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1. John Updike (March 18, 1932- January 27,2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He wrote more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. His most famous work was the Rabbit series.

1. Jamaica Kincaid (May 25, 1949- present)- She was born in St. John’s Antigua and Barbuda as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson.  She began her career for Ingenue magazine. She worked for Th New Yorker until 1995. She is now a professor at Claremont McKenna College.  Some of her work includes Girl, Lucy, and My Garden.

1. Amy Tan (February 19, 1952- present)- She is a Chinese american writer. She received her master’s and bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University in English and linguistics. She did her doctoral studies and UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.  Her works explore the relationships between mother and daughter. Her most famous work include The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, and Saving a Fish from Drowning.

1. Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939- December 9, 1995)- She was a college professor, social activist, and an author. She was born in New York City as Miltona Mirkin Cade. She earned her degree at the City College of New York in African fiction. She was a professor at Spelman College and Rutgers University. She referred to her writing as up beat fiction.  Her work includes The Salt Eaters, Gorilla, My love, and The Lesson.

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( March 6, 1927 - present)- He was born in Aractaca, Colombia.  He studied law at the University of Cartagena. He is labeled as a magical realist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels and short stories. His work includes One Hundred Years of Solitude, and A Very Old Man with Enormous wings. 

6. Louise Erdrich ( June 7, 1954- present)- She was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. She is a author of novels, poetry, children’s books. She attended Dartmouth College she earned a AB degree. She won many awards the Guggenheim fellowship, World Fantasy Award, and Pushcart Prize.  Her work includes the Love Machine, The Bingo Palace, and Four Souls.

1. Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916- August 8, 1965)-  she was born in San Francisco, California.  She received a BA from Syracuse University in 1940. Literary works include The Lottery, Hangsaman, and Raising Demons.

1. Flannery O’ Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) - She was born in Savannah, GA. She graduated in June 1945 from Georgia State College for Women  now Georgia College & State University with a Social Science degree. She normally wrote about the south and moral issues.  Her works include Wise Blood, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Everything that Rises Must Converge.

1. Edgar Allen Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)- He was apart of the American Romantic Movement. He was best known for is short stories regarding mystery. He was a writer, poet, editor, and Literary critic. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts as was an orphan.  He worked on numerous literary journals and later became an important literary critic. Poe died in Baltimore the cause was unknown. He has been such a great influence on many of today’s  greatest writers. He best known works include The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

10. David S. Reynolds (born August 30, 1948)- He is best know as a literary critic and historian. He is also an editor for who specializes in the period of the Civil War. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1970 and his Ph.D. at Berkeley. He is also an english and American Studies teacher. 

1. Alice Walker (Born February 9, 1944)- She was born and raised in Eatonton, Georgia.  She attended Spelman College in  1961 on a full scholarship in 1961 and later transfered to Sarah lawrence College where she graduated. He was also a activist in the civil right movement. She and her husband where the first inter-racial married couple in Mississippi.  She was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for the Color Purple. Some of her best known works include the Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, and The Temple of My Familiar.

1. Cheryl B. Torsney

1. Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000)- She was born in Topeka, Kansas. She was a poet that began her career at 13. Her Best known works include Annie Allen, We Real Cool, and Malcolm X.  She taught at Columbia College, Northeastern Illinois University, and Elmhurst College. He first book of poetry is A Street in Bronzeville in 1945. She received numerous awards. and was nominated for the National Book Award for poetry. 

1. Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901- January 13, 1989)- He is a poetry, literary criticism, and a professor. He was born on Howard University in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from Williams College Beta Kappa in 1922 and his MA from Harvard University. His work includes the The Last Ride of Wild Bill, Negro Poetry, and Frankie and Johnny.

1. Robert Browning (May 7, 1812- 1889)- was an playwright and a poet. He was considered a Victorian poet. He was born in London, England.  Most of his work focus on dramatic monologues.  He has an extensive list of works to include Pauline: A fragment of a Confession, My Last Duchess, and the The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

1. Miller Williams (April 8, 1930)- He was born in Hoxie, Arkansas. He earned his B.A. from Arkansas State University and his M.S at the University of Arkansas in 1952. He is a poet, translator and a professor of Biology and English. His books include So Long at the Fair, Halfway to Hoxie and Points of Departure.

17. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809- October 1892)- He was a poet Laureate in the United Kingdom. He was famous for his short lyrics. He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire and is a descendant of King Edward III of England. He attended Trinity College in Cambridge but did not receive his degree.  His works include From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, The Princess, and Lady Clara Vere de Vere.

18. Claude McKay(September 15, 1889 - May 22, 1948)-  He was a Jamaican poet and writer who was involved in the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in James Hill, Clarendon, Jamaica.  He was educated by his older brother a school teacher. He was considered on of the first poets out of the movement in Harlem. He had a militant voice in his writing. He wrote books, poems, and autobiographies. He was also heavily involved in the black movement joining the NAACP.

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