Armistead Maupin
American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
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Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright
Jack London
American novelist, journalist and social activist
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
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
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi