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Born March 23, 1922 • New York City • New York
Died January 18, 1992 (aged 69) • Urbana • Illinois
Notable Works “Wall to Wall”
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Stephen King
American novelist
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American author
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Jim Thompson
American author
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Jane Bowles
American author
Bunner, Henry Cuyler
Henry Cuyler Bunner
American writer
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Michael Cunningham
American author
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Anzia Yezierska
American author
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.
American writer
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Richard Matheson
American author and screenwriter
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Albert Halper
American author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
A son of Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.
James Baldwin
American author