Murray Kempton
American journalist and social and political commentator
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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
Jane Jacobs
American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics
Henry James
American-British author
William James
American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
Julian Jaynes
American researcher in psychology at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years and best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Eric Hodgins
American author of the popular novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, illustrated by William Steig
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