Upton Sinclair (on right)
Politically active author Upton Sinclair who wrote "The Jungle" (1906) about the meatpacking industry, and more.
Oklahoman journalists, 1916
Using that new telephone technology - long distance - to talk to San Francisco. Expensive but boy, could the news be current!
Stan Lee
Prolific comic book writer (and later much more), he began with Captain America in 1941.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain, who was a journalist and author. And he was funny!
J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye (1951) still sells around 250,000 copies a year.
Washington Irving
An 1865 gathering at Washington Irving's (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820) home. Very distinguished!
Dr. Seuss!
Theodor "Dr Seuss" Geisel drawing an illustration for The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (1957)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien - has any reader or movie goer not heard of The Hobbit (1937) or The Lord of the Rings (1954)?
Roger Ebert
Never thought of him as a journalist? He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his newspaper film reviews.
Walt Whitman
In 1850, he began writing Leaves of Grass - his most famous book of poetry.
Christian Mommsen, 1902
A German writer and historian, he received a Nobel Prize for A History of Rome.
John Erskine
He not only wrote The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) but also 99 more books.
James M Barrie
Of course, everyone knows Peter Pan (1904)! (He also made the name "Wendy" popular for girls.)
Poet, novelist, and singer!
Maya Angelou published I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969) but before that she sang under the name "Miss Calypso".
Frank Herbert (on right)
A prolific science fiction writer, he is best known for Dune (1965).
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
He wrote 14 novels, perhaps the best known was Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
Ray Bradbury
Beginning as a writer of science fiction short stories, his first novel was Dandelion Wine (1957).
Tennessee Williams
A prolific and popular playwright, there was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire . . .
Jack Kerouac
One of the beat generation poets/novelists, his book, On The Road, was published in 1957.
Enid Bagnold
You may not know her name but you know her book National Velvet (1935)!
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