Stewart Brand is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. Brand is best known for the Whole Earth Catalog (a compendium...
Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read...
Tracy Kidder is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book...
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach:...
Lewis Mumford was an American historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career...
John Hoyer Updike is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit...
Julia Child was an American cook, author, and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American...
Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind...
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of...
Gore Vidal is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the...
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows , was an acclaimed American writer of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts...
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is a American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine...
Ralph Waldo Ellison was a scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel...
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international...
Louis L'Amour was an American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction , remain popular, and most have gone through...
Joan Didion is an American journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection...
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy , is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic...
William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist. He lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife and daughter....
Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely-influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult...
Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics...
Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes,...
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Edward F. O'Connor and Regina Cline O’Connor....
William Faulkner , was an American author. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize...
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the...