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
Adie, Kate
Adie is especially famous for her reports from war zones (Turkey, Lebanon, the Gulf War, China, the former Yugoslavia, etc.). Her mother became pregnant while her husband was away at war an... [more]
Allan, Jani
Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, G... [more]
Angelou, Maya
Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in California. Her parents divorced when she was a young child and she and her brother were sent by their father to live with his mother i... [more]
Apess, William
Apess's parents were itinerant basket-makers and he lived as a young child mostly with his grandparents, who were very cruel to him. When his grandmother broke his arm he was rescued by an ... [more]
Aristotle
Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, physician to King Amyntas II. His parents died when he was still a very young boy and he was brought up by a guardian, Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's... [more]
Audubon, John James
Audubon was born in what is now Haiti, the son of a well-to-do married French naval captain and slave trader and his Creole servant-mistress. His mother died soon after his birth and his fa... [more]
Ballinger, John
Ballinger was orphaned as a child and left school at 14. He got a job as an assistant in the Cardiff Public Library in 1875 and rose to be chief librarian by 1885. In 1908 he became the fir... [more]
Bates, Daisy
Bates' mother was murdered by white racists when she was a baby. Her father left to look for her and never returned, so she was adopted by his best friend. She was the prime mover in the fam... [more]
Bird, A. John
Bird is the founder of The Big Issue, the magazine produced and sold by the homeless in Britain. He was one of six sons of a poor London family. After his parents were evicted from their... [more]
Brown, Leslie Calvin
Brown and his twin brother, born in a Miami ghetto, were adopted at six weeks of age by a single woman. He was hyperactive as a child and labeled a slow learner. After high school he bec... [more]
