Fantasy authors

The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse, and a matter of opinion - Jules Verne considered H.G. Wells to be a fantasy author - and there is considerable overlap with Science fiction authors and Horror fiction authors; however some notable part of the output of the following writers leans more to the fantasy end of the spectrum:

• [Lloyd Alexander]?
• Piers Anthony
• [James P. Blaylock]?
• Hannes Bok
• [Marion Zimmer Bradley]?
• [Terry Brooks]?
• James Branch Cabell
• [Jonathan Carroll]?
• Lewis Carroll
• G. K. Chesterton
• [Susan Cooper]?
• [Stephen Donaldson]?
• Lord Dunsany
• [E R Eddison]?
• [Raimond E. Feist]?
• [Madeleine LEngle]?
• [Philip Jose Farmer]?
• [Alan Dean Foster]?
• [Neil Gaiman]?
• Alan Garner
• [Mary Gentle]?
• [Barbara Hambly]?
• [Tracy Hickman]?
• [Tom Holt]?
• Robert E. Howard
• [P.C. Hodgell]?
• [William Hope Hodgson]?
• [Barry Hughart]?
• [Brian Jacques]?
• [Tove Jansson]?
• Robert Jordan
• [Diana Wynne Jones]?
• [Katherine Kurtz]?
• [Ellen Kushner]?
• [Mercedes Lackey]?
• [R.A. Lafferty]?
• [Tanith Lee]?
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Fritz Leiber
• C.S. Lewis
• H. P. Lovecraft
• [Anne MacCaffrey]?
• [George MacDonald]?
• [Arthur Machen]?
• [Patricia A. McKillip]?
• [Robin McKinley]?
• George R. R. Martin
• [China Mieville]?
• [Elizabeth Moon]?
• Michael Moorcock
• William Morris
• [John Norman]?
• Mervyn Peake
• [Anne Perry]?
• [Meredith Ann Pierce]?
• [Tamara Pierce]?
• Tim Powers
• Terry Pratchett
• J. K. Rowling
• [Robert Silverberg]?
• Clark Ashton Smith
• [Thorne Smith]?
• JRR Tolkien
• [Harry Turtledove]?
• [Jack Vance]?
• [Margaret Weis]?
• [Tad Williams]?
• [Patricia Wrede]?
• [Roger Zelazny]?

See also

• Novelists
• Science fiction authors
• Horror fiction authors

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