Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) (born September 23, 1956) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and "Star Trek" novels. David often jokingly describes his occupation as "writer of stuff". David is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real world issues with humor and references to popular culture. He also uses metafiction frequently, usually to humorous effect, …

John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland, and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, "The Shirt of Nessus").

Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy.

Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is a novelist and aviator living in Wales. He is the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England, whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes, and is the cousin of the author, Katie Fforde. His early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films including "Quills", "GoldenEye", and "Entrapment".

Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27 1929 - May 18 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, …

Robert E. Scholes is an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction. He graduated from Yale University. Since 1970 he has been Professor at Brown University. With Eric S. Rabkin, he published in 1977 the book "Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision", which considerably influenced science fiction studies. In it, they attempt to explain the literary history of the genre, …

Jostein Gaarder (born August 8 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories. Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel "Sophie's World", …

Richard Grayson (1951-) is a writer, political activist and performance artist, most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office. Born in Brooklyn, he attended New York public schools and the City University of New York, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where he was also an undergraduate. His first stories started appearing in literary magazines in the mid-1970s, and in 1979, …

Mark Leyner (born 1956) is an American postmodernist author. Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In "The Tetherballs of Bougainville", Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and so is freed but must live the remainder of his life in fear of being executed, at New Jersey's discretion, …

Robert Fleming Rankin (born July 27, 1949) is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with "Snuff Fiction" in 1999. His books are a unique mix of science fiction, fantasy, the occult, urban legends, running gags, metafiction, steampunk and outrageous characters. According to the (largely fictional) biography printed in some Corgi editions of his books, …

Felipe Alfau, was a Spanish American (Catalan American) novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino. Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated with his family at the age of fourteen to the United States, where he lived the remainder of his life.

Hasan Ali Toptaş is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. He was born in Denizli, Turkey. His first short story book "Bir Gülüşün Kimliği" (The Identity of A Laughter) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevit nicknames him "a postmodern modernist" and calls him "a Kafka in Turkish literature", in her work"Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar" (The Postmodernist Expansion in Turkish Literature).

Douglas Anthony Cooper (born 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a writer who lives in Mexico. His novels are considered characteristic examples of metafiction. He is often compared to experimental writers like Italo Calvino, and many critics, including The New York Times, have likened him to Vladimir Nabokov. He did graduate work in philosophy, as well as a short stint as an architecture student, and his novels address architectural themes, …

Josefina Vicens (1911 - Nov 22, 1988) was a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Although she only published two novels, she is regarded as a pillar of modern Mexican literature. "El libro vacio" (The Empty Book) was the first Mexican meta-literary novel, using the resources of the "Nouveau Roman". It was awarded the Xavier Villarrutia Prize in 1958.

Sim Yee Chiang is a Singaporean short story writer, playwright, and librettist. Sim was born and raised in Singapore and was educated at Hwa Chong Junior College. He then moved to California, where he attended Stanford University. Sim's writing has primarily been in the field of Singapore gay literature: his short story "Extracts from Fairy Tale", which narrates the coming-of-age of a young gay athlete, …

Adam Wylie (born May 23 1984) is an American television and motion picture actor, as well as a Broadway musical performer, and a former Crayola spokesman.

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Linda Hutcheon is a Canadian academic, literary theorist, and feminist. She is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1988. In 2000 she was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman. She specializes in theories of postmodernism.

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