Authors whose first name starts with D, page 6 of 6

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Dunnett (1923–2001) was a Scottish novelist whose work is mostly historical fiction. The six-book Lymond Chronicles, opening with The Game of Kings (1961), follow the sixteenth-century adventurer Francis Crawford of Lymond; the eight-book House of Niccolò is a prequel sequence whose central figure is Nicholas Vander Poele. Dunnett also wrote King Hereafter (1982), a novel about Macbeth of Scotland, and the Johnson Johnson mysteries, whose detective works as a portrait painter and spy. Twenty-eight books are catalogued, at a median length of 470 pages.

Dorothy Eden was a New Zealand novelist and short story writer working mainly in the gothic mode. Her 40 catalogued books run from The Laughing Ghost (1943) to Important Family (1982), the year of her death, and many carry alternate titles: Cats Prey, also Let Us Prey (1952), and Lamb To The Slaughter, also The Brooding Lake (1953). Subjects cover gothic novels, romantic thrillers, romantic suspense and New Zealand love stories.

Dorothy Garlock (1919-2018) wrote historical romance, much of it set on the American frontier. The catalogue runs to 63 books published between 1980 and 2017, from Love and Cherish (1980) to The Nearness of You (2017), with the 1980s her heaviest decade. Series include Wyoming Frontier, Dolan Brothers, Wabash River, Route 66, Colorado Wind and the Tucker Family books. Garlock also published as Johanna Phillips, Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Glenn.

Dorothy Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer known above all for the Mrs. Pollifax spy novels, whose heroine Emily Pollifax is a grandmother who takes up spying in her 60s. The Mystery Writers of America gave Gilman its Grand Master Award in 2010. The catalogue holds 36 titles published between 1949 and 2002. Early books such as Enchanted Caravan (1949), Carnival Gypsy (1950) and The Calico Year (1953) appeared under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters. Madame Karitska is Gilman's second series, and the last listed title is Kaleidoscope (2002).

Dorothy Howell began in historical romance: Defiant Enchantress (1988) opens the catalogue, and a run of period and western romances followed under the name Judith Stacy. The later books are mysteries, with the Haley Randolph novels setting murder cases around Los Angeles department stores, and the Sewing Studio Mysteries, Dana MacKenzie and Hollis Brannigan books after them. 41 titles run from 1988 to Shear Terror (2024), and Howell continues to publish.

Dorothy Koomson

25 books• 2 series

Dorothy Koomson is a British novelist, born in London in 1971 and of Ghanaian descent, described as Britain's biggest-selling black author of adult fiction. Twenty-five books are catalogued from The Cupid Effect (2003) to The Quiet Girls (2026), among them The Chocolate Run (2004), My Best Friend's Girl (2006), Goodnight, Beautiful (2008), The Ice Cream Girls (2010) and The Flavours of Love (2013). Poppy & Serena and That Girl From Nowhere are the series. Secrecy, female friendship, marriage and suspense recur as subjects, and the median book runs 458 pages.

Dorothy L. Sayers

68 books• 8 series

Lord Peter Wimsey, a private investigator, is the figure Dorothy L. Sayers is known for. Whose Body? (1923) opens the series, followed by Clouds of Witness (1926), Unnatural Death (1927), Strong Poison (1930) and Five Red Herrings (1931). Sayers wrote English detective fiction, short stories and non-fiction; the catalogue holds 68 titles, with collections dated as late as 2024.

Dorothy Sheldon's 60 catalogued books were published between 2021 and 2026. The first is Christmas Encounter With A Duke (2021), and The Unnoticed Lady the Duke Chose (2026) is the most recent. Series credited to Sheldon include Regency Expedient Marriages, Love Beyond Expectations, Willenshires, Marriage and Duty, Tillewood Sisters and Lords in Waiting. Louisa, The Scarred Governess and An Amiable Lady for His Lordship are two more titles from 2021.

Inspector Luke Thanet, an English police detective, appears throughout Dorothy Simpson's mysteries. Simpson (1933-2020) wrote police procedurals, and took a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain for Last Seen Alive (1985). The series opens with The Night She Died (1980) and runs through Puppet For A Corpse (1982), Close Her Eyes (1984), Dead on Arrival (1986), Suspicious Death (1988) and Doomed To Die (1991). The 1980s were Simpson's heaviest decade, at a median of 238 pages a book.

Mystery is Dorothy St. James's form, across five series: the White House Gardener Mysteries, the Southern Chocolate Shop Mysteries, the Beloved Bookroom Mysteries, Aloha Pete and Raven's Run. Twelve books are catalogued between 2011 and 2022, from Birds in Paradise, published under the name Dorothy McFalls, to A Book Club to Die for (2022). Women gardeners, Washington D.C., journalists and murder investigation recur as subjects. Nothing has been catalogued since 2022.

Dot Hutchison writes thrillers built on kidnapping, murder and missing persons. The Butterfly Garden (2016), The Roses of May (2017), The Summer Children (2018) and The Vanishing Season (2019) put government investigators onto those cases. Boarding schools, ghost stories and revenge run through the wider catalogue, which opens with A Wounded Name (2013). Six books end at Deadly Waters (2020).

Doug Johnstone

19 books• 2 series

Doug Johnstone, born in 1970, is a Scottish crime writer based in Edinburgh. Tombstoning (2006) and The Ossians (2008) opened the catalogue, and The Jump (2015) was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime writing. Fault Lines, Johnstone's ninth novel, appeared in 2018. The Skelfs series and the Enceladons Trilogy organise the later work, which reaches The Transcendent Tide in 2025. Nineteen titles are catalogued at around 272 pages each. Johnstone has held Royal Literary Fund fellowships, including one at Queen Margaret University from 2014 to 2016.

Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist and screenwriter, born in Cambridge and died in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack at 49. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a BBC radio comedy in 1978 and grew into a five-book trilogy that sold more than 14 million copies during Adams's lifetime, with a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) appear in the catalogue, as do The Meaning of Liff (1983) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987).

Douglas E. Richards, born May 7, 1962, is an American writer of science fiction and of fiction and non-fiction for children. The catalogue lists 38 Richards books from Trapped and Wired (both 2005) to Nexus (2026). Genetic engineering, bioterrorism, extraterrestrials and women medical scientists appear among the subjects. The Richards series include Nick Hall, Prometheus Project, Alien Artifact, Split Second, Frequency, Rift, Epic of Atlantis and Galactic Resurgence.

Imperial Rome is Douglas Jackson's territory. The Gaius Valerius Verrens novels run through the catalogue, with Rufus, Marcus Flavius Victor, the Warsaw Quartet and the Glen Savage Mystery alongside. Twenty catalogued books open with Caligula (2008) and Claudius (2009), continue through Hero of Rome (2010), Defender of Rome (2011), Avenger of Rome (2012), Sword of Rome (2013) and Enemy of Rome (2014), and reach Blood Enemy (2026). Gladiators, soldiers and Roman history fill the subject list.

Douglas Kennedy

21 books

Douglas Kennedy, born in 1955, is an American novelist. The Pursuit of Happiness, The Big Picture, The Moment and Leaving the World are the international bestsellers among the fiction. Travel writing opens the catalogue, Beyond The Pyramids (1988), In God's Country (1989) and Chasing Mammon (1992), before the novels take over with The Dead Heart (1995). Twenty-one titles are catalogued through Afraid of the Light (2021), with marriage, journalists and missing persons among the recurring subjects.

Douglas Murray

10 books

Douglas Murray, born 1979, is a British conservative political commentator, cultural critic and journalist, and an associate editor of The Spectator. Ten Murray titles are catalogued, from Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas (2000) to On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization (2025). The Strange Death of Europe (2017) takes up immigration, identity and Islam; The Madness of Crowds (2019) turns to gender, race and identity; The War on the West follows in 2022. Murray contributes regularly to The Times, The Daily Telegraph and other papers.

Douglas Pratt is a thriller and mystery novelist with 37 catalogued books. The run starts with Blood Remembered (2011) and reaches No Good Deed (2026), with Fool's Gold scheduled for 2027. Five series divide the work: Chase Gordon Tropical Thrillers, Max Sawyer, Corsair Novels, Rikki Talens Adventure and Jay Delp Mystery. Titles such as Diamond Reef (2020) and Dark Cay (2021) mark the tropical strand of the catalogue.

Douglas Preston

54 books• 9 series

Douglas Preston writes thrillers with horror and science fiction edges, built on serial murder, antiquities and government investigation. Aloysius Pendergast is the character the catalogue is best known for, with Nora Kelly, Gideon Crew, Wyman Ford and the Cash & Colcord books beside him. Fifty-seven catalogued titles run from Dinosaurs in the Attic (1986) through Relic (1995) and Riptide (1998) to Pendergast, and Resurrection is scheduled for 2027.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child write thrillers together, and 16 of their joint books are catalogued here. Relic (1995) starts the collaboration and Angel of Vengeance (2024) is the most recent entry. Aloysius Pendergast, a government investigator, carries most of them through serial murder cases in New York. The pair keep publishing.

Douglas Skelton wrote Scottish true crime before he wrote crime fiction. Blood on the Thistle (1992), Frightener (1992), Deadlier Than the Male (2003) and Scotland's Most Wanted (2006) set out real cases; the Davie McCall, Dominic Queste and Rebecca Connolly novels came later. Crime, murder and criminal investigation run through all of it. Thirty-one catalogued titles reach Ship of Thieves (2025).

Douglas Stuart

3 books

Shuggie Bain (2020) took the 2020 Booker Prize and opened a catalogue that now runs to three novels: Young Mungo followed in 2022 and John of John in 2026. Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer who worked in fashion design in New York before publishing fiction. His books are catalogued under Scotland, coming of age, family life, the bildungsroman and LGBTQ fiction, and run to a median of 432 pages.

Dr. Rebecca Sharp has 60 books in the catalogue, from The Artist's Touch (2017) to Tracked (2026), with Tamed scheduled for 2027. Series include Country Love, Covington Security, Carmel Cove, Winter Games, Kinkades, Reynolds Protective, Gentlemen's Guild, Odyssey Duet and Sacred Duet. Early titles include Enjoy the Ride (2018), The Painter's Passion (2018), In Too Deep (2019) and The Fall of Troy (2019).

Dr. Seuss

95 books• 4 series

Dr. Seuss is the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), an American children's author, illustrator, animator and cartoonist who adopted it as a Dartmouth College undergraduate. Geisel wrote and illustrated more than 60 books as Dr. Seuss, and sales passed 600 million copies by 1991. The catalogue lists 95 Dr. Seuss titles, beginning with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) and including Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) and Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949); releases continue after Geisel's death, through 2026. Stories in rhyme, nonsense verse and picture books dominate the subjects, and Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant are among the series.

Drew Daywalt, born January 5, 1970, is an American author and filmmaker. The Day the Crayons Quit (2013) and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home (2015), picture books illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, are Daywalt's best-known work. Daywalt has also written scripts for American television and Hollywood studios and made short horror films for the internet. The catalogue lists 38 books from 2013 to 2026, with Happy Birthday from the Crayons due in 2027; series are Crayons, Monkey & Cake and No Sam!.

Drew Hayes is the author of the Super Powereds and Fred, the Vampire Accountant series. Super Powereds: Year 1 (2013) and Super Powereds: Year 2 (2013) sit among the early titles, alongside Pears and Perils (2013) and NPCs (2014). The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (2014) and Undeath and Taxes (2015) followed. Other series include Spells, Swords, & Stealth, Villains' Code, Roverpowered and 5-Minute Sherlock.

Drew Strickland writes in three sequences: the Sheriff Elven Hallie books, the Carolina McKay novels and Soulless Wanderers, which opens the catalogue in 2018 alongside Patriarch. Twenty-seven titles had appeared by 2026, ending at Betrayal on the Backroads. Several carry two titles, among them Her Deadly Homecoming, also published as Wake of Buzzards, and Her Killer Confession, also published as Mutation of Thrushes.

Westerns make up Duane Boehm's catalogue of 33 books, organised into five series: A Gideon Johann Western, Wild Horse Westerns, Hand Of Westerns, Never Too Old Westerns and Saddle Tramps. Ranchers and murder investigations supply the plots. A run of Last titles, among them Last Chance, Last Stand, Last Hope and Last Ride, appeared between 2014 and 2016, and Boehm reached The Marshal And Me in 2026.

Duane Swierczynski (Duane Louis Swierczynski, born February 22, 1972) is an American crime writer whose work spans non-fiction, novels and comic books. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons (2002) is the first catalogued title, and Secret Dead Men (2005) and The Wheelman (2005) are early titles. Series in the listing include Cable, Birds of Prey, Bloodshot, Black Hood, Level 26 and Charlie Hardie. Comics, superheroes, Judge Dredd, ex-police officers and Philadelphia appear among the subjects.

Dudley Pope wrote nautical fiction and naval history. Pope lived from 1925 to 1997 and published 37 catalogued books between Flag 4 (1954) and Ramage & the Dido (1989). The Nicholas Ramage novels are the best known work, set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and Ramage (1964) and Ramage and the Drum Beat (1968) sit early in that sequence. Buccaneer Ned Yorke is the second series. Histories of naval actions stand beside the novels, among them The Battle of the River Plate (1956) and 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea 1942 (1958). C.S. Forester was the acknowledged influence, and Pope's work is often set beside Patrick O'Brian's.

Duffy Brown writes cozy mysteries in two series, Consignment Shop Mystery and Cycle Path Mysteries, with 11 books between 2012 and 2021. Iced Chiffon (2012) comes first, followed by Killer in Crinolines (2013), Geared for the Grave (2014) and Pearls and Poison (2014). Later titles include Demise in Denim (2015), Braking for Bodies (2016) and Tandem Demise (2018). Subjects include consignment shops, bicycle stores, divorced women and political campaigns. Wedding Day and Foul Play (2021) is the newest.

Duncan M. Hamilton writes fantasy. Dragons, hunters and imaginary places recur as subjects across 19 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2023. The Tattered Banner (2013) opens the catalogue and The Demon Hunter (2023) closes it. Hamilton's series are the Society of the Sword, the Wolf of the North, Dragonslayer, Alpha Protocol and the Middle Sea. No new title is listed after 2023.

Dustin Stevens has a catalogue that starts with Number Four (2010) and runs to The Transfer (2026). The series list is long: Reed & Billie, Hawk Tate, My Mira, Ham, Zoo Crew, Danny The Dreamer, Hobby Lobby Mystery, Translator, Jumper, Kerrin Thoms and City of Sin Thrillers. Titles from the early years include 21 Hours, Just a Game, Zombie Kill and Dead Peasants.

Dustin Thao is a Vietnamese-American author based in New York City who writes contemporary young adult fiction with magic realism. The catalogue lists 4 books: You've Reached Sam (2021), When Haru Was Here (2024), You've Found Oliver (2025) and The Price of Admission (2026). You've Reached Sam is also the name of Thao's series. Subjects include grief, loss, second chances, moving on and romance.

The westerns of Dusty Richards fill a catalogue of 58 books from 1992 to 2025. Noble's Way (1992) opens the list, followed by By the Cut of Your Clothes and From Hell to Breakfast (both 1994). Lawless Land and Servant of the Law date from 2000, and The Abilene Trail from 2003. Rambling Down the Range (2025) is the newest title. Series include Byrnes Family Ranch, Brandiron, Frank Brothers, O'Malleys of Texas, Texas Badge Mysteries, Battling Harrigans of the Frontier and Rodeo Riders. Ranch life, cattle drives, outlaws, sheriffs, Texas Rangers and Arizona appear in the subject tags.

Dwight Holing writes mystery and suspense across two series, the Nick Drake novels and the Jack McCoul Capers. Holing's 17 catalogued books open with California Works (2013) and reach The Yellow Hair (2026). Thriller and suspense subject matter runs through the whole catalogue, and Holing continues to publish.

Dylan Page has 8 books in the catalogue, all released from 2021 to 2024. Ashes and the two-part Torment (Torment: Part One and Torment: Part Two) appeared in 2021. Mercy, Rowe and Envy followed in 2022, Echoes in 2023 and Vulfu in 2024. Page is listed as still publishing.