Name: A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Birth/Death: Jan 13, 1901 - Apr 26, 1991

Intro: Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his ''The Way West''. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram "was a sissy name."

Name: Adrienne Rich

Birth/Death: May 16, 1929 - death

Intro: Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the [20th] century."

Name: Agatha Christie

Birth/Death: Sep 15, 1890 - Jan 12, 1976

Intro: Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

Name: Al Ries

Birth/Death: birth - death

Intro: Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries coined the term "positioning", as related to the field of marketing, and authored ''Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind'', an industry standard on the subject.

Name: Alan Bennett

Birth/Death: May 09, 1934 - death

Intro: Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent.

Name: Alan Clark

Birth/Death: Apr 13, 1928 - Sep 08, 1999

Intro: Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative MP, military historian, and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and became a privy councillor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work ''The Donkeys'' (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, ''Oh, What a Lovely War!''.

Name: Alan Paton

Birth/Death: Jan 11, 1903 - Apr 12, 1988

Intro: Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a white South African author and liberal political activist.

Name: Albert Camus

Birth/Death: Nov 07, 1913 - Jan 04, 1960

Intro: Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label. On the other hand, his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

Name: Aldous Huxley

Birth/Death: Jul 26, 1894 - Nov 22, 1963

Intro: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank.

Name: Alex Haley

Birth/Death: Aug 11, 1921 - Feb 10, 1992

Intro: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X (written in collaboration with Malcolm X).