INTRODUCTION
KATHY ACKER (1947–1997)
EVE BABITZ (1943)
J.G. BALLARD (1930–2009)
DJUNA BARNES (1892–1982)
CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920–1994)
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891–1940)
WILLIAM BURROUGHS (1914–1997)
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947–2006)
ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913–1960)
ANGELA CARTER (1940–1992)
COLETTE (1873–1954)
MARYSE CONDÉ (1937)
JULIO CORTÁZAR (1914–1984)
DOUGLAS COUPLAND (1961)
PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982)
JOAN DIDION (1934)
MARGUERITE DURAS (1914–1996)
RALPH ELLISON (1914–1994)
ELENA FERRANTE (1943)
JANET FRAME (1924–2004)
JEAN GENET (1910–1986)
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (1956)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960)
DENIS JOHNSON (1949–2017)
FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924)
KEN KESEY (1935–2001)
CHRIS KRAUS (1955)
MILAN KUNDERA (1929)
URSULA K. LE GUIN (1929–2018)
DORIS LESSING (1919–2013)
CORMAC MCCARTHY (1933)
CARSON MCCULLERS (1917–1967)
YUKIO MISHIMA (1925–1970)
HARUKI MURAKAMI (1949)
ANAÏS NIN (1903–1977)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932–1963)
THOMAS PYNCHON (1937)
AYN RAND (1905–1982)
PAULINE RÉAGE (1907–1998)
JEAN RHYS (1890–1979)
JUAN RULFO (1917–1986)
FRANÇOISE SAGAN (1935–2004)
J.D. SALINGER (1919–2010)
BORIS & ARKADY STRUGATSKY (1933–2012; 1925–1991)
JIM THOMPSON (1906–1977)
J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973)
KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007)
IRVINE WELSH (1958)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)
KEY WORKS