Reynolds Price
American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University
20th-century american poets
Ishmael Reed
American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
Thomas Merton
American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion
Don Marquis
American humorist, journalist, and author
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
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
Mary Karr
American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas
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