Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O. Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social
campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been
a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.
Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.
Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one
of the most popular and complex writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the genre.
Ed Greenwood (born 1959) is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.
In 1987, Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb wrote the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set for TSR—though Greenwood had used the Forgotten
Realms for his home Dungeons & Dragons campaign since 1975. The spawned campaign world was a success, and he has been involved
with all subsequent incarnations of the Forgotten Realms in D&D.
Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of
the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization,
using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing,
and post scarcity economics.
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body
of work, and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Generally regarded to be one of the world's
foremost writers of fiction, her stories focus on the human condition and relationships through the lens of daily life. While
the locus of Munro’s fiction is Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international.
