Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
screenwriters from new york (state)
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
S. J. Perelman
American humorist and screenwriter
Norman Mailer
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor
Thomas Harris
American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter
Michael Herr
American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches , a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine during the Vietnam War
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Michael Crichton
American author and filmmaker
Truman Capote
American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor