Writers of Fiction and Literature
- Matsuo BashÅ, Japanese poet and journalist
- Jack Kerouac, US poet and novelist
- Peter Matthiessen, US novelist
- Jess Row, short story writer
- Gary Snyder, US poet
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“Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.”
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