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Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
Philip Alcabes (b. 1954)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Randall Balmer (b. 1954)
Dennis Baron (b. 1944)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Caroline Bird (b. 1915)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
David Brooks (b. 1961)
Kenneth A. Bruffee (b. 1934)
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Colby Buzzell (b. 1976)
Nicholas Carr (b. 1959)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Stephen L. Carter (b. 1954)
Michael Chabon (b. 1963)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
William Cronon (b. 1954)
Amy Cunningham (b. 1955)
Debra Dickerson (b. 1960)
Joan Didion (b. 1934)
Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
Michael Dirda (b. 1948)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Mark Doty (b. 1953)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Brian Doyle (b. 1956)
Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
Lars Eighner (b. 1948)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
Anne Fadiman (b. 1953)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)
Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
H. Bruce Franklin (b. 1934)
Joey Franklin (b. 1980)
Ian Frazier (b. 1951)
Thomas Friedman (b. 1953)
Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
Paul Fussell (b. 1924)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950)
Atul Gawande (b. 1965)
Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963)
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (b. 1955)
J. J. Goode (b.1981)
Adam Goodheart (b. 1970)
Allegra Goodman (b. 1967)
Al Gore (b. 1948)
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
Philip Gourevitch (b. 1961)
David Guterson (b. 1956)
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Jack Hitt (b. 1957)
John Holt (1923-1985)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Molly Ivins (1944-2007)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Jesus (c. 4 b.c.e.-c. 30 c.e.)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Stephen King (b. 1947)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
Melvin Konner (b. 1946)
Jonathan Kozol (b. 1936)
Nicholas D. Kristof (b. 1959)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)
Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996)
Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)
Charles Lamb (1775-1835)
Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965)
Michael Levin (b. 1943)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Nancy Mairs (b. 1943)
Alberto Manguel (b. 1948)
Peter Matthiessen (b. 1927)
Scott McCloud (b. 1960)
Bill McKibben (b. 1960)
John McPhee (b. 1931)
James M. McPherson (b. 1936)
John Hamilton McWhorter (b. 1965)
Jessica Mitford (1917-1996)
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
John Muir (1838-1914)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)
Ngügï wa Thiong'o (b. 1938)
Barack Obama (b. 1961)
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Henry Petroski (b. 1942)
Jo-Ann Pilardi (b. 1941)
Steven Pinker (b. 1954)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Plato (c. 428-c. 348 b.c.e.)
Michael Pollan (b. 1955)
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
Jonathan Rauch (b. 1960)
Tom Regan (b. 1938)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Alberto Alvaro Ríos (b. 1952)
Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
Betty Rollin (b. 1936)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Mike Rose (b. 1944)
Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945)
Reg Saner (b. 1931)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Chief Seattle (c. 1780-1866)
Peter Singer (b. 1946)
Jennifer Sinor (b. 1969)
Jane Smiley (b. 1949)
Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961)
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Brent Staples (b. 1951)
Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
Sandra Steingraber (b. 1959)
Fred Strebeigh (b. 1951)
Andrew Sullivan (b. 1963)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Sallie Tisdale (b. 1957)
Susan Allen Toth (b. 1940)
Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (b. 1938)
James Van Tholen (1964-2001)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
Henry Wechsler (b. 1932)
Steven Weinberg (b. 1933)
Gene Weingarten (b. 1951)
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
E. B. White (1899-1985)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Patricia Williams (b. 1951)
Terry Tempest Williams (b. 1955)
Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929)
Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
William Zinsser (b. 1922)