John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an internatio...

Susan Keating Glaspell was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company....

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer P...

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaar...

Edwin L. Sabin was an American author and historian who is best known for his Western novels and historical works. Born in 1870 in Rockford, Illinois, Sabin spent much of his life exploring the Americ...

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was an American author known for her contributions to American literature, particularly in the realm of regionalism and local color fiction. Born on October 31, 1852, in Randol...