Events

• Tomas Tranströmer
  Tomas Tranströmer
  Tomas Gösta Tranströmer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War...
  
   wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Jennifer Egan
  Jennifer Egan
  Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction....
  
   wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad
  A Visit From the Goon Squad
  A Visit From the Goon Squad is a work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. It won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
  
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Literature

• T.C. Boyle – When the Killing's Done
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing (novel)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell
  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:Campbell attended Comstock High School , and received an B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative...
  
   – Once Upon a River
• Patrick deWitt
  Patrick deWitt
  Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and later lived in California and Washington. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon....
  
   – The Sisters Brothers
• E. L. Doctorow
  E. L. Doctorow
  Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is an American author.- Biography :Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent...
  
   – All the Time in the World
  All the Time in the World (book)
  All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories is a book of short stories by American author E.L. Doctorow. This book was first published in 2011 by Random House.-Reception:...
  
  
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
   – I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
  I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (novel)
  I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is Steve Earle's first novel, entitled after a Hank Williams song.It was published the spring of 2011. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict...
  
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
  
   – The Marriage Plot
  The Marriage Plot
  The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides.-Summary:The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.-Reception:The novel was...
  
  
• Jonathan Evison
  Jonathan Evison
  Jonathan Evison , is an American writer best known for his novel All About Lulu. His work, often distinguished by its emotional resonance and offbeat humor, has been compared to a variety of authors, most notably J.D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, and John Irving...
  
   – West of Here
• Robb Forman Dew
  Robb Forman Dew
  American author Robb Forman Dew has described writing as "a strange absorption about this alternate world and the way it mixes with your real life."...
  
   – Being Polite to Hitler
• Charles Frazier
  Charles Frazier
  Charles Frazier is an award-winning American historical novelist.Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University...
  
   – Nightwoods
• James Frey
  James Frey
  James Christopher Frey is an American writer. His books A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard , as well as Bright Shiny Morning , were bestsellers...
  
   – The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
  The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
  The Final Testament of the Holy Bible is a novel written by James Frey, published by Gagosian Gallery in 2011.- Reception :Michael Lindgren of the Washington Post gave the book a generally positive review, calling it a "strong and absorbing piece of writing" that "moves to its own inner spirit,"...
  
  
• Benjamin Hale
  Benjamin Hale
  Benjamin Hale is an American novelist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where in he attended Fairview High School. In 2006, he received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and earned an M.F.A...
  
   – The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
• Ron Hansen
  Ron Hansen (novelist)
  Ron Hansen is an American novelist, essayist, and professor.-Biography:Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, attended a Jesuit high school, Creighton Preparatory School and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Creighton University in Omaha in 1970. Following military service, he earned an M.F.A...
  
   – A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
• Chad Harbach
  Chad Harbach
  Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is best known as author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding.-Background and education:...
  
   – The Art of Fielding
  The Art of Fielding
  The Art of Fielding is a 2011 novel by former n+1 editor Chad Harbach. It centers around the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander, and his career playing college baseball with the Westish College Harpooners, a Division III team.- Reviews :...
  
  
• Mat Johnson
  Mat Johnson
  Mat Johnson is an American writer of literary fiction.-Biography:Born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson writes primarily about the lives of African-Americans, using fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels as mediums...
  
   – Pym
  Pym (novel)
  Pym is the third novel by American author Mat Johnson, published on March 1, 2011. A satirical fantasy inspired by The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, the book explores racial politics and identity in America, and Antarctica...
  
  
• Haruki Murakami
  Haruki Murakami
  is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature...
  
   – 1Q84
  1Q84
  1Q84 is a novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10. The novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day it was released, and reaching sales of one million within a month...
  
  
• Téa Obreht
  Téa Obreht
  Téa Obreht is an American novelist of Bosniak/Slovene descent, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia...
  
   – The Tiger's Wife
  The Tiger's Wife
  The Tiger's Wife is the first novel by Téa Obreht, a Belgrade-born novelist of Bosniak/Slovene origin who currently lives in the United States.-Story:...
  
  
• Michael Ondaatje
  Michael Ondaatje
  Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...
  
   – The Cat's Table
• Ann Patchett
  Ann Patchett
  Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize...
  
   – State of Wonder
• Chuck Palahniuk
  Chuck Palahniuk
  Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
  
   – Damned
  Damned (novel)
  Damned is a 2011 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, which was published by Jonathan Cape on 1 September 2011, and published by Doubleday on October 18, 2011...
  
  
• Tom Perrota – The Leftovers
  The Leftovers
  The Leftovers are an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker , Andrew Rice , Matt Anderson , and Adam Woronoff .-History:...
  
  
• Arthur Phillips
  Arthur Phillips
  Arthur Phillips is a Jewish American novelist active in the 21st century. His novels include Prague , The Egyptologist , Angelica , The Song Is You , and The Tragedy of Arthur -Life:Phillips was born in Minneapolis, received a BA in history from Harvard...
  
   – The Tragedy of Arthur
• Karen Russell
  Karen Russell (author)
  Karen Russell is an American author.-Life:As an undergraduate, Karen attended Northwestern University, where she earned her B.A. in 2003...
  
   – Swamplandia!
• John Sayles
  John Sayles
  John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
  
   – A Moment in the Sun
• Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...
  
   – The Empty Family
  The Empty Family
  The Empty Family is a collection of short stories by Irish author Colm Tóibín. It was published in the UK in October 2010 and was released in the US in January 2011....
  
  
• David Foster Wallace
  David Foster Wallace
  David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
  
   – The Pale King
  The Pale King
  The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. After Wallace's death in September 2008, a manuscript and associated computer files were found by his widow, Karen Green, and his agent, Bonnie Nadell. That material was compiled by his friend...
  
  
• Daniel Woodrell
  Daniel Woodrell
  Daniel Woodrell is an American writer of fiction. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss...
  
   – The Outlaw Album

Non-fiction

• Peter Bergen
  Peter Bergen
  Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, author, and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen produced the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western...
  
   – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
• Mark Bowden
  Mark Bowden
  Not to be confused with Mark Bowden, U.N. Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia.Mark Robert Bowden is an American writer and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland...
  
   – Worm: The First Digital World War
• Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
• David Brooks
  David Brooks (journalist)
  David Brooks is a Canadian-born political and cultural commentator who considers himself a moderate and writes for the New York Times...
  
   – The Social Animal
  The Social Animal (David Brooks book)
  The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement is a non-fiction book by American journalist David Brooks, who is otherwise best known for his career with The New York Times. The book discusses what drives individual behavior and decision making...
  
  
• Brian Christian
  Brian Christian
  Brian Christian is an American author and poet, best known for his book The Most Human Human. He competed as a "confederate" in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition, attempting to seem "more human" than the humans taking the test, and succeeded...
  
   – The Most Human Human
• Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
  I'm Feeling Lucky (book)
  I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 is a 2011 book by Douglas Edwards who was Google's first director of marketing and brand management...
  
  
• T.J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
• Tina Fey
  Tina Fey
  Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls and Baby Mama .Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the...
  
   – Bossypants
  Bossypants
  Bossypants is an autobiographical comedy book written by American comedienne Tina Fey. The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list, and stayed there for five weeks upon its release. Since its release, the book has sold over one million copies in the U.S...
  
  
• Joshua Foer
  Joshua Foer
  Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with a primary focus on science. He was the 2006 U.S.A...
  
   – Moonwalking with Einstein
  Moonwalking with Einstein
  Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything is a nonfiction book by Joshua Foer, first published in 2011. Moonwalking with Einstein debuted at no...
  
  
• James Gleick
  James Gleick
  James Gleick is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology...
  
   – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
  The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
  The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, author of Chaos: Making a New Science. It covers the genesis of our current information age. The Information has also been published in ebook formats by Fourth Estate and Random House, and as an...
  
  
• Brian Greene
  Brian Greene
  Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds...
  
   – The Hidden Reality
• Geoffrey Gray – Skyjack
• Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
  Debtor Nation
  Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink is the first history book written by Louis Hyman, who received his PhD from Harvard University in 2007.- Argument:...
  
  
• Steve Inskeep
  Steve Inskeep
  Steve Inskeep born , is one of the current hosts of Morning Edition on National Public Radio. He, along with co-host Renée Montagne, were assigned as interim hosts to succeed Bob Edwards after NPR reassigned Edwards to Senior Correspondent after April 30, 2004. Inskeep and Montagne were...
  
   – Instant City
• David King
  David King (historian)
  David King is an American Historian and writer. He lives in Lexington Kentucky and has taught European History at the University of Kentucky...
  
   – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
  Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
  Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris is a nonfiction true crime book by David King first published in 2011. The book covers the serial killing spree in Paris that took place while that city was occupied by the Nazis during WWII, the chief suspect being Dr Marcel...
  
  
• Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
  In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
  In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin is a 2011 non-fiction book by Erik Larson...
  
  
• Joseph Lelyveld
  Joseph Lelyveld
  Joseph Lelyveld was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.In all, Lelyveld worked at...
  
   – Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
  Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
  Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is a 2011 biography of Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld and published by Alfred A Knopf....
  
  
• Steven Levy
  Steven Levy
  Steven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.-Career:...
  
   – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
  In the Plex
  In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives is a 2011 book by American technology reporter Steven Levy. It covers the growth of the Google company from its academic project origins at Stanford to the company that is rolling in billions of long-tail advertising dollars, forms the...
  
  
• Charles C. Mann
  Charles C. Mann
  Charles C. Mann is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics.He is the coauthor of four books, and contributing editor for Science and Atlantic Monthly. In 2005 he wrote 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, followed in 2011 by 1493: Uncovering the New...
  
   – 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011. It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus's first landing in the Americas, that lead to our current globalized world civilization...
  
  
• David McCullough
  David McCullough
  David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....
  
   – The Greater Journey
  The Greater Journey (book)
  The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris is a 2011 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. In a departure from McCullough's most recent works, Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who spent time in Paris, are not covered...
  
  
• Ben Mezrich
  Ben Mezrich
  Ben Mezrich is an American author from Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna-cum-laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott. Mezrich attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New Jersey...
  
   – Sex on the Moon
  Sex on the Moon
  Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History is a non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich, author of New York Times Best Seller Bringing Down the House and of The Accidental Billionaires. It describes the theft and attempted sale of lunar samples plus a Martian meteorite...
  
  
• Scott Miller
  Scott Miller (author)
  Scott Miller is a American author and reporter best known for his June 2011 book The President and the Assassin. He was the guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on July 21, 2011.- Personal life :...
  
   – The President and the Assassin
• Errol Morris
  Errol Morris
  Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...
  
   – Believing is Seeing
• Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...
  
   – Supergods
• Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
  
   – A Widow's Story
• Patton Oswalt
  Patton Oswalt
  Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor. He is best known for portraying Spencer Olchin in the popular sitcom The King of Queens, voicing Remy from the film Ratatouille and Thrasher from the Cartoon Network original series Robotomy.-Early life:Oswalt was born...
  
   – Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
• Dana Priest
  Dana Priest
  Dana Priest is an American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Priest has worked almost 20 years for The Washington Post. As one of the Post's specialists on National Security she has written many articles on the United States' "War on terror." In 2006 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat...
  
   – Top Secret America
  Top Secret America
  Top Secret America is a series of investigative articles published on the post-9/11 growth of the United States Intelligence Community. The report was first published in The Washington Post on July 19, 2010, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dana Priest and William Arkin.The three-part series, which...
  
  
• Annie Proulx – Bird Cloud: A Memoir
• Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
  Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
  Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion is a 2011 book by journalist Janet Reitman that examines the Church of Scientology. Reitman, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, began studying the church in 2005...
  
  
• Tom Scocca – Beijing Welcomes You
  Beijing Welcomes You
  Beijing Welcomes You is a feature song for the 100-day countdown of the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China. The song comprises one hundred famous artists and entertainers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. Its music video includes a montage of scenes...
  
  
• Tom Shales
  Tom Shales
  Thomas William "Tom" Shales is an American critic of television programming and operations. He is best known as TV critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize...
  
   & J.A. Miller – Those Guys Have All the Fun
• Sarah Vowell
  Sarah Vowell
  Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio...
  
   – Unfamiliar Fishes
  Unfamiliar Fishes
  Unfamiliar Fishes is a nonfiction book by This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell, first published in 2011 in print and audiobook versions.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Matt Welch
  Matt Welch
  Matt Welch is an American blogger, journalist, andlibertarian political pundit. Since 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief at the monthly libertarian journal, Reason. From 2006 to 2007, he was an editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times...
  
   and Nick Gillespie
  Nick Gillespie
  Nick Gillespie is the editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv and was the editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008...
  
   – The Declaration of Independents
  The Declaration of Independents
  The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America is a non-fiction book by American political writers Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie. Welch is the current editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine, a position Gillespie also held from 2000 to 2008. The authors...
  
  
• Daniel Yergin
  Daniel Yergin
  Daniel Howard Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Inc...
  
   – The Quest
• Mitchell Zuckoff
  Mitchell Zuckoff
  Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, published in April 2011 by HarperCollins...
  
   – Lost in Shangri-La
  Lost in Shangri-La
  Lost in Shangri-La is a story about an American airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors...
  
  
• Richard Dawkins
  Richard Dawkins
  Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
  
   – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
  The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
  The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is a 2011 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, with illustrations by Dave McKean. The book was released on 15 September 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 October 2011 in the United States....
  
  

• Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
  
  , Money Shot (February)
• Susan Howe
  Susan Howe
  Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...
  
  , That This (February)
• Alice Notley
  Alice Notley
  Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...
  
  , Culture of One (March)
• Billy Collins
  Billy Collins
  Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
  
  , Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
• Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  , Thread (May)
• Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin
  Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
  
   (edited by Michael Solomon
  Michael Solomon (author)
  Michael Solomon is an American author, motivational speaker, and political pundit.- Biography:A retired NYPD Special Investigator, Michael Solomon received 19 awards for Excellent and Meritorious police work during his career...
  
  ), I Hope Like Heck
  I Hope Like Heck
  I Hope Like Heck: The Selected Poems of Sarah Palin is a 2011 anthology of 50 found poems in emails by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, edited by Michael Solomon...
  
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• Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy.-Early life:Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England...
  
   – The Heroes
• Daniel Abraham
  Daniel Abraham (author)
  Daniel Abraham is a prolific American science fiction / fantasy author who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. His novelette Flat Diane was nominated for the Nebula Award...
  
   – The Dragon's Path
• Daniel Abraham
  Daniel Abraham (author)
  Daniel Abraham is a prolific American science fiction / fantasy author who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. His novelette Flat Diane was nominated for the Nebula Award...
  
   (writing as James S.A. Corey) – Leviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck)
• Ann Aguirre
  Ann Aguirre
  Ann Aguirre is an American Author of speculative fiction. She has a degree in English literature and lives in Mexico with her husband and children...
  
   – Aftermath
• Greg Bear
  Greg Bear
  Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...
  
   – Halo: Cryptum
  Halo: Cryptum
  Halo: Cryptum is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear, set in the Halo universe. The book released on January 4, 2011, and is the eighth Halo novel, following 2009s Halo: Evolutions, an anthology written by various writers creating short stories.Set approximately 100,000 years before the events of...
  
  
• Lauren Beukes
  Lauren Beukes
  Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and her daughter.- Books :...
  
   – Zoo City
  Zoo City
  Zoo City is a science fiction novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. The book was first published in 2010 by Jacana Media, and won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award...
  
  
• Alex Bledsoe
  Alex Bledsoe
  Alex Bledsoe is an American author best known for his novels of the sword and sorcery and urban fantasy genre. To date, Bledsoe's work is typically characterized by hard-boiled protagonists and strong classical noir themes.- Biography :...
  
   – Dark Jenny
• Alex Bledsoe
  Alex Bledsoe
  Alex Bledsoe is an American author best known for his novels of the sword and sorcery and urban fantasy genre. To date, Bledsoe's work is typically characterized by hard-boiled protagonists and strong classical noir themes.- Biography :...
  
   – The Hum and the Shiver
• M. M. Buckner
  M. M. Buckner
  M. M. Buckner is a United States science fiction author specializing in hard science fiction, and also an environmental activist. Her third novel, War Surf, won the 2005 Philip K...
  
   – The Gravity Pilot
• Robert Buettner
  Robert Buettner
  Robert Buettner is an American author of military science fiction novels. He is a former Military Intelligence Officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology and has been published in the field of Natural Resources Law. He has written five volumes of the Jason Wander series and two...
  
   – Undercurrents
• Jack Campbell
  John G. Hemry
  John G. Hemry is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series. Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written six volumes of the Lost Fleet series...
  
   – The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
• Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
   – The Lost Gate
  The Lost Gate
  The Lost Gate is a fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the first novel in the Mither Mages trilogy.-Backcover Teaser:In the ancient world, pantheons of gods ruled over every society of man, until the trickster, Loki, sealed off the source of their power...
  
  
• Blake Charlton – Spellbound
• Ian Douglas
  William H. Keith, Jr.
  William H. Keith is an American author. He served during the Vietnam War in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman. He became a professional artist, working in the game industry with his brother Andrew, before becoming a full-time author...
  
   – Center of Gravity
  Center of gravity
  In physics, a center of gravity of a material body is a point that may be used for a summary description of gravitational interactions. In a uniform gravitational field, the center of mass serves as the center of gravity...
  
  
• David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War...
  
   – The Sacred Band
• Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
   – The Clockwork Rocket
• Kate Elliott
  Kate Elliott
  Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen .-Writing:Although Rasmussen's first novels The Labyrinth Gate and The Highroad failed to become bestsellers, additional publishers liked her manuscripts but wanted a fresh name unconnected with the...
  
   – Cold Fire
• C.S. Friedman – Legacy of Kings
  Legacy of Kings
  Legacy of Kings is the second album from Swedish metal band HammerFall.It was released September 28, 1998 on Nuclear Blast Records.The enhanced CD release included the music video for the track "Let the Hammer Fall", a photo gallery, lyrics for the songs, PC wallpapers & a screensaver, and a...
  
  
• Steven Gould
  Steven Gould
  Steven Charles Gould is an American science fiction author and teacher. He has written eight novels and is best known for his 1992 novel Jumper, which was made into a film and released in 2008. He is married to science fiction writer Laura J...
  
   – The 7th Sigma
• Michael Grant
  Michael Grant (young adult author)
  Michael Grant is the co-creator and co-author of the Animorphs and the Everworld book series, and also the creator and author of Gone and The Magnificent 12 series. Michael was raised in a military family, attending ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France...
  
   — Plague
  Gone (series)
  Gone is a young-adult dystopian science fiction book series written by Michael Grant. The first novel in the series, also entitled Gone, was originally published in 2008. The second book, Hunger, was released a year later, followed by the third book, Lies, on May 4, 2010. Book four, released on...
  
  
• Mira Grant – Deadline
• Lev Grossman
  Lev Grossman
  Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, notably the author of the novels Warp , Codex , The Magicians and The Magician King...
  
   – The Magician King
  The Magician King
  The Magician King is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2011 by Viking Press, the sequel to The Magicians. It continues the story of Quentin Coldwater, interweaving it with the story of his high school crush, Julia, who learned magic outside of the standard school setting and joined him...
  
  
• Stephen Hunt – The Rise of the Iron Moon
• Cameron Hurley – God's War
• N. K. Jemisin
  N. K. Jemisin
  N. K. Jemisin is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her 2010 debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award, the 2011 Hugo Award, and is nominated for the World Fantasy Award and was ranked #5 on Amazon's "editors' pick" list of the year's best...
  
   – The Kingdom of Gods
• Richard Kadrey
  Richard Kadrey
  Richard Kadrey is a novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco.Kadrey's novels are Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha From Hell, Metrophage, Kamikaze L'Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion...
  
   – Aloha from Hell
  Aloha from Hell
  Aloha from Hell was a German rock band. They won a competition in the German magazine Bravo. After the win they released "Don't Gimme That." Their first album, No More Days to Waste, sold more than 200,000 copies.- History :...
  
  
• Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
   — 11/22/63
  11/22/63
  11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination which occurred on November 22, 1963 . The novel was officially announced on the author's official site on March 2, 2011. A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011...
  
  
• Mark Lawrence – Prince of Thorns
• Sharon Lee
  Sharon Lee (writer)
  Sharon Lee is an American writer. She is the co-author of the Liaden universe novels and stories, as well as other works, and individually the author of two mystery novels....
  
   & Steve Miller
  Steve Miller (writer)
  Steve Miller is the grandson of poet and WBAL radio personality Dorothea Neale. He graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland's Franklin Senior High School in 1968 after learning how to make chapbooks as editor of the school’s literary magazine, Junto.- Biography :Steve attended University of Maryland,...
  
   – Ghost Ship (novel)
• Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
  The Power of Six
  The Power of Six is the second book in the young adult science fiction series The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore. It is the sequel to I Am Number Four, and was released August 23, 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Richard Matheson
  Richard Matheson
  Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
  
   – Other Kingdoms
• George R. R. Martin
  George R. R. Martin
  George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
  
   – A Dance with Dragons
  A Dance with Dragons
  A Dance with Dragons is the fifth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin....
  
  
• T.C. McCarthy – Germline
  Germline
  In biology and genetics, the germline of a mature or developing individual is the line of germ cells that have genetic material that may be passed to a child.For example, gametes such as the sperm or the egg, are part of the germline...
  
  
• Jack McDevitt
  Jack McDevitt
  Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology....
  
   – Firebird
• China Mieville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
   – Embassytown
  Embassytown
  Embassytown is a science fiction novel by British author China Miéville. It was published in the UK by Pan Macmillan on 6 May 2011, and in the US by Del Rey Books on 17 May 2011. A limited edition was released by Subterranean Press.-Plot:...
  
  
• Karen Miller
  Karen Miller
  Karen Miller is an Australian writer.Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada and moved to Australia at the age of two. After graduating from the Sydney University of Technology she moved to England for three years before moving back to Australia...
  
   – A Blight of Mages
• Richard K. Morgan – The Cold Commands
• Joseph Nassise
  Joseph Nassise
  Joseph Nassise is an American horror author. His debut novel, Riverwatch, was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award...
  
   – Eyes to See
• Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
  
   – Snuff
  Snuff (Pratchett novel)
  Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was published on 11 October 2011 in the United States, and 13 October 2011 in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest is an American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington.-Biography:Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as...
  
   – Ganymede
• Hannu Rajaniemi
  Hannu Rajaniemi
  Hannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish author of science fiction and fantasy, who writes in both English and Finnish. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a founding director of a commercial research organisation, ThinkTank Maths.-Biography:...
  
   – The Quantum Thief
  The Quantum Thief
  The Quantum Thief is the first science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in 2010, and will be published in 2011 by Tor in the US. It is a heist story, set in a futuristic solar system, that features a protagonist modelled on Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief...
  
  
• Robert V.S. Redick – The River of Shadows
• Brian Ruckley
  Brian Ruckley
  Brian Ruckley is a Scottish fantasy writer. He is the author of The Godless World trilogy: Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes.-Biography:...
  
   – The Edinburgh Dead
• Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
  
   – The Alloy of Law
• John Scalzi
  John Scalzi
  John Michael Scalzi II is an American author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog , at which he has written...
  
   – Fuzzy Nation
• Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
   – Flashback
• Neal Stephenson
  Neal Stephenson
  Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk...
  
   – Reamde
  Reamde
  Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her...
  
  
• Charles Stross
  Charles Stross
  Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...
  
   – Rule 34
• Michael Swanwick
  Michael Swanwick
  Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   – Dancing with Bears
• Catherynne M. Valente
  Catherynne M. Valente
  Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...
  
   – Deathless
  Deathless
  Deathless is the sixth studio album by American metal band Throwdown. The album was released on November 10, 2009 in the US through E1 Music, January 22, 2010 through Nuclear Blast Records in Europe, and January 25, 2010 in the UK, also through Nuclear Blast Records...
  
  
• Vernor Vinge
  Vernor Vinge
  Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep , A Deepness in the Sky , Rainbows End , Fast Times at Fairmont High ...
  
   – The Children of the Sky
• Jo Walton
  Jo Walton
  Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award...
  
   – Among Others
• David Weber
  David Weber
  David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs"....
  
   – How Firm a Foundation
  How Firm a Foundation (novel)
  How Firm a Foundation is the fifth book in the Safehold science fiction novel series by David Weber and published by Tor Books on September 13, 2011...
  
  
• Robert Charles Wilson
  Robert Charles Wilson
  Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he...
  
   – Vortex
  Vortex
  A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent,flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex...
  
  
• Daniel Wilson
  Daniel H. Wilson
  Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times best selling author, television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His most recent novel, published on June 7, 2011, is Robopocalypse....
  
   – Robopocalypse
  Robopocalypse
  Robopocalypse is a New York Times best selling science fiction book by Daniel H. Wilson published on June 8, 2011. The author has a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and many of the robots in the novel were inspired by real-world robotics research...
  
  
• Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
   – Home Fires

• Cynthia Hand — Unearthly
  Unearthly
  Unearthly is an shōjo Original English-language manga series written by Ted Naifeh, with art by Elmer Damaso and is published by Seven Seas Entertainment.- Characters :...
  
  (January 4)
• Courtney Allison Moulton — Angelfire
  Angelfire (novel series)
  Angelfire is a series of young-adult urban fantasy novels by author Courtney Allison Moulton, beginning with the inaugural entry of the same name. The story follows a teenager named Ellie, who learns that she is actually the reincarnation of a powerful warrior, tasked with aiding angels in their...
  
  (February 15)
• Gordon Korman
  Gordon Korman
  Gordon Korman is a Canadian author, primarily of novels for children and young adults. He lives in Long Island's Great Neck, New York, with his wife and three children....
  
  , Peter Lerangis
  Peter Lerangis
  Peter Lerangis is an author of children's and young-adult fiction.-Career:Lerangis's work includes The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the New York Times–bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the YA dark comedy-adventure novel wtf,...
  
  , Rick Riordan
  Rick Riordan
  Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series...
  
  , and Jude Watson
  Jude Watson
  Judy Blundell, better known by her pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American novelist for young readers. Her book What I Saw and How I Lied won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008...
  
   – Vespers Rising (April 5)
• Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed
  Starcrossed (novel)
  Starcrossed is a young-adult fantasy novel by American author Josephine Angelini. The story follows a girl named Helen Hamilton, who is gradually revealed to be a modern-day Helen of Troy. After discovering her heritage, Helen learns that a union with the boy she loves may trigger a new Trojan War....
  
  (April 5) (Spain release)
• Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.She has published sixteen fantasy novels , set in the world of the Women of the Otherworld and the Darkest Powers series, also two crime novels in 2007 and 2009...
  
   — The Gathering
  The Gathering (Armstrong novel)
  The Gathering is a novel by Kelley Armstrong. It was released April 12, 2011 by HarperTeen. The Gathering is the first book in Armstrong's Darkness Rising trilogy. Darkness Rising is the second trilogy in the Darkest Powers series. Darkness Rising follows a new set of kids...
  
  (April 12)
• K. A. Applegate
  K. A. Applegate
  Katherine Alice Applegate is an American author, best-known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten by other authors. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels...
  
   – Re-release of Animorphs
  Animorphs
  Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
  
   books
  • The Invasion
    The Invasion (Animorphs)
    The Invasion, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the first book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:...
    
    (May 1)
  • The Visitor
    The Visitor (Animorphs)
    The Visitor, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the second book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Rachel.-Plot summary:...
    
    (May 1)
• Rick Riordan
  Rick Riordan
  Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series...
  
   – The Throne of Fire
  The Throne of Fire
  The Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the second novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his thirteen-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover...
  
  (May 3)
• Rick Riordan
  Rick Riordan
  Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series...
  
   – The Son of Neptune
  The Son of Neptune
  The Son of Neptune is the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series written by Rick Riordan. It was released on October 4, 2011.-Development:...
  
  (October 4th)
• Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...
  
   — Scorpia Rising
  Scorpia Rising
  Scorpia Rising, the ninth novel in the Alex Rider series, was released March 2011. In the book, Scorpia is hired to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Their plan includes the laying of a false trail to Cairo, Egypt, killing Alex Rider, and blackmailing London into returning the Marbles...
  
  
• Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
   — Inheritance

• Jeff Abbott
  Jeff Abbott
  Jeff Abbott is a U.S. suspense novelist. He has a degree in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. His early novels were traditional detective fiction but in recent years he has turned to writing thriller fiction. A theme of his work is the idea of ordinary people...
  
   – Adrenaline
• Ace Atkins
  Ace Atkins
  Ace Atkins is an American journalist and author. Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune before he published his first novel, Crossroad Blues, in 1998...
  
   – The Ranger
• Kate Atkinson
  Kate Atkinson
  Kate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
  
   – Started Early, Took My Dog
• Steve Berry – The Jefferson Key
• James Lee Burke
  James Lee Burke
  James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...
  
   – Feast Day of Fools
• Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
   – The Affair
• Edward Conlon
  Edward Conlon
  Edward W. Conlon is an author and former New York Police Department officer.-Biography:Born in the Bronx, Conlon spent most of his childhood in nearby Yonkers. He attended Regis High School and graduated from Harvard in 1987 before joining the force in 1995...
  
   – Red on Red
• Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
   – The Fifth Witness
  The Fifth Witness
  The Fifth Witness is the 23rd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the fourth starring appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller...
  
  
• John Connolly
  John Connolly (author)
  John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.-Life and works:...
  
   – The Burning Soul
• Jeffrey Deaver – Carte Blanche
  Carte Blanche (novel)
  Carte Blanche is a James Bond novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, it was published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton on 26 May 2011 and was released in the United States by Simon & Schuster on 14 June 2011...
  
  
• Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling Christian author best known for mystery and thriller novels, though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans. Early in his career he wrote a number of books that would best be categorized as Religious thrillers...
  
   and Tosca Lee
  Tosca Lee
  Tosca Lee is a critically acclaimed American novelist of speculative fiction. Her sometimes controversial books are best known for their lyrical prose, extensive research, and vivid imagery....
  
   – Forbidden
  Forbidden (2011 novel)
  Forbidden is a science fiction fantasy novel by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee, published in September 2011. It is the first book in a trilogy, and will be followed by the novels Mortal and Sovereign in 2013.-Plot:...
  
  
• Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling Christian author best known for mystery and thriller novels, though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans. Early in his career he wrote a number of books that would best be categorized as Religious thrillers...
  
   – The Priest's Graveyard
  The Priest's Graveyard
  The Priest's Graveyard is a thriller novel by Ted Dekker, published in April 2011.-Synopsis:Renee Gilmore is a former heroin addict, living with her lover Lamont Myers in a glass house, by the sea in Malibu. They live a nearly perfect life, until Lamont disappears one day. Lamont had recently told...
  
  
• Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
   – V is for Vengeance
• John Grisham
  John Grisham
  John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
  
   – The Litigators
  The Litigators
  The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his 25th fiction novel overall. The Litigators is about a two-partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company...
  
  
• Morag Joss
  Morag Joss
  Morag Joss is an English-born Scottish writer.She is the author of six novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and Half Broken Things, which won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award. She began writing in 1996 after a short story of hers was runner-up in a national competition...
  
   – Among the Missing
• Stuart M. Kaminsky
  Stuart M. Kaminsky
  Stuart M. Kaminsky was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago...
  
   – A Whisper to the Living
• Henning Mankell
  Henning Mankell
  Henning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...
  
   – The Troubled Man
  The Troubled Man
  The Troubled Man is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. Mankell has announced that it is the final Wallander novel.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Jo Nesbo – The Snowman
  The Snowman
  The Snowman is a children's book by English author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. In 1982, this book was turned into a 26-minute animated movie by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling Channel 4. It was first shown on Channel 4 late on Christmas Eve in 1982 and was an immediate success. The film was...
  
  
• T. Jefferson Parker
  T. Jefferson Parker
  thumb|T. Jefferson ParkerT. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.-Early life and career:...
  
   – The Border Lords
• George Pelecanos
  George Pelecanos
  George P. Pelecanos is a Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer...
  
   – The Cut
• Ralph Peters
  Ralph Peters
  Ralph Peters is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel andauthor. As a novelist he has sometimes written under the pen name Owen Parry.-Personal:...
  
   – The Officers' Club
• James Rollins
  James Rollins
  * For the American baseball pitcher, see Jim Czajkowski* For the American baseball shortstop, see Jimmy Rollins* For the 19th century American politician from Missouri, see James S. Rollins...
  
   – The Devil's Colony
• John Sandford
  John Sandford (novelist)
  John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist John Roswell Camp. Camp was born on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received a Bachelor's in American History and a Master's in Journalism from the University of Iowa.From 1971 to 1978,...
  
   – Buried Prey
• Marcus Sakey
  Marcus Sakey
  Marcus Sakey is an American author.-Personal life:Sakey was born in Flint, Michigan, and settled in Chicago with his wife after marriage. Before becoming a writer, Sakey used to run a graphic design company in Atlanta.-Novels:...
  
   – The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
• Bernard J. Schaffer
  Bernard J. Schaffer
  Bernard J. Schaffer is a police detective, an author, and a former child actor who appeared on the Nickelodeon program Don't Just Sit There...
  
   – Whitechapel
• Duane Swierczynski
  Duane Swierczynski
  Duane Louis Swierczynski is an American crime writer who has written a number of non-fiction books, novels and also writes for comic books.-Early life:...
  
   – Fun and Games
• Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
  
   & Chuck Hogan
  Chuck Hogan
  Chuck Hogan is an American author. He is the author of Prince of Thieves: A Novel, a work upon which Ben Affleck's Academy Award-nominated film The Town is based on. The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King...
  
   – The Night Eternal
• Nicolaas Vergunst
  Nicolaas Vergunst
  Nicolaas Maartin Vergunst has been an artist, teacher, designer, curator and journalist. He is best known as the author of Knot of Stone: the day that changed South Africa’s history.- Biography :...
  
   – Knot of Stone
  Knot of Stone
  Knot of Stone: the day that changed South Africa’s history is a 2011 intellectual mystery novel written by South African/Dutch author Nicolaas Vergunst.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• S.J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep
  Before I Go to Sleep
  Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson published in Spring 2011. It became both a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into over 30 languages, and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. It reached number 7 on the US...
  
  

Literature

• Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.-Life and career:...
  
   – We Others: New and Selected Stories (August 23)
• A. S. Byatt
  A. S. Byatt
  Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...
  
   – Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (September 6)
• Craig Thompson
  Craig Thompson
  Craig Matthew Thompson is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice , Blankets , Carnet de Voyage and Habibi . Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards...
  
   – Habibi
  Habibi (graphic novel)
  Habibi is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published by Pantheon in September 2011. The 672-page book is set in a fictional Islamic fairytale landscape, and depicts the relationship between Dodola and Zam, two escaped child slaves, who are torn apart and undergo many transformations as they grow...
  
  (September 20)
• Scott Snyder
  Scott Snyder
  Scott Snyder is an American writer best known for his 2006 short story collection Voodoo Heart, and his work in comic books, including American Vampire, Detective Comics, Batman, Batman: Gates of Gotham and Swamp Thing.-Career:...
  
   – The Goodbye Suit

Non-fiction

• Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
  
   – Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) (October 25)
• Joan Didion
  Joan Didion
  Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...
  
   – Blue Nights (November 1)
• Jonathan Lethem
  Jonathan Lethem
  Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...
  
   – The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (November 8)

Young Adult

• Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed
  Starcrossed (novel)
  Starcrossed is a young-adult fantasy novel by American author Josephine Angelini. The story follows a girl named Helen Hamilton, who is gradually revealed to be a modern-day Helen of Troy. After discovering her heritage, Helen learns that a union with the boy she loves may trigger a new Trojan War....
  
  – English release – (May 31)
• K. A. Applegate
  K. A. Applegate
  Katherine Alice Applegate is an American author, best-known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten by other authors. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels...
  
   – Re-release of Animorphs
  Animorphs
  Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
  
  books
  • The Encounter
    The Encounter (Animorphs)
    The Encounter, published in 1996 and written by written by K. A. Applegate, is the third book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Tobias.-Plot summary:...
    
    (July)
  • The Message
    The Message (Animorphs)
    The Message, published in 1996 and written by K.A. Applegate, is the fourth book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Cassie.-Plot summary:Cassie and Tobias are having strange dreams about a presence in the ocean...
    
    (October)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Michael Crichton
  Michael Crichton
  John Michael Crichton , best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted...
  
   & Richard Preston
  Richard Preston
  Richard Preston, born August 5, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author perhaps best-known for his books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism, although he has written other non-fiction works...
  
   — Micro
  Micro (novel)
  Micro is an unfinished techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, published in November 2011. The novel was found in Crichton's archives following his death in 2008 along with the completed novel Pirate Latitudes, which was subsequently published in 2009...
  
  (November 22)
• Joe Haldeman
  Joe Haldeman
  Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
  
   – Earthbound
• John C. Wright – Count to a Trillion

Crime and Thriller

• Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
   – The Drop
  The Drop (novel)
  The Drop will be the 24th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book will be published on 22 November 2011....
  
  
• Stephen Hunter
  Stephen Hunter
  Stephen Hunter is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.-Life and career:Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His father was Charles Francis Hunter, a Northwestern University speech professor who was killed in 1975....
  
   – Soft Target
  Soft target
  Soft target is a military term referring to unarmored/undefended targets needing to be destroyed. For example, a soft target would be an automobile, a house, or assembly of people while a hard target could be a main battle tank or a well defended installation...
  
  
• James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
   – Kill Alex Cross (November 14)

Deaths

• 2 January
  • Hanna Kraan, 64, Dutch children's author
  • Robert Trumble
    Robert Trumble
    Robert William Trumble was an Australian musician and author. Son of international cricketer Hugh Trumble, Robert dedicated his first book, The Golden Age of Cricket, to his father. It was published in Melbourne in 1968.Trumble's musical career was also noted by the Australian media...
    
    , 91, Australian writer
• 4 January
  • Eva Strittmatter
    Eva Strittmatter
    Eva Strittmatter was a German writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature. Her poetry books sold millions of copies, making her the most successful German poet of the second half of the 20th century....
    
    , 80, German author and poet
  • Dick King-Smith
    Dick King-Smith
    Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...
    
      88, British children's writer whose book The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig is a novel by British author Dick King-Smith. It was first published in 1983, retitled Babe The Gallant Pig in the U.S., and adapted for the screen as the 1995 film Babe. The book is set in rural England, where Dick King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer. The book won the Guardian...
    
    was adapted as a film Babe
    Babe (film)
    Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...
    
    
• 10 January – Joe Gores
  Joe Gores
  Joe Gores was an American mystery writer...
  
  , 79, American novelist and screenwriter
• 11 January – Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author
• 14 January – Sun Axelsson
  Sun Axelsson
  Sun Axelsson, was a Swedish poet, novelist, translator and journalist.- Life :Axelsson was the youngest daughter of the master gardener Karl Edvin Axelsson and Mignon Axelsson...
  
  , 75, Swedish novelist
• 15 January – Romulus Linney
  Romulus Linney (playwright)
  Romulus Zachariah Linney IV was an American playwright and professor.-Life and career:Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh and Romulus Zachariah Linney III. His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney was raised in Boone, North...
  
  , 80, American playwright
• 16 January
  • R. F. Langley
    R. F. Langley
    Roger Francis Langley was an English poet and diarist. During his life, he was loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene.-Life and work:...
    
    , 72, British poet and diarist
  • Günther Feustel, 86, German author
• 17 January – Jean Dutourd
  Jean Dutourd
  Jean Gwenaël Dutourd was a French novelist. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II...
  
  , 91, French novelist
• 19 January – Wilfrid Sheed
  Wilfrid Sheed
  Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.Sheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century...
  
  , 80, English-born American novelist and essayist
• 20 January
  • F. A. Nettelbeck
    F. A. Nettelbeck
    Frederick Arthur Nettelbeck was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important , published such writers as William S...
    
    , 60, American poet
  • Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...
    
    , 77, American author, whose novel Kate Vaiden
    Kate Vaiden
    Kate Vaiden is a novel by Reynolds Price about a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades.-Plot summary:...
    
    won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986
• 22 January – Park Wan-suh
  Park Wan-suh
  Park Wan-suh was a South Korean writer.-Early years:Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in Gaepung-gun, Gyeonggi-do in what is now North Korea...
  
  , 79, South Korean novelist
• 23 January – Novica Tadić
  Novica Tadic
  Novica Tadić was a Serbian poet. He was born in a small village in Montenegro and spent most of his life in Belgrade....
  
  , 62, Yugoslavian poet
• 24 January – Anna Yablonskaya
  Anna Yablonskaya
  Hanna Hryhorivna Mashutina , known under her pseudonyms Anna Yablonskaya or Hanna Yablonska was a Ukrainian playwright and poet, and one of the victims of the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing.-Profile:...
  
  , 29, Ukrainian playwright
• 25 January – Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
  , 86, British writer
• 29 January
  • Loreen Rice Lucas
    Loreen Rice Lucas
    Loreen Rice Lucas was a Canadian author.-Biography:Loreen Rice Lucas was born and raised in Midland, Ontario, and now resides in Orillia, Ontario|Hawkestone]]. At the age of 80, she learned to use a computer and subsequently wrote and illustrated Outhouses & Apple Pie...
    
    , 96, Canadian author
  • Hemayel Martina
    Hemayel Martina
    Hemayel Michael Anthony Martina was a Curaçaon young poet. While studying at the International School of Curaçao, the young 17-years-old Hemayel Martina started writing poems addressed to the young and that culminated in 2010 into a book with a collection of 39 interrogative poems entitled...
    
    , 20, Curaçaon poet
• 30 January – Hisaye Yamamoto
  Hisaye Yamamoto
  Hisaye Yamamoto was a Japanese American author. She is best known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, first published in 1988...
  
  , 89, Japanese American author
• 2 February – Eric Nicol
  Eric Nicol
  Eric Patrick Nicol was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humour columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province...
  
  , 91, Canadian author
• 3 February – Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary.-Life:...
  
  , 82, Martinican poet and critic
• 5 February
  • Charles E. Silberman
    Charles E. Silberman
    Charles Eliot Silberman was an American journalist and author.Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After war service in the Pacific, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1946 and undertook graduate study their...
    
    , 86, American author
  • Martin Quigley, Jr.
    Martin Quigley, Jr.
    Martin Quigley Jr. was the son of Martin Quigley , founder motion picture trade periodicals including the Motion Picture Herald. The younger Quigley was active in the editing and publication of those periodicals from young adulthood...
    
    . 93, American publisher, author, spy
  • Brian Jacques
    Brian Jacques
    James Brian Jacques was an English author best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.-Biography:Brian Jacques was born...
    
    , 71, British children's writer
• 9 February – David Sánchez Juliao
  David Sánchez Juliao
  David Sánchez Juliao was a Colombian author, journalist, storyteller and diplomat.Sánchez Juliao was born in Lorica. He was the Colombian ambassador to India during the César Gaviria administration and ambassador to Egypt during the Ernesto Samper administration...
  
  , 65, Colombian author, diplomat
• 13 February – Oakley Hall III
  Oakley Hall III
  Oakley "Tad" Hall III was an American playwright, director, and author. The eldest child of novelist Oakley Hall and photographer Barbara E. Hall, at age 28 he was a rising star in the New York theatre scene. In the mid-1970s, his play Mike Fink was optioned by Joseph Papp of the Public Theatre...
  
  , 60, American playwright
• 15 February – Judith Binney
  Judith Binney
  Dame Judith Binney, DNZM, FRSNZ was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed primarily on religion in New Zealand, especially the Māori Ringatū religion founded by Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and continued by Rua Kenana...
  
  , 70, New Zealand author
• 16 February
  • Justinas Marcinkevičius
    Justinas Marcinkevicius
    Justinas Marcinkevičius was a prominent Lithuanian poet and playwright.-Life and career:Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joined the...
    
    , 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright
  • Hans Joachim Alpers
    Hans Joachim Alpers
    Hans Joachim Alpers was a German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy. Together with Werner Fuchs and Ulrich Kiesow he founded Fantasy Productions, which became one of the premier German RPG- and board game producers and retailers...
    
    , 67, German science fiction author
• 17 February
  • Perry Moore
    Perry Moore
    William Perry Moore IV , also known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director...
    
    , 39, American author
  • Vivien Noakes
    Vivien Noakes
    Vivien Mary Noakes was a British biographer, editor and critic. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Noakes was born Vivien Langley, the daughter of a noted aeronautical engineer, Marcus Langley...
    
    , 74, British biographer and critic
  • James McLure
    James McLure
    James Miller McLure, Jr. was an American playwright. He was born in Alexandria, Louisiana and grew up in Shreveport where he was educated by the Jesuits. He became interested in acting in high school, performing in Shakespearean plays...
    
    , 59, American playwright
• 19 February – Max Wilk
  Max Wilk
  Max Wilk was an American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction book.Formerly a resident of Ridgefield, Connecticut, he moved to Westport, Connecticut, where lived until his death February 19, 2011, at age 90...
  
  , 90, American playwright, screenwriter, author
• 22 February – Ion Hobana
  Ion Hobana
  Ion Hobana was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist...
  
  , 80, Romanian science fiction author
• 25 February
  • Manny Fried
    Emanuel Fried
    Emanuel "Manny" Fried was a playwright, actor, and union organizer. Born in New York City to a working class background, Fried married into a prominent upper-class Buffalo family. During World War II, Fried worked for Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. There, Fried became involved in the...
    
    , 97, American playwright, actor
  • Aminath Faiza
    Aminath Faiza
    Aminath Faiza was a Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author. Aminath Faiza began to write poetry at the age of 16...
    
    , 82, Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author.
• 26 February – Arnošt Lustig
  Arnošt Lustig
  Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.Lustig was born in Prague...
  
  , 84, Czech author
• 28 February – Netiva Ben-Yehuda
  Netiva Ben-Yehuda
  Netiva Ben Yehuda was an Israeli author, editor and media personality. She was a commander in the pre-state Jewish underground, Palmach.-Biography:...
  
  , 82, Israeli author
• 2 March – Thor Vilhjálmsson
  Thor Vilhjálmsson
  Thor Vilhjálmsson was an Icelandic writer. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Over the course of his life Vilhjálmsson wrote novels, plays and poetry and also did translations...
  
  , 85, Icelandic author
• 3 March – May Cutler
  May Cutler
  May Cutler was a Canadian author, journalist and publisher. Cutler founded Tundra Books in her basement in 1967, becoming Canada's first female publisher of children’s books...
  
  , 87, Canadian author and publisher
• 4 March – Vivienne Harris
  Vivienne Harris
  Vivienne Harris is a camogie player a member of Cork's All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2005.-National League:...
  
  , 89, British newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph
• 5 March – Alberto Granado
  Alberto Granado
  Alberto Granado was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of revolutionary Che Guevara during their 1952 trip around Latin America, and later founded the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba...
  
  , 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• 8 March
  • Iraj Afshar
    Iraj Afshar
    Iraj Afshar was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies . He was a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica at Columbia University and a full professor emeritus of University of Tehran.Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three-volume...
    
    , 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian
  • Steven Kroll
    Steven Kroll
    Steven Lawrence Kroll was an American children's book author. He wrote 96 books, including Is Milton Missing? , The Biggest Pumpkin Ever , Sweet America , When I Dream of Heaven , Jungle Bullies .- Biography :Born in Manhattan, he attended the McBurney School and Harvard University, graduating...
    
    , 69, American children's author
• 9 March – Doris Burn
  Doris Burn
  Doris "Doe" Wernstedt Burn was an American children's book author and illustrator. She lived most of her life on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands archipelago of Washington...
  
  , 87, American children's author and illustrator
• 13 March – Leo Steinberg
  Leo Steinberg
  Leo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...
  
  , 90, American art historian and critic
• 14 March – Giora Leshem
  Giora Leshem
  Giora Leshem was an award-winning Israeli poet and translator and one of the founders of the Keshev poetry publishing house. At the time of his death, Keshev was the largest independent book publisher in Israel.- Education and experience :Leshem was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine...
  
  , 71, Israeli poet and publisher
• 19 March – Raymond Garlick
  Raymond Garlick
  Raymond Garlick was an Anglo-Welsh poet and editor. Garlick was born in London, but grew up in Llandudno, and studied English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. Whilst there, he converted to Roman Catholicism, although no longer a practising Catholic...
  
  , 84, British poet and editor
• 27 March – H. R. F. Keating
  H. R. F. Keating
  Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.-Life:...
  
  , 84, British crime novelist