Lee K. Abbott -- Fiction
Arnold Adoff -- Poetry/Children's Literature
Maggie Anderson -- Poetry
Sherwood Anderson -- Fiction
Terry Anderson -- Journalist/Author
Paul Angle -- Historian
May Hill Arbuthnot -- Children's Literature
Katherine Ayres -- Children's Literature

Irving Babbitt -- Literary Critic
Natalie Babbitt -- Children's Literature
David Baker -- Poetry
Natalie Barney -- Fiction
Tom Batiuk -- Cartoonist
Mildred Wirt Benson -- Children's Literature
Thomas Berger -- Fiction
Jack Bickham -- Fiction
Ambrose Bierce -- Fiction/Essays
Earl Derr Biggers -- Fiction
George Bilgere -- Poetry
Stephen Birmingham -- Fiction
Imogene Bolls -- Poetry
Erma Bombeck -- Humor
Louise Borden -- Children's Literature
Kay Boyle -- Fiction/Poetry
Emily Brigges -- Journalism
Louis Bromfield -- Fiction/Nonfiction
Charles "Artemus Ward" Browne -- Humor
Paul Herman Buck -- History
Lois McMaster Bujold -- Science Fiction
Frederic Lauriston Bullard -- Journalist
W.R. Burnett -- Fiction/Screenwriter

Milton Caniff -- Cartoonist
Alice Cary -- Poetry
Phoebe Cary -- Poetry
Bruce Catton -- History
Hale Chatfield -- Poetry
Charles Chesnutt -- Fiction
David Citino -- Poetry
Suzanne Clauser -- Screenwriter
Shirley Climo -- Children's Literature
Hart Crane -- Poetry
Algernon Sidney Crapsey -- Religion/Author
Sharon Creech -- Children's Literature
Craig Crist-Evans -- Fiction/Children's Literature
Russel Crouse -- Playwright
Michael Cunningham -- Fiction
Charlotte Curtis -- Journalist
Harvey Cushing -- Physician/Biographer


Robb Forman Dew -- Fiction
Tracey Dils -- Children's Literature
Wayne Dodd -- Poetry
Anthony Doerr -- Fiction
Lloyd C. Douglas -- Fiction
Rita Dove -- Poetry
William A. Drake -- Screenwriter
Sharon Draper -- Young Adult Literature
Julia Louise Dumont -- Fiction/Poetry
Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Poetry


Allan Eckert -- Historical Fiction
Harlan Ellison -- Science Fiction
Joe Eszterhas -- Screenwriter


Herman "Jake Falstaff" Fetzer -- Journalist
Martha Finley -- Fiction
Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Fiction
Denise Fleming -- Children's Literature
Ian Frazier -- Nonfiction/Humor
Ketti Frings -- Playwright
Dr. Isaac Funk -- Publisher/Author


William H. Gass -- Fiction
James Cross Giblin -- Children's Literature
Willie Gibson -- Playwright
Merrill Gilfillan Jr. -- Fiction/Poetry
Nikki Giovanni -- Poetry/Essays
Elton Glaser -- Poetry
Patricia Goedicke -- Poetry
Herbert Gold -- Fiction
Charles Gordone -- Playwright
Alvin Greenberg -- Poetry/Short Fiction
Joanne "Hannah Green" Greenberg -- Fiction
Bob Greene -- Journalist
William Greenway -- Poetry
Zane Grey -- Western Fiction


Murat Halstead -- Journalist
Virginia Hamilton -- Children's Literature
Percy Hammond -- Journalist
Frances E. W. Harper -- Poetry
Henry J. Haskell -- Journalist
Harlan Hatcher -- Education
Walter Havighurst -- Education
Lafcadio Hearn -- Nonfiction
Robin Hemley -- Fiction/Nonfiction
O. Henry -- Fiction/Short Stories
Dorothy Heyward --Playwright
Chester Himes -- Fiction
John Hockenberry -- Journalist
Avery Hopwood -- Playwright
Murray Horwitz -- Playwright/Lyricist
Pam Houston -- Fiction
Richard Howard -- Poetry
Roy Wilson Howard -- Publishing
Henry Howe -- Historian
William Dean Howells -- Fiction
Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard -- Humorist
Charlotte Huck -- Children's Literature
Andrew Hudgins -- Poetry
Langston Hughes -- Poetry/Playwright
Dard Hunter -- Printer
Fanny Hurst -- Fiction


