Baraka, Amiri (Newark)
Author of the 1964 play Dutchman
Famous Writers from New Jersey
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Blume, Judy (Elizabeth)
The author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -
Bourne, Randolph (Bloomfield)
The author of Youth and Life -
Bouton, Jim (Newark)
The author of "Ball Four" -
Cooper, James Fenimore (Burlington)
The American novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans -
Dworkin, Andrea (Camden)
Author of Woman Hating -
Fauset, Jessie Redmon (Camden)
The "midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of 'The Crisis' -
Fontana, D.C.
Scripter and story editor for the original 'Star Trek' -
Ginsberg, Allen (Newark)
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Handler, Chelsea (Livingston)
TV Host and author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea -
Mailer, Norman (Long Branch)
Pugnacious author of The Naked and the Dead -
Martin, George R. R. (Bayonne)
The author of A Game of Thrones -
Matheson, Richard (Allendale)
The author of I Am Legend -
McPhee, John (Princeton)
The creative non-fiction legend who wrote 'Annals of the Former World' -
Parker, Dorothy (West End)
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table -
Roth, Philip (Newark)
The author of Portnoy's Complaint -
Schwartz, Sherwood (Passaic)
The creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch -
Williams, William Carlos
Author of the poetic epic Paterson