Who are some well known Authors?

Answer 1

stephen king, nicholas sparks,

Answer 2

There are so many well-known authors that it's tough to begin a list. I apologize if I repeat any that have already been listed.
Jane Austen
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Gaskell
Maria Edgeworth
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jack London
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Catherine Cookson
Taylor Caldwell
Sir Walter Scott
Maeve Binchy
Rosamunde Pilcher
John Bunyan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather
G. K. Chesterton
Tom Clancy
Stephen Crane
Daphne du Maurier
George Eliot
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Winston Graham
Thomas Hardy
James Herriot
Georgette Heyer
Rex Stout
Dean Koontz
Sidney Sheldon
Catherine Marshall
Thorton Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Shelley

There are so MANY, MANY more....

Answer 3

Well known in what subject area?

I'll go with the "classics" they tend to assign in high school and/or college, and hopefully that'll be what you're looking for. I'll separate into "older" and "newer" in a general way, but sometimes the line is kind of blurry.

Older Stuff:

Jane Austen
E.M. Forster
William Faulkner
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
Zora Neale Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Doris Lessing
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane

Newer Stuff:

Toni Morrison
Louise Erdrich
Alice Walker
Raymond Carver
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
James Baldwin
Flannery O'Connor

Answer 4

How about these:
William Saroyan
John Updike
John Ringo
David Weber
Raymond Feist
Eric Flint
S.M.Stirling
Tanya Huff
Jane Lindskold
Ursula K. LeGuin
H. Rider Haggard
H. Beam Piper
Stuart Woods
J.A.Jance
John Dunning
James Doss
I would have said V.C. Andrews, but the author has been dead for twenty years. The publishers own the name and put stories out by unknown authors under V.C.Andrews name.

Answer 5

Here's a few:
Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Anne Rice
Tom Clancy
J.K. Rowling
Agatha Christi
Rauld Dahl
R.L. Stine
Nick Hornby
Michael Crichton
John Grisham
Robin Cook
Robert Ludlum
Nora Roberts

Answer 6

How many do you want? 20? I think that should be enough for this answer. In fact, I’ll go one better: I’ll provide one book each person wrote.
Alphabetically:
The Bible - Old & New Testaments - complete with Concordance
The Koran
Robert G. Allen: ““The One Minute Millionaire”
Claude M. Bristol: “The Magic of Believing”
Andrew Carnegie: “The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays”
Dale Carnegie: “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
George S. Classon: “The Richest Man in Babylon”
Russell H. Conwell: “Acres of Diamonds”
Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography
Mark David Hansen: “Chicken Soup for the Soul”
Napoleon Hill: “Think and Grow Rich”
Barbara Ann Kifer: “Roget’s Thesaurus”
Robert Kiyosaki: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
Og Mandino: “The Greatest Salesman in the World”
James Michener: “Hawaii”
Carl Sandburg: “Selected Poems”
Will Rogers: says “I Never Met A Man I Didn’t Like” Favorite Quotations
William F. Russell: “Classics to Read Aloud to Young Children”
Mark Twain: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Leon Uris: “Exodus”
Charles Van Doren: “How to Read a Book” - Last name “Van Doren” - two names.
Webster’s Dictionary [OR any good, unabridged dictionary]
Many of these authors have several wonderful books.

What’s that? Yes, I know they aren’t in quite alphabetical order. But as far as I’m concerned, nothing is higher than God.
Excuse me? Yes I know I gave you more than 20. AND I could probably give you 200.
In fact, you have an almost endless supply of reading material from at least two sources:
1] the Internet
2] Your local library or library system. The library is a wonderful place to visit - and learn!
Knowledge IS power!

Now its my turn: How many do you have in your home library? How many have you read?

Did you know: once you buy a book or a book is given to you - almost any book - its yours!
You can do with it what you want. You can read it - not the whole book in one sitting -
BUT JUST five [5] pages - let’s count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
You can write in it and make notes in it!
OR you can let that book sit on the shelf and be a dust collector.

Sorry, you won’t get any recognition, diploma or sheepskin, but you will be able to consider yourself an expert in that field!

Finally: did you know if a person spent just one hour each day reading and studying about the subject she/he loves and the profession she/he aspires to, within five [5] years, that person could be an expert in her/his chosen field?

The choices are up to Y-O-U! YOU!

Thank you for asking your question. I enjoyed taking the time to answer your question. You did a great job - not only for your information, but for every other person interested in reading my answer. Thanks to everyone for reading my answer.

I wish you well!

Very Truly Yours,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name.

Answer 7

Tamora Pierce

JK Rowling

Stephenie Meyer

Christopher Paolini

JRR Tolkien

Answer 8

J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut, William Golding, Lemony Snicket, Dan Brown, and Mark Twain to name a few.

Answer 9

Stephen King, Stephen R. Covey, Shakespeare, Christopher Paolini, Tolkein, Hermin Melville, ...there are SOOO many of them. Just look in the section with all the classics....

Answer 10

I read a lot of sci-fi
Arthur C.Clark, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov come to mind.

Answer 11

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

They are legion, those well-known authors! Ask a reference librarian, s/he may want to help...