ATY Prompt Lists

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1	Author	Last Name	First Name	Blurb
2	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Adichie	Chimamanda	The Nigerian author and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant is best known for her novel Americah and essay We Should All be Feminists.
3	Louisa May Alcott	Alcott	Louisa May	Before publishing her iconic book Little Women in 1868, Alcott wrote under the pen name A. M. Barnard.
4	Isabel Allende	Allende	Isabel	The Chilean-American writer is best known for her magic realist writing including The House of the Spirits. She is a recipient of the Presendential Medal of Freedom.
5	Kate Atkinson	Atkinson	Kate	Award-winning British author best known for Life After Life and Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
6	Margaret Atwood	Atwood	Margaret	Prolific Canadian author, poet, and essayist best known for novels including The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace.
7	Jane Austen	Austen	Jane	Loved for her critique of British society, Austen is the iconic author of Pride & Prejudice, Emma, and more.
8	Judy Blume	Blume	Judy	The children and YA novel writer addressed taboo topics like birth control and menstration in books like Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
9	Cynthia Bond	Bond	Cynthia	American author best known for her 2014 novel Ruby.
10	Emily Brontë	Brontë	Emily	Wuthering Heights, Emily's only novel and a staple of English Literature, was origianlly published under a male pen name Ellis Bell.
11	Charlotte Brontë	Brontë	Charlotte	The eldest Bronte sister and author of Jane Eyre first published her works under the pen name Currer Bell.
12	Geraldine Brooks	Brooks	Geraldine	The Australian journalist and author received a Pulitzer Prize for her novel March.
13	NoViolet Bulawayo	Bulawayo	NoViolet	The Zimbabwean author is known for her 2013 debut novel, We Need New Names.
14	Octavia Butler	Butler	Octavia	The recipient of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was also the first science fiction writer to receive the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
15	A.S. Byatt	Byatt	A.S.	Award-winning writer known for Possession and Babel Tower.
16	Angela Carter	Carter	Angela	English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism wroks including Nights at the Circus.
17	Willa Cather	Cather	Willa	The American writer was known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!
18	Eleanor Catton	Catton	Eleanor	Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the Man Booker Prize in 2013.
19	Agatha Christie	Christie	Agatha	The Queen of Crime wrote more than 60 detective novels.
20	Edwidge Danticat	Danticat	Edwidge	The award-winning Haitian-American author writes stories, novels, essays, and children's books.
21	Kiran Desai	Desai	Kiran	The Indian writer won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Cirlce Fiction Award for The Inheritance of Loss.
22	Joan Didion	Didion	Joan	A screenwriter, fiction, and nonfiction writer best known for A Book of Common Prayer, The Year of Magical Thinking, and the film As it Happens.
23	Emma Donoghue	Donoghue	Emma	Irish-Canadian writer best known for Room, a novel about a captive woman and child.
24	Daphne du Maurier	du Maurier	Daphne	The award-winning author and playwright best known for her novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn.
25	Jennifer Egan	Egan	Jennifer	Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
26	George Eliot	Eliot	George	Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English writer best known for her novel Middlemarch.
27	Louise Erdrich	Erdrich	Louise	Known for her portrayals of Native peoples and culture, Erdrich was awarded the National Book Award for The Round House.
28	Elena Ferrante	Ferrante	Elena	The Italian writer's works have been translated into many languages. She is best known for her novel, My Brilliant Friend.
29	Penelope Fitzgerald	Fitzgerald	Penelope	Booker Prize-winning author best known for The Blue Flower and The Bookshop.
30	Anna Funder	Funder	Anna	Best known for her 2011 award-winning novel All That I Am.
31	Diana Gabaldon	Gabaldon	Diana	The American author is best known for the Outlander series.
32	Roxane Gay	Gay	Roxane	The American writer and professor is best known for her short story collection Bad Feminist and memoir Hunger.
33	Elizabeth Gilbert	Gilbert	Elizabeth	The author of the famous memoir Eat, Pray, Love broke into fiction in 2013 with The Signature of All Things.
34	Julia Glass	Glass	Julia	Best known for her National Book Award-winning debut novel, Three Junes.
35	Nadine Gordimer	Gordimer	Nadine	The South African writer and political activist received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
36	Lauren Groff	Groff	Lauren	The American writer is best known for her 2015 novel, Fates and Furies.
37	Yaa Gyasi	Gyasi	Yaa	Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist known for her award-winning debut novel Homegoing.
38	Georgette Heyer	Heyer	Georgette	The English historical romance and detective fiction writer invented the Regency Romance genre.
39	Keri Hulme	Hulme	Keri	The New Zealand writer won the Man Booker Prize in 1985 for her only novel, The Bone People.
40	Zora Neale Hurston	Hurston	Zora Neale	American writer best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
41	PD James	James	PD	Phyllis Dorothy James was an English crime writer best known for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
42	Tayari Jones	Jones	Tayari	The award-winning author of Silver Sparrow, Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and most recently, An American Marriage.
43	Miranda July	July	Miranda	Author, film director, and artist best known for her novel The First Bad Man.
44	Sue Monk Kidd	Kidd	Sue	Best known for The Invention of Wings and The Secret Life of Bees.
45	Barbara Kingsolver	Kingsolver	Barbara	The prolific American author best known for The Poisonwood Bible and The Lacuna founded the Bellwhether Prize to support literature of social change.
46	Rachel Kushner	Kushner	Rachel	Best known for her 2013 novel The Flame Throwers.
47	Madeleine L'Engle	L'Engle	Madeleine	American author best known for her YA book A Wrinkle in Time.
48	Jhumpa Lahiri	Lahiri	Jhumpa	The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is best known for her story collection The Interpreter of Maladies and novels The Namesake and The Lowland.
