1940s

Edward R. Tufte

American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University

Robert McKee

Author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his “Story Seminar”, which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California

Farewell, My Lovely

Novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe