Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
Creator
Harper Lee
American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Franz Kafka
German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature
Hugh Kenner
Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor
Roger Kahn
American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
Jack Kerouac
American novelist and poet of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens
Madeleine Kamman
French chef and restaurateur, cookery teacher and author of seven cookbooks, who spent most of her working life in America bringing the rigors of French technique to American ingredients and audiences.
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Francis Kilvert
English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.