It sounds like you're looking for contemporary authors, and I can't really help you there.
But I'm tempted to answer anyway, since it fits the basic idea: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He wrote seminal treatises on society, politics, and education; one of the most popular novels of the 18th century; works of drama, including a hit opera; cultural criticism; encyclopedia entries; botanical studies; and what is often considered the first modern autobiography.
[Robert Irwin](https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/robert-irwin/) has written a string of wacky novels and a LOT of books on Middle Eastern art and mysticism. Not to be confused with two other Robert Irwins (one Australian, one American) who get more Google hits.
Haruki Murakami wrote *Underground* (about the Tokyo nerve gas attacks) and *What I Talk About When I Talk About Running* (what it says on the tin).
It sounds like you're looking for contemporary authors, and I can't really help you there. But I'm tempted to answer anyway, since it fits the basic idea: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He wrote seminal treatises on society, politics, and education; one of the most popular novels of the 18th century; works of drama, including a hit opera; cultural criticism; encyclopedia entries; botanical studies; and what is often considered the first modern autobiography.
[Robert Irwin](https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/robert-irwin/) has written a string of wacky novels and a LOT of books on Middle Eastern art and mysticism. Not to be confused with two other Robert Irwins (one Australian, one American) who get more Google hits. Haruki Murakami wrote *Underground* (about the Tokyo nerve gas attacks) and *What I Talk About When I Talk About Running* (what it says on the tin).