Mark Twain

Mark Twain

male, deceased (1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Freemasonry, From st. louis, missouri, Autobiographer, San Francisco…Travel writer, writer, from Hannibal, Missouri, Missouriwriter, Alternate history writer
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

male, deceased (1983)
from New Orleans, From st. louis, missouri, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, Frank Merlo, Tony Award, cat on a hot tin roof…Mississippi writer, Missouriwriter, Louisiana writer, LGBT writer, writer
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright...
Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

female, deceased (1904)
American women writer, vogue magazine, Louisiana Creole, From st. louis, missouri, Business Person, Missouriwriter…writer, from Missouri, Louisiana writer, Short story writer
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a...
William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon

male, 69 years old
University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, historian, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, William Trogdon, travel literature, Missouriwriter…Non-fiction writer, Travel writer, writer
William Least Heat-Moon, byname of William Trogdon (born 1940) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry.
Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru

male, 35 years old
Party of Death, Princeton University, Missouriwriter, Shawnee Mission East High School, Shawnee Mission School District, convert to Christianity…Washington, D.C. writer, writer
Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for "National Review" magazine. He...
Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

male, deceased (1988)
science fiction, writer, starship troopers, Futurist, science fiction writer, Short story writer…Science Fiction Writer of America, Science writer, from Missouri, Libertarian science fiction writer, Missouriwriter
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction....
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

female, deceased (1957)
INFP, Death from diabetes, Schoolteacher, little house on the prairie, settler, American…children's writer, Wisconsin writer, Missouriwriter, South Dakota writer
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author. She wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer...
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

male, deceased (1967)
poet, columnist, novelist, American, writer, Playwright…LGBT writer, from Joplin, Missouri, Missouriwriter
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is best...
Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

male, deceased (1955)
Non-fiction writer, Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, Educator, from Missouri, University of Central Missouri alumni, Training…American self-help writer, Missouriwriter, American motivational writer, Self-help writer
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24 1888 - November 1 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in...
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Cocktail Party, Eliot family, Writer-illustrator, Murder in the Cathedral, From st. louis, missouri…Missouriwriter, writer
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...