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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James Agee	Poet	27-Nov-1909	16-May-1955	A Death in the Family
Eric Alterman	Columnist	14-Jan-1960		The Nation columnist
Emily Greene Balch	Activist	8-Jan-1867	9-Jan-1961	Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
John Berryman	Poet	25-Oct-1914	7-Jan-1972	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Alexander Cockburn	Columnist	6-Jun-1941		The Nation, CounterPunch
David Corn	Columnist	Feb-1959		Washington editor of The Nation
Jonathan Daniels	Government	26-Apr-1902	6-Nov-1981	FDR and Truman's press secretary
E. L. Godkin	Journalist	2-Oct-1831	21-May-1902	Co-founder of The Nation
Ernest Gruening	Politician	6-Feb-1887	26-Jun-1974	US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69
Christopher Hitchens	Journalist	13-Apr-1949		Agent provocateur
David Ignatow	Poet	7-Feb-1914	17-Nov-1997	Rescue the Dead
Naomi Klein	Author	1970		No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Hilton Kramer	Critic	25-Mar-1928		The New Criterion
Joseph Wood Krutch	Naturalist	25-Nov-1893	22-May-1970	The Modern Temper
Max Lerner	Sociologist	20-Dec-1902	5-Jun-1992	Ideas Are Weapons
Mary McCarthy	Author	21-Jun-1912	25-Oct-1989	The Group
Carey McWilliams	Journalist	13-Dec-1905	27-Jun-1980	Editor of The Nation, 1955-75
W. S. Merwin	Poet	30-Sep-1927		The Carrier of Ladders
Paul Elmer More	Scholar	12-Dec-1864	9-Mar-1937	Shelburne Essays
Toni Morrison	Author	18-Feb-1931		Beloved
Victor Navasky	Publisher	5-Jul-1932		Publisher of The Nation
Albert Jay Nock	Author	13-Oct-1870	19-Aug-1945	Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Charles Eliot Norton	Scholar	16-Nov-1827	21-Oct-1908	American man of letters
Frederick Law Olmsted	Architect	27-Apr-1822	28-Aug-1903	Designed New York's Central Park
Kenneth Rexroth	Poet	22-Dec-1905	6-Jun-1982	Disenchanted beat poet
Karen Rothmyer	Journalist	?		Editor of The Nation
Jeremy Scahill	Journalist	?		Democracy Now!
Robert Scheer	Columnist	4-Apr-1936		Former L.A. Times columnist, former Commie
I. F. Stone	Journalist	24-Dec-1907	17-Jul-1989	I. F. Stone's Weekly
Hunter S. Thompson	Journalist	18-Jul-1937	20-Feb-2005	Gonzo journalist and author
Calvin Trillin	Comic	5-Dec-1935		Humorist
Diana Trilling	Critic	21-Jul-1905	23-Oct-1996	Literary critic, The Nation
Barbara Tuchman	Historian	30-Jan-1912	6-Feb-1989	A Distant Mirror
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
Katrina vanden Heuvel	Editor	7-Oct-1959		Editor of The Nation
Patricia Williams	Scholar	1951		The Alchemy of Race and Rights

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