20th-century American writers

American architect

American theologian (1832-1920)

American archaeologist (1907-1978)

American academic and anti-racism activist

American sailor

American civil rights activist (1925–1996)

American social activist, missionary, scientist, writer (1839-1916)

African-American cowboy following the American Civil War

American book publisher (1935–2013)

American music critic (1917–1975)

American journalist

American comic book writer and artist

American comic book creator and critic

Science fiction editor

American writer, former pastor

American children's writer and illustrator (1909–1968)

American writer and producer

archaeologist and academic

American actor, film writer, director and producer (1891–1964)

American singer (1939-2000)

American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter (1924-1997)

American author, sculptor, and professor of art and art history

American writer (1920–2012)

American journalist (1909-1981)

American writer

American journalist and author & Pulitzer Prize winner.

Irish writer (1867–1931)

American writer and illustrator

American comic strip cartoonist (1877–1935)

American writer (1869–1944)

American diplomat (1911-1992)

American writer and Soviet spy (1892–1978)

biblical scholar

American screenwriter and film producer (1912–1972)

American botanist and writer (1931–2021)

American Jungian psychiatrist (1874–1953)

American model and writer (1948–2009)

screenwriter (1962–2013)

American comic book writer, artist, actor and musician

American historian

American statesman, author, humanitarian and human rights activist (1840–1925)

American writer, inventor and actress

author and anthropologist

American Chicana feminist (1925–2021)

American logician (1906-2001)

American illustrator and writer (1915-2008)

Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (1881–1966)

American superintendent of schools (1889-1968)

American alternative archeologist

American painter, biographer

author and illustrator

American writer and activist

cartoonist, creator of Plastic Man

American comics artist and writer

Governor of South Carolina (1864-1943)

American librarian

homosexual rights activist in the United States

American journalist and writer

writer and eldest son of John Steinbeck (1944–2016)

American ethnopharmacologist and author