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

Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist and historian.

John Michael Green is an American author and YouTuber.

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.

Born in Nagasaki and raised in Britain from the age of five, **Sir Kazuo Ishiguro** has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.