Entry descriptions: Authors are listed by their canonical name, linking to their full ISFDB record. Because the date is an important aspect of this listing, the links here go to the chronological listings of their works. Each author's name is followed by the year of their first book publication and the number of books they published before 1985. If they have published additional books from 1985 on, this book count is followed by "+ XX" , where XX is the number of books published since 1985. For example, Octavia Butler is listed as: "Octavia E. Butler (1976, 6 + 9)", meaning that her first book publication was 1976, she published 6 books prior to 1985, and published 9 books from 1985 on. One of her Omnibus collections was published under two different titles, but with respect to this count, that's only 1 book. By "books", we count novels, collections, anthologies, and chapter books. We do not generally include authors whose only book publication prior to 1985 was as an anthology editor.
The third column is reserved for (non-fiction) books that discuss this author. Very little work has been done yet on the data for this column.
| Natalie Babbitt
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(1969, 2+1)
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| Josephine Daskam Bacon
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(1913, 2)
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| Patricia Goehner Baehr
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(1980, 1+1)
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| Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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(1920, 2)
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| Hilary Bailey
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(1969, 5+5)
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| Betty Baker
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(1968, 3)
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| Sharon Baker
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(1984, 1+2)
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| Bee Baldwin
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(1965, 1)
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| Mrs. Alfred Baldwin
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(1895, 1)
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| Carol Balizet
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(1978, 1)
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| Lynne Reid Banks
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(1976, 2+12)
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| Jo Bannister
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(1981, 3)
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| Antonia Barber
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(1969, 1)
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| Florence L. Barclay
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(1912, 2)
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| Wendy Barish
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(1984, 2)
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| Elsa Barker
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(1909, 1)
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| Cicely Mary Barker
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(1923, 14+5)
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| Shirley Barker
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(1949, 2)
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| Marjorie Barnard
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(1947, 1)
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| Patricia Barnard
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(1954, 1)
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| Joanna Barnes
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(1970, 1)
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| Rosemary Barnes
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(1949, 1)
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| Ada Barnett
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(1921, 2)
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| Ethel Barrett
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(1969, 1)
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| Marjorie Barrows
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(1954, 1)
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| Iris Barry
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(1929, 1)
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| C. Josephine Barton
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(1895, 1)
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| Donna Bass
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(1982, 1)
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| Valeria Bassanesi
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(1964, 1)
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| Grace A. Baughman
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(1971, 3)
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| Carolyn Busey Bauman
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(1969, 1)
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| Nina Bawden
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(1966, 2+1)
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| Caroline Baxter
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(1975, 1)
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| Lorna Baxter
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(1979, 2)
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| Lorna Baxter
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(1950, 3)
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| Marla Baxter
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(1958, 1)
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| Marguerite Bayliss
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(1947, 1)
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| Nina Beachcroft
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(1972, 6+1)
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| Noel de Vic Beamish
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(1921, 2)
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| Mabel Beatty
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(1929, 1)
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| M. Beauchamp
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(1892, 1)
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| Helen Beauclerk
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(1926, 3)
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| Simone de Beauvoir
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(1946, 1)
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Attebery, Larbalestier_1, Russ,
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| L. Adams Beck
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(1922, 10)
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| Mary Kay Becker
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(1974, 1)
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| Wilanne Schneider Belden
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(1981, 2+3)
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| Clare Bell
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(1983, 2+7)
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| Edith Mary Bell
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(1944, 2)
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| Tina Bellini
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(1969, 5)
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| Margot Benary-Isbert
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(1955, 1)
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| Laura Benét
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(1930, 1)
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| Diana Bennett
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(1970, 1)
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| Jill Bennett
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(1980, 1+1)
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| Marcia J. Bennett
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(1983, 2+3)
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| Margot Bennett
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(1954, 2)
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| Alpha Banta Benson
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(1895, 2)
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| Nella Benson
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(1984, 1)
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| Stella Benson
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(1919, 2)
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| Theodora Benson
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(1950, 1)
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| Evelyn Berckman
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(1954, 3)
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| Elisabeth Beresford
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(1964, 5+2)
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| Janet Berliner
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(1981, 1+11)
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| Lucy Berman
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(1970, 1)
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| Christine Bernard
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(1966, 6)
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| Patricia Bernard
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(1981, 2+8)
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| Gina Berriault
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(1960, 1)
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| L. D. Biagi
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(1911, 1)
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| Lynn Biederstadt
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(1982, 1)
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| Margaret Bingley
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(1983, 1+7)
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| Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
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(1892, 1)
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| Heather Woodard Bischoff
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(1980, 1)
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| Zealia Bishop
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(1953, 1)
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| Dorothy Black
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(1954, 1)
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| Pansy E. Black
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(1930, 2)
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| Charity Blackstock
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(1961, 3)
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| Anne Blaisdell
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(1961, 1)
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| Elinore Blaisdell
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(1947, 1)
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| Lillie Devereux Blake
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(1892, 1)
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| Stacey Blake
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(1920, 1)
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| Pamela Wharton Blanpied
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(1981, 1)
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| Jean F. Blashfield
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(1983, 1+1)
