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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Nicholson Baker
Author
7-Jan-1957   Double Fold
Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
8-Feb-1911 6-Oct-1979 North & South
Joseph Brodsky
Poet
24-May-1940 28-Jan-1996 "Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate
Frederick Busch
Novelist
1-Aug-1941 23-Feb-2006 Don't Tell Anyone
E. L. Doctorow
Author
6-Jan-1931   The Book of Daniel
Jennifer Egan
Novelist
6-Sep-1962   A Visit from the Goon Squad
Stanley Elkin
Novelist
11-May-1930 31-May-1995 The Living End
Susan Faludi
Activist
18-Apr-1959   Backlash
Penelope Fitzgerald
Novelist
17-Dec-1916 28-Apr-2000 The Blue Flower
Ernest J. Gaines
Novelist
15-Jan-1933   A Lesson Before Dying
William H. Gass
Novelist
30-Jul-1924   The Tunnel
Louise Glück
Author
22-Apr-1943   The Wild Iris
Erving Goffman
Sociologist
11-Jun-1922 19-Nov-1982 The Presentation of Self
Stephen Jay Gould
Biologist
10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist
Donald Hall
Poet
20-Sep-1928   The One Day
Shirley Hazzard
Novelist
30-Jan-1931   The Transit of Venus
Paul Hendrickson
Author
29-Apr-1944   Hemingway's Boat
James Merrill
Poet
3-Mar-1926 6-Feb-1995 Nights and Days
Sharon Olds
Poet
19-Nov-1942   The Dead and the Living
Reynolds Price
Author
1-Feb-1933 20-Jan-2011 A Long and Happy Life
Philip Roth
Novelist
19-Mar-1933   Portnoy's Complaint
Ronald Steel
Scholar
25-Mar-1931   Pax Americana
Shelby Steele
Activist
1-Jan-1946   The Content of Our Character


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