Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
20th-century american male writers
Tony Kushner
American author, playwright, and screenwriter
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.
Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
Norton Juster
American academic, architect, and writer
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Murray Kempton
American journalist and social and political commentator
Jack Kerouac
American novelist and poet of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi