The English language has been blessed with some of the finest novelists, poets and playwrights to have ever put quill to parchment. Naturally, when thinking of English language writers, the mind quickly turns to the likes of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens or Earnest Hemmingway. And although it is certainly true that these figures should be referred to when making a metal list of literary greats, there are also many contemporary authors from both England and America who deserve recognition for their body of work.