Maxime Gorki, parfois orthographié Gorky, nom de plume d’Alexis Pechkov, est un écrivain russe né le 16 mars 1868 à Nijni Novgorod et mort le 18 juin 1936 à Moscou. Il est considéré comme un des fondateurs du réalisme socialiste en littérature et fut un homme engagé politiquement et intellectuellement aux côtés des révolutionnaires bolcheviques.
Maxwell "Bogey" Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Mary Clarissa "May" Byron was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron, M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare. Byron specialised in writing biographies of great composers, poets and writers, before going on to rewrite some of J. M. Barrie's works for younger readers, to write poetry, and to write cookbooks.
May Edginton was an English writer who had over 50 popular novels published in London. She also wrote plays, collaborating with Rudolf Besier on two of them. Some of her fiction works were filmed. Her work was translated into several languages, including Hungarian and Chinese.
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–1967), in The Egoist, April 1918.
Thomas Mayne Reid oli irlantilaissyntyinen romaanikirjailija. Hän on tunnettu seikkailukirjoistaan, joista monet sijoittuvat Yhdysvaltoihin ja Meksikoon.
