Alfred Lansing
American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic explorations.
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Murray Kempton
American journalist and social and political commentator
Hugh Kenner
Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor
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
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Crockett Johnson
Pen name of the American cartoonist and children’s book illustrator David Johnson Leisk
Norton Juster
American academic, architect, and writer
Roger Kahn
American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.