Meet the Masterminds Behind the Most Influential Books with High-Quality Author Summaries

Jeffrey Eugenides is an acclaimed American author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novels including "Middlesex" and "The Marriage Plot".

James M. Cain was an American author famous for gritty, dark crime stories and psychological dramas.

A renowned writer who penned dozens of successful and thought-provoking novels and plays, W. Somerset Maugham was a literary giant.

Barbara Pym was a beloved twentieth-century English novelist acclaimed for her witty, intelligent novels about everyday life.

George Akerlof is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose research focuses on microeconomics, behavioral economics, and macroeconomics.

Rachel E. E. Kranton is an esteemed author and professor specializing in economics, sociology and psychology.

A Nobel-winning Jewish American writer whose stories portray the complexities of life during the Holocaust.

Harriet Doerr is an acclaimed novelist and short story writer who specializes in tales of family, love, and consequence.

Jean Rhys, renowned for her often incomprehensible Modernist fiction, combined her own lived experience with vivid descriptions of the human condition.

Louisa May Alcott: 19th century feminist author of the beloved novel "Little Women".

Krishna Dharma is an experienced author specialising in Indian epics and dharma literature, writing meaningful works which reconnect readers to the sacred.

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an English writer, best known for three influential novels; "Pamela", "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison".

Barbara Kingsolver is an acclaimed American author celebrated for her critically acclaimed novels, poetry and non-fiction works.

A French soldier and author best known for his epistolary novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".

Ben Okri is an acclaimed Nigerian poet, novelist, and essayist whose works explore themes of post-colonialism, history, mythology, and identity.

Richard Adams is an English author of world-renowned stories such as "Watership Down" and "Tales from Watership Down".

Murasaki Shikibu is an 11th-century Japanese novelist and diarist, known for her epic masterpiece, "The Tale of Genji".

Thomas Hardy was a renowned Victorian-era novelist, poet, and playwright renowned for his works on rural life.

Anthony Powell is an acclaimed British novelist who wrote 12-volume cycle A Dance to the Music of Time.

Philosopher, statesman, novelist, art historian and prolific author of books on politics and art.

Evan S. Connell is an acclaimed author known for his rich, complex prose.

Elizabeth Bowen is an acclaimed Irish novelist and short story writer of the twentieth century, writing extensively about love, loss and identity.

Isak Dinesen was a storyteller and author of intriguing novels, tales, and memoirs; her writing is bewitching and elegantly written.

Robert Graves was a prolific poet, novelist, and classical scholar who wrote about mythology and history.