Ellen Ullman
American computer programmer and author
Creator
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.
John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history
Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement