Famous novelists

writer of novels

1,885 people

All Alive Deceased
Herman Melville

Herman Melville

1819 – 1891 · Age 72
Deceased
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

1857 – 1924 · Age 66
Deceased
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759 – 1797 · Age 38
Deceased
Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

1814 – 1841 · Age 26
Deceased
Alice Munro

Alice Munro

1931 – 2024 · Age 92
Deceased
Lu Xun

Lu Xun

1881 – 1936 · Age 55
Deceased
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

1947 · Age 78
Alive
Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

1949 · Age 77
Alive
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

1946 · Age 79
Alive
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

1917 – 2008 · Age 90
Deceased
Herta Müller

Herta Müller

1953 · Age 72
Alive
Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

1881 – 1942 · Age 60
Deceased
Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque

1898 – 1970 · Age 72
Deceased
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

1905 – 1982 · Age 77
Deceased
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

1923 – 2014 · Age 90
Deceased
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

1899 – 1972 · Age 72
Deceased
Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

1862 – 1946 · Age 83
Deceased
John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy

1867 – 1933 · Age 65
Deceased
Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda

1871 – 1936 · Age 64
Deceased
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940 · Age 44
Deceased
Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

1889 – 1963 · Age 74
Deceased
Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881 · Age 85
Deceased
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

1915 – 2005 · Age 89
Deceased
Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

1917 – 1985 · Age 67
Deceased
Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić

1892 – 1975 · Age 82
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q6625963