8851. Barry Miles

English author, biographer and publisher associated with the 1960s London counterculture; co-founder of the Indica Gallery and noted for biographies and works on the Beat Generation and popular musicians.

8852. Timothy White

8853. Mick Brown

8854. Limmy

Scottish comedian, writer, actor and streamer best known for creating and performing in the sketch series 'Limmy's Show' and for his online comedy and streaming work.

8855. Limmy

Scottish comedian, writer, actor and streamer, best known for the television series 'Limmy's Show' and for surreal sketch comedy and online content.

8856. Go Nagai

Japanese manga artist and writer, creator of Mazinger Z, Devilman and Cutie Honey, known for pioneering super robot, horror and mature themes in manga and anime since the 1960s.

8857. Toshihiro Ono

8858. Jeff Lemire

Canadian cartoonist, writer and artist best known for graphic novels and comics such as Essex County, Sweet Tooth, and the Black Hammer universe; works in both creator-owned and mainstream comics.

8859. Jonathan Wilson

8860. Jonas Jonasson

Swedish journalist and novelist best known for comic novels such as 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared' and 'The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden'.

8861. Burt Reynolds

American actor, director and producer best known for films such as Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, The Longest Yard, and an Academy Award–nominated role in Boogie Nights; also a former college football player.

8862. Mark Bowden

American journalist and non-fiction author best known for Black Hawk Down; noted for investigative and narrative reporting on military conflicts, crime, and contemporary history.

8863. William H. McRaven

Retired U.S. Navy admiral and author; former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and later served as chancellor of the University of Texas System, known for the book 'Make Your Bed.'

8864. Jonathan Lundberg

8865. Ola Larsmo

Swedish novelist and essayist, active from the 1980s; known for novels and non-fiction addressing cultural and historical themes and for engagement in public literary debate.

8866. Dharshini David

British journalist and broadcaster specializing in economics and business reporting; has presented business programming for the BBC and worked in financial journalism.

8867. Richard Ford

American novelist and short-story writer, best known for the Frank Bascombe novels including The Sportswriter and Independence Day (the latter won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award).

8868. Mattias Svensson

Swedish writer and political commentator.

8869. Mattias Boström

Swedish author and journalist known for work on popular culture, particularly biographies and studies related to Ian Fleming and the James Bond franchise.

8870. David Sumpter

Applied mathematician and professor at Uppsala University, author of popular science books including 'Soccermatics' and 'The Ten Equations That Rule the World'.

8871. Akira Toriyama

Japanese manga artist and character designer, best known for creating the manga series Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball; influential in manga and anime character design.

8872. Bryan Peterson

American photographer, educator and author of popular photography instruction books (notably 'Understanding Exposure'); known for workshop teaching and instructional photography publications.

8873. Mendel

Austrian Augustinian friar and scientist, known as the founder of modern genetics for his experiments on pea plants establishing the basic laws of inheritance.

8874. Andy F. Sanders

8875. Robert Penn Warren

American poet, novelist, literary critic, and academic best known for the novel All the King's Men (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). A prominent 20th-century poet and longtime university professor.

8876. Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and essayist of the 18th century, best known for The Vicar of Wakefield, the comedy She Stoops to Conquer, and the poem The Deserted Village.

8877. André Gide

French novelist, essayist and diarist best known for exploring themes of individual freedom, morality, and sexual identity; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Major works include The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.

8878. William Gaddis

American novelist (1922–1998), a leading figure of postmodern literature known for dense, complex, and satirical works such as The Recognitions, JR, and A Frolic of His Own.

8879. Yaşar Kemal

Turkish novelist (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli, 1923–2015) known for lyrical, epic portrayals of rural Anatolia and social injustice; best known for the novel İnce Memed (Memed, My Hawk).

8880. A.S. Byatt

English novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic, best known for the novel Possession (1990), for which she won the Booker Prize.

8881. Deborah Heiligman

American author of children's and young adult nonfiction and picture books, known for biography and history titles such as Charles and Emma and The Boy Who Loved Math.

8882. Rick Dempsey

American former Major League Baseball catcher, best known for his time with the Baltimore Orioles and as the 1983 World Series Most Valuable Player.

8883. Alexander Carmichael

Scottish exciseman, antiquarian and folklorist best known for collecting Gaelic folklore and devotional poetry in the Carmina Gadelica.

8884. Joshua Green

American journalist and author, staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, known for reporting on U.S. politics and author of Devil's Bargain (2017) about Steve Bannon.

8885. Pat Williams

American author and sports executive; co-founder and senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, and author of books on sports, leadership and motivation.

8886. Martin Dempsey

Retired U.S. Army four-star general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011–2015).

8887. James Wallis

8888. Margaret Wise Brown

American children's author best known for Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942); a prolific mid-20th-century writer of picture books.

8889. Molière

French playwright, actor and poet (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of comedy in Western literature; author of plays including Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare, Dom Juan and The School for Wives.

8890. Charles Robert Maturin

Irish Protestant clergyman, novelist and playwright best known for the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820); an influential figure in early 19th-century Gothic literature.

8891. Christopher Marlowe

English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era, author of plays including Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II; noted for his innovative use of blank verse, influence on English drama, and a controversial life that included allegations of espionage and his violent death in 1593.

8892. Dorothy Allison

American novelist, short-story writer and memoirist best known for Bastard Out of Carolina; her work frequently addresses class, gender, sexual identity and family violence, and she has been active in feminist and LGBT advocacy.

8893. Tacitus

Roman senator and historian, author of the Agricola, Germania, Annals, and Histories; noted for his concise, analytical and sometimes ironic portrayal of the Roman Empire and its rulers.

8894. Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an African American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist associated with the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God and for collecting and publishing folklore from the American South and the Caribbean.

8895. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian novelist, historian and dissident, critic of Soviet totalitarianism; author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970); expelled from the USSR in 1974 and returned in 1994.

8896. Henry Roth

American novelist and short-story writer best known for the 1934 novel Call It Sleep, which portrays the Jewish immigrant experience in New York City; later published the Mercy of a Rude Stream trilogy.

8897. Sinclair Lewis

American novelist, short-story writer and playwright, best known for satirical portrayals of American middle-class life (notably Main Street and Babbitt). He was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930) and declined the Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith.

8898. W.H. Auden

Anglo-American poet, critic, and essayist Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was a major 20th-century poet known for his technical mastery and engagement with politics, love, and religion. Notable works include "Funeral Blues," "Musee des Beaux Arts," and "September 1, 1939."

8899. Erskine Childers

Anglo-Irish writer and Irish nationalist, best known for the espionage novel The Riddle of the Sands (1903); active in Irish nationalist politics and executed by the Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War in 1922.

8900. André Brink

South African novelist and essayist who wrote in Afrikaans and English, known for anti-apartheid themes and works such as 'A Dry White Season.'