Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer
american travel writers
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films
John Steinbeck
American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.”During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period
Henry Miller
American writer and artist
Jack London
American novelist, journalist and social activist
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
Washington Irving
American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century