Lillian Hellman1905 – 1984 Mary McCarthy1912 – 1989 Jack Kerouac1922 – 1969 Truman Capote1924 – 1984 Norman Mailer1923 – 2007 Elizabeth Bishop1911 – 1979 J.D. Salinger1919 – 2010 Gore Vidal1925 – 2012 Ernest Hemingway1899 – 1961 Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881 Joseph Conrad1857 – 1924 D.H. Lawrence1885 – 1930 Herman Melville1819 – 1891 James Joyce1882 – 1941 Virginia Woolf1882 – 1941 Vladimir Nabokov