Known Author List

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B

Babel, Isaac
Bach, Richard
Bache, Ellyn
Bachmann, Ingeborg
Backer, Sara
Bacon, Francis
Badami, Anita Rau
Bai Juyi
Bail, Murray
Bailey, Linda
Baillie, Joanna
Bain, Darrell
Bain, Donald
Baines, Elizabeth
Baker, Lori
Baker, Nicholson
Baldacci, David
Baldwin, James
Ball, Hugo
Ballard, J. G.
Balzac, Honore de
Banks, Iain M.
Bantock, Nick
Baraka, Imamu Amiri
Barbauld, Anna L.
Barfoot, Joan
Baring-Gould, Sabine
Barker, Clive
Barkhouse, Joyce
Barnes, Djuna
Barnes, John
Barnes, John Alvah, Jr.
Barnes, Julian
Barnes, Steven
Barnes, Zoë
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Barrett, Robert G.
Barrie, James M.
Barry, Dave
Barry, Max
Barstow, Stan
Barth, John
Barthelme, Donald
Barthelme, Frederick
Bartimus, Tad
Barton, Bob
Bashlachev, Alexander
Basho, Matsuo Munefusa
Bass, Rick
Bataille, Georges
Bates, Katherine Lee
Baudelaire, Charles
Baum, L. Frank
Baxter, Stephen
Beagle, Peter S.
Beai, Steve
Bear, Greg
Bechard, Gorman
Becke, George Lewis
Beckett, Samuel
Beckford, William
Bedard, Michael
Bedichek, Roy
Beebe, William
Beerbohm, Max
Behan, Brendan
Behn, Aphra
Behr, Alan
Beilharz, Johannes
Belew, Ellie
Bell, Acton
Bell, Currer
Bell, Ellis
Bell, Madison Smartt
Bell, Marvin
Bell, William
Bellairs, John
Bellamann, Henry
Bellamann, Katherine Jones
Bellamy, Edward
Bellamy, John Stark
Belloc, Bessie Rayner
Belloc, Hilaire
Bellow, Saul
Benedikt, Michael
Benitez, Sandra
Bennett, Arnold
Bennett, John
Bentham, Jeremy
Bentinck, Michael
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
Berenstain, Stan and Jan
Beresford-Howe, Constance
Bergstrom, Elaine
Bernanos, Georges
Bernstein, Charles
Berry, Iris
Berry, Wendell
Berryman, John
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei
Berton, Pierre
Bester, Alfred
Betjeman, John
Bevin, Teresa
Bialosky, Jill
Bianchi, John
Bidart, Frank
Bierce, Ambrose
Bioy Casares, Adolfo
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bishop, John Peale
Bishop, Michael
Bisson, Terry
Bissoondath, Neil
Bjørneboe, Jens
Black, Arthur
Black, Millenia
Blacker, Terence
Blackmore, R. D.
Blackmore, Richard
Blackwood, Algernon
Blair, Eric
Blake, Michael
Blake, William
Blamire, Susanna
Blanchot, Maurice
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
Blaylock, James P.
Blevins, Richard
Blish, James
Blixen, Karen
Bloch, Robert
Block, Lawrence
Bloom, Allan
Bloomberg, Sandi
Bluehorse, Elizabeth
Bluger, Marianne
Blume, Judy
Bly, Robert
Blyler, David
Blyton, Enid
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bogan, Louise
Bogart, Jo Ellen
Bogner, Norman
Bogosian, Eric
Bok, Edward
Boland, Eavan
Böll, Heinrich
Bolton, Isabel
Bombeck, Erma
Bonta, Vanna
Bontempelli, Massimo
Boof, Kola
Booth, Philip
Boran, Pat
Borchert, Wolfgang
Borge, Victor
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boris, Cynthia
Borrow, George
Bosco, Joseph
Boswell, James
Bottoms, David
Bourgeois, Paulette
Bova, Ben
Bove, Robert
Bowen, Gail
Bowering, George
Bowers, Edgar
Bowles, Jane
Bowles, Paul
Box, Edgar
Boyars, Arthur
Boyd, William
Boyett, Steven R.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Bracken, Michael
Brackett, Leigh
Bradbury, Ray
Bradford, Karleen
Bradford, William
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Bradstreet, Anne
Bragg, Melvyn
Brand, Dionne
Brandon, Jay
Brands, H. W.
Brann, William Cowper
Brant, Sebastian
Brathwaite, Kamau
Braun, Lilian Jackson
Brautigan, Richard
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
Brett, Jan
Brice, Tim
Brichoux, Karen
Bright, Joe
Brin, David
Bringhurst, Robert
Brisby, Stewart
Briscoe, Connie
Brittain, C. Dale
Brodsky, Joseph
Bronk, William
Brontë, Anne
Brontë, Branwell
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Brontë Family
Brooke, Rupert
Brookmyre, Christopher
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brooks, K. S.
Brooks, Terry
Broome, William
Brown, Charles Brockden
Brown, Dan
Brown, Fredric
Brown, Marc
Brown, Molly
Brown, Rita Mae
Brown, Rosellen
Brown, Sterling A.
Brown, T.E.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Brownrigg, Elizabeth
Bruce, Anthony
Bruchac, Joseph
Brunner, John
Brussig, Thomas
Brust, Steven
Bryant, William Cullen
Bryher
Bryson, Bill
Bryson, Michael
Buchan, John
Buchanan, Edna
Büchner, Georg
Buck, Janet I.
Buck, Pearl S.
Budrys, Algis
Buffie, Margaret
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Bukowski, Charles
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Bull, Emma
Bunyan, John
Burchill, Julie
Bürger, Gottfried August
Burgess, Anthony
Burk, Martha Jane Canary
Burke, Alafair
Burke, Edmund
Burke, James
Burke, Martha Jane Canary
Burke, Martyn
Burleson, Clyde
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burney, Frances
Burns, Robert
Burr, Catherine
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, John
Burroughs, William S.
Busch, Wilhelm
Butala, Sharon
Butler, Ellis Parker
Butler, James L.
Butler, Octavia
Butler, Samuel
Butler, Samuel, The Older
Byars, Betsy
Byatt, A. S.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling
Byron, George Gordon

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