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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and he is the second highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is one of the world's wealthiest celebrities. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.
Michael Cunningham
American novelist and screenwriter
Fredric Brown
American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and comics (born 1974)
Edmund White
American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
Lillian Wald
American nurse and activist (1867–1940)
Mike Resnick
American writer (1942-2020)
Charles Francis Hall
American arctic explorer (1821–1871)
Jerry Rubin
American activist (1938–1994)
L.A. Reid
American record executive (born 1956)
Robert Blust
American linguist (1940–2022)
Thomas Louis Berger
American novelist (1924–2014)
Frances Trollope
English novelist (1779-1863)
Alice Cary
American writer (1820–1871)
Phoebe Caryary
American writer (1824-1871)
Kay Boyle
American writer, educator, political activist (1902–1992)
Edith Rosenbaum
American fashion buyer, stylist, journalist and correspondent (1879-1975)
Kenneth Koch
American poet, playwright, and professor (1925–2002)
Reichen Lehmkuhl
American lawyer, businessman, model, actor and militar
Karen Marie Moning
American novelist
Curtis Sittenfeld
American novelist (1975-)
Theodore Dwight Weld
American abolitionist (1803–1895)
David Quammen
American science author
Kay Lahusen
American photographer, writer and LGBT activist (1930–2021)
Patricia Lockwood
American poet, author
John Franklin Bardin
American writer (1916–1981)
Theresa Rebeck
writer, playwright, novelist
Kathleen Ann Goonan
American writer (1952–2021)
Matt Zoller Seitz
American writer and critic
Sara Bard Field
American suffragist and poet (1882–1974)
George Randolph Chester
American short story writer (1869–1924)
Edgar Selwyn
American actor, director, and producer
Daniel Carter Beard
American artist, writer, and youth leader (1850–1941)
John Filson
United States author, historian and surveyor
Stanley Schmidt
American physicist and science fiction writer
Harry Smith
American television journalist
Daniel Drake
American physician and writer (1785-1852)
Helen Taft Manning
American educator; daughter of William Howard Taft (1891-1987)
Charlene Mitchell
American politician
Benjamin Pitman
United states stenographer and crafts promoter (1822–1910)
Eliza Archard Conner
American journalist, lecturer, feminist (1838-1912)
Samuel Fenton Cary
American politician 1814-1900
Ross Rocklynne
American writer (1913-1988)
Robert Kaske
American literary scholar (1921-1989)
Thomas McEvilley
American writer and scholar (1939–2013)
Helen Eustis
American translator (1916-2015)
Robert O'Hara
American playwright and theatre director
Abiodun Oyewole
American musician
Rudy Wurlitzer
American novelist and screenwriter
Christopher Bollen
American writer
Ken Sprague
American bodybuilder and gym owner
Rosa Maria Segale
Italian nun and missionary (1850–1941)
Kenner Garrard
United States Army general (1827–1879)
William Haines Lytle
Union Army general
Jim Brosnan
American baseball player
Charles Edward Pogue
American screenwriter
Robert Lowry
American writer (1919–1994)
Gamaliel Bailey
American physician, journalist, abolitionist (1807-1859)
Daniel Katz
American environmentalist
Anna de Brémont
American writer (c. 1849 – 1922)