A. J. Liebling
American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death
jewish american writers
E. L. Konigsburg
American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction
Jon Krakauer
American writer and mountaineer
Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children’s books
Roger Kahn
American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics
Russell Hoban
American expatriate writer
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist
Alfred Bester
American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books