american

Lars Eighner

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Author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the included essay “On Dumpster Diving,” which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster”; Pawn to Queen Four, a novel; Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men’s Erotica, also published as Elements of Arousal ; Gay Cosmos, a work of gay theory; and numerous short works of gay men’s erotica, collected under various titles

Loren Eiseley

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American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies

Joseph J. Ellis

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American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America

Ralph Ellison

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American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act , a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory . The New York Times dubbed him “among the gods of America’s literary Parnassus.” A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century

E. L. Doctorow

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American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction

Ivan Doig

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American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West