David McCullough (1933-2022)

Patricia MacLachlan (1938-2022)

P. J. O’Rourke (1947-2022)

Ashley Bryan (1929-2022)

Steve Jenkins (1952-2022)

Joe McKinney (1968-2021)

Joan Didion (1934-2021)

Greg Tate (1954-2021)

Anne Rice (1941-2021)

Beverly Cleary (1916-2021)

Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021)

Eric Carle (1929-2021)

Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)

Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020)

Kip Addotta (1944-2019)

Raymond Dawson (unknown)

Harper Lee (1926 – 2016)

Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Renee Robinson (1966-2014)

Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)

J.D. Salinger (1919- 2010)

Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - 2007)

Kurt Vonnegut  (1922-2007)

August Wilson (1935-2005)

Christopher Reeve (1954-2004)

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Anne Frank (1925-1945)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
 
Robert Burns (1759-1796)

William Shakespeare (1554-1616)

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)