Writers and Publishers
- John Arthur Barry, Australian journalist and author
- John Blackburn (author), British novelist
- Peter Baynham, Welsh screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated. Co-writer of Borat
- Nathaniel Bowditch, author, The American Practical Navigator
- E. S. Campbell, American author, broadcaster and radio officer
- A. Bertram Chandler, Australian science fiction author of over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction
- Brian Cleeve, English writer and popular TV broadcaster
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American author, Two Years Before the Mast
- Clare Francis, British novelist
- Allen Ginsberg, poet, Howl, Kaddish
- David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
- Kevin McClory, Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, Never Say Never Again,
- Herbert Huncke, American beat generation figure
- John L. Hess, prominent American journalist
- Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
- Jack Kerouac, American author, On The Road
- James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for his children's stories
- Jack London, American author, Call of the Wild
- Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer
- John Masefield O.M., LL.D. Poet Laureate, sailing ship Apprentice
- Herman Melville, American author, Moby Dick
- Charles Muñoz, American poet, novelist, publisher, and radio officer
- Alun Owen, a British screenwriter, noted for writing The Beatles's film A Hard Day's Night
- Donn Pearce, author of Cool Hand Luke
- Dudley Pope, British writer of both nautical fiction and history
- Richard Scott Prather, American mystery novelist
- Otto Scott, American journalist and author
- Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
- James Sites, American novelist
- Joshua Slocum (1848-1909?), first single-handed circumnavigation of the world 1895 - 1898
- Gary Snyder, American poet
- Lyle Stuart, controversial American publisher
- Derek Turner, Irish magazine editor and freelance journalist
- Nedd Willard (1928– ), writer and journalist
- Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
- Robin Wilson (author), American science fiction author and university president
- Bernard Wolfe, American fiction writer
- Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet
- Altaf Shaikh, Pakistani Travelogue Writer and Novelist, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
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