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Gender: Female
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
Born at: 1943-06-07
Number of works: 68
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is a Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author.
She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech.
Nikki Giovanni is the author of following books:
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
Born at: 1943-06-07
Number of works: 68
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is a Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author.
She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech.
Nikki Giovanni is the author of following books:
- - Love Poems
- - Rosa
- - The Selected Poems, 1968-1995
- - Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
- - The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
- - Bicycles: Love Poems
- - Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
- - Hip Hop Speaks to Children With Audio CD: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
- - Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
- - My House

Gender: Male
Hometown: Morpeth, Northumberland
Born at: 1948-12-01
Number of works: 148
N. T. Wright is Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline NBC, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air, and he has taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford universities. Wright is the award-winni......
N.t. Wright is the author of following books:
Hometown: Morpeth, Northumberland
Born at: 1948-12-01
Number of works: 148
N. T. Wright is Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline NBC, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air, and he has taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford universities. Wright is the award-winni......
N.t. Wright is the author of following books:
- - Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
- - Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
- - The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
- - The New Testament and the People of God
- - Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2)
- - Evil And the Justice of God
- - The Resurrection of the Son of God
- - The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture
- - Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision
- - What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?

Gender: Female
Hometown: Richmond
Number of works: 19
After Nikki Turner read The Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah she was dismayed that there weren't other books like it. "I wanted to write the kinds of books I wanted to read," said the bestselling author, whose 2002 debut novel, A Hustler's Wife, would go on to sell more than a few 100......
Nikki Turner is the author of following books:
Hometown: Richmond
Number of works: 19
After Nikki Turner read The Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah she was dismayed that there weren't other books like it. "I wanted to write the kinds of books I wanted to read," said the bestselling author, whose 2002 debut novel, A Hustler's Wife, would go on to sell more than a few 100......
Nikki Turner is the author of following books:

Gender: Female
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 31
With over 50 sales to her credit since her first publication in 1987, Portage, Michigan author Nancy Gideon’s writing career is as versatile as the romance market, itself. Her books encompass genres from historicals and regencies to contemporary suspense and the paranormal. Her works have been pub......
Nancy Gideon is the author of following books:
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 31
With over 50 sales to her credit since her first publication in 1987, Portage, Michigan author Nancy Gideon’s writing career is as versatile as the romance market, itself. Her books encompass genres from historicals and regencies to contemporary suspense and the paranormal. Her works have been pub......
Nancy Gideon is the author of following books:
- - Masked by Moonlight (Moonlight , #1)
- - Chased by Moonlight (Moonlight , #2)
- - Captured by Moonlight (Moonlight , #3)
- - Midnight Kiss (Midnight, #1)
- - Midnight Redeemer (Midnight, #6)
- - Midnight Enchantment (Midnight, #4)
- - Midnight Temptation (Midnight, #2)
- - Midnight Surrender (Midnight, #3)
- - Midnight Gamble (Midnight, #5)

Gender: Female
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 21
Nancy Atherton is not a white-haired Englishwoman with a softly wrinkled face, a wry smile, and wise gray eyes, nor does she live in a thatched cottage behind a babbling brook in a tranquil, rural corner of the Cotswolds. She has never taken tea with a vicar (although she drank an Orange Squash wit......
Nancy Atherton is the author of following books:
Hometown: Unkown
Number of works: 21
Nancy Atherton is not a white-haired Englishwoman with a softly wrinkled face, a wry smile, and wise gray eyes, nor does she live in a thatched cottage behind a babbling brook in a tranquil, rural corner of the Cotswolds. She has never taken tea with a vicar (although she drank an Orange Squash wit......
Nancy Atherton is the author of following books:
- - Aunt Dimity's Death (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1)
- - Aunt Dimity and the Duke (Aunt Dimity Series #2)
- - Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #3)
- - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #6)
- - Aunt Dimity Digs In (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #4)
- - Aunt Dimity's Christmas (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #5)
- - Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #8)
- - Aunt Dimity: Detective (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #7)
- - Aunt Dimity: Snowbound (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #9)
- - Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, #11)

Gender: Female
Hometown: London
Born at: 1904-11-28
Died at: 1973-06-30
Number of works: 32
Nancy Mitford is the author of following books:
Hometown: London
Born at: 1904-11-28
Died at: 1973-06-30
Number of works: 32
Nancy Mitford is the author of following books:
- - The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
- - Love in a Cold Climate
- - The Pursuit of Love
- - The Blessing
- - Don't Tell Alfred
- - Madame de Pompadour (New York Review Books Classics)
- - The Sun King : Louis Fourteenth at Versailles
- - The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
- - Pigeon Pie
- - Wigs on the Green

Gender: Female
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Born at: 1941-05-19
Number of works: 14
Nora Ephron is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She sometimes writes wi......
Nora Ephron is the author of following books:
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Born at: 1941-05-19
Number of works: 14
Nora Ephron is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She sometimes writes wi......
Nora Ephron is the author of following books:

Gender: Female
Hometown: San Gabriel, California
Born at: 1955-03-20
Number of works: 103
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s first solo novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel; her second novel, The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. A Red Heart of Memories (1999, part of her “Matt Black” seri......
Nina Kiriki Hoffman is the author of following books:
Hometown: San Gabriel, California
Born at: 1955-03-20
Number of works: 103
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s first solo novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel; her second novel, The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. A Red Heart of Memories (1999, part of her “Matt Black” seri......
Nina Kiriki Hoffman is the author of following books:
- - A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle, #1)
- - A Stir of Bones (Red Heart of Memories, # 0.5)
- - The Thread That Binds the Bones (Chapel Hollow #1)
- - A Red Heart of Memories (Red Heart of Memories, #1)
- - Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Chapel Hollow, #3)
- - Past the Size of Dreaming (Red Heart of Memories, #2)
- - The Silent Strength of Stones (Chapel Hollow #2)
- - Fall of Light (LaZelle, #2)
- - Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
- - Thresholds (Magic Next Door, #1)

Gender: Female
Hometown: Montclair, New Jersey
Born at: 1948-07-05
Number of works: 95
Nancy Springer has published forty novels for children, young adults, and adults, including fantasy, magical realism, mystery, contemporary, and women's fiction. Her work has received numerous awards, including two Edgar Allen Poe awards from the Mystery Writers of America. A longtime resident of Pe......
Nancy Springer is the author of following books:
Hometown: Montclair, New Jersey
Born at: 1948-07-05
Number of works: 95
Nancy Springer has published forty novels for children, young adults, and adults, including fantasy, magical realism, mystery, contemporary, and women's fiction. Her work has received numerous awards, including two Edgar Allen Poe awards from the Mystery Writers of America. A longtime resident of Pe......
Nancy Springer is the author of following books:
- - The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #1)
- - The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #2)
- - I Am Morgan le Fay
- - The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #3)
- - Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (Rowan Hood, #1)
- - The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #4)
- - The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #5)
- - I Am Mordred
- - The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #6)
- - Outlaw Princess of Sherwood (Rowan Hood, #3)

Gender: Male
Hometown: London, England
Born at: 1901-12-13
Died at: 1960-01-01
Number of works: 46
Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.
Nevil Shute is the author of following books:
Hometown: London, England
Born at: 1901-12-13
Died at: 1960-01-01
Number of works: 46
Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.
Nevil Shute is the author of following books:
