Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
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Emily Dickinson
American poet
Joan Didion
American writer
Annie Dillard
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction
Michael Dirda
Book critic for the Washington Post
E. L. Doctorow
American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction
Ivan Doig
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
John Dos Passos
American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school