Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
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Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist and poet
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
E. L. Konigsburg
American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction
Jon Krakauer
American writer and mountaineer
Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children’s books
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
Tony Kushner
American author, playwright, and screenwriter
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian