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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

Roger Kahn

American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.

Carolyn Keene

Pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate