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  • T. S. Eliot
    Sep 26, 1888 – Jan 4, 1965
    T[homas]. S[tearns]. Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and...
  • James Ellroy
    Mar 4, 1948 –
    Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in p...
  • William Faulkner
    Sep 25, 1897 – Jul 6, 1962
    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([S...
  • Tina Fey
    May 18, 1970 –
    An American actress, comedian, writer and producer.
  • Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well...
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Sep 24, 1896 – Dec 21, 1940
    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a...
  • Gillian Flynn
    Feb 24, 1971 –
    Flynn, who lives in Chicago, grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated at the University of Kansas, and qualified for a Master's degree from Northwestern University.
  • C. S. Forester
    Aug 27, 1899 – Apr 2, 1966
    Cecil Scott Forester, an Englishman, was born in Cairo in 1899, the son of a British army officer. He was educated in London, and for a time he studied medicine. After a World War I stint in the infantry, however, he decided to be a poet. This was a ...