15 modern writers whose works are known to almost everyone, but their faces are not (16 photos)

Contrary to some predictions, the book industry continues to exist, and new talented authors appear in the world, whose works are read by the whole world. Well, or their novels are filmed in Hollywood, and then at least the whole world watches their stories.





You all probably imagine what JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series of books, looks like, but other authors who gave us the most popular literary works remain in the shadows. They are probably very rarely recognized on the street.

We are correcting this situation and showing you photographs of famous contemporary writers, who themselves turned out to be much less famous than their books.

1. Stephenie Meyer (47 years old)



Author of the Twilight series of novels (2005-...), on which the film series of the same name was made (2008-2012).

2. E. L. James (58 years old)





Author of the series of novels “50 Shades of Gray” (2011-2012), which was based on a series of films of the same name (2015-2018).

3. Bernhard Schlink (76 years old)



Author of the best-selling novel “The Reader” (1995), which was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name.

4. Jessica Bruder



Author of the documentary novel Nomadland: Surviving 21st Century America (2017), which was adapted into the 2020 Oscar-winning film Nomadland.

5. Vikas Swarup (58 years old)



Author of the novel “Question and Answer” (2005), based on which the Oscar-winning 2008 film “Slumdog Millionaire” was filmed.

6. Florian Zeller (41 years old)



The author of the play “The Father,” based on which Zeller himself made a film of the same name, which received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

7. Cormac McCarthy (87 years old)



Author of the novel No Country for Old Men (2005), which was adapted into a 2007 film of the same name.

8. Annie Proulx (85 years old)



Author of the short story “Brokeback Mountain” (1997), which was adapted into the 2005 Oscar-winning film of the same name.

9. David Mitchell (52 years old)



Author of the novel Cloud Atlas (2004), which was adapted into a 2012 film of the same name.

10. Andy Weir (48 years old)



Author of the novel “The Martian” (2014), which was adapted into a 2015 film of the same name.

11. Yann Martel (57 years old)



Author of the novel Life of Pi (2001), which was adapted into a 2012 film of the same name.

12. Michael Lewis (60 years old)



Author of the novels “Moneyball”, “The Big Short Game. The Secret Springs of Financial Disaster" and "The Blind Side", which were made into the films "The Man Who Changed Everything" (2011), "The Big Short" (2015) and "The Blind Side" (2009). All three films were nominated for Oscars as the best films of the year.

13. Chuck Palahniuk (59 years old)



Author of the novel “Fight Club” (1995), on which the 1999 film of the same name was made.

14. Donna Tartt (57 years old)



Author of the best-selling novel The Goldfinch (2013), for which the writer received a Pulitzer Prize. The book was filmed in 2019.

15. Suzanne Collins



Author of the Hunger Games trilogy (2008-2010). The writer's novels were filmed in 2012-2015