Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
novelist
Scott Turow
American author and lawyer
Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer
Anne Tyler
American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old
John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
Jules Verne
French novelist, poet, and playwright
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianityespecially the Roman Catholic Churchas well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state