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- Leopoldo Alas 'Clarín' (1852-1901)
- Edwin Abbott (1838-1926)
- Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
- Gil Adamson (born 1961)
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882)
- Bruce Alexander
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919)
- Barbara Allen (1914–1986), pseudonym of Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann
- Valerie Anand (born 1937)
- Anna Apostolou, pseudonym of P. C. Doherty
- Matilde Asensi (born 1962)
- Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
- Lynn Austin (born 1949)
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