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Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

Richard Wright
American novelist and poet (1908–1960)

John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)

Conrad Aiken
American novelist and poet (1889–1973)

Studs Terkel
American author, historian and broadcaster (1912-2008)
Nelson Algren
American novelist, short story writer (1909-1981)
Jim Thompson
American writer (1906–1977)
Dorothy West
American writer (1907-1998)
Margaret Walker
American poet and writer (1915-1998)
Anzia Yezierska
American writer (1880–1970)
Stetson Kennedy
Author, folklorist, anti-Ku Klux Klan crusader (1916-2011)
Loren Eiseley
American philosopher (1907-1977)
Arna Bontemps
American poet, novelist (1902–1973)
Robert Hayden
American writer and academic (1913–1980)
Frank Yerby
American writer (1916-1991)
Weldon Kees
American artist (1914-1955)
Eliot Elisofon
American photographer (1911–1973)
William Attaway
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, screenwriter (1911-1986)
Maxwell Bodenheim
American writer (1892–1954)
Nathan Asch
American author (1902–1964)

Vardis Fisher
Novelist, essayist (1895–1968)