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.
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James Baldwin
American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist
Matsuo Basho
Most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan
J. R. Ackerley
British writer and editor
Edward Albee
American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , A Delicate Balance , and Three Tall Women . Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd