5301. Ruby Wax

American-born British comedian, actress, writer and mental health advocate, known for her television comedy, celebrity interviews and work promoting mental health awareness.

5302. Pt.Kishan Lal

5303. Anonymous

Works attributed to an unknown or unnamed author and published under the designation 'Anonymous'; the individual's identity is not publicly known.

5304. D.K. Publishing

Dorling Kindersley (commonly branded as DK or D.K. Publishing) is a British multinational publishing company, founded in 1974 by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley, best known for illustrated reference books for adults and children.

5305. Anna Dorn

5306. Alaa Al Aswany

Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and dentist, best known for the novel The Yacoubian Building (2002); also known for political commentary and engagement in public debate during and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

5307. Steven Gaines

American author and journalist.

5308. Ben Folds

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer; founding member of Ben Folds Five, known for piano-driven alternative rock, a solo career, collaborations, and work as a producer and arranger.

5309. William W. Savage Jr.

5310. Ron Rash

American poet, short-story writer, and novelist known for fiction set in the Appalachian region; author of novels including The World Made Straight and Serena, and a longtime professor of English and creative writing.

5311. Caroline B. Cooney

American author of young adult and children's fiction, best known for teen suspense novels such as The Face on the Milk Carton.

5312. P.J. Harvey

English singer-songwriter, musician and composer, known professionally as P.J. Harvey; active since the early 1990s and acclaimed for albums such as Dry, Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love and Let England Shake.

5313. June Alison Gibbons

One of the "Silent Twins"—Barbadian-born British twin who, with her identical sister Jennifer Gibbons, became known for their near-mutual selective mutism, private creative writing, and long-term institutionalization at Broadmoor Hospital; subject of books and films.

5314. Nahoko Uehashi

Japanese author of fantasy novels for children and young adults, best known for the Moribito series and The Beast Player; trained as a cultural anthropologist and active in academic work.

5315. Peter Ackroyd

English novelist, biographer, critic, poet and cultural historian, known for biographies of Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot and for novels and non-fiction exploring London and English history.

5316. Taeko Tomioka

Japanese poet, novelist and essayist.

5317. Elisa Shua Dusapin

Franco-Korean novelist and writer who writes in French, best known for the novel Hiver à Sokcho (Winter in Sokcho).

5318. Ha Jin

Chinese-American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, known for writing in English. Author of Waiting (1999), which won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; long-time professor of English (Boston University).

5319. Kong Shangren

Qing-dynasty Chinese dramatist and poet, best known for the historical play The Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua Shan); a descendant of Confucius.

5320. Sandra M. Gilbert

American literary critic, poet, and feminist scholar, best known (with Susan Gubar) for co-authoring The Madwoman in the Attic.

5321. Haruo Shirane

Japanese-born literary scholar and professor of Japanese literature at Columbia University, specializing in classical and early modern Japanese poetry and prose (waka, Genji, Bashō, haiku); author of several influential books on Japanese literature and culture.

5322. Royall Tyler

American lawyer, judge, and playwright, best known for the 1787 comedy The Contrast and for his service as a jurist in Vermont.

5323. G.G. Rowley

5324. Viv Groskop

British journalist, writer, broadcaster and stand-up comedian, known for work on comedy, feminism and public speaking and for books on those subjects.

5325. Charles Hartshorne

20th-century American philosopher and theologian best known for developing and defending process philosophy and process theology (panentheism), with influential work in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

5326. Manohar Shetty

Indian poet who writes in English, author of several poetry collections known for evocative treatment of coastal life and urban experience.

5327. Ernest Cline

American novelist, screenwriter, and humorist best known for the science fiction novel Ready Player One (2011) and its film adaptation screenplay, as well as the novel Armada (2015).

5328. Theodor W. Adorno

German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory; known for works including Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Max Horkheimer), Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and Minima Moralia.

5329. María Luisa Bombal

Chilean novelist and short-story writer (1910–1980) known for lyrical, modernist and feminist works that blend surrealism and psychological themes; author of La última niebla and La amortajada.

5330. Orlando Figes

British historian and author specializing in Russian history, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, known for major works including A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, and The Whisperers.

5331. César Aira

Argentine novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, known for his prolific output and experimental, often surreal fiction. Widely regarded as a major contemporary Latin American author.

5332. Thomas Bernhard

Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet (1931–1989) known for bleak, repetitive, monologic prose and trenchant criticism of Austrian society. Major works include The Loser, Correction, Woodcutters, and Concrete.

5333. Roland Barthes

French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician known for works such as Writing Degree Zero, Mythologies, S/Z, and Camera Lucida; influential in structuralism and post-structuralist thought.

5334. Michel Vovelle

French historian specializing in the French Revolution and the history of mentalities; professor and museum director.

5335. Hilary Mantel

British novelist, short-story writer and memoirist best known for her historical novels 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'; two-time Booker Prize winner.

5336. J.M. Coetzee

South African-born novelist, essayist and translator; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2003) and the Booker Prize (1983, 1999). Author of major works including Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, and Disgrace.

5337. Martin Heidegger

German philosopher, major figure in 20th-century continental philosophy. Author of Being and Time (1927), he developed a distinctive form of fundamental ontology influential in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. His involvement with Nazism in the 1930s has been the subject of extensive controversy and scholarship.

5338. Joyce Carol Oates

American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet and critic, known for a prolific career exploring the darker aspects of American life, identity, violence, and social class; recipient of major literary awards including the National Book Award.

5339. G.K. Chesterton

English writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic (1874–1936), known for the Father Brown detective stories, Christian apologetics, essays, novels, and social criticism; a leading proponent of distributism and noted for his wit and paradoxical style.

5340. Paul Valéry

French poet, essayist and philosopher associated with Symbolism; author of works such as "Le Cimetière marin" and the essays featuring the character Monsieur Teste; elected to the Académie française.

5341. George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic and polemicist (1856–1950). Leading dramatist of his time, prolific author of plays such as Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Major Barbara and Man and Superman; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

5342. Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist and short‑story writer, awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. Known for lyrical, understated prose in works such as Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Sound of the Mountain, exploring beauty, loneliness, and loss.

5343. Virginia Woolf

English modernist novelist and essayist, central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, known for stream-of-consciousness works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando, and for feminist essays like A Room of One's Own.

5344. Marguerite Yourcenar

Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, the first woman elected to the Académie Française (1980), best known for historical novels such as Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian) and L'Œuvre au Noir (The Abyss).

5345. Charles L. Granata

5346. Mao Nanami

5347. Lili Pazos

5348. Luis Chitarroni

Argentine writer, literary critic, and editor, author of fiction and essays on contemporary literature.

5349. Milan Kundera

Czech-born novelist, playwright and essayist, best known for works such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being; emigrated to France and became a naturalized French citizen; noted for philosophical, often ironic fiction.

5350. Carson McCullers

American novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist associated with Southern Gothic literature; best known for the novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940).