Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist
Timothy Ferris
American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty and Coming of Age in the Milky Way , for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
Alain de Botton
Swiss-born British philosopher and author
Charles de Gaulle
French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France
Roy Andries de Groot
British-born American culinary writer and wine critic
Paul de Kruif
American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent
Dianne Tittle de Laet
Works by Dianne Tittle de Laet: Giants and Heroes Book by Dianne Tittle de Laet
Daniel Defoe
English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy
E. M. Delafield
Prolific English author
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic