Thomas Merton
American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion
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John Stuart Mill
English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant
Arthur Miller
American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater
Henry Miller
American writer and artist
Walter M. Miller Jr.
American science fiction writer
Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist
Hiram Percy Maxim
American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder of the American Radio Relay League . Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing mufflers for internal combustion engines.
Robert Ludlum
American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series
Valeria Luiselli
Mexican author living in the United States
John Lukacs
Hungarian-born American historian who wrote more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic