Joseph J. Ellis
American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America
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Ralph Ellison
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
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Jeffrey Eugenides
American novelist and short story writer
Frederick Exley
American writer
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school
Roy Andries de Groot
British-born American culinary writer and wine critic
W. E. B. Du Bois
American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor