List of authors by name: A
- Abbie Hoffman
- Abraham Ortelius
- Adam Smith
- Adolf Hitler
- Agatha Christie
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- A.J. Cronin
- Alan Garner
- Albert Camus
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Speer
- Aldous Huxley
- Aleister Crowley
- Alfred Bester
- Alfred V. Aho
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alex Haley
- Alice Munro
- Alice Walker
- Alison Weir
- Alvin Toffler
- Allan W. Eckert
- Amanda Craig
- Amin Maalouf
- Amy Tan
- Andrew Greeley
- Andrew Morton
- Anita Brookner
- Anna Kavan
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Anne Rice
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Anthony Powell
- Anton Chekhov
- Antonia Fraser
- Anya Seton
- Aristophanes
- Art Linkletter
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Hailey
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Arnold Bennett
- A. S. Byatt
- Astrid Lindgren
- Augustine of Hippo
- Ayn Rand