John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist.

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William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014.

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Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, **Ernest Hemingway** became one of America's most celebrated and influential writers, transforming both literature and the public's perception of what it meant to be an author.