20th-century american biographers

Garry Wills

American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church

American historian and author

American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer

American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor

American author, narrator, popular historian, and lecturer

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor

American author, biographer, and historian

American novelist, historian and children’s writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal

U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer

American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia