american

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic

Stacy Schiff

American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography

Richard Rodriguez

American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.