H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
20th-century american essayists
Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist and poet
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time
Helen Keller
American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Vicki Hearne
American author, philosopher, poet, animal trainer, and scholar of literary criticism and linguistics.
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science
Frederick Exley
American writer
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies
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.