Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
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Saul Bellow
Canadian-born American writer
Ludwig Bemelmans
Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children’s books and adult novels
John Berendt
American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Bob Woodward
American investigative journalist
Alfred Bester
American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books
Bernard Bailyn
American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History
Nicholson Baker
American novelist and essayist
Russell Baker
American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up . He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: “Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution.”
James Baldwin
American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist