Nellie Bly05 May 1864
Journalist
Jack London12 January 1876
Author
H. L. Mencken12 September 1880
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841
Explorer
Dorothy Day08 November 1897
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
James Thurber08 December 1894
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Walter Winchell07 April 1897
Journalist, Radio Personality
Pauline Pfeiffer22 July 1895
Journalist & Second Wife of Ernest Hemingway
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810
Henry Adams16 February 1838
Historian
Robert Benchley15 October 1889
Humorist
Bret Harte25 August 1836
Author & Poet
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Alexander Woollcott19 January 1887
American critic
Christopher Morley05 May 1890
Journalist, Novelist
Don Marquis29 July 1878
Humorist
Thomas Bailey Aldrich11 November 1836
Poet & Novelist
Franklin Pierce Adams15 November 1881
Journalist
John Reed22 October 1887
Journalist, Poet
Emma Lazarus22 July 1849
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Rose Wilder Lane05 December 1886
Journalists
Dorothea Lange26 May 1895
Journalist, Photographer, Artist, Photojournalist
Horace Greeley03 February 1811
Journalist, Politician, Publisher, Editor
Stephen Crane01 November 1871
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Ida Tarbell05 November 1857
Journalist, Writer, Biographer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890
Journalist, Feminist
Mathew Brady18 May 1822
Photographer, War photographer, Photojournalist,
Lewis Mumford19 October 1895
Architect, Historian of technology, Historian,
Weegee12 June 1899
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Lothrop Stoddard29 June 1883
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
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James Russell Lowell22 February 1819
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Elbert Hubbard19 June 1856
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Ben Hecht28 February 1893
Screenwriter
Lysander Spooner19 January 1808
Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher
Henry Luce03 April 1898
Journalist, Publisher
Robert Ripley25 December 1890
Anthropologist, Journalist
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Caresse Crosby20 April 1891
Publisher, Writer, Socialite, Poet, Memoirist,
Carter G. Woodson19 December 1875
Journalist, Historian
Friedrich List06 August 1789
Economist, University teacher, Journalist
George Washington Williams16 October 1849
Soldier, Historian, Diplomat, Writer, Minister,
Benjamin Tucker17 April 1854
Journalist, Philosopher, Economist, Translator,
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Finley Peter Dunne10 July 1867
Author, Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist
Kenneth Burke05 May 1897
Philosopher, Literary critic, University teacher,
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
Henry Hazlitt28 November 1894
Journalist, Economist, Philosopher
Rufus Wilmot Griswold13 February 1815
Journalist, Writer, Literary critic, Poet
Mark Van Doren13 June 1894
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Dorothy Thompson09 July 1893
Journalist, Writer
Marsden Hartley04 January 1877
Painter, Poet, Journalist
Paul Gallico26 July 1897
Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer,
Anna Louise Strong24 November 1885
Writer, Journalist, Activist, Trade unionist
Johann Most05 February 1846
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Editor
George Ellery Hale29 June 1868
Astronomer, Journalist
Agnes Smedley23 February 1892
Writer, Journalist
Ray Stannard Baker17 April 1870
Fanny Fern09 July 1811
Journalist, Writer, Novelist, Children's writer,
Hendrik Willem van Loon14 January 1882
Writer, Historian, Journalist, Children's writer
Irving Babbitt02 August 1865
Literary critic, Journalist
George Jean Nathan14 February 1882
Journalist, Film critic, Writer
James Thomas Fields31 December 1817
Publisher, Journalist
Alice Stone Blackwell14 September 1857
Journalist, Poet, Biographer, Feminist
George Horace Lorimer06 October 1867
Journalist
Josiah Gilbert Holland24 July 1819
Poet, Author, Novelist, Writer, Journalist
Clarence Budington Kelland11 July 1881
Writer, Journalist, Novelist
Gamaliel Bailey03 December 1807
Edward Sandford Martin02 January 1856
Journalist,
Benjamin Day10 April 1810
Newspaper publisher, Journalist
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb23 June 1876
Carter Godwin Woodson19 December 1875
Frank McKinney Hubbard01 September 1868
Alfred Damon Runyon04 October 1880
John Thomas Flynn25 October 1882
Heywood Campbell Broun07 December 1888