French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Acadmie franaise, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus
Influential Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
American writer and mountaineer
American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic explorations.
American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics
American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
American feminist writer and activist
American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system
