Authors whose first name starts with D, page 11 of 12

Dominick Dunne (1925-2009) came to fiction after a career producing films, among them The Boys in the Band (1970) and The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The murder of his daughter Dominique in 1982 turned Dunne's writing toward the way wealth and high society meet the courts, a subject he pursued in novels and in reporting for Vanity Fair. Eleven catalogued books run from The Winners (1982) to Too Much Money (2009), with murder trials, celebrity and upper-class New York families as the constant material.

Don Bentley, born August 25, 1974, is an American thriller novelist. Bentley writes Jack Ryan Jr. novels in the Ryanverse built on Tom Clancy's characters, the Matt Drake series, and the current Mitch Rapp novels, a series Vince Flynn began. The catalogue lists 10 books, starting with Without Sanction (2020) and reaching Double Tap (2026). Espionage and intelligence officers are among the subjects.

Don Brown writes military and legal thrillers drawn from the United States Navy. Navy JAG officer Zack Brewer anchors the Navy Justice series, with courts-martial, submarines, terrorism and international crises supplying the plots. Fourteen books span 2005 to 2023, from Treason and Hostage (2005) through Black Sea Affair, The Malacca Conspiracy and Extortion 17 to 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary (2023). No new title has appeared since.

Don Bruns writes mystery and detective fiction, and the catalogue names Skip Moore and James Lessor as fictitious characters. Other subjects include private investigators, journalists, caterers, corrupt practices, Vodou, New Orleans and Florida. The series credited to Bruns are Lessor and Moore Mystery and Quentin Archer Mystery. The 15 catalogued books start with Jamaica Blue (2002) and Barbados Heat (2003), and later titles include Stuff to Die For (2006), Bahama Burnout (2009) and Too Much Stuff (2011). No Second Chances (2018) is the newest.

Don Coldsmith (February 28, 1926 - June 25, 2009) was an American writer mainly of Westerns and a past president of Western Writers of America. Coldsmith produced more than 40 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. The Spanish Bit Saga, a sequence of related novels, reshaped the Western by telling events from the Native American point of view. The catalogue lists 41 books from Horsin' Around (1975) to Moon of Madness (2013), including Trail of the Spanish Bit (1980), Buffalo Medicine (1981) and Pale Star (1986). The Great Plains and horses recur in the subjects.

Don DeLillo

23 books• 2 series

Don DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist whose subjects reach across consumerism, nuclear war, language, art, television, mathematics, politics and sport. White Noise (1985) brought wide recognition and the National Book Award for fiction, and Libra (1988) followed, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Twenty-two books are catalogued between Americana (1971) and The Silence (2020), taking in End Zone (1972), Ratner's Star (1976), Players (1978) and The Names (1982). New York settings and psychological fiction recur as subjects.

Don Donaldson is the author of the Andy Broussard & Kit Franklyn series, with 15 books catalogued from 1988 to 2017. Andy Broussard and Kit Franklyn are the fictitious characters named in the subjects, alongside medical examiners, forensic pathologists and psychologists. Louisiana and Cajuns also appear, under mystery and medical thriller tags. Cajun Nights (1988) is the first title, followed by Blood on the Bayou (1991), No Mardi Gras For The Dead (1992) and New Orleans Requiem (1994). Assassination at Bayou Sauvage (2017) is the final listed book.

Don Easton is the author of A Jack Taggart Mystery, and the subject tags describe police procedural fiction set in Canada with Jack Taggart as a fictitious character. The 13 catalogued books run from Loose Ends (2005) to The Grey Zone (2019). Subject tags mention the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, undercover operations, organized crime, Vancouver and Vietnam. Above Ground, Samurai Code, Corporate Asset, The Benefactor and Art and Murder are among the titles.

Don Keith, born December 12, 1947, in Springville, Alabama, is an American writer. Keith co-wrote the Hunter Killer series (2003 to 2023) with George Wallace, and Firing Point (2011) from that series became the 2018 film Hunter Killer. Keith has also written biographies, young adult novels and military history. The 52 catalogued books begin with Forever Season (1995) and include the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing series, with submarines and World War II naval operations among the subjects. Goodnight from Berlin (2026) is the newest title, and A Code for Victory is due in 2027.

Don Mann's catalogue mixes handbooks with thrillers and runs to 21 books published between 2001 and 2023. The United States Navy SEALs are the recurring subject: Inside SEAL Team Six (2011) and The U.S. Navy SEAL Survival Handbook (2012) sit alongside titles such as Hunt the Wolf (2012), Hunt the Scorpion (2013) and Hunt the Fox (2015). SEAL Team Six is the series the catalogue records for Mann. Special operations, counter-terrorism and cyberterrorism appear among the subjects. History's Assassins: Motives for Murder (2023) is the newest entry.

Don Miguel Ruiz writes short non-fiction, with prayer and spiritual life among its subjects. The Four Agreements (1997) opens the catalogue and The Mastery of Love (1999) follows, each with companion volumes and collections built on it. The Toltec Wisdom and Toltec Mastery lines group most of the 16 catalogued titles, which are brief, at a median of 96 pages. The Mastery of Life (2021) is the last entry.

Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 to October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction who created Mack Bolan, a character with hundreds of millions of copies sold since a 1969 debut. From 1980, other authors wrote the Bolan books under the Pendleton name, at first with Pendleton's editorial guidance. Pendleton also wrote six Joe Copp, Private Eye novels and six Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective novels. Early titles include The Insatiables (1967), War Against the Mafia (1969) and Miami Massacre (1970).

Don Winslow

36 books• 11 series

Don Winslow is an American crime novelist, born October 31, 1953, whose works include Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy. Winslow's 36 catalogued books begin with A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) and reach The Irish Goodbye (2026). Series titles include Neal Carey, Power of the Dog, Danny Ryan, Boone Daniels and Frank Decker. Drug trafficking, Mexico, California and private investigators recur across the subjects.

Donal Ryan

8 books

Donal Ryan is an Irish literary novelist, born in 1976, whose eight catalogued books comprise seven novels and a collection of short stories. Ireland supplies the ground: families, fathers and sons, bereavement, land, and the aftermath of financial collapse. The Spinning Heart (2012) opens the run and Heart, Be at Peace (2024) closes it, taking in The Thing About December (2013), All We Shall Know (2016), From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018) and Strange Flowers (2020). Every Ryan novel has reached number one in Ireland, and Heart, Be at Peace took the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Donald Bain (March 6, 1935 - October 21, 2017) was an American author and ghostwriter credited with more than 115 books over a 40-year career. Murder, She Wrote is the series listed for Bain, and the subjects include Jessica Fletcher and the fictional Cabot Cove, Maine. The catalogue holds 59 books, from Coffee, Tea or Me? (1967) to A Time for Murder (2019), and also lists Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake (1969).

Donald Barr Chidsey was an American biographer, historian and novelist who also wrote adventure fiction. The biographies take in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1928), Marlborough (1929), Sir Walter Raleigh (1931) and the life of Roscoe Conkling (1935), while the histories concentrate on American politics around the Revolution and the early presidencies, with Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler among the subjects. The listing holds 59 books dated 1928 to 2021, at a median of 194 pages.

Donald E. Westlake

127 books• 11 series

Donald E. Westlake (July 12, 1933 to December 31, 2008) was an American writer credited with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books. Crime fiction was Westlake's specialty, comic capers above all, with occasional science fiction. Westlake created two professional criminals with long-running series: the hardboiled Parker, published under the pen name Richard Stark, and John Dortmunder, the lead of a more humorous series. Westlake won the Edgar Award three times. The catalogue holds 127 Westlake books from 1959 to 2022, and other listings include Alan Grofield, Sam Holt and the Mitch Tobin books written as Tucker Coe.

Donald Firesmith has 16 catalogued books from 1993 to 2025, and the Donald Firesmith Technical series is listed among them. Subject tags cover object-oriented methods and programming, software engineering and computer science. Object Oriented Requirements Analysis And Logical Design (1993) is the first title, followed by Dictionary of Object Technology (1995), OPEN Modeling Language (1998) and The Open Process Framework (2001). Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls (2013) is also listed, along with the Hell Holes series and The Adventures of Periwinkle Fae (2025).

Donald Hamilton (1916-2006) was a Swedish-American writer of novels, short stories and outdoor non-fiction. The Matt Helm books, running from 1960 to 1993, are the best-known work, following an undercover counter-agent employed by a secret American government agency. Hamilton also wrote crime fiction and westerns, The Big Country (1958) among them. 41 titles are catalogued, from Date With Darkness (1947) to The Damagers (1993), and the 1960s are the densest decade. Espionage and thrillers carry the subject tags.

Donald Harington (22 December 1935 – 7 November 2009) was an American author and visual artist. Every Harington novel after the first is set in, or tied to, Stay More, an invented town in the Ozark Mountains modelled in part on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent childhood summers. The catalogue lists 17 books from The Cherry Pit (1965) to Double Toil and Trouble (2020), including Lightning Bug (1970), The Cockroaches of Stay More (1989) and The Choiring of the Trees (1991).

