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Author entities gather every writer whose life and work this atlas documents, spanning every literary tradition, era and language from antiquity to the present. Placement follows the SubLabel convention recorded in this atlas's own DataBrief: each author carries the national or language literary tradition they actually wrote in, one of thirteen traditions running from Ancient and Classical Literature through Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature. Where an author's philosophical or religious facet matters more than their writing, that facet is a seam to a sibling atlas by same-as proposal rather than a duplicate entry here.

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Jean de La Fontaine

French Literature

Jean Racine

French Literature

Jean Rhys

Postcolonial African Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

French Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre

French Literature

Jerome K. Jerome

British and Irish Literature

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Russian and Slavic Literature

Jerzy Kosiński

American Literature

Jim Thompson

American Literature

Jo Nesbø

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German-Language Literature

John Donne

British and Irish Literature

John Fletcher

British and Irish Literature

John Kennedy Toole

American Literature

John Lyly

British and Irish Literature

John Milton

British and Irish Literature

John Rollin Ridge

American Literature

John Steinbeck

American Literature

John W. Campbell

American Literature

Johnston McCulley

American Literature

Jonathan Swift

British and Irish Literature

Jorge Luis Borges

Iberian and Latin American Literature

José Rizal

East and Southeast Asian Literature

José Saramago

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Joseph Heller

American Literature

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

British and Irish Literature

Juan Rulfo

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Jules Verne

French Literature

Julio Cortazar

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Junichiro Tanizaki

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kaavya Viswanathan

American Literature

Kahlil Gibran

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Kaliane Bradley

British and Irish Literature

Kalidasa

South Asian Literature

Karen Blixen

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Kazi Nazrul Islam

South Asian Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro

British and Irish Literature

Keigo Higashino

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kenzaburō Ōe

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Khaled Hosseini

American Literature

Kim Jin-myung

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kim Man-jung

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Knut Hamsun

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Kurt Vonnegut

American Literature

L. P. Hartley

British and Irish Literature

Langston Hughes

American Literature

Laurence Sterne

British and Irish Literature

Leo Tolstoy

Russian and Slavic Literature

Leon Damas

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Leonardo Sciascia

Italian Literature

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Lev Grossman

American Literature

Lew Wallace

American Literature

Linda Grant

British and Irish Literature

Liu Cixin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Lope de Vega

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Lu Xun

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian Literature

Luigi Pirandello

Italian Literature

Luís de Camões

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Luis Vélez de Guevara

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Luo Guangbin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Luo Guanzhong

East and Southeast Asian Literature

M. L. Stedman

Postcolonial African Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Machado de Assis

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Magda Szabó

German-Language Literature

Mahatma Gandhi

South Asian Literature

Maj Sjöwall

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Marcel Proust

French Literature

Margaret Atwood

American Literature

Margaret Fuller

American Literature

Margaret Mitchell

American Literature

Marguerite Duras

French Literature

Marguerite Yourcenar

French Literature

Mariama Bâ

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Mario Puzo

American Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Mark Twain

American Literature

Mary Gaitskill

American Literature

Mary Shelley

British and Irish Literature

Mateo Alemán

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Matsuo Bashō

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Maurice Leblanc

French Literature

Maya Angelou

American Literature

Menander

Ancient and Classical Literature

Michel de Montaigne

French Literature

Michel Houellebecq

French Literature

Miguel de Cervantes

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian and Slavic Literature

Mikhail Sholokhov

Russian and Slavic Literature

Mirza Ghalib

South Asian Literature

Miyoshi Shoraku

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Mo Yan

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Mohsin Hamid

South Asian Literature

Molière

French Literature

Mulk Raj Anand

South Asian Literature

Munshi Premchand

South Asian Literature

Murasaki Shikibu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Nadine Gordimer

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature
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