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Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Robert A. Heinlein
American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
Kate Chopin
American author (1850–1904)
Jonathan Franzen
American writer
Martha Gellhorn
journalist from the United States (1908–1998)
Gillian Flynn
American author and critic
C. J. Cherryh
United States science fiction and fantasy author
William Inge
American playwright and novelist (1913–1973)
Ann Leckie
American science-fiction author
Jane Smiley
American novelist
James Gunn
American science fiction author (1923–2020)
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
Margaret Weis
American fantasy novelist (born 1948)
Chester Himes
fiction writer from the U.S. state of Missouri (1909–1984)
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)
Jim Butcher
American author (born 1971)
Laurell K. Hamilton
American novelist
Lee Falk
American comics writer
William H. Gass
American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
Winston Churchill
American novelist (1871–1947)
Margaret Truman
American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman (1924-2008)
Stephen Hunter
American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Katherine Neville
American novelist (born 1945)
Josephine Johnson
American novelist, nature writer, poet (1910-1990)
Emily Hahn
American writer (1905–1997)
Qiu Xiaolong
Chinese-American writer
Keith Laumer
American science fiction writer (1925–1993)
Faye Kellerman
American writer of mystery novels
Gene Gauntier
American actor and screenwriter (1885-1966)
Janet Dailey
American writer (1944–2013)
Julie Garwood
American writer
Daniel Woodrell
American novelist
Charles G. Finney
American fantasy writer (1905-1984)
William F. Nolan
American writer (1928-2021)
Dorothy B. Hughes
American writer (1904-1993)
Kathryn Adams Doty
actress, psychologist, writer (1920-2016)
Fannie Hurst
American novelist (1889–1968)
Valerie Martin
American writer
Ridley Pearson
American writer
Clara Erskine Clement
American travel and history author
Rupert Hughes
American writer (1872-1956)
Nancy Pickard
American writer
Robert Moore Williams
American writer (1907–1977)
Harold Brodkey
writer (1930–1996)
Jennifer Roberson
American author of fantasy and historical literature
Roshani Chokshi
American novelist
Henry Wilson Allen
American author and screenwriter (1912-1991)
John Lutz
American writer (1939–2021)
Bruce Jones
writer
Paulette Jiles
Canadian writer
A. E. Hotchner
American writer (1920–2020)
Henry Bellamann
American writer (1882–1945)
Berton Roueché
American journalist
Norma Elia Cantú
American writer
Stanley Elkin
Novelist, essayist, professor (1930–1995)
Lester Dent
American writer (1904–1959)
Jill Churchill
American writer of historical, mystery, and romantic novels under several names
Calvin Trillin
American journalist