev, Melanie

Melanie Bokstad Horev is an author and molecular cell biologist, with a Ph.D. She has a passion for storytelling and reading. Besides being an eager scientist she is married and the mother of three incredibly sweet and charmingly weird children.

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John Boland
Boland, John

Bertram John Boland (1913–1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author.

Roberto Bolaño
Bolaño, Roberto

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (1953–2003) was a Chilean novelist and poet.

Mirah Bolender
Bolender, Mirah

Mirah Bolender graduated with majors in creative writing and art in May 2014. A lifelong traveler, she has traveled and studied overseas, most notably in Japan, and these experiences leak into her work. City of Broken Magic is her debut fantasy novel. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Briar Boleyn
Boleyn, Briar

Briar Boleyn is the fantasy romance pen name of USA TODAY bestselling author Fenna Edgewood. Briar rules over a kingdom of feral wildling children with a dark fae prince as her consort. When she isn't busy bringing new worlds to life, she can be found playing RPG video games, watching the birds at her bird feeder and pretending she's Snow White, or being sucked into a captivating book. Her favorite stories are the ones full of danger, magic, and true love.

Dermot Bolger
Bolger, Dermot

Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.

Godfried Bomans
Bomans, Godfried

Godfried Bomans (1913–1971) was a popular Dutch author and television personality and a prominent Dutch catholic. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.

Margaret Wander Bonanno
Bonanno, Margaret Wander

Margaret Wander Bonanno (born 1950 as Margaret Wander) is an American science fiction writer, ghost writer and small press publisher. She was born in New York City.

Gwenda Bond
Bond, Gwenda

Gwenda Bond writes young adult fantasy. She is also a contributing writer for Publishers Weekly, and her nonfiction work has appeared in the Washington Post, Locus Magazine, Subterranean Online, and Lightspeed, among others. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband author Christopher Rowe.

Margo Bond Collins
Bond Collins, Margo

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestselling author Margo Bond Collins is a former college English professor who, tired of explaining the difference between "hanged" and "hung," turned to writing romance novels instead. She now writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction romance. Sometimes her heroines kiss aliens, sometimes they kill monsters. But they always aim for the heart.

Matt Bone
Bone, Matt

Matt Bone lives and writes in Bath, UK, where he is steadily working through the city's supply of caffeine. He has degrees in both Astrophysics and English Literature, supporting his ambition to be entirely unemployable.

Elizabeth Bonesteel
Bonesteel, Elizabeth

"When I was five, I had insomnia. I have this memory of my frazzled parents tucking me in, and suggesting – probably in a fit of sleep-deprived desperation – that I make use of the time by making up stories.

This seemed like a good idea to me, so I made up a story about a dog and a cat who fell in love and got married, and had a nice little house on a nice little street with a nice batch of genetically interesting children. I didn’t get rid of the insomnia, but I did learn to entertain myself, which I suspect was the main point of the exercise.

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Amanda Bonilla
Bonilla, Amanda

Amanda Bonilla lives in rural Idaho with her husband and two kids. She's a part-time pet wrangler, a full-time sun worshipper, and only goes out into the cold when coerced. When she's not writing she's either reading or talking about her favorite books.

Robin Bonnick
Bonnick, Robin

Robin Bonnick was born in Margate, Kent in 1976 before moving to Surrey when he was 7. Spending his childhood years engrossed in creating worlds as diverse as the one in which he lives, Robin has always had an affinity for fantasy. After finishing school and going straight into the working world he tried his hand at a wide array of jobs. Robin never really felt he had a niche in any particular area but he never forgot his true love of writing. He moved to America to marry his wife and enjoyed three years State-side before returning to Surrey. The God Stone is his first published novel. He lives in the city of Red Hill in the heart of Venta Belgarum with his wife Corina and their dog Bo.

Ezekiel Boone
Boone, Ezekiel

Ezekiel Boone lives in upstate New York with his wife and children.

Martina Boone
Boone, Martina

Martina Boone was born in Prague and spoke several languages before learning English. Her first teacher in the U.S. made fun of her for not pronouncing the "wh" sound right, so she set out to master "all the words” - she's still working on that! In the meantime she’s writing contemporary fantasy set in the kinds of magical places she'd love to visit.

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David Boop
Boop, David

David Boop is an award-winning essayist, recent Summa Cum Laude in creative writing (earned for a weird western piece) and former acquisition editor for both Flying Pen Press and Lifevest Publishing. David has been a journalist, actor, disc jockey and stand-up comedian. He’s published across several genres, but specializes in weird westerns. Additionally, David has done media tie-in work for the Green Hornet, Veronica Mars and the pulp hero the Black Bat (heavily disputed inspiration for Batman). He’s collaborated with Kevin J. Anderson, the late C.J. Henderson, Peter J. Wacks and Josh Vogt. He is a member of the Western Writers of America, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, the Horror Writers Association and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Ellen Booraem
Booraem, Ellen

Ellen Booraem, a native of Massachusetts, now lives in Downeast Maine. She is the author of The Unnameables (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), Small Persons With Wings, and Texting the Underworld. All of Ellen's books have, among other awards, been picked as Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. In addition to being a writer, Ellen is also a mentor and a writing coach. She lives with a cat, a dog, and an artist in a house they (meaning the humans) built with their own hands.

Angela Boord
Boord, Angela

"Hello, my name is Angela and I like to sit at my kitchen table and write stories.

Fantasy stories, with a dash of grit and romance, in worlds that often diverge from traditional medieval fantasy.

I’m also a mom. I have nine kids, ranging in age from 22 to 3. Seven boys and two girls.

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Martin Booth
Booth, Martin

Martin Booth (1944–2004) was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.

Booth's novel Industry of Souls was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize.

Naomi Booth
Booth, Naomi

Naomi Booth was born and raised in West Yorkshire and is now based in York, where she lectures in Creative Writing and Literature at York St John University.

Rupert Booth
Booth, Rupert

Rupert Booth is a comedy writer and surrealist filmmaker from the north of England.

Alice Borchardt
Borchardt, Alice

Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) was an American writer of historical fiction, fantasy, and horror. She was the sister of Anne Rice.

Don Borchert
Borchert, Don

Don Borchert is a long-serving assistant librarian in the suburban California public library system.

Jorge Luis Borges
Borges, Jorge Luis

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine  writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986.

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B.K. Borison
Borison, B.K.

Amazon bestselling author B.K. Borison is fueled almost entirely by coffee and spends her days with imaginary characters doing imaginary things. She lives in Baltimore with her little family, including her giant dog. 

Phillipa Bornikova
Bornikova, Phillipa

Phillipa Bornikova has been an oil-company executive, the story editor of a major network television series, and a horse trainer. She lives in the Southwest.

Phillipa Bornikova is a pseudonym of Melinda Snodgrass.

M. H. Boroson
Boroson, M. H.

M. H. Boroson was obsessed with two things as a young man: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and kung fu movies. He has studied Chinese religion at Naropa University and the University of Colorado and now lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and three cats. The Girl with Ghost Eyes is his first novel.

Pseudonymous Bosch
Bosch, Pseudonymous

Pseudonymous Bosch is the anonymous pseudonymous author of the Secret Series. Not much is known about him other than that he has a passionate love of chocolate and cheese and an equally passionate hatred of mayonnaise. Rumors of Boschian sightings are just as frequent and about as reliable as reports of alien abductions. If you ever meet anyone claiming to be Pseudonymous himself he is almost certainly an impostor. The real Pseudonymous is said currently to be hiding in a cave in a remote jungle (although there are contrary reports that he is somewhere in Greenland).

Desirina Boskovich
Boskovich, Desirina

Writer of horror and weird SF. Editor of It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction. Co-author of The Steampunk User's Manual. Fiction published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Kaleidotrope, PodCastle and more. Nonfiction in Lightspeed, Weird Fiction Review, the Huffington Post, Wonderbook, and The Steampunk Bible.

Bruce Boston
Boston, Bruce

Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.

Bruce Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record six times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2008. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry collections Pitchblende, 2003, Shades Fantastic, 2006, and The Nightmare Collection, 2008, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.

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L. M. Boston
Boston, L. M.

Lucy Maria Boston (1892–1990) was a British author noted for her longevity; she did not have her first book published until she was over 60. She is best known for her Green Knowe books, inspired by her home The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire, one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain. Born Lucy Wood in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at a girls' boarding school on the Sussex coast, she married Harold Boston in 1917, and moved to The Manor in 1939, shortly after separating from her husband. Her books were illustrated by her son Peter Boston (1918–1999).

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Jennifer Bosworth
Bosworth, Jennifer

Jennifer Bosworth lives in Los Angeles, California, where lightning hardly ever strikes, but when it does she takes cover. She is the writer half of a writer/director team with her husband, Ryan Bosworth.

Anthony Boucher
Boucher, Anthony

Anthony Boucher is the pen name of William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968). He was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories.

Amanda Bouchet
Bouchet, Amanda

Amanda Bouchet grew up in New England where she spent much of her time tromping around in the woods and making up grand adventures in her head. It was inevitable that one day she would start writing them down. She writes what she loves to read: epic exploits, steamy romance, and characters that make you laugh and cry.

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Hélène Boudreau
Boudreau, Hélène

Hélène Boudreau (born 1969) is an Acadian and Métis Canadian artist and author of children's books, whose writing has appeared in various Canadian publications and her Maritime-themed art has been exhibited by the Toronto Public Library and other local vicinities.

Pierre Boulle
Boulle, Pierre

Pierre Boulle (1912–1994) was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963). In 1968 Planet of the Apes was made into an Oscar-winning film, starring Charlton Heston.

Angeline Boulley
Boulley, Angeline

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She gained attention from the We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program. Angeline was the former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her agent is Faye Bender at The Book Group. Firekeeper's Daughter has been optioned for a Netflix series by the Obamas' Higher Ground production company.

J. L. Bourne
Bourne, J. L.

Born in a small town in rural Arkansas, J. L. Bourne balances his time between his passion for writing, and his duties as an active duty, commissioned U.S. naval officer.

Marie-Claude Bourque
Bourque, Marie-Claude

Marie-Claude is an author of gothic paranormal romance, and the winner of the American Title V contest. A French Canadian, she is a former climate research scientist (BS Physics, PhD Oceanography) and scientific translator (French-English). She has also spent over 15 years in the fitness industry as an instructor, trainer and health club director. After many moves through Europe and North America, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Ben Bova
Bova, Ben

Benjamin William Bova (1932–2020) was an American writer. He was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, six-time winner of the Hugo Award, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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Tori Bovalino
Bovalino, Tori

Tori Bovalino is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in London. She has a BA in English and anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently a student in Royal Holloway's Creative writing and practice-based PhD program, researching the relationship between Russian folklore and young adult fantasy novels.

Erin Bow
Bow, Erin

Erin Bow was born in the Midwest and studied particle physics in college, eventually working at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. She then decided to leave science in order to concentrate on her love of writing. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband, James, and their two daughters.

John Bowen
Bowen, John

John Griffith Bowen (born 1924) is a British playwright and novelist. He was born in Calcutta, India, studied at the University of Oxford (at Pembroke College and St Antony's College) and worked in publishing, drama and television.

Lila Bowen
Bowen, Lila

Lila Bowen is a pseudonym of Delilah S. Dawson.

Marjorie Bowen
Bowen, Marjorie

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long née Campbell, 1885 – 1952, was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories and works of popular history. She used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell.

Natasha Bowen
Bowen, Natasha

Natasha Bowen is a writer, a teacher, and a mother of three children. She is of Nigerian and Welsh descent and lives in Cambridge, England, where she grew up. Natasha studied English and creative writing at Bath Spa University before moving to East London, where she taught for nearly ten years. Her debut book was inspired by her passion for mermaids and African history. She is obsessed with Japanese and German stationery and spends stupid amounts on notebooks, which she then features on her secret Instagram. When she's not writing, she's reading, watched over carefully by Milk and Honey, her cat and dog.

Georgia Bowers
Bowers, Georgia

Georgia Bowers lives in Bedford, a small market town in England. When she got to the age where she had to decide what to do with her life, she was obsessed with two things: books and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It seemed sensible to follow in the brogued footsteps of Rupert Giles, so she became a librarian, though sadly not the demon fighting kind. But there’s still time. Ever since her mum told her that witches used to meet in the woods near their village she has been obsessed with witchcraft and the paranormal. When she was a teenager, a weekly habit of Point Horrors satisfied her thirst for chilling tales before she moved on to reading Stephen King. These days she likes to give her nerves a break every now and then with a good YA romance.

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Richard Bowes
Bowes, Richard

Richard Bowes is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.

Stephen Bowkett
Bowkett, Stephen

Stephen Bowkett (born 1953) is a British author.

Stephen Bowkett also writes under the pseudonym of Ben Leech.

Beth Bowland
Bowland, Beth

Beth Bowland is a writer who has always enjoyed reading and creating stories of her own. As a child she devoured every book she could get her hands on and spent numerous hours at the library each week. She loves writing stories for tweens and young teens and her characters are often described as quirky and fun but always relatable. She lives in Arlington, Texas.

Tim Bowler
Bowler, Tim

Tim Bowler is the author of twenty books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won 15 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for children's literature, for his novel River Boy.

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David Bowles
Bowles, David

David Bowles was born in 1970 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, but has lived the majority of his life in South Carolina and the Río Grande Valley; he presently resides in Donna with his wife and children. Since 1994 he has worked in public education, as a teacher, administrator and university professor. A writer of young adult fiction, Latino-themed magical realism and politically speculative science fiction, Bowles launched his D'Angelo Chronicles in 2009. In April of 2011, Absey & Co. published The Seed: Stories from the River's Edge, a collection of YA short stories the author collaborated with his wife, Angélica Maldonado, to create. He has also edited Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Río Grande Valley (2011) and Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings (2012).

Drew C. Bowling
Bowling, Drew C.

Drew Bowling is a college sophomore. He started writing The Tower of Shadows while in high school. He lives in Maryland.

Nicholas Bowling
Bowling, Nicholas

Nicholas Bowling is an author, stand-up comic, musician and Latin teacher from South London. He graduated from Oxford University in 2007 with a BA in Classics and English, and again with a Masters in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, before moving to his first teaching job at Trinity School, Croydon. His debut children's novel, Witchborn, was published by Chicken House in 2017. Alpha/Omega is his first adult science fiction novel.

Akemi Dawn Bowman
Bowman, Akemi Dawn

Akemi Dawn Bowman is a critically-acclaimed author who writes across genres. Her novels have received multiple accolades and award nominations, and her debut novel, Starfish, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist. She has a BA in social sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and currently lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. She overthinks everything, including this bio.

Erin Bowman
Bowman, Erin

Erin Bowman has wanted to be an author ever since she uttered her first “Once upon a time.” Now a full-time writer, Erin lives in New Hampshire with her husband.

James R. Bowman
Bowman, James R.

James R. Bowman was born and brought up in Ipswich, Suffolk, where he currently resides with his family. He's been fascinated by Native American culture and has relished his inquisitive nature by making a trip over to the American Southwest.

James R. Bowman has also been shortlisted for the Brit Writer's Published Writer of the Year 2010 award.

Sam Bowring
Bowring, Sam

Sam Bowring lives in Sydney, Australia, and is a comedian and writer. As well as creating his own stand-up routines, he has written for Rove Live (Network Ten), The Mansion (thecomedychannel), The Big Bite (Channel 7) and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour (Network Ten).

Bruce Boxleitner
Boxleitner, Bruce

Bruce William Boxleitner (born 1950) is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer.

S. M. Boyce
Boyce, S. M.

Boyce is known for action-packed epic fantasy, powerful heroes, and riveting magical stories filled with twists and intrigue. And, of course, a bit of humor sprinkled through it all. Pick up your kindle and get lost in the journey.

Xander Boyce
Boyce, Xander

Xander is a USCG veteran and lifelong scifi/fantasy reader. Having begun creating worlds for his pen and paper roleplaying games more than a decade ago, he has always been fascinated by what can be done when people are pushed beyond normal boundaries. He was drawn to Science Fiction as a way to explore the human condition, and his debut book, Advent, is an extension of that desire.

Damien Boyd
Boyd, Damien

Damien Boyd is a former solicitor turned crime fiction writer.

Drawing on extensive experience of criminal law as well as a spell in the Crown Prosecution Service, Damien writes fast paced crime thrillers featuring Detective Inspector Nick Dixon.

Alina Boyden
Boyden, Alina

Alina Boyden is a trans rights activist, author, and PhD candidate in cultural anthropology. As an ACLU client, her case secured healthcare rights for transgender employees in the state of Wisconsin. Her work in cultural anthropology centers on the civil rights struggles of transgender women in India and Pakistan, and consequently she divides her time between the United States and South Asia. When she's not writing, traveling, or working on her dissertation, she spends her free time indulging in two of her childhood passions - swordplay and flying airplanes.

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Kody Boye
Boye, Kody

Kody Boye was born and raised in Southeastern Idaho. Since his initial publication in the Yellow Mama Webzine in 2007, he has gone on to sell nearly three-dozen stories to various markets. He is the author of the short story collection Amorous Things, the novella The Diary of Dakota Hammell, the zombie novel Sunrise and the dark fantasy novel Blood. His fiction has been described as ‘Surreal, beautiful and harrowing’ (Fantastic Horror,) while he himself has been heralded as a writer beyond his years (Bitten by Books.) He currently lives and writes in the Austin, Texas area.

Jennifer Finney Boylan
Boylan, Jennifer Finney

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of sixteen books, including GOOD BOY: My Life in Seven Dogs. Since 2008 she has been a contributing opinion writer for op/ed page of the New York Times; her column appears on alternate Wednesdays. A member of the board of trustees of PEN America, Jenny was also the chair of the board of GLAAD for many years. She is currently the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University. 

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T. C. Boyle
Boyle, T. C.

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T. C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eleven novels and more than 60 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

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John Boyne
Boyne, John

John Boyne (born 1971) is an Irish novelist.

Jan Bozarth
Bozarth, Jan

Jan Bozarth danced in a ballet company at eleven, started a dream journal at thirteen, joined a surf club at sixteen, studied flower essences at eighteen, and went on to learn music, art, and poetry in college. As a girl she dreamed of a life that would weave these different interests together. Now she is a grandmother who writes stories and songs for young people and often works with her own adult children who are musicians and artists in Austin, Texas.

Michael Brachman
Brachman, Michael

Michael Brachman has a Ph.D. in Sensory Science with a minor in Computer Science. Rome's Revolution is his first science fiction series, depicting the enduring love between a man from the 21st century and a woman from the 35th century. Between the two of them, they fend off various threats to mankind. The science behind the science fiction is meticulously researched. It is so realistic, you will believe that these stories are true, they just haven't happened yet.

Alexandra Bracken
Bracken, Alexandra

Alexandra Bracken has wanted to be a writer since third grade, and has always wanted to write for children and young adults. She began Brightly Woven as a birthday present for a friend, and the novel grew over a year of wild weather. A May '09 graduate of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Brightly Woven is her first novel.

Leigh Brackett
Brackett, Leigh

Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915–1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

P. J. Brackston
Brackston, P. J.

A pseudonym of Paula Brackston.

P. J. Brackston is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Witch's Daughter; The Winter Witch; and Nutters. She is also the author of Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints, Once Upon a Crime and The Case of the Fickle Mermaid, which are all available from Pegasus Books. Brackston lives in Wales with her family.

Paula Brackston
Brackston, Paula

Paula Brackston lives in a wild, mountainous part of Wales. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, and is a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Wales, Newport. Before becoming a writer, Paula tried her hand at various career paths, with mixed success. These included working as a groom on a racing yard, as a travel agent, a secretary, an English teacher, and a goat herd. Everyone involved (particularly the goats) is very relieved that she has now found a job she is actually able to do properly.

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Amanda Bradburn
Bradburn, Amanda

Amanda Bradburn was born in Nevada in 1991. Writing became very important to her early in life, and by the age of seven she was co-authoring a mystery series with friends. Time has passed, and she has gone on to write other genres. In 2009, her first book, The Keepers of Elenath, was released to a worldwide audience through Tate Publishing Company LLC. 

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Ray Bradbury
Bradbury, Ray

Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction.

Hanovi Braddock
Braddock, Hanovi

Hanovi Braddock is a pseudonym of Bruce Holland Rogers.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1835 – 1915, was a popular English novelist of the best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.

 

 

 

 

Russell Braddon
Braddon, Russell

Russell Reading Braddon (1921–1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, sold more than a million copies.

Braddon was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Changi between 1942 and 1945. During this time he met Ronald Searle, who went on to illustrate The Naked Island.

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Elisa Braden
Braden, Elisa

Reading romance novels came easily to Elisa Braden. Writing them? That took a little longer. After graduating with degrees in creative writing and history, Elisa spent too many years in “real” jobs writing T-shirt copy ... and other people’s resumes ... and articles about giftware displays. But that was before she woke up and started dreaming about the very unreal job of being a romance novelist. Better late than never.

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L. R. Braden
Braden, L. R.

Born and raised in Colorado, L. R. Braden makes her home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her wonderful husband, precocious daughter, and psychotic cat. With degrees in both English literature and metalsmithing, she splits her time between writing and art.

Scott Bradfield
Bradfield, Scott

Scott Michael Bradfield (born 1955) is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in London, England. He has taught at the University of California and the University of Connecticut and has reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement, Elle, The Observer, Vice and The Independent. He is best known, however, for his short stories, of which he has had four collections published. The 1998 film Luminous Motion, for which he wrote the screenplay, was based on his first novel, The History of Luminous Motion (1989).

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Asa Maria Bradley
Bradley, Asa Maria

USA Today Bestselling author Asa Maria Bradley grew up in Sweden surrounded by archaeology and history steeped in Norse mythology, which inspired her sexy paranormal romance and sizzling urban fantasy series. 

Booklist attributes her writing with “nonstop action, satisfying romantic encounters, and intriguing world building” and Entertainment Weekly says “when it comes to paranormal romance with explosive action scenes, Bradley has that nailed.” 

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Darin Bradley
Bradley, Darin

Darin Bradley holds an M.A. in Literature and Literary Criticism and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Theory. He has taught courses on writing and literature at East Tennessee State University, Furman University, and the University of North Texas. He lives with his wife in Texas, where he works as a full-time writer for id software. Noise is his first novel.

Jack Bradley
Bradley, Jack

US author, ?1903-1960, mostly of detective fiction, who is of greatest sf interest for The Torch of Ra.

James Bradley
Bradley, James

James Bradley (born 1967) is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer.

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Marion Zimmer Bradley was an American fantasy and science fiction author. She was born 1930 and died 1999 after suffering a major heart attack.

Writing for over 4 decades, Marion Zimmer Bradley is best known for her Darkover science fantasy series and her Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon. She also edited anthologies for several years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine.

Rebecca Bradley
Bradley, Rebecca

Rebecca Bradley is a Canadian novelist and archaeologist.

Robert T. Bradley
Bradley, Robert T.

Robert T. Bradley is the author of The Reckoning Turbines Steampunk series. The youngest twin in a family of six originally from Plymouth England. Having left school at sixteen Robert served in the British Army for five years which when on exercise in the Scottish Highlands, he discovered the joy of writing.

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Gillian Bradshaw
Bradshaw, Gillian

Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels. She currently lives in Britain.

Kelly Braffet
Braffet, Kelly

Kelly Braffet is the author of the novels Save Yourself, Last Seen Leaving and Josie & Jack. Her writing has been published in The Fairy Tale Review, Post Road, and several anthologies. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University. She currently lives in upstate New York with her husband, the author Owen King. A lifelong reader of speculative fiction, the idea for The Unwilling originally came to her in college; twenty years later, it’s her first fantasy novel.

Max Brallier
Brallier, Max

Max Brallier is a writer for the wildly popular virtual world, PopTropica, where each month over eight million kids spend more than 11 million hours, much of it engaged in Brallier's industry-leading online quests that exploit a rapidly increasing demand for narrative storytelling from those with gaming literacy. He’s also a humor writer, having published The All-Star Bathroom Sampler, Toilet Trivia, Reasons to Drink, and Reasons to Smoke. By day he works in the advertising and promotions department of a major book publisher, plotting his escape route for when the zombies come.

Ernest Bramah
Bramah, Ernest

Ernest Bramah (1868–1942), whose real name was Ernest Bramah Smith, was an English author.

Max Brand
Brand, Max

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892–1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis and Frederick Frost.

Rebecca Brand
Brand, Rebecca

Rebecca Brand is a pseudonym of Suzy McKee Charnas.

Nadine Brandes
Brandes, Nadine

Nadine Brandes once spent four days as a sea cook in the name of book research. She is the author of the award-winning Out of Time Series and her inner fangirl perks up at the mention of soul-talk, Quidditch, bookstagram, and Oreos. When she's not busy writing novels about bold living, she's adventuring through Middle Earth or taste-testing a new chai. She and her Auror husband plan to live in a Tiny House on wheels. Current mission: paint the world in shalom.

Gary Brandner
Brandner, Gary

Gary Brandner (born 1933) is an American horror author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985 respectively, have no connection to the film series, though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film. The fourth film in the Howling series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, is actually the closest adaptation of Brandner's original novel, though this too varies to some degree.

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Gerald Brandt
Brandt, Gerald

Gerald Brandt is the author of the cyberpunk San Angeles sci-fi trilogy: The Courier, The Operative, and The Rebel. The first of the trilogy was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Novel. His short story "Storm" appeared in the 2013 Prix Aurora Award-winning anthology Blood & Water. By day, he's an IT professional and coding guru. In his limited spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle, rock climbing, camping, and spending time with his family.

Meagan Brandy
Brandy, Meagan

USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Meagan Brandy is a writer of New Adult romance books. She is a candy crazed, jukebox junkie who tends to speak in lyrics. Born and raised in California, she is a married mother of three crazy boys who keep her bouncing from one sports field to another, depending on the season, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Starbucks is her best friend and words are her sanity.

Henrietta Branford
Branford, Henrietta

Henrietta Branford (1946-1999) was an Indian-born fiction writer who wrote many novels including Fire, Bed and Bone. After her death in 1999 Julia Eccleshare (Children's Book Editor of the Guardian newspaper and chairman of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize) and Anne Marley (Head of Children's, Youth & Schools Services for Hampshire Library & Information Service) decided to create an annual award named the Branford Boase Award in commemoration of both Henrietta and her colleague Wendy Boase (who was her editor) who also died of cancer the same year. Henrietta had wanted to create an award for children before she had died which is now known as the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition.

Thom Brannan
Brannan, Thom

Thom Brannan (est. 1976) has been a submariner, a nuclear operator, an electrician and now works on an offshore drilling platform and is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.

He's a freelance editor for Permuted Press and anyone else that will have him. He has been published in several anthologies, in several genres. Thom finds his inspiration equally from Robert B. Parker and H.P. Lovecraft. He is the co-author of Pavlov's Dogs (with D. L. Snell) and Survivors (with Z. A. Recht). His first solo novel, Lords of Night, was published in October, 2012.

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Jake Brannigan
Brannigan, Jake

Lawful good since birth, Jake has been playing tabletop RPGs and classic MMORPGs since before the Internet was a thing. An author raised on tales of heroes and Saturday morning cartoons naturally soon branched into writing his own fiction, and, most recently, the fantasy LitRPG series Divine Progression. Jake loves stories about brave heroes doing good things while protecting each other and their world.

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T. L. Branson
Branson, T. L.

T. L. Branson is the author of the upcoming Soul Stones series. Branson started writing when he was eighteen and has contributed articles to several blogs and websites over the years. Soul Render is his debut novel in a planned trilogy. He finds his inspiration from the king’s (and queen) of story, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George Lucas, and J.K. Rowling. Born in Pennsylvania, he currently lives in California with his wife and two children.

Ann Brashares
Brashares, Ann

Ann Brashares is the New York Times bestselling author of the phenomenally bestselling series of young adult novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Her first adult novel, The Last Summer (of You and Me debuted on the New York Times list, in both hardcover and paperback, where it stayed for months.

Joseph Brassey
Brassey, Joseph

Joseph Brassey has lived on both sides of the continental US, and worked as a craft-store employee, paper-boy, factory worker, hospital kitchen gopher, martial arts instructor, singer, and stay-at-home Dad (the last is his favorite job, by far). Joseph trains in - and teaches - Liechtenauer’s Kunst des Fechtens in his native Tacoma. Known for his work with Neal Stephenson, Gregg Bear, Mark Teppo and Nicole Galland on The Mongoliad series, Skyfarer is his first solo novel.

Liz Braswell
Braswell, Liz

Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales, catching frogs, and going on adventures in the woods with her stuffed animals. She has a degree in Egyptology from Brown University (and yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs). After making video games for ten years Liz now writes full-time and plays video games for fun. She has written Snow, Rx, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, and several books in the best-selling Twisted Tale series, including Part of Your World and As Old as Time. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish, and five coffee trees, and still sleeps with a Stuffy.

Daniel Braum
Braum, Daniel

Daniel Braum’s fiction has been classified as fantasy, science fiction, and horror but he prefers the good old fashioned term of just “fiction”, which when he was growing up simply meant a story were anything could happen. His stories frequently defy category and reside in the areas between genres, utilizing and combining genre elements to produce tales that are wholly unique.

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Richard Brautigan
Brautigan, Richard

Richard Gary Brautigan (1935-1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.

Libba Bray
Bray, Libba

Libba Bray (born Martha E. Bray on 1964 in Texas) is an author of young adult novels. She lives in New York.

James Braziel
Braziel, James

James Braziel's short fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary journals, including the Berkeley Fiction Review and the Chattahoochie Review. His poetry (published as a collection in a book called Weathervane in 2003) has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and he was the recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham, 35 Miles is his first novel.

J. Bree
Bree, J.

J Bree is a dreamer, writer, mother, farmer, and cat-wrangler. The order of priorities changes daily.

She lives on a small farm in a tiny rural town in Australia that no one has ever heard of. She spends her days dreaming about all of her book boyfriends, listening to her partner moan about how the wine grapes are growing, and being a snack bitch to her two kids.

K.F. Breene
Breene, K.F.

K.F. Breene is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy novels. With over four million books sold, when she’s not penning stories about magic and what goes bump in the night, she’s sipping wine and planning shenanigans. She lives in Northern California with her husband, two children and out of work treadmill.

Izzi Breigh
Breigh, Izzi

Izzi Breigh, raised by a family of peacocks, grew up on a rutabaga farm. She now resides in a small cottage made entirely of pinecones. Izzi enjoys knitting shirts for starfish, rooms without corners, and peddling time. Her day job is filling hourglasses with precisely the right amount of sand, which she sells for 2 copper pennies every Saturday at her local flea market. Hide and seek is her favorite sport and though she has repeatedly spotted Waldo, she has yet to figure out where in the world is Carmen Sandiego.

F. Alexander Brejcha
Brejcha, F. Alexander

A wheelchair user since 1985 due to multiple sclerosis, the author turned to writing when M.S. made continuing his original art studies impossible. A night shift worker at Philadelphia's Graduate Hospital and frequently published in fiction and disability-related non-fiction, he also helps others with his award-winning disABILITY resource web site.

Chaz Brenchley
Brenchley, Chaz

Chaz Brenchley (born 1959) is a British writer of novels and short stories, associated with the genres of horror, crime and fantasy.

Winner of the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award in 1998 for Light Errant (and not, as often stated, the Outremer series), he has also published three books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres. His time as Crimewriter-in-Residence at the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project in Sunderland resulted in the collection Blood Waters. Brenchley has also been writer in residence at the University of Northumbria.

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Caitlin Brennan
Brennan, Caitlin

Caitlin Brennan is a pseudonym of Judith Tarr.

Herbie Brennan
Brennan, Herbie

Herbie Brennan is a pseudonym of James Herbert Brennan (Ireland, born 1940).

Photo: Gillian Buckley.

Joseph Payne Brennan
Brennan, Joseph Payne

Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet.

M. L. Brennan
Brennan, M. L.

M. L. Brennan lives in Connecticut with her husband and three cats. Holding a master’s degree in fiction, she teaches basic composition to college students. After spending years writing and publishing short work in other genres, Brennan decided to branch out and write the kind of book that she loved to read, resulting in Generation V, her first full-length work of urban fantasy.

Marie Brennan
Brennan, Marie

Marie Brennan is the pen name of Bryn Neuenschwander.

Marie Brennan also writes with Alyc Helms under the pseudonym of M. A. Carrick.

Noel-Anne Brennan
Brennan, Noel-Anne

Noel-Anne Gerson Brennan (born 1948) has worked as a professor of Women's Studies at Rhode Island University and has written several science fiction and fantasy novels.

Sarah Rees Brennan
Brennan, Sarah Rees

Sarah Rees Brennan (born 1983) is an Irish young-adult fantasy author. She has been writing since the age of five. Brennan has lived in New York. She obtained a Creative Writing MA and worked as a librarian in England, before moving to Dublin. Her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, was released in 2009 and was bestseller in the UK.

Alan Brennert
Brennert, Alan

Alan Brennert (born 1954) is a United States television producer and screenwriter.

Christopher G. Brenning
Brenning, Christopher G.

Christopher G. Brenning was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin. From an early age, he has been passionate about entertaining, and started writing short stories as far back as elementary school. In 2003, he became more focused on writing and made it into a hobby. In 2019, he decided to write his first novel, "The Hellborn King". Chris is an avid music lover and hiker, and also enjoys movies and travel.

Reginald Bretnor
Bretnor, Reginald

Reginald Bretnor (1911–1992) was born in Vladivostok, Siberia. The family moved to San Diego, California, in 1920. He is best known for his invention of the "Feghoot," extremely short stories which end with a pun. Under the pseudonym Grendel Briarton, he penned Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot, a series of shaggy-dog-story SF puns which ran for years in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,Venture, and Asimov's Science Fiction. A Feghoot collection was published by Paradox Press (1962) and Mirage Press published two other editions: The Compleat Feghoot and The (Even More) Compleat Feghoot. His final novel was Schimmelhorn's Gold, a collection of Bretnor's stories about an oversexed octogenarian idiot/genius.

Brian Brett
Brett, Brian

Brian Brett (born 1950) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Leo Brett
Brett, Leo

Leo Brett is a pseudonym of R. L. Fanthorpe.

Peter V. Brett
Brett, Peter V.

Peter V. Brett is the bestselling author of The Demon Cycle, which includes The Warded Man (first published as The Painted Man in the U.K. by Del Rey Books), The Desert Spear, The Daylight War and The Skull Throne. The final book in the series, The Core, is expected in 2017. In addition to the quintet, he has published three novellas, The Great Bazaar, Brayan's Gold, and Messenger's Legacy, as well as Red Sonja: Unchained and Red Sonja: Blue for Dynamite Comics. Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and Dungeons & Dragons, Brett has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a bachelor of arts degree in English literature and art history from the University at Buffalo in 1995, then worked for a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. He lives in Manhattan.

J. S. Breukelaar
Breukelaar, J. S.

J.S. Breukelaar is the author of the Aurealis Award-nominated novel Aletheia, and American Monster, a Wonderland Award finalist. Collision, her new collection from Meerkat Press, drops in Feb 19. She has stories, essays and poetry published in Unnerving Mag, Black Static, Gamut Magazine, Lamplight and elsewhere. She is an instructor and columnist at LitReactor.com and lives in Sydney, Australia with her family.

John Brhel
Brhel, John

John Brhel is a horror writer from upstate New York. His work has appeared in "The Vault of Ghastly Tales." He is the co-author of "Tales From Valleyview Cemetery".

Kate Brian
Brian, Kate

Kate Brian is the prolific author of many books for teens including the Private series, the new Privilege series, and Sweet 16. She lives with her husband in New Jersey. She writes under the pseudonym Kate Brian, instead of using her real name: Kieran Scott.

Grendel Briarton
Briarton, Grendel

Grendel Briarton is a pseudonym of Reginald Bretnor.

Morgan Brice
Brice, Morgan

A pseudonym of Gail Z. Martin.

Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy male/male paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and together with co-author hubby Larry N. Martin, steampunk and comedic horror, all of which have less romance, more explosions.

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V. Briceland
Briceland, V.

Though he has written primarily under his various aliases before now, Vance Briceland is the award-winning author of several adult and young adult novels, including You Are SO Cursed, a 2005 American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers title.

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Denysé Bridger
Bridger, Denysé

Denysé Bridger was born in Newfoundland. Denysé has published over 400 stories, poems, and novellas world wide and has won an Amber Heat Wave award and has been nominated for an EPPIE Award; a prestigious award given for excellence in electronic publishing.

Rae Bridgman
Bridgman, Rae

Rae Bridgman is a writer, artist and anthropologist. Born in Toronto, she is a mother of six and has made Winnipeg her home. She is a professor at the University of Manitoba and her writing spans scholarly books to children's fantasy novels.

Mathew Bridle
Bridle, Mathew

“A halo of soft golden light was falling beyond Shadow Hill.”

That was all Mathew Bridle had when he sat down to write his first novel.  Two and half weeks later, The Rising, a 1980’s style slasher, was finished. Others would quickly follow in different genres: 3 Phaze (sci-fi), Lagoon (sci-fi horror), A World Lies Bleeding (sci-fi), King of Kings (fantasy), Mark (incomplete sci-fi) until Emun of Mor (fantasy).

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Andy Briggs
Briggs, Andy

Andy Briggs (born 1972) is a British author and screenwriter. He created the Hero.com series and the Villain.net anti-series for Oxford University Publishing, which have now been published around the world. A television movie is currently in development.

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Patricia Briggs
Briggs, Patricia

Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an award-winning fantasy author known for her lifelike characters and humorous dialogue. She was born in Butte, Montana, and lived in various cities in the Pacific Northwest. She now resides in Washington state.

Stephen Briggs
Briggs, Stephen

Stephen Briggs (born 1951) is a British writer of subsidiary works and merchandise surrounding Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy Discworld. The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, the first Discworld map, was co-designed by Briggs and Pratchett and painted by Stephen Player in 1993. The Discworld Mapp, A Tourist Guide to Lancre and Death's Domain followed.

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Anna Bright
Bright, Anna

Anna Bright is an indie bookseller by day and an author by night who still gets in trouble for reading when she’s supposed to be doing other things. When not hiding out among books, she loves concerts, roller coasters, and adventures at home and abroad. Anna lives with her husband and cat in a charming cobblestoned neighborhood in Washington, DC.

Matthew Bright
Bright, Matthew

Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer who is uncomfortable writing in the third person, but soldiers on regardless. His short fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Nightmare’s Queers Destroy Fiction, and he is the co-author of Between The Lines, an experimental novella, with Christopher Black. He is also the editor of several anthologies, including The Myriad CarnivalThreesome: Him, Him and Me and forthcoming titles Gents and Clockwork Cairo. With the release of Threesome, Publishers Weekly declared him ‘unambigiously... an editor to watch’, which is a quote he’s inclined to have printed on business cards and hand out to complete strangers on the street. By day, he pays the bills as a book cover designer in Manchester, England, where he lives with his partner and a dog who likes to eat valuable hardbacks.

Merri Bright
Bright, Merri

Once upon a time, Merri Bright tucked romance novels behind all her textbooks and read love stories instead of the lessons. Now she writes the same kind of books she’s always loved, dreaming up stories about naughty angels, misunderstood demons, sexy shifters, growly Alpha males, and all sorts of dragons.

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David Brin
Brin, David

David Glen Brin (born 1950) is an American science fiction author. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Ruby Brinks
Brinks, Ruby

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Welcome to the mystical realm where love intertwines with the supernatural, crafted by Ruby Brinks, a storyteller whose heart beats in sync with the unseen and magical. From a young age, nestled in the expansive mysteries of Indiana, Ruby was enchanted by the allure of witchcraft, mythology, and the otherworldly, setting the stage for a lifetime love affair with paranormal romance.

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Jennifer Marie Brissett
Brissett, Jennifer Marie

Jennifer Marie Brissett is a writer, an artist, a former bookstore owner, and a former web developer. She is British-Jamaican American (born in London, England), and immigrated to the US when she was about four and grew up in Cambridge, MA. In her late 20s she moved to Brooklyn, NY and for three and a half years, she owned and ran the indie bookstore, Indigo Café & Books.

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Cara Bristol
Bristol, Cara

USA Today bestselling author Cara Bristol writes science fiction romance about tough alien and cyborg heroes who fall hard for sassy heroines.

Cara is a homebody who married a wanderer. When she’s not writing or being distracted by squirrels cavorting outside her office window, she enjoys reading and traveling the world with her husband. Topping her bucket list is visiting all seven continents and petting a squirrel.

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Kristen Britain
Britain, Kristen

Kristen Britain worked for decades as a National Park Ranger, giving her a unique understanding of wildlife environments and imbuing her work with a realistic feel for nature replete with all its beauty and danger. She is now a fulltime author and resides in Mount Desert, Maine.

Poppy Z. Brite
Brite, Poppy Z.

Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite in 1967) is an American author.

C. Dale Brittain
Brittain, C. Dale

C. Dale Brittain (born 1948) is a fantasy author.

David Britton
Britton, David

David Britton is a British author, artist, and publisher. In the 1970s he founded Weird Fantasy and Crucified Toad, a series of small press magazines of the speculative fiction and horror genres. In 1976 Britton co-founded (with Michael Butterworth) the controversial publishing house Savoy Books.

Shannon J. Briwen
Briwen, Shannon J.

Shannon Briwen was born in Bregenz suited in the Alps. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and lived for a while in the US.

Carissa Broadbent
Broadbent, Carissa

I’ve been freaking out teachers and parents with mercilessly grim tales since I was roughly nine years old. Since then, my stories have gotten (slightly) less depressing and (hopefully a lot?) more readable. Today, I write fantasy novels with a heaping dose of badass ladies and a big pinch of romance. My books include the Valtain Preludes trilogy and the War of Lost Hearts series — with hopefully many more to come!

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Kevin Brockmeier
Brockmeier, Kevin

Kevin John Brockmeier (born 1972) is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels. Brockmeier, who was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991) and Southwest Missouri State University (1995). He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997, and lives in Little Rock.

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Robert Brockway
Brockway, Robert

Robert Brockway is a Senior Editor and columnist for Cracked.com. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Meagan and their two dogs, Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. He has been known, on occasion, to have a beard.

Damien Broderick
Broderick, Damien

Damien Francis Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality".

Christine Brodien-Jones
Brodien-Jones, Christine

Christine Brodien-Jones writes fantasy/​adventure books for young readers.  She lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts - the oldest seaport in the country - with her husband Peter in a tumbledown seaside house. She works in a corner of the living room by the window, with a view of the sea, on a huge Shaker desk littered with carved wooden owls. When the wind blows in from the north, her house creaks like an old ship. Gazing out over the salt marshes and boats, she can see the sky and waves and shifting colors. It's easy to imagine distant places and mysterious other worlds.  She loves writing for children because she remembers her own excitement reading books when she was young: the nooks and crannies of her hometown library, the musty smell of old pages, and the sheer joy of escaping into a book. Her hope is to fire the imaginations of young people so they can treasure and love the amazing power of stories.

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Jordanna Max Brodsky
Brodsky, Jordanna Max

Jordanna Max Brodsky graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, with a degree in History and Literature. She has long been fascinated with Greek mythology, and in particular the ways in which the Olympians have come to life for so many, for so long. She lives in New York City.

Jessica Brody
Brody, Jessica

Jessica Brody is the author of Unremembered, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, My Life Undecided, and The Karma Club. She splits her time between California and Colorado.

James Brogden
Brogden, James

James Brogden is the author of The Narrows, Tourmaline and The Realt. His horror and fantasy stories have appeared in anthologies and periodicals ranging from The Big Issue to the British Fantasy Society Award-winning Alchemy Press. He spent many years living in Australia, but now lives in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire with his wife and two daughters.

Matt Brolly
Brolly, Matt

Matt Brolly is the Amazon number one bestselling author of the DI Blackwell novels set in Weston-supper-Mare, as well as the DCI Lambert crime novels, the acclaimed near future crime novel, Zero, and the US thriller, The Controller. 

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Charlotte Brontë
Brontë, Charlotte

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre.

Meljean Brook
Brook, Meljean

Meljean Brook was raised in the middle of the woods, and hid under her blankets at night with fairy tales, comic books, and romances. She left the forest and went on a misguided tour through the world of accounting before focusing on her first loves, reading and writing – and she realized that monsters, superheroes, and happily-ever-afters are easily found between the covers, as well as under them, so she set out to make her own.

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Katlynn Brooke
Brooke, Katlynn

Katlynn Brooke is an upcoming author of fiction that includes young adult fantasy, and a novel about Africa during WW2.

Katlynn was born and raised in Zimbabwe and currently lives in Virginia, USA. She is also a watercolor artist who coaches adult artists in this medium.

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Keith Brooke
Brooke, Keith

Keith Brooke is a science fiction author, editor, web publisher and anthologist from Essex, England.

Keith Brooke has also written books under the pseudonym of Nick Gifford.

Taylor Brooke
Brooke, Taylor

Taylor Brooke Barton (they/she) is a traveling story-teller, occult fanatic, and a science fiction junkie.

They worked as a special effects makeup artist for many years before they wrote their first book. When they're not writing, they're exploring the Pacific Northwest, backpacking, or reading. They write #ownvoices Queer books about love, secrets and magic.

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Christopher Brookmyre
Brookmyre, Christopher

Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning and subsequent works have included One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, which he said "was just the sort of book he needed to write before he turned 30", and All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005). Since April 2008, he has been President of the Humanist Society of Scotland.

Jayde Brooks
Brooks, Jayde

Jayde Brooks lives in Colorado. She loves the mountains, Greek food, deep space, jewelry, God, and everything super hero-ish. Daughter of Gods and Shadows is her debut novel, and is the first in a planned series of three books.

Kayla Brooks
Brooks, Kayla

Kayla grew up in the mountains of New Mexico, where she fell in love with snow, small towns, and the idea of the redeeming power of love. Now, she lives in a big city in Texas and tries to spread the good word about romance novels wherever she goes. Kayla writes steamy romance stories about shifters, vampires, aliens, and sometimes even humans. She lives with her partner and cat, and enjoys running, playing ukulele, and watching her partner play video games.

Martha Brooks
Brooks, Martha

Martha Brooks (born 1944) is an award-winning, Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002.

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Max Brooks
Brooks, Max

Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks (born 1972) is an American author and screenwriter.

Mike Brooks
Brooks, Mike

Mike Brooks was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and now lives in Nottingham with his wife, cats, snakes and a collection of tropical fish. He worked for a homelessness charity for over fifteen years, before deciding that he preferred making up stories for a living. When not writing, he plays guitar with his punk band and DJs wherever anyone will tolerate him.

Terry Brooks
Brooks, Terry

Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.

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Lily Brooks-Dalton
Brooks-Dalton, Lily

Lily Brooks-Dalton was born and raised in southern Vermont. Her memoir, Motorcycles I've Loved, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and her first novel, Good Morning, Midnight, will be translated into half a dozen languages.

John Brosnan
Brosnan, John

John Raymond Brosnan (1947–2005) was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works based around the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, and died in South Harrow, London, from acute pancreatitis. He sometimes published under the pseudonyms Harry Adam Knight, Simon Ian Childer (both sometimes used together with Leroy Kettle), James Blackstone (used together with John Baxter), and John Raymond. Three not very successful movies were based on his novels – Beyond Bedlam (aka Nightscare), Proteus (based on Slimer), and Carnosaur. In addition to science fiction, he also wrote a number of books about cinema and was a regular columnist with the popular UK magazine Starburst.

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Lanie Bross
Bross, Lanie

Lanie Bross was born in a small town in Maine, where she spent the next 18 years dreaming of bigger places. After exploring city life, she and her husband and two young sons ended up coming right back to the wilds of Maine where they now live just one house down from where she grew up. Fate, perhaps? She loves chasing around her rambunctious kids, playing tug-o-war with her 95-pound Lab, and writing for young adults. Fates is her first novel.

Dorothy Kathleen Broster
Broster, Dorothy Kathleen

Dorothy Kathleen Broster better known as D K Broster was born in 1877 near Liverpool. She earned a degree in Modern History at Oxford and worked as a nurse in the First World War. Better known as a mainstream novelist with her bestselling Jacobite trilogy, The Flight of the Heron (1925), The Gleam in the North (1927), and The Dark Mile (1929). Most of her supernatural fiction appeared in two collections: A Fire of Driftwood (1932) and Couching at the Door (1942). An intensely private individual but many readers deduced from her name that she was both a man and Scottish. She died in Bexhill Hospital on 7th February 1950. She was 73.

Mike Brotherton
Brotherton, Mike

Mike Brotherton is an American science fiction author. He is a professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

 

Fredrik Brounéus
Brounéus, Fredrik

Fredrik is a Swedish writer who has lived in Dunedin (New Zealand) since 2009. His books include a children's thriller and a young adult pop novel, both of which were published in Swedish.

Alice Brown
Brown, Alice

Alice Brown (1856–1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).

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Charles N. Brown
Brown, Charles N.

Charles Nikki Brown (1937–2009) was the co-founder and editor of Locus, a news and reviews magazine dealing with the science fiction and fantasy genres of literature. He was born on June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended City College until 1956, when he joined the Navy. He served in the United States Navy for 3 years. Then he went on to work as a nuclear engineer before becoming a full-time science fiction editor in 1975.

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Christopher Brown
Brown, Christopher

Christopher Brown’s debut novel Tropic of Kansas was a finalist for the Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of 2018, and he was a World Fantasy Award nominee for the anthology Three Messages and a Warning. His short fiction and criticism has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including MIT Technology Review, LitHub, Tor.com and The Baffler. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he also practices law.

Dan Brown
Brown, Dan

Dan Brown, the celebrated author, was born on June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. With a series of #1 bestsellers to his name, he's firmly established himself as a literary figure of significant importance. His standout work, "The Da Vinci Code," is not just a bestseller; it's become one of the best-selling novels ever. Beyond its commercial success, the novel has ignited deep intellectual discussions among readers and scholars, making it a true masterpiece of thought-provoking literature.

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Echo Brown
Brown, Echo

Echo Brown is a visionary storyteller who creates and performs inspiring one woman shows. Her first solo show, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters, ran for two years to sold out crowds in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Chicago, Cleveland, Berlin, Germany, and Dublin, Ireland.

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Eli Brown
Brown, Eli

Eli Brown's middle-grade novel, ODDITY, is a gritty alternate historical fantasy. It features a Pistol that cannot miss, a Tea Pot containing an ocean of chamomile, and a thirteen-year-old surgeon’s daughter in search of dangerous family secrets.

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Eric Brown
Brown, Eric

Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen years and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award. He has published sixty books, and his latest include the crime novel Murder Take Three, and the short story collection Microcosms, with Tony Ballantyne. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and forty short stories. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland.

Eric S. Brown
Brown, Eric S.

Eric S Brown is the author of numerous books including the Bigfoot War series, the Kaiju Apocalypse series, and the Homeworld series. Some of his stand alone works include War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, Kraken, Megalodon, Megalodon Apocalypse, Sasquatch Lake, Crawlers, and World War of the Dead to name only a few. His short fiction has been published in anthologies from Baen Books, the Grantville Gazette, Walmart World Magazine, and hundreds of other places in the small press and beyond. The first book of his Bigfoot War series was adapted into a feature film in 2014 by Origin Releasing.

Fredric Brown
Brown, Fredric

Fredric Brown (1906–1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.

Gareth Brown
Brown, Gareth

Gareth Brown wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and he completed his first novel as a teenager. That novel wasn’t very good and he’s been working on his writing ever since. For the last twenty years he has worked in the UK Civil Service and the NHS while writing in his spare time.

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Isadora Brown
Brown, Isadora

Isadora Brown loves all things dark, dangerous, and deadly. Things that go bump in the night and send shivers down backs are things she adores. She loves (and writes) sexy, forbidden romance, usually with some bite and a hint of magic. She is the author of The Somerset Series, The Dark Paradise Trilogy, The Stranger Trilogy, and The Neverland Trilogy.

John Brown
Brown, John

John Brown is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. His epic fantasy series begins with Servant of a Dark God which will be released in October 2009. He currently lives with his wife and four daughters in the hinterlands of Utah where one encounters much fresh air, many good-hearted ranchers, and an occasional wolf.

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Mary Brown
Brown, Mary

Mary Brown (1929–1999) was a British author.

Peter Brown
Brown, Peter

Peter Brown is the author and illustrator of many bestselling children's books, including Children Make Terrible Pets and The Curious Garden. He is the recipient of a Caldecott Honor for Creepy Carrots!, two E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book award, and a Children's Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year.

Pierce Brown
Brown, Pierce

Pierce Brown spent his childhood building forts and setting traps for cousins in the woods of six states and the deserts of two. Graduating from college in 2010, he fancied the idea of continuing his studies at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a magical bone in his body. So while trying to make it as a writer, he worked as a manager of social media at a startup tech company, toiled as a peon on the Disney lot at ABC Studios, did his time as an NBC page, and gave sleep deprivation a new meaning during his stint as an aide on a U.S. Senate campaign. Now he lives Los Angeles, where he scribbles tales of spaceships, wizards, ghouls, and most things old or bizarre.

Rachel Manija Brown
Brown, Rachel Manija

Rachel Manija Brown is the author of the memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India. She lives in Southern California.

Roseanne A. Brown
Brown, Roseanne A.

Roseanne A. Brown is an immigrant from the West African nation of Ghana and a graduate of the University of Maryland, where she completed the Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House program. Her work has been featured by Voice of America, among other outlets. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is her debut novel.

Rosel George Brown
Brown, Rosel George

Rosel George Brown attracted attention during her unfortunately brief writing career with an impressive number of short stories in all the leading science fiction magazine which combined science fiction and irresistible humor, ranging from the dryly witty to raucous slapstick. She was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959, and her first novel, Sibyl Sue Blue, was widely and favorably reviewed, but her writing career came to an untimely end in 1967 when she died of cancer at the age of 41.

Ryan Brown
Brown, Ryan

Ryan Brown is a former actor who has appeared on The Young and The Restless, Law & Order, and numerous feature films. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children. Play Dead is his first novel.

Slater Brown
Brown, Slater

William Slater Brown (1896–1997) was an American novelist, biographer and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best-known as the character "B." in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel The Enormous Room.

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Stacey Marie Brown
Brown, Stacey Marie

Stacey Marie Brown by day is an Interior/Set Designer, by night a writer of Paranormal Fantasy, Adventure, and Literary Fiction. She grew up in Northern California, where she ran around on her family’s farm, raising animals, riding horses, playing flashlight tag, and turning hay bales into cool forts. Even before she could write, she was creating stories and making up intricate fantasies. Writing came as easy as breathing. She later turned that passion into acting, living and traveling abroad, and designing. Though she had never stopped writing, moving back to San Francisco seemed to have brought it back to the forefront and this time it would not be ignored.

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Stan Brown
Brown, Stan

Stan Brown has been publishing fiction, cartoons, and games professionally since 1982. He is the author of the Legend of the Five Rings novel The Crab and of more than half a dozen Dragonlance short stories.

Teri Brown
Brown, Teri

Teri Brown is most proud of her children, but coming in a close second is the fact that she jumped out of an airplane and beat the original Legend of Zelda video game. She is a word scribbler, head banger, math hater, book reader, food fixer, kitty keeper, and city slicker. Teri lives with her husband and way too many pets in Portland.

Zachary Brown
Brown, Zachary

Zachary Brown is pseudonym. Brown is a New York Times bestselling author as well as a Nebula and World Fantasy Award finalist.

N. M. Browne
Browne, N. M.

N. M. Browne is a British writer of fiction for children.

S. G. Browne
Browne, S. G.

S. G. Browne worked in Hollywood for several years before moving to Santa Cruz to be a writer. He currently lives and writes in San Francisco. Breathers is his debut novel.

Jennifer Brozek
Brozek, Jennifer

Jennifer Brozek is a Hugo Award-nominated editor and an award-winning author. Winner of the Australian Shadows Award for best edited publication, Jennifer has edited fifteen anthologies with more on the way, including the acclaimed Chicks Dig Gaming and Shattered Shields anthologies. Author of Apocalypse Girl Dreaming, Industry Talk, the Karen Wilson Chronicles, and the Melissa Allen series, she has more than sixty published short stories, and is the Creative Director of Apocalypse Ink Productions.

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Camilla Bruce
Bruce, Camilla

Camilla Bruce is a Norwegian writer who has published several short stories and novellas, including an inclusion in the "Interfictions 2" anthology (Small Beer Press/Interstitial Arts Foundation) in 2009. She also works as an editor at micro-press Belladonna Publishing (belladonnapublishing.com). You Let Me In is her debut novel.

Georgina Bruce
Bruce, Georgina

Georgina Bruce is a writer and teacher currently living in Edinburgh. Her short stories have been widely published in magazines and anthologies, and have been longlisted for the Bridport and Mslexia short story prizes. In 2017, her story White Rabbit won the British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction.

Joseph Bruchac
Bruchac, Joseph

Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished. He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language and traditional Native skills, including performing traditional and contemporary Abenaki music with the Dawnland Singers.

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Karl Bruckner
Bruckner, Karl

Karl Bruckner (1906–1982) was an Austrian children's writer.

Committed to peace, international understanding, and social justice, he became one of Austria's leading writers for young people.

Theodore Brun
Brun, Theodore

Theo is an established author and public speaker.

At Cambridge, he studied Dark Age archaeology (amongst other things). After university he trained as a solicitor, qualifying into international arbitration law where he worked for several years, including for two Magic Circle firms. His career took him first to London, then to Moscow, Paris and finally Hong Kong.

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John Brunner
Brunner, John

John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British science fiction author.

John Brunner used several pen names: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (with E. C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott.

Serge Brussolo
Brussolo, Serge

Serge Brussolo (born 1951) was originally going to become a teacher, but when he sat the certification exams, he composed a fantasy story on the spot instead of the required essay and jettisoned his academic career for writing. Like Philip K. Dick, he made his way into the sci-fi business by writing for fanzines before his breakout success in 1979 with a dystopian Tour de France story, “Funnyway,” which won the Grand prix de la science-fiction française. Since then, he’s published nearly two hundred books (often writing five or six a year) in every possible genre (much like the divers of this book), writing dark fantasy, horror, historical fiction, YA, thrillers, and the occasional straight novel. His books are consistently bestsellers, have won every major French science fiction prize, are considered modern classics, and have been made into movies.

Steven Brust
Brust, Steven

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. His most famous works are books about the assassin Vlad Taltos. His novels have been translated into many languages. He currently lives in Las Vegas.

Boone Brux
Brux, Boone

Boone Brux's writing drips with experiences from real life. Addicted to anything that might make a good story, she weaves tales ranging from dark fantasy to humorous romance. Settled in the icy regions of Alaska with the love of her life and twin daughters, it's not uncommon to find her tapping away on her iPad on a windy beach or the barren tundra. Be warned, everyone is fodder for one of Boone's novels.

J. L. Bryan
Bryan, J. L.

J. L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on English Renaissance and Romantic literature. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Christina, dogs Violet and Tiger Lily, and cats Shadow and Sue.

Kathleen Bryan
Bryan, Kathleen

Kathleen Bryan is a pseudonym of Judith Tarr.

Edward Bryant
Bryant, Edward

Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (born 1945) is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave.

Melaine Bryant
Bryant, Melaine

Melaine Bryant knew she wanted to be a writer from the moment she learned how to hold a pencil. To the consternation of her teachers and parents, she preferred writing to paying attention in school, and spent many happy hours composing stories, books, and screenplays. She grew up immersed in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, the stories of King Arthur, and many other fantasy books by authors such as John Christopher, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Lloyd Alexander.

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Jack Bryce
Bryce, Jack

I’m Jack Bryce. I write adventure novels packed with action and pretty girls. My books are heavily inspired by Xianxia, Cultivation, Progression Fantasy, and GameLit/LitRPG. My stories are explicit when it comes to adult situations, so stay away if that’s not your mug of ale.

Robert Bryndza
Bryndza, Robert

Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over five million copies.

His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA and Australian charts. To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 1.5 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 29 countries. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016), the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018), and it won two reader voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Netherlands (2018) and The Dead Good Papercut Award for best page turner at the Harrogate Crime Festival (2016).

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John Buchan
Buchan, John

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a prolific author of adventure fiction, such as The Thirty-Nine Steps, and a Unionist politician who became the 15th Governor General of Canada in 1935. He also served as a private secretary in South Africa, a barrister, a journalist, and a director of information during the First World War.

Andria Buchanan
Buchanan, Andria

Andria Buchanan currently lives in Pittsburgh with her two wonderful kids and a husband that learned the gourmet art of frozen pizzas to give her more time to write. When she's not writing she can be found fencing and arguing with her dogs about plot points. Most days the Beagle wins but the Dalmatian is in close second. She's a distant third.

Col Buchanan
Buchanan, Col

Col Buchanan was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1973. From an early age he turned to reading and writing fantastical works to escape his troubles. In school he was the quiet dreamer who always sought out the back of the classroom. Later, in his stretches of work as a copywriter, he would be the quiet dreamer who always sought out the back of the office.

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Morgan Grant Buchanan
Buchanan, Morgan Grant

Morgan Grant Buchanan is an Australian writer of sci-fi and historical fantasy. He writes comics, film, and short stories.

Daccari Buchelli
Buchelli, Daccari

Born in 1993, British Fantasy Novelist Daccari Buchelli quickly developed a love of reading. He found himself drawn to Fantasy genre, with its magical worlds and mythical beings.

Having Aspergers Syndrome made it difficult for him to identify with his peers at school, thus Daccari often felt lonely until he picked up a book. Fantasy Novels brought him into a sublime world of colour and creation, where he remains caught up to this day.

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Troy Carrol Bucher
Bucher, Troy Carrol

Troy Carrol Bucher has served over twenty-eight years in the U.S. Army, where his assignments have taken him to three wars and places like Turkey, Albania, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Korea. His travels allow him to tap into a lifetime of experience working with diverse cultures and peoples, bringing multiethnic customs and realism with a distinct military flavor to his Science Fiction and Fantasy writing.

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Simon Bucher-Jones
Bucher-Jones, Simon

Simon Bucher-Jones (born Simon Jones 1964) is a British author, artist, and amateur actor, best known for his Doctor Who novels for Virgin and the BBC and as a contributor to the Faction Paradox spin-off series.

He is known for a hard SF approach. He has also written Cthulhu Mythos short stories. He also reviewed books for the Fortean Times, and for small press papers.

Philippe Buchet
Buchet, Philippe

Philippe Buchet (born 1962) is a French comic book artist. First working as a free illustrator in Paris and Reims, he created Wake together with Jean-David Morvan.

Art Buchwald
Buchwald, Art

Arthur "Art" Buchwald (1925–2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Tobias S. Buckell
Buckell, Tobias S.

Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands. He now lives in a small college town in Ohio with his wife, Emily.

Royce Buckingham
Buckingham, Royce

Royce Buckingham (born 1966) is an American author.

Raymond Buckland
Buckland, Raymond

Raymond Buckland (born 1934), whose craft name is Robat, is an English American writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he is a High Priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax traditions.

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M. M. Buckner
Buckner, M. M.

M. M. Buckner (Mary M. Buckner) is an American science fiction author specializing in hard science fiction, and also an environmental activist. Her third novel, War Surf, won the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel of the year, and her first novel Hyperthought was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2003.

Gary Budden
Budden, Gary

Gary Budden is the co-director of Influx Press. His work has appeared in Structo, Elsewhere, Unthology, The Lonely Crowd, Gorse, Galley Beggar Press and many more. He writes about landscape punk at newlexicons.com.

Algis Budrys
Budrys, Algis

Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome, John A. Sentry, William Scarff, Paul Janvier, and Sam & Janet Argo.

Mark Budz
Budz, Mark

Mark Budz is an American science fiction writer. Budz was born on November 1, 1960 in Cherry Hills, New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously. In the late 1980s, Mark moved to Oregon to become a full-time writer. Although he began by writing short stories, Mark became interesting in science fiction and wrote a number of novels in this subject, such as Clade and Crache.

Jane Buehler
Buehler, Jane

I write cozy fantasy romances where everyday people (and fairies) have adventures and fall in love. They are lighthearted stories with action and adventure, love and magic, where protagonists learn to believe in themselves and find their courage. And yes, they are kissing books. They are the beach reads that Éowyn packs when she goes on vacation. I believe that by portraying positive relationships with good communication, romance novels can help readers envision such relationships for themselves, serve as a model of proper consent for young people, and portray diverse types of relationships and people. They can be a fun escape while still having depth and contributing to a better society.

Christopher Buehlman
Buehlman, Christopher

Christopher Buehlman is a writer and performer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the 2008 Forward Prize for best poem (UK). He spent his twenties and thirties touring renaissance festivals with his very popular show Christophe the Insultor, Verbal Mercenary. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in French Language from Florida State University, where he minored in History. He enjoys theater, independent films, chess, archery, running, cooking with lots of garlic, and thick, inky, bone-dry red wines with sediment at the bottom.