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| Helena P. Blavatsky
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(1892, 1)
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| Karen Blixen
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(1934, 4+1)
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| Mabel Fuller Blodgett
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(1897, 1)
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| Frena Bloomfield
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(1973, 2)
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| Enid Blyton
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(1937, 5+3)
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| Joan Bodger
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(1979, 1)
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| Maria-Louisa Bombal
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(1948, 1)
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| Margaret Wander Bonanno
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(1979, 1+15)
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| Mary Bligh Bond
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(1924, 1)
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| Nancy Bond
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(1976, 2+1)
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| Vanna Bonta
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(1981, 1+3)
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| Marguerite Borel
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(1918, 1)
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| L. M. Boston
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(1954, 7)
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| Esther Mary Boumphrey
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(1929, 3)
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| Elizabeth Bowen
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(1923, 10+1)
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| Marjorie Bowen
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(1909, 5+1)
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| B. M. Bower
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(1927, 1)
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| Muriel Box
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(1964, 1)
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| Karin Boye
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(1966, 1)
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| Elizabeth H. Boyer
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(1980, 4+7)
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| Grace Duffie Boylan
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(1909, 1)
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| Virginia Frazer Boyle
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(1900, 1)
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| Leigh Brackett
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(1951, 22+19)
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Attebery, Larbalestier_1, Merrick, Staicar,
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| Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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(1868, 3+4)
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| Karleen Bradford
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(1983, 1+4)
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| Johanna Bradley
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(1975, 1)
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| Marion Zimmer Bradley
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(1961, 49+32)
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Attebery, Larbalestier_1, Merrick, Russ, Staicar,
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| Gillian Bradshaw
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(1980, 3+17)
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| Ryder Brady
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(1976, 1)
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| Christianna Brand
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(1941, 17+6)
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| Yanna Kroyt Brandt
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(1976, 1)
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| Gerd Brantenberg
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(1977, 1+1)
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| Lilian Jackson Braun
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(1966, 3+27)
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| Lenore Bredeson
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(1960, 2)
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| Elizabeth Brennan
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(1948, 1)
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| Evelyn Brentwood
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(1912, 1)
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| Catherine Breslin
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(1980, 1)
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| Ann Bridge
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(1948, 1)
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| Laurie Bridges
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(1983, 4)
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| Katharine M. Briggs
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(1955, 2)
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| Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright
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(1897, 1)
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| June Rachuy Brindel
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(1980, 1+1)
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| Betty Brock
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(1982, 1)
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| Sylvia Z. Brodkin
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(1973, 1)
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| Helen Ward Bromfield
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(1923, 1)
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| Charlotte Brontë
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(1847, 6+1)
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Russ,
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| Christine Brooke-Rose
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(1966, 1+2)
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Larbalestier_1,
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| Jean Brooks-Janowiak
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(1983, 1)
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| Brigid Brophy
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(1953, 2)
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| D. K. Broster
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(1932, 2)
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| Rhoda Broughton
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(1873, 1)
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| Alice Brown
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(1920, 2+1)
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| Beth Brown (1940s)
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(1944, 1)
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| Julia Brown
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(1911, 2)
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| Rosel George Brown
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(1963, 4+1)
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Larbalestier_1,
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| Barum Browne
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(1931, 1)
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| Mildred Downey Broxon
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(1979, 3)
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Merrick,
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| Muriel Bruce
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(1930, 1)
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| Martha Bensley Bruère
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(1919, 1)
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| Dorothy Bryant
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(1971, 1)
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Attebery, Little, Merrick,
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| Bryher
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(1965, 1)
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| Bernarda Bryson
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(1964, 1)
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| Elizabeth Byrd
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(1969, 2)
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| Marie Buchanan
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(1972, 2)
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| Pearl S. Buck
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(1959, 1)
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| Eileen Buckholtz
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(1984, 2+3)
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| Kathleen Buckley
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(1984, 2)
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| Judith Buffery
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(1979, 4)
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| Eve Bunting
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(1971, 20+21)
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| Katharine Burdekin
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(1927, 6+1)
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Attebery, Larbalestier_1,
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| Lolah Burford
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(1972, 2)
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| Kate Burmeister
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(1895, 1)
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| Frances Hodgson Burnett
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(1905, 3)
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| Hallie Burnett
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(1956, 2)
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| Sheila Burnford
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(1973, 1)
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| Elizabeth Burton
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(1948, 2)
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| Beverly Butler
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(1984, 1+1)
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| Linda E. Bushyager
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(1979, 2+1)
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| Octavia E. Butler
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(1976, 6+9)
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Attebery, Larbalestier_1, Larbalestier_2, Merrick,
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| Meg Buxton
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(1979, 2)
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| Betsy Byars
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(1973, 2+2)
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| Elizabeth Byrd
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(1969, 2)
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| Miriam Byrne
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(1906, 1)
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Gender Undetermined