Carolyn Keene
Pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate
20th-century american novelists
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
Eric Hodgins
American author of the popular novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, illustrated by William Steig
Paul Horgan
American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker
John Irving
American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter
Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist
Shirley Jackson
American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery
Henry James
American-British author
Frank Herbert
American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels