Dashiell Hammett
American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories
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Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter
Ford Maddox Ford
English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature
T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
William Faulkner
American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life
John Dos Passos
American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy
E. E. Cummings
American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches , a French novelist, polemicist and physician