* Samuel Becket (writer)
* Robert Burns (poet)
* Lord Byron (poet)
* Truman Capote (writer)
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)
* Hart Crane (poet)
* Charles Dickens (writer)
* Theodore Dreiser (writer, editor)
* George Eliot (writer)
* William Faulkner (writer)
* Jules Feiffer (playwright, cartoonist)
* Oliver Goldsmith (poet)
* George Gordon (poet)
* Ernest Hemingway (writer)
* Gerard Manley Hopkins (poet)
* Herman Hesse (writer)
* Victor Hugo (poet)
* Henrik Isben (writer)
* Franz Kafka (writer)
* John Keats (poet)
* Jack Kerouac (writer)
* Vachel Lindsay (poet)
* Jack London (writer)
* James Russell Lowell (poet)
* Norman Mailer (writer)
* Rod McKuen (writer)
* Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet)
* Eugene O'Neill (playwright)
* Dorothy Parker (writer, poet)
* Boris Pastemak (poet)
* Walker Percy (writer, physician, pathologist)
* Sylvia Plath (writer, poet)
* Ezra Pound (poet)
* Amelia Rosselli (poet)
* Anne Sexton (poet)
* Mary Shelley (writer)
* Percy Brice Shelley (poet)
* Neil Simon (playwright)
* Joey Slinger (journalist)
* William Styron (writer)
* Dylan Thomas (poet)
* Leo Tolstoy (writer)
* Kurt Vonnegut (writer)
* Tennessee Williams (writer)
* Tom Wolfe (writer)
