Melissa Clark is an American food writer, cookbook author, and New York Times columnist.

Anne Marie "Ree" Drummond is an American blogger, author, food writer, and television personality.

America's Test Kitchen is a multimedia culinary brand encompassing television shows, magazines, and cookbooks. It was co-founded by Christopher Kimball, who served as its editor, publisher, and television host from its inception through 2016. The brand publishes comprehensive cookbooks, such as *The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook*, and produces the public television show of the same name, as well as *Cook's Country*.

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian..

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.