Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
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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
Douglas R. Hofstadter
American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, concise, and pithy opinionsparticularly for opinions on civil liberties and American constitutional democracyand deference to the decisions of elected legislatures
Paul Horgan
American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States
Irving Howe
American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker
Ivan Illich
Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic