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page 120th-century American librarians
Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)

Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

Phyllis Schlafly
American conservative activist (1924-2016)
Archibald MacLeish
American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982)
Nella Larsen
American novelist, librarian, nurse (1891–1964)

Beverly Cleary
American writer of children's books (1916–2021)
Dee Brown
American writer (1908–2002)
Frances Gifford
American actress (1920-1994)
Robert Darnton
American historian
Ann E. Todd
American actress (1931-2020)
James H. Billington
13th Librarian of Congress (1929–2018)
Judith Merril
American science fiction writer and editor (1923-1997)
Agnes von Kurowsky
American Nurse and Muse for Ernest Hemingway (1892–1984)
Claudia McNeil
American actress (1917-1993)

Miriam Lichtheim
Israeli egyptologist (1914-2004)
Luther H. Evans
American political scientist (1902-1981)
Joanna Cole
American children's books author (1944-2020)
Helen MacInnes
20th-century Scottish-American author

Elizabeth Gould Davis
American writer

Anne Spencer
American poet (1882–1975)
Elizabeth Gray Vining
American writer
Barbara Rose Johns
American activist

Panna Naik
Gujarati language poet
Pura Belpré
Puerto Rican writer, puppeteer, and librarian (1899–1982)
Arna Bontemps
American poet, novelist (1902–1973)
Belle da Costa Greene
American librarian (1883-1950)
Kan'ichi Asakawa
Japanese historian (1873–1948)
Mortimer Taube
American librarian (1910–1965)
Agnes Inglis
American anarchist archivist (1870-1952)
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist (1874–1938)
Beaumont Newhall
American curator, art historian, writer and photographer (1908–1993)
Dudley Randall
American poet (1914– 2000)
Yolanda Retter
American activist
Thea White
American voice actress (1940–2021)
Dorothy B. Porter
American librarian (1905-1995)

Fielding Hudson Garrison
American medical historian (1870–1935)
Ethelmary Oakland
American actress (1909-1999)

Margaret Herrick
American librarian (1902-1976)
Seymour Lubetzky
American librarian (1898–2003)
Jesse Shera
American librarian (1903–1982)
Judith Krug
American librarian and freedom of speech proponent (1940-2009)
Hans Baron
German-American historian

Augusta Braxton Baker
American librarian

Dina Abramowicz
librarian at YIVO and a Yiddish language expert
Vidaluz Meneses
Nicaraguan poet and social activist (1944-2016)

Zoia Horn
American librarian
Fiona Kelleghan
American writer

Sam Walter Foss
American writer (1858–1911)
Charlotte Serber
American journalist, statistician and librarian (1911–1967)
Otto Kinkeldey
American music academic (1878-1966)

Vicki Myron
American writer
James Read Chadwick
American gynecologist (1844-1905)

Carleton Sprague Smith
American historian, musicologist and writer (1905-1994)

Eleanor Estes
American children's writer
Lawrence Quincy Mumford
American librarian (1903–1982)

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
American explorer and artist (1853–1935)
Donna Wills Scheeder
American librarian
Marcelle Lively Hamer
librarian and Texas folklorist
Ruby Pickens Tartt
author, folklorist, artist, librarian, musician