H. G. Wells
English writer
20th-century atheists
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Philip Roth
American novelist and short story writer
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time , originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Claude Levi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology
Robert Graves
British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist