John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 - September 9, 1980)
Griffin was a Journalist who spent a lot of his life writing about racial equality. He is best known for darkening his skin and traveling through Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana to experience segregation in 1951. He wrote about the experience in his 1961 book, Black Like Me. He died on September 9, 1980 due to diabetes and a few other health problems. Some of those problems are believed to be a result of the medication that he took to darken his skin.
John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968)
John Steinbeck was an American Author. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes Of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novel Of Mice And Men published in 1937. In all he wrote twenty five books including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 he won a Nobel prize for literature. Steinbeck died of a heart attack in 1968.
Harper Lee is an American author known for her 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007. She is still currently living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer. He is considered to be one of the twentieth centuries greatest authors by a large number of people. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. He was born on September 24, 1896 and he died on December 21, 1940.
Kamala Markandaya was an indian novelist and journalist. A native of Mysore india. known for writing about culture clash between indian urban, and rural societies, her first published novel Nectar In A Sieve, was a best seller and named a notable book of 1955 by the American Library Association. She died in London on May 16, 2004
Lois Lowry was born on March 20th, 1937 in Hawaii. She is currently 71 years old. Her series The Giver won the 1994 Newbery medal. She is also the winner of the Rhode Island children’s book award. She has written thirty four novels in her life and is still writing today.
