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  • Daniel Brown
    1951 –
    Daniel James Brown is a technical writer and editor and writer of narrative nonfiction.
  • Bill Bryson
    Dec 8, 1951 –
    "William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
  • Pearl S. Buck
    Jun 26, 1892 – Mar 6, 1973
    Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government Uni...
  • Anthony Burgess
    Feb 25, 1917 – Nov 22, 1993
    John Anthony Burgess Wilson, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire *A Clockwork Orange* remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was ada...
  • Truman Capote
    Sep 30, 1924 – Aug 25, 1984
    **Truman Capote** was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella *Breakfast at Tiffany's* (1958) and *In Cold Blood* (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction no...
  • Jacqueline Carey
    Oct 9, 1964 –
    American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
  • Lewis Carroll
    Jan 27, 1832 – Jan 14, 1898
    Lewis Carroll is well known throughout the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Behind the famous pseudonym was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably...
  • Rachel Carson
    May 27, 1907 – 1964
    Biologist Rachel Louise Carson began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but achieved fame and social influence with publication of such popular books as The Sea Around Us (1951) and Silent Spring (1962). ([Source][1].) [1]: http:/...
  • Raymond Chandler
    1888 – 1959
  • Julia Child
    Aug 15, 1912 – Aug 13, 2004
    Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, t...