It Runs in the Family

[Kelly]

Have a favorite author whose books you’ve devoured and now you can’t find anyone you liked quite as much? Luckily, there are a lot of father/son, mother/daughter teams where writing seems to run in the family. Stephen King’s whole family writes including his wife Tabitha King and his sons Joe Hill and Owen King. Sleeping Beauties is the latest book by Stephen King and his son Owen, and Joe Hill has a new book, Strange Weather, out as well.

Check out the list below for more inspiration.

Father/Daughter--Tony and Anne Hillerman

Father/Son –W.E.B. Griffin and William Butterworth IV

Mother/Daughter--Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

Mother/Son--Caroline and Charles Todd writing under the name
Charles Todd

Brother-in-laws--Nick Hornby and Robert Harris

Spouses--Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss

Spouses--Zadie Smith and Nick Laird

Spouses&Son--Faye and Jonathan Kellerman/Jesse Kellerman

Spouses--Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho under pseudonym Lars Kepler

Aunt/Niece--Janet and Stephanie Evanovich

Father/Son--Felix and Dick Francis

Father/Son--Clive and Dirk Cussler

Spouses--Aimée and David Thurlo

Father/Son--Kinglsey Amis and Martin Amis

Father/Daughter--John Cheever and Susan Cheever

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Here are "family" sci-fi writers:

Frank Herbert and son Brian Herbert
Anne McCaffrey and son Tod McCaffrey

[Hari]

It's surprising how many authors are related. Here are a few more (but by no means all):

Husband/Wife--Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman

Husband/Wife--Pat Conroy and Cassandra King

Husband/Wife--Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey

Husband/Wife--Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller

Husband/Wife--Glen David Gold and Alice Sebold

Husband/Wife--Brock and Bodie Thoene

Father/Son--James Lee and Alafair Burke

Mother/Son--Anne and Christopher Rice

Father/Son--Jeff and Michael Shaara

Father/Daughter--William and Alexandra Styron

Mother/Daughter--Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan

Mother/Daughter--Alice and Rebecca Walker

[Kelly]

Oooh!!! These are all great!

[Hari]

I listed James Lee and Alafair Burke as father/son. Alafair is James Lee's daughter. Whoops!