ORGANIZATION

Founding Date:
Apr-1935

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Adamic	Author	23-Mar-1899	4-Sep-1951	Laughing in the Jungle
Léonie Adams	Poet	9-Dec-1899	27-Jun-1988	Those Not Elect
James Agee	Poet	27-Nov-1909	16-May-1955	A Death in the Family
Conrad Aiken	Poet	5-Aug-1889	17-Aug-1973	Earth Triumphant
Nelson Algren	Author	28-Mar-1909	9-May-1981	The Man with the Golden Arm
James Baldwin	Novelist	2-Aug-1924	30-Nov-1987	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Eduard Benes	Head of State	28-May-1884	3-Sep-1948	Founder of modern Czechoslovakia
William Rose Benét	Poet	2-Feb-1886	4-May-1950	The Dust Which Is God
Van Wyck Brooks	Critic	16-Feb-1886	2-May-1963	Finders & Makers
Erskine Caldwell	Author	17-Dec-1903	11-Apr-1987	Tobacco Road
Robert Cantwell	Novelist	31-Jan-1908	8-Dec-1978	Laugh and Lie Down
John Cheever	Author	27-May-1912	18-Jun-1982	The Enormous Radio
Malcolm Cowley	Author	24-Aug-1898	27-Mar-1989	Exile's Return
Theodore Dreiser	Novelist	27-Aug-1871	28-Dec-1945	An American Tragedy
Albert Einstein	Physicist	14-Mar-1879	18-Apr-1955	Theory of relativity
Waldo Frank	Author	25-Aug-1889	9-Jan-1967	American cultural critic and social historian
Dashiell Hammett	Author	27-May-1894	10-Jan-1961	The Maltese Falcon
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
Ernest Hemingway	Author	21-Jul-1899	2-Jul-1961	The Old Man And The Sea
Granville Hicks	Critic	9-Sep-1901	18-Jun-1982	Marxist critic, The Great Tradition
Langston Hughes	Poet	1-Feb-1902	22-May-1967	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Archibald Macleish	Poet	7-May-1892	20-Apr-1982	Conquistador
Thomas Mann	Novelist	6-Jun-1875	12-Aug-1955	Buddenbrooks
Upton Sinclair	Novelist	20-Sep-1878	25-Nov-1968	The Jungle
John Steinbeck	Novelist	27-Feb-1902	20-Dec-1968	The Grapes of Wrath
Donald Ogden Stewart	Author	30-Nov-1894	2-Aug-1980	The Philadelphia Story

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