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Kay Thompson

American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer

James Thurber

American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado

William Styron

American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:

Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression