| Selma Lagerlvf | SE | 1858-1940 | ||||||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | SU | 1891-1940 | ||||||
| David Rabe | Dubuque | IA | 3/10/1940 | ? | ||||
| Peter Benchley | New York | NY | 5/8/1940 | ? | ||||
| Wallace Tripp | 6/26/1940 | ? | ||||||
| David McPhail | 6/30/1940 | ? | ||||||
| DuBose Heyward | St. Philip's Churchyard | Charleston | SC | 1885-7/16/1940 | ||||
| Jack Prelutsky | 9/8/1940 | ? | ||||||
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Stockton | CA | 10/27/1940 | ? | ||||
| M.B. Goffstein | 12/20/1940 | ? | ||||||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Saint Mary's Cemetery | Rockville | MD | 1896-12/21/1940 | ||||
| Virginia Woolf | GB | 1882-1941 | ||||||
| James Joyce | IE | 1882-1941 | ||||||
| Rabindranath Tagore | IN | 1861-1941 | ||||||
| Isaac Babel | SU | 1894-1941 | ||||||
| Jerry Spinelli | 2/1/1941 | ? | ||||||
| Errol LeCain | 3/5/1941 | ? | ||||||
| Sherwood Anderson | Roundhill Cemetery | Marion | VA | 1876-3/8/1941 | ||||
| Paul Theroux | Medford | MA | 4/10/1941 | ? | ||||
| John Edgar Wideman | Pittsburgh | PA | 6/14/1941 | ? | ||||
| Oscar Arias Sanchez | Heredia | Costa Rica | 9/13/1941 | ? | ||||
| Steven Kellogg | 10/6/1941 | ? | ||||||
| Anne Rice | New Orleans | LA | 10/14/1941 | ? | ||||
| Anne Tyler | Minneapolis | MN | 10/25/1941 | ? | ||||
| Daniel Manus Pinkwater | 11/15/1941 | ? | ||||||
| Jamake Highwater | 2/14/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Cynthia Voigt | 2/25/1942 | ? | ||||||
| John Irving | Exeter | NH | 3/2/1942 | ? | ||||
| Ellen Conford | 3/20/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Garrison Keillor | Anoka | MN | 8/7/1942 | ? | ||||
| Erica Jong | New York | NY | 3/26/1942 | ? | ||||
| Elizabeth Levy | 4/4/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Giulio Maestro | 5/6/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Pat Hutchins | 6/18/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Susan Jeffers | 10/7/1942 | ? | ||||||
| James Marshall | 10/10/1942 | ? | ||||||
| Michael Crichton | Chicago | IL | 10/23/1942 | ? | ||||
| Stephen Vincent Benit | US | 1898-1943 | ||||||
| Pat R. Mauser | 1/14/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Alexander Woollcott | Hamilton College Cemetery | Clinton | NY | 1887-1/23/1943 | ||||
| Rosemary Wells | 1/29/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Eileen Christelow | 4/22/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Paul Jennings | 4/30/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Nicki Giovanni | 6/7/1943 | ? | ||||||
| R. L. Stine | 10/8/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Sam Shepard | Ft. Sheridan | IL | 11/5/1943 | ? | ||||
| Molly Bang | 12/29/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Mercer Mayer | 12/30/1943 | ? | ||||||
| Antoine de Saint-Exupiry | FR | 1900-1944 | ||||||
| Jean Giraudoux | FR | 1882-1944 | ||||||
| Romain Rolland | FR | 1866-1944 | ||||||
| George Ade | US | 1866-1944 | ||||||
| Alice Walker | Eatonton | GA | 2/9/1944 | ? | ||||
| Janet Dailey | Storm Lake | IA | 5/21/1944 | ? | ||||
| Patricia McKissack | 8/9/1944 | ? | ||||||
| Paula Danziger | 8/18/1944 | ? | ||||||
| Paul Valiry | FR | 1871-1945 | ||||||
| William Sleator | 2/13/1945 | ? | ||||||
| August Wilson | Pittsburgh | PA | 4/27/1945 | ? | ||||
| Robert Munsch | 6/11/1945 | ? | ||||||
| Tobias Wolff | Birmingham | AL | 6/19/1945 | ? | ||||
| Steven Cosgrove | 7/26/1945 | ? | ||||||
| Pat Conroy | Atlanta | GA | 10/26/1945 | ? | ||||
| Mariana Mayer | 11/8/1945 | ? | ||||||
| Robert Benchley | Prospect Hill Cemetery | Nantucket | MA | 1889-11/21/1945 | ||||
| Ellen Glasgow | Hollywood Cemetery | Richmond | VA | 1874-11/21/1945 | ||||
| Jacqueline Wilson | 12/17/1945 | ? | ||||||
| Theodore Dreiser | Forest Lawn Memorial Park | Glendale | CA | 1871-12/28/1945 | ||||
| H. G. Wells | GB | 9/21/1866-1946 | ||||||
| Damon Runyon | US | 1880-1946 | ||||||
| Gertrude Stein | US | 1874-1946 | ||||||
| Booth Tarkington | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis | IN | 7/29/1869-5/19/1946 | ||||
| James Howe | 8/2/1946 | ? | ||||||
| Deborah Howe | 8/12/1946 | ? | ||||||
| Anthony Browne | 9/11/1946 | ? | ||||||
| Nancy Tafuri | 11/14/1946 | ? | ||||||
| David Macaulay | 12/2/1946 | ? | ||||||
| Hugh Lofting | GB | 1886-1947 | ||||||
| Tom Clancy | Baltimore | MD | 1947 | ? | ||||
| Barbara Park | 4/21/1947 | ? | ||||||
| Willa Cather | Old Burying Ground | Jaffrey Center | NH | 1873-4/24/1947 | ||||
| Mavis Jukes | 5/3/1947 | ? | ||||||
| Maxwell Perkins | Lakeview Cemetery | New Canaan | CT | 1884-6/17/1947 | Editor and supporter of Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. | |||
| Salman Rushdie | Bombay | India | 6/19/1947 | ? | ||||
| Mark Helprin | New York | NY | 6/28/1947 | ? | ||||
| Danielle Steel | New York | NY | 8/14/1947 | ? | ||||
| Ann Beattie | Washington | DC | 9/7/1947 | ? | ||||
| Stephen King | Portland | ME | 9/21/1947 | fantasy writer. | ||||
| Ann Blades | 11/16/1947 | ? | ||||||
| David Mamet | Chicago | IL | 11/30/1947 | ? | ||||
| S. E. Hinton | Tulsa | OK | 1948 | ? | ||||
| Susan Beth Pfeffer | 2/17/1948 | ? | ||||||
| Claude McKay | Calvary Cemetery | Woodside, Queens | NY | 1890-5/22/1948 | ||||
| Laurence Yep | 6/14/1948 | ? | ||||||
| Marilyn Singer | 10/3/1948 | ? | ||||||
| Sigrid Undset | NO | 1881-1949 | ? | |||||
| Thacher Hurd | 3/6/1949 | ? | ||||||
| Scott F. Turow | Chicago | IL | 4/12/1949 | ? | ||||
| Chris Van Allsburg | 6/18/1949 | ? | ||||||
| Margaret Mitchell | Oakland Cemetery | Atlanta | GA | 1900-8/16/1949 | ||||
| Martin Amis | Oxford | GB | 8/25/1949 | fantasy writer. | ||||
| Mary Gordon | Long Island | NY | 12/8/1949 | ? | ||||
| George Bernard Shaw | IE/GB | 1856-1950 | ||||||
| George Orwell | GB | 1903-1950 | ||||||
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | US | 9/1/1875-1950 | ||||||
| Edgar Lee Masters | Petersburg Oakland Cemetery | Petersburg | IL | 1869-3/5/1950 | ||||
| Bruce Coville | 5/16/1950 | ? | ||||||
| John Steptoe | 9/14/1950 | ? | ||||||
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Steepletop | Austerlitz | NY | 1892-10/19/1950 | ||||
| Bruce Brooks | 10/23/1950 | ? | ||||||
| Erick Ingraham | 12/23/1950 | ? | ||||||
| Andri Gide | FR | 1869-1951 | ||||||
| Sinclair Lewis | Greenwood Cemetery | Sauk Center | MN | 1885-1/10/1951 | ||||
| Jack Gantos | 7/2/1951 | ? | ||||||
| Ferenc Molnar | HU | 1878-1952 | ||||||
| Knute Hamsun | NO | 1859-1952 | ||||||
| George Santayana | US | 1863-1952 | ||||||
| George Shannon | 2/14/1952 | ? | ||||||
| Amy Tan | Oakland | CA | 2/19/1952 | ? | ||||
| Rita Dove | Akron | OH | 8/28/1952 | ? | ||||
| Paul Fleischman | 9/5/1952 | ? | ||||||
| Robin McKinley | 11/16/1952 | ? | ||||||
| Crescent Dragonwagon | 11/25/1952 | ? | ||||||
| Dylan Thomas | Welsh | 1914-1953 | ||||||
| Paul Zelinksy | 2/14/1953 | ? | ||||||
| Nicole Rubel | 4/29/1953 | ? | ||||||
| Eugene O'Neill | Forest Hills Cemetery | Boston | MA | 1888-11/27/1953 | ||||
| (Sidonie) Colette | FR | 1873-1954 | ||||||
| Cynthia Rylant | 6/6/1954 | ? | ||||||
| Thomas Mann | DE | 1875-1955 | ||||||
| John Grisham | Jonesboro | AR | 2/8/1955 | ? | ||||
| Wallace Stevens | Cedar Hill Cemetery | Hartford | CT | 1879-8/2/1955 | ||||
| Ann M. Martin | 8/12/1955 | ? | ||||||
| Bertolt Brecht | DE | 1898-1956 | ||||||
| A. A. Milne | GB | 1/18/1882-1956 | ||||||
| H.L. Mencken | Loudon Park Cemetery | Baltimore | MD | 1880-1/29/1956 | ||||
| Louis Bromfield | Malabar Farm State Park | Lucas | OH | 1896-3/18/1956 | ||||
| Gabriela Mistral | CL | 1889-1957 | ||||||
| Nikos Kazantzakis | GR | 1883?-1957 | ||||||
| Giuseppe di Lampedusa | IT | 1896-1957 | ||||||
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | US | 2/7/1867-1957 | ||||||
| Christopher Morley | Roslyn Cemetery | Roslyn | NY | 1890-3/28/1957 | ||||
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington | VA | 1876-9/22/1958 | ||||
| Maxwell Anderson | Ferncliff Cemetery | Hartsdale | NY | 1888-2/28/1959 | ||||
| Raymond Chandler | Mount Hope Cemetery | San Diego | CA | 1888-3/26/1959 | ||||
| Edgar A. Guest | Woodlawn Cemetery | Detroit | MI | 1881-8/5/1959 | ||||
| Albert Camus | FR | 1913-1960 | ||||||
| Boris Pasternak | SU | 1890-1960 | ||||||
| Nora Zeale Hurston | US | 1903-1960 | ||||||
| Richard Wright | XX | 1908-1960 | ||||||
| John P. Marquand | Sawyer's Hill Burying Ground | Newburyport | MA | 1893-6/16/1960 | ||||
| Emily Post | St. Mary's Cemetery | Tuxedo Park | NY | 1872-9/25/1960 | ||||
| Ernest Hemingway | US | 1899-1961 | ||||||
| George S. Kaufman | US | 1889-1961 | ||||||
| Dashiell Hammett | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington | VA | 1894-1/10/1961 | ||||
| Hilda Doolittle | Nisky Hill Cemetery | Bethlehem | PA | 1886-9/27/1961 | ||||
| James Thurber | Green Lawn Cemetery | Columbus | OH | 12/8/1894-11/2/1961 | ||||
| Moss Hart | Ferncliff Cemetery | Hartsdale | NY | 1904-12/20/1961 | ||||
| Hermann Hesse | DE | 1877-1962 | ||||||
| Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) | DK | 1885-1962 | ||||||
| Robinson Jeffers | US | 1887-1962 | ||||||
| Alexandra Sheedy | 6/13/1962 | ? | ||||||
| William Faulkner | St. Peter's Cemetery | Oxford | MS | 1897-7/6/1962 | ||||
| E. E. Cummings | Forest Hills Cemetery | Boston | MA | 1894-9/2/1962 | ||||
| Jean Cocteau | FR | 1889-1963 | ||||||
| Aldous Huxley | GB | 1894-1963 | ||||||
| Sylvia Plath | US | 1932-1963 | ||||||
| Robert Frost | Old Bennington Cemetery | Bennington | VT | 3/26/1874-1/29/1963 | ||||
| William Carlos Williams | Lyndhurst | NJ | 1883-3/4/1963 | |||||
| Theodore Roethke | Oakwood Cemetery | Saginaw | MI | 1908-8/1/1963 | ||||
| Oliver La Farge | National Cemetery | Santa Fe | NM | 1901-8/2/1963 | ||||
| Clifford Odets | Forest Lawn Memorial Park | Glendale | CA | 1906-8/14/1963 | ||||
| T. H. White | GB | 1906-1964 | ||||||
| Brendan Behan | IE | 1923-1964 | ||||||
| Sean O'Casey | IE | 1884-1964 | ||||||
| Grace Metalious | Smith Meeting House Cemetery | Gilmanton | NH | 1924-2/25/1964 | ||||
| Flannery O'Connor | Memory Hill Cemetery | Milledgeville | GA | 1925-8/3/1964 | ||||
| T. S. Eliot | GB | 1888-1965 | ||||||
| W. Somerset Maugham | GB | 1874-1965 | ||||||
| Shirley Jackson | US | 1919-1965 | ||||||
| Lorraine Hansberry | Beth El Cemetery | Croton-on-Hudson | NY | 1930-1/2/1965 | ||||
| Quentin Reynolds | Holy Cross Cemetery | Brooklyn | NY | 1902-3/17/1965 | ||||
| J. K. Rowling | 7/31/1965 | ? | ||||||
| Randall Jarrell | New Garden Friends Cemetery | Greensboro | NC | 1914-10/14/1965 | ||||
| C. S. Forester | GB | 1899-1966 | ||||||
| Evelyn Waugh | GB | 1903-1966 | ||||||
| Dav Pilkey | 3/4/1966 | ? | ||||||
| John Masefield | GB | 1878-1967 | ||||||
| Ilya G. Ehrenburg | SU | 1891-1967 | ||||||
| Dorothy Parker | US | 1893-1967 | ||||||
| Langston Hughes | US | 2/1/1902-1967 | ||||||
| Carl Sandburg | Carl Sandburg Birthplace | Galesburg | IL | 1/6/1878-7/22/1967 | ||||
| Carson McCullers | Old Hill Cemetery | Nyack | NY | 1917-9/29/1967 | ||||
| Edna Ferber | US | 1887-1968 | ||||||
| John Steinbeck | US | 1902-1968 | ||||||
| Upton Sinclair | US | 1878-1968 | ||||||
| Virginia Lee Burton | US | 1909-1968 | ||||||
| Erich Maria Remarque | DE/US | 1898-1970 | ||||||
| Frangois Mauriac | FR | 1885-1970 | ||||||
| E. M. Forster | GB | 1879-1970 | ||||||
| Mishima Yukio (Hiraoka Kimitake) | JP | 1925-1970 | ||||||
| Erle Stanley Gardner | US | 1889-1970 | ||||||
| John O'Hara | Princeton Cemetery | Princeton | NJ | 1905-4/11/1970 | ||||
| John Dos Passos | Yeocomico Churchyard | Westmoreland County | VA | 1896-9/28/1970 | ||||
| Ogden Nash | Little River Cemetery | North Hampton | NH | 8/19/1902-5/19/1971 | ||||
| Edmund Wilson | Pleasant Hill Cemetery | Wellfleet | MA | 1895-6/12/1972 | ||||
| Ezra Pound | US | 1885-1972 | ||||||
| John Berryman | Resurrection Cemetery | St. Paul | MN | 1914-1/7/1972 | ||||
| Marianne Moore | Evergreen Cemetery | Gettysburg | PA | 1887-2/5/1972 | ||||
| Paul Goodman | Stratford Center Cemetery | Stratford | NH | 1911-8/2/1972 | ||||
| Mark Van Doren | Cornwall Hollow Cemetery | Cornwall | CT | 1894-12/10/1972 | ||||
| Pablo Neruda | CL | 1904-1973 | ||||||
| J. R. R. Tolkien | GB | 1/3/1892-1973 | ||||||
| Conrad Aiken | US | 1889-1973 | ||||||
| Pearl S. Buck | Green Hill Farm | Perkasie | PA | 6/25/1892-3/6/1973 | ||||
| William Inge | Old Mount Hope Cemetery | Independence | KS | 1913-6/10/1973 | ||||
| Pdr Lagerkvist | SE | 1891-1974 | ||||||
| P. G. Wodehouse | GB/US | 1881-1975 | ||||||
| Rex Stout | US | 1886-1975 | ||||||
| Thornton Wilder | Mount Carmel Cemetery | Hamden | CT | 1897-12/7/1975 | ||||
| Andre Malraux | FR | 1901-1976 | ||||||
| Agatha Christie | GB | 1890-1976 | ||||||
| Vladimir Nabokov | SU/US | 1899-1977 | ||||||
| Robert Lowell | US | 1917-1977 | ||||||
| James T. Farrell | US | 1904-1979 | ||||||
| S. J. Perelman | US | 1904-1979 | ||||||
| Jean-Paul Sartre | FR | 1905-1980 | ||||||
| Henry Miller | US | 1891-1980 | ||||||
| Katherine Anne Porter | US | 1890-1980 | ||||||
| Eugenio Montale | IT | 1896-1981 | ||||||
| William Saroyan | US | 1908-1981 | ||||||
| Nelson Algren | Oakland Cemetery | Sag Harbor, Long Island | NY | 1909-5/9/1981 | ||||
| John Cheever | US | 1912-1982 | ||||||
| Ayn Rand | Kensico Cemetery | Valhalla | NY | 1905-3/6/1982 | ||||
| Christina Stead | AU | 1903-1983 | ||||||
| Rebecca West | GB | 1893-1983 | ||||||
| Tennessee Williams | US | 1911-1983 | ||||||
| Vicente Aleixandre | ES | 1898-1984 | ||||||
| Mikhail Sholokhov | SU | 1906-1984 | ||||||
| Lillian Hellman | US | 1905-1984 | ||||||
| Robert Graves | GB | 1895-1985 | ||||||
| Italo Calvino | IT | 1923-1985 | ||||||
| E. B. White | US | 7/11/1899-1985 | ||||||
| Jorge Luis Borges | AR | 1900-1986 | ||||||
| Jaroslav Seifert | CS | 1902-1986 | ||||||
| Jean Genet | FR | 1911-1986 | ||||||
| Simone de Beauvoir | FR | 1908-1986 | ||||||
| Bernard Malamud | US | 1914-1986 | ||||||
| Samuel Beckett | IE | 1906-1989 | ||||||
| Mary McCarthy | US | 1912-1989 | ||||||
| Roald Dahl | GB/US | 9/13/1916-1990 | ||||||
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | PL/US | 1904-1991 | ||||||
| Graham Greene | GB | 1904-1991 | ||||||
| Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) | US | 3/2/1904-1991 | ||||||
| Alex Haley | US | 1921-1992 | ||||||
| Isaac Asimov | US | 1/2/1920-1992 | ||||||
| Anthony Burgess | GB | 1917-1993 | ||||||
| William Golding | GB | 1911-1993 | ||||||
| John Hersey | US | 1914-1993 | ||||||
| William l. Shirer | US | 1904-1993 | ||||||
| James Clavell | GB/US | 1925-1994 | ||||||
| Eugene Ionesco | FR | 1910-1994 | ||||||
| Pierre Boulle | FR | 1913-1994 | ||||||
| Peter Taylor | US | 1917-1994 | ||||||
| Ralph Ellison | US | 1914-1994 | ||||||
| Richard Scarry | US | 1920-1994 | ||||||
| May Sarton | BE/US | 1914-1995 | ||||||
| James Herriot (James Alfred Wight) | GB | 1916-1995 | ||||||
| John Osborne | GB | 1929-1995 | ||||||
| Stephen Spender | GB | 1909-1995 | ||||||
| James Merrill | US | 1926-1995 | ||||||
| Wendy Wasserstein | New York | NY | - | |||||
| Tony Kushner | - | |||||||
| Stephen R. Donaldson | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| George R.R. Martin | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| Terry Pratchett | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| Don DeLillo | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| Julian Barnes | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| Kingsley | fantasy writer. | |||||||
| Owen Barfield | GB | |||||||
| Dorothy L. Sayers | GB | |||||||
| Charles Williams | GB |
