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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“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.... They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.”
—Tatyana Tolstaya (b. 1951)
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)