- Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figure of the story itself. - Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are "The Woman in White", "The Moonstone", "Armadale" and "No Name". - Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British author and journalist. Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa and on offshore oil rigs. He then spent a twenty-year career as a foreign correspondent for "The Guardian", winning several awards. He has more recently written for such publications as "Condé Nast Traveler", "Smithsonian Magazine", … - Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American writer. He is the author of "The End of Faith" (2004), which was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and "Letter to a Christian Nation" (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism the first book attracted. His articles have appeared in "Newsweek", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Times" of London, and "The Boston Globe". - Arthur Conan Doyle
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 Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books. She is perhaps best known for her novel "The Red Tent" which was a best-seller. She has also written several guides for Jewish people including "The New Jewish Wedding" and "Living a Jewish Life". - Richard Preston
Richard Preston (b. August 5, 1954) is a "New Yorker" writer and bestselling author of books about alarming infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism. Whether journalistic or fictional, his writings are based on thorough background research and extensive interviews. Richard Preston attended Pomona College, in southern California, and received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. - Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. He is known for his self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He was a columnist for the "New York Press" for several years, during which time he wrote about his childhood neuroses and his unusual experiences in the gritty tradition of Charles Bukowski. These columns were collected in three nonfiction books, … - Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton . - Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing - Theodore Roosevelt
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 United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. - Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". On April 2, 2006, Helms's wife of sixty-three years, Dorothy Jane "Dot" Coble Helms, announced that he is afflicted with multi-infarct dementia and had been moved to a convalescent facility near their Raleigh home. - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Richard Bach
Richard David Bach (b. June 23,1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the best-selling novel, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", and the 1973 movie based on the book along with "Illusions, The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah", plus others. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17. - Paul Quarrington
Paul Lewis Quarrington (born July 22, 1953) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and musician. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he grew up in the suburb of Don Mills and studied at the University of Toronto, although he failed to graduate. Quarrington wrote his early novels while working as the bass player for the group Joe Hall and the Continental Drift. - Winston Groom
is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). He attended the University of Alabama, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Army ROTC, and graduated in 1965. He served in the Army from 1965 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. - Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. - Dale Carnegie
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24 1888 - November 1 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, … - Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born 17 January 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American author and journalist. He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. He received a National Magazine Award in 2000 for "The Forensics of War," published in "Vanity Fair" in 1999. In 1997, with the publication of his work, "The Perfect Storm", he was touted as the new Hemingway, … - Calvin Trillin
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction. Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, … - Miles Franklin
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 for "My Brilliant Career", the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. This heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is one of the most endearing characters in Australian literature and obviously has much in common with Franklin herself, who wrote the novel while she was still a teenager. - Erik Davis
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American social historian, cultural critic, essayist and lecturer. He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significants aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, … - John Berendt
John Berendt (1939 -) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, " which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Berendt grew up in Syracuse, New York, where both of his parents were writers. As an English major at Harvard University, he worked on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated in 1961 and moved to New York City to pursue a journalism career. - Ami McKay
Ami McKay began her writing career as a freelancer for CBC Radio. Her work has aired on "Maritime Magazine", "Outfront", "This Morning" and "Sunday Edition". Her documentary, "Daughter of Family G" won an Excellence in Journalism Medallion at the 2003 Atlantic Journalism Awards. She was a finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition as well as the recipient of a grant from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, … - Alistair MacLean
Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare". He also used the pseudonym Ian Stuart. - Annie Besant
Annie Wood Besant was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. - Wayne Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book "Your Erroneous Zones" has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses". - Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American underground avant-garde film-maker and author. - Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. He described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations--to look at the world in a new way, … - Thomas More
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his father. Although the future held much promise for him, More was unsure of the direction he wanted his life to take. He considered becoming a priest but decided not to enter the Church because of his burning desire to have a family. - Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve (b. 1946) is an award winning American writer. - John Grogan
John Grogan (b. March 20,1957) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. His memoir "Marley & Me" (2005) was a best-selling book about his family's dog Marley. He had been a reporter, bureau chief, and columnist for newspapers in Michigan and Florida before becoming the editor in chief of Rodale's "Organic Gardening" magazine. He was a columnist for "The Philadelphia Inquirer". - Robert Harris
Robert Dennis Harris (born March 7, 1957 in Nottingham) was an English TV reporter and journalist and is currently a novelist. - Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield (b. New York City, June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents Benjamin and Helen. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1960. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1964, where he served as editor-in-chief of the "Daily Cardinal". He graduated with an LLB degree from the Yale Law School in 1967, …
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