Abbey, Edward (Home)
Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang
Famous Writers from the United States
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Agee, James (Knoxville)
The author of 'A Death in the Family' -
Alcott, Louisa May (Germantown)
The author of Little Women -
Alexie, Sherman (Spokane)
The author of 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' -
Alger, Horatio (Chelsea)
The 19th century author of "rags to riches" books -
Angelou, Maya (St. Louis)
The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -
Arkin, Alan (New York City)
The foul-mouthed grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine -
Auel, Jean M. (Chicago)
The author of The Clan of the Cave Bear -
Avi (New York City)
The author of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle -
Baldwin, James (New York City)
Author of Go Tell It On The Mountain -
Banks, Russell (Newton)
Author of The Sweet Hereafter -
Baraka, Amiri (Newark)
Author of the 1964 play Dutchman -
Barry, Dave (Armonk)
Goofy humor columnist for The Miami Herald, 1983-2005 -
Baumbach, Noah (Brooklyn)
The director of 'The Squid and the Whale and 'Marriage Story' -
Beach, Sylvia (Baltimore)
The Paris bookstore owner who published 'Ulysses' -
Benchley, Robert (Worcester)
1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist -
Benét, Stephen Vincent (Bethlehem)
He wrote "The Devil And Daniel Webster" -
Bierce, Ambrose (Meigs County)
Author of A Fiend's Delight -
Bishop, Elizabeth (Worcester)
Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50 -
Blume, Judy (Elizabeth)
The author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -
Bly, Robert (Lac qui Parle County)
The poet who wrote the man book Iron John -
Bogdanovich, Peter (Kingston)
Director of The Last Picture Show -
Bourne, Randolph (Bloomfield)
The author of Youth and Life -
Bouton, Jim (Newark)
The author of "Ball Four" -
Bradbury, Ray (Waukegan)
Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles -
Brautigan, Richard (Tacoma)
Author of Trout Fishing in America -
Broadwell, Paula (Bismarck)
The biographer who had an affair with Gen. David Petraeus -
Brooks, Gwendolyn (Topeka)
The first African American to win a Pulitzer for poetry -
Brott, Armin (Chicago)
The author of the parenting book The Expectant Father -
Brown, Dan (Exeter)
Author of The Da Vinci Code -
Brown, Pierce
The author of the Red Rising YA book series -
Buck, Pearl S. (Hillsboro)
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth -
Bulfinch, Thomas (Newton)
The author of Bulfinch's Mythology -
Burroughs, William S. (St. Louis)
The author of Naked Lunch -
Busey, Brook (Lemont)
The former blogger and stripper who wrote the movie Juno -
Butler, Octavia (Pasadena)
The African-American feminist science fiction author who won a MacArthur "genius" grant -
Cain, James M. (Annapolis)
Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice -
Capote, Truman (New Orleans)
Author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's -
Carson, Rachel (Springdale)
The author of Silent Spring -
Carter, Asa Earl (Anniston)
Author of The Education of Little Tree -
Carver, Raymond (Clatskanie)
American short-story writer -
Cassady, Neal (Salt Lake City)
The basis for Dean Moriarity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road -
Cather, Willa (Black Creek Valley)
Author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia -
Cavett, Dick (Gibbon)
The quick-witted TV talk show host from the late 1960s -
Chabon, Michael
The author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -
Chandler, Raymond (Chicago)
The creator of detective Philip Marlowe -
Childress, Alice (Charleston)
The author of 'A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich' -
Chomsky, Noam (Philadelphia)
Creator of the theory of generative grammar -
Chopin, Kate (St. Louis)
Author of The Awakening -
Clancy, Tom (Baltimore)
The "techno-thriller" author who wrote The Hunt for Red October -
Clark, Mary Higgins (New York City)
The author of Where Are the Children? and other suspense stories -
Cleary, Beverly (McMinnville)
The author of the Ramona books for children -
Cleaver, Eldridge (Wabbaseka)
The Black Panther who wrote Soul on Ice -
Clooney, Nick (Maysville)
The silver-haired host of movie channel AMC -
Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Baltimore)
The 'Atlantic' writer who also does 'Black Panther' comics -
Collins, Suzanne
The author of The Hunger Games -
Cook, Robin (New York City)
The author of Coma -
Cooper, James Fenimore (Burlington)
The American novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans -
Cornwell, Patricia (Miami)
The best-selling author of the Kay Scarpetta series -
Crane, Hart (Garrettsville)
Suicidal poet of The Bridge -
Crichton, Michael (Chicago)
The author of Jurassic Park -
Cummings, E. E. (Cambridge)
The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals -
Cunningham, Michael (Cincinnati)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours -
Curtis, Jamie Lee (Los Angeles)
The star of Halloween and A Fish Called Wanda -
Dass, Ram (Boston)
The LSD guy from the 1960s who wrote 'Be Here Now' -
Davis, Angela (Birmingham)
The black feminist/communist on the Most Wanted list in 1970 -
Dean, John (Akron)
Nixon's lawyer who squealed about Watergate -
Dee, Ruby (Cleveland)
Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis -
Delany, Samuel R. (New York City)
Author of Dhalgren and Babel-17 -
DeLillo, Don (New York City)
The author of White Noise and Underworld -
Dickinson, Emily (Amherst)
The poet called "The Belle of Amherst" -
Dick, Philip K. (Chicago)
The mind-bending sci-fi author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -
Didion, Joan (Sacramento)
The author of Slouching Toward Bethlehem -
Dixon, Jeane (Medford)
Popular astrologer and psychic -
Dobson, James (Shreveport)
The founder and host of Focus on the Family -
Dove, Rita (Akron)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95 -
Dowd, Maureen
Tart-tongued New York Times columnist -
Drudge, Matt
The muckraking "citizen journalist" who runs The Drudge Report -
Du Bois, W.E.B. (Great Barrington)
Author of The Souls of Black Folk -
Dworkin, Andrea (Camden)
Author of Woman Hating -
Dyson, Michael Eric (Detroit)
The author of the 2007 book Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop -
Eddy, Mary Baker (Bow)
Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist -
Eliot, T.S. (St. Louis)
Author of The Waste Land -
Ellis, Bret Easton (Los Angeles)
The author of Less Than Zero -
Ellison, Harlan (Cleveland)
The author of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" and 'A Boy and His Dog' -
Ellison, Ralph (Oklahoma City)
Author of Invisible Man -
Ephron, Nora (New York City)
The writer and director of Sleepless In Seattle -
Erdrich, Louise (Little Falls)
The author of 'The Plague of Doves' -
Fadiman, Anne (New York City)
Author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -
Fadiman, Clifton (Brooklyn)
Host of the radio quiz show Information Please -
Faulkner, William (New Albany)
American author of As I Lay Dying -
Fauset, Jessie Redmon (Camden)
The "midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of 'The Crisis' -
Fey, Tina (Upper Darby)
The star of TV's 30 Rock -
Fisher, Carrie (Los Angeles)
Princess Leia in Star Wars -
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (St. Paul)
The author of The Great Gatsby -
Flynn, Gillian (Kansas City)
The author of Gone Girl -
Fontana, D.C.
Scripter and story editor for the original 'Star Trek' -
Foote, Horton (Wharton)
Oscar-winning screenwriter of To Kill A Mockingbird -
Ford, Richard (Jackson)
The author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter -
Fort, Charles (Albany)
Researcher and reporter of anomalous phenomena -
Fossey, Dian (San Francisco)
The author of Gorillas in the Mist -
Franklin, Benjamin (Boston)
The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac -
Franzen, Jonathan (Western Springs)
Author of The Corrections -
Friedan, Betty (Peoria)
The author of 'The Feminine Mystique' -
Frost, Robert (San Francisco)
The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken" -
Fuller, Margaret (Cambridge)
The feminist who wrote 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' -
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (Keyser)
The Harvard professor and African-American scholar who was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2009 -
Gibson, William (Conway)
The author who created "cyberpunk" -
Gilligan, Vince (Richmond)
The creator of the TV series Breaking Bad -
Ginsberg, Allen (Newark)
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Giovanni, Nikki (Knoxville)
The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping" -
Glück, Louise (New York City)
The Nobel Prize winning poet who wrote “Mock Orange” -
Gorman, Amanda (Los Angeles)
The National Youth Poet Laureate who read at Biden's inauguration -
Grafton, Sue (Louisville)
Author of the "alphabet" series of Kinsey Millhone mystery novels -
Green, John (Indianapolis)
The author of The Fault in Our Stars -
Grey, Zane (Zanesville)
Author of Riders of the Purple Sage -
Grisham, John (Jonesboro)
Author of The Client and The Firm -
Groening, Matt (Portland)
Creator of The Simpsons -
Haley, Alex (Ithaca)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Roots -
Hall, Donald (Hamden)
The New England poet who wrote Ox-Cart Man -
Hammett, Dashiell (St. Mary's County)
The author of "The Maltese Falcon" -
Handler, Chelsea (Livingston)
TV Host and author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea -
Handler, Daniel (San Francisco)
Pseudonymous author of A Series of Unfortunate Events -
Hansberry, Lorraine (Chicago)
The author of A Raisin in the Sun -
Harris, Charlaine (Tunica)
The author of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood books -
Harris, Thomas (Jackson)
The author of 'The Silence of the Lambs' -
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Salem)
The author of The Scarlet Letter -
Hearst, Patty (San Francisco)
The kidnapped heiress who turned bank robber -
Hecht, Ben (New York City)
The prolific Hollywood screenwriter who did The Front Page -
Heinlein, Robert A. (Butler)
The author of Stranger in a Strange Land -
Held Evans, Rachel (Montgomery)
The LGBT-friendly Christian blogger who died tragically at 37 -
Heller, Joseph (Brooklyn)
The author of Catch-22 -
Hemingway, Ernest (Oak Park)
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Henry, Buck (New York City)
The screenwriter of 'The Graduate' -
Herbert, Frank (Tacoma)
Author of the novel Dune -
Hersh, Seymour (Chicago)
The journalist who broke the story of the My Lai Massacre -
Highsmith, Patricia (Fort Worth)
The author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Carol -
Hijuelos, Oscar (New York City)
The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -
Hillenbrand, Laura (Fairfax)
Author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend -
Hill, Joe (Bangor)
The author of Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2 -
Hinton, S.E. (Tulsa)
Author of The Outsiders -
Hoffman, Abbie (Worcester)
The yippie who wrote Steal This Book -
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (Cambridge)
Author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table -
Hooks, Bell (Hopkinsville)
Black feminist critic of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" -
Hotchner, A.E. (St. Louis)
The writer who befriended Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman -
Howe, Julia Ward (New York City)
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Hubbard, L. Ron (Tilden)
Sci-fi author and founder of Scientology -
Hughes, Langston (Joplin)
Author of The Weary Blues (1926) -
Hurston, Zora Neale (Notasulga)
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God -
Imus, Don (Riverside)
The host of the radio show Imus In the Morning -
Irving, Clifford (New York City)
Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography -
Irving, John (Exeter)
The author of 'The World According to Garp' -
Irving, Washington (New York City)
Author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -
Isaacson, Walter (New Orleans)
The journalist/historian who wrote 'Steve Jobs' the bio -
James, Henry (New York City)
Author of The Ambassadors -
Jenkins, Jerry B. (Kalamazoo)
Co-author of the Left Behind book series -
Jones, Gayl (Lexington)
The author of 'Eva's Man' and 'The Healing' -
Kauffmann, Stanley (New York City)
The film reviewer for The New Republic, 1958-2013 -
Keillor, Garrison (Anoka)
The host of radio's A Prairie Home Companion -
Kennedy, Caroline (New York City)
The oldest child of John and Jackie Kennedy -
Kerouac, Jack (Lowell)
Beat-era author of On The Road -
Kesey, Ken (La Junta)
Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -
Keyes, Daniel (Brooklyn)
The author of Flowers for Algernon -
Key, Francis Scott (Terra Rubra (near Frederick))
The attorney who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" -
Kingsolver, Barbara (Annapolis)
The author of Pigs in Heaven and Prodigal Summer -
King, Stephen (Portland)
The author of scary bestsellers -
Kinney, Jeff (Andrews Air Force Base)
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books -
Konigsburg, E.L. (Manhattan)
The author of The View From Saturday -
Koontz, Dean (Everett)
The horror novelist who wrote Watchers -
Kunitz, Stanley (Worcester)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01 -
LaHaye, Tim (Detroit)
Minister and co-author of Left Behind -
L'Amour, Louis (Jamestown)
Author of many westerns, including Hondo -
Landers, Ann (Sioux City)
Syndicated newspaper advice columnist -
Lazarus, Emma (New York City)
Author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty -
Leary, Timothy (Springfield)
The drug-taking professor who said "Turn on, tune in, drop out" -
Lee, Harper (Monroeville)
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird -
Lee, Stan (New York City)
The leader of Marvel Comics and co-creator of Spider-Man -
Le Guin, Ursula K. (Berkeley)
The sci-fi author of The Earthsea Trilogy -
Lehman, Ernest (New York City)
The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest -
L'Engle, Madeleine (New York City)
The author of A Wrinkle in Time -
Leonard, Elmore (New Orleans)
The author of Get Shorty and other funny crime novels -
Lethem, Jonathan (Brooklyn)
Author of The Fortress of Solitude -
Lewis, Sinclair (Sauk Centre)
The author of Babbitt and Elmer Gantry -
Locke, Alain LeRoy (Philadelphia)
The African-American editor called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance" -
London, Jack (San Francisco)
Author of Call of the Wild -
Lonergan, Kenneth (New York City)
The director of 'You Can Count on Me' -
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Portland)
The American poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" -
Lovecraft, H.P. (Providence)
The horror writer who came up with Cthulhu -
Lowell, Robert (Boston)
The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies -
Lowry, Lois (Honolulu)
Author of The Giver -
Luce, Clare Boothe (New York City)
Socialite, playwright, ambassador and wife of publisher Henry Luce -
Mailer, Norman (Long Branch)
Pugnacious author of The Naked and the Dead -
Malick, Terrence (Ottawa)
The Oscar-nominated director of The Thin Red Line -
Mamet, David (Chicago)
The playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross -
Marling, Brit (Chicago)
Star of the TV series 'The OA' -
Martin, George R. R. (Bayonne)
The author of A Game of Thrones -
Martin, Steve (Waco)
Comic star of The Jerk and Saturday Night Live -
Matheson, Richard (Allendale)
The author of I Am Legend -
Matthiessen, Peter (New York City)
The author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord -
McCarthy, Cormac (Providence)
Author of All the Pretty Horses -
McCullers, Carson (Columbus)
Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -
McMurtry, Larry (Wichita Falls)
The author of Lonesome Dove -
McPhee, John (Princeton)
The creative non-fiction legend who wrote 'Annals of the Former World' -
Melville, Herman (New York City)
The author of Moby-Dick -
Mencken, H.L. (Baltimore)
Famously acerbic columnist for the Baltimore Sun -
Merwin, W. S. (New York City)
The author of the collection The Carrier of Ladders -
Meyer, Stephenie (Hartford)
The author of the teen vampire romance Twilight -
Miller, Arthur (New York City)
The author of Death of a Salesman -
Miller, Frank (Olney)
The comics artist who did Batman: The Dark Knight Returns -
Miller, Henry (New York City)
Author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn -
Miller, Joaquin (Union County)
"The Poet of the Sierras" -
Mitchell, Joseph (Near Iona)
The author of "Joe Gould's Secret" -
Mitchell, Margaret (Atlanta)
The author of Gone With the Wind -
Moore, Marianne (Kirkwood)
Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet -
Moore, Michael (Flint)
The director of Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine -
Morrison, Toni (Lorain)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved -
Mossberg, Walter (Providence)
Creator of the Wall Street Journal column "Personal Technology" -
Nash, Ogden (Rye)
Author of the funny poem "The Lama" -
Oates, Joyce Carol (Lockport)
The author of Bellefleur and Them -
O'Brien, Conan (Brookline)
Host of The Tonight Show, 2009-2010 -
O'Connor, Flannery (Savannah)
Southern author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" -
Odets, Clifford (Philadelphia)
The author of the play Waiting for Lefty -
O'Donoghue, Michael (Utica)
Writer / performer on Saturday Night Live -
O. Henry (Greensboro)
American short story writer -
Oliver, Mary (Maple Heights)
The poet who wrote 'American Primitive' -
Omarr, Sydney (Philadelphia)
Syndicated horoscope columnist from Los Angeles -
O'Neill, Eugene (New York City)
The author of the play Long Day's Journey Into Night -
Parker, Dorothy (West End)
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table -
Patterson, James (Newburgh)
The author of all those Alex Cross mysteries -
Paul, Caroline (New York City)
Author of Fighting Fire -
Paulsen, Gary (Minneapolis)
The author of Hatchet -
Perelman, S.J. (Brooklyn)
Humorist for The New Yorker and Marx Bros. writer -
Perry, Tyler (New Orleans)
Madea in his film Diary of a Mad Black Woman -
Pirsig, Robert (Minneapolis)
Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -
Pitts, Leonard Jr. (Orange)
Author of "We'll Go Forward From This Moment" -
Plath, Sylvia (Jamaica Plain)
Poet and author of The Bell Jar -
Poe, Edgar Allan (Boston)
The author of the poem "The Raven" -
Pohl, Frederik (Brooklyn)
The sci-fi author of The Space Merchants and Gateway -
Porter, Katherine Anne (Indian Creek)
Short story writer and the author of Ship of Fools -
Portis, Charles (El Dorado)
The author of the book True Grit -
Post, Emily (Baltimore)
Mid-20th century American expert on etiquette -
Pound, Ezra (Hailey)
The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos -
Poundstone, Paula (Huntsville)
The stand-up comedian who was accused of child endangerment -
Price, Roger (Charleston)
The creator of Droodles and Mad Libs -
Proulx, Annie (Norwich)
The author of The Shipping News -
Pynchon, Thomas (Glen Cove)
Reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow -
Rebeck, Theresa (Kenwood)
The playwright who created the TV show Smash -
Reed, Nikki (Los Angeles)
Co-writer of Thirteen and co-star of Twilight -
Reiner, Carl (New York City)
Creator of TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show -
Rice, Anne (New Orleans)
Author of Interview With The Vampire -
Rich, Adrienne (Baltimore)
The feminist-lesbian poet who wrote Diving Into the Wreck -
Robbins, Harold (New York City)
The author of The Betsy -
Roberts, Nora (Silver Spring)
Author of the romantic MacGregor series -
Roethke, Theodore (Saginaw)
The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane" -
Roth, Philip (Newark)
The author of Portnoy's Complaint -
Ryan, Kay (San Jose)
The 16th Poet Laureate consultant to the Library of Congress -
Safire, William (New York City)
Political columnist for The New York Times, 1973-2005 -
Salinger, J.D. (New York City)
The author of The Catcher In the Rye -
Sandburg, Carl (Galesburg)
Author of the poem Chicago -
Schmich, Mary (Savannah)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who wrote the "Wear Sunscreen" e-mail essay -
Schwartz, Sherwood (Passaic)
The creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch -
Sendak, Maurice (Brooklyn)
The illustrator who created Where the Wild Things Are -
Sexton, Anne (Newton)
Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s -
Sheldon, Sidney (Chicago)
The author of The Other Side of Midnight -
Shepard, Sam (Fort Sheridan)
The actor/playwright who wrote 'Fool for Love' and 'True West' -
Sherwood, Robert E. (New Rochelle)
The playwright who wrote the movie The Best Years of Our Lives -
Shriver, Lionel (Gastonia)
The author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' -
Simon, Neil (The Bronx)
The Broadway legend who wrote The Odd Couple -
Sinclair, Upton (Baltimore)
Socialist author of 1906's The Jungle -
Singleton, John (Los Angeles)
The writer and director of Boyz N the Hood -
Smiley, Tavis (Gulfport)
Host of The Tavis Smiley Show on TV and radio -
Smith, Patti (Chicago)
The poet-rocker who wrote the memoir 'Just Kids' -
Smith, Tracy L. (Falmouth)
U.S. Poet Laureate named in 2017 -
Snyder, Gary (San Francisco)
Pulitzer-winning Beat poet who wrote Turtle Island -
Spock, Dr. (New Haven)
The author of Baby and Child Care -
Stafford, William (Hutchinson)
The poet who wrote "Traveling Through the Dark" -
Steel, Danielle (New York City)
Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings -
Steinbeck, John (Salinas)
Author of The Grapes of Wrath -
Steinem, Gloria (Toledo)
The feminist who co-founded Ms. magazine -
Stein, Gertrude (Allegheny )
Ex-patriate author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -
Stevens, Wallace (Reading)
The poet and insurance man who wrote "The Emperor of Ice Cream" -
Stine, R.L. (Columbus)
Author of the Goosebumps series of books -
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Litchfield)
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin -
Straub, Peter (Milwaukee)
The author of 'Ghost Story' -
Strayed, Cheryl (Spangler)
The author of the memoir Wild -
Strieber, Whitley (San Antonio)
The alien-abductee novelist who wrote Communion -
Strout, Elizabeth (Portland)
The author of 'Olive Kitteredge' -
Styron, William (Newport News)
Author of Sophie's Choice -
Tan, Amy (Oakland)
Author of The Joy Luck Club -
Tartt, Donna (Greenwood)
Author of The Goldfinch -
Theroux, Justin
The film director in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. -
Thompson, Hunter S. (Louisville)
Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -
Thompson, Jim (Anadarko)
The author of The Killer Inside Me -
Thoreau, Henry David (Concord)
Author of Walden -
Trethewey, Natasha (Gulfport)
The Pulitzer-winning poet who wrote Native Guard -
Trumbo, Dalton (Montrose)
The blacklisted screenwriter who wrote Johnny Got His Gun -
Twain, Mark (Florida)
The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -
Updike, John (Reading)
The author of the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run -
Uris, Leon (Baltimore)
The author of Exodus -
Van Sant, Gus (Louisville)
Director of Good Will Hunting -
Vidal, Gore (West Point)
The smart and sassy author of Burr and Myra Breckinridge -
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. (Indianapolis)
The author of Slaughterhouse-Five -
Walker, Alice (Eatonton)
The author of The Color Purple -
Wallace, David Foster (Ithaca)
The author of the novel Infinite Jest -
Webb, Jim (Saint Joseph)
The Marine and Senate veteran who wrote Fields of Fire -
Webster, Noah (West Hartford)
The man behind 1828's An American Dictionary of the English Language -
Welty, Eudora (Jackson)
Author of Delta Wedding -
West, Mae (Brooklyn)
Early Hollywood sex symbol -
Wharton, Edith (New York City)
Author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence -
Wheaton, Wil (Burbank)
Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Whitehead, Colson (New York City)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Underground Railroad' -
Whitman, Walt (Long Island)
The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass -
Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Pepin County)
Author of the Little House on the Prairie books -
Williams, Stanley Tookie (New Orleans)
Co-founder of the Crips street gang -
Williams, Tennessee (Columbus)
Pulitzer-winning author of A Streetcar Named Desire -
Williams, William Carlos
Author of the poetic epic Paterson -
Willis, Connie (Denver)
Sci-fi author of The Doomsday Book -
Wilson, August (Pittsburgh)
Pulitzer-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson -
Wilson, Owen (Dallas)
Vince Vaughn's co-star in Wedding Crashers -
Wilson, Robert Anton (Brooklyn)
Co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy -
Wolfe, Thomas (Asheville)
The author of Look Homeward, Angel -
Wolfe, Tom (Richmond)
The author of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' and 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' -
Wolff, Tobias (Birmingham)
Author of the memoir This Boy's Life -
Wright, Charles (Pickwick Dam)
The U.S. Poet Laureate, 2014-2015 -
Wright, Richard (Adams County)
Author of Native Son -
Yanagihara, Hanya (Los Angeles)
The author of A Little Life -
Yep, Laurence (San Francisco)
Author of the 1975 book Dragonwings