Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
western
George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
Plato
Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world
Alice Munro
Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro’s work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history
Henry Miller
American writer and artist
Michel de Montaigne
One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance
Cormac McCarthy
American writer who has written ten novels, two plays, five screenplays and two short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres
Larry McMurtry
American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant