| |  | John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A... |  | Jack London, was an American author who wrote "The Call of the Wild" and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine... |  | Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. His influence on modern crime fiction has... |  | Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. |  | Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." |  | Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. |  | Kenneth Rexroth (December 221905 - June 61982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United... |  | Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960 in Riverside, California) is an American author and National Book Award finalist. |  | William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the... |  | Upton Sinclair Jr., was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best... | |
