writer

People and organizations matching the keywords,"writer".

• A. O. Scott

  Anthony O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for The New York Times newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining The Times, Scott was a book critic for Newsd... [Wikipedia]

• Adam Rapp

  Adam Rapp (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. He is currently the playwright-in-residence at [http://www.edgetheater.org Edge Theatre Company].The son of Mary Lee and Douglas Rapp, he was raised in Jolie... [Wikipedia]

• Al Franken

  Wikipedia: Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an Emmy Award winning American comedian, actor, author, screenwriter, political commentator and radio host, noted for his work on Saturday Night Live and liberal socio-politica... [Wikipedia]

• Alan Dershowitz

  Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and is known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in sev... [Wikipedia]

• Alan Moore
• Albert Camus
• Alice Walker

  Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist - the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of... [Wikipedia]

• Álvaro Vargas Llosa

  #redirect Álvaro Vargas Llosa [Wikipedia]

• Ana Marie Cox

  Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972) is an American author and blogger who is the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title. She is currently the Washington editor of Radar.Cox was born in San... [Wikipedia]

• Andrés Sorel
• Andrew Breitbart
• Andrew O'Hagan

  Andrew O'Hagan (born 1968) is a Scottish writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine ''Granta'' for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists. Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Kilw... [Wikipedia]

• Andy Kessler

  Andy Kessler (born 1958)[http://www.andykessler.com/about.html Andy Kessler] is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New York Times'', ''Wired'', ''Forbes'', '... [Wikipedia]

• Andy Rooney
• Ann Coulter

  Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Known for her controversial and ... [Wikipedia]

• Anne Applebaum

  Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member o... [Wikipedia]

• Anne Rice
• Antonia Juhasz
• Ayn Rand

  Ayn Rand (, – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (), was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher,Her ''New York Times'' obituary (May 7, 1982, p. 7) identifies her as "writer and philosopher." She was not an academician. Som... [Wikipedia]

• Ben Affleck

  Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt;He is listed as "Benjamin G. Affleckbold"; born on August 15, 1972 in Alameda County according to the State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905–1995''. Center for Health Statistics, California D... [Wikipedia]

• Ben Macintyre

  Ben Macintyre is a columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies. In July 2006, Macintyre wrote an article in The Times entitled [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-2279162,00.... [Wikipedia]

• Ben Shapiro
• Bill O'Reilly

  William James O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television/radio host, author, syndicated columnist and self-described "traditionalist" political commentator. He is the host of the cable news program ''The O'Reilly Factor'' on Fo... [Wikipedia]

• Bill Press
• Billy Crystal
• Bob Brody
• Bruce Vilanch

  Bruce Vilanch (born November 23, 1948) is an American comedy writer who caught the public eye when he became a wisecracking regular on the revamped ''Hollywood Squares'', with Whoopi Goldberg.Vilanch attended Ohio State University as a theater and jo... [Wikipedia]

• Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D
• Burt Prelutsky
• Buzz Bissinger
• C. S. Lewis
• Cameron Crowe
• Camille Paglia
• Carl Hiaasen

  Carl Hiaasen () (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.Born and raised in Plantation, Florida, (near Fort Lauderdale) of Norwegian [http://archive.salon.com/people/lunch/2000/01/31/hiaasen/index.html] heritage, Hiaasen was the f... [Wikipedia]

• Carol Leifer
• Carrie Fisher
• Cesar Millan
• Charles Alan Murray
• Charles Colson
• Chris Cillizza

  The Fix is an American political weblog written daily by Chris Cillizza for ''The Washington Post'' website. The blog began in October 2005, and includes a weekly "Friday Line" section where the ten closest electoral races of an electoral cycle - as ... [Wikipedia]

• Chris Hedges

  Christopher L. Hedges (born 18 September, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is a journalist and author, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society. Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a... [Wikipedia]

• Christine Pelosi

  Christine Paule Pelosi (born 1966) is the daughter of Nancy Pelosi and the author of ''Campaign Boot Camp'' (2007), a guide to successful campaigning. Pelosi directs the AFSCME PEOPLE/New House PAC Congressional Candidates Boot Camp, which prepares... [Wikipedia]

• Christopher Buckley
• Christopher Durang

  Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.Durang was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of Patricia Elizabeth,... [Wikipedia]

• Christopher Hitchens
• Chuck Klosterman

  Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972, in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American journalist whose work often focuses on pop culture. He was raised on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota i... [Wikipedia]

• Clay Shirky
• Craig Crawford

  Craig Crawford (born 1956) is a writer and television political commentator based in Washington D.C., a columnist for ''Congressional Quarterly'', and the author of ''The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World,'' a... [Wikipedia]

• Daniel Yergin

  Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Energy in 2004.Bor... [Wikipedia]

• Darren Aronofsky
• David Berman (singer)

  David Berman is an American poet, cartoonist, and singer-songwriter best known for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews.Berman (born January 4, 1967 in Williamsburg, Virginia) attended high school at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, befor... [Wikipedia]

• David Cross
• David Denby
• David Klinghoffer
• David Limbaugh
• David McCullough
• David Rakoff
• David Samuels
• David Sedaris
• David Simon
• David Thorpe

  David Thorpe is the Executive Director of the Pro Training Center at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida. Thorpe, a graduate of the University of Florida, is also a regular contributor for Scouts, Inc., a part of the ESPN.com network, as an NBA Analy... [Wikipedia]

• David Wallechinsky

  David Wallechinsky (born 5 February 1948) has worked as a commentator for NBC Olympic coverage and is the author of many Olympic reference books and other reference books. He is the author of ''The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics'' and ''The Com... [Wikipedia]

• Denis Leary
• Dennis Prager
• Dick Morris

  Dick Morris is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.Morris became an adviser to the Bill Clinton administration after Clinton was elected pre... [Wikipedia]

• Dinesh D'Souza
• Dominic Patten
• Dominick Dunne
• Don McKellar
• Donna Brazile

  Donna Brazile (born December 15, 1959) is an American author, educator, and political activist and strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. She was the first African-American to direct a major presidential campaign.Brazile was born in Kenner,... [Wikipedia]

• Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an award-winning American author and historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. She ... [Wikipedia]

• Doris Lessing

  Doris May Lessing, CH, OBE (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels ''The Grass is Singing'' and ''The Golden Notebook''.In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Sw... [Wikipedia]

• Douglas Kmiec

  Douglas W. Kmiec (born September 24 1951) is an American legal scholar. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University's School of Law. He served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel (U.S. Assistant Attor... [Wikipedia]

• Douglas MacKinnon
• Douglas Wolk
• Dr. Andrew Weil

  Andrew Thomas Weil (born 1942) is an American author and physician, best known for establishing and popularizing the field of integrative medicine. Weil is the author of several best-selling books and runs a website and monthly newsletter, where he a... [Wikipedia]

• Dr. Ian Dunbar (veterinarian)
• Dr. John Tickell

  Dr. John Tickell (born 29 January 1945) is an Australian doctor, businessman, author and former athlete.In his younger days, Tickell played Australian rules football, first with the University Blues team and later with the Hawthorn Football Club in t... [Wikipedia]

• Dr. Laura Schlessinger

  Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American radio host, author and conservative commentator. Once a professional counselor, Schlessinger offers advice to callers every day on her nationally-syndicated radio show, ''The Dr. Lau... [Wikipedia]

• Dr. Rob Danoff
• Dr. William Sears
• Edward Albee

  Edward Franklin Albee III ( ''"AWL-bee"''; born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'', ''The Zoo Story'', ''The Sandbox'' and ''The American Dream''. His works are considered well-craf... [Wikipedia]

• Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer, attorney and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre. Wurtzel was brought up Jewish. Her parents divorced when she was young. As described in ... [Wikipedia]

• Elmore Leonard
• Eric Bogosian

  Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist.Bogosian, an Armenian American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant.[http... [Wikipedia]

• Erica Jong

  Erica Jong (née Mann, born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and teacher.A 1963 graduate of Barnard College, which is a women's liberal arts college, and with an M.A. in 18th century English Literature from Columbia Un... [Wikipedia]

• Erin Dummert RD, CD
• Ernesto Sábato

  Ernesto Sabato (born June 24, 1911) is an Argentine writer of Italian descent. He was born in Rojas, a tiny town in the Province of Buenos Aires. Sabato began his studies at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata. He then read physics at the Universidad Na... [Wikipedia]

• Eve Ensler

  Eve Ensler (b. May 25 1953 in New York) is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play ''The Vagina Monologues.Ensler graduated from Middlebury College in 1975. She married Richard McDermott in 1978, and divorced... [Wikipedia]

• F. William Engdahl

  Frederick William Engdahl (born 1944) has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. He has contributed regularly to a number of publications, including Japan's '... [Wikipedia]

• Fareed Zakaria

  Fareed Zakaria (, born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born naturalized American journalist, author, and television host specializing in international relations.Zakaria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politicia... [Wikipedia]

• Frances Moore Lappé

  Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10 1944) is a noted social change and democracy activist, and the author of 16 books, including the three-million-copy bestseller, ''Diet for a Small Planet'' (originally published in 1971). Her most recent book is ... [Wikipedia]

• Frank Rich

  Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is a columnist for ''The New York Times'' who focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday arts and leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appea... [Wikipedia]

• Frank Turek
• Gabriel García Márquez

  #REDIRECT Gabriel_García_Márquez [Wikipedia]

• Gary Sick
• Gay Talese
• George Carlin

  George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, often considered one of the best of all time. He was also an actor and author, and won four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.Carlin was noted for his bla... [Wikipedia]

• George Packer

  George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is a liberal American journalist, novelist and playwright. Packer's parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressm... [Wikipedia]

• George Will

  George Will is a Pullitzer Prize-winning author and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and other publications. Biography on wikipedia [Wikipedia]

• Gore Vidal

  Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925; or ) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking ''The City and the Pillar'' (1948) that outraged mainstream critics... [Wikipedia]

• Gregg Easterbrook

  Gregg Edmund Easterbrook (born March 3, 1953) is an American writer, lecturer, and a senior editor of ''The New Republic''. His articles have appeared in ''Slate'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Los ... [Wikipedia]

• Guillermo Arriaga
• Hank Stuever
• Harvey Fierstein
• Henry David Thoreau

  Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is most well-known ... [Wikipedia]

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Howard Zinn

  Dr. Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is a political scientist, historian, social critic, socialist, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30donadio.html?ex=1181275200&en=697d0... [Wikipedia]

• Ira Mehlman
• Jack Curry
• Jack T. Chick
• James Bovard
• James Fallows

  James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist who has been associated with ''The Atlantic Monthly'' for many years and has written eight books. His work has appeared in ''Slate'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New York Review of Bo... [Wikipedia]

• James P. Carroll
• James Scurlock
• James Zogby
• Jane Smiley

  Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at ... [Wikipedia]

• Janet Evanovich

  Janet Evanovich (born April 22, 1943, in South River, New Jersey) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries feat... [Wikipedia]

• Jay Nordlinger
• Jay Rosen

  Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956 in Buffalo, New York) is a press critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University.He is a strong supporter of citizen journalism, encouraging the press to take a more active interest in citizenship, i... [Wikipedia]

• Jemaine Clement
• Jenny McCarthy

  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972)[http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/index.jsp?uuid=f1be2dea-9225-4813-a53c-2e14660ffbd3 "Jenny McCarthy Profile"] E! Online. Retrieved 2007-09-19. is an American model, comedian, actress, a... [Wikipedia]

• Jerry Seinfeld
• Jim Cramer

  James J. "Jim" Cramer (born February 10, 1955) is an American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and best-selling author. Cramer is the host of CNBC's ''Mad Money'', and co-founder of TheStreet.com. He is also a regular contributor to... [Wikipedia]

• Jim Rogers

  ''For other uses, see: James Rogers (disambiguation).''James B. Rogers, Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an American investor and financial commentator. He is co-founder, along with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund, and is a college professor, author,... [Wikipedia]

• Jim Wallis

  The Reverend Jim Wallis (b. June 4 1948, Detroit, Michigan) is an evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of ''Sojourners Magazine'' and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same n... [Wikipedia]

• Joel Achenbach

  Joel Achenbach is an American staff writer for ''The Washington Post'' and the author of six books, including ''The Grand Idea'', ''Captured by Aliens'', and three compilations of his syndicated newspaper column "Why Things Are" (now defunct). He wro... [Wikipedia]

• Joel Bakan

  Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer.Born in Lansing, Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan St... [Wikipedia]

• John Cleese
• John Derbyshire

  John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States. He is a former illegal immigrant who became a naturalized citizen in 2002. He is a columnist for the conservative magazines ''National Review Online'' and ''... [Wikipedia]

• John Gibson

  John Gibson is a television talk show host, hosting the weekday edition of The Big Story and The John Gibson Show on Fox News Radio. He has also filled in for Bill O'Reilly on both The Radio Factor and The O'Reilly Factor. Gibson is the author of Hat... [Wikipedia]

• John Green (author)

  John Michael Green (b. August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American author. His first novel, ''Looking for Alaska'', won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. The film rights to ''Looking for Alas... [Wikipedia]

• John Grisham

  John Ray Grisham (born February 8, 1955) is an American ex-politician, retired attorney and novelist, best known for his works of modern legal drama. As of 2008, his books have sold over 235 million copies worldwide.John Grisham, the second oldest of... [Wikipedia]

• John Hodgman
• John Irving
• John Leonard
• John Locke

  Wikipedia: John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an influential English philosopher. In epistemology, Locke has often been classified as a British Empiricist, along with David Hume and George Berkeley. He is eq... [Wikipedia]

• John Lott
• John Stossel

  John F. Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is a consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author, libertarian columnist, and co-anchor for the ABC News show ''20/20''. Stossel began his journalism career as a researcher for KGW-TV and later became a con... [Wikipedia]

• John Updike
• John Waters (filmmaker)
• Jon Entine
• Jon Meacham
• Jonathan Zittrain
• José Saramago
• Joseph C. Wilson
• Juan Williams

  Juan Williams (b. April 1954) is an American journalist, author and radio and television correspondent. He is a Senior Correspondent at National Public Radio, has written at length for ''The Washington Post'', regularly appears as a contributor on Fo... [Wikipedia]

• Judd Apatow

  Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy films, including '''' (2004), ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (... [Wikipedia]

• Judith Miller
• Judith Warner
• Judy Blume

  Judy Blume (born Judy Sussman on February 12, 1938) is a popular American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 65 million. She is married with three children.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2... [Wikipedia]

• King Kaufman
• Kurt Andersen
• Kurt Loder
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Kyle Smith (film critic)
• La Shawn Barber
• Larry Elder
• Laura Ingraham

  Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, ''The Laura Ingraham Show'', airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. According to Talkers' Ma... [Wikipedia]

• Linda Chavez
• Liz Pulliam Weston
• Lorne Michaels

  Wikipedia: Lorne Michaels (born Lorne Michael Lipowitz on November 17, 1944) is an Emmy-winning Canadian-born television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film... [Wikipedia]

• Louise Hay

  Louise Hay (born October 8, 1926) is a motivational author, and the founder of Hay House, a publishing company. She has authored several self-help and New Thought books, and is best known for her 1984 book, ''You Can Heal Your Life''.Hay recounted he... [Wikipedia]

• Maggie Gallagher
• Malcolm Gladwell

  Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City. He has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books ''The Tipping Point: ... [Wikipedia]

• Mario Batali
• Mario Benedetti

  Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet.Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros, Salibna, Uruguay. He is not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered... [Wikipedia]

• Mark Doty
• Mark Kreidler
• Mark Ravenhill

  Mark Ravenhill (born June 7 1966) is an English playwright. His most famous plays include ''Shopping and Fucking'' (first performed in 1996) Ravenhill, Mark. 2001. ''Plays:1''. Methuen. ISBN 0 413 76060 X. p.1-91, ''Some Explicit Polaroids'' (1999) a... [Wikipedia]

• Marsha Norman

  Marsha Norman (b. September 21, 1947[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635568/ Marsha Norman]) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist. She won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play '''night, Mother''. She also wrot... [Wikipedia]

• Maureen Dowd

  Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for ''The New York Times''. She has worked for the ''Times'' since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of... [Wikipedia]

• Maya Angelou
• Mel Brooks

  Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926)Parish, pp. 16–17 is an American director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list... [Wikipedia]

• Meredith F. Small
• Michael Crichton
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Michael Knox Beran
• Michael Lewis (author)

  Michael Lewis (born October 15, 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include ''Liar's Poker'', ''The New New Thing,'' '','' and ''The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game''.He was born in New ... [Wikipedia]

• Michael Moore

  Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of ''Bowling for Columbine'', ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', and ''Sicko'', three of the top f... [Wikipedia]

• Michael Scheuer

  Wikipedia: Michael F. Scheuer is a 22-year CIA veteran. He served as the Chief of Alec Station, the Osama bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief o... [Wikipedia]

• Michelangelo Signorile
• Milton William Cooper
• Mitch Albom

  Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 26 million copies worldwide. Having achieved natio... [Wikipedia]

• Mitch Lawrence
• Mona Charen
• Naomi Wolf

  .]]Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual. At a relatively young age, she became the literary star of what was later described as the "third-wave" of the feminist movement. She is also... [Wikipedia]

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Nick Hornby

  Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He was brought up in Maidenhead and was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He is best known for the novels ''High Fidel... [Wikipedia]

• Noam Chomsky

  Avram Noam Chomsky (; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[http://chomsky.info/bios/2004----.htm "Noam Chomsky"], by Zoltán Gendler Szabó, in ''Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960'', ed. Ernest Lepore (2004).... [Wikipedia]

• Norman Podhoretz
• Norman Vincent Peale

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Protestant preacher and author (most notably of the controversial ''The Power of Positive Thinking'') and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking". Peale was born in Bowersvil... [Wikipedia]

• Orson Scott Card

  Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a bestselling American author, critic, political writer and speaker. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel ''Ender's Game'' (1985) and its sequel ''Speaker fo... [Wikipedia]

• Paul Driessen (writer)
• Paul Krugman

  ''Not to be confused with Saul Krugman.''Paul Robin Krugman (See [http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d1810/Paul_Krugman inogolo:pronunciation of Paul Krugman].; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, columnist, and author.[http://www.foreign... [Wikipedia]

• Paul Reiser
• Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho () (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "I always knew," he says, "that my Personal Legend, to use a term from alchemy, was to write." He was 38 when he published hi... [Wikipedia]

• Pedro Almodóvar

  #REDIRECT Pedro_Almodóvar [Wikipedia]

• Peggy Noonan

  in the White House Oval Office, 1988]]Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal'', and was a p... [Wikipedia]

• Penn Jillette
• Peter Beinart
• Peter Schjeldahl
• Phil McGraw

  Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), best known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality, psychologist and author who is the host of the psychology themed television show ''Dr. Phil''. He gained celebrity status following appeara... [Wikipedia]

• Philip Pullman
• Phyllis Schlafly

  Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (born August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American conservative political activist known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. Her bestselling book, ''A Choice, Not An Echo'', was published... [Wikipedia]

• Ralph Peters

  Ralph Peters (born 1952) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel, novelist and essayist. He has sometimes written under the nom-de-plume Owen Parry. Peters was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Schuylkill Haven. His father ... [Wikipedia]

• Randall Robinson

  Randall Robinson (6 July, 1941- ) is an African-American lawyer, author and activist, noted as the founder of TransAfrica. He is known particularly for his impassioned opposition to South African apartheid, and for his advocacy on behalf of Haitian i... [Wikipedia]

• Randall Stross
• Rashid Khalidi
• Ray Didinger
• René Balcer
• Richard Clarke

  Wikipedia: Richard A. Clarke (born 1951) is a former U.S. government official who specialized in intelligence, cyber security and counter-terrorism. Until his retirement in January 2003, Mr. Clarke was a member of the Senio... [Wikipedia]

• Richard Corliss

  Richard Nelson Corliss (born 1943) is a writer for ''Time'' magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of ''Film Comment''. ''Talking Pictures,'' one of his three books as wel... [Wikipedia]

• Richard Dawkins
• Richard Ford
• Richard Nelson (playwright)

  Richard Nelson (b. Chicago, IL, 1950) is an award-winning American playwright and librettist.He wrote the books for the musicals ''James Joyce's The Dead'' and the Broadway version of ''Chess.'' For three years he was the chair of the playwriting dep... [Wikipedia]

• Richard Pryor

  Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor and writer.Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for h... [Wikipedia]

• Rick Warren

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