Writers
- Leroy F. Aarons, journalist/editor/author/playwright and activist founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA).
- Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter
- Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer
- Jane Bowles, novelist and playwright
- Alfred Chester, novelist
- Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media (Jewish mother)
- György Faludy, poet
- Edward Field, poet
- Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
- Sanford Friedman, novelist
- Allen Ginsberg, US Beat generation poet
- Richard Greenberg, playwright
- Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
- Marilyn Hacker, poet
- Aaron Hamburger, novelist
- Max Jacob, poet
- Chester Kallman, poet and librettist
- Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
- David Leavitt, novelist and short-story writer
- Leo Lerman, writer/editor
- Michael Lowenthal, novelist
- Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007), New York Times architecture critic
- Harold Norse, poet
- Marcel Proust, novelist (Jewish mother)
- David Rakoff, essayist
- Lev Raphael, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, reviewer
- Paul Rudnick, playwright, screenwriter and columnist
- Umberto Saba, poet and novelist
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)
- Martin Sherman, playwright
- Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
- Gertrude Stein, writer
- Julian Stryjkowski, novelist
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Famous quotes containing the word writers:
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Most writers write badly because they tell us not only their thoughts but also the thinking of their thoughts.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)