Isaac Asimov male, deceased

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born American Jewish author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best...

Norman Mailer male, deceased (Manhattan, NY, United States)

Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman...

Ernest Hemingway male, deceased

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...

Arthur Conan Doyle male, deceased

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...

Robert Anton Wilson male, deceased

Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist,...

Joanna Russ female

Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937), American writer and feminist, is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist...

Theodore Roosevelt male, deceased

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the...

Calvin Trillin male

Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known...

Miles Franklin female, deceased

Miles Franklin was an Australian writer. She was born at Talbingo, New South Wales and grew up in the Brindabella Valley. Franklin is best known...

Simon Winchester male

Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British author and journalist. Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa...