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10 Best Living Authors 

1. Stephen King

One of the most popular names that almost everybody knows who reads books. Stephen King is an American fiction writer. His books mostly belong to genres like horror, supernatural, and crime. Stephen King is now in his 70s and has spent his life writing best-selling books that are popular all over the world. People love reading his books

2. J.K. Rowing 

She’s one of the most famous British novelists who is famous worldwide. She originally wrote the Harry Potter movie series you watch today. Joanne Rowling is her real name. However, she’s famous in the writing industry as J.K. Rowling. Rowling has been loved all over the world since her novel Harry Potter was translated into 70 plus languages and sold more than 500 million book copies.

3. John Green 

If a movie is based on a novel, it’s a good novel. John Green is a young American author, now in his 40s, and has written the novel The Fault in Our Stars. Another bestseller novel. A movie is based on his novel too. Like his novel, the movie was also a hit and a huge box office success. Besides this, his novel Paper Town also got a movie on it.

4. Elif Shafak 

She writes both in Turkish and English. She writes both fiction and nonfiction. Like J.K. Rowling, Elif Shafak’s books have been translated into fifty-plus languages. Because she’s a Turkish writer, her literary work suits both the western and eastern worlds, she’s also an activist and does other things along with writing books. However, her novels are also based on issues that happen in societies.

5. Alice Walker 

She’s an African-American novelist, poet, and social activist. She’s currently in her late 70’s. Due to an accident in her childhood, she became blind in one eye. Her family didn’t have enough resources and convenience at that time. Therefore, after some time, she was able to get her eye surgery. However, the scar was still there even after her eye operation.

6. Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist who is in his late fifties now. He’s also a UN (United Nations) member, where he acts as a UNHCR goodwill ambassador. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan but has spent a part of his early life in Iran and France. After that, he went to the USA and returned to Afghanistan in 2003.

7. Brian Evenson 

He belongs to the same era as Khaled Hosseini; he’s also in his mid-fifties. Brain Evenson is an American fiction writer. His fiction work is a little different from other authors as he puts an element of philosophy in them.

8. Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo is a Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter and also musician. He didn’t spend much time in Japan as he moved to Britain when he was five years old. Due to that, he never wrote anything in Japanese, and all his literary work was in English. His preferred genre is science, history, and drama. He incorporates the elements of these genres in his fiction writing.

9. Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a senior American novelist and essayist. She’s in her late seventies. She has been successful throughout her writing career and in other things as well that she did.

10. Jerry Jenkins

Jerry Bruce Jenkins, also known as Jerry Jenkins, is an American novelist. However, he has also written self-help books, biographies, and fiction books. If we talk about quantity, Jerry Jenkins has written books more than any other author. He has written over 200 books that include both fiction and nonfiction.