Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

male, 84 years old (West Point, New York, United States)
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and...
Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

male, deceased (1936)
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western,...
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

female, deceased (2004)
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist.
Frank Yerby

Frank Yerby

male, deceased (1991)
Frank Garvin Yerby was an American historical novelist. His best known work is "The Man from Dahomey" (1971). Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus...
Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara

male, deceased (1988)
Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to...
Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield

male, 66 years old
Steven Pressfield (born September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad), is an American novelist and author of screenplays, principally of military...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1947)
Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871-March 12, 1947) was an American novelist.
Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

female, deceased (1949)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, "Gone with the Wind,"...
Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove

male, 60 years old
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science...
Sharon Kay Penman

Sharon Kay Penman

female, 64 years old
Sharon Kay Penman (b. August 13, 1945 in New York) is an American author of historical fiction, of Anglo-Irish ancestry. Penman received her...