The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with D
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why Fyodor Dostoevsky lives here under D, not under F.
Charles Darwin
1809–1882 · United Kingdom
Observation made epic; evolution by natural selection explained with patient proof.
Owen Davis
1874–1956 · United States
Stagecraft for the popular audience; clean plots that balance speed and feeling.
Daniel Defoe
1660–1731 · United Kingdom
Survival, trade, and voice that invented a modern reality effect on the page.
Margaret Deland
1857–1945 · United States
Moral realism of community, work, and compromise in American towns.
Timothy Dexter
1747–1806 · United States
Comic curiosity and outsider success; odd style that reveals class and language play.
Philip K. Dick
1928–1982 · United States
Paranoid humane science fiction that tests reality identity memory and power with wit.
Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · United Kingdom
Panoramic storytelling with comic energy and structural heart for the city and the outsider.
Emily Dickinson
1830–1886
Benjamin Disraeli
1804–1881 · United Kingdom
Society power and ambition drawn by a statesman; bright satire with political nerve.
Franklin W. Dixon
1927 · United States
House name for the Hardy Boys; brisk youth mysteries that build habit and nerve.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821–1881 · Russia
Psychological depth and moral crisis under pressure; fiction that tests conscience, freedom, and society.
Frederick Douglass
1817–1818 · United States
Autobiography and speeches that make freedom, law, and dignity vivid and exact.
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Theodore Dreiser
Bare knuckle realism of money, appetite, and urban fate.
Levi H. Dowling
1844–1911 · United States
Esoteric gospel pastiche; curiosity about origins told in visionary narrative.
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · United Kingdom
Evidence driven adventure and humane curiosity behind the world famous consulting detective.
Theodore Dreiser
1871–1945 · United States
Bare knuckle realism of money, appetite, and urban fate.
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868–1963 · United States
Social science and lyric fire naming the color line, double consciousness, and democracy.
Alexandre Dumas (père)
1802–1870 · France
Swashbuckling pace honor and intrigue; friendship tested by justice and wit.
Theron Q. Dumont
1862–1932 · United States
Mental discipline manuals; focus, will, memory, and habit in brisk lessons.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872–1906
Lord Dunsany
1878–1957 · Ireland – United Kingdom
Dreamlike high fantasy; gods, chessboard cities, and clean sentences that shaped the genre.
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