Jack London12 January 1876
Author
Walter Winchell07 April 1897
Journalist, Radio Personality
Nellie Bly05 May 1864
Journalist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897
H. L. Mencken12 September 1880
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841
Explorer
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
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
James Thurber08 December 1894
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Ida Tarbell05 November 1857
Journalist
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810
Henry Adams16 February 1838
Historian
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
Carter G. Woodson19 December 1875
Journalist, Historian
Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838
Politician
Emma Lazarus22 July 1849
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Stephen Crane01 November 1871
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Charles Dow06 November 1851
Journalist
Damon Runyon04 October 1880
Writer
Joel Chandler Harris09 December 1848
Journalist
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Weegee12 June 1899
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890
Journalist
James M. Cox31 March 1870
Politician
Lewis Mumford19 October 1895
Architect, Historian of technology, Historian,
Djuna Barnes12 June 1892
Artist
Henry Luce03 April 1898
Journalist, Publisher
Ben Hecht28 February 1893
Screenwriter
Elbert Hubbard19 June 1856
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Caresse Crosby20 April 1891
Publisher, Writer, Socialite, Poet, Memoirist,
Lysander Spooner19 January 1808
Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
George Washington Williams16 October 1849
Soldier, Historian, Diplomat, Writer, Minister,
Dorothy Thompson09 July 1893
Journalist, Writer
Lothrop Stoddard29 June 1883
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Friedrich List06 August 1789
Economist, University teacher, Journalist
Elijah Parish Lovejoy09 November 1802
Journalist
Rufus Wilmot Griswold13 February 1815
Journalist, Writer, Literary critic, Poet
Henry Hazlitt28 November 1894
Journalist, Economist, Philosopher
Henry Steel Olcott02 August 1832
Military Officer
Kenneth Burke05 May 1897
Philosopher, Literary critic, University teacher,
Benjamin Tucker17 April 1854
Journalist, Philosopher, Economist, Translator,
Martin Delany06 May 1812
Journalist
Henry Jarvis Raymond24 January 1820
Journalist
Edward Bellamy26 March 1850
Journalist
Frank Norris05 March 1870
Journalist
Anna Louise Strong24 November 1885
Writer, Journalist, Activist, Trade unionist
Amelia Bloomer27 May 1818
Advocate
Wolfgang Kapp24 July 1858
Civil Servant
Daniel De Leon14 December 1852
Socialist
Crystal Eastman25 June 1881
Lawyer
Paul Gallico26 July 1897
Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer,
Janet Flanner13 March 1892
Writer
Victor L. Berger28 February 1860
Politician
Henry W. Grady24 May 1850
Journalist
Marsden Hartley04 January 1877
Painter, Poet, Journalist
Susan Glaspell01 July 1876
Playwright
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
Maxwell Anderson15 December 1888
Playwright
Mark Van Doren13 June 1894
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Mary Ann Shadd09 October 1823
Activist
George Creel01 December 1876
Journalist
William Monroe Trotter07 April 1872
Editor
Mary White Ovington11 April 1865
Journalist
Agnes Smedley23 February 1892
Writer, Journalist
Ned Buntline20 March 1821
Publisher
George Ellery Hale29 June 1868
Astronomer, Journalist
Johann Most05 February 1846
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Editor
Eugene Field02 September 1850
Writer
Allan Nevins20 May 1890
Historian
Richard Harding Davis18 April 1864
Journalist
Arthur Brisbane12 December 1864
Writer
Harold Ross06 November 1892
Journalist
Dorothy Dix18 November 1861
Journalist
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880
Journalist
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor28 October 1875
Photojournalist
William Christian Bullitt Jr.25 January 1891
Diplomat
Albert Payson Terhune21 December 1872
Author
Ellen Browning Scripps18 October 1836
Journalist
Hendrik Willem van Loon14 January 1882
Writer, Historian, Journalist, Children's writer
William Lowndes Yancey10 August 1814
Journalist
Ray Stannard Baker17 April 1870