Authors with first or last name beginning with "Y"

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Authors with first or last name beginning with "Y"

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

FIRST NAME

Yaa Gyasi
Yann Martel
Yarah David
Yasmine Galenorn
Yessi Smith
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yigal Zur
Yuri Felsen
Yōko Ogawa
Yoon Ha Lee
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Yuval Noah Harari
Yvonne Collins
Yvonne Harriott
Yvonne Woon

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

LAST NAME

Y'Barbo, Kathleen
Yance, Eli
Yancey, Rick
Hanya Yanagihara
Yarborough, Charlotte
Yardley, Cathy
Yarros, Rebecca
Yarwood-Lovett, Sarah
Yates, Bart
Yates, Elizabeth
Yates, Maisey
Yates, Nancy Evans
Yates, Richard
Yaxley, Richard
Yeager, Jamie
Yeats, W B
Yeko, Cheryl
Yeldham, Peter
Yih, Jennifer
Ylisela, Mary
Yocum, Keith
Rachel Yoder
Yolen, Jane
Nicola Yoon
Yoon, Paul
York, Grace
York, Kelley
York, Rebecca
York, Robin
York, Sabrina
York, Zoe
Young, Felicity
Young, Helene
Young, Kelly
Young, Luke
Young, M.L.
Young, Moira
Young, Nicole
Young, Pamela Samuels
Young, Samantha
Young, Suzanne
Young, Wm. Paul
Younge-Ullman, Danielle
Yount, John
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Yovanoff, Brenna
Yuzuki, Asako

[Jazzy]

Oh! and one of my favourites, William Butler Yeats

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

~W B Yeats

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Jazzy!

[Jazzy]

My pleasure, treasure!

I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of reading Seán O'Casey, but I always think of Yeats when I think of him as he wrote about being a young man during the Easter Uprising 1916 in Dublin, and one of the lines he wrote was, 'Poor W. B. Yeats!'

at least I think he did :)

Another one of my most favourite quotes by Yeats to live by is this:

'There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.'

[MaryG2E]

A very good Australian Author with surname beginning with "Y" is Peter Yeldham. He mainly writes historical fiction.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Oh thanks Mary! How could I forget him - I enjoy his work too!

[Clare]

Y and Z author in one. He wrote We, the precursor to 1984. His Russian name is sometimes spelt Evgeniy Ivanovich Zamyatin , E.I. Zamyatin or Eugene Zamiatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Clare :)

[Jazzy]

Yuri Felsen

Yuri Felsen was the pseudonym of Nikolai Freudenstein. Born in St Petersburg in 1894, he emigrated in the wake of the Russian Revolution, first to Riga and then to Berlin, before finally settling in Paris in 1923. In France, he became one of the leading writers of his generation, alongside the likes of Vladimir Nabokov; influenced by the great modernists such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, his writing stood at the forefront of aesthetic and philosophical currents in European literature. Following the German occupation of France at the height of his career, Felsen tried to escape to Switzerland; however, he was caught, arrested and interned in Drancy concentration camp. He was deported in 1943 and killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Deceit was his debut novel and is now available in English.

[Clare]

Richard Yaxley Australian YA uthor

[Kim]

Don't know if these have already been mentioned but, from my own books:-

John Yount who wrote the classic Hardcastle

Keith Yocum who wrote Daniel

[Alex]

Yigal Zur

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Jazzy, Clare. Kim and Alex :)

[Kylie H]

Also Grace York aka Catherine Lee

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Kylie - I'm surprised she's not on the list!!

[Alex]

Brenda wrote: "Thanks Jazzy, Clare. Kim and Alex :)"

We are here to help our tireless librarians

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha! Many thanks!

[Damo]

There's also Yrsa Sigurdardottir

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Damo!

[Sarah]

And Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, who has a cosy crime series featuring an ecologist-sleuth and ecological themes.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Sarah :)

[Tanu]

Nicola Yoon, who is a YA author, and Yoon Ha Lee who writes SFF. Also Rebecca Yarros and Hanya Yanigihara, Yuval Noah Harari, Yaa Gyasi, Rachel Yoder

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Tanu. Could you please link the names next time because of spelling etc? Thanks! Both Hanya Yanigihara and Yoon Ha Lee were not to be found. So if you can link these two here for me please, I can add them :)

[Jazzy]

Here you go, Brenda

Hanya Yanagihara
Yoon Ha Lee

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Jazzy :)

[Tanu]

Oh, sorry about that Brenda - was on mobile! I will do it from my laptop if I have any more to add :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That's okay Tanu - it's just easier with spelling if they're linked :) Jazzy helped out..

[Clare]

Japanese author Asako Yuzuki

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Clare :)