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Attica Locke, the crime novelist whose own Texas is still waiting for television

Attica Locke won the Edgar Award with Bluebird, Bluebird and has written for Empire, When They See Us and Little Fires Everywhere. As Amazon picks up her next series, the Houston novelist's own Highway 59 trilogy is still…

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Neil Gaiman, the writer of The Sandman, and the allegations he denies

Neil Gaiman wrote The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and The Graveyard Book, the first book to win both…

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Terry Pratchett, the Discworld satirist who had his unfinished novels steamrollered

Terry Pratchett sold more than 100 million books, wrote Good Omens with Neil Gaiman and spent three decades…

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Rhianna Pratchett, the Tomb Raider writer adapting The Wee Free Men as a graphic novel

Rhianna Pratchett wrote Lara Croft’s rebirth in Tomb Raider, won a Writers Guild award for its sequel and…

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Beau Willimon, the playwright who took his power plays from Off-Broadway to Game of Thrones

Beau Willimon wrote Farragut North at Juilliard, watched George Clooney film it as The Ides of March and…

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Zadie Smith, the novelist who has never reread White Teeth, the debut that made her famous

Zadie Smith was still a Cambridge student when White Teeth made her famous, and she told Dua Lipa…

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, the master of the Japanese short story who taught readers to doubt every witness

A century after his death, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is getting a museum in Tokyo and a fresh wave of…

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Ali Hazelwood, the former neuroscientist whose Star Wars fan fiction became The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood turned a Reylo story posted on a fan-fiction site into The Love Hypothesis, a long-running best-seller…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, the fan-fiction novelist who turned AI doom into a bestseller

He dropped out of middle school, wrote the 660,000-word Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and co-wrote…

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Mary Berry, the cookery writer who built a career on recipes that work the first time

At ninety-one, Dame Mary Berry has a new cookbook, Mary All in One, and a BAFTA Fellowship. How…

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Hitomi Kanehara, the Akutagawa prodigy turning her pen on the publishing world that made her

At 20, Hitomi Kanehara shared the Akutagawa Prize for Snakes and Earrings. Two decades and a shelf of…

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Philip Zimbardo, the author of The Lucifer Effect who defended his prison study to the end

He ran the Stanford prison experiment, turned it into The Lucifer Effect and spent his last decades defending…

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Osamu Dazai, the novelist of despair whom new translations reveal as a comedian

No Longer Human still sells by the million in Japan. Now a wave of English translations, from The…