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Rob Bloom is an American humor writer. In his regular humor column, Rob Bloom writes about pop culture and current events. Rob Bloom has written for the Cartoon Network, National Public Radio, the Travel Channel, Pop Cult Magazine, among others.
 
 
  Dame Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939). Though famous for her novels, Drabble has also written several screenplays, plays, short stories, and some biographies as well as non-fiction books such as A writer's Britain. Landscape and Literature. She wrote comments on several literary classics and took on the editorship of the Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1987 and in 2000.  
 
 
  David Mitchell His first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, Number9dream (2001), was shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction. In 2003 David was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. His third novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His latest novel is Black Swan Green (2006).  
 
 
 Dominick Dunne (born October 29, 1925 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American writer and investigative journalist describing the way high society interacts with the judiciary system. He was a producer in Hollywood and is also known from his appearances on television.  
 
 
 John Montague was born in New York in 1929, and brought up in Garvaghey, County Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and a memoir. In 1998 he became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry.  
 
 
 David Shields is an author of several award-winning books. He has also written reviews for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.  
 
 
 Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He was "Hollywood" royalty, the son of B.P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe. Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay A Face in the Crowd.  
 
 
 Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a horror-genre author.  
 
 
 John Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He lived in nearby Shillington until he was 13. Updike's most famous works are his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, and Rabbit, Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 21 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. His works often explore sex, faith, death, and their interrelationship. 
 
 
 Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist.  
 
 
 Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, and man of letters.  
 
 
 Elizabeth Bowen (June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.  
 
 
 Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898), was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the comic poem The Hunting of the Snark, and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky  
 
 
 Richard Thomas Condon (born March 18, 1915 in New York, New York; died April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas), was a satirical novelist best known for conspiratorial tales such as The Manchurian Candidate. 
 
 
 Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. He is perhaps best known for his short stories, his most famous being The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle  
 
 
 Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential and controversial authors in science fiction. He was the first science-fiction writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction, and he was among the first authors of bestselling novel-length science fiction in the 1960s. For many years Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the Big Three of science fiction. He won seven Hugo Awards for his novels and films, and the first Grand Master Award given by the Science Fiction Writers of America for lifetime achievement.  
 
 
 James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 - August 28, 1859) was an English essayist and writer.  
 
 
 Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916), son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th century. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based upon themes of consciousness.  
 
 
 Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 -- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764-1847).  
 
 
 Philip Larkin (August 9, 1922 - December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He was offered, the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined. He spent his working life as a university librarian.  
 
 
 Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 Paris, France - December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, reputedly the highest paid author of the 1930s.  
 
 
 John Gregory Dunne (25 May 1932 - 30 December 2003) was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.