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- Eduardo Mendoza (born 1943)
- Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)
- George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)
- Katharine McMahon
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
- Paul L. Maier (born 1930)
- Rosie Malek-Yonan (born 1965)
- Thomas Mallon (born 1951)
- Hilary Mantel (born 1952)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 1946)
- Stephen Marley
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901–1978)
- J. D. Masters (born 1951), pseudonym of Nicholas Yermakov
- John Masters (1914–1983)
- Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845-1937)
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941)
- James A. Michener (1907–1997)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- Daniil Mordovtsev (1830-1905)
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