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  • 1.

    Maya Angelou
    American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
    Maya Angelou
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Maya Angelou ( ANN-jəl-oh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of ...
    Date of birth: 4 April 1928
    Date of death: 28 May 2014
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    American inaugural poets 5T
    American women memoirists 620T
    African-American memoirists 19T
  • 2.

    David Axelrod
    American political consultant (born 1955)
    Role: special thanks
    David Axelrod
    Overview: David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant and analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1955
    Age: 69
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Government
    Gender: Male
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    American men podcasters 368T
    American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
    American male writers 5,949T
  • 3.

    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924–1987)
    James Baldwin
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of ...
    Date of birth: 2 August 1924
    Date of death: 30 November 1987
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Writers from Manhattan 74T
    New York (state) socialists 58T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
  • 4.

    L. Frank Baum
    American, Author
    L. Frank Baum
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books ...
    Date of birth: 15 May 1856
    Date of death: 6 May 1919
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    American silent film directors 30T
    American male feminists 109T
    Baum family 5T
  • 5.

    Carl Bernstein
    American journalist
    Carl Bernstein
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Carl Bernstein ( BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.
    Date of birth: 14 February 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American biographers 114T
    20th-century American biographers 388T
    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
  • 6.

    Michael Beschloss
    Historian
    Role: special thanks
    Michael Beschloss
    Overview: Michael Richard Beschloss (born November 30, 1955) is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. He is the author of nine books on the presidency.
    Date of birth: 30 November 1955
    Age: 68
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
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    Historians from Illinois 126T
    NBC News people 191T
    People from Flossmoor, Illinois 12T
  • 7.

    Ray Bradbury
    American speculative fiction writer
    Ray Bradbury
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including ...
    Date of birth: 22 August 1920
    Date of death: 5 June 2012
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Screenwriters from Illinois 340T
  • 8.

    David Brooks
    American journalist
    David Brooks
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times ...
    Date of birth: 11 August 1961
    Age: 63
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    New America (organization) 32T
    Critics of Humanism 3T
    American conservative people 1,080T
  • 9.

    Gwendolyn Brooks
    American writer
    Role: special thanks
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    Overview: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community ...
    Date of birth: 7 June 1917
    Date of death: 3 December 2000
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women writers 5,363T
    Writers from Topeka, Kansas 37T
    Poets Laureate of Illinois 5T
  • 10.

    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist
    Role: special thanks
    Joseph Campbell
    Overview: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers ...
    Date of birth: 26 March 1904
    Date of death: 31 October 1987
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Canterbury School (Connecticut) alumni 20T
    Writers from New Rochelle, New York 93T
    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
  • 11.

    Noam Chomsky
    American linguist and activist (born 1928)
    Noam Chomsky
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics" ...
    Date of birth: 7 December 1928
    Age: 95
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Valeria Wasserma (Married)
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    Philosophers of linguistics 3T
    American dissidents 15T
    Jewish linguists 13T
  • 12.

    Joseph Conrad
    Polish-born English novelist
    Joseph Conrad
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he ...
    Date of birth: 3 December 1857
    Date of death: 3 August 1924
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Philosophical pessimists 36T
    People from Berdichevsky Uyezd 8T
    British psychological fiction writers 5T
  • 13.

    Daniel Ellsberg
    American whistleblower, political activist (1931–2023)
    Daniel Ellsberg
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political ...
    Date of birth: 7 April 1931
    Date of death: 16 June 2023
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    2023 deaths 4,134T
    Military personnel from Chicago 159T
    American Ashkenazi Jews 221T
  • 14.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896–1940)
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels ...
    Date of birth: 24 September 1896
    Date of death: 21 December 1940
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Lost Generation writers 38T
    Cardiovascular disease deaths in California 34T
    American writers of Irish descent 12T
  • 15.

    Gray Frederickson
    American film producer
    Role: in memory of
    Gray Frederickson
    Overview: Gray Frederickson (born July 21, 1937) was an American film producer.
    Date of birth: 21 July 1937
    Date of death: 20 November 2022
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Gender: Male
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    Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award 124T
    1937 births 10,074T
    Living people 968,467T
  • 16.

    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    American biographer
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.
    Date of birth: 4 January 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Richard N. Goodwin (Married)
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    20th-century American women journalists 548T
    21st-century American women journalists 319T
    21st-century American memoirists 463T
  • 17.

    Winston Groom
    American writer (1943–2020)
    Winston Groom
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is best known for his 1986 novel Forrest Gump, which was adapted into the popular 1994 ...
    Date of birth: 23 March 1943
    Date of death: 17 September 2020
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    Historians from Alabama 12T
    2020 deaths 13,018T
    20th-century American male writers 9,514T
  • 18.

    Patricia Highsmith
    American, Novelist
    Patricia Highsmith
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series ...
    Date of birth: 19 January 1921
    Date of death: 4 February 1995
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    Writers from Greenwich Village 46T
    Writers from Fort Worth, Texas 36T
    Yaddo alumni 49T
  • 19.

    bell hooks
    American author and activist (1952–2021)
    Role: special thanks
    bell hooks
    Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...
    Date of birth: 25 September 1952
    Date of death: 15 December 2021
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Sociologist
    Gender: Female
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    American socialist feminists 110T
    21st-century pseudonymous writers 421T
    20th-century pseudonymous writers 906T
  • 20.

    Langston Hughes
    American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
    Langston Hughes
    Role: special thanks
    Overview: James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the t ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1902
    Date of death: 22 May 1967
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Broadway composers and lyricists 196T
    Translators of Gabriela Mistral 4T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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