Authors who have had video game adaptations of their work
by Progressive-Element | created - 14 Nov 2021 | updated - 14 Nov 2021 | Public
1. Larry Niven
Writer | Inconstant Moon
Larry Niven was born on April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Inconstant Moon, Land of the Lost (1974) and Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973). He has been married to Marilyn Joyce Wisowaty since September 6, 1969.
2. Jerry Pournelle
Writer | Janissaries
Jerry Pournelle was born on August 7, 1933 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Janissaries, Prophets of Science Fiction (2011) and Target... Earth? (1981). He was married to Roberta Jane Isdell. He died on September 8, 2017 in Studio City, California, USA.
3. Richard Adams
Writer | Watership Down
Richard Adams spent his first 52 years in relative anonymity. And when he did complete a book that he wrote, he struggled to find anyone to publish it.
Richard George Adams was born on 9 May 1920, in Newbury, Berkshire. He was the son of a country doctor and was brought up in the rolling countryside...
4. John Milton
Writer | Paradise Lost
John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in ...
5. Lewis Carroll
Writer | Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, author of the children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass."
Born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, Charles Dodgson wrote and created games as a child. At age 20 he received a ...
6. Mary Shelley
Writer | Young Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her...
7. Robert A. Heinlein
Writer | Starship Troopers
At the age of 17, Heinlein graduated from Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent one year at the University of Missouri before he entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated as the 20th best among the 243 cadets. He spent five years in the Pacific ...
8. J.R.R. Tolkien
Writer | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
English writer, scholar and philologist, Tolkien's father was a bank manager in South Africa. Shortly before his father died (1896) his mother took him and his younger brother to his father's native village of Sarehole, near Birmingham, England. The landscapes and Nordic mythology of the Midlands ...
9. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writer | Graves and Goblins
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi ...
10. Keith Laumer
Writer | The Monitors
Keith Laumer was born on June 25, 1925 in Syracuse, New York, USA. Keith was a writer, known for The Monitors (1969), Peeper (1975) and On the Edge (2001). Keith was married to Janice Perkinson. Keith died on January 23, 1993 in Florida, USA.
11. Anne McCaffrey
Writer | Dragonriders of Pern
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1, 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer, known for Dragonriders of Pern, The Ship Who Sang and Freedom: First Resistance (2000). She was married to H. Wright Johnson. She died on November 21, 2011 in County Wicklow, Ireland.
12. Michael Bond
Writer | Paddington 2
Michael Bond was born on January 13, 1926 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Paddington 2 (2017), Paddington (2014) and The Herbs (1968). He was married to Sue Bond and Brenda Bond. He died on June 27, 2017 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
13. Agatha Christie
Writer | Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie
Agatha was born as "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller" in 1890 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. Agatha was of American and British descent, her father being American and her mother British. Her father was a relatively affluent stockbroker. Agatha received home education from early childhood ...
14. Bram Stoker
Writer | Dracula
Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1847, and gained fame for his novel "Dracula" about an aristocratic vampire in Transylvania. The sequel, "Dracula's Guest," was not published for 17 years after the publication of "Dracula," two years after Stoker's death. Stoker also wrote "The Mystery ...
15. George Orwell
Writer | Nineteen Eighty-Four
Born the son of an Opium Agent in Bengal, Eric Blair was educated in England (Eton 1921). The joined the British Imperial Police in Burma, serving until 1927. He then travelled around England and Europe, doing various odd jobs to support his writing. By 1935 he had adopted the 'pen-name' of 'George...
16. H.G. Wells
Writer | The War of the Worlds
Writer, born in Bromley, Kent. He was apprenticed to a draper, tried teaching, studied biology in London, then made his mark in journalism and literature. He played a vital part in disseminating the progressive ideas which characterized the first part of the 20th-c. He achieved fame with scientific...
17. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Writer | Below the Root
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born on May 11, 1927 in Lemoore, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Below the Root (1984). She was married to Larry Snyder. She died on October 7, 2014 in Greenbrae, California, USA.
18. Isaac Asimov
Writer | I, Robot
Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Judah Ozimov, on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl, near Smolensk, Russia. He was the oldest of three children. His father, named Judah Ozimov, and his mother, named Anna Rachel Ozimov (nee Berman), were Orthodox Jews. Ozimov family were millers (the name Ozimov ...
19. Byron Preiss
Producer | Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles Adventure Game
Byron Preiss was born on April 11, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles Adventure Game (1995), Treasure Island (1985) and Isaac Asimov's the Ultimate Robot (1994). He was married to Sandi Mendelson. He died on July 9, 2005 in East ...
20. Michael Reaves
Writer | Batman: The Animated Series
Michael Reaves was born on September 14, 1950 in San Bernardino, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Star Trek Phase II (2004) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993). He was married to Brynne Chandler. He died on March 20, 2023 in Los ...
21. Michael Moorcock
Soundtrack | Heavy Metal
Michael Moorcock is astounding. His enormous production contains over 50 novels, countless short stories and a rock album. He was born in London 1939, became an editor for Tarzan Adventures when he was 16 years old and than continue as an editor for Sexton Blake Library. He has since than worked ...
22. Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer | Muppet Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer from Edinburgh. His most popular works include the pirate-themed adventure novel "Treasure Island" (1883), the poetry collection "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885), the Gothic horror novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr ...
23. William Shakespeare
Writer | The Tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an ...
24. Steve Jackson
Producer | Black & White
Steve Jackson was born on May 20, 1951 in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He is a producer, known for Black & White (2001), Games Britannia (2009) and TableTop (2012).
25. Ian Livingstone
Writer | Deathtrap Dungeon
Ian Livingstone is known for Deathtrap Dungeon, After Death (2012) and Erica (2019).
26. Robert E. Howard
Writer | Conan the Barbarian
Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian in a series of short stories and novels in the 1930's. Born in Peaster, Texas, he was raised in Cross Plains. His fiction was carried in pulp magazines of the time such as Weird Tales, and H.P. Lovecraft was a friend and admirer of his. He committed ...
27. Johann David Wyss
Writer | Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss was born on May 28, 1743 in Berne, Switzerland. Johann David was a writer, known for Swiss Family Robinson, Perils of the Wild (1925) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Johann David died on January 11, 1830 in Bern, Switzerland.
28. Douglas Adams
Writer | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Born Douglas Noel Adams on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge. From 1959 until 1970 he went to Brentwood school in Essex, and his main interest was science. As a student in Cambridge he decided to hitch-hike through Europe to Istanbul, and in order to raise funds for this he took a lot of small jobs. In ...
29. Jan Berenstain
Writer | The Berenstain Bears
Jan Berenstain was born on July 26, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for The Berenstain Bears (1985), The Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure (1993) and The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight (1995). She was married to Stan Berenstain. She died on February ...
30. Stan Berenstain
Writer | The Berenstain Bears
Stan Berenstain was born on September 29, 1923 in West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Berenstain Bears (1985), The Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure (1993) and The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight (1995). He was married to Jan Berenstain....
31. C.S. Lewis
Writer | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis was born in 1898 and brought up in a very strict, religious household. While he was quite young, his mother died of cancer but the "stiff upper lip" in favour at the time meant he wasn't allowed to grieve. He became an Oxford don and led a sheltered life. He seriously questioned his ...
32. Ray Bradbury
Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater
Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.
He was...
33. Arthur C. Clarke
Writer | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England in December 16, 1917. In 1936 he moved to London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society. There he started to experiment with astronautic material in the BIS, write the BIS Bulletin and science fiction. During ...
34. Terry Jones
Writer | The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...
35. Raymond Briggs
Writer | The Snowman
Raymond Briggs was born on January 18, 1934 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Snowman (1982), Ethel & Ernest (2016) and When the Wind Blows (1986). He was married to Jean Taprell Clark. He died on August 9, 2022 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
36. Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer | Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer of Irish descent, considered a major figure in crime fiction. His most famous series of works consisted of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories (1887-1927), consisting of four novels and 56 short stories. His other notable series were the "Professor Challenger" ...
37. Colin Kapp
Writer | Out of the Unknown
Colin Kapp was born on April 3, 1928 in South London, England, UK. Colin was a writer, known for Out of the Unknown (1965). Colin died on August 3, 2007 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK.
38. Sue Townsend
Writer | Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Sue Townsend was born on April 2, 1946 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001), The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1987) and The Refuge (1987). She was married to Colin Broadway. She died on April 10, 2014 in ...
39. Homer
Writer | Troy
Homer is the name traditionally ascribed to the brilliant Greek bard that authored, most notably, the Iliad and the Odyssey (Western civilization's first complete stories). Nothing concrete is known of his life, but he is traditionally thought to be blind and was probably born in either Chios or ...
41. L. Frank Baum
Writer | The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum became a success with his 1883 production of "The Maid of Arran" in 1882. He was a dreamer, had a printing press and an amateur newspaper, "The Rose Lawn Home Journal" and published a coin and stamp collecting guide. He failed at almost everything through poor business sense. He had ...
42. James Herbert
Writer | The Unholy
James Herbert was born on April 8, 1943 in East End, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Unholy (2021), The Survivor (1981) and Deadly Eyes (1982). He was married to Eileen O'Donnell. He died on March 20, 2013 in Woodmancote, Henfield, West Sussex, England, UK.
43. Frederick Forsyth
Writer | The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth was youngest pilot of the Royal Airforce, joining at the age of 19. He then became a journalist and worked for Reuters in several European capitals. Now he is a thriller author and his books have been sold over 35 million times worldwide.
44. Guanzhong Luo
Writer | Chi bi
Guanzhong Luo was born in 1330 in China. Guanzhong was a writer, known for Red Cliff (2008), Dynasty Warriors (2021) and Three Kingdoms (2008). Guanzhong died in 1400 in China.
45. Stephen King
Writer | Maximum Overdrive
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...
46. Roger Zelazny
Writer | The Twilight Zone
Born in 1937, Roger Zelazny left his strongest mark in the Science Fiction Literature of the '60s and '70s. His first story was published in 1962, and he went on to publish more than 150 short stories and 50 books. His best works include novels "Lord of Light" (1967), "This Immortal" (1966), "...
47. James Clavell
Writer | The Great Escape
James Clavell was born on October 10, 1921, in Sydney, New South Wales, as Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell. He was a film and TV writer and producer. During World War II, he was a British soldier and a Japanese prisoner on Java and in Singapore, which led to his great interest in things East Asian ...
48. Dick Francis
Writer | Dead Cert
Dick Francis learned to ride when he was five, on a donkey. His older brother offered him sixpence if he could jump the fence sitting backwards on the donkey. It took five tries, but the determined five-year-old did finally manage to stay on the donkey as he jumped the fence. He collected the ...
49. Dennis Wheatley
Writer | Forbidden Territory
Dennis Wheatley was born on January 8, 1897 in South London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Forbidden Territory (1934), The Spy in White (1936) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976). He was married to Joan Younger. He died on November 10, 1977 in London, England, UK.
50. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writer | John Carter
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student ...
51. Cheng'en Wu
Writer | Xi you: Xiang mo pian
Wu Ch'Eng-En is believed to have been born around 1506, and is traditionally attributed with the 100-chapter novel "Hsi-yu chi" (Japanese: Sai-yu Ki; English: Journey to the West), first published in 1592. In the West, it is best known in a highly abridged translation of only thirty chapters by ...
52. Terry Pratchett
Writer | Good Omens
Terry Pratchett was born on April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Good Omens (2019), Untitled Discworld Project and The Wee Free Men. He was married to Lyn Marian Purves. He died on March 12, 2015 in Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...
53. Umberto Eco
Writer | Der Name der Rose
He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his scholarly investigations ...
54. Tom Clancy
Writer | The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy became one of the best-selling writers of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, starting with the publication of his 1984 thriller, The Hunt for Red October (1990). Born in Baltimore to a U.S. Post Office employee and his wife on April 12, 1947, Clancy graduated from Loyola Blakefield,...
55. Gaston Leroux
Writer | The Phantom of the Opera
A native of Paris, France, a poet, journalist and novelist, Gaston Leroux is known for his many creative horror stories, including "Rouilable", "The Haunted Chair" and "The Wax Mask", but is probably best known for his work "The Phantom of the Opera", which became Leroux's prize possession. He ...
56. Jules Verne
Writer | Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was one of the most famous French novelists of all time. His major work is the "Extraordinary Journeys", a series of more than sixty adventure novels including "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Around the World in 80 Days", "20.000 Leagues under the Seas" and "...
57. Jacob Grimm
Writer | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jacob Grimm was a German folklorist, linguist, and philologist. He and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm (1786 - 1859) co-operated in collecting, compiling, and revising German folk tales into "Grimms' Fairy Tales" (1812). By its final revised edition in 1857, the collection included 210 unique ...
58. Wilhelm Grimm
Writer | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) was a German author and pioneering anthropologist. He was the younger brother of philologist Jacob Grimm.
Wilhelm was born in the town of Hanau, in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Philipp Wilhelm Grimm and his wife Dorothea Zimmer, ...
59. Daniel Defoe
Writer | Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Born the eldest son and third child of James and Mary Defoe, Defoe received a very good education, as his father intended him to become a Presbyterian minister, but he chose to become a merchant instead. In 1684 he joined the army of the rebel Duke of Monmouth, but when the rebellion failed, Defoe ...
60. Henri Vernes
Writer | Bob Morane
Henri Vernes was born on October 16, 1918 in Ath, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Bob Morane (1964), L'espion aux cent visages (1961) and Bob Morane (1998). He was married to Gilberte. He died on July 25, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium.
61. Alexandre Dumas
Writer | The Count of Monte Cristo
His paternal grandparents were Marie Cessete Dumas (a Haitian slave) and Marquis Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie. Antoine disapproved of their son, Thomas-Alexandre, joining the French army under the "Davy de la Pailleterie" name, so Thomas-Alexandre used his mother's surname instead. He became a ...
62. Aya Nishitani
Writer | Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
Aya Nishitani is known for Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1987) and Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1987).
63. Adrian Edmondson
Actor | Bancroft
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of ...
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