Marshall, James
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- MacDiarmid, Hugh
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie
- MacEwen, Gwendolyn
- MacHen, Arthur
- MacLeish, Archibald
- MacLennan, Hugh
- MacLeod, Alistair
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Maclean, Norman
- Magistrale, Tony
- Maharaj, Rabindranath
- Mahy, Margaret
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Malcolm, Jahnna N.
- Mallarme, Stephane
- Mallett, Daryl F.
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Mamet, David
- Mann, Thomas
- Manning, Jane
- Mantel, Hilary
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Mars-Jones, Adam
- Marsh, Carole
- Marshall, James
- Marshall, Paule
- Martel, Yann
- Martin, David
- Martin, George R.
- Martin, Les
- Marvell, Andrew
- Mason, Bobbie Anne
- Mason, Tom
- Massie, Elizabeth
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Masterson, Graham
- Matheson, Richard
- Maturin, Charles Robert
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Maupin, Armistead
- Maxwell, William
- Mayer, Mercer
- McCabe, Patrick
- McCammon, Robert R.
- McCarthy, Cormac
- McCarthy, Mary
- McCarty, John
- McCauley, Kirby
- McClure, Michael
- McConnell, Ashley
- McCorkle, Jill
- McCullers, Carson
- McDermott, Alice
- McEwan, Ian
- McFarlane, Todd
- McGuane, Thomas
- McHugh, Heather
- McInerney, Jay
- McKay, Don
- McKean, Dave
- McLean, Stuart
- McMullan, Kate
- McMurtry, Larry
- McNally, Clare
- McSherry, Frank
- Meltzer, Lisa
- Melville, Herman
- Mencken, H.L.
- Meredith, George
- Meredith, William
- Meriwether, Lee
- Merrill, James
- Merwin, W.S.
- Mew, Charlotte
- Meyrink, Gustav
- Michaels, Anne
- Michaels, Barbara
- Michaels, William
- Michener, James
- Middleton, Thomas
- Mignola, Mike
- Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Miller, Andrew
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Henry
- Miller, Isabel
- Miller, Rex
- Milne, Tom
- Milosz, Czeslaw
- Milton, Hilary
- Milton, John
- Minot, Susan
- Mishima, Yukio
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Mitchell, Mary Ann
- Mitchell, Mike
- Mitchell, W.O.
- Miyazawa, Kenji
- Mo, Timothy
- Moliere
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Monahan, Brent
- Monette, Paul
- Monteleone, Thomas
- Moody, Rick
- Moorcock, Michael
- Moore, Alan
- Moore, Brian
- Moore, Jim
- Moore, Marianne
- Morrell, David
- Morris, Mark
- Morris, Rosamund
- Morrison, Toni
- Mosiman, Billie Sue
- Moure, Erin
- Mowat, Farley
- Muir, John
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Munro, Alice
- Murdoch, Iris
- Murrell, John
- Musgrave, Susan
- Musset, Alfred de