Mark Twain

Mark Twain

male, deceased (1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Freemasonry, From st. louis, missouri, Autobiographer, San Francisco…americanliterature, American, Great American Novel
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
poet, gay, realism, New York writer, queer studies, Bisexual writer…American, americanliterature, American spiritual writer
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…American women writer, Nobel laureate in Literature, American, americanliterature, African American
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
writer, war correspondent, the old man and the sea, pulitzer prize, Short story writer, Short Story Author…American military, nobel prize in literature, American, americanliterature, Nobel laureate in Literature
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

male, deceased (1864)
Unitarian, from Massachusetts, novelist, Phi Beta Kappa member, americanliterature, Massachusetts writer…American
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen...
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
From Salinas, California, Cinema of the United States, Academy Award for Best Story, Dust Bowl, nomination for Best Story, Stanford University alumni…Nobel laureate in Literature, Nobel Prize for Literature, American writer, Scots-Irish American, americanliterature
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
Stephen King

Stephen King

male, 62 years old
novelist, the dark tower, American novelist, Hearts in Atlantis, fantasy, National Book Foundation…American horror writer, American, americanliterature, american author, famous american author
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels....
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

male, deceased (2005)
Playwright, American, writer, Jewish American, from New York City, pulitzer prize…americanliterature
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, English studies, from Nassau County, New York…American writer, americanliterature, Postmodern literature, American, nobel prize in literature
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
Joan Didion

Joan Didion

female, 74 years old
University of California, Berkeley alumni, national review, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, New Journalism, Political Fictions…American, americanliterature
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to "The New...