Literature
- John D. MacDonald (1916–1986), American mystery author
- John Ross MacDonald (1915–1983), Canadian-American mystery author pseudonym of Kenneth Millar
- John MacDonald, Author of The Historical Atlas of the Civil War, 2009
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“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
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