Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
20th-century american screenwriters
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
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
S. J. Perelman
American humorist and screenwriter
Arthur Miller
American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater
Norman Mailer
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Dashiell Hammett
American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories
Helene Hanff
American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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