Bates, Michael
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- Bachman, Richard
- Badami, Anita Rau
- Baker, Nancy
- Baker, Nicholson
- Baldick, Chris
- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, Shauna Singh
- Ballard, J.G.
- Balzac, Honore de
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Banks, Iain
- Banks, Russell
- Bantock, Nick
- Banville, John
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri
- Barfoot, Joan
- Barker, Clive
- Barnes, Djuna
- Barnes, Johnny Ray
- Barnes, Julian
- Barrett, Andrea
- Barrie, J.M.
- Barron, Neil
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Bates, A.
- Bates, Michael
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Beach, Lynn
- Beaumarchais
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beckford, William
- Been, Dwight
- Behn, Aphra
- Bell, Madison Smartt
- Bellairs, John
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bellow, Saul
- Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Benson, E. F.
- Berenstain, Jan
- Berenstain, Stan
- Bergantino, David
- Berry, Michelle
- Berry, Wendell
- Berryman, John
- Betancourt, John
- Betjeman, John
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Binchy, Maeve
- Bingley, Margaret
- Birdsell, Sandra
- Birkin, Charles
- Bischoff, David
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Bishop, M.
- Bissoondath, Neil
- Black, Campbell
- Black, J. R.
- Blackwood, Alegernon
- Blair, Cynthia
- Blais, Marie-Claire
- Blaise, Clark
- Blake, William
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Blatty, William P.
- Blaylock, James P.
- Bloch, Robert
- Bloom, Clive
- Bloom, Harold
- Bly, Robert
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Bock, Dennis
- Bogan, Louise
- Bogosian, Eric
- Bolt, Carol
- Bonansinga, Jay
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Borton, Douglas
- Botting, Fred
- Botton, Alain de
- Boulle, Philippe
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Bowering, George
- Bowles, Jane
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyd, William
- Boyle, Kay
- Boyle, T.C.
- Boyll, Randall
- Bradbury, Malcom
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer
- Brand, Dionne
- Brandner, Gary
- Brautigan, Richard
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Brennan, Stephen
- Breton, Andre
- Bridges, Bill
- Briery, Traci
- Brightfield, Richard
- Brindle, Jane
- Brite, Poppy Z.
- Brodkey, Harold
- Bronte, Anne
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Bronte, Emily
- Brooke, Rupert
- Brookner, Anita
- Brooks, Felicity
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brossard, Nicole
- Broughton, James
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Brown, Charles N.
- Brown, George Mackay
- Brown, Rebecca
- Brown, Roberta Simpson
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Buck, Pearl
- Buckler, Ernest
- Bukowski, Charles
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
- Bunting, Eve
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burleson, Donald
- Burleson, Donald R.
- Burnard, Bonnie
- Burns, Robert
- Burroughs, William S.
- Butala, Sharon
- Butler, Marilyn
- Butler, Samuel
- Byars, Betsy
- Byatt, A.S.
- Byers, Richard
- Byrne, John
- Byron, Lord