Writers from Louisville, Kentucky

The list Writers from Louisville, Kentucky includes Diane Sawyer, Hunter S. Thompson, Gus Van Sant, Dian Fossey and Maurine Dallas Watkins. The list consists of 205 members.

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Louisville, Kentucky

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1.

Diane Sawyer

American television broadcast journalist (born 1945)

Overview: Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20 ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Members of the Council on Foreign Relations 381T

American women television personalities 420T

Kentucky women writers 132T
2.

Muhammad Ali

American boxer and activist (1942–2016)

Overview: Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1942

Date of death: 3 June 2016

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Boxing

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Sportspeople from Cherry Hill, New Jersey 40T

Sportspeople with dyslexia 54T

Boxers from Louisville, Kentucky 10T
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Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author

Overview: Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. He first rose to prominence with the publication of ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1937

Date of death: 20 February 2005

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American psychedelic drug advocates 72T

2005 suicides 47T

American male writers who committed suicide 108T
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Dian Fossey

American zoologist

Overview: Dian Fossey (, January 16, 1932 – c.) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1932

Date of death: 26 December 1985

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

1980s murders in Rwanda 1T

1985 murders in Africa 6T
5.

Gus Van Sant

American film director

Overview: Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Darien High School alumni 14T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners 60T

Filmmakers from Portland, Oregon 15T
6.

Maurine Dallas Watkins

American journalist

Overview: Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896? – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter. For a brief time she worked as a journalist covering the courthouse beat for the Chicago Tribune ...

Date of birth: 27 July 1896

Date of death: 10 August 1969

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

Kentucky women writers 119T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Sue Grafton

Novelist

Overview: Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private ...

Date of birth: 24 April 1940

Date of death: 28 December 2017

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Kentucky women writers 119T

Novelists from Kentucky 89T

Novelists from California 238T
8.

Stephen Gaghan

American screenwriter and director (born 1965)

Overview: Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the ...

Date of birth: 6 May 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Minnie Mortimer (Married)

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Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 58T

American male television writers 1,879T

Novelists from Kentucky 89T
9.

Jen Tullock

American actress

Overview: Jen Tullock (born Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is an actor and writer based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her role of Devon in Severance as well as starring in and co-writing Before You Know It.

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American queer actresses 31T

Actresses from Louisville, Kentucky 54T

LGBT people from Kentucky 49T
10.

Leee Black Childers

American, Photographer

Overview: Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American photographer, writer and rock music manager, who "recorded the legacy of a theatrical cross over between rock music and gay culture" ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1945

Date of death: 6 April 2014

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Male

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American LGBT photographers 128T

Photographers from Kentucky 11T

Artists from Louisville, Kentucky 88T
11.

Emily Gimmel

American journalist and television personality

Overview: Emily Gimmel (born May 17, 1984) is an American journalist, entrepreneur, businesswoman, and television personality.

Date of birth: 17 May 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Kentucky women entrepreneurs 3T

Kentucky women writers 130T

American women non-fiction writers 2,461T
12.

ZZ Packer

American writer

Overview: ZZ Packer (born January 12, 1973 Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of short fiction. In 2006 the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree for Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.

Date of birth: 12 January 1973

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Pseudonymous women writers 644T

Novelists from Kentucky 89T

Novelists from Iowa 127T
13.

Steve Raible

Player of American football

Overview: Steven Carl Raible (born June 2, 1954) is the play-by-play radio commentator for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, and was a weeknight news anchor for KIRO 7 in Seattle, Washington ...

Date of birth: 2 June 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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American male journalists 4,321T

Radio personalities from Louisville, Kentucky 21T

Television personalities from Louisville, Kentucky 20T
14.

John Harwood

American journalist (born 1956)

Overview: John Harwood (born November 5, 1956) is an American journalist working as White House Correspondent for CNN as of July 2020. Formerly was an editor-at-large for CNBC. He was the chief Washington Cor ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni 178T

American male journalists 4,321T

Journalists from Kentucky 42T
15.

Anne Braden

American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator (1924 – 2006)

Overview: Anne McCarty Braden (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2006) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality.

Date of birth: 28 July 1924

Date of death: 6 March 2006

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

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Southern Conference Educational Fund 9T

Episcopalians from Alabama 1T

Activists from Kentucky 22T
16.

Abraham Flexner

American educator

Overview: Abraham Flexner (November 13, 1866 – September 21, 1959) was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada.

Date of birth: 13 November 1866

Date of death: 21 September 1959

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Male

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Rockefeller Foundation people 32T

20th-century American biographers 388T

20th-century American educators 1,254T
17.

Rudy Rucker

American writer

Overview: Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both ...

Date of birth: 22 March 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
18.

Marsha Norman

American writer

Overview: Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

Kentucky women writers 119T

Educators from New York City 297T
19.

Alanna Nash

American, Journalist

Overview: Alanna Nash is an American journalist and biographer.

Date of birth: 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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American women biographers 314T

21st-century American women 15,534T

Women biographers 598T
20.

Mary Fisher (activist)

American political activist, artist and author

Overview: Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author. After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Kentucky women artists 29T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T