Lesley Blanch
British author, historian and traveller
Judy Blume
American writer of children’s, young adult and adult fiction
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist
Roberto Bolano
Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature
James Boswell
Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
Diana Athill
British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor