Art and Literature
- Kevin J. Anderson (1962–), writer (Racine)
- Rasmus B. Anderson (1846–1936), author, professor, and historian (Albion)
- Walter Annenberg (1908–2002), creator of TV Guide and Seventeen (Milwaukee)
- Antler (born 1946), poet (Wauwatosa)
- Ruth Ball (1879–1960), sculptor (Madison)
- Lynda Barry (born 1956), author and cartoonist (Richland Center)
- Gary Beecham (1955–), glass artist (Ladysmith)
- George Bergstrom (1876–1955), architect, designer of The Pentagon (Neenah)
- Norbert Blei (1935–), writer (Ellison Bay)
- Carrie Jacobs Bond (1862–1946), songwriter (Janesville)
- Esther Bubley (1921–1998), photojournalist (Phillips)
- Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1933–), artist and illustrator, recipient of the Caldecott Medal (Milwaukee)
- Ole Amundsen Buslett (1855–1924), author, newspaperman, and politician (Town of Iola, Northland, La Crosse, Stoughton)
- Kathryn Casey, writer and journalist
- Connie Clausen (1923–1997), literary agent (Menasha)
- Chester Commodore (1914–2004), cartoonist (Racine)
- Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906), translator (Milwaukee County)
- Tyler Dennett (1883–1949), biographer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (Spencer)
- August Derleth (1909–1971), writer (Sauk City)
- Gene DeWeese (1934–), writer (Milwaukee)
- Donn F. Draeger (1922–1982), writer and martial artist (Milwaukee)
- Alter Esselin (1889–1974), poet (Milwaukee)
- Edna Ferber (1885–1968), writer (Appleton)
- Jack Finney (1911–1995), writer (Milwaukee)
- Mike Fitzgerald, writer (Janesville)
- Lewis R. Freeman (1878–1960), journalist (Genoa Junction)
- Zona Gale (1874–1938), writer (Portage, Beaver Dam, Milwaukee)
- Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), novelist, biographer, short story writer and poet (West Salem)
- Elmer Grey (1872–1963), noted architect and painter (Milwaukee)
- E. Gary Gygax (1938–2008), novelist and co-creator of "Dungeons & Dragons" (Lake Geneva)
- Jane Hamilton (born 1957), writer (Rochester)
- Stephen Hayes, senior writer for The Weekly Standard, Fox News contributor, author (Wauwatosa)
- Kevin Henkes (1960–), author and illustrator, recipient of the Caldecott Medal (Racine, Madison)
- Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Superior)
- Russell Klika, photojournalist and combat photographer (Appleton, Wisconsin)
- Jim Knipfel (born 1965), writer (Green Bay)
- Ron Kovic (born 1946), writer, Born on the Fourth of July (Ladysmith)
- David Lenz (born 1962), painter (Milwaukee)
- Gerda Lerner (born 1920), Women's Studies, founder of women's history (Madison)
- Paul Linebarger (1913–1966), writer (Milwaukee)
- Per Lysne (1880–1947), folk artist who popularized rosemaling in the United States (Stoughton)
- Karl E. Meyer, journalist for The New York Times and editor of World Policy Journal (Madison)
- Jacquelyn Mitchard (born 1957), writer (Milwaukee, Madison)
- John Nichols, political correspondent for The Nation (Union Grove)
- Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), poet (Fort Atkinson)
- Lucius W. Nieman (1857–1935), founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism was dedicated to him (Sauk County)
- Jessica Nelson North (1891–1988), writer (Madison, Edgerton)
- Sterling North (1906–1974), writer (Edgerton)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), artist (Sun Prairie)
- George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916), writer, newspaper editor, and politician (Cold Spring, Ripon, La Crosse, Milwaukee)
- George Pollard (1920–2008), artist (Waldo, Kenosha)
- Richard Quinney (born 1934), sociologist and writer (Madison)
- Ellen Raskin (1928–1984), writer and illustrator (Milwaukee)
- Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor (Madison)
- John Ridley (born 1965), novelist (Milwaukee)
- David Robbins (born 1957), artist, writer (Whitefish Bay)
- Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973), writer (Madison)
- Joe Schoenmann, journalist and author
- Ruth Shalit (born 1971), freelance writer and former journalist (Milwaukee)
- Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988), writer (Millville)
- Peter Straub (born 1943), writer (Milwaukee)
- John Toland (1912–2004), Pulitzer Prize–winning writer (La Crosse)
- Arthur Thrall (born 1926), artist (Milwaukee)
- Neal Ulevich (1946–), photographer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (Milwaukee)
- Dave Umhoefer (born 1961), Pulitzer Prize recipient (La Crosse)
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (born 1986), film critic and essayist (Wauwatosa)
- Viola S. Wendt (1907–1986), poet (West Bend)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919), writer and poet (Johnstown)
- John Wilde (1919–2006), artist (Milwaukee, Evansville)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), writer (Pepin)
- Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), writer (Madison)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect (Richland Center)
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“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell’s major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)