Baker (b. 1957) - American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought, and on topics like voyeurism and planned assasination.

Amis (b. 1949) - a British novelist--son of Kingsley Amis (also a novelist)--author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature: Money (1986), London Fields (1989), and Time's Arrow (1991).

Lopez (b. 1945) is an American essayist, fictionist, and poet whose work deals with nature and ecological concerns.

Ondaatje (b. 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award winning film, The English Patient.

(b. 1934) an American journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist. An observer of U.S. politics and culture with a distinctive style of reporting that mixes personal reflection and social analysis.

(b. 1932) a Trinidadian-born British novelist. His fiction and travel writing have been criticised for their allegedly unsympathetic portrayal of the Third World.

(1928-1982) one of the great visionaries of the 20th century, his best known novels are The Man in the High Castle (1962), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), and A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Cheever (1912-1982) - an American novelist and short story writer. His best known works are The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), and The Stories of John Cheever (1978).

Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American author. Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as one of the most important novels of the 20th century.

Mencken (1880-1956) was a 20th-century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche".