The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with B
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why L. Frank Baum lives here under B, not under L.
David Francis Bacon
1813–1865 · United States
Nineteenth-century sacred biography; the apostles retold for American readers.
R. M. Ballantyne
1825–1894 · United Kingdom
Victorian adventure that trains resourcefulness, teamwork, and practical problem solving.
Honoré de Balzac
1799–1850 · France
Panorama of money desire and rank; the ledger of modern life told as story.
Helen Bannerman
1862–1946 · United Kingdom
Fast paced early picture tale whose lively form coexists with racial caricature; best read with context.
Jane Barlow
1856–1917 · Ireland
Rural Irish life in close detail; songs of work, poverty, and stubborn grace.
P. T. Barnum
1810–1891 · United States
Showmanship, persuasion, and spectacle as tools for business and culture.
J. M. Barrie
1860–1937 · United Kingdom
Bittersweet wonder; childhood, play, and loss balanced with rare tact.
Charles Baudelaire
1821–1867 · France
Modern city gaze lyric shock and exact music that still feels new.
L. Frank Baum
1856–1919 · United States
American fairy tale clarity; inventive worlds where courage and kindness feel practical.
Max Beerbohm
1872–1956 · United Kingdom
Elegant satire and humane wit; style that smiles as it thinks.
Aphra Behn
1640–1689 · United Kingdom
Early professional woman writer; sharp comedy, espionage, and colonial critique.
Edward Bellamy
1850–1898 · United States
Utopian design as thought experiment; work, time, and fairness reimagined.
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R. M. Ballantyne
Victorian adventure that trains resourcefulness, teamwork, and practical problem solving.
Arnold Bennett
1867–1931 · United Kingdom
Provincial life and work drawn with craft; humor and sympathy without haze.
Ambrose Bierce
1842–1914 · United States
Cold clarity and dark wit; war stories and definitions that cut to the bone.
R. D. Blackmore
1825–1900 · United Kingdom
Pastoral romance and outlaw adventure voiced with West Country grain and patience.
Algernon Blackwood
1869–1951 · United Kingdom
Weird fiction of woods and rivers; clear prose where landscape turns uncanny and awe becomes thought.
William Blake
1757–1827 · United Kingdom
Visionary lyric and engraver’s craft; prophecy, street, and song in one voice.
Nellie Bly
1864–1922 · United States
Investigative journalism with nerve; undercover reporting that changed care and law.
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313–1375 · Italy
Storytelling as repair: wit and mercy in times of crisis and change.
Charles Pickering Bowditch
1842–1921 · United States
Maya studies and patient scholarship; finance turned to fieldwork and decipherment.
B. M. Bower
1871–1940 · United States
Western fiction with humor, crews, and competent women at work.
Anne Brontë
1820–1849 · United Kingdom
Quiet courage, social realism, and clear ethics about autonomy, work, and speech.
Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 · United Kingdom
Gothic intensity meets moral independence and a modern inner voice.
Emily Brontë
1818–1848 · United Kingdom
Intense vision where passion, isolation, and landscape feel like fate.
John Buchan
1875–1940 · United Kingdom
Brisk thrillers with civic heart; pace plot and public spirit in one line.
John Bunyan
1628–1688 · United Kingdom
Allegory that carries a life of choice fear and hope with simple force.
Thornton Burgess
1874–1965 · United States
Animal stories for early readers; kindness, curiosity, and habitat made friendly.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1849–1924 · United Kingdom
Gardens, friendship, and care as engines of growth, not sentiment.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · United States
Velocity and exotic horizons that set adventure pacing for a century of popular storytelling.
Samuel Butler
1835–1902 · United Kingdom
Satire of custom and creed; thought experiments that still sting and amuse.
Lord Byron
1788–1824 · United Kingdom
Romantic flame and satiric bite; persona, travel, and song at full charge.
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