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- Derek Jarman (1942–1994), English author and filmmaker
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), French author, wrote Ubu Roi (1896)
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), American author, wrote The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
- Nathan Johnson (b. 1977), American writer and politician
- June Jordan (1936–2002), African American poet and writer, of Jamaican parents
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