Non-fiction

Authors writing about the world.

People in Non-fiction

14 profiles

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Maya Angelou

Writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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George Orwell

Writing Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Jack London

Writing The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

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Virginia Woolf

Writing Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.

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Alice Walker

Writing The Color Purple.

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John Steinbeck

Writing The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Writing One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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James Baldwin

Writing incisively about race, identity and belonging in America.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Creating labyrinths, imaginary books and philosophical short stories.

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H. G. Wells

Imagining time travel, alien invasion and invisible men.

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Truman Capote

Writing Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.

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Gore Vidal

Writing sharp political essays and novels that re-examined American history, power and sexuality.

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Arundhati Roy

Writing the Booker-winning The God of Small Things and outspoken political essays.

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C. S. Lewis

Creating The Chronicles of Narnia and writing influential explanations of Christian belief.