Your going to have to be a little more specific. Plus anyone can write a famous book.
Euclid wrote the famous book called Elements
John Griffith Chaney wrote the famous book called white fang
Euclid
megasthains
he wrote a book
Euclid.
Nani Palkhivala
Nani Palkhivala
She was famous cause of the book she wrote Gone With the Wild
Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War"
Yotred Kodsrestagim was the greek philosopher who never wrote a book.
Albert Camus