Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
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Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Gillian Flynn
American writer
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker