20th-century American writers

American mathematician (1947-2008)

American writer

American cartoonist

American writer

American film director (1942–2018)

American actress (1857-1934)

American actor, screenwriter, producer and director (1938-1995)

Austrian-American author and translator

American physician

American author (1847–1941)

American author and New Thought proponent (1866–1954)

American women's history expert, professor, and author

American clinical psychologist

American writer

American radio journalist (1910–1974)

American children's writer

American communications theorist

Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu (born 1962) known mononymously as Obiwu, is a Nigerian American writer and professor. He is a survivor of the Igbo genocide in Nigeria (1966–1970), and teaches World Literature and Critical Theory in the Humanities Department at Central State University, Ohio, United States.

economist

American artist (1929-2005)

"Lost Bird", infant survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre and taken by a white family

archaeologist

American singer, songwriter, and record producer

Japanese American activist and trade unionist; interned at the beginning of WWII at Manzanar; served in World War II as a Japanese language specialist for the U.S. Army (1906–1999)

Colcord, Lincoln, 1883-1947

American activist

American attorney and children's writer

American theater critic, humorist and editor (1902-1958)

American television animator and writer (1940-1992)

American artist (1878-1957)

American author, editor, translator

American writer (1905-1987)

American author and patron of the arts

journalist

American artist and children's writer (1929–2012)

American writer, illustrator, and photographer (1865–1940)

Afro-Puerto Rican attorney who was the head of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico from 2012-2014

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1910-1992)

American psychologist (1936–2021)

American silent film actress (1887-1932)

American librarian

American songwriter

American writer

American writer (1847–1902)

youngest daughter of President Woodrow Wilson

author

American economist (1936–2016)

American journalist (1927–1989)

American writer

American ballet dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and writer

American art critic (1950–1990)

American occultist (1943-2008)

American artist, writer, and film director

American scientist

American actor

American photographer, travel writer, author

United States Army officer (1921–2022)

American journalist (1920–1992)

American educator

American philosopher and theologian (born 1939)