8801. James R. Giles

8802. Hedrick Smith

American journalist and author, longtime New York Times correspondent and bureau chief, known for reporting on the Soviet Union and U.S. politics and for several books on contemporary political and social issues.

8803. Shaun Attwood

British writer, speaker and YouTuber; a former stockbroker who was convicted on drug-related charges and served time in a U.S. prison, now known for books and videos about his prison experiences and the criminal underworld.

8804. Hermann Weyl

German mathematician and theoretical physicist known for foundational contributions to group theory, representation theory, Riemannian geometry, and mathematical physics; notable for the Weyl group, Weyl character formula, Weyl tensor, and early work on gauge theory and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.

8805. John McDowell

British philosopher (born 1942) known for influential work in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics; author of Mind and World (1994) and other major contributions engaging Wittgenstein, Aristotle, and Hegel.

8806. Brian P. McLaughlin

8807. Wayne C. Booth

American literary critic and rhetorician, long-time University of Chicago professor, best known for The Rhetoric of Fiction and contributions to rhetorical approaches to literature and research methodology (co-author of The Craft of Research).

8808. Adrian Currie

Contemporary philosopher of science working on the history and philosophy of biology, scientific models and evidence, and the role of experiment (including experimental archaeology) in scientific practice.

8809. Theodore L. Brown

American chemist and educator, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and co-author of the widely used general chemistry textbook "Chemistry: The Central Science."

8810. Olsen, Gregg

American author best known for true-crime books and crime/suspense nonfiction and novels.

8811. Vincent, Robert

8812. Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist, and journalist; author of Leaves of Grass and a central figure in 19th-century American literature.

8813. Frederic P. Miller

Author/editor name credited on numerous compilation/republished titles (commonly appearing on Alphascript/Betascript/VDM-style publications); often associated with collections that compile public-domain or Wikipedia-derived material.

8814. G.K. Chesterton

English writer, poet, philosopher, and Christian apologist best known for the Father Brown detective stories, prolific essays and literary criticism, and advocacy of distributist economic ideas.

8815. Radclyffe Hall

English novelist and poet best known for the 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness, a landmark work of lesbian literature that was the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial.

8816. T.H. White

English author best known for his Arthurian works collected as The Once and Future King (including The Sword in the Stone); also wrote The Goshawk and other fiction and non-fiction.

8817. Hanjo Kesting

German literary critic, journalist and author.

8818. Wolf Haas

Austrian novelist, screenwriter and journalist best known for his crime novels featuring the detective Simon Brenner.

8819. Annie Ernaux

French author known for autobiographical, sociological writings that examine memory, class and gender; author of La Place and Les Années, and recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

8820. V.S. Naipaul

Trinidadian-British novelist, essayist and short-story writer (1932–2018), Nobel Prize in Literature 2001, best known for works such as A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men and A Bend in the River that examine colonialism and postcolonial identity.

8821. Ralph Waldo Emerson

19th-century American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet; a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement, best known for essays such as "Nature" and "Self-Reliance."

8822. Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who went into hiding during World War II to escape the Nazis. She is best known for her diary, which documents her life in hiding and has become one of the world's most famous books.

8823. Bill Felber

8824. Ron Snyder

8825. Jan Guillou

Swedish author and journalist, born 1944, best known for his espionage thrillers featuring Carl Hamilton and his historical Arn Magnusson (Crusades) novels.

8826. Jonathan Wilson

8827. Richard Shepherd

8828. Niklas Natt och Dag

Swedish novelist and crime writer, best known for the historical crime novel "1793".

8829. Jani Pirttisalo Sallinen

8830. Geoffroy Delorme

8831. Richard Dowden

British journalist and author specializing in African affairs; former director of the Royal African Society and author of 'Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles'.

8832. Andreas Karlsson

8833. Roy Jacobsen

Norwegian novelist and short story writer, born in 1954, known for contemporary fiction and short fiction.

8834. William Burroughs

American novelist, essayist, and visual artist; a leading figure of the Beat Generation and postwar counterculture, best known for the experimental novel Naked Lunch and his influential, non-linear prose.

8835. Jim Henneman

8836. Louis Berney

American novelist best known for the crime/mystery novel The Long and Faraway Gone (2015); writes literary crime fiction.

8837. Bob Luke

8838. Robert Kasper

8839. Todd Karpovich

8840. Ted Patterson

8841. Jeff Seidel

8842. Mark Armour

8843. Bill Redban

8844. Mark R. Millikin

8845. Rosemary Goring

8846. Larry Donnithorne

8847. Vincent Min

8848. Comte de Lautréamont

19th-century French poet better known by his pen name Comte de Lautréamont, author of Les Chants de Maldoror; influential on Surrealism and avant-garde literature.

8849. J.M. Coetzee

South African-born novelist, essayist and academic, author of 'Waiting for the Barbarians', 'Life & Times of Michael K' and 'Disgrace'; two-time Booker Prize winner and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

8850. H. Rider Haggard

English novelist and pioneer of the 'Lost World' and adventure genres, best known for King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887).