List of People From Nebraska - Art, Literature, and Journalism

Art, Literature, and Journalism

• Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881–1954), author of 200 short stories and 13 novels including Miss Bishop
• Hartley Burr Alexander (1873–1939), writer, educator, scholar, philosopher, poet, and iconographer
• Kurt Andersen (1954–), co-founder of Spy Magazine
• Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), painter, sculptor, designer and engineer of the presidential busts on Mount Rushmore
• Solon Borglum (1869–1922), sculptor, younger brother of Gutzon Borglum
• Willa Cather (1873–1947), author
• Earle D. Chesney (1900-1966), cartoonist
• Ana Marie Cox (1972–), founder and editor of the political blog Wonkette
• Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), anthropologist, science writer, ecologist, and poet, born in Lincoln
• Angel De Cora Dietz Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka (Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place) Painter, illustrator, American Indian Advocate, Carlisle Boarding School Teacher. (1871–1919)Ho-Chunk
• John Philip Falter (1910–1982), renowned Nebraska artist famous for his many Saturday Evening Post covers
• Ernest K. Gann (1910–1991), pioneer airline pilot, aviation writer, author of The High and the Mighty
• Terry Goodkind (1948–), bestselling fantasy author
• Robert Henri (1865–1929), painter
• M. Miriam Herrera, poet (has published one book)
• Clifton Hillegass (1918–2001), publisher and founder of CliffsNotes
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), science fiction author and founder of Scientology
• Lew Hunter (1935–), screenwriter
• Weldon Kees (1914–1955), poet, novelist, and short story writer
• Ted Kooser (1939–), Former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Stephen R. Lawhead (1950–), bestselling author of fantasy and historical fiction
• Francis La Flesche Zhogaxe (1857–1932) Author. Omaha
• Susette LaFlesche Tibbles "Bright Eyes" Born in Bellevue, 1854. Writer. Omaha/Ponca
• Christopher Lasch (1932–1994), historian, moralist, and social critic
• DeBarra Mayo (1953–) writer and author
• Wright Morris (1910–1998), novelist, photographer, and essayist
• John Neihardt (1881–1973), poet, dubbed the "Poet Laureate of Nebraska and the Plains" by the Nebraska State Legislature in 1921
• Rose O'Neill (1874–1944), Illustrator, writer, and creator of the Kewpie doll
• Daniel Quinn (1935–), author of the philosophical novel, Ishmael and its sequels
• Edward Ruscha (1937-), artist
• Mari Sandoz (1896–1966), novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher; author of Old Jules, Cheyenne Autumn, Slogum House, and others.
• Joel Sartore National Geographic Photographer
• Nicholas Sparks (1965–), author
• Anna Louise Strong (1885–1970), journalist and author
• John Trudell (1946–) Born on February 15, 1946 in Omaha. Civil Rights Author, Activist, Community Activist, Speaker, Poet, Performer, Musician, Actor.