Donald J. Sobol (1924-2012) was an American author known for children's books, above all the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries. Each Encyclopedia Brown volume gathers short cases for the reader to solve alongside the boy detective, starting with Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (1963). Sobol's 55 catalogued titles run from The Wright Brothers At Kitty Hawk (1961) to a 2013 collection, peak in the 1980s, and hold a median length of 110 pages.

Business and self-help make up the Donald J. Trump catalogue, which opens with The Art of the Deal (1987) and continues through Surviving At The Top, The Art of the Comeback, How To Get Rich and Think Like A Billionaire. Real estate development, management and success in business head the subject list, with The America We Deserve (2000) and Crippled America (2015) turning to politics. 28 titles are catalogued between 1987 and 2015, at a median of 224 pages.

Donald Jack, born Donald Lamont Jack on 6 December 1924, was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright who died on 2 June 2003. The catalogue attaches the Bandy Papers series to Jack, with subject headings for war and military fiction, humour, the First and Second World Wars, air pilots and Canada. Three Cheers for Me (1962) is the earliest title, followed by That's Me in the Middle (1973) and It's Me Again (1975). Me Bandy, You Cissie (1979), This One's on Me (1988) and Hitler vs. Me (1996) come later.

History is the subject of Donald L. Miller's 11 catalogued books, published from 1979 to 2019. The New American Radicalism (1979) comes first, followed by The Kingdom of Coal (1985) and Lewis Mumford: A Life (1989). Later titles include City of the Century (1996), D-Days in the Pacific (2005), Masters of the Air (2006) and Supreme City (2014). Vicksburg (2019) is the newest. Subjects include radicalism, the New Deal, coal mining, Pennsylvania history, cities and towns, and technology and civilization.

Donald L. Robertson has 25 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2026. Logan's Word (2014) opens the run and Home Beneath The Star (2026) is the newest entry. Three sequences carry the catalogue: the Jack Sage Western, the Logan Family Western and the Logan Mountain Man Western series. Most of the titles date from the 2020s, and Robertson continues to publish.

Donald Wigboldy wrote epic fantasy and action adventure across 24 books published from 2011 to 2019. The 2011 titles include The High King, Battle Mage and Voran the Night Guardian. Donald Wigboldy series are Tales of Alus, Vorans and Vampires, Slave to Magic and Smart Alec, and friendship is a listed theme. Choose Your Class is the last catalogued book.

Donato Carrisi

12 books• 3 series

Donato Carrisi is an Italian writer, film director and screenwriter, born in 1973. The Whisperer (2009) opens a catalogue of 12 books that closes with The Whisperer's Game (2022), taking in The Lost Girls of Rome (2011), The Hunter of the Dark (2014) and Into the Labyrinth (2017). Mila Vasquez, Marcus and Pietro Gerber head the three series. Carrisi directed the 2017 film of his own novel The Girl in the Fog and won the 2018 David di Donatello for Best New Director. Serial murder investigation, missing persons and Rome recur as subjects.

Donis Casey is the author of the Alafair Tucker and Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse series, with 12 catalogued books from 2005 to 2021. The Old Buzzard Had It Coming (2005) is first, and The Death of Valentino (2021) is the latest. Subject tags name the fictitious character Alafair Tucker and list Oklahoma, country life, the 1910s, historical mystery and women sleuths. Hornswoggled, The Drop Edge of Yonder, Crying Blood, Hell with the Lid Blown Off and Forty Dead Men are among the titles.

Dragons carry most of Donita K. Paul's fantasy, which the subject tags also mark as Christian fiction. DragonSpell (2004) opens the DragonKeeper Chronicles, followed by DragonQuest, DragonKnight, DragonFire and DragonLight. The Valley of the Dragons books, the Realm Walkers and The Dragon and the Turtle complete a catalogue of 15 titles, ending with Two Renegade Realms (2014). Wizards, quests and friendship fill the subject tags.

Donna Alam has 31 books in this catalogue, dated 2014 to 2026. Pretty Hot (2014) opens the run and The Stranger (2026) closes it, with Pretty Liar (2014), One Hot Scot (2017), Single Daddy Scot (2017), Two Wrongs (2017) and Gentleman Player (2018) listed in between. Hot Scots, Great Scots, Aussies, No Ordinary Men and My Kind of Hero are the five series credited to Alam.

Donna Alward is a romance novelist who writes for Harlequin's Romance line. Alward earned an Arts degree in English Literature in 1994, finished a first full-length novel in 2001 and sold a first manuscript in 2006. That debut, Hired by the Cowboy (2006), took the 2008 Booksellers Best Award for Best Traditional Romance. The catalogue lists 82 books through 2025, with subjects including western, contemporary and billionaire romance, ranchers, cowboys, single fathers and Maine. Series include Cadence Creek Cowboys, Jewell Cove, Darling, VT, Crooked Valley Ranch and South Shore Billionaires.

Donna Andrews is an American mystery writer with two award-winning amateur sleuth series, Meg Langslow and Turing Hopper. Subjects mark the books as humorous mysteries with women sleuths. Murder With Peacocks (1999) is the earliest catalogued title, and later titles include Murder With Puffins (2000), You've Got Murder (2002) and We'll Always Have Parrots (2003). Jay to the World (2026) is the newest, and Andrews is still publishing.

Christmas and summer settings alternate through Donna Ashcroft's catalogue: 20 books published between 2018 and 2026, from Summer at the Castle Cafe to Christmas, Actually. The Castle Cove and Honey Haven series carry most of the run, and the Scottish Highlands supply the setting for a 2021 pair, Christmas in the Scottish Highlands and Summer in the Scottish Highlands. Ashcroft continues to publish.

Donna Augustine writes urban fantasy and paranormal fiction across nine series, among them Karma, Alchemy, Tales of Xest, Ollie Wit, Wyrd Blood, Life After Death Day, Born Wild and Torn Worlds. The catalogue holds 32 books from The Keepers (2013) to Shadow of Death (2024), at a median of 312 pages and an average gap of 0.4 years. Augustine continues to publish.

Donna Ball, born in North Georgia in 1951, has published mainly romantic novels since 1982, under that name and as Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd, and jointly with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. The catalogue holds 109 books from Winners (1982) to Bones From the Sky (2026), several 1983 and 1984 titles carrying the Rebecca Flanders byline. Raine Stockton Dog Mystery, Ladybug Farm, Dogleg Island Mystery, Hummingbird House and Blood River are the series listed. Debra Dixon, Sandra Chastain, Deborah Smith, Virginia Ellis and Nancy Knight are each credited beside Ball on one title. Subjects include romance, historical romance, western romance, female friendship and time travel.

Donna Barba Higuera

9 books• 2 series

Donna Barba Higuera is an American children's book author. The debut novel Lupe Wong Won't Dance (2020) was named a Pura Belpré Award honor book and took the PNBA in 2021. The Last Cuentista (2021), a middle grade dystopian novel, won the 2022 Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpré Medal. Nine books are catalogued under this name, reaching Don't Eat the Birthday Boy! and Firesnake in 2026, and the list also holds El Cucuy Is Scared, Too! (2021), Alebrijes and The Yellow Handkerchief (2023) and The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy (2025).

Donna Douglas writes historical sagas about nurses. The Nightingale Girls (2012) opens a catalogue of 19 books that reaches A Nurse's Secret (2025). Three series are catalogued: the Nightingales, the Yorkshire Blitz books and Steeple Street. Nurses, hospitals, London and English social life across the First and Second World Wars carry the work, and Douglas remains actively publishing.

Donna Everhart writes Southern historical fiction about families, sisters and coming of age in Alabama and the Carolinas. The Education of Dixie Dupree (2016) opens a catalogue of seven books, followed by The Road to Bittersweet, The Forgiving Kind, The Moonshiner's Daughter, The Saints of Swallow Hill and When the Jessamine Grows. Women of a Promiscuous Nature arrives in 2026.

Paranormal romance is the field of Donna Grant, and the recorded subjects take in dragons, druids, shapeshifting, magic, vampires, man-woman relationships and Scotland. The listing holds 162 books and reaches Dragon Sieged in 2026, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Series credited to Grant include Dark Kings, Reapers, Dark Warriors, Dark Sword, Druids Glen, Skye Druids, Elven Kingdoms, Sisters of Magic, Chiasson and LaRue. A Dark Guardian, A Kind of Magic, Highland Dawn, Highland Mist and Highland Nights all carry a 2006 date. Grant is still publishing.

Donna K. Weaver has 39 books in the catalogue, published from 2013 to 2026, with subjects covering romance, historical fiction, action and adventure, mystery and suspense. A Change of Plans and Hope's Watch are the 2013 titles, and Torn Canvas followed in 2014. Series include Safe Harbors, Lilac City, Huckleberry Falls Romances and Billionaires of REKD. Christmas at Kellworth (2026) is the newest book.

Donna Kauffman writes contemporary romance, and the site catalogues 70 books from Illegal Motion (1993) to Under a Firefly Moon (2020). Early novels include Black Satin (1994), Bounty Hunter (1994) and Wild Rain (1995), and Loveswept appears among the subjects. Blue Hollow Falls, Cupcake Club, Hot Scot Trilogy, Bachelors of Blueberry Cove, Men Of Rogues Hollow, Glass Slipper, Inc. and Unholy Trinity are among the series. Subjects also include Scotland, advice columnists and romantic suspense.

Regency England is the setting for the historical romances of Donna Lea Simpson. The catalogue holds 37 books dated 1999 to 2018, from Lord St. Claire's Angel to The Duke's Secret Seduction, at a median of 254 pages. Six series are named: Lords and Ladies, the Haven Trilogy, Cousins, Awaiting, Love and Scandal and Lady Anne. Married women, widows and the manners of the period recur as subjects, and the 2000s is the heaviest decade in the run.

Donna Leon

42 books• 4 series

Venice is where Donna Leon sets her police procedurals, and Guido Brunetti is the character the books return to, in cases of murder and criminal investigation. Leon's 42 catalogued titles open with Death at La Fenice (1992) and reach Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life in 2025, with a Brunetti companion volume and non-fiction beside the novels. Leon remains actively publishing.

Donna McDonald writes romance, with catalogue subjects that add erotic romance, dating, married people and action and adventure. The 97 books run from Carved In Stone (2011) to 30 Ways to Fool an Angel (2025). Series credited to McDonald include Perfect Date, Never Too Late, Tales of a Midlife Witch, Forced to Serve, Nano Wolves, Baba Yaga Saga and Aliens In Kilts. Dating a Cougar and Dating a Saint are two of the 2011 titles.

Donna Morrissey, born in 1956 at The Beaches, Newfoundland, is a Canadian novelist now settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Morrissey left The Beaches at 16 and later studied at Memorial University, taking a Bachelor of Social Work and a diploma in adult education, and has also written a Gemini-nominated screenplay. Six of the novels reached national bestseller lists: Kit's Law (1999), Downhill Chance (2002), Sylvanus Now (2004), What They Wanted (2006), The Deception of Livvy Higgs and The Fortunate Brother. Nine books are catalogued in all, to 2023, with subjects recording Newfoundland and Labrador, mothers and daughters, fishers and the Second World War.

Three novels make up Donna Tartt's catalogue: The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002) and The Goldfinch (2013). College students, classicists, teacher-student relationships, murder and friendship are the subjects attached to the work. The books are long, at a median of 624 pages. No new Tartt title has appeared since 2013.

Donna VanLiere writes Christian fiction, the Christmas Hope series among it: The Christmas Shoes (2001), The Christmas Blessing (2003), The Christmas Hope (2005) and The Christmas Promise (2007). Nineteen titles are catalogued from Sheltering Trees (2001) to Daniel's Final Week (2022), with an End Times series also on the list. Tennessee, married people, friendship and family secrets fill the subject tags. No newer title is dated.

Donovan Cook writes historical fiction across three series: the Ormstunga Saga, Charlemagne's Cross and First Kingdom. The titles draw on Norse myth, Loki's Destiny (2023), Odin's Betrayal (2023), Thor's Revenge (2024), Valhalla's Fury (2024), Woden's Spear (2025) and Woden's Storm (2025). Son of Anger (2020) opens the catalogue, which reaches 13 books by 2026, with Blood of the Highlands scheduled for 2027. Cook publishes two or three titles a year.

Christianity and spirituality are the subject headings attached to Donovan M. Neal. Three series appear in the catalogue: Third Heaven, Chronicles of the Grigori and Provenance of Gods and Men. The Gospel Explained (2010) is the earliest title and The Provenance of Gods and Men (2023) the newest. The Rise of Fallen Stars (2013), The Birth of God (2015), Apocalypse of Kings (2019) and The Tempest Throne (2020) are also listed.

Doreen Cronin

6 books

Doreen Cronin is an American children's author whose picture books include Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, illustrated by Betsy Lewin. The six titles catalogued here are early readers published between 2014 and 2019: The First Misadventure (2014), The Case of the Weird Blue Chicken (2015), Into the Wild (2016), Dark Shadows (2017), Gimme Shelter (2018) and Bear Country (2019). Chickens, dogs, squirrels and comic mystery plots run through them.

Dori Hillestad Butler is an American children's author, born in Fairmont, Minnesota in 1965, who has also written magazine stories, plays and educational material. Her first book, The Great Tooth Fairy Rip-Off, appeared in 1997, and the catalogue now holds 55 titles through to Rabbit Rabbit (2025). Series include Haunted Library, King & Kayla, Buddy Files, Dear Beast and Treasure Troop. The Truth about Truman School (2008) addresses cyber bullying, and My Mom's Having a Baby reached the American Library Association's 2011 list of most challenged books. Books run to a median 115 pages.

Dori Lavelle has 40 books in the catalogue, published from 2013 to 2020. Entangled Moments (2013) is the first, followed in 2014 by Bittersweet Moments, Defining Moments, Rekindled Moments, To Live Again and To Love Again. Series listed are His Agenda, To Live Again, Dirty Letters /Amour Toxique, Fatal Hearts, Brothers After Dark, Obsession Inc. and Beautiful Ashes. Dear Mr. Maybe (2020) is the most recent title.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

9 books• 1 series

Doris Kearns Goodwin writes history and biography about American presidents and the politics around them. 9 catalogued titles run from Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976) through The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), No Ordinary Time (1994), the memoir Wait Till Next Year (1997), Team of Rivals (2005) and The Bully Pulpit (2013). The newest title, The Leadership Journey, tells the story of four children who became president.

Doris Lessing

66 books• 6 series

Doris Lessing, born Doris May Tayler on 22 October 1919 and died on 17 November 2013, was a British novelist and the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Iran to British parents, Lessing lived there until 1925, grew up in Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - and moved to London in 1949, which is why the early career is sometimes labelled Rhodesian. The catalogue holds 66 titles from The Grass Is Singing (1950) to An Old Woman and Her Cat (2013). Children of Violence and Canopus in Argos are the two five-novel sequences; the Diaries of Jane Somers, The Fifth Child, Mara and Dann and the Collected African Stories follow. Africa, women and British social life recur as subjects.

Doris Piserchia, born Doris Summers in Fairmont, West Virginia, on October 11, 1928, was an American science fiction writer who died on September 15, 2021. Piserchia served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and began publishing in 1966. The stories show an interest in aliens, and a story appears in The Last Dangerous Visions. The catalogue lists 13 books from Star Rider (1974) to The Deadly Sky (1983), including A Billion Days of Earth and Earthchild.

South Carolina is the setting of Dorothea Benton Frank's novels, among them Porch Lights and By Invitation Only. Frank, an American novelist, lived from September 12, 1951 to September 2, 2019. Frank's 26 catalogued books begin with Sullivan's Island (1999) and end with Reunion Beach (2021). The Lowcountry Tales form the main series, beside standalone novels and a children's title. Subjects on the books include family life, mothers and daughters, plantation life, widows and friendship.

Dorothy Allison

8 books• 1 series

Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 to November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose work addressed class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. Allison identified as a femme lesbian, won several Lambda Literary Awards, and joined the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2014. The catalogue opens with The Women Who Hate Me (1983) and includes Trash (1988), Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Skin (1994), Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995) and Cavedweller (1998). Subject headings list poor and working class women, feminists, poetry and short stories.

Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 to May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic and historian. Hughes wrote 14 crime and detective novels, mostly hardboiled and noir. Ride the Pink Horse (1946) and In a Lonely Place (1947) are the novels Hughes is best known for. The catalogue lists 16 titles from Dark Certainty (1931) to Erle Stanley Gardner (1978), including The So Blue Marble (1940) and The Fallen Sparrow (1942). Griselda Satterlee is the series under the Hughes name.

Dorothy Cannell is an English-American mystery writer. The Ellie Haskell series, opening with The Thin Woman (1984), runs through Down the Garden Path (1985), The Widow's Club (1988) and Femmes Fatal (1992), and features an interior decorator turned amateur sleuth in England. Cannell's catalogue holds 23 books published between 1984 and 2022, also covering the Florence Norris and Tessa Fields series alongside standalones and short stories.

Dorothy Daniels was an American writer of gothic and romantic fiction who lived from 1915 to 2001 and published under several pen names. The catalogue holds 142 titles between 1961 and 1985, opening with The Dark Rider, issued as by Geraldine Thayer, and closing with Crisis at Valcour. Suspense and mystery run through the list, with the Valcour books and the Strange Paradise novels as her named series. Several early titles appeared under names such as Suzanne Somers.