BBC Literary Archive A-Z of Featured AuthorsBack to the archive A Dannie Abse Chinua Achebe Douglas Adams Richard Adams and David Parkins Aesop David Almond Maya Angelou Anonymous Raymond Antrobus Fatimah Asghar Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Jim Aylesworth B Iain Banks Pat Barker JM Barrie Luigi Bartolini Jean-Dominique Bauby Samuel Beckett Floella Benjamin Alan Bennett George Bernard Shaw Malorie Blackman William Blake Alecky Blythe Enid Blyton Robert Bolt Malika Booker Boileau-Narcejac John Boyne Harold Brighouse Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vera Brittain Anne Bronte Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Robert Browning Bill Bryson Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler Melvin Burgess Octavia E Butler Jez Butterworth C James M. Cain Truman Capote Lewis Carroll Angela Carter Geoffrey Chaucer Hans Christian Andersen Agatha Christie Caryl Churchill Arthur C. Clarke Gillian Clarke Jonathan Coe Wilkie Collins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle William Congreve Joseph Conrad Helen Cooper Frank Cottrell-Boyce Douglas Coupland Noel Coward Jim Crace Richmal Crompton Gillian Cross Richard Curtis and Ben Elton D Roald Dahl Shelagh Delaney Kit de Waal Philip K. Dick Charles Dickens Julia Donaldson Rita Dove Roddy Doyle Arnold Drake Daphne Du Maurier E Dorothy Edwards George Eliot TS Eliot Inua Ellams Bernardine Evaristo F Sebastian Faulks F.Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Ken Follett E.M. Forster Anne Frank Dan Freedman Michael Freeman Brian Friel Athol Fugard G Craig Shaw Gardner Elizabeth Gaskell Jamila Gavin The Brothers Grimm William Golding Oliver Goldsmith Kenneth Grahame Robert Graves Kes Gray Graham Greene Tanika Gupta Abdulrazak Gurnah H Mark Haddon James Halliwell-Phillipps Mohsin Hamid Thomas Hardy L.P. Hartley Mairi Hedderwick Joseph Heller Zoe Heller Ernest Hemingway Susan Hill Ian Hislop Frances Hodgson Burnett Anne Holm Homer Nick Hornby Anthony Horowitz Khaled Hosseini Ted Hughes Aldous Huxley I Henrik Ibsen Witi Ihimaera Kazuo Ishiguro J Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Joseph Jacobs Henry James P.D. James Anita Jeram Jennifer Johnston James Joyce K Charlotte Keatley Stephen Kelman Ken Kesey Clive King Joseph Martin Kronheim L Jake LaMotta Derek Landy Philip Larkin Nella Larsen Harper Lee Alun Lewis CS Lewis Andrea Levy Astrid Lindgren Joan Littlewood Attica Locke Robert Louis Stevenson M Charlie Mackesy Michelle Magorian William Makepeace Thackeray Sarfraz Manzoor Andrew Marvell Christopher Marlowe Louisa May Alcott Sam McBratney Cormac McCarthy Ian McEwan Ian McMillan Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba Arthur Miller A.A. Milne Margaret Mitchell Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen Elaine Morgan Toni Morrison Michael Morpurgo Jill Murphy N Edith Nesbit Patrick Ness Mary Norton O Sean O’Casey Mary Orr George Orwell Ovid P Chuck Palahniuk Philippa Pearce Charles Perrault Winsome Pinnock Harold Pinter Alan Plater Beatrix Potter Dennis Potter J.B. Priestley Philip Pullman Howard Pyle R Erich Maria Remarque Nina Raine Jean Rhys Michael Rosen Tony Ross Arundhati Roy Carlos Ruiz Zafon Willy Russell S Antoine de Saint-Exupery J.D. Salinger Sam Selvon Maurice Sendak Dr. Seuss William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Owen Sheers R.C. Sherriff Lionel Shriver Joe Simpson Zadie Smith Sophocles John Steinbeck Bram Stoker Tom Stoppard Todd Strasser August Strindberg Graham Swift Robert Swindells Meera Syal T Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chidiock Tichborne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dylan Thomas Leslie Thomas Di Toft Paul Torday Anthony Trollope W Martin Waddell Alice Walker Edmund Waller David Walliams Sarah Waters Vernon Watkins Evelyn Waugh John Webster H.G. Wells Timberlake Wertenbaker E.B. White Amanda Whittington Oscar Wilde Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams Jacqueline Wilson Jeanette Winterson Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth William Wycherley Y Richard Yates WB Yeats Akimi Yoshida Z Benjamin Zephaniah Markus Zusak