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Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)

Dan Quayle
vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
John Green
American author and vlogger

Ryan Murphy (producer)
Ryan Patrick Murphy is an American writer, director, and producer, working mainly in television. He has often been described as "the most powerful man" in modern television and signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses." His accolades include six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including the honorary Carol Burnett Award.
Booth Tarkington
American novelist (1869–1946)
Mary Ritter Beard
American historian and women's suffrage activist (1876–1958)
Stephen Sommers
American film director and screenwriter
Allan Bloom
American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
Catherine Lucile Moore
American author (1911-1987)
Marilyn Quayle
Second Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Justin Anthony Knapp
first person to log more than 1 million edits to the English Wikipedia
Stephen F. Cohen
American historian (1938-2020)
James Whitcomb Riley
American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)
Al Ries
American advertising executive
Steve Englehart
American comic book writer (born 1947)
William Hayden English
American politician (1822–1896)

Margaret Caroline Anderson
American editor, author (1886–1973)
Janet Flanner
American journalist (1892–1978)
T. M. Scanlon
American philosopher
Charles Major
American novelist, lawyer (1856-1913)
Roy W. Howard
American journalist and media proprietor
Joseph Hayes
American writer and playwright (1918-2006)
Mari Evans
American poet

Louis Howe
American journalist (1871-1936)
Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie
American pianist, author, composer
Jane Fortune
American author, journalist and philanthropist
Paul Moore
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1919–2003)
John C. Whitcomb
American theologian
Mary Mackey
novelist, poet, academic

Etheridge Knight
African-American poet (1931-1991)
F. M. Busby
American writer
Paxton Pattison Hibben
American writer and diplomat (1880-1928)
Marguerite Vivian Young
American novelist (1908–1994)
Meredith Nicholson
American politician
Hank Phillippi Ryan
American writer
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
rabbi
Leah Johnson
American writer
Easley Blackwood
American contract bridge writer, teacher, and administrator (1903–1992)
Jared Carter
American poet

Charlotte Pence
American writer
Madelyn Pugh
American television writer and screenwriter (1921-2011)
Jacob Piatt Dunn
American ethnologist, historian, journalist, lawyer, and political reformer (1855-1924)
Kevin VanHook
filmmaker