Alison Bechdel
American cartoonist
Ilene Beckerman
American writer, who was not published until she was 60 years old, and a former advertising agency executive
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
Lillian Beckwith
English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye
Saul Bellow
Canadian-born American writer
Ludwig Bemelmans
Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children’s books and adult novels
Alan Bennett
English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter
Felice Benuzzi
Mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya
John Berendt
American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet