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Helen Keller

1880-06-27 – 1968-06-01

Booker T. Washington

1856-04-05 – 1915-11-14

Frederick Douglass

– 1895-02-20

Grace Paley

1922-12-11 – 2007-08-22

Gloria Steinem

1934-03-25

Toni Cade Bambara

1939-03-25 – 1995-12-09

Thornton Wilder

1897-04-17 – 1975-12-07

Richard Feynman

1918-05-11 – 1988-02-15

Henry Miller

1891-12-26 – 1980-06-07

James Fenimore Cooper

1789-09-15 – 1851-09-14

Ralph Ellison

1914-03-01 – 1994-04-16

Octavia Butler

1947-06-22 – 2006-02-24

Richard Wright

1908-09-04 – 1960-11-28

Philip Roth

1933-03-19 – 2018-05-22

James Thurber

1894-12-08 – 1961-11-02

Saul Bellow

1915-06-10 – 2005-04-05

Shirley Jackson

1916-12-14 – 1965-08-08

Marilynne Robinson

1943-11-26

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804-07-04 – 1864-05-19

Louise Erdrich

1954-06-07

Truman Capote

1924-09-30 – 1984-08-25

Jack London

1876-01-12 – 1916-11-22

E.E. Cummings

Harper Lee

1926-04-28 – 2016-02-19