49	Ursula K. Le Guin	Le Guin	Ursula K.	A Grandmaster of Science Fiction, Le Guin won multiple Hugo adn Nebula Awards and is best known for her fantasy Novel, A Wizard of Earthsea.
50	Harper Lee	Lee	Harper	The literary icon made famous for her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
51	Doris Lessing	Lessing	Doris	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Lessing is best known for her novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
52	Penelope Lively	Lively	Penelope	The award-winning British author writes for both children and adults.
53	Alison Lurie	Lurie	Alison	Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs.
54	Ann-Marie MacDonald	MacDonald	Ann-Marie	Canadian writer best known for Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies.
55	Emily St. Mandel	Mandel	Emily	Canadian author best known for her 2014 apocolyptic novel Station Eleven.
56	Hilary Mantel	Mantel	Hilary	Historical Fiction writer best known for her Booker-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
57	Alice McDermott	McDermott	Alice	Best known for Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.
58	Ami McKay	McKay	Ami	The historical fiction writer known for The Birth House, The Vigin Cure, and The Witches of New York.
59	Claire Messud	Messud	Claire	Best known for The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.
60	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Montgomery	Lucy Maud	The iconic Canadian author is best known for creating the beloved children's series Anne of Green Gables.
61	Toni Morrison	Morrison	Toni	The author of Beloved has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2012, Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
62	Alice Munro	Munro	Alice	The Canadian short story writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
63	Iris Murdoch	Murdoch	Iris	Born in 1919, the writer and philosopher wrote about good and evil, sexual relationships, and the power of the unconscious.
64	Celeste Ng	Ng	Celeste	Best known for her 2014 debut novel Everything I Never Told You.
65	Edna O'Brien	O'Brien	Edna	The novelist, memorist, playwright, poet and story writer is the recipient of Irish PEN Award.
66	Flannery O'Connor	O'Connor	Flannery	The prolific American writer is best known for her short story collections including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories.
67	Joyce Carol Oates	Oates	Joyce Carol	Prolific American author best known for her National Book Award-winning novel Them and bestselling title, We Were the Mulvaneys.
68	Helen Oyeyemi	Oyeyemi	Helen	The award-winning British novelist is best known for her 2013 novel Boy, Snow, Bird.
69	Ruth Ozeki	Ozeki	Ruth	The American-Canadian author of A Tale for the Time Being and other novels is also a filmmaker.
70	Ann Patchett	Patchett	Ann	Best known for her award-winning novel, Bel Canto.
71	Sylvia Plath	Plath	Sylvia	The American poet, novelist, and short-story writer was best known for her coming-of-age novel, The Bell Jar.
72	Elizabeth Poliner	Poliner	Elizabeth	Known for As Close to Us as Breathing, the 2016 novel about grief and family.
73	Annie Proulx	Proulx	Annie	The American novelist is best known for her books Brokeback Mountain and The Shipping News.
74	Marilynne Robinson	Robinson	Marilynne	Best known for her 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead.
75	J.K. Rowling	Rowling	J.K.	Made famous for her creation of literature's favourite wizard, Rowling branched out with The Casual Vacancy.
76	Arundhati Roy	Roy	Arundhati	The Indian author is best known for her 1997 book, The God of Small Things.
77	Karen Russell	Russell	Karen	The author of Swamplandia!, Russell received the MacArther Foundation Genius Grant in 2013.
78	Maria Semple	Semple	Maria	Best known for her hilarious book Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
79	Mary Shelley	Shelley	Mary	Born in 1797, iconic for her creation of Frankenstein.
80	Carol Shields	Shields	Carol	Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Stone Diaries.
81	Jane Smiley	Smiley	Jane	Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres.
82	Zadie Smith	Smith	Zadie	The British writer is best known for her award-winning debut novel White Teeth, published in 2000.
83	Ali Smith	Smith	Ali	The Scottish writer is known for her award-winning novel How to Be Both.
84	Susan Sontag	Sontag	Susan	Primarily known for her powerful essays, Sontag also wrote novels including 1992's The Volcono Lover.
85	Gertrude Stein	Stein	Gertrude	The American expat molded young writers and artists including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Picasso. Her most famous work is The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas.
86	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Stowe	Harriet	American abolitionist and author best known for her iconic novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
87	Emma Straub	Straub	Emma	The author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers and owner of Books Are Magic, a bookstore in New York.
88	Elizabeth Strout	Strout	Elizabeth	American author best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge.
89	Amy Tan	Tan	Amy	Best known for The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience.
90	Donna Tartt	Tartt	Donna	American author best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch.
91	Miriam Toews	Toews	Miriam	Best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows.
92	Anne Tyler	Tyler	Anne	The American novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic as awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 1989 novel Breathing Lessons.
93	Alice Walker	Walker	Alice	The American novelist and activist is best known for her award-winning novel, The Color Purple.
94	Jesmyn Ward	Ward	Jesmyn	The American author won the Booker in 2011 for Salvage the Bones, and again in 2017 for Sing, Unburied, Sing.
95	Sarah Waters	Waters	Sarah	The Welsh novelist is known for her Victorian novels with lesbian protagonists.
96	Edith Wharton	Wharton	Edith	Her novel The Age of Innocance won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, making Wharton the first woman to receive the award.
97	Connie Willis	Willis	Connie	Her 1993 novel Doomsday Book won numerous awards, including The Hugo and Nebula awards.
98	Jeanette Winterson	Winterson	Jeanette	British writer made famous by her 1985 book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
99	Meg Wolitzer	Wolitzer	Meg	Best known for The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and Belzhar.
100	Virginia Woolf	Woolf	Virginia	The author of Room of One's Own is considered a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.