20th-century american male writers

John Steinbeck

American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.”During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories

Henry Roth

American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.

Berton Roueche

American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years

Cornelius Ryan

Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history

Carl Sagan

American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator