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Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
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Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008)
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RA Lafferty (1914-2002)
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Angela Ribeiro, 44
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Jessica Garvin, 38
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John Sandford, 81
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Peter Hedges, 62
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Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963)
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William Haines (1908-1989)
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RV Cassill (1919-2002)
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Margaret Wilson (1882-1973)
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Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004)
Poet
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Ted Kooser, 85
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Robert James Waller (1939-2017)
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Katelyn Cheek, 33
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MacKinlay Kantor (1904-1977)
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George Cram Cook (1873-1924)
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Jim Garrison (1921-1992)
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Sara Paretsky, 77
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Brad Steiger (1936-2018)
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Robert Coover (1932-2024)
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Born in Iowa
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Meridel Lesueur (1900-1996)
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Janet Dailey (1944-2013)
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Tami Hoag, 66
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Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)
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Nina Nunez Williams, 42
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Paul Engle (1908-1991)
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Amy Clampitt (1920-1994)
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Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
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Gordon W. Prange (1910-1980)
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Dennis Schmitz (1937-2019)
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Norman Maclean (1902-1990)
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Phil Stong (1899-1957)
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James Hearst (1900-1983)
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Elswyth Thane (1900-1984)
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Richard Pike Bissell (1913-1977)
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Marquis Childs (1903-1990)
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Joseph Petrick, 43
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Frederick Manfred (1912-1994)
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