Armistead Maupin
American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
american male non-fiction writers
Barry Lopez
American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright
Jack London
American novelist, journalist and social activist
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
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
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels