T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
Creator
Bruce Duffy
American author
Joseph J. Ellis
American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America
Alexandre Dumas
French writer
Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act , a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory . The New York Times dubbed him “among the gods of America’s literary Parnassus.” A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.
Ross E. Dunn
American historian and writer, the author of several books including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, and coauthor of the highly cited History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Gerald Durrell
British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter