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American author

Jack Kerouac

American writer

James Baldwin

American author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Sylvia Plath

American author

John Waters

American director and author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

W.E.B. Du Bois

American sociologist, historian, and activist

Upton Sinclair

American novelist

Gwendolyn Brooks

American poet and educator

Roxane Gay

American writer and cultural critic

John G. Neihardt

American poet

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Gordon Parks

American author, photographer, and film director

Lewis Wallace

American author, soldier, and diplomat

Jack London

American author

Jamaica Kincaid

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Michael Crichton

American author

Paul Auster

American author

Edith Wharton

American writer