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List of 20th-century American writers[edit]
| Name
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Year of birth
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Birthplace
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Principal genre/movement/subject(s)
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| "Weird Al" Yankovic |
1959 |
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Songwriter, children's literature
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| A. B. Guthrie Jr. |
1901 |
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Novelist, screenwriter, historian
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| A. E. van Vogt |
1912 |
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Science fiction
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| A. R. Gurney |
1930 |
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Novelist, playwright
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| Aaron Allston |
1960 |
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Science fiction
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| Abbie Hoffman |
1936 |
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Countercultural writing
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| Abe Burrows |
1910 |
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Humor; radio, screen, theater
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| Acharya S |
1960 |
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History of religion
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| Adam Schefter |
1966 |
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Sports writer
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| Adolph Green |
1914 |
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Playwright, screenwriter, songwriter
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| Adrienne Rich |
1929 |
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Feminist poetry and criticism
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| Aimee Mann |
1960 |
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Songwriter
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| Al Capp |
1909 |
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Comic strips
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| Al Franken |
1951 |
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Politics
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| Al Gore |
1948 |
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Environment, politics
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| Al Jean |
1961 |
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Screenwriter
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| Al Sharpton |
1954 |
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Civil rights, politics
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| Alain LeRoy Locke |
1885 |
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African-American culture, politics
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| Alan Ball |
1957 |
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Screenwriter
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| Alan Cranston |
1914 |
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| Alan Dean Foster |
1946 |
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Fantasy, science fiction
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| Alan Jay Lerner |
1918 |
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Musical theater
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| Alan Lomax |
1915 |
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| Albert Bushnell Hart |
1854 |
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Historian
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| Albert Hackett |
1900 |
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Dramatist, screenwriter
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| Albert J. Beveridge |
1862 |
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Historian
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| Albert Jay Nock |
1870 |
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| Aldo Leopold |
1887 |
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| Alex Haley |
1921 |
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African-American history
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| Alex Ross |
1970 |
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Comic books
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| Alex Toth |
1928 |
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Comic books
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| Alexander Cockburn |
1941 |
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Political journalism
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| Alexander D. Shimkin |
1944 |
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Journalism
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| Alexander Kazhdan |
1922 |
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Historian
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| Alexander Woollcott |
1887 |
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| Alfred Bester |
1913 |
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Science fiction
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| Alfred D. Chandler Jr. |
1918 |
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Economic history
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| Alfred Einstein |
1880 |
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Musicologist
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| Alfred Uhry |
1936 |
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Playwright, screenwriter
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| Alfred W. Crosby |
1931 |
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Historian
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| Algis Budrys |
1931 |
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Science fiction
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| Ali MacGraw |
1939 |
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| Alice B. Toklas |
1877 |
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| Alice Crary |
1967 |
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Philosophy, social studies
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| Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
1884 |
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| Alice Walker |
1944 |
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Fiction, poetry
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| Alison Bechdel |
1960 |
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Graphic memoirs
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| Alison Lurie |
1926 |
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Novelist
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| Alistair Cooke |
1908 |
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Journalism
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| Alla Nazimova |
1879 |
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Screenwriter
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| Allan Bloom |
1930 |
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Philosopher, classicist
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| Allan Nevins |
1890 |
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Historian
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| Allen Drury |
1918 |
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Novelist
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| Allen Ginsberg |
1926 |
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| Allen Steele |
1958 |
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Journalism, science fiction
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| Allen Tate |
1899 |
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Poet, essayist
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| Ally Sheedy |
1962 |
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| Alvin E. Roth |
1951 |
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Economist
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| Alvin Toffler |
1928 |
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Social effects of technology
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| Ambrose Bierce |
1842 |
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Short stories, poetry, journalism, humor
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| Ameen Rihani |
1876 |
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| Amelia Earhart |
1897 |
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Memoirs
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| Amiri Baraka |
1934 |
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Poetry, drama, fiction, essays, music criticism
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| Amy Fisher |
1974 |
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| Amy Goodman |
1957 |
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Journalism
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| Amy Lowell |
1874 |
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Poet
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| Amy Sherman-Palladino |
1966 |
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Television scripts
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| Amy Tan |
1952
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Oakland, California
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Asian American literature
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| Anaïs Nin |
1903 |
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Erotic fiction, essays
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| Anderson Cooper |
1967 |
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| Andre Norton |
1912 |
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Fiction
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| Andrea Dworkin |
1946 |
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Feminism
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| Andrew Greeley |
1928 |
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Sociologist, journalist, novelist
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| Andrew Holleran |
1943 |
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Novels, short stories, essays
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| Andrew J. Offutt |
1934 |
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Science fiction, erotic fiction
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| Andrew Robinson |
1942 |
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Novelist, playwright
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| Andy Razaf |
1895 |
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Poet, songwriter
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| Andy Rooney |
1919 |
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| Andy Warhol |
1928 |
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Memoirs
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| Angela Davis |
1944 |
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Politics, feminism
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| Angela Lansbury |
1925 |
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| Anita Desai |
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| Anita Loos |
1889 |
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Novelist, scriptwriter
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| Ann Bannon |
1932 |
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Erotic fiction
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| Ann Coulter |
1961 |
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Politics
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| Ann Curry |
1956 |
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Journalism
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| Ann Patchett |
1963 |
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Novelist
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| Ann Powers |
1964 |
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Pop music criticism
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| Ann Rule |
1931 |
True crime
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| Anna Quindlen |
1952 |
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Social commentary, novels
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| Anna Roosevelt Halsted |
1906 |
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Columnist, children's fiction
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| Anna Wintour |
1949 |
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Journalism
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| Anne Applebaum |
1964 |
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| Anne McCaffrey |
1926 |
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Science fiction
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| Anne Meara |
1929 |
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Playwright
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
1906 |
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Various
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| Anne Lindbergh |
1940 |
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Children's fiction
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| Anne Rice |
1941 |
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Novelist
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| Anne Sexton |
1928 |
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Poetry
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| Anne Tyler |
1941 |
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Novels, short stories
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| Annie Dillard |
1945 |
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Various
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| Annie Proulx |
1935 |
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Novels, short stories, journamlism
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| Ansel Adams |
1902 |
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Photographic technique
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| Anthony Boucher |
1911 |
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Novels, short stories, radio plays
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| Anthony Bourdain |
1956 |
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Culinary
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| Anthony Hecht |
1923 |
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Poetry
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| Anthony Lewis |
1927 |
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Legal journalism
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| Antoinette Brown Blackwell |
1825 |
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Theology, science, philosophy
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| Anton LaVey |
1930 |
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Satanic religion
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| Archibald MacLeish |
1892 |
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Poetry
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| Arianna Huffington |
1950 |
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Journalism
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| Armistead Maupin |
1944 |
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Novels
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger |
1947 |
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Bodybuilding
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| Art Buchwald |
1925 |
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Humor
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| Arthur Ashe |
1943 |
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Sporting memoirs
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| Arthur Cronquist |
1919 |
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Botany
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| Arthur Laurents |
1917 |
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Playwright, screenwriter
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| Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
1917 |
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American history
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| Arthur Miller |
1915 |
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Playwright
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| Aryeh Kaplan |
1934 |
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Judaism
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| Audre Lorde |
1934 |
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Poetry, social issues
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| August Derleth |
1909 |
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Fiction, poetry, regional literature
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| August Wilson |
1945 |
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Playwright
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| Austin Pendleton |
1940 |
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Playwright
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| Avi |
1937 |
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Children's literature
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| Avinash Dixit |
1944 |
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Economics
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| Avram Davidson |
1923 |
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Fiction
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| Ayn Rand |
1905 |
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Fiction, philosophy
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| Barack Obama |
1961 |
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Politics, memoir, children's literature
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| Barbara Barrie |
1931 |
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Children's literature, memoir
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| Barbara Corcoran |
1949 |
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Memoirs, columnist
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| Barbara Ehrenreich |
1941 |
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Feminism, social affairs, memoirs
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| Barbara Kingsolver |
1955 |
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Novelist, essayist, poet
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| Barbara Mertz |
1927 |
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Novels, history
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| Barbara W. Tuchman |
1912 |
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History
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| Barbara Walters |
1929 |
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Conversational technique
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| Barry Goldwater |
1909 |
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Politics, memoirs
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| Barry Sadler |
1940 |
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Historical novels
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| Bart D. Ehrman |
1955 |
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Early Christianity
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| Barton Gellman |
1960 |
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Journalism, political history
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| Barton MacLane |
1902 |
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Playwright, screenwriter
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| Beah Richards |
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| Bebe Daniels |
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| Bell hooks |
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| Ben Bova |
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| Ben Bradlee |
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| Ben Brantley |
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| Ben Carson |
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| Ben Hecht |
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| Ben Stein |
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| Benjamin Spock |
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| Bernadotte Everly Schmitt |
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| Bernard B. Fall |
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| Bernard Bailyn |
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| Bernard DeVoto |
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| Bernard Lewis |
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| Bernard Malamud |
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| Bernie Sanders |
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| Beth Henley |
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| Bette Davis |
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| Betty Comden |
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| Betty Ford |
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| Betty Friedan |
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| Bill Bryson |
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| Bill Clinton |
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| Bill Cosby |
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| Bill Dodd |
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| Bill Irwin |
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| Bill James |
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| Bill Maher |
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| Bill Mallon |
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| Bill Moyers |
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| Bill O'Reilly |
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| Bill Press |
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| Bill Willingham |
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| Billy Bob Thornton |
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| Billy Dee Williams |
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| Billy Graham |
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| Billy Sullivan |
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| Billy Wilder |
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| Black Elk |
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| Blake Edwards |
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| Bob Costas |
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| Bob Dylan |
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| Bob Edwards |
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| Bob Kane |
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| Bob Marshall |
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| Bob Saget |
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| Bob Schieffer |
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| Bob Simon |
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| Bob Woodruff |
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| Bob Woodward |
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| Bobby Bowden |
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| Bobby Jindal |
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| Booth Tarkington |
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| Bosley Crowther |
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| Brent Scowcroft |
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| Bret Easton Ellis |
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| Brian Cooley |
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| Brian Doyle-Murray |
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| Brian Herbert |
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| Brian Williams |
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| Broadus Mitchell |
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| Brooke Astor |
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| Brooke Shields |
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| Bruce Boxleitner |
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| Bruce Catton |
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| Bruce M. Metzger |
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| Bruce R. McConkie |
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| Bruce Sterling |
1954
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Brownsville, Texas
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Cyberpunk, Science fiction
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| Bryant Gumbel |
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| Budd Schulberg |
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| Byron York |
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| C. J. Cherryh |
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| C. L. Moore |
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| C. Vann Woodward |
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| C. Wright Mills |
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| Caitlín R. Kiernan |
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| Callie Khouri |
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| Calvin Coolidge |
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| Calvin Trillin |
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| Camille Paglia |
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| Carl Albert |
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| Carl Barks |
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| Carl Bernstein |
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| Carl Djerassi |
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| Carl Hiaasen |
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| Carl Leavitt Hubbs |
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| Carl Sagan |
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| Carl Sandburg |
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| Carleton S. Coon |
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| Carlos Castaneda |
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| Carlton J. H. Hayes |
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| Carol Gilligan |
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| Carol Shields |
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| Carol Sutton |
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| Caroline Kennedy |
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| Caroline Pafford Miller |
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| Carolyn Maloney |
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| Carrie Fisher |
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| Carson McCullers |
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| Carter G. Woodson |
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| Catharine MacKinnon |
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| Catherine Yronwode |
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| Cecil B. DeMille |
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| Chaim Potok |
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| Charlaine Harris |
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| Charles A. Beard |
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| Charles Brackett |
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| Charles Bukowski |
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| Charles Collingwood |
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| Charles E. Potter |
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| Charles Fort |
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| Charles Gibson |
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| Charles Jencks |
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| Charles Kuralt |
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| Charles L. Grant |
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| Charles Lindbergh |
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| Charles MacArthur |
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| Charles Murray |
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| Charles Olson |
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| Charles Sheffield |
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| Charles Stanley |
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| Charlie Rose |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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| Charlton Heston |
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| Chaz Bono |
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| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
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| Chester Bowles |
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| Chet Huntley |
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| Chip Ingram |
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| Chris Elliott |
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| Chris Gardner |
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| Chris Jansing |
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| Chris Pérez |
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| Chris Van Allsburg |
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| Chris Wallace |
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| Christine Quinn |
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| Christopher A. Sims |
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| Christopher Darden |
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| Christopher Durang |
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| Christopher Golden |
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| Christopher Isherwood |
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| Christopher Nolan |
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| Christopher Paul Curtis |
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| Chuck Baldwin |
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| Chuck Norris |
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| Chuck Palahniuk |
1962 |
Pasco, Washington |
Postmodernism, minimalism
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| Chuck Swindoll |
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| Clare Boothe Luce |
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| Clark Ashton Smith |
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| Clement Greenberg |
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| Cleveland Amory |
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| Clifford A. Pickover |
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| Clifford D. Simak |
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| Clifford Geertz |
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| Clifford Odets |
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| Clive Cussler |
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| Colson Whitehead |
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| Colum McCann |
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| Conan O'Brien |
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| Condoleezza Rice |
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| Connie Chung |
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| Connie Willis |
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| Conrad Aiken |
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| Cordwainer Smith |
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| Cormac McCarthy |
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| Cornel West |
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| Cornelius Ryan |
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| Cornelius Van Til |
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney |
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| Cornell Woolrich |
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| Countee Cullen |
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| Courtney Love |
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| Craig Kilborn |
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| Craig Mazin |
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| Crispin Freeman |
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| Crystal Eastman |
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| Cybill Shepherd |
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| Cynthia Ozick |
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| Cyril M. Kornbluth |
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| Cyril Toumanoff |
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| Czesław Miłosz |
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| D. James Kennedy |
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| Daisy Bates |
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| Dale Carnegie |
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| Dale Dye |
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| Dalton Trumbo |
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| Damon Knight |
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| Dan Brown |
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| Dan Castellaneta |
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| Dan Jurgens |
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| Dan Quayle |
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| Dan Rather |
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| Dan Savage |
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| Dan Simmons |
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| Dana Gould |
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| Daniel Ellsberg |
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| Daniel Handler |
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Daniel Keyes |
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| Daniel Okrent |
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| Daniel Quinn |
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| Daniel Yergin |
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| Danielle Steel |
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| Dar Williams |
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| Darrell Schweitzer |
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| Darren Star |
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| Dashiell Hammett |
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| Dav Pilkey |
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| Dave Alvin |
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| Dave Barry |
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| Dave Mustaine |
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| Dave Ramsey |
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| David Abbott |
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| David Auburn |
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| David Baldacci |
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| David Belasco |
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| David Bergland |
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| David Brin |
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| David Brinkley |
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| David Brooks |
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| David D. Friedman |
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| David Drake |
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| David Duke |
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| David E. Kelley |
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| David Eddings |
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| David Foster Wallace |
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| David Frum |
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| David Gerrold |
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| David Hackett Fischer |
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| David Halberstam |
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| David Henry Hwang |
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| David Horowitz |
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| David Lindsay-Abaire |
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| David M. Nelson |
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| David M. Potter |
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| David Mamet |
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| David Maraniss |
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| David McCullough |
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| David Mills |
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| David Morrell |
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| David R. Henderson |
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| David Remnick |
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| David Starr Jordan |
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| David Stockman |
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| David Weber |
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| Dean Koontz |
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| Debbie Reynolds |
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| Debby Boone |
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| Denis Johnson |
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| Denise Levertov |
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| Dennis Hopper |
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| Dennis Lehane |
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| Dennis Miller |
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| Dennis Prager |
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| Dian Fossey |
1932 |
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Zoologist
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| Diana Gabaldon |
1952 |
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Novelist
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| Diana Vreeland |
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| Diane Duane |
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| Diane Sawyer |
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| Diane von Fürstenberg |
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| Dick Armey |
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| Dick Cheney |
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| Dick Gregory |
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| Dick Morris |
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| Dietrich von Hildebrand |
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| Dinah Shore |
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| Dinesh D'Souza |
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| Djuna Barnes |
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| Dolly Parton |
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| Dominick Dunne |
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| Don DeLillo |
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| Donald A. Wollheim |
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| Donald Barthelme |
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| Donald E. Westlake |
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| Donald Margulies |
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| Donald Ogden Stewart |
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| Donald T. Campbell |
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| Donald Wandrei |
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| Donna Tartt |
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| Dore Schary |
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| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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| Dorothy Day |
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| Dorothy Fields |
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| Dorothy Kilgallen |
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| Dorothy Parker |
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| Doug Wright |
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| Douglas Hofstadter |
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| Douglas Kenney |
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| Douglas Niles |
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| Douglas Preston |
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| E. O. Wilson |
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| Ed Bradley |
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| Ed Koch |
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| Edmund Wilson |
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| Edna Ferber |
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| Eric Bogosian |
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| Ethan Hawke |
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| Ethel Merman |
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| Eugene O'Neill |
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| Ezra Pound |
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| Ezra Taft Benson |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Flannery O'Connor |
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| Florin Curta |
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| Forrest J Ackerman |
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| Four Quartets |
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| Fran Lebowitz |
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| Frances Cress Welsing |
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| Fredricka Whitfield |
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| Fulton Oursler |
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| Galway Kinnell |
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| Gardner Dozois |
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| Gardner Fox |
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| Garrison Keillor |
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| Garson Kanin |
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| Gary Gygax |
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| Gary Hart |
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| Gary Paulsen |
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| Gary Soto |
1952
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Fresno, California
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Chicano literature
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| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
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| Gayle King |
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| Gene Hackman |
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| Gene Roddenberry |
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| Gene Siskel |
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| Gene Wilder |
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| Gene Wolfe |
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| George Abbott |
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| George Alec Effinger |
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| George C. Wolfe |
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| George Carlin |
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| George F. Kennan |
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| George Furth |
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| George Gamow |
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| George H. W. Bush |
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| George Lakoff |
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| George Lincoln Rockwell |
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| George M. Cohan |
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| George McGovern |
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| George McTurnan Kahin |
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| George Nader |
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| George Pelecanos |
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| George Plimpton |
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| George R. R. Martin |
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| George R. Stewart |
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| George S. Kaufman |
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| George Santayana |
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| George Seaton |
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| George Soros |
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| George Steiner |
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| George Stephanopoulos |
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| George Stigler |
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| George Takei |
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| George Vandeman |
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| George W. Bush |
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| George Whitney Calhoun |
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| George Will |
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| Georgess McHargue |
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| Gerald Edelman |
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| Geraldine Ferraro |
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| Geraldo Rivera |
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| Gerard Kuiper |
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| Gerhard Weinberg |
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| Gertrude Stein |
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| Giannina Braschi |
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| Glen A. Larson |
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| Glen Cook |
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| Glenn Beck |
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| Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
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| Gloria Steinem |
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| Gloria Vanderbilt |
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| Gordon A. Craig |
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| Gordon R. Dickson |
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| Gore Vidal |
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| Grace Lee Boggs |
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| Grace Paley |
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| Grant Withers |
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| Greg Antonacci |
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| Greg Bear |
1951
|
San Diego, California
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Science fiction
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| Greg Boyd |
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| Greg Kihn |
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| Gregory Benford |
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| Gregory Corso |
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| Gregory Maguire |
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| Gretchen Carlson |
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| Grover Norquist |
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| Guido Calabresi |
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| Guy Kawasaki |
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| Gwen Ifill |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks |
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| H. Beam Piper |
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| H. L. Davis |
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| H. L. Mencken |
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| H. P. Lovecraft |
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| H.D. |
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| Ha Jin |
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| Hajo Holborn |
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| Hal Clement |
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| Hal Foster |
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| Hal Moore |
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| Hallie Quinn Brown |
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| Hannah Arendt |
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| Hans Reichenbach |
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| Hans-Hermann Hoppe |
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| Harlan Coben |
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| Harlan Ellison |
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| Harmony Korine |
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| Harold Bloom |
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| Harold Camping |
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| Harold Covington |
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| Harold Robbins |
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| Harper Lee |
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| Harriet Adams |
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| Harriet Taylor Upton |
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| Harriette Simpson Arnow |
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| Harris Wofford |
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| Harry Browne |
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| Harry Elmer Barnes |
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| Harry Harrison |
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| Harry Reasoner |
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| Harry Turtledove |
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| Hart Crane |
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| Harvey Fierstein |
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| Harvey Kurtzman |
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| Hedda Hopper |
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| Helen Churchill Candee |
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| Helen Hooven Santmyer |
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| Helen Keller |
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| Helen Schucman |
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| Helen Steiner Rice |
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| Helen Thomas |
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| Helen Wills |
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| Henry Bromell |
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| Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
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| Henry Darger |
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| Henry Hazlitt |
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| Henry James |
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| Henry Kissinger |
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| Henry Kuttner |
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| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
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| Henry Miller |
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| Henry Slesar |
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| Henry van Dyke Jr. |
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| Herb Caen |
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| Herbert A. Simon |
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| Herbert Marcuse |
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| Herbert P. Bix |
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| Herman Cain |
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| Herman Wouk |
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| Hillary Clinton |
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| Hiram Bingham III |
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| Hiram Wesley Evans |
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| Hoda Kotb |
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| Homer Hickam |
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| Horton Foote |
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| Howard Ashman |
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| Howard Fast |
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| Howard Lindsay |
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| Howard Nemerov |
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| Howard Zinn |
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| Hubert Selby Jr. |
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| Hugh Downs |
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| Hugh Hewitt |
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| Hugo Gernsback |
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| Hunter S. Thompson |
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| Huston Smith |
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| I. F. Stone |
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| Iceberg Slim |
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| Immanuel Velikovsky |
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| Ira Levin |
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| Iris Chang |
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| Irving Kristol |
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| Irving Wallace |
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| Irwin Shaw |
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| Isaac Asimov |
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| Isabel Allende |
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| Isabel Paterson |
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| Ishmael Reed |
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| Israel Horovitz |
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| Ivana Trump |
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| J. Allen Hynek |
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| J. Anthony Lukas |
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| J. D. Salinger |
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| J. Francis McComas |
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| J. Neil Schulman |
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| J. Randy Taraborrelli |
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| Jack Anderson |
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| Jack Chick |
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| Jack Dann |
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| Jack Finney |
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| Jack Kerouac |
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| Jack Kirby |
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| Jack Kornfield |
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| Jack L. Chalker |
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| Jack London |
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| Jack McDevitt |
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| Jack Parsons |
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| Jack Snow |
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| Jack Vance |
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| Jack Williamson |
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| Jacob Marschak |
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| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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| Jacqueline Susann |
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| Jacqueline Woodson |
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| Jacques Futrelle |
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| Jamaica Kincaid |
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| James A. Michener |
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| James Agee |
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| James Avery |
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| James Baldwin |
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| James Beard |
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| James Berardinelli |
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| James Blaylock |
1950
|
Long Beach, California
|
Science fiction, humorous style, steampunk
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| James Blish |
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| James Branch Cabell |
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| James Burnham |
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| James Clavell |
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| James Dickey |
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| James Dobson |
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| James E. Gunn |
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| James Ellroy |
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| James Enright |
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| James Gleason |
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| James Goldman |
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| James Gould Cozzens |
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| James Grant Wilson |
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| James H. Cone |
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| James Hoge Tyler |
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| James Jones |
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| James K. Morrow |
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| James Kirkwood Jr. |
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| James Lapine |
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| James Lee Burke |
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| James Lipton |
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| James Lowder |
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| James M. Buchanan |
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| James M. Cain |
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| James M. McPherson |
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| James Merrill |
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| James Patrick Kelly |
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| James Patterson |
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| James Randi |
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| James Reston |
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| James Robert Baker |
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| James Rollins |
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| James Stewart |
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| James Taylor |
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| James Thurber |
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| James Tiptree Jr. |
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| James Tobin |
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| James Weldon Johnson |
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| James Whitcomb Riley |
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| Jane Addams |
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| Jane Pauley |
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| Jane Roberts |
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| Jane Smiley |
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| Jane Wagner |
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| Jane Yolen |
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| Janet Evanovich |
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| Janice Dickinson |
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| Janis Ian |
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| Jared Diamond |
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| Jason Gould |
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| Jason Katims |
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| Jason Miller |
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| Jay McInerney |
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| Jay Presson Allen |
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| Jayson Stark |
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| Jean M. Auel |
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| Jean Stafford |
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| Jeanne Moos |
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| Jeb Bush |
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| Jeff Daniels |
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| Jeff Grubb |
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| Jeff Smith |
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| Jeff Tweedy |
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| Jeff VanderMeer |
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| Jeffery Deaver |
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| Jeffrey Eugenides |
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| Jeffrey Toobin |
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| Jennifer Egan |
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| Jenny McCarthy |
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| Jerry B. Jenkins |
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| Jerry Clower |
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| Jerry Falwell |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
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| Jerry Rubin |
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| Jerry Sandusky |
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| Jerry Seinfeld |
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| Jerry Siegel |
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| Jerry Springer |
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| Jerzy Kosiński |
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| Jesse Helms |
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| Jesse Ventura |
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| Jhumpa Lahiri |
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| Jill Lepore |
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| Jim Acosta |
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| Jim Bakker |
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| Jim Beaver |
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| Jim Butcher |
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| Jim Carroll |
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| Jim Cramer |
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| Jim DeRogatis |
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| Jim Garrison |
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| Jim Harrison |
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| Jim Lehrer |
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| Jim McKay |
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| Jim Morrison |
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| Jim Murray |
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| Jim Thompson |
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| Jim Varney |
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| Jim Ward |
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| Jim Webb |
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| Jimmy Buffett |
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| Joan Baez |
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| Joan Biskupic |
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| Joan Crawford |
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| Joan D. Vinge |
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| Joan Didion |
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| Joan Lunden |
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| Joan Rivers |
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| Joanna Russ |
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| Jock Scott |
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| Jodi Picoult |
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| Joe DiPietro |
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| Joe Eszterhas |
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| Joe Gibbs |
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| Joe Haldeman |
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| Joe Keenan |
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| Joe Klein |
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| Joe R. Lansdale |
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| Joel Osteen |
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| John August |
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| John Barth |
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| John Bates Clark |
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| John Berryman |
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| John Briley |
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| John Burroughs |
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| John Byrne |
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| John C. Hocking |
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| John Cage |
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| John Chancellor |
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| John Charles Daly |
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| John Cheever |
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| John Courtney Murray |
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| John Crowe Ransom |
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| John Crowley |
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| John D. MacDonald |
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| John Dean |
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| John Denver |
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| John Dewey |
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| John Dickerson |
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John Norman |
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Jon Krakauer |
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Jon Stewart |
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Jonathan Harris |
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Jonathan Larson |
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Joseph Brodsky |
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Joseph Grew |
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Joseph Stein |
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Joseph Stiglitz |
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Jozo Tomasevich |
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Juan Cole |
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Juan Williams |
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Jude Watson |
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Judith Malina |
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Judith Merril |
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Judy Blume |
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Judy Sheindlin |
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Judy Woodruff |
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Jules Feiffer |
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Julia Alvarez |
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Julia Butterfly Hill |
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Julia Peterkin |
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Julia Ward Howe |
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Julia de Burgos |
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Julian Simon |
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Julie Dash |
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Julius J. Epstein |
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Justin Theroux |
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K. A. Applegate |
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K. Jack Bauer |
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K.W. Jeter |
1950
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science fiction and horror
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| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Kamala Harris |
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Kara Swisher |
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Karl Edward Wagner |
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Karl Hess |
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Karl Shapiro |
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Kate Millett |
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| Kate Smith |
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Kate Wilhelm |
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Katharine Graham |
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Katharine Lee Bates |
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Katherine Anne Porter |
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Katherine Paterson |
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Katherine Siva Saubel |
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Katherine V. Forrest |
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Kathie Lee Gifford |
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| Kathy Acker |
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Kathy Reichs |
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Katie Couric |
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Keen Johnson |
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Keith Ablow |
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Keith DeCandido |
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Keith Olbermann |
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Ken Darby |
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| Ken Kesey |
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Ken Tucker |
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Kenneth Lonergan |
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Kenneth Rexroth |
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Kenneth Scott Latourette |
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Kenneth Setton |
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Kenneth Turan |
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Kevin J. Anderson |
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Kevin Smith |
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Kevin Thomas |
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Kevin Williamson |
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| Kij Johnson |
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Kim Stanley Robinson |
1952
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Waukegan, Illinois
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Science fiction, ecological, cultural and political themes
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| Kinky Friedman |
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Kiran Desai |
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Kirsten Powers |
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Klaus Mann |
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
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Kurt Cobain |
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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L. Frank Baum |
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L. J. Smith |
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| L. Neil Smith |
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L. Ron Hubbard |
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L. Sprague de Camp |
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Lanford Wilson |
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Langston Hughes |
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Laraine Day |
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Larry David |
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| Larry Elder |
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Larry Flynt |
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Larry Gelbart |
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Larry King |
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Larry Kramer |
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Larry McMurtry |
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Larry Niven |
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Larry Sabato |
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Lars Peter Hansen |
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| Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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Laura Jane Grace |
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Laura Wright |
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Laurie R. King |
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Lawrence Block |
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Lawrence Schick |
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Lawrence Wright |
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| LeRoy Collins |
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Lecrae |
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Lee Falk |
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Lee Iacocca |
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Lee Strobel |
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Leigh Brackett |
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Len Wein |
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Leo Strauss |
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Leon Festinger |
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Leon Uris |
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Leona Woods |
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| Leonard Carpenter |
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Leonard D. White |
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Leonard J. Arrington |
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Leonard Maltin |
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Leonard Nimoy |
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Leonid Hurwicz |
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Lesley Stahl |
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Lester Bangs |
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| Lester Frank Ward |
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Lester del Rey |
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Lew Rockwell |
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Lew Wallace |
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Lewis Black |
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Lewis Mumford |
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Liberty Hyde Bailey |
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Lidia Bastianich |
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| Lilla Cabot Perry |
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Lillian Gish |
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Lillian Hellman |
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Lin Carter |
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Lincoln Kirstein |
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Linda Fairstein |
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Linda Lee Cadwell |
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Linda McCartney |
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Linda Ronstadt |
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Lionel Trilling |
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| Lisa Kron |
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Lisa Loeb |
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Lisa Tuttle |
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Lloyd Alexander |
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Lloyd Shapley |
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Lois Duncan |
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Lois Lenski |
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| Lois Lowry |
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Lorenz Hart |
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Lorraine Hansberry |
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Lost Generation |
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Louella Parsons |
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| Louis Auchincloss |
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Louis Bromfield |
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Louis L'Amour |
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Louis Untermeyer |
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Louise Bryant |
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Louise Erdrich |
1954
|
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Postmodernism, Native American Renaissance
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| Lucien Stryk |
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Lucille Clifton |
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Lucius Beebe |
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Lucius Shepard |
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Lucy Parsons |
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Ludwig Bemelmans |
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| Ludwig von Mises |
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Luis J. Rodriguez |
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Luis Valdez |
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Lydia Lunch |
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Lynn Nottage |
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Lynn Townsend White Jr. |
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Lynne Cheney |
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Lynne Spears |
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Mac Tonnies |
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| MacKinlay Kantor |
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
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Maddox |
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Madison Grant |
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Mae West |
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Maggie Haberman |
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Mako |
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Malcolm Forbes |
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Malcolm X |
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Manly Wade Wellman |
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| Manning Marable |
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Marc Connelly |
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Margaret Ayer Barnes |
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Margaret Mead |
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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Margaret Truman |
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Margaret Weis |
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Marge Piercy |
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Margot Adler |
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Marguerite Higgins |
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| Marguerite de Angeli |
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Maria Shriver |
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Marianne Moore |
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Marianne Williamson |
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Marija Gimbutas |
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Marilu Henner |
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Marilyn Manson |
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Marilynne Robinson |
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Mario Cuomo |
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| Mario Puzo |
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Marius Jansen |
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Marjorie Cameron |
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
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Mark Cuban |
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Mark Evanier |
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| Mark Frost |
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Mark Hamill |
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Mark Harelik |
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Mark Hatfield |
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Mark Strand |
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Mark Twain |
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Mark Van Doren |
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Mark Z. Danielewski |
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Marsden Hartley |
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Marsha M. Linehan |
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| Marsha Norman |
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Martha Gellhorn |
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Martha Nussbaum |
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Martha Raddatz |
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Martha Stewart |
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Martin Flavin |
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Martin H. Greenberg |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| Martina Navratilova |
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Martine Rothblatt |
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Marvin Harris |
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Marvin J. Ashton |
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Mary Astor |
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Mary Baker Eddy |
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Mary Carillo |
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Mary Chase |
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Mary Daly |
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| Mary Harris Jones |
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Mary Higgins Clark |
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Mary McCarthy |
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Mary Oliver |
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Mary Pope Osborne |
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Mary Roberts Rinehart |
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Mary Ruwart |
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Mary Welsh Hemingway |
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| Masiela Lusha |
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Master P |
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Matt Lauer |
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Matt Stone |
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Matt Taibbi |
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Matt Winer |
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Matt Zoller Seitz |
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| Matthew Fox |
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Matthew Henson |
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Matthias Koehl |
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Maureen Dowd |
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Max Allan Collins |
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Max Eastman |
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Maxine Hong Kingston |
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| Maxine Kumin |
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Maxwell |
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Maxwell Anderson |
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Maya Angelou |
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Maya Deren |
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Medea Benjamin |
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Meg Cabot |
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Meg Tilly |
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| Megyn Kelly |
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Mehmet Oz |
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Mel Tormé |
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Melinda Gebbie |
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Melissa Mathison |
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Melvin Van Peebles |
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Merle Curti |
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| Mia Farrow |
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Michael A. Stackpole |
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Michael Bishop |
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Michael Blake |
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Michael Bloomberg |
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Michael Chabon |
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Michael Crichton |
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Michael Cristofer |
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| Michael Cunningham |
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Michael Hardt |
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Michael Harrington |
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Michael Lewis |
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Michael Malone |
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Michael Moore |
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| Michael Musto |
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Michael Nesmith |
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Michael O'Donoghue |
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Michael Peterson |
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Michael Phillips |
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Michael Pollan |
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Michael Reagan |
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| Michael Sembello |
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Michael Shaara |
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Michael Stewart |
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Michael Stipe |
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Michael Swanwick |
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Michael Tolkin |
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Mickey Rooney |
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| Mickey Spillane |
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Midnight in Paris |
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Mike Gravel |
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Mike Henry |
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Mike Huckabee |
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Mike Myers |
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Mike O'Malley |
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Mike Resnick |
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Mike Royko |
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Mike Wallace |
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| Mike Wallace |
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Milton Friedman |
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Milton H. Erickson |
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Mitch Albom |
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Mo Udall |
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Mona Simpson |
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Monte Cook |
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Moondog |
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Mordecai Kaplan |
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| Morley Safer |
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Mortimer Zuckerman |
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Moses Finley |
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Moss Hart |
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Murray Bookchin |
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Murray Leinster |
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Murray Rothbard |
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Murray Schisgal |
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Myrna Loy |
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N. Scott Momaday |
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| Nalo Hopkinson |
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Nancy Grace |
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Nancy Kress |
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Naomi Long Madgett |
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Naomi Oreskes |
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Natalie Babbitt |
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Nathanael West |
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Neal Boortz |
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Neal Stephenson |
1954
|
Fort Meade, Maryland
|
Science fiction, speculative fiction
|
| Ned Lamont |
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|
|
| Neil LaBute |
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|
Neil Sheehan |
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Neil Simon |
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Nellie Bly |
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Nelson Algren |
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Nelson DeMille |
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Newt Gingrich |
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Nicholas Dante |
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Nicholas Meyer |
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| Nicholas Sparks |
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Nicholson Baker |
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Nick Castle |
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Nikki Giovanni |
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Nikki Sixx |
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Nilo Cruz |
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Nora Roberts |
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Norah O'Donnell |
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Norma McCorvey |
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Norman Cousins |
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| Norman Finkelstein |
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Norman Krasna |
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Norman Maclean |
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Norman Mailer |
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Norman Spinrad |
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Norman Thomas |
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Ntozake Shange |
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O. Henry |
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Octavia E. Butler |
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Ogden Nash |
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Oliver E. Williamson |
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| Oliver La Farge |
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Oprah Winfrey |
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Oscar Brown |
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Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Oscar Hijuelos |
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| Oscar Micheaux |
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Otto Binder |
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Owen Gleiberman |
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Paddy Chayefsky |
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Pale Fire |
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Pamela Geller |
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Pat Boone |
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Pat Buchanan |
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Pat Cadigan |
1953
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Fort Meade, Maryland
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Science Fiction, Cyberpunk
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| Pat Croce |
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Pat Robertson |
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Patience Worth |
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Patricia A. McKillip |
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Patricia Cornwell |
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Patricia Highsmith |
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Patricia Hill Collins |
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| Patricia Kennealy-Morrison |
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Patricia Wettig |
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Patti Davis |
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Patti Smith |
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Paul Auster |
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Paul Avrich |
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| Paul Bowles |
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Paul Craig Roberts |
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Paul Gallico |
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Paul Goldberger |
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Paul Goodman |
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Paul Gottfried |
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Paul Green |
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| Paul Krugman |
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Paul L. Maier |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Paul Levitz |
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Paul R. Ehrlich |
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Paul Reiser |
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Paul Reps |
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| Paul Samuelson |
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Paul Theroux |
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Paul Tillich |
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Paul Weitz |
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Paul Zindel |
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Paula Deen |
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Paula Fox |
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| Paula Vogel |
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Paula Zahn |
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Pauli Murray |
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Pauline Kael |
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Pearl Bailey |
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Pema Chödrön |
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Peter Arnett |
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Peter Benchley |
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Peter Bogdanovich |
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Peter David |
1956
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Fort Meade, Maryland
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Comic books
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| Peter Jennings |
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Peter Kreeft |
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Peter Matthiessen |
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Peter Orlovsky |
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Peter S. Beagle |
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Peter Sagal |
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Peter Schiff |
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| Peter Straub |
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Peter Taylor |
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Phil Donahue |
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Phil Jackson |
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Phil McGraw |
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Philip G. Epstein |
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Philip José Farmer |
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Philip K. Dick |
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| Philip Lamantia |
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Philip Levine |
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Philip Roth |
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Philip Wylie |
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Phyllis Newman |
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Phyllis Schlafly |
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Piers Anthony |
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Piri Thomas |
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| Polly Adler |
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Poppy Z. Brite |
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Poul Anderson |
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Pramila Jayapal |
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Priscilla Presley |
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Public Citizen |
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Quentin Tarantino |
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| R. A. Lafferty |
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R. A. Salvatore |
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R. L. Stine |
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RZA |
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Rachael Lillis |
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Rachel Carson |
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Rachel Cosgrove Payes |
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| Rachel Pollack |
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Rachel Scott |
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Ralph Ellison |
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Ralph Garman |
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Ralph McGill |
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Ralph Nader |
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Ralph Reed |
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| Randall Garrett |
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Randall Jarrell |
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Randy Shilts |
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Rashida Jones |
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Raul Hilberg |
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Ray Bradbury |
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Ray Comfort |
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Ray Richmond |
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| Raya Dunayevskaya |
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Raymond Benson |
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Raymond Carver |
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Raymond Chandler |
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Raymond E. Feist |
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Raymond Flynn |
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Rebecca Latimer Felton |
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Red Smith |
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Regis Philbin |
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Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Renée Taylor |
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Reuben Fine |
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Revilo P. Oliver |
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Rex Reed |
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Rex Stout |
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Reza Abdoh |
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Reza Aslan |
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| Rich Eisen |
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Rich Hall |
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Richard A. Falk |
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Richard A. Lupoff |
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Richard Bach |
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Richard Baker |
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Richard Brautigan |
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Richard Brooks |
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Richard Condon |
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Richard Corliss |
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| Richard Dreyfuss |
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Richard Eberhart |
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Richard Ellmann |
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Richard Epstein |
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Richard Fariña |
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Richard Ford |
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| Richard Hell |
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Richard Hofstadter |
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Richard Howard |
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Richard L. Evans |
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Richard Matheson |
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Richard Nelson |
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| Richard Nixon |
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Richard Powers |
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Richard Preston |
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Richard Rhodes |
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Richard Rodgers |
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Richard Roeper |
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Richard Rorty |
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| Richard Russo |
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Richard Schickel |
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Richard Wright |
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Rick Bayless |
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Rick Reilly |
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Rick Riordan |
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Ricky Jay |
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Rilla Askew |
1951
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| Ring Lardner Jr. |
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Ring Lardner |
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Rita Dove |
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Rita Mae Brown |
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Rob Liefeld |
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Robert Altman |
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Robert Anton Wilson |
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| Robert Asprin |
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Robert B. Parker |
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Robert B. Sherman |
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Robert Barron |
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Robert Benchley |
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Robert Bloch |
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Robert Burns Woodward |
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| Robert Cormier |
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Robert Crais |
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Robert Creeley |
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Robert Crumb |
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Robert Culp |
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Robert Duncan |
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| Robert E. Howard |
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Robert E. Sherwood |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
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Robert F. Kennedy |
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Robert F. Williams |
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Robert Graysmith |
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Robert Greenberger |
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| Robert Hass |
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Robert Jay Lifton |
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Robert Jordan |
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Robert K. Massie |
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Robert Kagan |
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Robert Kiyosaki |
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Robert L. Forward |
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Robert L. Freedman |
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Robert Lewis Taylor |
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Robert Lowell |
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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Robert M. Price |
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Robert Novak |
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Robert Nozick |
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Robert Olen Butler |
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Robert Osborne |
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Robert Palmer |
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Robert Parrish |
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Robert Penn Warren |
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| Robert Riskin |
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Robert Rossen |
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Robert Roswell Palmer |
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Robert Schenkkan |
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Robert Sheckley |
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Robert Silverberg |
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Robert Simonson |
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Robert Solow |
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| Robert T. Bakker |
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Robert W. Chambers |
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Robert W. Welch Jr. |
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Robert W. Wood |
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Robert Wilson |
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Robin Hobb |
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Robin Moore |
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Robin Morgan |
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Robin Roberts |
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Robinson Jeffers |
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Rod McKuen |
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| Rod Serling |
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Roger Ebert |
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Roger MacBride |
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Roger Myerson |
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Roger Rees |
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Roger S. Baum |
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Roger Stern |
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Roger Tory Peterson |
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Roger Zelazny |
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Roland J. Green |
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Ron Goulart |
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| Ron Paul |
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Ronald Bass |
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Ronald Reagan |
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Ronnie James Dio |
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Rosalynn Carter |
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Rose Marie |
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Rose O'Neill |
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Rose Wilder Lane |
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| Roseanne Barr |
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Ross Macdonald |
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Roy Cohn |
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Roy Franklin Nichols |
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Roy H. Park |
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Roy Wilkins |
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Royce da 5'9" |
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| Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
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Ruby Dee |
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Rudolfo Anaya |
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Rudy Rucker |
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Rush Limbaugh |
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| Russel Crouse |
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Russell Kirk |
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Russell Means |
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Ruth Gordon |
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Ruth Plumly Thompson |
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
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| Ryan Murphy |
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S. E. Hinton |
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S. M. Stirling |
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S. P. Somtow |
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Sally Mann |
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Sally Ride |
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Sam Donaldson |
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| Sam Shepard |
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Sam Spade |
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Samuel Edward Konkin III |
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Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Samuel P. Huntington |
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Samuel R. Delany |
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Samuel Reshevsky |
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| Sandra Cisneros |
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Sanjay Gupta |
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Sara Paretsky |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Sara Wilford |
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Satsvarupa dasa Goswami |
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Saul Alinsky |
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Saul Bellow |
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Scott Cunningham |
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| Scott Hahn |
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Scott O'Dell |
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Scott Turow |
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Scott Westerfeld |
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Sean A. Moore |
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Sebastian Junger |
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Seth MacFarlane |
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Seymour Martin Lipset |
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Shari Lewis |
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| Shel Silverstein |
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Shelby Foote |
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Shelley Winters |
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Shepard Smith |
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Sheri S. Tepper |
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Sheridan Anderson |
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Sherman Alexie |
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Sherwood Anderson |
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| Sherwood Smith |
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Shirley Ann Grau |
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Shirley Chisholm |
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Shirley Jackson |
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Shirley MacLaine |
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Shulamith Firestone |
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Sidney Howard |
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Sidney Kingsley |
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| Sidney Poitier |
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Sidney Sheldon |
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Sinclair Lewis |
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Slash |
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Smedley Butler |
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Sondra Locke |
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Spalding Gray |
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Spike Jonze |
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Stan Lee |
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Stanley G. Weinbaum |
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Stanley Kubrick |
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| Stanley Kunitz |
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Stephanie Adams |
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Stephen Collins |
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Stephen Greenblatt |
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| Stephen Hillenburg |
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Stephen Holden |
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Stephen Hunter |
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Stephen J. Cannell |
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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Stephen King |
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Stephen R. Donaldson |
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Stephen R. Lawhead |
1950
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Kearney, Nebraska
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fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction
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| Stephen Tobolowsky |
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Stephen Vincent Benét |
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Stephen Walt |
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Sterling Hayden |
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Steve Allen |
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Steve Coll |
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| Steve Englehart |
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Steve Gerber |
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Steve Harvey |
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Steve Kroft |
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Steve Perry |
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Steve Perry |
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| Steven Barnes |
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Steven Brust |
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Steven Millhauser |
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Stevie Nicks |
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Stewart Brand |
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Studs Terkel |
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| Sue Grafton |
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Susan Faludi |
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Susan Glaspell |
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Susan Sontag |
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Susan Strasberg |
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Susan Wittig Albert |
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| Suzan-Lori Parks |
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Suzanne Somers |
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Suze Orman |
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Sydney Biddle Barrows |
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Sylvia Boorstein |
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Sylvia Browne |
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Sylvia Plath |
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T. C. Boyle |
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T. Harry Williams |
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T. S. Eliot |
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Tabitha King |
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Tad Williams |
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Tallulah Bankhead |
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| Tammy Faye Messner |
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Tamora Pierce |
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Tamron Hall |
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Taylor Branch |
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Ted Chiang |
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Ted Kennedy |
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Ted Koppel |
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Ted Sorensen |
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Tennessee Williams |
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Terence McKenna |
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Terrence McNally |
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| Terry Bisson |
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Terry Brooks |
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Terry Carr |
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Terry Goodkind |
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Terry McMillan |
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Terry Southern |
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| Theodore Dreiser |
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Theodore H. White |
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Theodore Roethke |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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Theodore Sturgeon |
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Theresa Rebeck |
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| Thomas D. Clark |
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Thomas DiLorenzo |
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Thomas Dixon Jr. |
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Thomas Harris |
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Thomas J. Sargent |
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Thomas King |
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| Thomas Kuhn |
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Thomas M. Disch |
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Thomas Meehan |
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Thomas Merton |
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Thomas Mitchell |
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Thomas Pynchon |
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| Thomas Schelling |
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Thomas Sigismund Stribling |
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Thomas Sowell |
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Thomas Wolfe |
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Thornton Wilder |
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Thorstein Veblen |
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Tiffany Grant |
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| Tim Blake Nelson |
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Tim LaHaye |
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Tim O'Brien |
1946 |
Austin, Minnesota |
Vietnam War
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| Tim Powers |
1952
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Buffalo, New York
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Science fiction and fantasy
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| Timothy Busfield |
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Timothy Zahn |
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Tjalling Koopmans |
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Tobias Wolff |
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Todd McCarthy |
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Tom Brokaw |
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Tom Clancy |
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Tom Eyen |
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Tom Gage |
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| Tom Gjelten |
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Tom Kahn |
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Tom McCall |
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Tom Noonan |
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Tom Petty |
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Tom Robbins |
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Tom Shales |
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Tom Wolfe |
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| Tomislav Sunić |
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Tommy Chong |
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Toni Morrison |
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Tony Bennett |
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Tony Hillerman |
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Tony Horwitz |
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Tony Kushner |
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Tony Robbins |
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Tovah Feldshuh |
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Tracey Ullman |
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| Tracy Hickman |
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Tracy Kidder |
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Tracy Letts |
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Trey Parker |
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Truman Capote |
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Tucker Carlson |
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Tupac Shakur |
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Tyler Cowen |
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Upton Sinclair |
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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| V. C. Andrews |
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-
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Valerie Solanas |
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Vance Packard |
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Vernor Vinge |
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Victor Davis Hanson |
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Victoria Principal |
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Vincent Canby |
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Vincent Price |
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| Virginia E. Johnson |
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Virginia Hall |
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Virginia Hamilton |
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Virginia Mayo |
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Virginia Satir |
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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Voltairine de Cleyre |
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Vonda N. McIntyre |
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Vox Day |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
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W. Edwards Deming |
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W. H. Auden |
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Walker Percy |
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| Wallace Shawn |
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Wallace Stegner |
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Wallace Stevens |
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Wally Wood |
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Walt Disney |
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Walter Block |
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Walter Cronkite |
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| Walter Dean Myers |
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Walter E. Williams |
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Walter Francis White |
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Walter Isaacson |
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Walter Jon Williams |
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Walter M. Miller Jr. |
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| Walter Mondale |
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Walter Mosley |
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Walter Winchell |
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Wanda Sykes |
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Warren Spector |
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Warren Zevon |
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Wayne Allyn Root |
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Wayne Dyer |
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Wendell Berry |
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Wendy Wasserstein |
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| Wernher von Braun |
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Wes Craven |
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Whitley Strieber |
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Whittaker Chambers |
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Whoopi Goldberg |
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Wilhelm Reich |
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Will Durant |
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Will Eisner |
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Willa Cather |
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William Archibald Dunning |
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| William Bennett |
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William Carlos Williams |
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William Dean Howells |
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William E. Cameron |
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William F. Albright |
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William F. Buckley Jr. |
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| William Faulkner |
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William Gaddis |
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William Gibson |
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William Goldman |
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William Graham Sumner |
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William H. McNeill |
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| William Inge |
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William James Sidis |
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William James |
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-
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William Kennedy |
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William Kenneth Hartmann |
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William L. Langer |
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William L. Shirer |
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William Lane Craig |
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William Manchester |
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William Monahan |
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| William Peter Blatty |
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William Rehnquist |
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William S. Burroughs |
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William S. Hart |
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William Safire |
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William Saroyan |
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| William Stafford |
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William Styron |
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William T. Vollmann |
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William Woodville Rockhill |
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Willie Nelson |
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Wilson Rawls |
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| Winona LaDuke |
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Wolf Blitzer |
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-
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Wolfgang Puck |
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Woody Allen |
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Woody Harrelson |
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Wright Morris |
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| Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
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Zane Grey |
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Zecharia Sitchin |
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Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Zell Miller |
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Zoe Akins |
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
Category:20th-century births
