Guidance on how to pronounce author names, for authors whose last name begins with "D"!

Author Pronunciations

41 last names beginning with "D"

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Edwidge Danticat
Edweedje Danticah
Ram Dass
Pronuciations vary but most have first name rhyming with arm, last with mass
Martin Davies
day-veez
Mark Dawidziak
duh-WID-zee-ack
Christopher de Bellaigue
day buh-LAYG
Louis de Bernieres
LOO-ey duh BAIR-nee-air
Alain de Botton
AL-on de BO-ton (the letter n at end of Alain and Botton is barely pronounced
Peter de Jonge
da JONG
Kit De Waal
duh vahl
Sunyi Dean
sun-yee deen
William deBuys
duh-BWEEZ
Victor del Arbol
AR-bol
Sahar Delijani
sa-HAR deli-JAR-knee
Don DeLillo
D'Lih Lo
Monique Brinson Demery
Moe-NEEK BRIN-son DEM-ery
Nelson DeMille
duh-MILL
Tomie dePaola
tommy de POW luh
Kiran Desai
ki-run de-sigh (ki rhymes with the first two letters of king)
Rachel DeWoskin
deh-WOSS-kin
Junot Diaz
JOO-no DEE-as
Kate DiCamillo
dee-camellow (last part rhymes with yellow)
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
DIFF-en-bah
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
chi-TH-rah ban-ERH-jee deewah-karoonee
Cory Doctorow
DOCK-tor-oh
E.L. Doctorow
DAHK-tuh-row (emphasis on the first syllable. Russian for 'son of a doctor')
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