Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
20th-century american poets
Robert Hass
American poet
Vicki Hearne
American author, philosopher, poet, animal trainer, and scholar of literary criticism and linguistics.
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
Robert Frost
American poet
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
T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
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
Annie Dillard
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer