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Authors whose surname starts with H
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❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why Manly P. Hall lives here under H, not under M.
H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · United Kingdom
High velocity quests that mix lost worlds, myth, and a debate about empire.
Manly P. Hall
1901–1990 · Canada – United States
Compendiums of symbolism, myth, and esoteric lore in an accessible lecture style.
Radclyffe Hall
1880–1943 · United Kingdom
Modern courage and scandal; identity, love, and law faced with clear seriousness.
Dashiell Hammett
1894–1961 · United States
Hard boiled clarity; crime as work; terse sentences that expose power, motive, and systems.
Knut Hamsun
1859–1952 · Norway
Psychological modernism with sharp attention to hunger, pride, and the pull of place.
Thomas Hardy
1840–1928 · United Kingdom
Rural tragedy and tender irony; fate, class, and desire in exact prose.
Joel Chandler Harris
1848–1908 · United States
Folklore retellings in dialect; valuable and problematic record of tales and times.
Harry Harrison
1925–2012
Bret Harte
1836–1902 · United States
Gold Rush tales with humor and bite; boomtown ethics, luck, and mercy in bright sketches.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804–1864 · United States
Moral allegory and New England shadow that test secrecy, shame, and mercy.
Ernest Hemingway
1899–1961 · United States
Clean lines, pressure under ice, and courage measured by action.
O. Henry
1862–1910 · United States
Short fiction with snap, twist, and tender humor about city lives and chance.
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Langston Hughes
Jazz driven poetry and prose about hope, struggle, and the American voice.
Hermann Hesse
1877–1962 · Germany – Switzerland
Spiritual quests and identity under pressure; calm prose for restless lives.
Thomas Hobbes
1588–1679 · United Kingdom
Order and security examined from first principles in plain, tough prose.
William Hope Hodgson
1877–1918 · United Kingdom
Sea horror and cosmic strangeness with muscular atmosphere and invention.
James Hogg
1770–1835 · United Kingdom
Faith shadow and double selves; folk voice meets psychological dread.
Homer
-800–-701 · Greece
Epic lines that teach courage craft hospitality and memory; foundations that still breathe.
Anthony Hope
1863–1933 · United Kingdom
Crown and caper romance at speed; clean stakes, sharp dialogue, and charm.
Laura Lee Hope
1899–1987 · United States
Playful domestic adventures from a storied house name for early readers.
Robert E. Howard
1906–1936 · United States
Kinetic pulp and iron fantasy; mythic pace that defined sword and sorcery.
Fergus Hume
1859–1932
Murder, hidden identities, and family secrets at Victorian production speed.
Helen Huber
1908–1983 · United States
Mid-century magazine science fiction; domestic surfaces hiding sharp unease.
Langston Hughes
1901–1967 · United States
Jazz driven poetry and prose about hope, struggle, and the American voice.
Richard Hughes
1900–1976 · United Kingdom
Adventure turned unsettling; childhood risk and adult myth told with bright prose and moral bite.
Victor Hugo
1802–1885 · France
Huge hearted narratives where justice, imagination, and architecture meet.
David Hume
1711–1776 · United Kingdom
Everyday empiricism and friendly rigor; essays that clean arguments about cause self and belief.
James Huneker
1857–1921 · United States
Modernist criticism that links music, art, and literature with cosmopolitan wit and a fine ear.
Zora Neale Hurston
1891–1960
Harlem Renaissance voice; folklore and Black Southern life in living vernacular.
Aldous Huxley
1894–1963 · United Kingdom
Fiction and essays on tech, freedom, and desire; cool vision with lyrical bite.
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
1866–1944 · United Kingdom
Nautical and adventure tales with brisk mystery and salty humor.
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