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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

Bill Barich

American writer.

John Barth

American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.

W. Jackson Bate

American literary critic and biographer

L. Frank Baum

American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels

Isaac Asimov

American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature

Henry Adams

American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction