Harper Lee

Harper Lee

female, 83 years old
Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work to date.

Peter Taylor

male, deceased (1994)
Peter Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 - November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born to a wealthy Nashville family in...
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
Carol Shields

Carol Shields

female, deceased (2003)
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for...
James Agee

James Agee

male, deceased (1955)
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film...
John Updike

John Updike

male, 77 years old
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit,...
Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner

male, deceased (1993)
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers."
Philip Roth

Philip Roth

male, 76 years old
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection...
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

male, deceased (2005) (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed...