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Writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic. Known for poetry and short stories, particularly tales of mystery and the macabre. Central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States. Inventor of the detective fiction genre and a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. Published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. Contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to The Guardian's weekend magazine.

Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989).

Novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Notable works include the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood.

American novelist and short story writer known for works that focus on history, morality, and religion.

Author raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York City. Graduated from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A Lucky Man, his first book, explores themes of family relationships, love, loss, complex identity, and masculinity in New York City.

will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.

American writer known for acclaimed work across multiple forms including essays, novels, plays, and poems. Notable works include the novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and the essay collection "Notes of a Native Son".

Short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator. Known for his books Ficciones and El Aleph, which explore motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, and mythology.

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).

Grew up in a liberal family. Father was a poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and sister is a well-known cartoonist in Japan.

American novelist known for her works in literary fiction and descriptive characterization. Inspired by her experiences in Portland, Maine, her novels often take place in the fictional setting of "Shirley Falls, Maine".