| KOONTZ | Best-selling author of "The Taking" |
| HOLLYBLACK | Best-selling author of the "Novels of Elfhame" and "Folk of the Air" "romantasy" series: 2 wds. |
| PAULOCOELHO | Best-selling author of "The Alchemist" whose books, per one critic, "anesthetiz[e] . . . through the consoling reaffirmation of conventions" |
| SARAHJMAAS | Best-selling author of the "Court of Thorns and Roses" and "Throne of Glass" "romantasy" series: 3 wds. |
| PEALE | Norman Vincent ___, best-selling author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" |
| ROWLING | Best selling author of the 2000s |
| REBECCAYARROS | Best-selling author of the "Empyrean" "romantasy" series: 2 wds. |
| BRESLIN | Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" |
| SIDNEY | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SHELDON | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| TROLLOPE | Joanna -; best-selling author of novels including The Choir, A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife (8) |
| TOWNSEND | Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" |
| CLANCY | Best-selling author of "Debt of Honor" |
| ANGIETHOMAS | Best-selling author of 2017's "The Hate U Give" |
| EVIE | ___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop" |
| JOHNGRISHAM | Best-selling author of more than 30 novels, including 2017's "The Rooster Bar": 2 wds. |
| WILSON | Best-selling author of books for children and young people including Sleepovers, Hetty Feather and The Worst Thing About My Sister (6) |
| ALGER | Best selling author of boys' books |
| HELLER | Best-selling author of "Good as Gold," 1979 |
| URIS | Best-selling author of historical fiction |
