In no particular order, I include the following. There are hundreds more I am sure that should be included. Movie directors are shown in the second paragraph.
Robert Burns, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Lee Burke, William Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Joseph Wambaugh, Mark Twain, James Michener, Louis L’Amour, John Grisham, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Elmore Leonard, Dan Jenkins, Richard Henry Dana, John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, Patrick Oliverio, Jim Bouton, Jerry Kramer, Robert Frost, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Willie Morris, Phil Jackson, Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, Ron Chernow, Stephen King, E.B. White, David McCullough, William Manchester, Winston Churchill, Raymond Chandler, J. Frank Dobie, Lisa Marti
