Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist
20th-century american dramatists and playwrights
Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Kurt Vonnegut
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George W. S. Trow
American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators
Betty Smith
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Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Dawn Powell
Award-winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer
Reynolds Price
American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University