Authors whose first name starts with M, page 5 of 19

Maria Hoagland is credited with 25 books published between 2011 and 2023. Nourish & Strengthen (2011) opens the catalogue and The Bait and Tackle Switch (2023) closes it, with Family Size (2013), The {Re}Model Marriage (2016), Beauty and the Billionaire Beast (2017), Kayaks and Kisses (2019) and Santa Cam (2019) among the titles. Spellbound in Hawthorne, Romance Renovations, Billionaire Classics and For the Love of Soccer are the four series recorded, and no title has been added since 2023.

Maria Hudgins writes amateur-sleuth murder mysteries, and two series run under the Hudgins name: Dotsy Lamb and Lacy Glass. Recorded subjects gather divorced women, women college teachers, tourists and criminal investigation. The 10 catalogued titles open with Death Of An Obnoxious Tourist (2006) and take in Death on the Aegean Queen (2010), Scorpion House (2012), Death in an Ivory Tower (2014) and Death in Istanbul (2017). Hudgins is credited alone on all 10, and To Fetch a Killer closed the listing in 2021.

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara created and writes Little People, Big Dreams, a bestselling series of children's biographies published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group. The catalogue records 120 books from 2016 to 2025, opening with Amelia Earhart and Coco Chanel in 2016. Subjects include women's biography, science, chemists, costume design and music history, with Marie Curie among the figures covered. Other titles include Agatha Christie, Audrey Hepburn, Ada Lovelace, Anne Frank, Harriet Tubman and Jane Austen, and the newest is Mary Earps (2025).

Maria Luis has 20 catalogued books published between 2017 and 2024, a new title roughly every five months. Breathless (2017) is the earliest on file and Slap Shot (2024) the most recent. The work is organised into five series: Blades Hockey, NOLA Heart, Put A Ring On It, Love Serial and Blood Duet. The median Luis book runs 276 pages, and the listing is marked as ongoing.

Nat Enough is Maria Scrivan's series for readers in grades 3 to 5, and every title in it plays on the name: Nat Enough and Forget Me Nat in 2020, Absolutely Nat in 2021, Nat for Nothing in 2023, All is Nat Lost in 2024, Nat a Chance in 2025 and Nat Again in 2026. Dogi The Yogi, published in 2008, stands apart as the earliest of the eight catalogued books.

Maria Semple

4 books

Maria Semple is an American novelist and screenwriter whose television credits take in Beverly Hills, 90210, Mad About You, Arrested Development and Saturday Night Live. Four novels are catalogued: This One Is Mine (2008), Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012), Today Will Be Different (2016) and Go Gentle (2026). An Alex Award came to Semple in 2013. Family life, mothers and daughters, missing persons and humour set in Seattle and Hollywood are the recurring subjects, and roughly six years separate one novel from the next.

Maria V. Snyder writes fantasy and science fiction. The Study series is Snyder's best known work, opening with Poison Study (2005) and continuing through Magic Study (2006), Fire Study (2008) and Power Study (2008); the Glass books follow with Storm Glass and Sea Glass (2009) and Spy Glass (2010). The catalogue also holds the Chronicles of Ixia, Avry of Kazan, Sentinels of the Galaxy, the Archives of the Invisible Sword and Valek's Adventures. Magic, healers, magicians and teenage girls are recurring subjects. Snyder's 29 books reach The Study of Storms and Magic (2025).

Maria Vegara and various others is the credited authorship on a picture-book biography series for readers in grades 1 to 3. Each 32-page volume covers a single figure: Agatha Christie and Audrey Hepburn in 2017; Ada Lovelace, Anne Frank, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia O'Keeffe, Harriet Tubman, Jane Austen and Josephine Baker in 2018. Women, writers, suffragists and athletes recur across the subjects. The listing holds 64 titles dated 2017 to 2026, reaching Ed Sheeran (2026).

Mariah Fredericks writes in two modes. The Jane Prescott mysteries are historical crime set in 1910s New York, while the earlier books, among them The True Meaning of Cleavage (2003), Head Games (2004) and the In the Cards series, are children's and teen fiction about high school, friendship and tarot. Fredericks was born and raised in New York City, studied history at Vassar College, and spent years as head copywriter at the Book-of-the-Month Club. Seventeen catalogued books reach The Girl in the Green Dress in 2025.

Mariah Stewart writes women's fiction and romantic suspense. The Chesapeake Diaries, Wyndham Beach, the Hudson Sisters, Mercy Street, Enright and Last are the series in a catalogue of 50 titles, which opens in 1995 with Moments in Time and reaches Wake-Up Calls (2026). Maryland settings, federal investigators, serial murders and family life fill the subject tags.

Romance and erotica are the recorded subjects for MariaLisa DeMora, whose 76 catalogued books run from 2014 to 2026. Mica, Bear and Slate appeared in 2014, then Gunny, Hoss, Jase and Mason in 2015. Series include Rebel Wayfarers MC, Borderline Freaks MC, Mayhan Bucklers MC, Freed Riders MC, Rogue Maniacs MC, Tangled Fates and Fractured Bonds Vampire Clan. All The Broken Rules (2026) is the latest title.

Marian Babson was the pen name of Ruth Marian Stenstreem (1929–2017), an American mystery writer born in Salem, Massachusetts, who spent most of her life in London. The novels are short, at a median of 188 pages across 53 catalogued books, and cats turn up in many of them; the publisher's tagline for the work was Murder Most British. The Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair mysteries pair two actresses as sleuths, with the Perkins & Tate books alongside. Babson took the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library in 1996 and an Agatha Award.

Marian Keyes

26 books• 5 series

Marian Keyes, born 10 September 1963, is an Irish novelist and radio presenter known for popular fiction. Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Anybody Out There and This Charming Man take on alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement and domestic violence with humour. Keyes has sold more than 35 million copies in 33 languages. The catalogue lists 26 books, from Watermelon (1995) to My Favourite Mistake (2024), with the Walsh Family as the recurring series. Dublin, female friendship and single women are among the tagged subjects.

Mariana Zapata writes slow-burn contemporary romance, much of it around sport. Lingus (2012) is the earliest catalogued title, followed by Kulti (2015), The Wall of Winnipeg and Me (2016), Wait for It (2016) and From Lukov with Love (2018). Every Zapata book stands alone. Fourteen titles run to The Things We Water in 2025, and the books are long, 535 pages at the median.

Two novels stand under Marianne Cronin's name. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot came first, in 2021, and carried off an Alex Award; Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love followed three years later. Cronin was born in 1990 and performs improv comedy alongside the writing. The catalogue is listed as ongoing.

Marianne Curley is an Australian author, born on 20 May 1959, best known for the Guardians of Time Trilogy and Old Magic. Avena is also a listed series. Catalogue subjects include magic, time travel, angels, identity and love stories. Old Magic (2000) is the earliest of 10 catalogued books, followed by The Named (2002), The Dark (2003) and The Key (2005). Hidden (2013), Broken (2014) and Fearless (2015) come later, and The Impossible Spell (2025) is the newest.

Marianne de Pierres

19 books• 6 series

Marianne de Pierres, born in Western Australia in 1961, is an Australian science fiction author. De Pierres took a postgraduate certificate in writing, editing and publishing at the University of Queensland and a PhD in creative writing there in 2019. The catalogue holds 19 books published between 2004 and 2023, opening with Nylon Angel and Code Noir in 2004 and closing with Razor Sharp (2023); Parrish Plessis, Sentients of Orion, Tara Sharp and Night Creatures are the series recorded under this name. De Pierres co-founded the Vision Writers Group with Rowena Cory Daniells and the critiquing group ROR, and helped plan Clarion South. Sue Isle shares the credit on 1 title.

Marianne Mancusi, who also publishes as Mari Mancusi, has 34 books in the catalogue, spanning 2005 to 2023. Time travel, vampires, dragons and school stories run through the recorded subjects, which also cover twins and single-parent families. A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court (2005) opens the listing; the Blood Coven Vampire, Scorched, Camelot Code and Dragon Ops series follow, and Dragons vs. Robots (2023) is the most recent title.

Marianne Richards has 11 catalogued books spanning 2000 to 2023, with Oxford Aeronaut and Jane Browne listed as series. The earliest title is Understanding Mental Illness (2000), and further mental health titles date from 2007. Later books include Poems of Love, Loss & Nature (2015), King of Ballooning (2016), Beating the Bully (2018) and Evil Psychologist in a Culture of Denial (2020). Deceit, Collusion & Jobsworths (2023) is the newest.

Marianne Wiggins, born November 8, 1947, is an American author whose novel Evidence of Things Unseen was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction. Wiggins has received a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English credits Wiggins with bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy. Titles include Separate Checks (1984), John Dollar (1989), Eveless Eden (1995), The Shadow Catcher (2007) and Properties of Thirst (2022).

Marie Astor is the author of the Janet Maple and Sinful Business series, with 12 catalogued books from 2010 to 2016. A Dress in a Window (2010) is the first title, and It Doesn't Pay to be Bad (2016) the last. Lucky Charm, This Tangled Thing Called Love, To Catch a Bad Guy, Bad Guys Get Caught, Baiting Trouble and Thirsty for Payback are among the others. The catalogue lists Astor's output as likely complete.

Marie Benedict

15 books• 2 series

Marie Benedict is a pen name used by Heather Benedict Terrell, an American novelist and lawyer born on November 24, 1968. The 16 catalogued books are historical and biographical fiction, beginning with The Other Einstein (2016) and continuing through Carnegie's Maid, Lady Clementine, The Personal Librarian and The Mitford Affair. Subjects include women scientists, industrialists and the Second World War. No series is listed. The Witch of Wall Street is due in 2027.

Quilting, sisters and female friendship run through the fiction of Marie Bostwick. Fields of Gold (2005) is her earliest catalogued novel, and the Cobbled Court Quilts series, set in Connecticut, is her best known strand, with the Dillon, Oklahoma and Too Much, Texas books alongside it. Bostwick's 18 titles reach The Book Club for Troublesome Women in 2025.

Marie Brennan

49 books• 11 series

Marie Brennan is the pen name of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. The Memoirs of Lady Trent, a sequence about a woman naturalist and the dragons she studies, was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. The Onyx Court novels began with Midnight Never Come in 2008, and the Doppelganger duology with Doppelganger and Warrior and Witch. Brennan took the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Poem with A War of Words. Fifty titles are catalogued through The Eye of Leviathan (2026), with Rook & Rose, Wilders, Driftwood and Legend Of The Five Rings among the other series.

Marie Chapian is an American writer and radio ministry host who also publishes as Marie Giordano and Marie Jordan. Christian devotional writing fills most of her catalogue, alongside Christian diet books such as Free To Be Slim (1985) and co-authored biographies including The Emancipation Of Robert Sadler (1975). Telling Yourself the Truth (1980), Staying Happy In An Unhappy World (1984) and Why Do I Do What I Don't Want To Do? (1984) sit on the self-help side. Her 29 catalogued books run from City Psalms (1972) to Quiet Prayer (2019), and the Alula-Belle Adventures are written for children.

Marie Ferrarella is an American romance writer, born Marie Rydzynski in Germany on 28 March 1948. Ferrarella has also written as Marie Nicole, Marie Michael and Marie Charles, and the novels have been translated into at least seven languages. The catalogue lists 328 books from 1983 to 2024, beginning with Scenes from the Heart, issued as Marie Charles. Series include Cavanaugh Justice, Matchmaking Mamas, Forever Texas, Baby of the Month Club and ChildFinders, Inc. Subjects include contemporary, western and suspense romance, police, physicians, single fathers and single mothers. Cavanaugh Justice: Cold Case Squad (2024) is the newest title.

Marie Force has 132 books catalogued from Line of Scrimmage (2008) to State of Mind (2026), across contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Force's series include Gansett Island, Fatal, First Family, Quantum, Green Mountain, Butler, Vermont, Treading Water, Wild Widows and Miami Heat/Miami Nights. Islands, Vermont, Washington, D.C., policewomen and murder investigations appear among the subjects. Fatal Affair dates from 2010. Force is still publishing.

Marie Harte's catalogue holds 136 books, from Lurin's Surrender (2004) to Between Bloode and Gods (2026). Subject headings cover contemporary romance, fantasy romance and erotica, with recurring subjects such as mechanics, contractors, veterans, neighbours, brothers and family life. Series include Cougar Falls, PowerUp!, Between the Shadows, Storm Lords, Talson Temptations, Wicked Warrens, Dawn Endeavor, Ethereal Foes and Circe's Recruits. Titles from 2005 include Engaging Gren, Master of Seduction and Thief of Mardu.

Marie Higgins has 166 books in the catalogue, starting with Heart of a Hero and Winning Mr. Wrong in 2010. Higgins's series include Tycoons, Runaway Mail-Order Bride, Worthington Legacy, Gems of the West, Sons of Worthington, Fielding Brothers Saga, Heroic Rogues and Grayson Brothers. Stacey Haynes is co-credited on 2 books. Brooke's Blessings (2026) is the newest title.

Marie Jakober was a Canadian novelist based in Calgary, Alberta, who wrote historical fiction and fantasy and lived from August 27, 1941 to March 26, 2017. Sandinista (1985) won the Writers Guild of Alberta Novel Award. Only Call Us Faithful (2002) received the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, and Sons of Liberty (2005) won the Georges Bugnet Award at the 2006 Alberta Book Awards. The catalogue runs from The Mind Gods of the Future (1976) to The Demon Left Behind (2011).

Marie James writes motorcycle-club and security-team romance. Cerberus MC is the largest series, with Tennessee and Las Vegas chapter spin-offs, joined by Blackbridge Security, Mission Mercenaries, Ravens Ruin MC, Westover Prep and the Hale and Lindell books. Seventy-six titles span 2015 to 2026, from Coming to Hale to Zeus, and James remains actively publishing.

Marie Johnston writes paranormal and contemporary romance. The catalogue holds 77 books published between 2014 and 2026, from Fever Claim to Clover Dreams, and remains active. Vampires and shifters drive New Vampire Disorder, Sigma Menace, Pale Moonlight and Silver Dragon Shifter Brothers, while Oil Barrons, Oil Kings, Oil Knights, Part-Time Cowboys and Return to Coal Haven work in contemporary small-town settings. Novels average 266 pages.

Marie Keates is credited alone on 9 books published between 2021 and 2025. Two series carry the Keates name: Between the Wars and Wartime Saga. Plagued (2021) opens the catalogue and Missing (2025) is the newest title, with three books dated 2022 and two each in 2023 and 2024. Titles have arrived at an average of one every six months, and Keates is still publishing.

Marie Lu

29 books• 11 series

Marie Lu, born Xiwei Lu on 11 July 1984, is an American author of young adult science fiction and fantasy. The Legend series, set in a dystopian and militarised future, is Lu's best known work, alongside Young Elites, Warcross and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons line. The catalogue lists 30 books from Legend (2011) to Rebel (2026), with Silver Dawn listed for 2027. Skyhunter, Stars and Smoke and New Alchemists are further series. Subjects include resistance to government, plague, fugitives, soldiers and the supernatural.

Marie Mistry has published 20 catalogued books since 2019, each credited to Mistry alone. The listing groups them into five series: Vice College for Young Demons, Fifth Nicnevin, Deadwood, Daughter of Cain and Arcanaeum. The run opens in 2019 with A Demon's Gifts and A Demon's Horns, moves through Traitor Witch (2020), Entombed by Blood (2021) and Beyond the Faerie Gate (2022), and reaches Librarian in 2026. Mistry averages a new title roughly every five months.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an American novelist and essayist who co-founded the Asian American Writers' Workshop, an organisation set up in 1991 for writers of color in New York City. Her 8 catalogued books run from Finding My Voice (1992) to Hurt You (2023), with The Evening Hero arriving in 2022. Several earlier titles carry the byline Marie G. Lee, among them If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun (1993) and Necessary Roughness (1996). Catalogue subjects include Korean Americans, adoption, identity, prejudice, schools and children's fiction. Finding My Voice also names a series under Lee's credit.

Marie Rutkoski is an American children's writer and a professor at Brooklyn College, born March 5, 1977, in Hinsdale, Illinois. Rutkoski earned a B.A. in English, with a minor in French, from the University of Iowa in 1999, then an English M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) from Harvard University. The 13 catalogued books run from The Cabinet of Wonders (2008) to Ordinary Love (2025) and include the Kronos Chronicles, Shadow Society, Winner's Trilogy and Midnight Lie series. The Winner's Curse, The Winner's Crime and The Winner's Kiss appeared from 2014 to 2016. Subject tags list fantasy, magic, princes and Romanies.

Marie Wilkens has 106 books in the catalogue, all of them dated 2021 or later. House of Ashes and The Haunting of Grant Mansion both appeared in 2021, and Powerless Care (2026) is the most recent. A cluster of 2022 titles carries the Haunting of prefix: Bluebelle Manor, Chestnut Cove, Clay Manor, Delany Falls and Endover House. Character lines recorded against Wilkens are A Riveting Haunted House Mystery, A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery and EMP Survival in a Powerless World. Wilkens is still publishing.

Marieke Nijkamp

15 books• 2 series

Marieke Nijkamp is a Dutch writer of young adult fiction, and the novel This Is Where It Ends (2016) was a New York Times bestseller. The catalogue lists 15 books from 2016 to Clock Hands (2026). Series on the author page are Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles and Splinter & Ash. LGBT themes, school shootings, mental illness, mystery and thrillers appear among the subject tags. Before I Let Go (2018), Even If We Break (2020) and At The End of Everything (2022) are further titles.

Marika Ray is catalogued under comedy, with 60 books from 2018 to 2026. Sweet Dreams, Barefoot Chaos, Beach Babe Billionaire and Christmas Eve Do-Over were among the 2018 releases, and Heaven Help Me is the newest. Series include Beach Squad, Jobs from Hell, Sisters From Hell, Digital Dating, Hellman Brothers, Hot Flash Hookups, Nickel Bay Brothers and Royals of Sailfish Banks.

Mariko Tamaki

39 books• 12 series

Mariko Tamaki, born 1975, is a Canadian artist and writer. The graphic novels Skim, Emiko Superstar, This One Summer and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me are Tamaki's best-known work, and writing for both Marvel and DC Comics began in 2016. Tamaki has twice been a Michael L. Printz Award runner-up. The catalogue lists 39 books from 2000 to 2026, with series including She-Hulk by Mariko Tamaki, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow and Crush & Lobo, and Lumberjanes among the characters.

Marilyn Clay writes Regency romance and historical mystery. Bewitching Lord Winterton (1995) opens a 36-book catalogue, followed by Brighton Beauty (1996), Felicity's Folly (1997), Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller (1998) and Miss Darby's Debut (1999). Juliette Abbot Regency Mystery, Colonial American Historical Suspense, Jamestown and Marilyn Clay Spiritual divide the work. The later books turn to history proper: 18th and 19th Century English Women at Sea (2010), A History of The Water Closet (2010) and Jane Austen's Regency England (2023). Parapsychology also appears in the subject list.

Twelve series carry Marilyn Foxworthy's name, among them Shrine Maidens of Barsoom, Eevona Space Command, Quantum Wormhole Adventure, Envoy of Meringea, Guardian Maidens, Sea Nymphs and Daughters of the Woods. Foxworthy has published 42 books in eight years, from The Start of Time in 2018 to Dark Meringean in 2026, with the 2020s the heavier stretch. Eight of the titles carry a 2018 date, including The Wizard, The Watchman and The Wooden Sword.

Marilyn Harris (June 4, 1931 to January 18, 2002) was an American novelist whose Eden series is a seven-novel historical saga about the Eden family of England. The Eden books began with This Other Eden in 1977 and closed with Eden and Honor in 1989; The Prince of Eden, The Eden Passion, The Women of Eden, Eden Rising and American Eden came between. Harris also wrote the bestseller Hatter Fox (1973), which CBS adapted in 1977 as The Girl Called Hatter Fox. The catalogue lists 18 books from The Peppersalt Land (1970) to Lost and Found (1991), with gothic and historical romance among the subjects.

Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler is the combined catalogue name for 76 books from 1987 to 2020. Contemporary romance and romantic suspense appear among the subjects, with widows, veterans, assassins, women journalists and kidnapping also recorded. The Lights of Home (1987) is the first title and Dangerous Reunion (2020) the latest. Series include Copper Lake, Bethlehem, Southern Knights, Heartbreak Canyon, Tallgrass, Cedar Creek and Rawlins Brothers.

Marilyn Sadler, born 17 November 1950 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writes for children. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, about a space girl sent to Earth who meets cultural clashes there, became a Disney television film, and two more Zenon films followed: Zenon: The Zequel and Zenon: Z3. The Alistair books follow a boy genius who builds a time machine, explores outer space and irons his shoelaces; titles include Alistair's Elephant (1983) and Alistair Underwater (1990). The catalogue lists 42 books through Best Bunny Brother Ever (2026), with series including P.J. Funnybunny, Bob and John and Charlie Piechart. The median book runs to 40 pages.

Marilyn Turk writes historical romance with a religious thread, the three subjects the catalogue records against the name. The Coastal Lights Legacy series stands under it. Eleven books run from Lighthouse Devotions: 52 Inspiring Lighthouse Stories (2015) to Secrets of the Desert Rose (2026), taking in Rebel Light (2018), The Gilded Curse (2018), Rekindled Light (2019), Abigail's Secret (2020) and The Escape Game (2023). Turk is still publishing.

Marilynne Robinson

14 books• 1 series

Marilynne Robinson writes novels and essays, the fiction concerned with clergy, fathers and sons, and the long arguments inside a family. Housekeeping (1980) opens the catalogue; Gilead (2004) begins the sequence continued in Home. The non-fiction runs from Mother Country through The Death of Adam, Puritans and Prigs, Absence of Mind and On Faith and Freedom of Thought. Fourteen titles make up the catalogue, published at long intervals.

Small towns and California wine country are where Marina Adair sets her contemporary romance: vintners, wineries, restaurateurs and grandmothers. The St. Helena Vineyard and Heroes of St. Helena books work that ground, and Sugar, Georgia, Destiny Bay, Sequoia Lake, Sierra Vista and Nashville Heights follow other towns. Adair's 33 catalogued books open with Kissing Under the Mistletoe (2012) and reach Love to Hate You (2025), at a median of 320 pages.

Marina Anderson is catalogued under erotica and suspense, with 18 books from Dark Secret (1995) to When Darkness Falls (2015). Sexual dominance and submission, marriage and man-woman relationships lead the subjects. Anderson series are Dining Club, Dark Secret and David and Grace. Titles include Forbidden Desires (1996), The Discipline (2002), House of Decadence (2012) and Bound (2013). The 7 books with page counts have a median of 320 pages.

Marina J. Bowman writes children's mystery fiction for grades 3 to 5. Every one of the 9 catalogued books opens with Scaredy Bat, from Scaredy Bat and the Frozen Vampires (2019) to Scaredy Bat and the Puzzling Invitation (2022). Family is a recorded subject alongside mystery and detective fiction. Five titles carry a 2022 date, and the two books with a recorded length run to a median of 126 pages.

Marina J. Lostetter writes science fiction, with hard science fiction and space opera both recorded among the catalogue's subjects, alongside interstellar travel, human cloning, space ships and space stations. Two series carry the name: Noumenon and Five Penalties. Nine books run from Lifeboats (2017) to The Teeth of Dawn (2025), taking in Noumenon (2017), Activation Degradation (2021) and The Helm of Midnight (2021). Four books have a recorded length, at a median of 512 pages.

Marina Lewycka

8 books• 1 series

Marina Lewycka (1946-2025) was a Ukrainian-British novelist and lecturer. Her comic debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (2005), was translated into more than thirty languages. Eight books are catalogued under her name, ending with The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid (2020), and including Two Caravans (2007), We Are All Made Of Glue (2009) and The Lubetkin Legacy (2016). Fathers and daughters, Ukrainians, children of immigrants and female friendship run through the subjects.

Mario Acevedo is an American novelist and artist, born in El Paso, Texas, on July 6, 1955, and based in Denver, Colorado. Acevedo created an urban fantasy series about Felix Gomez, a vampire private investigator. Earlier jobs included military helicopter pilot, paratrooper, infantry officer, engineer, art teacher and software programmer, and Acevedo served as a soldier and artist for the U.S. Army in Operation Desert Storm. The 11 catalogued books run from The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (2006) to Steampunk Banditos (2018).

The Second World War runs through most of Mario Escobar's fiction. 16 catalogued books span Botanist (2014) to Library of Forbidden Books (2026), with Auschwitz Lullaby (2016), Children of the Stars (2017), Remember Me (2019) and The Librarian of Saint-Malo (2020) among them. Nazi persecution, concentration camps, prisoners and Romani lives fill the subjects. Imperfect Crimes is the one named series, and Escobar remains actively publishing.

Mario Giordano is a German writer, born in 1963. The novel Black Box (1999), drawn from the Stanford prison experiment, became Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Das Experiment and brought Giordano the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay. Auntie Poldi is the recurring character of the comic mystery series, running from Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (2015) through the Vineyards of Etna (2016) and the Handsome Antonio (2020) to the Lost Madonna (2021). Nine titles are catalogued from Apocalypsis I (2011) onward, the Cotton Reloaded books among them.

Mario Puzo

15 books• 1 series

Organised crime is Mario Puzo's subject. The Godfather (1969) sits in the middle of a catalogue of 15 books that starts with The Dark Arena (1955) and takes in The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), Fools Die (1978), The Sicilian (1984) and The Fourth K (1990). Mafia families, Italian American immigrants and gambling run through the subjects, and nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Mario Vargas Llosa

37 books

Mario Vargas Llosa, who lived from 1936 to 2025, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician, and one of the leading writers of the Latin American Boom. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature cited his cartography of structures of power and his images of individual resistance, revolt and defeat. Thirty-seven titles are catalogued, opening with The Time of the Hero (1962) and taking in Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The War of the End of the World (1981). Peru, its social life and its history recur as subjects.

Marion Blackwood has published 27 catalogued books since 2019, most recently War of Fire and Fury (2026). The catalogue opens with A Storm of Silver and Ash (2019), the first of a group of titles built on the same A Storm of pattern. Oncoming Storm, Court of Elves, Flame and Thorns, Ruthless Villains and Ruthless Enemy are the five series, and Blackwood remains actively publishing.

Marion Chesney

184 books• 22 series

Marion Chesney, later Marion Gibbons (1936-2019), was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery whose published career began in 1979. Historical romances appeared under the Chesney name, the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling books among them, while the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mysteries appeared as M. C. Beaton; both of those mystery runs were adapted for television. Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Charlotte Ward, Jennie Tremaine and Sarah Chester are further pen names on the record. This listing gathers 185 books dated from 1979 onward, including later titles on which R.W. Green is credited.