20th-century american journalists

Norman Mailer

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

A. J. Liebling

American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death

Alfred Lansing

American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic explorations.

Frank Herbert

American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels

Michael Herr

American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches , a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine during the Vietnam War