
Historical voices
Hans Christian Andersen
1805–1875
Denmark's great teller of literary fairy tales.
Authors
The writers on the Valice list, and the writers around it — folklore and philosophy, puzzles and games, and a century of sapphic love stories.
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31 authors

Historical voices
1805–1875
Denmark's great teller of literary fairy tales.

Historical voices
121–180
The last of the Five Good Emperors, and the Stoic who wrote the Meditations for himself.

Sapphic romance
born 1932
Author of the Beebo Brinker Chronicles; the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction".

Historical voices
1834–1924
Parson, antiquarian, novelist and folk-song collector; author of "Onward, Christian Soldiers".
Valice Press originals
Emre Doğan writes about the stories that cultures tell themselves in order to keep going.

Sapphic romance
born 1969
Novelist, playwright and historian of lesbian life; author of Room, Hood and Kissing the Witch.

Games & puzzles
1857–1930
One of the foremost creators of mathematical puzzles in English.
Sapphic romance
born 1939
Author of Curious Wine and the Kate Delafield mysteries; "a founding mother of lesbian fiction".
Valice Press originals

Games & puzzles
1914–2010
The writer who made recreational mathematics popular, through his "Mathematical Games" column.

Sapphic romance
born 1960
Novelist of Ammonite, Slow River and Hild; six-time Lambda Literary Award winner.
Valice Press originals
Harper Hayes writes contemporary small-town romances about capable women, quiet places, found families, and the courage to choose a life on purpose.

Historical voices
1850–1904
The writer who carried Japanese ghost stories into English.

Sapphic romance
1921–1995
Master of the psychological thriller — and author of The Price of Salt (Carol), a landmark lesbian love story.

Sapphic romance
born 1960
Called the "Queen of Lesbian Romance"; author of Painted Moon and Just Like That.
Historical voices
1789–1872
A pioneer of comparative folklore, and the author of The Fairy Mythology.
Historical voices
c. 1826–1888
Naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium who explained the kraken and the sea serpent.

Games & puzzles
born 1949
Co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and co-founder of Games Workshop.
Sapphic romance
born 1974
Author of Ash, a sapphic Cinderella, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.

Games & puzzles
1841–1911
America's most famous puzzle-maker — and its most famous puzzle-hustler.

Games & puzzles
1868–1955
The historian whose books are the standard histories of chess and of board games.

Historical voices
43 BC – AD 17/18
The Roman poet of the Metamorphoses, and the most-read source of classical myth.

Historical voices
1809–1849
Poet and master of the macabre; a pioneer of the detective story.
Sapphic romance
born 1950
Lesbian romance novelist and founder of Bold Strokes Books.

Historical voices
1797–1851
Author of Frankenstein, and an early voice of science fiction.
Historical voices
1836–1883
American journalist and consul whose British Goblins gathered Welsh folklore and customs.

Historical voices
1839–1915
Welsh artist and antiquary of Cardiff, and a founder of the National Museum of Wales.

Sapphic romance
born 1966
Novelist of lesbian love in Victorian and wartime England: Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

Historical voices
1854–1900
Playwright, poet and wit; author of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sapphic romance
born 1959
Author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body.

Historical voices
1882–1941
A pioneer of stream-of-consciousness; author of Mrs Dalloway and Orlando.
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