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Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
Henry Miller
American novelist (1891–1980)
Mario Puzo
American author, screenwriter, and journalist
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
Gore Vidal
American writer (1925–2012)
Erskine Caldwell
American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist (1903–1987)
Anne Applebaum
American journalist and historian (born 1964)
Elizabeth Gilbert
American writer
Bill Bryson
American-British author (born 1951)
Hanya Yanagihara
American novelist and travel writer (1974-)
Neil Peart
Canadian-American drummer (1952–2020)
Peter Benchley
American author (1940–2006)
Paul Theroux
American travel writer and novelist
Peter Matthiessen
American novelist (1927–2014)
Fanny Bullock Workman
American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
Edward Robinson
American biblical scholar (1794-1863)
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
William Bartram
American naturalist (1739-1823)
Bayard Taylor
United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)
Scott O'Dell
American children's writer (1898–1989)
Helen Churchill Candee
American writer (1858–1949)
Katharine Lee Bates
American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)
Donald Richie
American writer and film historian (1924–2013)
Robert D. Kaplan
American writer
Lowell Thomas
American journalist, news analyst and businessman (1892–1981)
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
American writer and photographer (1856-1928)
Emily Post
American writer and etiquette expert
Douglas Kennedy
American novelist and actor
Constance Fenimore Woolson
American writer (1840-1894)
Richard Halliburton
American writer (1900–1939)
Catharine Sedgwick
American writer 1789-1867
Sarah Vowell
American author, journalist, singing songs and social commentator
Charles Warren Stoddard
American author and editor (1843–1909)
Burton Holmes
American traveler and filmmaker (1870–1958)
Lydia Sigourney
American poet (1791–1865)
Victor Hugo Green
American travel writer
William Seabrook
American journalist (1884–1945)
Samuel S. Cox
American politician (1824-1889)
Jackie Ronne
American explorer (1919–2009)
Sarah Kemble Knight
United States educator and writer
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
American author (1855–1936)
Alexis Alford
American traveler, photographer, and YouTuber; youngest person to travel to every country
John William De Forest
Military officer, novelist
Cornelia Otis Skinner
American actress and author (1899–1979)
Corliss Lamont
American activist (1902–1995)
Julian Hawthorne
American journalist (1846-1934)
John Lawson Stoddard
American writer (1850–1931)
E. Alexander Powell
American journalist (1879–1957)
George Francis Train
American businessman (1829–1904)
Henry Martyn Field
American author and clergyman (1822–1907)
Mary Austin Holley
American writer
William Least Heat-Moon
American writer
Blair Niles
American writer, explorer and photographer (1880-1959)
George P. Putnam
American publisher, author, and explorer (1887-1950)
Albert Bigelow Paine
American writer and biographer (1861–1937)