Grace Goulder Izant -- Journalist


John Jakes -- Fiction
Angela Johnson -- Children's Literature
Josephine W. Johnson -- Fiction


Adrienne Kennedy -- Playwright
John Kilbourn -- Historian
W. M. Kiplinger -- Publishing
Fletcher Knebel -- Fiction
John S. Knight -- Publishing
Kenneth Koch -- Poetry
Louis Kronenberger, Jr -- Drama Critic

James Lapine -- Playwright
Edward Larson -- Historian
Jerome Lawrence -- Playwright
Robert E. Lee -- Playwright
Lois Lenski -- Children's Literature
J. Patrick Lewis -- Children's Literature/Poetry
David Locke -- Humorist
Gene Logsdon -- Nonfiction/Naturalist

Clarence Macartney -- Nonfiction/Theology
Janarius MacGahan -- Journalism
Herbert Woodward Martin -- Poetry
William Matthews -- Poetry
William Maxwell -- Publishing
Rollo May -- Nonfiction/Psychology
Robert McCloskey -- Children's Literature
Howard McCord -- Poetry
Anne O'Hare McCormick -- Journalism
Erin McGraw -- Fiction
William H. McGuffey -- Education/Publishing
O. Odd McIntyre -- Journalism
Ruth McKenney -- Journalism/Fiction
Joseph Medill -- Publishing
Pat Mora -- Fiction/Poetry
Toni Morrison -- Fiction
Tad Mosel -- Playwright/Screenwriter
Thylias Moss -- Poetry

George Jean Nathan -- Theater Critic
James Ball Naylor -- Fiction/Poetry
Marilyn Nelson -- Poetry/Children's Literature
Evaline Ness -- Children's Literature
Dudley Nichols -- Screenwriter
Andre Norton -- Science Fiction

Dan O'Brien -- Fiction
John O'Brien -- Fiction
Adolph Ochs -- Publishing
Mary Oliver -- Poetry
P. J. O'Rourke -- Journalism/Humorist

Clarence Page -- Journalism
Kenneth Patchen -- Poetry
Norman Vincent Peale -- Religion/Inspiration
Eleanor Perry -- Screenwriter
Tom Pettit -- Journalism
Don Piatt -- Journalism
John James Bryan Piatt -- Poetry
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt -- Poetry
Stanley Plumly -- Poetry
Dawn Powell -- Fiction
Orville Prescott -- Nonfiction/Literary Critic
Bonnie Pryor -- Children's Literature


Whitelaw Reid -- Journalism
James Reiss -- Poetry
James "Scotty" Reston -- Journalism
Conrad Richter -- Fiction
Michael J. Rosen -- Children's Literature
Cynthia Rylant -- Children's Literature

Marlene Sanders -- Journalism
Scott Russell Sanders -- Fiction/Nonfiction
Helen Hooven Santmyer -- Fiction
Jack Schaefer -- Fiction
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- History
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. -- History
Louis B. Seltzer -- Journalism
Samuel Shellabarger -- Fiction
Alix Kates Shulman -- Fiction
Joe Shuster -- Cartoonist
Jerry Siegel -- Cartoonist
Jo Sinclair -- Fiction
Charles Allen Smart -- Fiction
Larry Smith -- Poetry/Editorial
Elizabeth Spires -- Poetry/Children's Literature
Benjamin Spock -- Physician/Nonfiction
Gloria Steinem -- Journalism/Feminist
Burton Stevenson -- Fiction
David Ogden Stewart -- Fiction/Screenwriter
R.L. Stine -- Children's Literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Fiction
Anna Louise Strong -- Journalism

Mildred D. Taylor -- Children's Literature
Peter Taylor -- Fiction
Lowell Thomas -- Journalism
James Thurber -- Humor
Ridgely Torrence -- Playwright/Poetry
Albion Tourgée-- Journalism/Civil Rights