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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
James Agee
Poet
27-Nov-1909 16-May-1955 A Death in the Family
Eric Alterman
Columnist
14-Jan-1960   The Nation columnist
Emily Greene Balch
Activist
8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
John Berryman
Poet
25-Oct-1914 7-Jan-1972 Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Alexander Cockburn
Columnist
6-Jun-1941   The Nation, CounterPunch
David Corn
Columnist
Feb-1959   Washington editor of The Nation
Jonathan Daniels
Government
26-Apr-1902 6-Nov-1981 FDR and Truman's press secretary
E. L. Godkin
Journalist
2-Oct-1831 21-May-1902 Co-founder of The Nation
Ernest Gruening
Politician
6-Feb-1887 26-Jun-1974 US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69
Christopher Hitchens
Journalist
13-Apr-1949   Agent provocateur
David Ignatow
Poet
7-Feb-1914 17-Nov-1997 Rescue the Dead
Naomi Klein
Author
1970   No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Hilton Kramer
Critic
25-Mar-1928   The New Criterion
Joseph Wood Krutch
Naturalist
25-Nov-1893 22-May-1970 The Modern Temper
Max Lerner
Sociologist
20-Dec-1902 5-Jun-1992 Ideas Are Weapons
Mary McCarthy
Author
21-Jun-1912 25-Oct-1989 The Group
Carey McWilliams
Journalist
13-Dec-1905 27-Jun-1980 Editor of The Nation, 1955-75
W. S. Merwin
Poet
30-Sep-1927   The Carrier of Ladders
Paul Elmer More
Scholar
12-Dec-1864 9-Mar-1937 Shelburne Essays
Toni Morrison
Author
18-Feb-1931   Beloved
Victor Navasky
Publisher
5-Jul-1932   Publisher of The Nation
Albert Jay Nock
Author
13-Oct-1870 19-Aug-1945 Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Charles Eliot Norton
Scholar
16-Nov-1827 21-Oct-1908 American man of letters
Frederick Law Olmsted
Architect
27-Apr-1822 28-Aug-1903 Designed New York's Central Park
Kenneth Rexroth
Poet
22-Dec-1905 6-Jun-1982 Disenchanted beat poet
Karen Rothmyer
Journalist
?   Editor of The Nation
Jeremy Scahill
Journalist
?   Democracy Now!
Robert Scheer
Columnist
4-Apr-1936   Former L.A. Times columnist, former Commie
I. F. Stone
Journalist
24-Dec-1907 17-Jul-1989 I. F. Stone's Weekly
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
18-Jul-1937 20-Feb-2005 Gonzo journalist and author
Calvin Trillin
Comic
5-Dec-1935   Humorist
Diana Trilling
Critic
21-Jul-1905 23-Oct-1996 Literary critic, The Nation
Barbara Tuchman
Historian
30-Jan-1912 6-Feb-1989 A Distant Mirror
Carl Van Doren
Author
10-Sep-1885 18-Jul-1950 The American Novel
Mark Van Doren
Poet
13-Jun-1894 10-Dec-1972 The Happy Critic
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor
7-Oct-1959   Editor of The Nation
Patricia Williams
Scholar
1951   The Alchemy of Race and Rights


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