Drama - Modern Authors
- Kobo Abe
- Richard Adams
- Sade Adeniran
- Edward Albee
- James Baldwin
- Lynne Reid Banks
- J. M. Barrie
- Angela Becerra
- Alan Bennett
- Michael Berg
- Jon Blake
- William Borden
- Max Brand
- Bertolt Brecht
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Albert Camus
- Truman Capote
- Anton Chekhov
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Mary Jane Clark
- Jeff Clark-Meads
- Cheril N. Clarke
- Sharon C. Dear
- Francis Durbridge
- Lawrence Durrell
- Per Olov Enquist
- Eve Ensler
- Terri Fields
- Timothy Findley
- Horton Foote
- Earlene Fowler
- Michael Frayn
- Athol Fugard
- Damon Galgut
- John Galsworthy
- Nikki Gemmell
- Hal Glatzer
- Valena Graham
- Zane Grey
- Patrick Hamilton
- Knut Hamsun
- Thomas Harris
- John Hersey
- Lynne Hinton
- Ellen Hopkins
- Langston Hughes
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Rudyard Kipling
- RD Larson
- Elmore Leonard
- Brad Listi
- David Lodge
- David Mamet
- Don Marquis
- Steve Martin
- Patricia McCormick
- Sharyn McCrumb
- Lurlene McDaniel
- Zakes Mda
- John Mortimer
- Leslea Newman
- Eugene O'Neill
- Mark O'Rowe
- Wendy Orr
- Ruth Pennebaker
- Marisha Pessl
- Anne Rice
- Emilie Richards
- Meg Rosoff
- Lisa Samson
- John Sandford
- William Saroyan
- Will Self
- Meir Shalev
- Dani Shapiro
- William Shatner
- June Shaw
- Owen Sheers
- Rachel Shukert
- Jenefer Shute
- Lemony Snicket
- Michael Sonbert
- Gertrude Stein
- Jeffrey Stephens
- Sarah Stonich
- Tom Stoppard
- David Storey
- Allan Stratton
- William Styron
- Miriam Toews
- Sue Townsend
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Lisa Tucker
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Loung Ung
- Ned Vizzini
- H.G. Wells
- Thornton Wilder
- Xinran