Jacques Barzun
French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history
science writers
Ted Chiang
American science fiction writer
Jared M. Diamond
American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee ; Guns, Germs, and Steel ; Collapse , The World Until Yesterday , and Upheaval . Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology
Flora Thompson
English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
Stanley Fish
American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual
Edward R. Tufte
American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University
Robert McKee
Author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his “Story Seminar”, which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West