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LiteratureGloria Steinem
1934 – 2026 · Journalist, Writer, Reporter
“The journalist who gave a movement its words, and spent sixty years on the road repeating them.”
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LiteratureGene Shalit
1926 – 2026 · Literary critic, Film critic, Journalist
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LiteratureWendell Berry
1934 – 2026 · Poet, Novelist, Writer
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LiteratureJoan Didion
1934 – 2021 · Writer, journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, memoirist
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
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LiteratureEdward Field
1924 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; memoirist; anthologist; poetry reader/teacher; documentary narration writer; WWII navigator
“Village poet who stood up, friend, for a century.”
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LiteratureJohn Crowley
1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasy, SF, historical fiction); short-story writer; essayist; documentary screenwriter; Yale creative writing lecturer; co-founder Straight Ahead Pictures
“Fantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.”
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LiteratureRachel Blau DuPlessis
1941 – 2026 · Poet; essayist; feminist critic; scholar of modernist and contemporary poetry; professor emerita
“Feminist poet-critic whose life poem Drafts remade the American long poem.”
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LiteratureErnest Hemingway
1899 – 1961 · Novelist and journalist
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
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LiteratureToni Morrison
1931 – 2019 · Novelist
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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LiteratureMaya Angelou
1928 – 2014 · Poet and memoirist
“Still I rise.”
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