LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Edward Abbey	Author	29-Jan-1927	14-Mar-1989	Desert Solitaire
Lynn Abbey	Author	1948		Thieves World
George Abbott	Playwright	25-Jun-1887	31-Jan-1995	Damn Yankees
Jacob Abbott	Author	14-Nov-1803	31-Oct-1879	Franconia Stories
Walter Abish	Author	24-Dec-1931		Alphabetical Africa
M. H. Abrams	Author	23-Jul-1912		The Mirror and the Lamp
Michael Abrash	Computer Programmer	?		Graphics Programming Black Book
André Aciman	Author	2-Jan-1951		Out of Egypt
Kathy Acker	Author	18-Apr-1947	30-Nov-1997	Blood and Guts in High School
Diane Ackerman	Author	7-Oct-1948		A Natural History of the Senses
Forrest J. Ackerman	Author	24-Nov-1916	4-Dec-2008	Mr. Science Fiction
Louis Adamic	Author	23-Mar-1899	4-Sep-1951	Laughing in the Jungle
Alice Adams	Novelist	14-Aug-1926	27-May-1999	Superior Women
Charles Follen Adams	Poet	21-Apr-1842	8-Mar-1918	Leedle Yawcob Strauss
James Truslow Adams	Author	18-Oct-1878	18-May-1949	The Epic of America
Kathryn Adams	Actor	15-Jul-1920		Sky Raiders
Léonie Adams	Poet	9-Dec-1899	27-Jun-1988	Those Not Elect
Samuel Hopkins Adams	Journalist	26-Jan-1871	15-Nov-1958	The Great American Fraud
William Taylor Adams	Author	30-Jul-1822	27-Mar-1897	Oliver Optic's Magazine
George Ade	Author	9-Feb-1866	16-May-1944	Fables in Slang
Renata Adler	Journalist	19-Oct-1938		Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
James Agee	Poet	27-Nov-1909	16-May-1955	A Death in the Family
Conrad Aiken	Poet	5-Aug-1889	17-Aug-1973	Earth Triumphant
Fouad Ajami	Author	9-Sep-1945		Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS
Zoë Akins	Playwright	30-Oct-1886	29-Oct-1958	The Greeks Had a Word For It
Edward Albee	Playwright	12-Mar-1928		Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Laura Albert	Novelist	1965		The infamous JT LeRoy
Mitch Albom	Novelist	23-May-1958		Tuesdays with Morrie
Louisa May Alcott	Author	29-Nov-1832	6-Mar-1888	Little Women
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Poet	11-Nov-1836	19-Mar-1907	The Story of a Bad Boy
Lloyd Alexander	Novelist	30-Jan-1924	17-May-2007	The Chronicles of Prydain
Shana Alexander	Journalist	6-Oct-1925	23-Jun-2005	Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
Sherman Alexie	Novelist	7-Oct-1966		The Business of Fancydancing
Mimi Alford	Author	7-May-1943		Once Upon a Secret
Horatio Alger	Author	13-Jan-1832	18-Jul-1899	Ragged Dick
Nelson Algren	Author	28-Mar-1909	9-May-1981	The Man with the Golden Arm
David Allen	Author	28-Dec-1945		Getting Things Done
Frederick Lewis Allen	Journalist	5-Jul-1890	13-Feb-1954	Editor of Harpers, 1941-53
Hervey Allen	Poet	8-Dec-1889	28-Dec-1949	Ballads of the Border
Washington Allston	Painter	5-Nov-1779	9-Jul-1843	The Dead Man Revived
Susan Mary Alsop	Socialite	19-Jun-1918	18-Aug-2004	Washington DC Socialite
Stephen E. Ambrose	Author	10-Jan-1936	13-Oct-2002	Band of Brothers
A. R. Ammons	Poet	18-Feb-1926	25-Feb-2001	Sphere
Cleveland Amory	Author	2-Sep-1917	14-Oct-1998	The Cat Who Came for Christmas
Rudolfo Anaya	Author	30-Oct-1937		Bless Me, Ultima
Kevin J. Anderson	Novelist	27-Mar-1962		Dune Prequels
Margaret Anderson	Author	24-Nov-1886	18-Oct-1973	Founder of the Little Review
Maxwell Anderson	Playwright	15-Dec-1888	28-Feb-1959	What Price Glory?
Poul Anderson	Author	25-Nov-1926	31-Jul-2001	Tau Zero
Regina M. Anderson	Playwright	21-May-1901	5-Feb-1993	Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Robert W. Anderson	Playwright	28-Apr-1917	9-Feb-2009	Tea and Sympathy
Sherwood Anderson	Author	13-Sep-1876	8-Mar-1941	The Triumph of the Egg
V. C. Andrews	Author	6-Jun-1923	19-Dec-1986	Flowers in the Attic
Maya Angelou	Poet	4-Apr-1928		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kenneth Anger	Film Director	3-Feb-1930		Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker
Natalie Angier	Journalist	16-Feb-1958		Science reporter
Katharine Anthony	Author	27-Nov-1877	20-Nov-1965	Biographer, The Lambs
Piers Anthony	Novelist	6-Aug-1934		Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality
David Antin	Artist	1-Feb-1932		Improv artist, talk poet
Mary Antin	Author	1881	15-May-1949	The Promised Land
William Apess	Author	31-Jan-1798	Apr-1839	A Son of the Forest
Max Apple	Author	22-Oct-1941		I Love Gootie
Richard Armour	Author	15-Jul-1906	28-Feb-1989	It All Started with Columbus
Katie Arnoldi	Novelist	24-Feb-1959		Chemical Pink
Bill Arp	Columnist	15-Jun-1826	24-Aug-1903	Columnist for Atlanta Constitution
Kate Ascher	Author	c. 1958		The Works: Anatomy of a City
John Ashbery	Poet	28-Jul-1927		Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Howard Ashman	Songwriter	17-May-1950	14-Mar-1991	Beauty and the Beast
Isaac Asimov	Author	2-Jan-1920	6-Apr-1992	Foundation
Robert Asprin	Author	28-Jun-1946	22-May-2008	Thieves World
Michael J. Astrue	Government	c. 1956		Social Security Commissioner
Gertrude Franklin Atherton	Author	30-Oct-1857	14-Jun-1948	Black Oxen
Louis Auchincloss	Author	27-Sep-1917	26-Jan-2010	Portrait in Brownstone
W. H. Auden	Poet	21-Feb-1907	29-Sep-1973	The Age of Anxiety
Jean M. Auel	Novelist	18-Feb-1936		The Clan of the Cave Bear
Ken Auletta	Columnist	23-Apr-1942		Media Columnist
Paul Auster	Novelist	3-Feb-1947		New York Trilogy
Mary Austin	Author	9-Sep-1868	13-Aug-1934	Land of Little Rain
Richard Bach	Author	23-Jun-1936		Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Delia Bacon	Author	2-Feb-1811	2-Sep-1859	Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist
Robert Baer	Spy	c. 1952		Sleeping with the Devil
Deborah Baker	Author	28-Mar-1959		In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
Elliott Baker	Novelist	15-Dec-1922	9-Feb-2007	A Fine Madness
Nicholson Baker	Author	7-Jan-1957		Double Fold
Ray Stannard Baker	Journalist	17-Apr-1870	12-Jul-1946	Biographer of Woodrow Wilson
Russell Baker	Author	14-Aug-1925		Growing Up
Stephen Baker	Author	15-Nov-1955		The Numerati
David Baldacci	Novelist	1960		Absolute Power
Letitia Baldrige	Author	9-Feb-1926		Etiquette columnist
James Baldwin	Novelist	2-Aug-1924	30-Nov-1987	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Joseph G. Baldwin	Author	Jan-1815	30-Sep-1864	Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
Toni Cade Bambara	Novelist	25-Mar-1939	9-Dec-1995	Gorilla, My Love
James Bamford	Author	15-Sep-1946		The Puzzle Palace
Russell Banks	Author	28-Mar-1940		The Sweet Hereafter
Amiri Baraka	Author	7-Oct-1934		Hates Whitey
Joel Barlow	Poet	25-Mar-1754	24-Dec-1812	The Hasty Pudding
R. H. Barlow	Author	18-May-1918	2-Jan-1951	Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft
Djuna Barnes	Novelist	12-Jun-1892	18-Jun-1982	Modernist poet, Nightwood
Joanna Barnes	Actor	15-Nov-1934		Goodbye Charlie
Philip Barry	Playwright	18-Jun-1896	3-Dec-1949	The Philadelphia Story
John Barth	Novelist	27-May-1930		Lost in the Funhouse
Donald Barthelme	Author	7-Apr-1931	23-Jul-1989	Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Frederick Barthelme	Novelist	10-Oct-1943		Moon Deluxe
John Bartlett	Author	14-Jun-1820	3-Dec-1905	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
William Bartram	Naturalist	9-Feb-1739	22-Jul-1823	18th Century American travelling naturalist
Nicholas Basbanes	Author	1943		A Gentle Madness
John Batchelor	Radio Personality	1948		The John Batchelor Show
John Battelle	Blogger	4-Nov-1965		The Industry Standard
L. Frank Baum	Novelist	15-May-1856	6-May-1919	The Wizard of Oz
Greg Bear	Author	20-Aug-1951		Eon
Ann Beattie	Author	8-Sep-1947		Chilly Scenes of Winter
Warren Beck	Novelist	c. 1900	?	Final Score
Stephen Becker	Novelist	31-Mar-1927	27-Mar-1999	When the War Is Over
David Belasco	Playwright	25-Jul-1853	14-May-1931	Madame Butterfly
Edward Bellamy	Author	26-Mar-1850	22-May-1898	Looking Backward
Donald P. Bellisario	Author	8-Aug-1935		Wrote Battlestar Galactica, created Airwolf
Saul Bellow	Novelist	10-Jun-1915	5-Apr-2005	The Adventures of Augie March
Peter Benchley	Novelist	8-May-1940	11-Feb-2006	Jaws
Robert Benchley	Author	15-Sep-1889	21-Nov-1945	Humorist and screenwriter
Brian Michael Bendis	Author	18-Aug-1967		Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil
Stephen Vincent Benét	Author	22-Jul-1898	13-Mar-1943	John Brown's Body
William Rose Benét	Poet	2-Feb-1886	4-May-1950	The Dust Which Is God
Gregory Benford	Novelist	30-Jan-1941		Physicist and author of Timescape
Gwendolyn Bennett	Author	8-Jul-1902	30-May-1981	Harlem Renaissance writer
William Bennett	Government	31-Jul-1943		Former Drug Czar and gambling man
Warren Bennis	Educator	8-Mar-1925		Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge
Amber Benson	Actor	8-Jan-1977		Tara Maclay on Buffy
Mildred Wirt Benson	Author	10-Jul-1905	28-May-2002	Ghostwriter of the Nancy Drew mystery series
Thomas Berger	Novelist	20-Jul-1924		Little Big Man
Charles Berlitz	Author	20-Nov-1914	18-Dec-2003	Language lessons and specultive non-fiction
Edward Bernays	Business	22-Nov-1891	9-Mar-1995	Propaganda
Steven Jesse Bernstein	Poet	4-Dec-1950	22-Oct-1991	Grunge poet and punk rocker
Daniel Berrigan	Author	9-May-1921		The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Ted Berrigan	Poet	15-Nov-1934	4-Jul-1983	The Sonnets
Wendell Berry	Author	5-Aug-1934		A Place on Earth
John Berryman	Poet	25-Oct-1914	7-Jan-1972	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Alfred Bester	Novelist	18-Dec-1913	30-Sep-1987	The Stars My Destination
Doris Betts	Author	4-Jun-1932	21-Apr-2012	Souls Raised from the Dead
Hakim Bey	Author	1945		Temporary Autonomous Zone
Frank Bidart	Poet	1939		The Book of the Body
Ambrose Bierce	Author	24-Jun-1842	c. 1914	The Devil's Dictionary
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
Poultney Bigelow	Author	10-Sep-1855	28-May-1954	The German Struggle for Liberty
Green Bar Bill	Author	6-Aug-1900	9-Nov-1992	Prominent Scouter
Josh Billings	Author	21-Apr-1818	14-Oct-1885	19th century American humorist
Stanley Bing	Columnist	20-May-1951		Columnist for Fortune
Elizabeth Bishop	Poet	8-Feb-1911	6-Oct-1979	North & South
Kenneth Blanchard	Educator	6-May-1939		The One Minute Manager
William Peter Blatty	Author	7-Jan-1928		The Exorcist
Burt Blechman	Novelist	2-Mar-1927		How Much?
James Blish	Author	23-May-1921	30-Jul-1975	Cities in Flight
Roy Blount, Jr.	Author	5-Oct-1941		Humorist
Judy Blume	Author	12-Feb-1938		Author of children's books
Sidney Blumenthal	Government	1948		Advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton
Robert Bly	Poet	23-Dec-1926		Iron John: A Book About Men
Myrna Blyth	Author	c. 1939		Editor-in-Chief, Ladies' Home Journal
Louise Bogan	Poet	11-Aug-1897	4-Feb-1970	The New Yorker poetry critic
Eric Bogosian	Actor	24-Apr-1953		Talk Radio
Edward Bok	Author	9-Oct-1863	9-Jan-1930	Editor of Ladies' Home Journal
George Henry Boker	Playwright	6-Oct-1823	2-Jan-1890	Francesca da Rimini
Joseph Bologna	Actor	30-Dec-1934		Blame it on Rio
Erma Bombeck	Columnist	21-Feb-1927	22-Apr-1996	The Grass is Always Greener
Arna Bontemps	Novelist	13-Oct-1902	4-Jun-1973	God Sends Sunday
Daniel Boorstin	Historian	1-Oct-1914	28-Feb-2004	The Creators
Max Boot	Columnist	1969		Conservative pundit
Vance Bourjaily	Novelist	17-Sep-1922	31-Aug-2010	The End of My Life
Ben Bova	Author	28-Nov-1932		Science fiction writer
James Bovard	Author	1956		Lost Rights
John Bowe	Author	1964		Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor
Robert O. Bowen	Novelist	7-May-1920	9-Jun-2003	The Weight of the Cross
Edgar Bowers	Poet	2-Mar-1924	4-Feb-2000	For Louis Pasteur
Scotty Bowers	Author	1-Jul-1923		Full Service
Jane Bowles	Novelist	22-Feb-1917	4-May-1973	Two Serious Ladies
Paul Bowles	Author	30-Dec-1910	18-Nov-1999	The Sheltering Sky
Kay Boyle	Author	19-Feb-1902	27-Dec-1992	The Underground Woman
T. C. Boyle	Author	7-Dec-1948		The Tortilla Curtain
Charles Brackett	Screenwriter	26-Nov-1892	9-Mar-1969	Billy Wilder's collaborator
Ray Bradbury	Author	22-Aug-1920	5-Jun-2012	Fahrenheit 451
Marion Zimmer Bradley	Author	3-Jun-1930	25-Sep-1999	The Mists of Avalon
Anne Bradstreet	Poet	c. 1612	16-Sep-1672	The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Gloria Brame	Author	20-Aug-1955		Clinical sexologist
Richard Brautigan	Author	30-Jan-1935	14-Oct-1984	So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Donna Brazile	Author	15-Dec-1959		Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager
Susie Bright	Columnist	25-Mar-1958		Sexpert, porn critic
David Brin	Novelist	6-Oct-1950		The Uplift War
Bertrand R. Brinley	Author	19-Jun-1917	20-Oct-1994	The Mad Scientists' Club
Poppy Z. Brite	Author	25-May-1967		Are You Loathsome Tonight?
David Brock	Journalist	1962		Blinded by the Right
John Brockman	Pundit	1941		Editor of edge.org
Paul Brodeur	Novelist	16-May-1931		The Sick Fox
Harold Brodkey	Novelist	25-Oct-1930	26-Jan-1996	Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Joseph Brodsky	Poet	24-May-1940	28-Jan-1996	"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate
Louis Bromfield	Author	27-Dec-1896	18-Mar-1956	Early Autumn
Richard Brookhiser	Journalist	23-Feb-1955		National Review
Anita Brookner	Novelist	16-Jul-1928		Hotel Du Lac
Arthur C. Brooks	Author	21-May-1964		Gross National Happiness
Fred Brooks	Computer Programmer	19-Apr-1931		Father of the IBM System 360
Gwendolyn Brooks	Poet	7-Jun-1917	3-Dec-2000	Annie Allen
Terry Brooks	Author	8-Jan-1944		The Shannara series
Van Wyck Brooks	Critic	16-Feb-1886	2-May-1963	Finders & Makers
Chandler Brossard	Novelist	18-Jul-1922	29-Aug-1993	The Bold Saboteurs
Charles Brockden Brown	Novelist	17-Jan-1771	22-Feb-1810	First American novelist, Wieland
Claude Brown	Author	23-Feb-1937	2-Feb-2002	Manchild in the Promised Land
Dan Brown	Novelist	22-Jun-1964		The Da Vinci Code
Helen Gurley Brown	Author	18-Feb-1922	13-Aug-2012	Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97
Larry Brown	Novelist	9-Jul-1951	24-Nov-2004	Joe
Rita Mae Brown	Author	28-Nov-1944		Rubyfruit Jungle
Rosellen Brown	Author	12-May-1939		Before and After
Tony Brown	Talk Show Host	11-Apr-1933		Host of Tony Brown's Journal
Wesley Brown	Novelist	1945		Tragic Magic
Susan Brownmiller	Activist	15-Feb-1935		Feminist, Against Our Will
William Cullen Bryant	Poet	3-Nov-1794	12-Jun-1878	Editor, The New York Evening Post
Edna Buchanan	Author	c. 1939		The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Pearl S. Buck	Author	26-Jun-1892	6-Mar-1973	The Good Earth
Christopher Buckley	Novelist	24-Dec-1952		Thank You for Smoking
Algis Budrys	Author	9-Jan-1931	9-Jun-2008	Rogue Moon
Frederick Buechner	Novelist	11-Jul-1926		The Final Beast
Lois McMaster Bujold	Novelist	2-Nov-1949		The Vorkosigan Saga
Charles Bukowski	Author	16-Aug-1920	9-Mar-1994	Love is a Dog from Hell
Thomas Bulfinch	Author	15-Jul-1796	27-May-1867	Bullfinch's Mythology
Ed Bullins	Playwright	2-Jul-1935		In the Wine Time
Edward Bunker	Author	31-Dec-1933	19-Jul-2005	Animal Factory
Gelett Burgess	Cartoonist	30-Jan-1866	17-Sep-1951	Has never seen a purple cow
Chris Burke	Actor	26-Aug-1965		Corky on Life Goes On
James Lee Burke	Novelist	5-Dec-1936		Dave Robicheaux series
W. R. Burnett	Novelist	25-Nov-1899	25-Apr-1982	Little Caesar
Augusten Burroughs	Author	23-Oct-1965		Running With Scissors
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Novelist	1-Sep-1875	19-Mar-1950	Tarzan
John Burroughs	Naturalist	3-Apr-1837	29-Mar-1921	Birds and Poets
William S. Burroughs	Author	5-Feb-1914	2-Aug-1997	Naked Lunch
Janet Burroway	Novelist	21-Sep-1936		The Dancer from the Dance
Abe Burrows	Playwright	18-Dec-1910	17-May-1985	Co-Author, Guys and Dolls
Leo Buscaglia	Author	31-Mar-1924	11-Jun-1998	Dr. Hug
Frederick Busch	Novelist	1-Aug-1941	23-Feb-2006	Don't Tell Anyone
Candace Bushnell	Journalist	1-Dec-1958		Columnist, Sex and the City
Jerry Butler	Pornstar	13-May-1959		10 1/2 Weeks
Octavia Butler	Novelist	22-Jun-1947	24-Feb-2006	Patternmaster
Robert Olen Butler	Author	20-Jan-1945		A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
James Branch Cabell	Novelist	14-Apr-1879	5-May-1958	Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
George W. Cable	Author	12-Oct-1844	31-Jan-1925	Old Creole Days
Meg Cabot	Author	1-Feb-1967		The Princess Diaries
Thomas Cahill	Author	29-Mar-1940		How the Irish Saved Civilization
James M. Cain	Novelist	1-Jul-1892	27-Oct-1977	The Postman Always Rings Twice
Mary Calderone	Activist	1-Jul-1904	24-Oct-1998	Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
Erskine Caldwell	Author	17-Dec-1903	11-Apr-1987	Tobacco Road
Pat Califia	Author	8-Mar-1954		FTM transgendered sex writer
Hortense Calisher	Novelist	20-Dec-1911	15-Jan-2009	In the Absence of Angels
Don Callander	Novelist	23-Mar-1930	26-Jul-2008	Pyromancer
Ernest Callenbach	Author	3-Apr-1929	16-Apr-2012	Ecotopia
L. Sprague de Camp	Author	27-Nov-1907	6-Nov-2000	Lest Darkness Fall
Walter Camp	Football	7-Apr-1859	14-Mar-1925	Father of American football
John W. Campbell	Editor	8-Jun-1910	11-Jul-1971	Editor of Astounding, 1938-71
Joseph Campbell	Author	26-Mar-1904	31-Oct-1987	The Power of Myth
Stephen J. Cannell	Film/TV Producer	2-May-1941	30-Sep-2010	Creator of The Rockford Files
Lou Cannon	Journalist	3-Jun-1933		Reagan biographer
Robert Cantwell	Novelist	31-Jan-1908	8-Dec-1978	Laugh and Lie Down
Truman Capote	Novelist	30-Sep-1924	25-Aug-1984	In Cold Blood
Philip Caputo	Author	10-Jun-1941		A Rumor of War
Orson Scott Card	Novelist	24-Aug-1951		Ender's Game
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey	Author	4-Apr-1908	4-Nov-2006	Cheaper by the Dozen
Dale Carnegie	Author	24-Nov-1888	1-Nov-1955	How to Win Friends and Influence People
Carleton Carpenter	Actor	10-Jul-1926		Two Weeks: With Love
Caleb Carr	Novelist	2-Aug-1955		The Alienist
Nicholas G. Carr	Author	1959		Does IT Matter?
Jim Carroll	Author	1-Aug-1950	11-Sep-2009	The Basketball Diaries
Hayden Carruth	Poet	3-Aug-1921	29-Sep-2008	Brothers, I Loved You All
Chris Carter	Film/TV Producer	13-Oct-1957		Creator of The X-Files, Millennium
Emily Carter	Author	1960		Glory Goes and Gets Some
Lisa Carver	Author	c. 1968		Rollerderby, Suckdog
Raymond Carver	Author	25-May-1938	2-Aug-1988	Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
John Casey	Novelist	18-Jan-1939		Spartina
Jack Cashill	Author	15-Dec-1947		What's The Matter With California?
Carolyn Cassady	Author	28-Apr-1923		Wife of Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady	Author	8-Feb-1926	4-Feb-1968	The Holy Goof
R. V. Cassill	Novelist	17-May-1919	25-Mar-2002	Dr. Cobb's Game
Willa Cather	Novelist	7-Dec-1873	24-Apr-1947	O Pioneers!
Michael Chabon	Novelist	24-May-1963		The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Jack L. Chalker	Author	17-Dec-1944	11-Feb-2005	SF author, wrote Well World series
Whitman Chambers	Novelist	8-Dec-1896	20-Jul-1968	Hard-boiled mystery novelist
Whittaker Chambers	Author	1-Apr-1901	9-Jul-1961	Accuser of Alger Hiss
Raymond Chandler	Author	23-Jul-1888	26-Mar-1959	Invented hard-boiled detective novel
Eileen Chang	Author	30-Sep-1920	8-Sep-1995	Lust, Caution
Iris Chang	Author	28-Mar-1968	9-Nov-2004	The Rape of Nanking
John Jay Chapman	Essayist	2-Mar-1862	4-Nov-1933	Essayist, founder of The Nursery
Leslie Charteris	Novelist	12-May-1907	15-Apr-1993	Created Simon Templar
Jerome Charyn	Novelist	13-May-1937		The Good Policeman
Mary Ellen Chase	Scholar	24-Feb-1887	28-Jul-1973	Silas Crockett
Paddy Chayefsky	Playwright	29-Jan-1923	1-Aug-1981	Network
John Cheever	Author	27-May-1912	18-Jun-1982	The Enormous Radio
Ron Chernow	Author	1949		The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton
C. J. Cherryh	Author	1-Sep-1942		Cyteen and Downbelow Station
Charles Chesnutt	Novelist	20-Jun-1858	15-Nov-1932	The Conjure Woman
Alfred Chester	Novelist	7-Sep-1928	1-Aug-1971	The Exquisite Corpse
Alan Cheuse	Novelist	23-Jan-1940		The Bohemians
Tracy Chevalier	Novelist	1962		Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mark Childress	Novelist	21-Sep-1957		Crazy in Alabama
Margaret Cho	Comic	5-Dec-1968		Loud-mouthed standup comic
Kate Chopin	Novelist	8-Feb-1851	22-Aug-1904	The Awakening
Deepak Chopra	Author	22-Oct-1946		Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Stoyan Christowe	Author	1-Sep-1898	28-Dec-1995	Heroes and Assassins
Winston Churchill	Novelist	10-Nov-1871	12-Mar-1947	Early 20th century American novelist
Carolyn Chute	Novelist	14-Jun-1947		The Beans of Egypt, Maine
John Ciardi	Poet	24-Jun-1916	30-Mar-1986	How Does a Poem Mean?
Sandra Cisneros	Author	20-Dec-1954		The House on Mango Street
Tom Clancy	Novelist	12-Apr-1947		The Hunt for Red October
Mary Higgins Clark	Novelist	24-Dec-1929		A Stranger is Watching
Walter van Tilburg Clark	Novelist	3-Aug-1909	10-Nov-1971	The Ox-Bow Incident
James Freeman Clarke	Religion	4-Apr-1810	8-Jun-1888	Ten Great Religions
James Clavell	Novelist	10-Oct-1924	7-Sep-1994	Shogun and The Great Escape
Beverly Cleary	Author	12-Apr-1916		Children's author, Ramona Quimby series
Hal Clement	Novelist	20-May-1922	29-Oct-2003	Mission of Gravity
Lucille Clifton	Poet	27-Jun-1936	13-Feb-2010	Good Woman
Rachel Cline	Author	?		What to Keep
Irvin S. Cobb	Author	23-Jun-1876	10-Mar-1944	Old Judge Priest
Andrei Codrescu	Author	20-Dec-1946		Exquisite Corpse
Ethan Coen	Film Director	21-Sep-1957		Half of the Coen brothers
Joel Coen	Film Director	29-Nov-1954		Half of the Coen brothers
Robert P. Tristram Coffin	Poet	18-Mar-1892	20-Jan-1955	Strange Holiness
George M. Cohan	Composer	3-Jul-1878	5-Nov-1942	Yankee Doodle Dandy
Jared Cohen	Government	24-Nov-1981		Children of Jihad
Peter Collier	Publisher	?		Encounter Books
Larry Collins	Author	14-Sep-1929	20-Jun-2005	Is Paris Burning?
Suzanne Collins	Novelist	11-Aug-1962		The Hunger Games
Aaron Cometbus	Author	1968		Zine author, Cometbus
Joe Conason	Journalist	c. 1954		New York Observer political columnist
Marc Connelly	Playwright	13-Dec-1890	21-Dec-1980	The Green Pastures
Frank Conroy	Author	15-Jan-1936	6-Apr-2005	Stop-Time
Pat Conroy	Novelist	26-Oct-1945		The Prince of Tides
Bob Considine	Journalist	4-Nov-1906	25-Sep-1975	Ghostwriter, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Robin Cook	Novelist	4-May-1940		Coma
Susan Coolidge	Novelist	29-Jan-1835	9-Apr-1905	What Katy Did
Caroline B. Cooney	Novelist	10-May-1947		Juvenile novelist, Rear View Mirror
James Fenimore Cooper	Novelist	15-Sep-1789	14-Sep-1851	The Last of the Mohicans
Anthony H. Cordesman	Government	2-Aug-1938		The Lessons of Modern War
Cid Corman	Poet	29-Jun-1924	12-Mar-2004	Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Robert Cormier	Author	17-Jan-1925	2-Nov-2000	I am the Cheese
David Corn	Columnist	Feb-1959		Washington editor of The Nation
Patricia Cornwell	Novelist	9-Jun-1956		Crime novelist, Postmortem
Gregory Corso	Poet	26-Mar-1930	17-Jan-2001	Beat poet, Gasoline
John Cotton	Religion	4-Dec-1585	23-Dec-1652	First Church of Boston
Norman Cousins	Author	24-Jun-1912	30-Nov-1990	Editor of The Saturday Review
Malcolm Cowley	Author	24-Aug-1898	27-Mar-1989	Exile's Return
James Gould Cozzens	Novelist	19-Aug-1903	9-Aug-1978	Guard of Honor
Hart Crane	Poet	21-Jul-1899	27-Apr-1932	Industrial and urban poet
Stephen Crane	Novelist	1-Nov-1871	5-Jun-1900	The Red Badge of Courage
F. Marion Crawford	Novelist	2-Aug-1854	9-Apr-1909	Whosoever Shall Offend
George Creel	Journalist	1-Dec-1876	2-Oct-1953	Head of the Committee on Public Information
Robert Creeley	Poet	21-May-1926	30-Mar-2005	Founded Black Mountain Review
Harry Crews	Novelist	7-Jun-1935	28-Mar-2012	The Gospel Singer
Michael Crichton	Novelist	23-Oct-1942	4-Nov-2008	Jurassic Park
Michael Cristofer	Playwright	22-Jan-1945		The Shadow Box
Herbert Croly	Author	23-Jan-1869	17-May-1930	The Promise of American Life
Rachel Crothers	Playwright	12-Dec-1878	5-Jul-1958	When Ladies Meet
Russel Crouse	Playwright	20-Feb-1893	3-Apr-1966	The Sound of Music
Cameron Crowe	Film Director	13-Jul-1957		Almost Famous
John Crowley	Author	1-Dec-1942		Little, Big
James Crumley	Novelist	12-Oct-1939	17-Sep-2008	The Mexican Tree Duck
Countee Cullen	Poet	30-May-1903	9-Jan-1946	Harlem Renaissance poet
e. e. cummings	Poet	14-Oct-1894	3-Sep-1962	Majuscule-challenged American poet
Michael Cunningham	Novelist	6-Nov-1952		The Hours
Clive Cussler	Author	15-Jul-1931		Raising the Titanic
Dinesh D'Souza	Author	25-Apr-1961		Conservative author
Amy Dacyczyn	Author	c. 1956		The Tightwad Gazette
Edward Dahlberg	Novelist	22-Jul-1900	27-Feb-1977	Because I Was Flesh
Theodore Dalrymple	Author	11-Oct-1949		Life at the Bottom
Richard Henry Dana	Author	1-Aug-1815	6-Jan-1882	Two Years Before the Mast
Jeff Daniels	Actor	19-Feb-1955		Dumb and Dumber
Edwidge Danticat	Author	19-Jan-1969		The Dew Breaker
Sam Dash	Government	27-Feb-1925	29-May-2004	Chief counsel, Senate Watergate committee
Guy Davenport	Author	23-Nov-1927	4-Jan-2005	Thasos and Ohio
Donald Davidson	Poet	8-Aug-1893	25-Apr-1968	Agrarian, Southern American poet
H. L. Davis	Novelist	18-Oct-1894	31-Oct-1960	Honey in the Horn
Ossie Davis	Actor	18-Dec-1917	4-Feb-2005	Do The Right Thing
Richard Harding Davis	Author	18-Apr-1864	11-Apr-1916	Yellow-era journalist
Clarence Day	Author	18-Nov-1874	28-Dec-1935	Life with Father
Peter De Vries	Novelist	27-Feb-1910	28-Sep-1993	The Tunnel of Love
Midge Decter	Journalist	25-Jul-1927		Neoconservative maven
Lester del Rey	Author	2-Jun-1915	10-May-1993	Founder of Del Rey Books
Margaret Deland	Author	23-Feb-1857	13-Jan-1945	Old Chester Tales
Samuel R. Delany	Author	1-Apr-1942		Triton
Don DeLillo	Novelist	20-Nov-1936		White Noise
Floyd Dell	Journalist	28-Jun-1887	23-Jul-1969	Moon-Calf
Ovid Demaris	Author	6-Sep-1919	12-Mar-1998	The Last Mafioso
Nelson DeMille	Novelist	23-Aug-1943		The General's Daughter
Daniel C. Dennett	Philosopher	28-Mar-1942		Leading Darwinist and philosopher
Patrick Dennis	Novelist	18-May-1921	6-Nov-1976	Auntie Mame
John Derbyshire	Author	3-Jun-1945		Conservative pundit
Mark Dery	Author	1959		Culture Jamming
Elizabeth Dewberry	Playwright	1963		Break the Heart of Me
Diablo Cody	Author	14-Jun-1978		Candy Girl
Kate DiCamillo	Author	25-Mar-1964		The Tale of Despereaux
Philip K. Dick	Novelist	16-Dec-1928	2-Mar-1982	Blade Runner
Eric Jerome Dickey	Novelist	7-Jul-1961		Waking With Enemies
James Dickey	Poet	2-Feb-1923	19-Jan-1997	Deliverance
Emily Dickinson	Poet	10-Dec-1830	15-May-1886	Perplexing American poet
Gordon R. Dickson	Novelist	1-Nov-1923	31-Jan-2001	Dorsai
Joan Didion	Author	5-Dec-1934		Slouching Toward Bethlehem
John Diebold	Author	8-Jun-1926	26-Dec-2005	Advocate of automation
Annie Dillard	Author	30-Oct-1945		Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
S. S. Van Dine	Novelist	15-Oct-1888	11-Apr-1939	The Canary Murder Case
Thomas Dixon	Author	11-Jan-1864	3-Apr-1946	The Clansman
James Dobson	Radio Personality	21-Apr-1936		Focus on the Family
E. L. Doctorow	Author	6-Jan-1931		The Book of Daniel
Mary Mapes Dodge	Editor	26-Jan-1831	21-Aug-1905	Editor of St. Nicholas, 1873-1905
Betty Dodson	Author	24-Aug-1929		Sex for One
Anthony Doerr	Author	1973		The Shell Collector
Stephen R. Donaldson	Author	13-May-1947		Author of the Thomas Covenant series
J. P. Donleavy	Novelist	23-Apr-1926		The Ginger Man
Ignatius Donnelly	Author	3-Nov-1831	1-Jan-1901	Atlantis, the Antediluvian World
Timothy Donnelly	Poet	1969		Twenty-Seven Props
Ducky DooLittle	Author	3-Jun-1970		Crackpot sexologist
Rita Dove	Poet	28-Aug-1952		7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Theodore Dreiser	Novelist	27-Aug-1871	28-Dec-1945	An American Tragedy
Elizabeth Drew	Journalist	16-Nov-1935		The New Yorker
Michael Drosnin	Journalist	c. 1944		The Bible Code
Peter Drucker	Business	19-Nov-1909	11-Nov-2005	Management guru
Allen Drury	Novelist	2-Sep-1918	2-Sep-1998	Advise and Consent
Ann Druyan	Author	13-Jun-1949		Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan
W. E. B. Du Bois	Sociologist	23-Feb-1868	27-Aug-1963	Civil rights activist
Alan Dugan	Poet	12-Feb-1923	3-Sep-2003	Poems
Paul Laurence Dunbar	Poet	27-Jun-1872	9-Feb-1906	Lyrics of a Lowly Life
Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Author	19-Jul-1875	18-Sep-1935	Harlem Renaissance influence
Lois Duncan	Author	28-Apr-1934		I Know What You Did Last Summer
Robert Duncan	Poet	7-Jan-1919	3-Feb-1988	Bending the Bow
William Dunlap	Playwright	19-Feb-1766	28-Sep-1839	Fountainville Abbey
Dominick Dunne	Novelist	29-Oct-1925	26-Aug-2009	High society novelist, true crime writer
Finley Peter Dunne	Author	10-Jul-1867	24-Apr-1936	Creator of Mr. Dooley
John Gregory Dunne	Novelist	25-May-1932	30-Dec-2003	True Confessions
Henry van Dyke	Author	10-Nov-1852	10-Apr-1933	The Unknown Quantity
Esther Dyson	Business	14-Jul-1951		EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director
George Dyson	Author	1953		Darwin Among the Machines
Max Eastman	Author	12-Jan-1883	25-Mar-1969	Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
José Eber	Business	?		Hair stylist to the stars
Richard Eberhart	Poet	5-Apr-1904	9-Jun-2005	Collected Poems
Bruce Eckel	Computer Programmer	8-Jul-1957		Thinking in Java
David Eddings	Author	7-Jul-1931	2-Jun-2009	The Belgariad
Leon Edel	Author	9-Sep-1907	5-Sep-1997	Biographer of Henry James
Walter D. Edmonds	Novelist	15-Jul-1903	24-Jan-1998	Drums Along the Mohawk
Jennifer Egan	Novelist	6-Sep-1962		A Visit from the Goon Squad
Dave Eggers	Author	12-Mar-1970		A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Edward Eggleston	Novelist	10-Dec-1837	4-Sep-1902	The Hoosier School-Master
Barbara Ehrenreich	Author	26-Aug-1941		Nickel and Dimed
Paul R. Ehrlich	Scientist	29-May-1932		The Population Bomb
Loren Eiseley	Anthropologist	3-Sep-1907	9-Jul-1977	The Firmament of Time
David Eisenhower	Author	31-Mar-1948		Camp David namesake
Charles Eisenstein	Author	25-Nov-1967		Sacred Economics
Stanley Elkin	Novelist	11-May-1930	31-May-1995	The Living End
Bret Easton Ellis	Novelist	7-Mar-1964		American Psycho
Harlan Ellison	Author	27-May-1934		I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Ralph Ellison	Novelist	1-Mar-1914	16-Apr-1994	Invisible Man
Richard Ellmann	Critic	15-Mar-1918	13-May-1987	James Joyce
James Ellroy	Novelist	4-Mar-1948		L.A. Confidential
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
Eve Ensler	Playwright	25-May-1953		The Vagina Monologues
Jon Entine	Author	30-Apr-1952		Taboo
Delia Ephron	Author	12-Jul-1944		Heartburn
Nora Ephron	Author	19-May-1941	26-Jun-2012	When Harry Met Sally
Paul Erdman	Economist	19-May-1932	23-Apr-2007	The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
Louise Erdrich	Novelist	7-Jun-1954		Love Medicine
Jeffrey Eugenides	Author	8-Mar-1960		The Virgin Suicides
Janet Evanovich	Novelist	22-Apr-1943		Stephanie Plum mysteries
Judith Exner	Author	11-Jan-1934	25-Sep-1999	JFK mistress
James Fallows	Journalist	2-Aug-1949		Atlantic Monthly
Susan Faludi	Activist	18-Apr-1959		Backlash
John Fante	Author	8-Apr-1909	8-May-1983	Bukowski's idol
Daniel A. Farber	Educator	16-Jul-1950		Retained by the People
Oliver La Farge	Author	19-Dec-1901	2-Aug-1963	Laughing Boy
Philip Jose Farmer	Author	26-Jan-1918	25-Feb-2009	Riverworld saga
James T. Farrell	Novelist	27-Feb-1904	22-Aug-1979	Studs Lonigan trilogy
Howard Fast	Novelist	11-Nov-1914	12-Mar-2003	Spartacus
William Faulkner	Author	25-Sep-1897	6-Jul-1962	Novels set in the American South
Jessie Redmon Fauset	Novelist	27-Apr-1882	30-Apr-1961	Comedy: American Style
Kenneth Fearing	Novelist	28-Jul-1902	26-Jun-1961	The Big Clock
Jules Feiffer	Cartoonist	26-Jan-1929		Can't draw but writes like a master
Raymond E. Feist	Novelist	23-Dec-1945		Riftwar Saga
Douglas Feith	Government	16-Jul-1953		Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2001-05
Edna Ferber	Novelist	15-Aug-1885	16-Apr-1968	Show Boat and Giant
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poet	24-Mar-1919		A Coney Island of the Mind
Richard Feynman	Physicist	11-May-1918	15-Feb-1988	Surely he's joking
Eugene Field	Journalist	2-Sep-1850	4-Nov-1895	A Little Book of Western Verse
Rachel Field	Author	19-Sep-1894	15-Mar-1942	Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Harvey Fierstein	Actor	6-Jun-1952		Torch Song Trilogy
Jack Finney	Novelist	2-Oct-1911	14-Nov-1995	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Carrie Fisher	Actor	21-Oct-1956		Princess Leia in Star Wars
Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Author	17-Feb-1879	9-Nov-1958	Understood Betsy
Dudley Fitts	Scholar	28-Apr-1903	10-Jul-1968	Translator of Greek literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Author	24-Sep-1896	21-Dec-1940	The Great Gatsby
Fannie Flagg	Comic	21-Sep-1944		Fried Green Tomatoes
Caitlin Flanagan	Author	?		Antifeminist
Janet Flanner	Journalist	13-Mar-1892	7-Nov-1978	The New Yorker
Martin Flavin	Novelist	2-Nov-1883	27-Dec-1967	Journey in the Dark
Michael Flynn	Author	1947		The January Dancer
Vince Flynn	Novelist	1966		Term Limits
Jonathan Safran Foer	Novelist	21-Feb-1977		Everything Is Illuminated
Mick Foley	Wrestling	7-Jun-1965		Cactus Jack
Horton Foote	Playwright	14-Mar-1916	4-Mar-2009	To Kill a Mockingbird
Shelby Foote	Author	17-Nov-1916	27-Jun-2005	Shiloh
Kathryn Forbes	Author	20-Mar-1908	15-May-1966	Mama's Bank Account
Carolyn Forché	Poet	28-Apr-1950		The Country Between Us
John M. Ford	Author	10-Apr-1957	24-Sep-2006	Growing Up Weightless
Richard Ford	Novelist	16-Feb-1944		Independence Day
Alan Dean Foster	Novelist	18-Nov-1946		Author of many movie novelizations
Justin Fox	Author	28-Jan-1964		The Myth of the Rational Market
Marshall Frady	Journalist	11-Jan-1940	9-Mar-2004	Wallace
Thomas Frank	Author	21-Mar-1965		Founding editor, The Baffler
Waldo Frank	Author	25-Aug-1889	9-Jan-1967	American cultural critic and social historian
Jonathan Franzen	Author	17-Aug-1959		The Corrections
Marilyn French	Author	21-Nov-1929	2-May-2009	The Women's Room
James Frey	Author	12-Sep-1969		Addiction memoirist, A Million Little Pieces
Aaron L. Friedberg	Government	16-Apr-1956		In the Shadow of the Garrison State
Robert Frost	Poet	26-Mar-1874	29-Jan-1963	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Mark Fuhrman	Government	5-Feb-1952		Former LAPD detective, O. J. Simpson case
Francis Fukuyama	Author	27-Oct-1952		The End of History and the Last Man
Charles Fuller	Playwright	5-Mar-1939		A Soldier's Play
Margaret Fuller	Author	23-May-1810	19-Jul-1850	Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Michael Fumento	Author	4-Jan-1960		Conservative science writer
George Furth	Playwright	14-Dec-1932	11-Aug-2008	Company
William Gaddis	Novelist	29-Dec-1922	16-Dec-1998	A Frolic of His Own
Ernest J. Gaines	Novelist	15-Jan-1933		A Lesson Before Dying
Zona Gale	Novelist	26-Aug-1874	27-Dec-1938	Miss Lulu Bett
Paul Gallico	Author	26-Jul-1897	15-Jul-1975	The Snow Goose
Chris Gardner	Author	9-Feb-1954		The Pursuit of Happyness
Erle Stanley Gardner	Novelist	17-Jul-1889	11-Mar-1970	Creator of Perry Mason
John Gardner	Novelist	21-Jul-1933	14-Sep-1982	Grendel
Hamlin Garland	Author	14-Sep-1860	4-Mar-1940	A Son of the Middle Border
William H. Gass	Novelist	30-Jul-1924		The Tunnel
Rosemary Gatenby	Novelist	8-Oct-1919	3-Jan-2007	The Season of Danger
David Gates	Novelist	8-Jan-1947		Jernigan
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Author	16-Sep-1950		The Signifying Monkey
Tom Gegax	Author	c. 1947		Tires Plus, later self-help guru
Bill Geist	Columnist	10-May-1945		60 Minutes II
Martha Gellhorn	Journalist	8-Nov-1908	15-Feb-1998	War correspondent
Phyllis George	Author	25-Jun-1949		Miss America 1971
Hugo Gernsback	Author	16-Aug-1884	19-Aug-1967	Founded Amazing Stories in 1926
David Gerrold	Novelist	24-Jan-1944		The Martian Child
Bill Gertz	Journalist	21-Mar-1952		Washington Times reporter, Fox News analyst
Masha Gessen	Author	13-Jan-1967		The Man Without a Face
Kaye Gibbons	Novelist	5-May-1960		Ellen Foster
Khalil Gibran	Poet	6-Jan-1883	10-Apr-1931	The Prophet
William Gibson	Author	17-Mar-1948		Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction
Barry Gifford	Author	18-Oct-1946		Wild at Heart
Elizabeth Gilbert	Author	18-Jul-1969		Eat, Pray, Love
Ellen Gilchrist	Author	20-Feb-1935		In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
William Gillette	Actor	24-Jul-1853	29-Apr-1937	Portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the stage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Activist	3-Jul-1860	17-Aug-1935	Women and Economics
Frank D. Gilroy	Playwright	13-Oct-1925		The Subject Was Roses
Allen Ginsberg	Poet	3-Jun-1926	5-Apr-1997	Howl!
Nikki Giovanni	Poet	7-Jun-1943		Black Feeling, Black Talk
Ellen Glasgow	Novelist	22-Apr-1873	21-Nov-1945	In This Our Life
Susan Glaspell	Playwright	1-Jul-1882	27-Jul-1948	Provincetown Players
James Gleick	Author	1-Aug-1954		Chaos: Making a New Science
Louise Glück	Author	22-Apr-1943		The Wild Iris
Jim Goad	Author	12-Jun-1961		ANSWER Me!
Gail Godwin	Novelist	18-Jun-1937		A Southern Family
Albert Goldbarth	Poet	31-Jan-1948		The most prolific modern poet
Jake Goldenflame	Author	?		Overcoming Sexual Terrorism
William Goldman	Novelist	12-Aug-1931		Marathon Man
Olivia Goldsmith	Novelist	c. 1949	15-Jan-2004	The First Wives Club
Terry Goodkind	Novelist	1948		Sword of Truth series
Edward Gorey	Author	22-Feb-1925	15-Apr-2000	Amphigorey
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary scientist
Sue Grafton	Author	24-Apr-1940		A Is for Alibi, B Is for ...
Jorie Graham	Poet	9-May-1951		The Dream of the Unified Field
Mary Graham	Author	c. 1944		Wife of Donald Graham
Sheilah Graham	Columnist	15-Sep-1904	17-Nov-1988	Beloved Infidel
Stedman Graham	Author	6-Mar-1951		Oprah's boyfriend, self-help author
Sylvester Graham	Activist	5-Jul-1794	11-Sep-1851	Graham crackers
Temple Grandin	Architect	29-Aug-1947		Autistic slaughterhouse designer
David Marshall Grant	Actor	21-Jun-1955		Air America
Robert Grant	Novelist	24-Jan-1852	19-May-1940	Unleavened Bread
C. Hartley Grattan	Author	19-Oct-1902	25-Jun-1980	The Southwest Pacific
Shirley Ann Grau	Novelist	8-Jul-1929		The Keepers of the House
James Grauerholz	Author	14-Dec-1953		William S. Burrough's assistant
James Gray	Author	30-Jun-1899	6-Aug-1984	Shoulder the Sky
Mike Gray	Author	c. 1936		The China Syndrome
Spalding Gray	Actor	5-Jun-1941	11-Jan-2004	Swimming to Cambodia monologist
Horace Greeley	Author	3-Feb-1811	29-Nov-1872	The Tribune
Adolph Green	Songwriter	2-Dec-1914	23-Oct-2002	Singin' in the Rain
Brian Greene	Author	9-Feb-1963		The Elegant Universe
Melissa Fay Greene	Author	30-Dec-1952		Praying for Sheetrock
Ward Greene	Novelist	23-Dec-1892	22-Jan-1956	Lady and the Tramp
Glenn Greenwald	Blogger	6-Mar-1967		Political blogger for The Guardian
Horace Gregory	Poet	10-Apr-1898	11-Mar-1982	Chelsea Rooming House
Zane Grey	Novelist	31-Jan-1872	23-Oct-1939	Riders of the Purple Sage
John Howard Griffin	Author	16-Jul-1920	9-Sep-1980	Black Like Me
John Grisham	Novelist	8-Feb-1955		The Firm
John Guare	Playwright	5-Feb-1938		Six Degrees of Separation
Edgar Guest	Poet	20-Aug-1881	5-Aug-1959	A Heap o' Livin'
Ursula K. Le Guin	Novelist	21-Oct-1929		The Left Hand of Darkness
Louise Imogen Guiney	Poet	7-Jan-1861	2-Nov-1920	A Roadside Harp
Thom Gunn	Poet	29-Aug-1929	25-Apr-2004	The Man with Night Sweats
John Gunther	Journalist	30-Aug-1901	29-May-1970	Inside Europe
Allan Gurganus	Novelist	11-Jun-1947		Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
A. B. Guthrie	Novelist	13-Jan-1901	26-Apr-1991	The Way West
Gary Gygax	Inventor	27-Jul-1938	4-Mar-2008	Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
Marilyn Hacker	Poet	27-Nov-1942		Presentation Piece
Margaret Peterson Haddix	Author	9-Apr-1964		Juvenile novelist, Among the... series
Jessica Hagedorn	Author	1949		Dogeaters
Joe Haldeman	Novelist	9-Jun-1943		The Forever War
Edward Everett Hale	Author	3-Apr-1822	10-Jun-1909	The Man Without a Country
Lucretia Peabody Hale	Author	2-Sep-1820	12-Jun-1900	The Peterkin Papers
Sarah Josepha Hale	Author	24-Oct-1788	30-Apr-1879	Editor, Godey's Lady's Book
Alex Haley	Novelist	11-Aug-1921	10-Feb-1992	Roots
Donald Hall	Poet	20-Sep-1928		The One Day
Lani Hall	Musician	6-Nov-1948		The voice of Brasil '66
Manly P. Hall	Paranormal	18-Mar-1901	29-Aug-1990	The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Edith Hamilton	Educator	12-Aug-1867	31-May-1963	The Greek Way
John Maxwell Hamilton	Author	28-Mar-1947		Journalism's Roving Eye
Laurell K. Hamilton	Novelist	19-Feb-1963		Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
Dashiell Hammett	Author	27-May-1894	10-Jan-1961	The Maltese Falcon
Earl Hamner, Jr.	Film/TV Producer	10-Jul-1923		The Waltons
Chelsea Handler	Comic	25-Feb-1975		Chelsea Lately
Evan Handler	Actor	10-Jan-1961		Taps, Ransom
Helene Hanff	Author	15-Apr-1916	9-Apr-1997	84, Charing Cross Road
William Hanley	Playwright	22-Oct-1931	25-May-2012	Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Barry Hannah	Author	23-Apr-1942	1-Mar-2010	High Lonesome
Lorraine Hansberry	Playwright	19-May-1930	12-Jan-1965	A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Hansen	Author	19-Jul-1923	24-Nov-2004	Dave Brandstetter detective series
Elizabeth Hardwick	Critic	27-Jul-1916	2-Dec-2007	Seduction and Betrayal
Joy Harjo	Poet	9-May-1951		The Last Song
Henry Harland	Novelist	1-Mar-1861	20-Dec-1905	The Cardinal's Snuff-box
Frances E. W. Harper	Poet	24-Sep-1825	22-Feb-1911	Abolitionist, temperance activist
Jessica Harper	Actor	10-Oct-1949		Suspiria and My Favorite Year
Michael S. Harper	Poet	18-Mar-1938		Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Ned Harrigan	Actor	26-Oct-1844	6-Jun-1911	Harrigan & Hart
E. Lynn Harris	Novelist	20-Jun-1955	23-Jul-2009	Invisible Life
George Washington Harris	Author	20-Mar-1814	11-Dec-1869	Sut Lovingood
Joel Chandler Harris	Novelist	9-Dec-1848	3-Jul-1908	Uncle Remus
Mark Harris	Novelist	19-Nov-1922	30-May-2007	Bang the Drum Slowly
Sam Harris	Author	1967		The End of Faith
Thomas Harris	Novelist	11-Apr-1940		The Silence of the Lambs
Melissa Harris-Perry	Author	c. 1972		Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
Harry Harrison	Novelist	12-Mar-1925	15-Aug-2012	Stainless Steel Rat series
Jim Harrison	Novelist	11-Dec-1937		Legends of the Fall
Moss Hart	Playwright	24-Oct-1904	20-Dec-1961	You Can't Take It With You
Bret Harte	Author	25-Aug-1836	5-May-1902	Master of the western short story
Thom Hartmann	Radio Personality	7-May-1951		The Thom Hartmann Program
Jan de Hartog	Novelist	22-Apr-1914	22-Sep-2002	Hollands glorie
Robert Hass	Poet	1-Mar-1941		US Poet Laureate, 1995-97
Gayelord Hauser	Author	1895	26-Dec-1984	Look Younger, Live Longer
John Hawkes	Novelist	17-Aug-1925	15-May-1998	The Blood Oranges
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Author	4-Jul-1804	19-May-1864	The House of the Seven Gables
Robert Hayden	Poet	4-Aug-1913	25-Feb-1980	Words in the Mourning Time
Shirley Hazzard	Novelist	30-Jan-1931		The Transit of Venus
H. D.	Poet	10-Sep-1886	27-Sep-1961	Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Lafcadio Hearn	Author	27-Jun-1850	26-Sep-1904	Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
William Least Heat-Moon	Author	27-Aug-1939		Blue Highways
Anthony Hecht	Poet	16-Jan-1923	20-Oct-2004	The Hard Hours
Ben Hecht	Screenwriter	28-Feb-1894	18-Apr-1964	The Front Page
Carolyn Heilbrun	Novelist	13-Jan-1926	9-Oct-2003	Amanda Cross, mystery novelist
Robert A. Heinlein	Author	7-Jul-1907	8-May-1988	Starship Troopers
Richard Hell	Musician	2-Oct-1949		Blank Generation
Joseph Heller	Author	1-May-1923	12-Dec-1999	Catch-22
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
Mark Helprin	Author	28-Jun-1947		Winter's Tale
Ernest Hemingway	Author	21-Jul-1899	2-Jul-1961	The Old Man And The Sea
Paul Hendrickson	Author	29-Apr-1944		Hemingway's Boat
Beth Henley	Playwright	8-May-1952		Crimes of the Heart
O. Henry	Author	11-Sep-1862	5-Jun-1910	The Gift of the Magi
Frank Herbert	Author	8-Oct-1920	11-Feb-1986	Dune
Josephine Herbst	Novelist	5-Mar-1892	28-Jan-1969	Pity Is Not Enough
Joseph Hergesheimer	Novelist	15-Feb-1880	25-Apr-1954	Tol'Able David
James A. Herne	Playwright	1-Feb-1839	2-Jun-1901	Shore Acres
John Hersey	Novelist	17-Jun-1914	24-Mar-1993	A Bell for Adano
DuBose Heyward	Novelist	31-Aug-1885	16-Jun-1940	Porgy
Carl Hiaasen	Author	12-Mar-1953		Team Rodent: How Disneyland Devours the World
George V. Higgins	Novelist	13-Nov-1939	6-Nov-1999	The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Patricia Highsmith	Novelist	19-Jan-1921	4-Feb-1995	Strangers on a Train
Jim Hightower	Radio Personality	11-Jan-1943		Texan, radio voice, author
Oscar Hijuelos	Novelist	24-Aug-1951		The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Laura Hillenbrand	Author	15-May-1967		Seabiscuit
Tony Hillerman	Novelist	27-May-1925	26-Oct-2008	Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation
Chester Himes	Author	19-Jul-1909	12-Nov-1984	Lonely Crusade
S. E. Hinton	Author	22-Jul-1948		The Outsiders
Jane Stanton Hitchcock	Author	?		Trick of the Eye
Shere Hite	Author	2-Nov-1942		The Hite Report on sexuality
Edward Hoagland	Essayist	21-Dec-1932		The Courage of Turtles
Laura Z. Hobson	Novelist	19-Jun-1900	28-Feb-1986	Gentleman's Agreement
John Hodgman	Author	3-Jun-1971		The Areas of My Expertise
Ralph Hodgson	Poet	9-Sep-1871	3-Nov-1962	The Skylark
Syd Hoff	Author	4-Sep-1912	12-May-2004	Danny and the Dinosaur
Eric Hoffer	Author	25-Jul-1902	21-May-1983	The True Believer
Abbie Hoffman	Activist	30-Nov-1936	12-Apr-1989	Steal This Book
Alice Hoffman	Novelist	16-Mar-1952		Property Of
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Douglas Hofstadter	Author	15-Feb-1945		Godel, Escher, Bach
John Hollander	Poet	28-Oct-1929		Powers of Thirteen
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Author	29-Aug-1809	7-Oct-1894	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Francis Hopkinson	Author	2-Oct-1737	9-May-1791	The Ballad of the Kegs
Avery Hopwood	Playwright	28-May-1882	1-Jul-1928	The Bat
Paul Horgan	Author	1-Aug-1903	8-Mar-1995	Great River: The Rio Grande
David Horowitz	Activist	10-Jan-1939		Conservative activist
George Moses Horton	Poet	c. 1797	c. 1883	The Hope of Liberty
Khaled Hosseini	Novelist	4-Mar-1965		The Kite Runner
Richard Howard	Poet	13-Oct-1929		Untitled Subjects
Robert E. Howard	Author	24-Jan-1906	11-Jun-1936	Original Conan series
Sidney Coe Howard	Playwright	26-Jun-1891	23-Aug-1939	They Knew What They Wanted
William Dean Howells	Author	1-Mar-1837	11-May-1920	The Rise of Silas Lapham
Elbert Hubbard	Author	19-Jun-1856	7-May-1915	Founder of Roycroft Press
L. Ron Hubbard	Religion	13-Mar-1911	24-Jan-1986	Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology
Langston Hughes	Poet	1-Feb-1902	22-May-1967	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Josephine Humphreys	Author	2-Feb-1945		Rich in Love
E. Howard Hunt	Criminal	9-Oct-1918	23-Jan-2007	Coordinated Watergate break-in
Evan Hunter	Novelist	15-Oct-1926	7-Jul-2005	The Blackboard Jungle
Samuel P. Huntington	Author	18-Apr-1927	24-Dec-2008	The Clash of Civilizations
Zora Neale Hurston	Novelist	7-Jan-1891	28-Jan-1960	Their Eyes Were Watching God
David Ignatius	Columnist	1950		Washington Post op-ed columnist
David Ignatow	Poet	7-Feb-1914	17-Nov-1997	Rescue the Dead
Greg Iles	Novelist	1960		Black Cross
William Inge	Playwright	3-May-1913	10-Jun-1973	Come Back, Little Sheba
Robert G. Ingersoll	Author	11-Aug-1833	21-Jul-1899	Orator, politician, agnostic
Prentiss Ingraham	Novelist	22-Dec-1843	16-Aug-1904	Dime novelist wrote 600 Old West novels
Clifford Irving	Hoaxer	5-Nov-1930		Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
John Irving	Novelist	2-Mar-1942		The World According to Garp
Washington Irving	Author	3-Apr-1783	28-Nov-1859	Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Walter Isaacson	Author	20-May-1952		Former Managing Editor for Time
Christopher Isherwood	Author	26-Aug-1904	4-Jan-1986	The Berlin Stories
Molly Ivins	Columnist	30-Aug-1944	31-Jan-2007	Loudmouthed Texas dame
Charles R. Jackson	Novelist	6-Apr-1903	21-Sep-1968	The Lost Weekend
George Jackson	Criminal	23-Sep-1941	21-Aug-1971	Soledad Brother
Helen Hunt Jackson	Poet	15-Oct-1830	12-Aug-1885	Ramona
Shirley Jackson	Novelist	14-Dec-1916	8-Aug-1965	The Lottery
Harriet Ann Jacobs	Author	1813	7-Mar-1897	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Helen Hull Jacobs	Tennis	6-Aug-1908	2-Jun-1997	Winner of 10 Grand Slam titles
Susan Jacoby	Author	4-Jun-1945		Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Rona Jaffe	Author	12-Jun-1932	30-Dec-2005	Mazes & Monsters
Henry James	Author	15-Apr-1843	28-Feb-1916	Portrait of a Lady
Fredric Jameson	Author	14-Apr-1934		The Political Unconscious
Randall Jarrell	Poet	6-May-1914	14-Oct-1965	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Robert Jastrow	Astronomer	7-Sep-1925	8-Feb-2008	Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Robinson Jeffers	Poet	10-Jan-1887	20-Jan-1962	Tamar and Other Poems
Sarah Orne Jewett	Author	3-Sep-1849	24-Jun-1909	The Country of the Pointed Firs
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Novelist	7-May-1927		Heat and Dust
Denis Johnson	Novelist	1-Jul-1949		Jesus' Son
Diane Johnson	Novelist	28-Apr-1934		Fair Game
James Weldon Johnson	Author	17-Jun-1871	26-Jun-1938	God's Trombones
Phillip Johnson	Author	1940		Intelligent Design theorist
Mary Johnston	Novelist	21-Nov-1870	9-May-1936	To Have and To Hold
Eugene Jolas	Editor	26-Oct-1894	26-May-1952	transition
Edward P. Jones	Author	1951		The Known World
James Jones	Author	6-Nov-1921	9-May-1977	From Here to Eternity
Erica Jong	Author	26-Mar-1942		Fear of Flying
June Jordan	Poet	9-Jul-1936	14-Jun-2002	Who Look At Me
Robert Jordan	Author	17-Oct-1948	16-Sep-2007	Wheel of Time series
E. Z. C. Judson	Novelist	20-Mar-1823	16-Jul-1886	Pulp novelist, pseudonym Ned Buntline
Heidi Julavits	Author	1968		The Mineral Palace
Sebastian Junger	Author	17-Jan-1962		The Perfect Storm
Norton Juster	Author	2-Jun-1929		The Phantom Tollbooth
Donald Justice	Poet	12-Aug-1925	6-Aug-2004	The Summer Anniversaries
Robert Kagan	Government	26-Sep-1958		Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC
Otto Kahn	Business	21-Feb-1867	29-Mar-1934	Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Mindy Kaling	Actor	24-Jun-1979		Kelly Kapoor on The Office
Chester Kallman	Poet	7-Jan-1921	18-Jan-1975	Librettist, translator
Younghill Kang	Author	10-May-1903	11-Dec-1972	The Grass Roof
MacKinlay Kantor	Author	4-Feb-1904	11-Oct-1977	Andersonville
Justin Kaplan	Author	5-Sep-1925		Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
Robert D. Kaplan	Journalist	23-Jun-1952		Balkan Ghosts
Mary Karr	Author	16-Jan-1955		The Liars' Club
Steven T. Katz	Author	12-Aug-1944		Professor of Religion
Bob Kaufman	Poet	18-Apr-1925	12-Jan-1986	Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
George S. Kaufman	Playwright	16-Nov-1889	2-Jun-1961	You Can't Take It With You
Alfred Kazin	Critic	5-Jun-1915	5-Jun-1998	On Native Grounds
Cresson H. Kearny	Inventor	7-Jan-1914	18-Dec-2003	Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol
Garrison Keillor	Radio Personality	7-Aug-1942		A Prairie Home Companion
David E. Kelley	Film/TV Producer	4-Apr-1956		L. A. Law
Florence Kelley	Activist	12-Sep-1859	17-Feb-1932	Founder of National Consumers League
Kitty Kelley	Author	4-Apr-1942		Controversial biogratrix
George Kelly	Playwright	16-Jan-1887	18-Jun-1974	Craig's Wife
Elmer Kelton	Novelist	29-Apr-1926	22-Aug-2009	Prolific Western novelist
George F. Kennan	Diplomat	16-Feb-1904	17-Mar-2005	Architect of US policy of Soviet containment
John Pendleton Kennedy	Politician	25-Oct-1795	18-Aug-1870	Horse-Shoe Robinson
William Kennedy	Novelist	16-Jan-1928		Ironweed and The Cotton Club
X. J. Kennedy	Poet	21-Aug-1929		Juvenile poet, Brats
Jack Kerouac	Novelist	12-Mar-1922	21-Oct-1969	On The Road
Jean Kerr	Author	10-Jul-1922	5-Jan-2003	Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Sophie Kerr	Novelist	23-Aug-1880	6-Feb-1965	The Sound of Petticoats
Ken Kesey	Novelist	17-Sep-1935	10-Nov-2001	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Vaughan Kester	Novelist	12-Sep-1869	4-Jul-1911	The Prodigal Judge
Francis Scott Key	Poet	1-Aug-1779	11-Jan-1843	The Star-Spangled Banner
Daniel Keyes	Novelist	9-Aug-1927		Flowers for Algernon
Frances Parkinson Keyes	Novelist	21-Jul-1885	3-Jul-1970	All That Glitters
Rashid Khalidi	Author	1950		Resurrecting Empire
Chip Kidd	Designer	1964		Cheese Monkeys
Rushworth M. Kidder	Author	8-May-1944	5-Mar-2012	Founder, Institute for Global Ethics
Tracy Kidder	Author	12-Nov-1945		The Soul of a New Machine
Joyce Kilmer	Poet	6-Dec-1886	30-Jul-1918	Trees
Jamaica Kincaid	Novelist	25-May-1949		Annie John
Basil King	Novelist	26-Feb-1859	22-Jun-1928	The Inner Shrine
Cassandra King	Author	?		The Sunday Wife
Stephen King	Novelist	21-Sep-1947		The Shining
Barbara Kingsolver	Author	8-Apr-1955		Prodigal Summer
Maxine Hong Kingston	Author	27-Oct-1940		The Woman Warrior
Galway Kinnell	Poet	1-Feb-1927		Selected Poems
Russell Kirk	Author	19-Oct-1918	29-Apr-1994	The Conservative Mind
Joseph Kirkland	Novelist	7-Jan-1830	29-Apr-1894	Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
James Kirkwood	Novelist	22-Aug-1924	21-Apr-1989	A Chorus Line
Lincoln Kirstein	Author	4-May-1907	5-Jan-1996	Co-Founder, New York City Ballet
Henry Kissinger	Government	27-May-1923		US Secretary of State, 1973-77
Robert Kiyosaki	Author	8-Apr-1947		Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Carolyn Kizer	Poet	10-Dec-1925		Yin: New Poems
Andrew Klavan	Author	1954		True Crime
Joe Klein	Journalist	7-Sep-1946		Anonymous author of Primary Colors
August Kleinzahler	Poet	1949		A Calendar of Airs
Etheridge Knight	Poet	19-Apr-1931	10-Mar-1991	Poems from Prison
Sarah Kemble Knight	Author	19-Apr-1666	25-Sep-1727	The Journal of Mme. Knight
John Knowles	Novelist	16-Sep-1926	29-Nov-2001	A Separate Peace
Charles Knowlton	Doctor	10-May-1800	20-Feb-1850	Early advocate of birth control
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Kenneth Koch	Poet	27-Feb-1925	6-Jul-2002	On the Great Atlantic Rainway
Frederick Kohner	Novelist	25-Sep-1905	7-Jul-1986	Gidget
Yusef Komunyakaa	Poet	29-Apr-1947		Neon Vernacular
Dean R. Koontz	Novelist	9-Jul-1945		Demon Seed
Ted Kooser	Poet	25-Apr-1939		Poet Laureate of the United States
Arthur Kopit	Playwright	10-May-1937		Mama's Hung You in the Closet
Lawrence J. Korb	Author	9-Jul-1939		The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Michael Korda	Publisher	8-Oct-1933		Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster
C. M. Kornbluth	Novelist	23-Jul-1923	21-Mar-1958	The Space Merchants
Jerzy Kosinski	Author	14-Jun-1933	3-May-1991	Being There
Richard Kostelanetz	Artist	14-May-1940		Prodigious avant-garde artist and author
Harley Jane Kozak	Actor	28-Jan-1957		All I Want for Christmas
Jonathan Kozol	Educator	5-Sep-1936		Death at an Early Age
Jon Krakauer	Author	12-Apr-1954		Into Thin Air
Larry Kramer	Playwright	25-Jun-1935		The Normal Heart
Judith Krantz	Novelist	9-Jan-1928		Scruples
Norman Krasna	Playwright	7-Nov-1909	1-Nov-1984	The Devil and Miss Jones
Paul Krassner	Author	9-Apr-1932		Editor, The Realist
Alfred Kreymborg	Author	10-Dec-1883	Aug-1966	Founder of The Glebe
Irving Kristol	Columnist	22-Jan-1920	18-Sep-2009	Influential neocon
Patrick Kroupa	Author	20-Jan-1968		Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox
Thomas Kuhn	Author	18-Jul-1922	17-Jun-1996	Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Maxine Kumin	Poet	6-Jun-1925		Up Country
Stanley Kunitz	Poet	29-Jul-1905	14-May-2006	US Poet Laureate, 2000
Tuli Kupferberg	Singer/Songwriter	28-Sep-1923	12-Jul-2010	The Fugs
Ray Kurzweil	Inventor	12-Feb-1948		Age of Spiritual Machines
Tony Kushner	Playwright	16-Jul-1956		Angels in America
Louis L'Amour	Novelist	22-Mar-1908	10-Jun-1988	Hondo
Madeleine L'Engle	Author	29-Nov-1918	6-Sep-2007	A Wrinkle In Time
Neil LaBute	Film Director	19-Mar-1963		In the Company of Men
Mercedes Lackey	Novelist	24-Jun-1950		Valdemar series
Jhumpa Lahiri	Author	11-Jul-1967		Interpreter of Maladies
Anne Lamott	Author	10-Apr-1954		Operating Instructions
Rose Wilder Lane	Author	5-Dec-1886	30-Oct-1968	The Discovery of Freedom
Sidney Lanier	Poet	3-Feb-1842	7-Sep-1881	Important Southern lyrical poet
Ring Lardner, Jr.	Playwright	19-Aug-1915	31-Oct-2000	Screenwriter, M*A*S*H
Nella Larsen	Novelist	13-Apr-1891	30-Mar-1964	Quicksand
Christopher Lasch	Author	1-Jun-1932	14-Feb-1994	The Culture of Narcissism
J. D. Lasica	Author	?		Darknet
Owen Lattimore	Author	29-Jul-1900	31-May-1989	Scholar of Mongolia
Richmond Lattimore	Poet	6-May-1906	26-Feb-1984	Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
James Laughlin	Publisher	30-Oct-1914	12-Nov-1997	Founder, New Directions Press
Arthur Laurents	Playwright	14-Jul-1918	5-May-2011	West Side Story
Jerome Lawrence	Playwright	14-Jul-1915	29-Feb-2004	Inherit the Wind and Mame
John Howard Lawson	Playwright	25-Sep-1894	11-Aug-1977	One of the Hollywood Ten
Emma Lazarus	Poet	22-Jul-1849	19-Nov-1887	The New Colossus
Meridel Le Sueur	Novelist	22-Feb-1900	14-Nov-1996	North Star Country
Munro Leaf	Author	4-Dec-1905	21-Dec-1976	The Story of Ferdinand
David Leavitt	Novelist	23-Jun-1961		The Lost Language of Cranes
Fran Lebowitz	Author	27-Oct-1950		Social satirist, Metropolitan Life
Harper Lee	Novelist	28-Apr-1926		To Kill A Mockingbird
Sandra Lee	TV Personality	3-Jul-1966		Semi-Homemade Cooking
Dennis Lehane	Novelist	4-Aug-1965		Mystic River
Jim Lehrer	Journalist	19-May-1934		PBS NewsHour
Jonah Lehrer	Author	25-Jun-1981		Imagine: How Creativity Works
Fritz Leiber	Author	24-Dec-1910	5-Sep-1992	Ship of Shadows
Charles Godfrey Leland	Poet	15-Aug-1824	20-Mar-1903	Hans Breitmann's Ballads
Andrew Leonard	Author	?		Wired, Slate contributor
Elmore Leonard	Novelist	11-Oct-1925		Crime novelist, including Swag
Alan Jay Lerner	Playwright	31-Aug-1918	14-Jun-1986	An American in Paris
Jonathan Lethem	Author	19-Feb-1964		Gun with Occasional Music
Denise Levertov	Poet	24-Oct-1923	20-Dec-1997	With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
Ira Levin	Novelist	27-Aug-1929	12-Nov-2007	Rosemary's Baby
Meyer Levin	Novelist	8-Oct-1905	9-Jul-1981	Compulsion
Philip Levine	Poet	10-Jan-1928		What Work Is
Shawn Levy	Author	c. 1961		Rat Pack Confidential
Steven Levy	Author	1951		Hackers
Michael Lewis	Author	15-Oct-1960		Liar's Poker
Sinclair Lewis	Novelist	7-Feb-1885	10-Jan-1951	Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry
Willy Ley	Author	2-Oct-1906	24-May-1969	The Conquest of Space
Mark Leyner	Author	1956		The Tetherballs of Bougainville
Hilary Liftin	Author	c. 1969		Candy and Me: A Love Story
Bob Lind	Singer/Songwriter	25-Nov-1942		Elusive Butterfly
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Aviator	22-Jun-1906	7-Feb-2001	Wife of Charles Lindbergh
Howard Lindsay	Playwright	29-Mar-1889	11-Feb-1968	The Sound of Music
Vachel Lindsay	Poet	10-Nov-1879	5-Dec-1931	The Congo and Other Poems
David Lindsay-Abaire	Playwright	30-Nov-1969		Rabbit Hole
Brink Lindsey	Author	c. 1962		The Age of Abundance
Richard Lingeman	Author	2-Jan-1931		Biographer of Theodore Dreiser
Ken Lipper	Business	19-Jun-1941		Investment banker author of Wall Street
James Lipton	TV Personality	19-Sep-1926		Host, Inside the Actors Studio
Alain Locke	Author	13-Sep-1886	9-Jun-1954	Leader in the Harlem Renaissance
Hugh Lofting	Novelist	14-Jun-1886	26-Sep-1947	The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Joshua Logan	Film Director	5-Oct-1908	12-Jul-1988	South Pacific
Sandra Tsing Loh	Radio Personality	11-Feb-1962		The Loh Life
Jack London	Novelist	12-Jan-1876	22-Nov-1916	Call of the Wild
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Poet	27-Feb-1807	24-Mar-1882	Evangeline
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet	Author	9-Jul-1790	9-Jul-1870	Georgia Scenes
Anita Loos	Novelist	26-Apr-1893	18-Aug-1981	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Barry Lopez	Author	6-Jan-1945		Of Wolves and Men
James Lord	Author	27-Nov-1922	23-Aug-2009	Giacometti: A Biography
Audre Lorde	Author	18-Feb-1934	17-Nov-1992	A Burst of Light
H. P. Lovecraft	Author	20-Aug-1890	15-Mar-1937	The Call of Cthulhu
Amy Lowell	Poet	9-Feb-1874	12-May-1925	What's O'Clock
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
Robert Lowell	Poet	1-Mar-1917	12-Sep-1977	Lord Weary's Castle
Lois Lowry	Author	19-Feb-1937		The Giver
Clare Boothe Luce	Politician	10-Apr-1903	9-Oct-1987	Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
Robert Ludlum	Novelist	25-May-1927	12-Mar-2001	Holcroft Covenant
Mabel Dodge Luhan	Author	26-Feb-1879	13-Aug-1962	Movers and Shakers
Grace Lumpkin	Novelist	3-Mar-1891	1980	To Make My Bread
Lydia Lunch	Musician	2-Jun-1959		Punk and spoken word confrontationalist
Alison Lurie	Novelist	3-Sep-1926		Foreign Affairs
Barry C. Lynn	Journalist	20-Aug-1961		Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism
Eugene Lyons	Author	1-Jul-1898	1985	Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury
Peter Maas	Author	27-Jun-1929	23-Aug-2001	Serpico
Charles MacArthur	Playwright	5-Nov-1895	21-Apr-1956	The Front Page
Heather Mac Donald	Columnist	c. 1956		Neoconservative bombthrower
Cynthia Macdonald	Poet	2-Feb-1928		Amputations
John D. MacDonald	Novelist	24-Jul-1916	28-Dec-1986	Travis McGee mystery novels
Ross Macdonald	Novelist	13-Dec-1915	11-Jul-1983	Creator of P.I. Lew Archer
Percy MacKaye	Playwright	16-Mar-1875	31-Aug-1956	The Canterbury Pilgrims
Steele MacKaye	Playwright	6-Jun-1842	25-Feb-1894	Founder of New York's Lyceum Theatre
Archibald Macleish	Poet	7-May-1892	20-Apr-1982	Conquistador
Charlotte MacLeod	Novelist	12-Nov-1922	14-Jan-2005	Mystery novelist, Peter Shandy Series
Haki R. Madhubuti	Author	23-Feb-1942		Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
Alfred Thayer Mahan	Author	27-Sep-1840	1-Dec-1914	The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Norman Mailer	Author	31-Jan-1923	10-Nov-2007	Armies of the Night
Norris Church Mailer	Novelist	31-Jan-1949	21-Nov-2010	Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife
Charles Major	Novelist	25-Jul-1856	13-Feb-1913	When Knighthood Was in Flower
Bernard Malamud	Author	26-Apr-1914	18-Mar-1986	The Fixer
Carl Malamud	Author	1959		Founder of Internet Multicasting Service
Michelle Malkin	Columnist	20-Oct-1970		Syndicated conservative columnist
Albert Maltz	Playwright	28-Oct-1908	26-Apr-1985	One of the Hollywood Ten
David Mamet	Author	30-Nov-1947		Glengarry Glen Ross
William Manchester	Author	1-Apr-1922	1-Jun-2004	The Arms of Krupp
Charles C. Mann	Author	1955		1491: New Revelations
James Mann	Author	1946		Rise of the Vulcans
Thomas Mann	Novelist	6-Jun-1875	12-Aug-1955	Buddenbrooks
Edwin Markham	Poet	23-Apr-1852	7-Mar-1940	The Man With the Hoe
Merrill Markoe	Comic	1951		Late Night with David Letterman
John Markoff	Journalist	24-Oct-1949		New York Times computer guy
Jeannette Marks	Poet	16-Aug-1875	1964	The Merry Merry Cuckoo
Percy Marks	Novelist	9-Sep-1891	27-Dec-1956	The Plastic Age
John P. Marquand	Novelist	10-Nov-1893	16-Jul-1960	The Late George Apley
René Marqués	Playwright	4-Oct-1919	22-Mar-1979	La Carreta
George Perkins Marsh	Author	15-Mar-1801	23-Jul-1882	Ecologist and camel enthusiast
Catherine Marshall	Author	27-Sep-1914	18-Mar-1983	Christy
Paule Marshall	Novelist	9-Apr-1929		Brown Girl, Brownstones
George R. R. Martin	Novelist	20-Sep-1948		Song of Ice and Fire series
William Martin	Novelist	c. 1950		Back Bay
Mase	Rapper	27-Aug-1974		Rapper-turned-pastor
Bobbie Ann Mason	Novelist	1-May-1940		In Country
Edgar Lee Masters	Poet	23-Aug-1869	5-Mar-1950	Spoon River Anthology
Increase Mather	Religion	21-Jun-1639	23-Aug-1723	Massachusetts Puritan leader
Richard Matheson	Author	20-Feb-1926		I Am Legend
Harry Mathews	Author	14-Feb-1930		My Life in CIA
Chris Matthews	Talk Show Host	17-Dec-1945		Hardball with Chris Matthews
Peter Matthiessen	Novelist	22-May-1927		At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Armistead Maupin	Author	13-May-1944		Tales of the City series
William Maxwell	Novelist	16-Aug-1908	31-Jul-2000	The Folded Leaf
Julian May	Novelist	10-Jul-1931		Galactic Milieu Trilogy
Robert McAlmon	Author	9-Mar-1896	2-Feb-1956	Village: As It Happened
Megan McCafferty	Novelist	3-Feb-1973		Juvenile novelist, Sloppy Firsts
Anne McCaffrey	Author	1-Apr-1926	21-Nov-2011	Pern series
Cormac McCarthy	Novelist	20-Jul-1933		All the Pretty Horses
Mary McCarthy	Author	21-Jun-1912	25-Oct-1989	The Group
Robert W. McChesney	Author	c. 1955		Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Scott McCloud	Cartoonist	10-Jun-1960		Understanding Comics
Michael McClure	Poet	20-Oct-1932		The Blossom; or Billy the Kid
Steve McConnell	Computer Programmer	c. 1963		Author of Code Complete
Frank McCourt	Author	19-Aug-1930	19-Jul-2009	Angela's Ashes
Carson McCullers	Author	19-Feb-1917	29-Sep-1967	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
David McCullough	Historian	7-Jul-1933		The American Experience
George Barr McCutcheon	Novelist	26-Jul-1866	23-Oct-1928	Brewster's Millions
Jack McDevitt	Novelist	14-Apr-1935		Academy Universe
Josh McDowell	Religion	17-Aug-1939		Evidence That Demands A Verdict
Joseph McElroy	Novelist	21-Aug-1930		Lookout Cartridge
Harold McGee	Author	1951		On Food and Cooking
Phyllis McGinley	Poet	21-Mar-1905	22-Feb-1978	A Pocketful of Wry
Thomas McGuane	Novelist	11-Dec-1939		The Sporting Club
Maureen F. McHugh	Novelist	13-Feb-1959		After the Apocalypse
Jay McInerney	Novelist	13-Jan-1955		Bright Lights, Big City
Terence McKenna	Author	16-Nov-1946	3-Apr-2000	Mushrooms, UFOs, end of fractal time
Ruth McKenney	Author	18-Nov-1911	25-Jul-1972	My Sister Eileen
Robin McKinley	Author	16-Nov-1952		The Hero and the Crown
Rod McKuen	Poet	29-Apr-1933		A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Terry McMillan	Novelist	18-Oct-1951		Waiting to Exhale
Larry McMurtry	Novelist	3-Jun-1936		Lonesome Dove
Terrence McNally	Playwright	3-Nov-1939		Frankie and Johnny
John McPhee	Author	8-Mar-1931		Annals of the Former World
James Alan McPherson	Author	16-Sep-1943		Elbow Room
Walter Russell Mead	Author	12-Jun-1952		Special Providence
Michael Medved	Critic	Oct-1948		Traditional values pundit, film critic
Ved Mehta	Author	21-Mar-1934		Face to Face
Carolyn Meinel	Author	c. 1946		Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory
Herman Melville	Author	1-Aug-1819	28-Sep-1891	Moby Dick
William Meredith	Poet	9-Jan-1919	30-May-2007	Partial Accounts
James Merrill	Poet	3-Mar-1926	6-Feb-1995	Nights and Days
Thomas Merton	Author	31-Jan-1915	10-Dec-1968	The Seven Storey Mountain
W. S. Merwin	Poet	30-Sep-1927		The Carrier of Ladders
Grace Metalious	Novelist	8-Sep-1924	25-Feb-1964	Peyton Place
Stephenie Meyer	Novelist	24-Dec-1973		Author of Twilight series
Oscar Micheaux	Film/TV Producer	2-Jan-1884	25-Mar-1951	Within Our Gates
James A. Michener	Novelist	3-Feb-1907	16-Oct-1997	South Pacific
Diane Middlebrook	Author	16-Apr-1939	15-Dec-2007	Biographer of Anne Sexton
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Poet	22-Feb-1892	19-Oct-1950	Renascence
Arthur Miller	Playwright	17-Oct-1915	10-Feb-2005	Death of a Salesman
Dennis Miller	Comic	3-Nov-1953		SNL news anchor, born-again Republican
Frank Miller	Author	27-Jan-1957		The Dark Knight Returns
Henry Miller	Novelist	26-Dec-1891	7-Jun-1980	Tropic of Cancer
Jason Miller	Actor	22-Apr-1939	13-May-2001	The Exorcist
Joaquin Miller	Poet	8-Sep-1837	17-Feb-1913	Songs of the Sierras
Judith Miller	Journalist	2-Jan-1948		Credulous NY Times WMD maven
May Miller	Playwright	26-Jan-1899	8-Feb-1995	The Bog Guide
Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Novelist	23-Jan-1923	9-Jan-1996	A Canticle for Leibowitz
Steven Millhauser	Author	3-Aug-1943		Martin Dressler
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Donald Grant Mitchell	Author	12-Apr-1822	15-Dec-1908	Reveries of a Bachelor
Joseph Mitchell	Author	27-Jul-1908	24-May-1996	The New Yorker
Margaret Mitchell	Novelist	8-Nov-1900	16-Aug-1949	Gone With the Wind
S. Weir Mitchell	Novelist	15-Feb-1829	4-Jan-1914	The Case of George Dedlow
N. Scott Momaday	Novelist	27-Feb-1934		House Made of Dawn
Harriet Monroe	Poet	23-Dec-1860	26-Sep-1936	Founder of Poetry magazine
Rick Moody	Author	18-Oct-1961		Purple America
William Vaughn Moody	Playwright	8-Jul-1869	17-Oct-1910	The Great Divide
Elizabeth Moon	Novelist	7-Mar-1945		The Speed of Dark
Clement Clarke Moore	Poet	15-Jul-1779	10-Jul-1863	'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Gary W. Moore	Author	21-Jul-1954		Playing with the Enemy
Marianne Moore	Poet	15-Nov-1887	5-Feb-1972	Collected Poems
Robin Moore	Author	31-Oct-1925	21-Feb-2008	The Green Berets
Daniel Keys Moran	Novelist	30-Nov-1962		The Long Run
Christopher Morley	Novelist	5-May-1890	28-Mar-1957	The Haunted Bookshop
Dick Morris	Government	28-Nov-1948		Fox News lapdog, former Clinton advisor
Edmund Morris	Author	27-May-1940		The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Willie Morris	Author	29-Nov-1934	2-Aug-1999	North Toward Home
Wright Morris	Novelist	6-Jan-1910	29-Apr-1998	The Field of Vision
Jim Morrison	Singer/Songwriter	8-Dec-1943	3-Jul-1971	Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Toni Morrison	Author	18-Feb-1931		Beloved
Sarah Wentworth Morton	Poet	1759	14-May-1846	Ouabi
Thomas Morton	Author	c. 1590	c. 1647	New English Canaan
Walter Mosley	Author	12-Jan-1952		Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins mysteries
Howard Moss	Poet	22-Jan-1922	16-Sep-1987	Finding Them Lost
Willard Motley	Author	14-Jul-1909	4-Mar-1965	The original Bud Billiken
Robert J. Mrazek	Politician	6-Nov-1945		Congressman from New York, 1983-93
Lisel Mueller	Poet	8-Feb-1924		The Need to Hold Still
John Muir	Activist	21-Apr-1838	24-Dec-1914	Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Bharati Mukherjee	Novelist	27-Jul-1940		The Tiger's Daughter
Clarence E. Mulford	Novelist	3-Feb-1883	10-May-1956	Hopalong Cassidy
Cullen Murphy	Journalist	1-Sep-1952		Atlantic Monthly
Albert L. Murray	Author	12-May-1916		Stomping the Blues
Charles Murray	Author	1943		The Bell Curve
Jerry Nachman	Journalist	24-Feb-1946	19-Jan-2004	MSNBC reporter
John Naisbitt	Author	15-Jan-1929		Megatrends
Kathy Najimy	Actor	6-Feb-1957		Voice of Peggy on King of the Hill
Petroleum V. Nasby	Author	20-Sep-1833	15-Feb-1888	The Nasby Papers
Ogden Nash	Poet	19-Aug-1902	19-May-1971	Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker
George Jean Nathan	Author	14-Feb-1882	8-Apr-1958	American Mercury
Gloria Naylor	Novelist	25-Jan-1950		The Women of Brewster Place
John Neal	Novelist	25-Aug-1793	20-Jun-1876	Keep Cool
John G. Neihardt	Poet	8-Jan-1881	3-Nov-1973	A Cycle of the West
Howard Nemerov	Poet	1-Mar-1920	5-Jul-1991	US Poet Laureate, 1987-88
Frances Newman	Novelist	13-Sep-1888	22-Oct-1928	The Hard-Boiled Virgin
A. Edward Newton	Author	1863	29-Sep-1940	A Magnificent Farce
Richard Ney	Actor	12-Nov-1916	18-Jul-2004	Mrs. Miniver
John Nichols	Author	?		Dick: The Man Who Is President
Joe Nickell	Author	1-Dec-1944		Professional skeptic
Anaïs Nin	Author	21-Feb-1903	14-Jan-1977	Diary of Anaïs Nin
Larry Niven	Author	30-Apr-1938		Ringworld and Known Space series
Albert Jay Nock	Author	13-Oct-1870	19-Aug-1945	Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Peggy Noonan	Journalist	7-Sep-1950		Coined A thousand points of light
Charles Nordhoff	Novelist	1-Feb-1887	10-Apr-1947	Mutiny on the Bounty
Ken Nordine	Radio Personality	19-Jan-1920		Word Jazz
John Norman	Author	3-Jun-1931		Chronicles of Gor
Frank Norris	Novelist	5-Mar-1870	25-Oct-1902	The Octopus
Andre Norton	Author	17-Feb-1912	17-Mar-2005	Witch World series
Deborah Norville	Journalist	8-Aug-1958		Inside Edition
Robert Nozick	Philosopher	16-Nov-1938	23-Jan-2002	Libertarian philosopher
Richard Nugent	Author	2-Jul-1906	27-May-1987	Harlem Renaissance writer
Fitz-James O'Brien	Author	31-Dec-1828	6-Apr-1862	The Diamond Lens
Tim O'Brien	Novelist	1-Oct-1946		Going After Cacciato
Edwin O'Connor	Novelist	29-Jul-1918	23-Mar-1968	The Last Hurrah
Flannery O'Connor	Author	25-Mar-1925	3-Aug-1964	A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Frank O'Hara	Poet	27-Jun-1926	25-Jul-1966	Meditations in an Emergency
John O'Hara	Author	31-Jan-1905	11-Apr-1970	Appointment in Samarra
Eugene O'Neill	Playwright	16-Oct-1888	27-Nov-1953	Long Day's Journey Into Night
P. J. O'Rourke	Author	14-Nov-1947		Political satirist
Joyce Carol Oates	Author	16-Jun-1938		Author of over 40 novels
Clifford Odets	Playwright	18-Jul-1906	14-Aug-1963	Sweet Smell of Success
Daniel Okrent	Author	2-Apr-1948		Former public editor, New York Times
Sharon Olds	Poet	19-Nov-1942		The Dead and the Living
Mary Oliver	Poet	10-Sep-1935		American Primitive
Frederick Law Olmsted	Architect	26-Apr-1822	28-Aug-1903	Designed New York's Central Park
Tillie Olsen	Author	14-Jan-1913	1-Jan-2007	Tell Me a Riddle
Barbara Olson	TV Personality	27-Dec-1955	11-Sep-2001	Conservative TV pundit
Charles Olson	Poet	27-Dec-1910	10-Jan-1970	The Maximus Poems
Elder Olson	Critic	9-Mar-1909	25-Jul-1992	Critics and Criticism
Lynne Olson	Author	c. 1949		Freedom's Daughters
George Oppen	Poet	24-Apr-1908	7-Jul-1984	Objectivist proponent and poet
Robert Orben	Author	4-Mar-1927		Prolific jokewriter
Susan Orlean	Author	31-Oct-1955		The Orchid Thief
Peter Orlovsky	Poet	8-Jul-1933	30-May-2010	Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg
Suze Orman	Author	5-Jun-1951		The Road to Wealth
Norman Ornstein	Author	14-Oct-1948		American Enterprise Institute
Cynthia Ozick	Author	17-Apr-1928		The Puttermesser Papers
George Packer	Author	1960		The Assassins' Gate
Thomas Nelson Page	Author	23-Apr-1853	1-Nov-1922	In Ole Virginia
Camille Paglia	Author	2-Apr-1947		Self-described feminist
Chuck Palahniuk	Author	21-Feb-1962		Fight Club
Luis Palés Matos	Poet	20-Mar-1898	23-Feb-1959	Tuntún de pasa y griferia
Grace Paley	Author	11-Dec-1922	22-Aug-2007	The Little Disturbances of Man
Sara Paretsky	Novelist	8-Jun-1947		V. I. Warshawski detective novels
Jay Parini	Author	2-Apr-1948		The Last Station
Barbara Park	Author	21-Apr-1947		Junie B. Jones series
Dorothy Parker	Author	22-Aug-1893	7-Jun-1967	Constant Reader known for acerbic quips
Robert B. Parker	Novelist	17-Sep-1932	18-Jan-2010	Spenser
Gordon Parks	Film Director	30-Nov-1912	7-Mar-2006	Shaft
Anne Parrish	Novelist	12-Nov-1888	5-Sep-1957	Loads of Love
James Parton	Author	9-Feb-1822	17-Oct-1891	American biographer
John Dos Passos	Author	14-Jan-1896	28-Sep-1970	U.S.A. Trilogy
Kenneth Patchen	Poet	13-Dec-1911	8-Jan-1972	Journal of Albion Moonlight
Ann Patchett	Novelist	2-Dec-1963		Bel Canto
Isabel Paterson	Author	22-Jan-1886	10-Jan-1961	The God of the Machine
James Patterson	Author	22-Mar-1947		Along Came a Spider
James Kirke Paulding	Novelist	22-Aug-1778	6-Apr-1860	Salmagundi
John Allen Paulos	Mathematician	4-Jul-1945		Innumeracy
Norman Vincent Peale	Religion	31-May-1898	24-Dec-1993	The Power of Positive Thinking
M. Scott Peck	Author	22-May-1936	25-Sep-2005	The Road Less Traveled
Harvey Pekar	Author	8-Oct-1939	12-Jul-2010	American Splendor
James Gates Percival	Poet	15-Sep-1795	2-May-1856	Clio
Walker Percy	Author	28-May-1916	10-May-1990	The Moviegoer
S. J. Perelman	Author	1-Feb-1904	17-Oct-1979	New Yorker humorist
George R. Perkovich	Author	c. 1959		India's Nuclear Bomb
Tyler Perry	Film Director	13-Sep-1969		Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Clarke Peters	Actor	7-Apr-1952		Lester Freamon on The Wire
Tom Peters	Author	7-Nov-1942		In Search of Excellence
Michael Peterson	Author	23-Oct-1943		The Staircase
Harry Mark Petrakis	Novelist	5-Jun-1923		Lion at My Heart
Henry Petroski	Educator	6-Feb-1942		Engineering professor
Ann Petry	Novelist	12-Oct-1908	28-Apr-1997	The Street
Charles Petzold	Computer Programmer	2-Feb-1953		Windows programming guru
David Graham Phillips	Journalist	31-Oct-1867	24-Jan-1911	Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Irna Phillips	Film/TV Producer	1-Jul-1901	23-Dec-1973	Queen of soap operas
Kevin Phillips	Pundit	30-Nov-1940		Political commentator
Clifford A. Pickover	Mathematician	15-Aug-1957		Mathematician and prolific author
William Pierce	Author	11-Sep-1933	23-Jul-2002	The Turner Diaries
Marge Piercy	Novelist	31-Mar-1936		Gone to Soldiers
Christopher Pike	Author	Nov-1954		Last Vampire, Spooksville, series
Nicholas Pileggi	Author	22-Feb-1933		Goodfellas screenwriter
Dan Pink	Author	c. 1964		A Whole New Mind
Allan Pinkerton	Business	25-Aug-1819	1-Jul-1884	Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Daniel Pinkwater	Author	15-Nov-1941		The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
David Pinski	Playwright	5-Apr-1872	11-Aug-1959	Yiddish playwright, Der Oitzer
Robert Pinsky	Poet	20-Oct-1940		US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
Daniel Pipes	Government	9-Sep-1949		Influential neocon
Robert Pirsig	Author	6-Sep-1928		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Walter B. Pitkin	Psychologist	6-Feb-1878	25-Jan-1953	Life Begins at Forty
Sylvia Plath	Poet	27-Oct-1932	11-Feb-1963	Daddy
Charles Platt	Author	1945		Science fiction novelist
George Plimpton	Author	18-Mar-1927	25-Sep-2003	Paper Lion
John Podhoretz	Columnist	18-Apr-1961		Conservative columnist
Norman Podhoretz	Author	16-Jan-1930		Prominent neocon author
Edgar Allan Poe	Author	19-Jan-1809	7-Oct-1849	The Raven
Frederik Pohl	Author	26-Nov-1919		Futurian science fiction writer
Michael Pollan	Author	6-Feb-1955		The Omnivore's Dilemma
Donald Ray Pollock	Author	23-Dec-1954		The Devil All The Time
Ernest Poole	Novelist	23-Jan-1880	10-Jan-1950	His Family
Eleanor H. Porter	Novelist	19-Dec-1868	21-May-1920	Pollyanna
Katherine Anne Porter	Author	15-May-1890	18-Sep-1980	Ship of Fools
Charles Portis	Author	28-Dec-1933		True Grit
Chaim Potok	Novelist	17-Feb-1929	23-Jul-2002	The Chosen
Ezra Pound	Poet	30-Oct-1885	1-Nov-1972	The Cantos
William Poundstone	Author	29-Mar-1955		Big Secrets
Jerry Pournelle	Author	7-Aug-1933		Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven
Dawn Powell	Novelist	28-Nov-1897	14-Nov-1965	She Walks In Beauty
Samantha Power	Author	21-Sep-1970		A Problem From Hell
Richard Powers	Novelist	18-Jun-1957		The Gold Bug Variations
Richard Preston	Author	5-Aug-1954		The Hot Zone
Reynolds Price	Author	1-Feb-1933	20-Jan-2011	A Long and Happy Life
Frederic Prokosch	Novelist	17-May-1908	6-Jun-1989	The Skies of Europe
E. Annie Proulx	Author	22-Aug-1935		The Shipping News
Fletcher Prouty	Military	24-Jan-1917	5-Jun-2001	USAF Intelligence Officer
Olive Higgins Prouty	Novelist	10-Jan-1882	24-Mar-1974	Stella Dallas
James Purdy	Author	17-Jul-1914	13-Mar-2009	Eustance Chisholm and the Works
Robert Purvis	Activist	4-Aug-1810	15-Apr-1898	President of the Underground Railroad
Mario Puzo	Novelist	15-Oct-1920	2-Jul-1999	The Godfather
Howard Pyle	Artist	5-Mar-1853	9-Nov-1911	Art Nouveau children's book illustrator
Thomas Pynchon	Novelist	8-May-1937		Gravity's Rainbow
Carol Queen	Author	c. 1957		Prolific sexologist
Joe Queenan	Author	3-Nov-1950		Closing Time
Anna Quindlen	Columnist	8-Jul-1953		NYT columnist, later novelist
Jane Bryant Quinn	Journalist	5-Feb-1939		Personal finance columnist
David Rabe	Playwright	10-Mar-1940		Sticks and Bones
Dotson Rader	Author	25-Jul-1942		I Ain't Marchin' Anymore!
David Rakoff	Author	27-Nov-1964	9-Aug-2012	Don't Get Too Comfortable
Bill Rancic	Author	16-May-1971		Winner of The Apprentice, self-help author
Ayn Rand	Author	2-Feb-1905	6-Mar-1982	Atlas Shrugged
John Crowe Ransom	Poet	30-Apr-1888	4-Jul-1974	God Without Thunder
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	Novelist	8-Aug-1896	14-Dec-1953	The Yearling
Opie Read	Author	22-Dec-1852	2-Nov-1939	Jucklins
John Rechy	Author	10-Mar-1934		City of Night
James Redfield	Novelist	19-Mar-1950		The Celestine Prophecy
Ishmael Reed	Novelist	22-Feb-1938		The Free-Lance Pallbearers
George E. Reedy	Government	5-Aug-1917	21-Mar-1999	LBJ's press secretary
Lizette Woodworth Reese	Poet	9-Jan-1856	17-Dec-1935	A Handful of Lavendar
Judith Regan	Publisher	1953		ReganBooks
Judith Reisman	Author	11-Apr-1935		Hates Kinsey
Marc Reisner	Author	14-Sep-1948	21-Jul-2000	Cadillac Desert
Frederic Remington	Sculptor	4-Oct-1861	26-Dec-1909	The Bronco Buster
Robert K. Ressler	Author	15-Feb-1937		Whoever Fights Monsters
James Reston, Jr.	Author	8-Mar-1941		The Conviction of Richard Nixon
Kenneth Rexroth	Poet	22-Dec-1905	6-Jun-1982	Disenchanted beat poet
Howard Rheingold	Author	7-Jul-1947		The Virtual Community
James Ford Rhodes	Author	1-May-1848	22-Jan-1927	History of the Civil War
Richard Rhodes	Historian	4-Jul-1937		The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Alice Hegan Rice	Novelist	11-Jan-1870	10-Feb-1942	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Anne Rice	Novelist	4-Oct-1941		Vampire novelist
Boyd Rice	Author	1955		Satanist
Elmer Rice	Playwright	28-Sep-1892	8-May-1967	Street Scene
Thomas D. Rice	Comic	20-May-1808	19-Sep-1860	Played "Jim Crow"
Adrienne Rich	Poet	16-May-1929	27-Mar-2012	An Atlas of the Difficult World
Nicole Richie	Socialite	21-Sep-1981		The Simple Life
Conrad Richter	Novelist	13-Oct-1890	30-Oct-1968	The Awakening Land
Laura Riding	Poet	16-Jan-1901	2-Sep-1991	A Survey of Modernist Poetry
James Whitcomb Riley	Poet	7-Oct-1849	22-Jul-1916	The Hoosier Poet
Mary Roberts Rinehart	Novelist	12-Aug-1876	22-Sep-1958	Circular Staircase
Alexandra Ripley	Author	8-Jan-1934	10-Jan-2004	Scarlett
Martin Ritt	Film Director	2-Mar-1914	8-Dec-1990	The Long Hot Summer
Alice Rivlin	Economist	4-Mar-1931		Founding director, Congressional Budget Office
Harold Robbins	Novelist	21-May-1916	14-Oct-1997	The Carpetbaggers
John Robbins	Author	26-Oct-1947		Celebrity vegan
Tom Robbins	Novelist	22-Jul-1936		Still Life with Woodpecker
Tony Robbins	Author	29-Feb-1960		Toothy motivational speaker
Elizabeth Madox Roberts	Author	30-Oct-1881	13-Mar-1941	The Great Meadow
Kenneth Roberts	Novelist	8-Dec-1885	21-Jul-1957	Northwest Passage
Nora Roberts	Novelist	10-Oct-1950		Author of over 120 romance novels
Willard Robertson	Actor	1-Jan-1886	5-Apr-1948	Remember the Night
Edwin Arlington Robinson	Poet	22-Dec-1869	6-Apr-1935	The Man Against the Sky
Kim Stanley Robinson	Novelist	23-Mar-1952		Mars Trilogy
Marilynne Robinson	Novelist	1947		Housekeeping
Thomas Rockwell	Author	13-Mar-1933		How to Eat Fried Worms
Theodore Roethke	Poet	25-May-1908	1-Aug-1963	The Waking
Anne Roiphe	Author	25-Dec-1935		Up the Sandbox!
Henry Rollins	Musician	13-Feb-1961		Black Flag
O. E. Rölvaag	Novelist	22-Apr-1876	5-Nov-1931	Giants in the Earth
Andy Rooney	Journalist	14-Jan-1919	4-Nov-2011	60 Minutes' resident crank
Theodore Roosevelt	Head of State	27-Oct-1858	6-Jan-1919	26th US President, 1901-09
Wayne Allyn Root	Author	1963		The Zen of Gambling
Ned Rorem	Composer	23-Oct-1923		Paris Diary
Ed Rosenthal	Activist	c. 1944		Advocate for legalizing marijuana
Judith Rossner	Novelist	31-Mar-1935	9-Aug-2005	Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Leo Rosten	Author	11-Apr-1908	19-Feb-1997	The Joys of Yiddish
Henry Roth	Author	8-Feb-1906	13-Oct-1995	Call It Sleep
Philip Roth	Novelist	19-Mar-1933		Portnoy's Complaint
David Rothkopf	Author	24-Dec-1955		Superclass
Mary Rowlandson	Author	c. 1635	5-Jan-1711	Narrative of the Captivity
Cynthia Rowley	Fashion Designer	29-Jul-1958		Swell designer
Susanna Rowson	Author	c. 1762	2-Mar-1824	Charlotte, a Tale of Truth
Rudy Rucker	Novelist	22-Mar-1946		Author of Wetware series
Rita Rudner	Comic	17-Sep-1953		Naked Beneath My Clothes
Muriel Rukeyser	Poet	15-Dec-1913	12-Feb-1980	The Book of the Dead
Ann Rule	Author	22-Oct-1937		Prolific true crime paperback writer
Jane Rule	Author	28-Mar-1931	27-Nov-2007	Desert of the Heart
Michael Rumaker	Author	5-Mar-1932		Beat author, The Butterfly
Damon Runyon	Journalist	4-Oct-1884	10-Dec-1946	Guys and Dolls
Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Author	1960		Science fiction and fantasy author, editor
Norman Rush	Novelist	24-Oct-1933		Mating
Douglas Rushkoff	Author	18-Feb-1961		Cyberculture analyst
Joanna Russ	Author	22-Feb-1937	29-Apr-2011	The Female Man
Charles Edward Russell	Author	25-Sep-1860	23-Apr-1941	The Greatest Trust in the World
Richard Russo	Novelist	15-Jul-1949		Nobody's Fool
Cheryl Saban	Philanthropist	30-Apr-1951		Saban Family Foundation
Fred Saberhagen	Novelist	18-May-1930	29-Jun-2007	Berserker series
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933		Awakenings
Carl Safina	Author	23-May-1955		Song for the Blue Ocean
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
J. D. Salinger	Novelist	1-Jan-1919	27-Jan-2010	The Catcher in the Rye
R. A. Salvatore	Author	20-Jan-1959		Created the dark elf Drizzt
Carl Sandburg	Author	6-Jan-1878	22-Jul-1967	Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer
Mari Sandoz	Author	11-May-1896	10-Mar-1966	Crazy Horse
Sapphire	Novelist	4-Aug-1950		Push
William Saroyan	Author	31-Aug-1908	18-May-1981	The Time of Your Life
May Sarton	Poet	3-May-1912	16-Jul-1995	Plant Dreaming Deep
George Saunders	Author	2-Dec-1958		In Persuasion Nation
Michael Savage	Radio Personality	31-Mar-1942		Savage Nation
John Scalzi	Novelist	10-May-1969		Old Man's War
Richard Scarry	Author	5-Jun-1919	30-Apr-1994	Delightful children's book author and artist
Jack Schaefer	Novelist	19-Nov-1907	24-Jan-1991	Shane
Orville Schell	Author	20-May-1940		Prominent sinologist
Michael Scheuer	Spy	c. 1952		Imperial Hubris
Herbert I. Schiller	Author	5-Nov-1919	29-Jan-2000	Mass Communications and American Empire
Eric Schlosser	Author	17-Aug-1959		Fast Food Nation
Bruce Schneier	Computer Programmer	15-Jan-1964		Applied Cryptography
Gabriel Schoenfeld	Government	c. 1955		Hudson Institute scholar, Necessary Secrets
Budd Schulberg	Novelist	27-Mar-1914	5-Aug-2009	What Makes Sammy Run?
James Schuyler	Poet	9-Nov-1923	12-Apr-1991	Freely Espousing
Delmore Schwartz	Poet	8-Dec-1913	11-Jul-1966	Summer Knowledge
Gil Scott-Heron	Poet	1-Apr-1949	27-May-2011	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
William Seabrook	Author	22-Feb-1886	20-Sep-1945	Thoroughly sodden traveling author
David Sedaris	Author	26-Dec-1956		Contributor to This American Life
Erich Segal	Novelist	16-Jun-1937	17-Jan-2010	Love Story
Hubert Selby	Author	23-Jul-1928	26-Apr-2004	Requiem for a Dream
Maurice Sendak	Author	10-Jun-1928	8-May-2012	Where The Wild Things Are
Rod Serling	Author	25-Dec-1924	28-Jun-1975	Creator of The Twilight Zone
Anya Seton	Author	23-Jan-1906	8-Nov-1990	Dragonwyck
Mary Lee Settle	Novelist	29-Jul-1918	27-Sep-2005	Beulah Land
Dr. Seuss	Author	2-Mar-1904	24-Sep-1991	The Cat in the Hat
Anne Sexton	Poet	9-Nov-1928	4-Oct-1974	Live or Die
Michael Shaara	Author	23-Jun-1929	5-May-1988	The Killer Angels
Alan Shalleck	Author	14-Nov-1929	6-Feb-2006	Curious George writer
Karl Shapiro	Poet	10-Nov-1913	14-May-2000	Person, Place and Thing
Irwin Shaw	Playwright	27-Feb-1913	16-May-1984	Rich Man, Poor Man
Wallace Shawn	Actor	12-Nov-1943		Ate dinner with Andre
Robert Shea	Author	14-Feb-1933	10-Mar-1994	Illuminatus Trilogy
Robert Sheckley	Author	16-Jul-1928	9-Dec-2005	Science fiction genius
Wilfrid Sheed	Author	27-Dec-1930	19-Jan-2011	Office Politics
Sidney Sheldon	Author	11-Feb-1917	30-Jan-2007	Annie Get Your Gun
Ricky Van Shelton	Country Musician	12-Jan-1952		Popular 80s country singer
Sam Shepard	Playwright	5-Nov-1943		Buried Child
Jean Shepherd	Radio Personality	26-Jul-1921	16-Oct-1999	A Christmas Story
Robert E. Sherwood	Playwright	4-Apr-1896	14-Nov-1955	Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Randy Shilts	Journalist	8-Aug-1951	17-Feb-1994	Chronicler of AIDS, biographer of Harvey Milk
Wilmar H. Shiras	Novelist	23-Sep-1908	23-Dec-1990	Children of the Atom
Clay Shirky	Author	1964		Cognitive Surplus
Ann Allen Shockley	Author	21-Jun-1927		Loving Her
Irving Shulman	Author	21-May-1913	23-Mar-1995	The Amboy Dukes
Jerry Siegel	Author	17-Oct-1914	28-Jan-1996	Creator of Superman
Robert Silverberg	Novelist	15-Jan-1935		Nightwings
Shel Silverstein	Poet	25-Sep-1930	10-May-1999	Where the Sidewalk Ends
Clifford D. Simak	Novelist	3-Aug-1904	25-Apr-1988	City and The Visitors
Charles Simic	Poet	9-May-1938		The World Doesn't End
Dan Simmons	Author	4-Apr-1948		Hyperion
Carly Simon	Singer/Songwriter	25-Jun-1945		You're So Vain
David Simon	Author	1960		The Wire
Neil Simon	Playwright	4-Jul-1927		The Odd Couple
Louis Simpson	Poet	27-Mar-1923		At The End of the Open Road
Upton Sinclair	Novelist	20-Sep-1878	25-Nov-1968	The Jungle
Isaac Bashevis Singer	Author	14-Jul-1904	24-Jul-1991	Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy
Iceberg Slim	Criminal	4-Aug-1918	28-Apr-1992	Pimp-turned-author
Jane Smiley	Novelist	26-Sep-1949		A Thousand Acres
Anna Deavere Smith	Actor	18-Sep-1950		Nancy McNally on The West Wing
Betty Smith	Novelist	15-Dec-1896	17-Jan-1972	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Clark Ashton Smith	Author	13-Jan-1893	14-Aug-1961	Horror/fantasy author
Cordwainer Smith	Author	11-Jul-1913	6-Aug-1966	The Rediscovery of Man
E. E. "Doc" Smith	Novelist	2-May-1890	31-Aug-1965	Lensman series
H. Allen Smith	Author	19-Dec-1907	24-Feb-1976	Low Man on a Totem Pole
Lee Smith	Novelist	1944		Fancy Strut
Martin Cruz Smith	Novelist	3-Nov-1942		Gorky Park
Lemony Snicket	Author	28-Feb-1970		A Series of Unfortunate Events
W. D. Snodgrass	Poet	5-Jan-1926	13-Jan-2009	Heart's Needle
Gary Snyder	Poet	8-May-1930		Turtle Island
Norman Solomon	Critic	1952		Media critic
Stephen D. Solomon	Author	c. 1949		Ellery's Protest
Christina Hoff Sommers	Author	1950		Who Stole Feminism?
Susan Sontag	Author	16-Jan-1933	28-Dec-2004	Novelist, critic, intellectual
Aaron Sorkin	Author	9-Jun-1961		The West Wing, Sports Night
Peter Sotos	Author	c. 1960		Transgressive author, Pure
Terry Southern	Novelist	1-May-1924	29-Oct-1995	Dr. Strangelove
Jared Sparks	Author	10-May-1789	14-Mar-1866	Life and Writings of George Washington
Nicholas Sparks	Novelist	31-Dec-1965		The Notebook
Mickey Spillane	Author	9-Mar-1918	17-Jul-2006	Mike Hammer novels
Norman Spinrad	Author	15-Sep-1940		SF author, Little Heroes
Benjamin Spock	Doctor	2-May-1903	15-Mar-1998	Baby and Child Care
Jean Stafford	Novelist	1-Jul-1915	26-Mar-1979	The Catherine Wheel
William Stafford	Poet	17-Jan-1914	28-Aug-1993	Traveling Through the Dark
Jerry Stahl	Author	28-Sep-1953		Permanent Midnight
Christopher Stasheff	Novelist	1944		The Warlock In Spite of Himself
Francis Steegmuller	Author	3-Jul-1906	20-Oct-1994	Cocteau: A Biography
Danielle Steel	Novelist	14-Aug-1947		Romance novelist
Robert D. Steele	Spy	16-Jul-1952		Open Source Systems
Shelby Steele	Activist	1-Jan-1946		The Content of Our Character
Wallace Stegner	Author	18-Feb-1909	13-Apr-1993	The Angle of Repose
William Steig	Cartoonist	14-Nov-1907	3-Oct-2003	Shrek, The New Yorker
Gertrude Stein	Author	3-Feb-1874	27-Jul-1946	Avant-garde writer, salon
Joseph Stein	Playwright	30-May-1912	24-Oct-2010	Fiddler on the Roof librettist
John Steinbeck	Novelist	27-Feb-1902	20-Dec-1968	The Grapes of Wrath
Gloria Steinem	Activist	25-Mar-1934		Founder, Ms. Magazine
Mattie Stepanek	Poet	17-Jul-1990	22-Jun-2004	Muscular-dystrophic boy-poet
Neal Stephenson	Novelist	31-Oct-1959		Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling	Author	14-Apr-1954		Schismatrix
Philip Van Doren Stern	Author	10-Sep-1900	31-Jul-1984	It's A Wonderful Life
Richard G. Stern	Novelist	25-Feb-1928		Other Men's Daughters
W. Richard Stevens	Author	5-Feb-1951	1-Sep-1999	UNIX Network Programming
Wallace Stevens	Poet	2-Oct-1879	2-Aug-1955	Harmonium
Rick Steves	Author	10-May-1955		Europe Through the Back Door
Donald Ogden Stewart	Author	30-Nov-1894	2-Aug-1980	The Philadelphia Story
George R. Stewart	Author	31-May-1895	22-Aug-1980	Earth Abides
Joseph Stiglitz	Economist	9-Feb-1943		Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank
R. L. Stine	Author	8-Oct-1943		Goosebumps series
Kathryn Stockett	Novelist	1969		The Help
Richard Henry Stoddard	Novelist	2-Jul-1825	12-May-1903	Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode
Cliff Stoll	Author	?		The Cuckoo's Egg
Debbie Stoller	Author	?		Knitterati, Stitch 'n Bitch
Irving Stone	Novelist	14-Jul-1903	26-Aug-1989	Historical biographical novelist
Robert Stone	Novelist	21-Aug-1937		Dog Soldiers
William Wetmore Story	Sculptor	12-Feb-1819	7-Oct-1895	Cleopatra
Rex Stout	Novelist	1-Dec-1886	27-Oct-1975	Nero Wolf novels
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Novelist	14-Jun-1811	1-Jul-1896	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mark Strand	Poet	11-Apr-1934		U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91
Gene Stratton Porter	Novelist	17-Aug-1863	7-Dec-1924	A Girl of the Limberlost
Peter Straub	Novelist	2-Mar-1943		Ghost Story
Leo Strauss	Philosopher	20-Sep-1899	18-Oct-1973	Patron saint of Neoconservatism
T. S. Stribling	Novelist	4-Mar-1881	8-Jul-1965	The Store
Whitley Strieber	Novelist	13-Jun-1945		Alien-abductee wrote Communion
William Strunk	Author	1-Jul-1869	26-Sep-1946	Elements of Style
Theodore Sturgeon	Author	26-Feb-1918	8-May-1985	More Than Human
William Styron	Novelist	11-Jun-1925	31-Oct-2006	The Confessions of Nat Turner
Danny Sugerman	Author	11-Oct-1954	5-Jan-2005	Manager/Biographer for The Doors
Sarah Susanka	Architect	c. 1957		The Not So Big House
Jacqueline Susann	Novelist	20-Aug-1918	21-Sep-1974	Valley of the Dolls
Ron Suskind	Journalist	1959		The Price of Loyalty
Glendon Swarthout	Novelist	8-Apr-1918	23-Sep-1992	Bless the Beasts and Children
May Swenson	Poet	28-May-1913	4-Dec-1989	Another Animal
Anthony Swofford	Author	12-Aug-1970		Jarhead
Genevieve Taggard	Poet	28-Nov-1894	8-Nov-1948	Travelling Standing Still
Strobe Talbott	Government	25-Apr-1946		Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State
Gay Talese	Author	7-Feb-1932		Honor Thy Father
Amber Tamblyn	Actor	14-May-1983		Joan of Arcadia
Amy Tan	Author	19-Feb-1952		The Joy Luck Club
Sam Tanenhaus	Author	31-Oct-1955		Editor, New York Times Book Review
Tristan Taormino	Columnist	9-May-1971		Anal sex authority
Booth Tarkington	Novelist	29-Jul-1869	19-May-1946	The Magnificent Ambersons
Donna Tartt	Novelist	23-Dec-1963		The Secret History
Allen Tate	Poet	19-Nov-1899	9-Feb-1979	Mr. Pope and Other Poems
James Tate	Poet	8-Dec-1943		The Lost Pilot
Bayard Taylor	Author	11-Jan-1825	19-Dec-1878	Europe seen with Knapsack
Peter Taylor	Author	8-Jan-1917	2-Nov-1994	A Summons to Memphis
Robert Lewis Taylor	Novelist	24-Sep-1912	30-Sep-1998	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Sara Teasdale	Poet	8-Aug-1884	29-Jan-1933	Strange Victory
Ruy Teixeira	Author	c. 1955		The Emerging Democratic Majority
Sheri S. Tepper	Author	16-Jul-1929		The Gate to Women's Country
Studs Terkel	Author	16-May-1912	31-Oct-2008	Working
Ernest Thayer	Poet	14-Aug-1863	21-Aug-1940	Casey at the Bat
Abigail Thernstrom	Author	1936		Opponent of Affirmative Action
Paul Theroux	Novelist	10-Apr-1941		The Mosquito Coast
Lowell Thomas	Journalist	6-Apr-1892	29-Aug-1981	With Lawrence in Arabia
Hunter S. Thompson	Journalist	18-Jul-1937	20-Feb-2005	Gonzo journalist and author
Jim Thompson	Novelist	27-Sep-1906	7-Apr-1977	Heed the Thunder
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden
Geoffrey Thorne	Actor	?		Wilson Sweet on In the Heat of the Night
James Thurber	Author	8-Dec-1894	2-Nov-1961	Short story writer and cartoonist
Wallace Thurman	Author	16-Aug-1902	22-Dec-1934	The Blacker the Berry
Alvin Toffler	Author	4-Oct-1928		Future Shock
John Toland	Historian	29-Jun-1912	4-Jan-2004	The Rising Sun
John Kennedy Toole	Novelist	7-Dec-1937	26-Mar-1969	A Confederacy of Dunces
Jean Toomer	Author	26-Dec-1894	30-Mar-1967	Cane
Dorothy Tree	Actor	21-May-1906	13-Feb-1992	City of Darkness
Trevanian	Novelist	12-Jun-1931	14-Dec-2005	The Eiger Sanction
Kevin Trudeau	Author	6-Feb-1963		Natural Cures, fraudster
Margaret Truman	Relative	17-Feb-1924	29-Jan-2008	Harry S. Truman's mystery novelist daughter
Dalton Trumbo	Author	9-Dec-1905	10-Sep-1976	Johnny Got His Gun
Tom Tryon	Novelist	14-Jan-1926	4-Sep-1991	The Other
Robert W. Tucker	Author	c. 1925		The Inequality of Nations
Edward Tufte	Author	14-Mar-1942		The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Scott Turow	Novelist	12-Apr-1949		Presumed Innocent
Mark Twain	Author	30-Nov-1835	21-Apr-1910	Huckleberry Finn
Anne Tyler	Author	25-Oct-1941		The Accidental Tourist
Royall Tyler	Playwright	18-Jul-1757	26-Aug-1826	The Contrast
Emmett Tyrrell	Columnist	1943		Publisher, The American Spectator
Francis Henry Underwood	Author	12-Jan-1825	7-Aug-1894	Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town
Louis Untermeyer	Poet	1-Oct-1885	18-Dec-1977	Anthologist of poetry
John Updike	Novelist	18-Mar-1932	27-Jan-2009	Rabbit, Run
Leon Uris	Novelist	3-Aug-1924	21-Jun-2003	Battle Cry
Andrew Vachss	Author	19-Oct-1942		Burke, attorney for children
Winfred Van Atta	Novelist	18-Oct-1910	5-Jun-1990	Shock Treatment
Carl Van Doren	Author	10-Sep-1885	18-Jul-1950	The American Novel
Mark Van Doren	Poet	13-Jun-1894	10-Dec-1972	The Happy Critic
Mona Van Duyn	Poet	9-May-1921	1-Dec-2004	To See, To Take
Carl Van Vechten	Novelist	17-Jun-1880	21-Dec-1964	Patron of the Harlem Renaissance
Jack Vance	Novelist	28-Aug-1916		The Dying Earth
Jennifer Vanderbes	Author	1974		Easter Island
Amy Vanderbilt	Columnist	22-Jul-1908	27-Dec-1974	Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette
Jeff Vandermeer	Author	1968		The Book of Lost Places
John Varley	Novelist	1947		Wrote Titan, Wizard, and Demon
Immanuel Velikovsky	Author	10-Jun-1895	17-Nov-1979	Worlds in Collision
Jones Very	Poet	28-Aug-1813	8-May-1880	Religious mystic
Gore Vidal	Author	3-Oct-1925	31-Jul-2012	Visit to a Small Planet
Peter Viereck	Poet	5-Aug-1916	13-May-2006	Terror and Decorum
Peter Viertel	Novelist	16-Nov-1920	4-Nov-2007	White Hunter, Black Heart
Bruce Vilanch	Author	23-Nov-1948		The fat guy who writes everyone's jokes
Lynn Vincent	Author	c. 1962		Sarah Palin's ghostwriter
Joan D. Vinge	Author	2-Apr-1948		Eyes of Amber
Vernor Vinge	Author	10-Feb-1944		A Fire Upon The Deep
A. E. van Vogt	Novelist	26-Apr-1912	26-Jan-2000	Science fiction writer
Cynthia Voigt	Author	25-Feb-1942		Juvenile author, Tillerman Cycle
William T. Vollmann	Author	28-Jul-1959		An Afghanistan Picture Show
Kurt Vonnegut	Novelist	11-Nov-1922	11-Apr-2007	Slaughterhouse Five
Sarah Vowell	Radio Personality	27-Dec-1969		This American Life
Diane Wakoski	Poet	3-Aug-1937		Coins & Coffins
Alice Walker	Author	9-Feb-1944		The Color Purple
Margaret Walker	Novelist	7-Jul-1915	30-Nov-1998	Jubilee
David Foster Wallace	Novelist	21-Feb-1962	12-Sep-2008	Infinite Jest
Irving Wallace	Author	19-Mar-1916	29-Jun-1990	The Book of Lists
Lew Wallace	Novelist	10-Apr-1827	15-Feb-1905	Civil War General, wrote Ben-Hur
Robert James Waller	Novelist	1-Aug-1939		The Bridges of Madison County
Eric Walrond	Author	18-Dec-1898	8-Aug-1966	Tropic Death
Joan Walsh	Editor	18-Sep-1958		Editor-in-Chief of Salon, 2005-10
Joseph Wambaugh	Novelist	22-Jan-1937		The Onion Field
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward	Novelist	31-Aug-1844	28-Jan-1911	The Story of Avis
Charles Dudley Warner	Author	12-Sep-1829	20-Oct-1900	Harper's editorialist
Mercy Otis Warren	Historian	25-Sep-1728	19-Oct-1814	History of the American Revolution
Robert Penn Warren	Poet	24-Apr-1905	15-Sep-1989	First US Poet Laureate
Wendy Wasserstein	Playwright	18-Oct-1950	30-Jan-2006	The Heidi Chronicles
Ben Weasel	Musician	?		Screeching Weasel
Charles Webb	Novelist	9-Jun-1939		The Graduate
Mason Locke Weems	Author	11-Oct-1759	23-May-1825	Life of George Washington
Andrew Weil	Author	8-Jun-1942		New age ethnopharmacologist
Kurt Weill	Composer	2-Mar-1900	3-Apr-1950	The Threepenny Opera
Jonathan Wells	Religion	c. 1956		Moonie for Intelligent Design
Eudora Welty	Author	13-Apr-1909	23-Jul-2001	The Optimist's Daughter
Glenway Wescott	Novelist	11-Apr-1901	22-Feb-1987	The Pilgrim Hawk
Cornel West	Activist	2-Jun-1953		Prominent blackademic
Dorothy West	Novelist	2-Jun-1907	16-Aug-1998	The Wedding
Jessamyn West	Author	18-Jul-1902	23-Feb-1984	The Friendly Persuasion
Nathanael West	Author	17-Oct-1903	22-Dec-1940	The Day of the Locust
Edward Noyes Westcott	Novelist	27-Sep-1846	31-Mar-1898	David Harum
Lally Weymouth	Journalist	3-Jul-1943		The Washington Post
Philip Whalen	Poet	20-Oct-1923	26-Jun-2002	Canoeing up Carbaga Creek
Edith Wharton	Novelist	24-Jan-1862	11-Aug-1937	The Age of Innocence
William Wharton	Novelist	7-Nov-1925	29-Oct-2008	Birdy
Phillis Wheatley	Poet	c. 1743	5-Dec-1784	First prominent African-American poet
James Whistler	Painter	14-Jul-1834	17-Jul-1903	Whistler's Mother
E. B. White	Author	11-Jul-1899	01-Oct-1985	Charlotte's Web
Edmund White	Author	13-Jan-1940		The Joy of Gay Sex
Walter White	Activist	1-Jul-1893	21-Mar-1955	Worked against lynchings
Brand Whitlock	Diplomat	4-Mar-1869	24-May-1934	US Ambassador to Belgium, 1914-21
Walt Whitman	Poet	31-May-1819	26-Mar-1892	Leaves of Grass
Reed Whittemore	Poet	11-Sep-1919	6-Apr-2012	Heroes & Heroines
John Greenleaf Whittier	Poet	17-Dec-1807	7-Sep-1892	American abolitionist poet
John Edgar Wideman	Novelist	14-Jun-1941		Sent for You Yesterday
Elie Wiesel	Activist	30-Sep-1928		Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist
Kate Douglas Wiggin	Novelist	28-Sep-1856	24-Aug-1923	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Michael Wigglesworth	Poet	18-Oct-1631	10-Jun-1705	The Day of Doom
Ken Wilber	Author	31-Jan-1949		Founder, Integral Institute
Richard Wilbur	Poet	1-Mar-1921		Second U.S. Poet Laureate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Poet	5-Nov-1850	30-Oct-1919	Poems of Passion
Laura Ingalls Wilder	Novelist	7-Feb-1867	10-Feb-1957	Little House on the Prairie
Thornton Wilder	Novelist	17-Apr-1897	7-Dec-1975	The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Max Wilk	Author	3-Jul-1920	19-Feb-2011	Don't Raise the Bridge: Lower the River
C. K. Williams	Poet	4-Nov-1936		Repair
Saul Williams	Rapper	29-Feb-1972		Slam
Tennessee Williams	Playwright	26-Mar-1911	25-Feb-1983	The Glass Menagerie
Walter Jon Williams	Novelist	15-Oct-1953		Hardwired
William Carlos Williams	Poet	17-Sep-1883	4-Mar-1963	Pictures from Brueghel
Connie Willis	Author	31-Dec-1945		Doomsday Book, Lincoln's Dreams
Nathaniel Parker Willis	Journalist	20-Jan-1806	20-Jan-1867	Pencillings by the Way
August Wilson	Playwright	27-Apr-1945	2-Oct-2005	The Piano Lesson
Edmund Wilson	Author	8-May-1895	12-Jun-1972	Axel's Castle
Harriet E. Wilson	Novelist	15-Mar-1825	28-Jun-1900	Our Nig
Harry Leon Wilson	Novelist	1-May-1867	28-Jun-1939	Ruggles of Red Gap
Lanford Wilson	Playwright	13-Apr-1937	24-Mar-2011	The Hot L Baltimore
Mary Wilson	Singer	6-Mar-1944		The Supremes
Robert Wilson	Theater Director	4-Oct-1941		Experimental theater director, designer
Robert Anton Wilson	Author	18-Jan-1932	11-Jan-2007	Illuminatus Trilogy
Kathryn Tucker Windham	Author	2-Jun-1918	12-Jun-2011	Alabama: One Big Front Porch
Terri Windling	Novelist	1958		The Wood Wife
Yvor Winters	Poet	17-Oct-1900	25-Jan-1968	Primitivism & Decadence
David Wise	Author	10-May-1930		The Invisible Government
Owen Wister	Author	14-Jul-1860	21-Jul-1938	The Virginian
Albert Wohlstetter	Author	19-Dec-1913	10-Jan-1997	Nuclear strategist
Larry Woiwode	Novelist	30-Oct-1941		What I'm Going to Do, I Think
Naomi Wolf	Author	12-Nov-1962		The Beauty Myth
Gene Wolfe	Novelist	7-May-1931		The Book of the New Sun
Thomas Wolfe	Novelist	3-Oct-1900	15-Sep-1938	Look Homeward, Angel
Tom Wolfe	Author	2-Mar-1931		Bonfire of the Vanities
Tobias Wolff	Author	19-Jun-1945		The Barracks Thief
Marv Wolfman	Cartoonist	13-May-1946		Former Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics
John Wooden	Basketball	14-Oct-1910	4-Jun-2010	Winningest-ever college basketball coach
Douglas Woolf	Novelist	23-Mar-1922	18-Jan-1992	Fade Out
Cornell Woolrich	Novelist	4-Dec-1903	25-Sep-1968	The Bride Wore Black
Mary Woronov	Actor	8-Dec-1943		Eating Raoul
Herman Wouk	Novelist	27-May-1915		The Caine Mutiny
Harold Bell Wright	Novelist	4-May-1872	24-May-1944	The Winning of Barbara Worth
James Wright	Poet	13-Dec-1927	25-Mar-1980	The Branch Will Not Break
Lawrence Wright	Author	2-Aug-1947		The Looming Tower
Richard Wright	Author	4-Sep-1908	28-Nov-1960	Native Son
Elinor Wylie	Poet	7-Sep-1885	16-Dec-1928	Nets to Catch the Wind
Richard Yates	Novelist	3-Feb-1926	7-Nov-1992	Revolutionary Road
Frank Yerby	Novelist	5-Sep-1916	29-Nov-1991	The Dahomean
Daniel Yergin	Author	6-Feb-1947		The Prize
Anzia Yezierska	Novelist	c. 1880	21-Nov-1970	Bread Givers
Francis Parker Yockey	Author	18-Sep-1917	16-Jun-1960	Imperium
Marguerite Young	Author	28-Aug-1908	17-Nov-1995	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Stark Young	Critic	11-Oct-1881	6-Jan-1963	So Red the Rose
Zane	Novelist	c. 1967		The Sex Chronicles
Jeffrey Zaslow	Author	6-Oct-1958	10-Feb-2012	Replaced Ann Landers
Roger Zelazny	Novelist	13-May-1937	14-Jun-1995	Damnation Alley
Sarah Zettel	Author	Dec-1966		Reclamation, Fool's War
Herbert S. Zim	Author	12-Jul-1909	5-Dec-1994	Golden Guides
Carl Zimmer	Author	13-Jul--1966		Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Paul Zindel	Author	15-May-1936	27-Mar-2003	Books for young adults
Hans Zinsser	Scientist	17-Nov-1878	4-Sep-1940	Typhus vaccine
Louis Zukofsky	Poet	23-Jan-1904	12-May-1978	Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement