* Edith Wharton (1862-1937): Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is best known for her novels "The House of Mirth" (1905) and "Ethan Frome" (1911).
* F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): Fitzgerald was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and "Tender Is the Night" (1934).
* Truman Capote (1924-1984): Capote was an American writer and journalist. He is best known for his novel "In Cold Blood" (1966), a nonfiction account of the murder of a Kansas family.
* J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): Salinger was an American writer of short stories and novels. He is best known for his novel "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951).
* Norman Mailer (1923-2007): Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, and essayist. He is best known for his novels "The Naked and the Dead" (1948) and "An American Dream" (1965).
* Joan Didion (1934-2021): Didion was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is best known for her novels "Play It As It Lays" (1970) and "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005).
* Zadie Smith (1975-): Smith is a British writer of novels and short stories. She is best known for her novels "White Teeth" (2000) and "On Beauty" (2005). Smith grew up in New York and attended Harvard University.