Patrick Leigh Fermor
English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot
Creator
Lars Eighner
Author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the included essay “On Dumpster Diving,” which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster”; Pawn to Queen Four, a novel; Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men’s Erotica, also published as Elements of Arousal ; Gay Cosmos, a work of gay theory; and numerous short works of gay men’s erotica, collected under various titles
Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist
Anita Desai
Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. E. B. Du Bois
American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
Junot Diaz
Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review
Daphne du Maurier
English author and playwright
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
Emily Dickinson
American poet