- Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001)
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
- Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
- William Golding (1911-1993)
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
- Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- Thomas Sowell (1930-)
- Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
