Authors and Writers
- Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
- John Anderson, founder and publisher Skandinaven
- Nelson Algren, writer
- K. A. Applegate, author
- Saul Bellow, author; awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
- Allan Bloom, writer and translator
- Ray Bradbury, author
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
- Algis Budrys, author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer
- Chris Bury, journalist
- Jack Cafferty, journalist
- Jack Canfield, author (Chicken Soup for The Soul)
- John Chancellor, journalist
- Raymond Chandler, writer
- Sandra Cisneros, author
- Daniel Cohen, children's writer
- Michael Crichton, writer
- James Gould Cozzens, novelist
- Philip K. Dick, writer
- Charles Dickinson, writer
- Mike Downey, newspaper columnist
- Finley Peter Dunne, writer, humorist (Mr. Dooley)
- Stuart Dybek, author
- Roger Ebert, film critic
- Dave Eggers, writer, editor, publisher
- James T. Farrell, writer
- Kenneth Fearing, poet, writer
- Edna Ferber, author, playwright
- Leon Forrest, writer
- Henry Blake Fuller, writer
- Larry Gelbart, comedy writer
- John Gunther, writer
- E. Gary Gygax, author
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright
- Reidar Rye Haugan, newspaper publisher and playwright
- Ben Hecht, author, journalist
- Larry Heinemann, novelist
- Ernest Hemingway, writer
- Robert Herrick, novelist
- John Kass, journalist
- Anton LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey, Writer of The Satanic Bible, founder of The Church of Satan
- Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
- Adam Langer, novelist
- Leo Lerner, newspaper publisher, founder of Lerner Newspapers
- Tom Mandel, poet
- Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher
- Susan Murphy-Milano, author, radio host, domestic violence victims' advocate
- Charles Gilman Norris, author
- Frank Norris, novelist
- Clarence Page, columnist
- Sara Paretsky, novelist
- Ed Paschke, artist
- Cissy Patterson, journalist, newspaper editor
- Frederik Pohl, author, futurist
- Henry Rago, poet and editor of Poetry Magazine from 1955 to 1969
- Mike Resnick, author
- Mike Royko, columnist
- Ernest Samuels, biographer, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
- Carl Sandburg, poet
- Dan Savage, columnist
- Sandra Seaton, playwright and librettist
- Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
- William L. Shirer, journalist and historian
- Shel Silverstein, poet, songwriter, and children's writer
- Dejan Stojanović, poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
- Alfred Szklarski, a Polish author of youth literature
- Studs Terkel, broadcaster, author
- James Tiptree, Jr., author
- Irving Wallace, writer
- Gene Wolfe, author
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“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”
—Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)
“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)