List of People From Wisconsin - Art and Literature

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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