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Scans	Name	Description	Information
	Edward Albee	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1928 in Washington, DC. Author and playwright. Best known for his drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
	Louis Auchincloss	Index Card 3"x5"	U.S. novelist, historian and essayist, born in 1917 in New York City. Attended Yale University where he was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. He has received the National Medal of Arts. He also practices law.
	Faith Baldwin	SP 4"x6"	Immensely popular writer of romance novels from the 1930s to the 1950s. Her books were often turned into magazine series.
	Tom Clancy	Index Card 3"x5"	American author of political thrillers, whose books deal with espionage and the military, he is one of two authors to have sold two million copies on a first printing. His works include A Clear and Present Danger, and The Hunt for Red October.
	Mary Higgins Clark	Index Card 3"x5"	Mary Higgins Clark was born in New York, where she worked as a stewardess. She started writing for radio shows, and soon was writing books. Her works include Where Are the Children?, Pretend You Don't See Her, You Belong to Me, and The Christmas Thief.
	Alistair Cooke	Index Card 3"x5"	Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) was a British journalist and broadcaster. He moved to the United States in 1937 before WWII broke out. He is best known as the host of Masterpiece Theater, a staple on television for years. He was the author of Alistair Cooke's America.
	Michael Crichton	SP 8"x10"	American writer born in 1942. Author of The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
	Clive Cussler	SP 5"x7"	American writer and marine archaeologist born in 1931. Best known for "Raise the Titanic" and "Sahara."
	Joan Didion	SP 5"x8"	Born in 1934 in California. Attended the U of C at Berkeley, then went to work for Vogue Magazine. Her works include The Last Thing He Wanted, Salvador and Miami. She is married to the writer John Gregory Dunne.
	Jules Feiffer	Index Card 3"x5"	Popular cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner and inductee into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. Born in 1929 in New York. His cartoons ran for over 40 years in the Village Voice, and have appeared in Playboy, The New Yorker and Esquire magazines. He has been awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	John Kenneth Galbraith	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1908 in Canada, American economist and author of almost 5 books and thousands of articles on economics. Coined the term "affluent society" during the Lyndon Johnson administration. He served as ambassador to India under John F. Kennedy. Galbraith was the former president of the American Economic Association. He was recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Galbraith died in April, 2006.
	Thomas Hoving	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1931 in New York City, Thomas Hoving is an American museum director and consultant, and is the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has worked as an arts correspondent for the ABC news show 20/20. He is also the author of several books on art and history.
	Fran Liebowitz	SP 5"x8"	American writer and journalist born in 1951. Often called "the funniest woman in America." Author of The Fran Liebowitz Reader, and Metropolitan Life.
	Norman Mailer	Index Card 3"x5"	American writer born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood. Works include Are We in Viet Nam?, The Executioner's Song, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Prisoner of Sex.
	Malachy McCourt	Signed Book 7"x9"	Malachy Gerard McCourt (born 1931) is an Irish-American actor, writer and politician. He was the 2006 Green party candidate for governor in New York State. He is the younger brother of Frank McCourt.
	Arthur Miller	Index Card 3"x5"	American author and playwright, born in 1915 in New York. His best known works were The Crucible and The Death of a Salesman, which was made into a motion picture. Miller was briefly married to the actress Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. He died in 2005.
	Gordon Parks	Index Card 3"x5"	Prominent black photographer, musician, author and film director, born in 1912. His books include Camera Portraits, Born Black, The Sun Stalker and Glimpses Toward Infinity. His films include Shaft (1971), The Super Cops, and Solomon Northup's Odyssey. His son, Gordon Parks Jr., directed the film Superfly. Parks died in March, 2006.
	Annie Proulx	SP 5"x7"	Edna Annie Proulx, American author, born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1935. Her short story, "Brokeback Mountain," was made into an Academy-Award-winning motion picture. Other books include Postcards (1992), The Shipping News (1993) and Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004).
	Anne Rice	Signed Card 4"x6"	American author of horror/fantasy novels, she is primarily known for the dark, Gothic character of her books. She is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her works include Interview With the Vampire, which was made into a motion picture in 1994, The Vampire Chronicles, The Queen of the Damned and Blood and Gold.
	Jose Saramago	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1922 in Portugal, Saramago is a writer, journalist and playwright. His works include Terra do Pecado, 1947, Journey to Portugal, 1981, All the Names, 1997, and The Cave, 2001. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
	Arthur Schlesinger	Index Card 3"x5"	American historian, born in 1917 in Columbus, Ohio. His works mainly deal with the lives and ideals of American presidents, such as Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. His works include The Vital center, 1949, The Cycles of American History, 1986, and JFK Remembered, 1988. Schlesinger died in 2007.
	Susan Sontag	Index Card 3"x5"	Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American novelist and activist. She was born in New York City, but grew up in Arizona. Her works include The Volcano Lover, 1992, I, etcetera, 1977, and a large collection of essays. She was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
	Danielle Steel	TLS	One of America's best-selling authors, Steel was born in New York City in 1947. Primarily a writer of romance novels, she has sold more than 500 million copies of her books, and has been seen numerous times on the best seller lists. Her works include Ransom, 2004, Leap of Faith, 2001, Five Days in Paris, 1995, Family Album, 1985, and The Ring, 1980.
	John Updike	Index Card 3"x5"	American writer and poet, born in 1932. Famous for his Rabbit series, which include Rabbit Run, 1960, Rabbit Redux, 1971, Rabbit Is Rich, 1981, Rabbit At Rest, 1990, and Rabbit Remembered, 2001. Other works include The Centaur, The Coup, The Witches of Eastwick and Gertrude and Claudius.
	Kurt Vonnegut	Index Card 3"x5"	American writer (1922-2007). Author of the novels Piano Player, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and a number of essays and short stories.
	Joseph Wambaugh	Index Card 3"x5"	A former New York police officer, he began writing novels about the workings of the police department, and contributed to the TV series Police Story in the 1970s. He was born in Pittburgh in 1937 and attended Cal State University. His works include The Blue Knight, The Glitter Dome, and Lines and Shadows.
	Elie Weisel	Index Card 3"x5"	1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Chairman of the President's Commission of the Holocaust. Born in 1928 in Romania. Author of All Rivers Run to the Sea, and A Vanished World.