journalist

H. G. Bissinger

American journalist and author, best known for his 1990 non-fiction book Friday Night Lights

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.”

J. M. Barrie

Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan

L. Frank Baum

American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels

Reginald Arkell

British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre