Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author best known for her novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the Six, One True Loves, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto Is Back, and Atmosphere.

Born in Nagasaki and raised in Britain from the age of five, **Sir Kazuo Ishiguro** has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author.

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Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, **Ernest Hemingway** became one of America's most celebrated and influential writers, transforming both literature and the public's perception of what it meant to be an author.