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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who was the 43rd president of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009. The eldest son of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, he was the governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Washington Irving
American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)

Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
Carl Sandburg
American writer and editor (1878–1967)

Norman Mailer
American writer (1923–2007)
Henry Adams
American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of US president John F. Kennedy and US senator Ted Kennedy.
Alex Haley
American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)

Irving Stone
American writer (1903–1989)

Harpo Marx
American comedian
Michael Shermer
American science writer

Carl Bernstein
American journalist (born 1944)
Walter Isaacson
American author, journalist and professor (born 1952)

Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

John Hay
American statesman (1838–1905)
Edgar Lee Masters
American writer (1868–1950)
Edmund White
American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
Joel Chandler Harris
American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)
James Gleick
American author and historian of science (born 1954)
Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and music editor
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
biologist (1851-1943)
James Truslow Adams
American writer and historian (1878–1949)
Oliver Otis Howard
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1830–1909)
John Eisenhower
United States Army general, military historian, diplomat (1922–2013)
Michael Wolff
American author, essayist, and journalist
William Gilmore Simms
American writer (1806–1870)
Albert Jay Nock
American journalist (1870-1945)
Abraham Flexner
American educator
Robert Caro
American journalist and author
Jon Lee Anderson
American journalist
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
American historian, pastor, and author (1805-1877)
Hisham Matar
American writer
Harold Lamb
American historian and novelist (1892–1962)
Monty Roberts
horse trainer
James Kirke Paulding
American writer (1778–1860)
Robert James O'Neill
Navy SEAL
Barry Gifford
American novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor (born 1946)
Sunand Tryambak Joshi
American writer
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
American poet and disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami (born 1939)
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
American writer (1817-1897)
Teller
American magician

Francis Amasa Walker
Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897)
Clifford Irving
American author and convicted fraudster (1930-2017)
Joseph Pennell
American artist and author (1857-1926)
Ron Chernow
American writer and historian (born 1949)
John Erskine
American educator and novelist (1879–1951)
Maynard Solomon
American music executive and musicologist; co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and writer on music (1930-2020)
Ted Morgan
French-American journalist and biographer
Donald Spoto
American biographer and theologian (1941–2023)
Daniel Coit Gilman
American educator and academic (1831–1908)
Mason Locke Weems
fictionalizing biographer of George Washington (1759-1825)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob
German writer (1889–1967)
John Farquhar Fulton
American neurophysiologist and historian of science (1899–1960)
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Novelist, poet, editor (1819–1881)
J. Arch Getty
American historian
Billy Rose
American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist (1899–1966)
Samuel S. Cox
American politician (1824-1889)

Edgar Saltus
American writer (1855–1921)
Michael Drosnin
American journalist (1946–2020)

Benjamin Moser
American linguist, writer