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The following are lists of writers:
Alphabetical indices
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
Lists by genre
- Bestsellers
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- Children's literature
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- Romantic novels
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- Western fiction
- Young adult
Lists by language (non-English)
Lists by ethnicity or nationality
- African writers
- African-American writers
- Albanian writers
- Algerian writers
- American writers
- Arab American writers
- Armenian authors
- Asian-American writers
- Assyrian writers
- Australian authors
- Bangladeshi writers
- Barbadian writers
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- Black British writers
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- British Jewish writers
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- Canadian writers
- Chinese writers
- Colombian writers
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- English writers
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- Gambian writers
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- German writers
- Ghanaian writers
- Greek writers
- Guyanese writers
- Hungarian writers
- Icelandic writers
- Indian writers
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- Irish writers
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- Moroccan writers
- Native American writers
- Nepali writers
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- Nigerian writers
- Norwegian writers
- Pakistani writers
- Peruvian writers
- Philippine writers
- Polish writers
- Portuguese writers
- Puerto Rican writers
- Romanian writers
- Russian authors
- Saudi Arabian writers
- Scottish writers
- Serbian writers
- Slovak authors
- Slovenian writers
- Somali writers
- Spanish writers
- South African writers
- Taiwanese authors
- Tanzanian writers
- Trinidad and Tobago writers
- Ukrainian writers
- Ugandan writers
- Uruguayan authors
- Venezuelan writers
- Zimbabwean writers
General
Lists of women writers and works
Main list
By country
- Albanian women writers
- Algerian women writers
- Argentine women writers
- Austrian women writers
- Azerbaijani women writers
- Bangladeshi women writers
- Belgian women writers
- Bolivian women writers
- Bosnia and Herzegovina women writers
- Brazilian women writers
- Bulgarian women writers
- Chilean women writers
- Chinese women writers
- Colombian women writers
- Croatian women writers
- Cuban women writers
- Czech women writers
- Danish women writers
- Dutch women writers
- Ecuadorian women writers
- Egyptian women writers
- Estonian women writers
- Faroese women writers
- Filipino women writers
- Finnish women writers
- French women writers
- German women writers
- Ghanaian women writers
- Greek women writers
- Guatemalan women writers
- Guyanese women writers
- Hungarian women writers
- Icelandic women writers
- Indian women writers
- Indonesian women writers
- Iranian women writers
- Irish women writers
- Italian women writers
- Ivorian women writers
- Japanese women writers
- Jamaican women writers
- Kenyan women writers
- Korean women writers
- Latvian women writers
- Lebanese women writers
- Lithuanian women writers
- Luxembourg women writers
- Macedonian women writers
- Malaysian women writers
- Mexican women writers
- Moroccan women writers
- New Zealand women writers
- Nicaraguan women writers
- Nigerian women writers
- Norwegian women writers
- Pakistani women writers
- Panamanian women writers
- Paraguayan women writers
- Peruvian women writers
- Polish women writers
- Portuguese women writers
- Puerto Rican women writers
- Romanian women writers
- Russian women writers
- Senegalese women writers
- Serbian women writers
- Slovak women writers
- Slovenian women writers
- South African women writers
- Spanish women writers
- Swedish women writers
- Swiss women writers
- Trinidad and Tobago women writers
- Tunisian women writers
- Turkish women writers
- Ugandan women writers
- Ukrainian women writers
- Uruguayan women writers
- Welsh women writers
- Zimbabwean women writers
Other lists of women writers
- Women comics creators
- Women cookbook writers
- Early-modern British women novelists
- Early-modern British women playwrights
- Early-modern British women poets
- Women electronic writers
- Women experimental writers
- Women detective/mystery writers
- Women Nobel laureates
- Women poets
- Modernist women writers
- Women printers/publishers before 1800
- Women rhetoricians
- Women science fiction authors
- Biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
- Norton Anthology of Literature by Women