Khalil Gibran
Kathy Pinna Author of "The Prophet" (1923), at age 15.
Upton Sinclair (on right)
Kathy Pinna Politically active author Upton Sinclair who wrote "The Jungle" (1906) about the meatpacking industry, and more.
Oklahoman journalists, 1916
Dana Christian Using that new telephone technology - long distance - to talk to San Francisco. Expensive but boy, could the news be current!
Stan Lee
Michelle Cassidy Prolific comic book writer (and later much more), he began with Captain America in 1941.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
AncientFaces Mark Twain, who was a journalist and author. And he was funny!
J.D. Salinger
Kathy Pinna Catcher in the Rye (1951) still sells around 250,000 copies a year.
Washington Irving
AncientFaces An 1865 gathering at Washington Irving's (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820) home. Very distinguished!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kathy Pinna Essays (1841) was his first popular book.
Dr. Seuss!
Kathy Pinna Theodor "Dr Seuss" Geisel drawing an illustration for The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (1957)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Kathy Pinna 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
Daniel Pinna Never thought of him as a journalist? He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his newspaper film reviews.
Walt Whitman
Kathy Pinna In 1850, he began writing Leaves of Grass - his most famous book of poetry.
Christian Mommsen, 1902
AncientFaces A German writer and historian, he received a Nobel Prize for A History of Rome.
John Erskine
AncientFaces He not only wrote The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) but also 99 more books.
James M Barrie
Kathy Pinna Of course, everyone knows Peter Pan (1904)! (He also made the name "Wendy" popular for girls.)
Poet, novelist, and singer!
Kathy Pinna 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)
Daniel Pinna A prolific science fiction writer, he is best known for Dune (1965).
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
AncientFaces He wrote 14 novels, perhaps the best known was Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
Abigail Van Buren
Kathy Pinna The column "Dear Abby" began in 1956.
Ray Bradbury
Michelle Cassidy Beginning as a writer of science fiction short stories, his first novel was Dandelion Wine (1957).
Tennessee Williams
Kathy Pinna A prolific and popular playwright, there was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire . . .
Harper Lee
Kathy Pinna Everybody read it in school - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
Jack Kerouac
Kathy Pinna One of the beat generation poets/novelists, his book, On The Road, was published in 1957.
Enid Bagnold
Kathy Pinna You may not know her name but you know her book National Velvet (1935)!
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