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
20th-century american memoirists
Helen Keller
American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer
Shirley Jackson
American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman
Lucy Grealy
Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement
Katharine Graham
American newspaper publisher
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter
Frederick Exley
American writer
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism
Truman Capote
American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor