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Barack Obama

American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States

Tillie Olsen

American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.

John Muir

Influential Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America

H. L. Mencken

American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English

Robert K. Merton

American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology

Thomas Merton

American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion