3701. Jed MacKay

Comic book writer known for work primarily with Marvel Comics on mainstream superhero titles.

3702. Mark Gregory Pegg

Medieval historian specializing in heresy and the medieval Inquisition; author of the book The Corruption of Angels.

3703. Anna Soler-Pont

Spanish (Catalan) writer and literary agent, founder of the Pontas Literary & Film Agency, known for children's literature, novels and for promoting international literary and film adaptations.

3704. Raechel Anne Jolie

3705. Lawrence Wright

American author, journalist, and screenwriter; Pulitzer Prize winner best known for The Looming Tower and Going Clear.

3706. Eric Shanower

American comic book writer and artist, best known for the long-running historical series Age of Bronze and his illustrated adaptations and original stories set in L. Frank Baum's Oz.

3707. Marci Shimoff

American author, motivational speaker, and human-potential teacher best known for self-help books such as "Happy for No Reason" and "Love for No Reason," contributions to the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, and as a featured teacher in the film/book "The Secret."

3708. Joshilyn Jackson

American novelist best known for contemporary Southern fiction that blends humor, suspense, and social themes.

3709. Sidney Poitier

Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat; the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1964, for Lilies of the Field) and a prominent figure in 20th-century cinema.

3710. Andrea Smith

3711. Steve Dublanica

American author and former waiter, creator of the "Waiter Rant" blog and author of the book "Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip — Confessions of a Cynical Waiter."

3712. Kelly Corrigan

American author and essayist known for personal memoirs and essays about family, illness, caregiving and resilience; author of books including The Middle Place and Lift.

3713. David Reichert

American politician and law enforcement official; served as King County Sheriff (1997–2004) and as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 8th congressional district (2005–2019), member of the Republican Party.

3714. Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet (1048–1131), known for contributions to algebra and astronomy, calendar reform, and for his quatrains (the Rubáiyát) popularized in the West by later translations.

3715. Brian Coffey

Irish poet, publisher and translator associated with 20th-century modernist poetry.

3716. Leigh Nichols

3717. William Landay

American novelist and former prosecutor, best known for the novel "Defending Jacob."

3718. Susan Elizabeth Phillips

American bestselling novelist of contemporary romance, known for witty, character-driven stories and numerous popular novels.

3719. Madison Smartt Bell

American novelist and short-story writer, best known for novels set in Haiti (including All Souls' Rising).

3720. Clive Staples Lewis

British writer, literary scholar, and Christian apologist best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as works of fiction, criticism, and theology.

3721. Kate DiCamillo

American children's author best known for Because of Winn-Dixie (1999) and The Tale of Despereaux (2003). She is a two-time Newbery Medal winner (The Tale of Despereaux; Flora & Ulysses) and served as U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

3722. Thomas Wolfe

American novelist and short-story writer known for his autobiographical, exuberant prose in major works such as Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again.

3723. Michael Herr

American writer and war correspondent, best known for Dispatches (1977), a landmark account of the Vietnam War; also contributed to film screenplays including Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

3724. Roberta Rea

3725. Chantal Akerman

Belgian film director, screenwriter and artist known for innovative, often feminist and experimental cinema — best known for the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

3726. Doris Lessing

British novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writer; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Best known for works such as The Golden Notebook, The Grass Is Singing and the Children of Violence series; her writing addresses politics, feminism, and social issues.

3727. Virgil

Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan age, best known for the epic Aeneid and for the Eclogues (Bucolics) and Georgics.

3728. Carson McCullers

American novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet associated with Southern Gothic themes of loneliness and isolation; best known for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951).

3729. Upton Sinclair

American novelist, journalist, and social reformer best known for The Jungle (1906), a muckraking exposé of the meatpacking industry; prolific author and socialist activist who ran for governor of California.

3730. Tom Wolfe

American author and journalist, leading figure of the New Journalism movement; known for books such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Bonfire of the Vanities, and for his flamboyant public persona.

3731. Arnold Bennett

English novelist, playwright, journalist and critic best known for novels set in the Potteries (the 'Five Towns'), including The Old Wives' Tale and the Clayhanger series.

3732. Frederick Forsyth

English author and former journalist, best known for espionage and thriller novels such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, and The Dogs of War.

3733. François-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, diplomat and politician (1768–1848), a leading figure of early Romanticism; author of René, Génie du christianisme (The Genius of Christianity) and the Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe.

3734. Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist, a principal founder of structural anthropology, known for works such as Tristes Tropiques, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, and Structural Anthropology; influential for comparative analyses of myths, kinship and culture.

3735. Apuleius

Latin-language novelist, philosopher and rhetorician from Roman North Africa, best known for the novel The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) and works such as the Apology and De deo Socratis.

3736. Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author, pioneer of gonzo journalism, best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his outspoken, immersive reporting on politics and American counterculture.

3737. Barbara Pym

English novelist known for gently comic social novels about ordinary lives and church/parish life in mid-20th-century England; notable works include Excellent Women, Jane and Prudence, and Quartet in Autumn. She was much admired by critics after a 1970s rediscovery.

3738. Laura Ingalls Wilder

American writer best known for the Little House series of children's books, which fictionalize her childhood experiences growing up in pioneer and frontier communities in the late 19th century.

3739. Benjamin Franklin

American polymath, Founding Father, printer, writer, scientist and inventor known for work on electricity, civic institutions, inventions (bifocals, Franklin stove), and roles in drafting the Declaration of Independence and negotiating American independence.

3740. Herman Wouk

American novelist and playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Caine Mutiny; best known for novels about World War II and Jewish life, including The Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

3741. Richard Matheson

American author and screenwriter best known for horror, fantasy and science fiction works, including the novel I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, and numerous teleplays and screenplays such as episodes of The Twilight Zone and Duel.

3742. M.M. Kaye

British novelist and memoirist best known for historical and adventure novels set in British India, notably The Far Pavilions.

3743. Ivan Bunin

Russian writer and poet, noted for his lyrical prose and short stories. He was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). Major works include The Village and The Life of Arseniev. Emigrated from Soviet Russia and spent much of his later life in France.

3744. Christine de Pizan

Medieval writer and poet who wrote in French; court author and one of the earliest known female proponents of women's rights, best known for works such as The Book of the City of Ladies (early 15th century).

3745. Maria Edgeworth

Anglo-Irish novelist and writer (1768–1849) known for realist regional novels and tales of Irish life, including Castle Rackrent and Belinda; also wrote on education and children's literature.

3746. Alejo Carpentier

Cuban novelist, essayist and musicologist, a major 20th-century Latin American writer associated with magical realism and the concept of lo real maravilloso; author of El reino de este mundo (The Kingdom of This World) and Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps).

3747. Gerard Reve

Dutch novelist, poet and essayist, regarded as one of the leading postwar Dutch writers. Known for his ironic voice and for candid, often controversial explorations of religion and homosexuality.

3748. Sei Shōnagon

Heian-period Japanese court lady and writer, author of The Pillow Book (Makura no Sōshi), noted for her witty observations, lists, and essays on court life.

3749. Gertrude Stein

American writer, poet, playwright, and art collector known for experimental, modernist writing and for hosting a Paris literary salon; author of works such as Three Lives and Tender Buttons.

3750. Nadine Gordimer

South African novelist, short-story writer and political activist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991; known for novels and stories that examine apartheid and its moral and political complexities, including The Conservationist, July's People, and Burger's Daughter.