Robert Buettner
Buettner, Robert

Robert Buettner is an American author.

Carole Bugge
Bugge, Carole

Carole Elizabeth Buggé was born in Nurnberg, Germany to American parents. She is an author, playwright and short story writer. She lives in New York.

Pseudonyms: Elizabeth Blake, Carole Lawrence and C.E. Lawrence

Lois McMaster Bujold
Bujold, Lois McMaster

Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for Best Series, for the Vorkosigan Saga.

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Flavia Bujor
Bujor, Flavia

Flavia Bujor was born in Romania, but has lived in France for ten years. Inspired by Tolkien, Flavia Bujor wrote The Prophecy of the Gems when she was just thirteen years old.

Melvin Jules Bukiet
Bukiet, Melvin Jules

Melvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He has written a number of novels, including Sandman's Dust, After, While the Messiah Tarries, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker's Dozen. He edited the collections Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex, Nothing Makes You Free, and Scribblers on the Roof. He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.

Mikhail Bulgakov
Bulgakov, Mikhail

Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

Emma Bull
Bull, Emma

Emma Bull (born 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her husband is author Will Shetterly. Bull and Shetterly live in Arizona.

Bull's best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. Her science fiction novel Bone Dance (1991) was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.

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Alexandra Bullen
Bullen, Alexandra

Alexandra Bullen is an American author. She grew up in Massachusetts, went to college in New York City, and lives most of the year on Martha’s Vineyard (except when she’s visiting San Francisco.) 
She has been a playwright, waitress, barista, gardener, script reader, yoga instructor and personal assistant. 

Wish is her first novel for young adults.

 

Jesse Bullington
Bullington, Jesse

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Jesse Bullington spent his childhood alternating between deep pine woods and rich libraries. He holds Bachelor degrees in both History and English Literature from Florida State University. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is his first novel.

Jesse Bullington also writes under the pseudonym of Alex Marshall.

M. L. Bullock
Bullock, M. L.

Author of the best-selling Seven Sisters series, M.L. Bullock has been storytelling since she was a child. In fact, she was a quite an excellent liar and decided early on that she’d rather live in her own head than the real world. Born in Antigua, British West Indies, she has had a lifelong love affair with haunted houses, lonesome beaches and forgotten places. She currently lives on the Gulf Coast and regularly haunts her favorite hangout, Dauphin Island and downtown Mobile. A visit to Historic Oakleigh House in Mobile, Alabama inspired her successful supernatural suspense Seven Sisters series. 

Kenneth Bulmer
Bulmer, Kenneth

Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921–2005) was a British author. He has written books under several pseudonyms, including Alan Burt Akers, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil and Philip Kent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (1803–1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases ”pursuit of the almighty dollar”, ”the pen is mightier than the sword”, and the famous opening line ”It was a dark and stormy night”.

Kir Bulychev
Bulychev, Kir

Kir Bulychev (1934–2003) was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko, who was a Russian science fiction writer and historian.

Elizabeth C. Bunce
Bunce, Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth C. Bunce is an American author. She writes historical fantasy for young adults.

Chris Bunch
Bunch, Chris

Chris Bunch (1943-2005) was a Vietnam veteran and served as a patrol commander and combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes. He wrote for the underground press, outlaw motorcycle magazines and Rolling Stone.

David R. Bunch
Bunch, David R.

David R. Bunch (1920–2000) was an American poet and writer best known for his surrealist science fiction.

Christopher Bunn
Bunn, Christopher

Christopher Bunn was born and raised in California. After serving his obligatory sentence in school, he hit the road and spent years wandering around the world. He's worked on all the continents except for Antarctica. Among other jobs, he has worked in a shoe factory in Israel, ran a post office in a UN refugee camp in Thailand, done construction in the Amazon jungle, crewed on TV documentaries and dramas in England, demolished post-hurricane structures in Hawaii, worked in an orphanage in Ethiopia, and produced kids dvds and video games in Chicago. Currently, he lives and works on a farm in California with his family. He loves to bake pie, compose music, and talk to God.

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Adam Burch
Burch, Adam

San Francisco native Adam Burch is a classically trained actor who has had one or two lines on such television series as Scandal as well as multiple death scenes in cult horror films such as Nazis at the Center of the Earth. In addition to auditioning regularly for the part of Paramedic #2 and performing in theatre, he is an accomplished martial artist, holding a Black Sash in Wing Chun Kung Fu. The Fracture Worlds series is his literary debut.

Alex Burcher
Burcher, Alex

Alex Burcher is a health-care professional with a predilection for skiing, cycling, swimming, rock music (think the Black Crowes and the Duhks), red wine and Calvados, and trying to learn the saxophone and piano. Alex has written technical articles for professional journals but is now venturing into fiction.

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Katharine Burdekin
Burdekin, Katharine

Katharine Burdekin (1896–1963, born Katharine Penelope Cade) was a British novelist who wrote speculative fiction dealing with political, social, and spiritual issues. She was the sister of Rowena Cade, creator of the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. Many of her novels could be categorized as feminist utopian/dystopian fiction. She also wrote under the name Kay Burdekin and under the pseudonym Murray Constantine. Daphne Patai unraveled "Murray Constantine's" true identity while doing research on utopian and dystopian fiction in the mid-1980s.

Lolah Burford
Burford, Lolah

Lolah Burford was an American author from Texas. She published six novels and was married to poet William Burford.

Rachel Burge
Burge, Rachel

Rachel Burge works as a freelance feature writer and has written for a variety of websites, including BBC Worldwide, Cosmo, and MTV. She lives in East Sussex with her partner, son, and black Labrador Biff. She is fascinated by Norse myth and swears she once saw a ghost.

Dionys Burger
Burger, Dionys

Dionys Burger (1892–1987) was a Dutch mathematician (in original Dutch: Dionijs Burger) and author of the novel Sphereland.

Anthony Burgess
Burgess, Anthony

John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (1917–1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.

His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange (1962), widely considered to be his magnum opus, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick. However, the author later dismissed it as one of his lesser works.

Melvin Burgess
Burgess, Melvin

Melvin Burgess (born 1954) has written several highly acclaimed books for young adults, including Smack (1999), which won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Three of his other novels have been runners-up for the Carnegie Medal. Mr. Burgess lives in Manchester, England.

Stephanie Burgis
Burgis, Stephanie

Stephanie Burgis was born in Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband, writer Patrick Samphire, and their children. Before becoming a fulltime writer, she studied music history as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria, and worked as a website editor for a British opera company. She has published over thirty short stories for adults. Kat, Incorrigible (US)/A Most Improper Magick (UK) won the Waverton Good Read Children’s Award in 2011 for Best Début Children’s Novel by a British writer. It was followed by Renegade Magic/A Tangle of Magicks and Stolen Magic/A Reckless Magick.

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'Nathan Burgoine
Burgoine, 'Nathan

'Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller. His first published short story was "Heart" in the collection Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Since then, he has had over two dozen short stories published, including This is How You Die (the second Machine of Death anthology).

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Jeff Burk
Burk, Jeff

Jeff Burk (born 1984) is an American author and editor of Bizarro and horror fiction, currently living in Portland, Oregon. His writing is characterized by the use of humor mixed with extreme violence and gore.

Alafair Burke
Burke, Alafair

Alafair Burke is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty novels.

Her most recent novel, FIND ME, has been called a "skillfully constructed, delightfully twisty thriller" (Booklist) and "a twisting, surprising, and satisfying new thrill ride" (Ms. Magazine). THE BETTER SISTER has been praised as “twisty” (BookBub), “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly), “fast-moving” (Library Journal), and “a non-stop thriller fest” (Suspense Magazine). THE WIFE was selected as a best-of-the-month pick by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entertainment Weekly, O (Oprah Magazine), and others. It is being adapted as a feature film, with Alafair writing the screenplay.

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Anna Burke
Burke, Anna

Raised in Upstate New York, Anna Burke graduated from Smith College in 2012 with a B. A. in English Literature and Studio Art. She holds a certificate from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and was the inaugural recipient of the Sandra Moran Scholarship for the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Writing Academy. Since graduation, she has lived all along the Eastern seaboard, but wrote her debut novel, the high seas adventure Compass Rose (2018), while living on a small island in the West Indies.

Chesya Burke
Burke, Chesya

Chesya Burke has published over forty short stories in various venues including Dark Dreams: Horror and Suspense by Black Writers, Voices from the Other Side, and Whispers in the Night, each published by Kensington Publishing Corp. as well as the historical, science, and speculative fiction magazine, Would That It Were, and many more. Several of her articles appeared in the African American National Biography, published by Harvard and Oxford University Press, and she won the 2004 Twilight Tales award for short fiction. Chesya attends Agnes Scott College, where she studies creative writing and the African diaspora as it relates to race, class and gender. Many of these themes find themselves appearing in her fiction.

John Burke
Burke, John

John Frederick Burke used pseudonyms: J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, Jonathan F. Burke, Robert Miall, John Burke and Kerbu Anthon.

Jonathan Burke
Burke, Jonathan

Jonathan Burke is a pseudonym of John Burke.

Kealan Patrick Burke
Burke, Kealan Patrick

Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy.

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Sue Burke
Burke, Sue

Sue Burke spent many years working as a reporter and editor for a variety of newspapers and magazines. A Clarion workshop alumnus, Burke has published more than thirty short stories in addition to working extensively as a literary translator. She now lives in Chicago.

William R. Burkett, Jr.
Burkett, Jr., William R.

William R. Burkett, Jr. (born 1943) is a native of Georgia who grew up in Neptune Florida, and began writing when at age fourteen he given an ancient Smith-Coronatypewriter. His first science-fiction novel, Sleeping Planet, was published in Analog magazine in 1964, and it was subsequently published in hardcover and paperback in the U.S. and abroad.

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Arthur J. Burks
Burks, Arthur J.

Arthur J. Burks (1898–1974) was an American writer and a Marine colonel.

Donald R. Burleson
Burleson, Donald R.

Donald R. Burleson's horror stories have appeared in Twilight Zone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Deathrealm, Inhuman, Terminal Fright, Cemetery Dance, and many other magazines, as well as in numerous major anthologies. His previous short story collections include Beyond the Lamplight, Lemon Drops and Other Horrors, and Four Shadowings. He is also the author of three novels and a leading scholar on H. P. Lovecraft. He and his wife Mollie live in Roswell, New Mexico.

Scott Burn
Burn, Scott

Scott Burn is a former lawyer turned writer. He is the creator of the science fiction comic book series AGON and has sold several feature screenplays as well. The Enemy Within is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sarah, three step children and two toe-nibbling cats. He loves that LA offers biking, hiking, surfing and skiing all relatively close by. He doesn't do any of those things, but imagines he might in an alternate universe.

Charles Burns
Burns, Charles

Charles Burns (born 1955) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.

”At the juncture of fiction and memory, of cheap thrills and horror, lies the dark world of Charles Burns. His stories, which first attracted notice in the pages of RAW during the early 1980s, take comic book clichés – wiseacre kids, sinister scientists, tough-as-nails detectives, teenage lust and EC-style horror – and rearrange them into disturbing yet funny patterns. Beneath this interplay of familiar iconography lurk the real traumas of childhood, traumas of loss and alienation.

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Sam Burns
Burns, Sam

Asexual, anxiety sufferer, author of queer romance. She/her. Pessimist who wants to change her ways.

Stephen L. Burns
Burns, Stephen L.

Stephen L. Burns is a science fiction and fantasy author. In short fiction he is most associated with Analog Science Fiction and Fact and has won their "Anlab" readers poll four times. He has also won the Compton Crook Award and in 2000 was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

Lindsay Buroker
Buroker, Lindsay

Lindsay is a full-time independent fantasy and science fiction author who loves travel, hiking, tennis, and vizslas. She's written over sixty novels, appeared on the USA Today bestseller list, and has been twice nominated for a Goodreads Readers' Choice Award. 

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A. M. Burrage
Burrage, A. M.

Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer.

He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty".

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Nathan Burrage
Burrage, Nathan

Nathan Burrage is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

William S. Burroughs
Burroughs, William S.

William Seward Burroughs II (1914-1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual artworks, including his celebrated 'Gunshot Paintings'.

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B. J. Burrow
Burrow, B. J.

B. J. Burrow co-wrote the screenplay The Monster Hunter, which premiered on The Sci-Fi channel and starred David Carradine. The Changed is his first novel. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Melissa, and two daughters. He has won his fantasy football league four out of ten times, and he is currently working on his second novel.

David Burrows
Burrows, David

David Burrows is an avid reader of fantasy and counts Tolkien, Irvine and Rowling amongst his favourites. David is also keen on Saxon/Viking re-enactment where he learned the brutal reality of fighting in a shield wall. Writing is his main hobby and he has written a fantasy trilogy The Prophecy of the Kings, which comprises Legacy of the Eldric, Dragon Rider and Shadow of the Demon.

Jake Burrows
Burrows, Jake

Jake Burrows is the author of numerous articles, stories, and essays under various pen names. He is a former Police Constable and Intelligence Specialist, and has lived in the UK, Germany and the United States.

Michael A. Burstein
Burstein, Michael A.

Michael A. Burstein is an American writer of science fiction.

Jake Burt
Burt, Jake

Jake Burt teaches the fifth grade in Connecticut. He lives with his wife and their daughter in Hamden, CT. Greetings from Witness Protection! is his fiction debut.

Marissa Burt
Burt, Marissa

Marissa Burt was forever getting notes sent home from teachers about reading novels during class. She grew up in Oregon and drifted eastward through Colorado, Illinois, Tennessee, and South Carolina before coming back to the Seattle area with her husband and three sons. She is also the author of Storybound.

Jenna Burtenshaw
Burtenshaw, Jenna

Jenna Burtenshaw is twenty eight and has been writing regularly since she was nine years old. Starting with short stories and poems, she wrote for herself and the people around her and fell in love with the process of storytelling.

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Diane Burton
Burton, Diane

Diane Burton believes in fairy tales, the Easter Bunny, and happy-ever-after, which is why she loves reading and writing romance. She met her own hero on a blind date 29 years ago and has followed his job from the Detroit-area to Missouri, SW Michigan, and Chicago-land. Diane and her husband currently reside in mid-Michigan with a wimpy Lab-cocker mix whose favorite place to sleep is under her desk. They have two grown children. Diane's love of romantic comedy and Star Trek led to the writing of her first futuristic novel, Switched.

Jessie Burton
Burton, Jessie

Jessie Burton studied at Oxford University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, where she appeared in productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, Play and Macbeth. In April 2013 her first novel, The Miniaturist, was sold at an 11-publisher auction at the London Book Fair, and went on to sell in 29 other countries around the world. It was published by Picador in the UK and Holland in July 2014, and the USA in August 2014, with other translations to follow. Radio 4 commissioned it as their Book at Bedtime in July 2014. Her second book, The Muse, set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London, was published in 2016. Jessie's first novel for children, The Restless Girls, was published in 2018.

Laura Burton
Burton, Laura

Laura writes sweet romance and fantasy with steamy kisses, thrilling suspense, and mystery.

A self-confessed Potterhead and Once Upon a Time fan.
Laura marries her love of 1990's romcoms with her obsession with Pretty Little Liars and writes fast-paced books written especially for readers who need an escape.

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LeVar Burton
Burton, LeVar

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born 1957), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director, producer and, author.

Burton first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well known for his role as Lt. Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow.

Tim Burton
Burton, Tim

Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (born 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, his most recent film, that was the second highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. Among Burton's many collaborators are Johnny Depp, who became a close friend since their first film together, musician Danny Elfman (who has composed for all but five of the films Burton has directed and/or produced) and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009.

Manon Burz-Labrande
Burz-Labrande, Manon

Dr Manon Burz-Labrande is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria.

C. J. Busby
Busby, C. J.

Cecilia Busby was brought up on boats and in caravans. She read avidly as a child, and moved frequently from place to place. As an adult, she carried on reading and travelling: having studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge, she lived and researched in south India for a year for her PhD.

F. M. Busby
Busby, F. M.

Francis Marion Busby (1921–2005) was a science fiction writer and figure in science fiction fandom. In 1960 he was a co-winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine.

He began writing short fiction in 1957, but did not start writing novels until the 1970s, a good deal of his novel work being space-opera.

Daisy Butcher
Butcher, Daisy

Daisy Butcher is a PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire.

James J. Butcher
Butcher, James J.

James J. Butcher spends most of his time in places that don’t exist; some of which he even made himself. What little time he has left is usually spent writing or exercising. He is the son of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher, who introduced him to books, movies and games. He lives in Denver, and is working on his next novel.

Jim Butcher
Butcher, Jim

Jim Butcher (born 1971) is a New York Times best-selling author, who is best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also writes the Codex Alera series. Jim Butcher grew up as the only son of his parents, and has two older sisters.

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Shannon K. Butcher
Butcher, Shannon K.

Bestselling author Shannon K. Butcher, who now writes as Anna Argent, has written more than thirty titles since launching her career in 2007. She has three award-winning series, including the paranormal romance series The Sentinel Wars, the action-romance series The Edge, and the romantic suspense Delta Force Trilogy. Her alter ego Anna Argent also writes several series with a fresh and interesting spin on paranormal romance (The Lost Shards, The Taken and The Stone Men series) as well as a contemporary romance series set in a small town in the Ozarks. As a former engineer and current nerd, she frequently uses charts, graphs and tables to aid her in the mechanics of story design, world building and to keep track of all those colorful characters, magical powers and alternate worlds. An avid bead and glass artist, she spends her free time turning small sparkly bits into larger sparkly bits.

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D. J. Butler
Butler, D. J.

D. J. (“Dave”) Butler grew up in swamps, deserts, and mountains. After messing around for years with the practice of law, he finally got serious and turned to his lifelong passion of storytelling. He now writes adventure stories for readers of all ages, plays guitar, and spends as much time as he can with his family. He is the author of City of the Saints, Rock Band Fights Evil, Space Eldritch, and Crecheling from Wordfire Press, and Witchy Eye from Baen Books. Read more about Dave and his writing at http://davidjohnbutler.com, and follow him on Twitter: @davidjohnbutler.

D. S. Butler
Butler, D. S.

Danica, who goes by the pen name D. S. Butler, is widely recognized for her compelling contributions to the crime fiction genre. Best known for the Karen Hart series, a collection of gripping police procedural novels set against the picturesque backdrop of Lincolnshire, Danica has carved her niche in the literary world.

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Nathan Butler
Butler, Nathan

Nathan Butler is a pseudonym of Jerry Sohl.

Octavia E. Butler
Butler, Octavia E.

Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

 

Robert Olen Butler
Butler, Robert Olen

Robert Olen Butler (born  1945) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.

Samuel Butler
Butler, Samuel

Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.

Michael Butterworth
Butterworth, Michael

Michael Butterworth (born 1947) is a British author and publisher who has written many novels and short stories, particularly in the genre of science fiction. Because of the similarity of name he is often erroneously credited with the works of comic strip script writer and novelist Mike Butterworth, author of The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire and Gothic romance novels under the pen-name Carola Salisbury. The two authors are not related.

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Catherine Butzen
Butzen, Catherine

Catherine Butzen was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her upbringing gave her an enduring interest in history, a deep love of fiction, and a healthy respect for Baba Yaga.

Kira Jane Buxton
Buxton, Kira Jane

Kira Jane Buxton's writing has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and more. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle home and spends her time with three cats, a dog, two crows, a charm of hummingbirds, and a husband.

Lewis Buzbee
Buzbee, Lewis

Lewis Buzbee is a San Francisco based author and poet. He is "a fourth generation California native on his mother's side, and a Dust Bowl Okie on his father's".

Greg Buzwell
Buzwell, Greg

Greg Buzwell is a Curator at the British Library

A. S. Byatt
Byatt, A. S.

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE (commonly known as A. S. Byatt, born 1936) is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her among their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Richard Lee Byers
Byers, Richard Lee

Richard Lee Byers is the author of more than fifteen novels, including the best-selling Dissolution, and Scarred Lands: Forsaken, The Shattered Mask, Soul Killer, The Vampire's Apprentice, Dead Time, Dark Fortune, On a Darkling Plain, Caravan of Shadows, Netherworld, and Dark Kingdoms. His short fiction appears in numerous anthologies.

Georgia Byng
Byng, Georgia

Georgia Byng (born 1965) is a British author of children's books. Byng's best known work is Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism and its sequels, about a girl who finds a book about hypnotism and learns how to hypnotize people.

Tim Byrd
Byrd, Tim

Tim Byrd lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his adventurous son and a treacherous cat. Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom is his first book.

Gabrielle K. Byrne
Byrne, Gabrielle K.

Gabrielle K. Byrne is the author of Rise of the Dragon Moon and The Edge of Strange Hollow. She lives in the rainy wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where she writes fantasy for kids of all ages. Gabby studied opera in Philadelphia, medieval studies in New York, literature in Scotland, and marine biology in the Pacific Northwest, but writing stories is the common thread that ties all her interests together. When she’s not writing, she can be found fishing spineless beasties out of the Salish Sea with her husband and two daughters. Gabby is a mentor for the Pitch Wars writing contest, and a contributor at The Winged Pen blog.

John Byrne
Byrne, John

John Byrne (born 1950) is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Monica Byrne
Byrne, Monica

Monica is a writer, playwright, and traveler based in Durham, NC. She has a pilot’s license (from when she wanted to be an astronaut), a yoga teacher certification (from when she realized she didn’t want to be an astronaut), and one very-marked-up passport (from when she realized she was an artist). She holds degrees in biochemistry from Wellesley and MIT.

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Stephen Bywater
Bywater, Stephen

Stephen Bywater left school at 16 to join the Merchant Navy. He now teaches English and is the author of The Devil's Ark.

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