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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry 33 Lyon, FR 1900(06/29) - 1944(07/31) | Julian Hartridge Green 33 ? Paris, FR 1900(09/06) - 1998(08/13) | Thomas Clayton Wolfe 1 28802? Asheville, NC 1900(10/03) - 1938(09/15) | Jaroslav Seifert ? ? Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic 1901(09/23) - 1986(01/10) | André Malraux 33 ? Paris, FR 1901(11/03) - 1976(11/23) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Mercer Langston Hughes 1 ? Joplin, MO 1902(02/01) - 1967(05/22) | Halldór Guðjónsson ? ? Reykjavík, Iceland 1902(04/23) - 1998(02/08) | John Ernst Steinbeck 1 ? Salinas, CA 1902(02/27) - 1968(12/20) | Wallace Henry Thurman 1 84101? Salt Lake City, UT 1902(08/16) - 1934(12/22) | Frederic Ogden Nash 1 10580 Rye, NY 1902(08/19) - 1971(05/19) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isaac Bashevis Singer Leoncin, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland 1902(11/21) - 1991(07/24) | Alan Stewart Paton 27 ? Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, ZA 1903(01/11) - 1988(04/12) | Georges Joseph Christian Simenon ? ? 24 rue Léopold, Liège, BE 1903(02/13) - 1989(09/04) | Countee Cullen 1 ? Louisville, KY 1903(05/30) - 1946(01/09) | Eric Arthur Blair ? ? Motihari, Bihar, IN 1903(06/25) - 1950(01/21) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh 44 ? Combe Florey, Somerset, England, GB 1903(10/28) - 1966(04/10) | James Thomas Farrell 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1904(02/27) - 1979(08/22) | Theodor Seuss Geisel 1 ? Springfield, MA 1904(03/02) - 1991(09/24) | Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto ? ? Parral, Chile 1904(07/12) - 1973(07/12) | Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 44 ? Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire, England, GB 1904(08/26) - 1986(01/04) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Graham Greene 44 ? Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, GB 1904(10/02) - 1991(04/03) | Moss Hart 1 10029 74 E. 105th Street, Manhattan, NY 1904(10/24) - 1961(12/20) | John Henry O'Hara 1 17901 Pottsville, PA 1905(01/31) - 1970(04/11) | Robert Penn Warren 1 42234 Gutrie, KY 1905(04/24) - 1989(09/15) | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 7 ? Kruzhlinin, Veshenskaya, Russa, SU 1905(05/24) - 1984(02/21) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elias Canetti 359 ? ? Ruse, BG 1905(07/25) - 1994(08/14) | Charles Percy Snow 44 ? Leicester, England, GB 1905(10/15) - 1980(07/01) | Henry Roth 380 ? ? Tysmenytsia, UA 1906(02/08) - 1995(10/13) | Samuel Barclay Beckett 353 ? ? Foxrock, Dublin, IE 1906(04/13) - 1989(12/22) | Clifford Odets 1 19104? Philadelphia, PA 1906(07/18) - 1963(08/18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami 91 ? Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN 1906(10/10) - 2001(05/12) | James Albert Michener 1 18901 Doylestown, Bucks County, PA 1907(02/03) - 1997(10/16) | Wystan Hugh Auden 44 York, England, GB 1907(02/21) - 1973(09/29) | Robert Anson Heinlein 1 64730 Butler, MO 1907(07/07) - 1988(05/08) | Alberto Pincherle 39 ? Via Sgambati, Rome, IT 1907(11/28) - 1990(09/26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theodore Roethke 1 48605? Saginaw, MI 1908(05/25) - 1963(08/01) | Ian Lancaster Fleming 44 ? Mayfair, London, England, GB 1908(05/28) - 1964(08/12) | William Saroyan 1 93706? Fresno, CA 1908(08/31) - 1981(05/18) | Richard Nathaniel Wright 1 39661 Rucker Plantation, Roxie, MS 1908(09/04) - 1960(11/28) | Stephen Harold Spender 44 ? Kensington, London, England, GB 1909(02/28) - 1995(07/16) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nelson Ahlgren Algren 1 48231? Detroit, MI 1909(03/28) - 1981(05/09) | Chester Bomar Himes 1 65101? Jefferson City, MO 1909(07/29) - 1984(11/13) | Eugen Ionescu 40 ? Slatina, RO 1909(11/26) - 1994(03/28) | Jean Genet 33 ? Paris, FR 1910(12/19) - 1986(04/15) | Thomas Lanier Williams 1 39701? Columbus, MS 1911(03/26) - 1983(02/25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paul Frederic Bowles 1 10001? Jamaica, Queens, NY 1910(12/30) - 1999(11/19) | Terence Mervyn Rattigan 44 ? South Kensington, London, England, GB 1911(06/10) - 1977(11/30) | Czeslaw Milosz 370 Seteniai, Kedainiai, LT 1911(06/30) - 2004(08/14) | Paul Goodman 1 10001? New York, NY 1911(09/09) - 1972(08/02) | William Gerald Golding 44 ? St Columb Minor, Newquay, Cornwall, England, GB 1911(09/19) - 1993(06/19) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Naguib Mahfouz 20 ? Cairo, EG 1911(12/11) - 2006(08/30) | Lawrence George Durrell 91 ? Jalandhar, IN 1912(02/27) - 1990(11/07) | John William Cheever 1 02169? Quincy, MA 1912(05/27) - 1982(06/18) | Patrick Victor Martindale White 44 ? Knightsbridge, London, England, GB 1912(05/28) - 1990(09/30) | Jorge Amado de Faria 55 ? Itabuna, Bahia, BR 1912(08/01) - 2001(08/06) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Motter Inge 1 67301 Independence, KS 1913(05/03) - 1973(06/10) | William Robertson Davies 1CON ? Thamesville, ON 1913(08/28) - 1995(12/02) | Albert Camus 213 ? Dréan, El Taref Province, DZ 1913(11/07) - 1960(01/04) | Delmore Schwartz 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1913(12/08) - 1966(07/11) | William Seward Burroughs 1 63166? Saint Louis, MO 1914(02/05) - 1997(08/02)
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| Ralph Waldo Ellison | 1 73125? Oklahoma, OK 1914(03/01) - 1994(04/16) Octavio Paz Lozano | 52 ? Mixcoac, Mexico City, MX 1914(03/31) - 1998(04/19) Bernard Malamud | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1914(04/26) - 1986(03/18) Randall Jarrell | 1 37202? Nashville, TN 1914(05/06) - 1945(10/14) John Richard Hersey | 86 ? Tientsin, CN 1914(06/17) - 1993(03/24)
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| John Allyn Smith | 1 74501? McAlester, OK 1914(10/25) - 1972(01/07) Dylan Marlais Thomas | 44W 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea, Wales, GB 1914(10/27) - 1953(11/09) Herman Wouk | 1 10001? New York, NY 1915(05/27) Saul Bellow | 1C ? Lachine, Quebec 1915(06/10) - 2005(04/05) Arthur Asher Miller | 1 10001? New York, NY 1915(10/17) - 2005(02/10)
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| Camilo José Manuel Juan Ramón Francisco de Jerónimo | 34 Padrón, Galicia, ES 1916(05/11) - 2002(01/17) Roald Dahl | 44W Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, GB 1916(09/13) - 1990(11/23) Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor | 1 38382 Trenton, TN 1917(01/08) - 1994(11/02) John Anthony Burgess Wilson | 44 ? Harpurhey, Manchester, England, GB 1917(02/25) - 1993(11/22) Robert Traill Spence Lowell | 1 02205? Boston, MA 1917(03/01) - 1977(09/12)
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| Louis Stanton Auchincloss | 1 11559 Lawrence, NY 1917(09/27) Arthur C. Clarke | 44 ? Minehead, Somerset, England, GB 1917(12/16) - 2008(03/19) Heinrich Theodor Böll | 49 ? Cologne, DE 1917(12/21) - 1985(07/16) Frank Morrison Spillane | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1918(03/09) - 2006(07/17) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 7 ? Kislovodsk, Russia, SU 1918(12/11) - 2008(08/03)
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| Jerome David Salinger | 1 10001? New York, NY 1919(01/01) - 2010(01/27) Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 1 10702? Yonkers, NY 1919(03/24) Isaak Yudovich Ozimov | 7, Petrovichi, Shumyachsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, SU 1920(01/02) - 1992(04/06) Richard George Adams | 44 ? Newbury, Berkshire, England, GB 1920(05/09) Amos Tutuola | 234 ? Abeokuta, NG 1920(06/20) - 1997(06/08)
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| Ray Douglas Bradbury | 1 60085? Waukegan, IL 1920(08/22) Alexander Murray Palmer Haley | 1 14850? Ithaca, NY 1921(08/11) - 1992(02/10) Jean-Louis Kerouac | 1 01853? Lowell, MA 1922(03/12) - 1969(10/21) Kingsley William Amis | 44 ? Clapham, South London, England, GB 1922(04/16) - 1995(10/22) Kurt Vonnegut | 1 46206? Indianapolis, IN 1922(11/11) - 2007(04/11)
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| José de Sousa Saramago | 351 ? Azinhaga, Ribatejo, PT 1922(11/16) Norman Kingsley Mailer | 1 07740 Long Branch, NJ 1923(01/31) James Lafayette Dickey | 1 30301? Atlanta, GA 1923(02/02) - 1997(01/19) Brendan Francis Behan | 353 ? Dublin, IE 1923(02/09) - 1964(03/20) Joseph Heller | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1923(05/01) - 1999(12/12)
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| Italo Calvino | 53 ? Santiago de Las Vegas, CU 1923(10/15) - 1985(09/19) James Arthur Baldwin | 1 10001? Harlem, New York, NY 1924(08/02) - 1987(12/01) Leon Marcus Uris | 1 21203? Baltimore, MD 1924(08/03) - 2003(06/21) Truman Garcia Capote | 1 70140? New Orleans, LA 1924(09/03) - 1984(08/25) Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell | 61 ? Sydney, AU 1924(10/10) - 1994(09/07)
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| Zbigniew Herbert | 380 ? Lwów, UA 1924(10/29) - 1998(07/28) Kimitake Hiraoka | 81 ? Yotsuya, Tokyo, JP 1925(01/14) - 1970(11/25) Anthony Grove Hillerman | 1 ? Sacred Heart, OK 1925(05/27) - 2008(10/26) Eugene Luther Gore Vidal | 1 10996? United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 1925(10/03) Elmore John Leonard | 1 70140? New Orleans, LA 1925(10/11)
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| James Ingram Merrill | 1 10001? New York, NY 1926(03/03) - 1995(02/06) Dario Fo | 39 ? Sangiano, Varese, IT 1926(03/24) Irwin Allen Ginsberg | 1 07102? Newark, NJ 1926(06/03) - 1997(04/05) Peter Matthiessen | 1 10001? New York, NY 1927(05/22) Marvin Neil Simon | 1 10001? Bronx, NY 1927(07/04)
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| John Ashbery | 1 14692? Rochester, NY 1927(07/28) Günter Wilhelm Grass | 48 ? Wrzeszcz, Gdansk, PL 1927(10/16) Richard Gustave Stern | 1 10001? New York, NY 1928(02/25) Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcia Márquez | 57 ? Aracataca, Magdalena, CO 1928(03/06) Edward Franklin Albee | 1 20090? Washington, DC 1928(03/12)
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| Eliezer Wiesel | 40 ? Sighet, Maramures County, RO 1928(09/30) Carlos Fuentes Macias | 507 ? Panama City, PA 1928(11/11) Philip Kindred Dick | 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1928(12/16) - 1982(03/02) Herman Harold Potok | 1 10001? Bronx, NY 1929(02/17) - 2002(07/23) John James Osborne | 44 ? Fulham, London, England, GB 1929(12/12) - 1994(12/24) |
James Hilton | 44 ? Leigh, Lancashire, England, GB | 1900(09/09) - 1954(12/20)
Sterling Allen Brown | 1 ? Howard University, Washington, DC | 1901(05/01) - 1989(01/13)
| Oliver La Farge | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1901(12/19) - 1963(08/02)
| Quentin James Reynolds | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1902(04/11) - 1965(03/17)
| Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan | ? ? Cork City, Ireland | 1903(09/17) - 1966(03/10)
| John Henry O'Hara | 1 17901 Pottsville, PA | 1905(01/31) - 1970(04/11)
| Lionel Mordecai Trilling | 1 10001? Queens, NY | 1905(07/04) - 1975(11/05)
| Anthony Dymoke Powell | 44 ? Westminster, England, GB | 1905(12/21) - 2000(03/28)
| Terence Hanbury White | 91 ? Mumbai, IN | 1906(05/29) - 1964(01/17)
| Louis Dearborn LaMoore | 1 58401? Jamestown, ND | 1908(03/22) - 1988(06/10)
| Theodore Roethke | 1 48605? Saginaw, MI | 1908(05/28) - 1963(08/01)
| Eric Clifford Ambler | 44 ? London, England, GB | 1909(06/28) - 1998(10/22)
| James Rufus Agee | 1 37950? Highland Avenue and 15th Street, Knoxville, TN | 1909(11/27) - 1955(05/16)
| Wright Marion Morris | 1 68826 Central City, NE | 1910(01/06) - 1998(04/25)
| Peter De Vries | 1 60607? Chicago, IL | 1910(02/27) - 1993(09/28)
| Pierre-François-Marie-Louis Boulle | 33 ? Avignon, FR | 1912(02/20) - 1994(01/30)
| Karl Jay Shapiro | 1 21203? Baltimore, MD | 1913(11/10) - 2000(05/14)
| John Allyn Smith Berryman | 1 74501? McAlester, OK | 1914(10/25) - 1972(01/07)
| Howard Melvin Fast | 1 ? McAlester, OK | 1914(11/11) - 2003(03/12)
| Richard Patrick Russ | 44 ? Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, GB | 1914(12/12) - 2000(01/02)
| Alfred Kazin | 1 ? ?, ? | 1915(06/05) - 1998(06/05)
| Horton Foote | 1 77488 Wharton, TX | 1916(03/14) - 2009(03/04)
| Frank Garvin Yerby | 1 30903? Augusta, GA | 1916(09/05) - 1991(11/29)
| Sidney Sheldon | 1 60607? Chicago, IL | 1917(02/11) - 2007(01/30)
| Richard McClure Scarry | 1 02205? Boston, MA | 1919(06/05) - 1994(04/30)
| Lawrence Sanders | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY | 1920(03/15) - 1998(02/07)
| Arthur Hailey | 44 ? Luten, Bedfordshire, England, GB | 1920(04/05) - 2004(11/24)
| Mario Gianluigi Puzo | 1 10001? Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY | 1920(10/15) - 1999(07/02)
| Richard Stanley Francis | 44W ? Lawrenny, South Wales, GB | 1920(10/31)
| Brian Moore | 44N ? Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB | 1921(08/25) - 1999(01/11)
| Ernest James Gaines | 1 70762 Oscar, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA | 1922(01/15)
| William Thomas Gaddis | 1 10001? Manhattan, NY | 1922(12/29) - 1998(12/16)
| Stanley Berenstain | 1 19104? West Philadelphia, PA | 1923(09/29) - 2005(11/26)
| Thomas Louis Berger | 1 45202? Cincinnati, OH | 1924(07/20)
| Evan Shelby Connell | 1 64108? Kansas City, MO | 1924(08/17)
| José Donoso Yáñez | 56 ? ? ?, CL | 1924(10/05) - 1996(12/07)
| William Clark Styron | 1 23607? Newport News, VA | 1925(06/11) - 2006(11/01)
| John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes | 1 06904? Stamford, CT | 1925(08/17) - 1998(05/15)
| Frank Daniel Gilroy | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1925(10/13)
| John Knowles | 1 26554? Fairmont, WV | 1926(09/16) - 2001(11/29)
| Galway Kinnell | 1 02904? Providence, RI | 1927(02/01)
| Robert Ludlum | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1927(05/25) - 2001(03/12)
| William Stanley Merwin | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1927(09/30)
| William Joseph Kennedy | 1 02201? Albany, NY | 1928(01/16)
| Maurice Bernard Sendak | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY | 1928(06/10)
| Brian Friel | 44N ? Killyclogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, GB | 1929(01/09)
| Milan Kundera | 420 ? Brno, CZ | 1929(04/01)
| Ira Levin | 1 10001? Bronx, NY | 1929(08/27) - 2007(11/12)
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