Journalism
This includes writers of all kinds of non-fiction, as well as news journalists.
- Adie, Kate
- Allan, Jani
- Angelou, Maya
- Apess, William
- Aristotle
- Audubon, John James
- Ballinger, John
- Bates, Daisy
- Bird, A. John
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Callahan, John
- Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Cardozo, Abraham
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Chisholm, Colin
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Colden, Cadwallader
- Commager, Henry Steele
- Crawford, Christina
- Cross, June
- Cugoano, Ottobah
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
- Daniels, Faith
- Delamere, Paora Kingi
- Douglass, Frederick
- Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Estés, Clarissa Pinkola
- Fever, Fred
- Fisher, Florence Anna
- Frampton, Phil
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Gingrich, Newton Leroy
- Gorham, Clare
- Grant, Julia
- Green, Tim
- Griffis, Joseph
- Grimsby, Roger
- Haas, Michael
- Hale, Matthew
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Hirst, Damien
- Hoo-moo-thy-ah
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Ice-T
- Isidore of Seville
- Jameson, Derek
- Jones, Pei Te Hurinui
- Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire)
- Kutner, Lawrence
- Lear, Frances
- Lehmann, Henry
- Leitch, David
- Leonowens, Anna
- Lifton, Betty Jean
- Lloyd, Ellis
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- MacBride, Roger Lea
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- McCarthy, Mary Therese
- McCarthy, Thaddeus
- McKenzie, Richard B.
- McMillon, Doris E.
- McNab, Andy
- Michener, James Albert
- Mills, Robert Scourfield
- Moriarty, John
- O'Neil, Robert Vincent, Jr.
- Pàscoli, Giovanni
- Pelzer, David J.
- Perkins, Charles
- Powell, Peter John
- Primakov, Yevgeny Maximovitch
- Rees, Ebenezer
- Rollason, Helen
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rowson, Martin
- Saffian, Sarah Ruth
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Schreiber, Lorna
- Scully, Julia
- Smith, Venture
- Soseki, Natsume
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- Stewart, Albert Oliphant
- Stradling, John
- Sudbury, Julia
- Taare, Sonny
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
- Train, George Francis
- Trapp Family
- von Kleist, Heinrich
- Wallace, Edgar
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- White, Donald Edwin
- Whitehead, Phillip
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Wilkomirski, Binjamin
Callahan, John
Callahan was born to an unmarried woman in Portland, Oregon, and adopted as a baby by a childless couple who then had five birth children. He felt an outsider in his family and began to abu... [more]
Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki
Campbell was born in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific and is part Cook Island Maori. Orphaned as a young child, he was sent to Dunedin, NZ, and raised there in an orphanage from 1933, ... [more]
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
Campbell is part Portuguese, Northern Cheyenne (and has been inducted into their council of chiefs) and possibly also Apache and Pueblo, a rancher and horse trainer, jewellery designer, jud... [more]
Cardozo, Abraham
Cardozo was a member of a Portuguese Marrano family. (The Marranos are the Jews of Spain and Portugal who involuntarily converted to Christianity in the 14th century and later, many of whom... [more]
Carlson, Richard Warner
Carlson, an adoptee, has been a journalist for United Press International and the three major US television networks, CBS, NBC and ABC. He has been a television presenter and news broadcast... [more]
Chisholm, Colin
Chisholm's adoptive mother was a half-Yup'ik [Inuit], half-Finnish woman named Inaqaq, born in a remote village on the Alaskan coast of the Bering Sea. Inaqaq's mother died aged 25 and she ... [more]
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cochran was born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eigh... [more]
Colden, Cadwallader
Colden was born in Ireland and after graduating from the University of Edinburgh (1705) he emigrated to the American colonies (1710). He spent the next half century in the colonial civil se... [more]
Commager, Henry Steele
Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. He became a famous college professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia University and A... [more]
Crawford, Christina
Crawford is the adopted daughter of the American movie star Joan Crawford. According to her biography of her mother, made into a movie in 1981, her childhood was bizarre, abusive and unhapp... [more]
