R. Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work and futurist
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William Gaddis
American novelist
Ernest J. Gaines
American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese
T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
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.
Jeffrey Eugenides
American novelist and short story writer
Frederick Exley
American writer
William Faulkner
American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life
Bruce Duffy
American author
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