Jack London12 January 1876
Author
Nellie Bly05 May 1864
Journalist
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841
Explorer
H. L. Mencken12 September 1880
Dorothy Day08 November 1897
Walter Winchell07 April 1897
Journalist, Radio Personality
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Horace Greeley03 February 1811
Journalist
Pauline Pfeiffer22 July 1895
Journalist & Second Wife of Ernest Hemingway
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
James Thurber08 December 1894
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Henry Adams16 February 1838
Historian
Ida Tarbell05 November 1857
Journalist
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Robert Benchley15 October 1889
Humorist
Bret Harte25 August 1836
Author & Poet
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
Rose Wilder Lane05 December 1886
Journalists
Joel Chandler Harris09 December 1848
Journalist
Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838
Politician
Carter G. Woodson19 December 1875
Journalist, Historian
Djuna Barnes12 June 1892
Artist
Emma Lazarus22 July 1849
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Stephen Crane01 November 1871
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Damon Runyon04 October 1880
Writer
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Lysander Spooner19 January 1808
Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher
James M. Cox31 March 1870
Politician
Lothrop Stoddard29 June 1883
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
Caresse Crosby20 April 1891
Publisher, Writer, Socialite, Poet, Memoirist,
Weegee12 June 1899
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890
Journalist
Henry W. Grady24 May 1850
Journalist
George Washington Williams16 October 1849
Soldier, Historian, Diplomat, Writer, Minister,
Ben Hecht28 February 1893
Screenwriter
Elbert Hubbard19 June 1856
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Lewis Mumford19 October 1895
Architect, Historian of technology, Historian,
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Henry Luce03 April 1898
Journalist, Publisher
William Monroe Trotter07 April 1872
Editor
Henry Jarvis Raymond24 January 1820
Journalist
Elijah Parish Lovejoy09 November 1802
Journalist
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Mary White Ovington11 April 1865
Journalist
Benjamin Tucker17 April 1854
Journalist, Philosopher, Economist, Translator,
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Charles Dow06 November 1851
Journalist
Martin Delany06 May 1812
Journalist
Dorothy Thompson09 July 1893
Journalist, Writer
Henry Hazlitt28 November 1894
Journalist, Economist, Philosopher
Friedrich List06 August 1789
Economist, University teacher, Journalist
Henry Steel Olcott02 August 1832
Military Officer
Edward Bellamy26 March 1850
Journalist
Kenneth Burke05 May 1897
Philosopher, Literary critic, University teacher,
Rufus Wilmot Griswold13 February 1815
Journalist, Writer, Literary critic, Poet
Paul Gallico26 July 1897
Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer,
Finley Peter Dunne10 July 1867
Author, Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist
Crystal Eastman25 June 1881
Lawyer
Anna Louise Strong24 November 1885
Writer, Journalist, Activist, Trade unionist
Amelia Bloomer27 May 1818
Advocate
Janet Flanner13 March 1892
Writer
Daniel De Leon14 December 1852
Socialist
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
William Christian Bullitt Jr.25 January 1891
Diplomat
Marsden Hartley04 January 1877
Painter, Poet, Journalist
Mark Van Doren13 June 1894
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Frank Norris05 March 1870
Journalist
Victor L. Berger28 February 1860
Politician
Ned Buntline20 March 1821
Publisher
Mary Ann Shadd09 October 1823
Activist
Maxwell Anderson15 December 1888
Playwright
Wolfgang Kapp24 July 1858
Civil Servant
Susan Glaspell01 July 1876
Playwright
Eugene Field02 September 1850
Writer
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880
Journalist
Agnes Smedley23 February 1892
Writer, Journalist
Harold Ross06 November 1892
Journalist
Johann Most05 February 1846
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Editor
George Ellery Hale29 June 1868
Astronomer, Journalist
Allan Nevins20 May 1890
Historian
Ellen Browning Scripps18 October 1836
Journalist
William Lowndes Yancey10 August 1814
Journalist
George Creel01 December 1876
Journalist
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor28 October 1875
Photojournalist
Dorothy Dix18 November 1861
Journalist
Irvin S. Cobb23 June 1876
Author
Albert Payson Terhune21 December 1872
Author
Irving Babbitt02 August 1865
Literary critic, Journalist
Arthur Brisbane12 December 1864
Writer