| Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| Abraham Polonsky |
December 5, 1910 |
October 26, 1999 |
| Adam Hochschild |
1942 |
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| Agnes Repplier |
April 1, 1855 |
November 15, 1950 |
| Al Bernstein |
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| Alan Lomax |
January 31, 1915 |
July 19, 2002 |
| Alexandra Ripley |
January 8, 1934 |
January 10, 2004 |
| Alice James |
August 7, 1848 |
March 6, 1892 |
| Alice Koller |
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| Andre Dubus |
August 11, 1936 |
February 24, 1999 |
| Andre Norton |
February 17, 1912 |
March 17, 2005 |
| Andrew Cohen |
1955 |
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| Anita Loos |
April 26, 1893 |
August 18, 1981 |
| Ann Beattie |
September 8, 1947 |
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| Ann Druyan |
June 13, 1949 |
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| Ann Rule |
October 22, 1935 |
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
June 22, 1906 |
February 7, 2001 |
| Annie Gottlieb |
1946 |
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| Anthony Doerr |
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| Anya Seton |
January 23, 1904 |
November 8, 1990 |
| Arthur Golden |
1956 |
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| Augusten Burroughs |
October 23, 1965 |
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| Barbara de Angelis |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich |
August 26, 1941 |
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| Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
September 14, 1934 |
April 24, 2002 |
| Ben Hecht |
February 28, 1894 |
April 18, 1964 |
| Bernard De Voto |
January 11, 1897 |
November 13, 1955 |
| Bernard Goldberg |
May 31, 1945 |
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| Bette Howland |
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| Beverly Jones |
1927 |
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| Bill Bryson |
December 8, 1951 |
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| Bill James |
October 5, 1949 |
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| Brenda Ueland |
October 24, 1891 |
March 5, 1985 |
| Bruce Feirstein |
1956 |
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| Bruce Sterling |
April 14, 1954 |
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| Budd Schulberg |
March 27, 1914 |
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| C. J. Cherryh |
September 1, 1942 |
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| Candace Bushnell |
December 1, 1959 |
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| Carl Hiaasen |
March 12, 1953 |
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| Carl Van Vechten |
June 17, 1880 |
December 21, 1964 |
| Carlos Castaneda |
December 25, 1931 |
April 27, 1998 |
| Caroline B. Cooney |
May 10, 1947 |
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| Caroline Gordon |
October 6, 1895 |
April 11, 1981 |
| Carolyn Heilbrun |
January 13, 1926 |
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| Carroll Quigley |
November 9, 1910 |
January 3, 1977 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen |
January 1, 1897 |
November 1, 1973 |
| Charles Anthon |
November 19, 1797 |
July 29, 1867 |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
November 16, 1827 |
October 21, 1908 |
| Charles Farrar Browne |
April 23, 1834 |
March 6, 1867 |
| Charles Fort |
August 6, 1874 |
May 3, 1932 |
| Charles Godfrey Leland |
1824 |
1903 |
| Charley Reese |
January 29, 1937 |
|
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
July 3, 1860 |
August 17, 1935 |
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
September 15, 1942 |
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| Chris Bunch |
December 22, 1943 |
July 4, 2005 |
| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
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| Claire Wolfe |
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| Clarence Budington Kelland |
1881 |
1964 |
| Clayton Rawson |
1906 |
1971 |
| Clement Clarke Moore |
July 15, 1779 |
July 10, 1863 |
| Clifford D. Simak |
August 3, 1904 |
April 25, 1988 |
| Clifford Irving |
November 5, 1930 |
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| Clifton Fadiman |
May 15, 1904 |
June 20, 1999 |
| Clive Cussler |
July 15, 1931 |
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| Connie Willis |
December 31, 1945 |
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| Cormac McCarthy |
July 20, 1933 |
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| Crane Wilbur |
November 17, 1886 |
October 18, 1973 |
| Curtis Sittenfeld |
1975 |
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| Cynthia Heimel |
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| Dale Carnegie |
November 24, 1888 |
November 1, 1955 |
| Dan Savage |
October 7, 1964 |
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| Dana Fox |
1976 |
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| Daniel Keys Moran |
November 30, 1962 |
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| Daniel Taradash |
January 29, 1913 |
February 22, 2003 |
| Dave Anderson |
May 6, 1929 |
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| Dave Eggers |
January 8, 1970 |
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| Dave Pelzer |
December 29, 1960 |
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| David Foster Wallace |
February 21, 1962 |
December 12, 2008 |
| David Gerrold |
January 24, 1944 |
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| David Horowitz |
January 10, 1939 |
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| David Sedaris |
December 26, 1956 |
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| David Starr Jordan |
January 19, 1851 |
September 19, 1931 |
| David Wain |
August 1, 1969 |
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| Dawn Powell |
November 28, 1896 |
November 14, 1965 |
| Denis Waitley |
|
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| Diane Duane |
May 18, 1952 |
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| Don Herold |
July 9, 1889 |
June 1, 1966 |
| Don Novello |
January 1, 1943 |
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| Donald E. Westlake |
July 12, 1933 |
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| Dorothea Brande |
1893 |
1948 |
| Dorothy Allison |
April 11, 1949 |
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| Dorothy Nolte |
January 12, 1924 |
November 6, 2005 |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis |
April 26, 1916 |
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| Dorthea Brande |
|
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| Douglas Hofstadter |
February 15, 1945 |
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| Douglas Wood |
March 19, 1957 |
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| Dr. Seuss |
March 2, 1904 |
September 24, 1991 |
| E. B. White |
July 11, 1899 |
October 1, 1985 |
| Edgar Saltus |
October 8, 1855 |
July 31, 1921 |
| Edith Hamilton |
August 12, 1867 |
May 31, 1963 |
| Edmund H. North |
March 12, 1911 |
August 28, 1990 |