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Born	June 8, 1947 (age 77) • Ames • Iowa
Notable Works	“Bitter Medicine” • “Blacklist” • “Bleeding Kansas” • “Blood Shot” • “Breakdown” • “Brush Back” • “Critical Mass” • “Dead Land” • “Deadlock” • “Fallout” • “Fire Sale” • “Ghost Country” • “Hardball” • “Indemnity Only” • “Killing Orders” • “Shell Game” • “Total Recall”

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

American author

Merwin, W.S.

W.S. Merwin

American poet

Frederik Pohl

American author

Tobias Wolff

American author

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

American author

S.S. Van Dine

American critic, editor, and author

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

James McBride

James McBride

American musician, journalist, and author

Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan

American author

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

American author

James Patterson

James Patterson

American author

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez

American author

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

American painter and writer

Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie

American author

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

American author