Nicholson Baker
American novelist and essayist
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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
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys . Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott’s family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing
Lloyd Alexander
American author of more than 40 books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults
Sherman Alexie
Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet, writer and philosopher