Jane Bowles, born Jane Auer (February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright.Eccentric, promiscuous author, ( "Two Serious Ladies" )long in exile, married to author-composer Paul Bowles.

Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916-October 14, 1997) was an American author.

Robbins, born Harold Rubin in New York City, claimed to be a Jewish orphan raised in a Catholic boys home but in actual fact, he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn. And his first wife wasn't a Chinese dancer who died from a parrot bite as he had also claimed. She was in fact merely his high school sweetheart (when that marriage ended after 28 years, he married four more times). Robbins made his first million at age 20 by selling sugar for the wholesale trade, but lost it all when World War II began.

Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz (b. October 27, 1950) is an American author. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern day Dorothy Parker.

Abe Burrows (December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was a noted American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage, particularly Broadway.

He was born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and attended both City College and New York University. He began working as a runner on Wall Street while at NYU, and he also worked in an accounting firm. After he met Frank Galen in 1938, the two wrote and sold jokes to an impressionist who appeared on the Rudy Vallée radio program.

Adele Wiseman (May 21, 1928 – June 1, 1992) was a Canadian author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1949. Her parents were Russian-Jews who emigrated from the Ukraine to Canada, in part, to escape the pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War.

Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (Born: May 21, 1951) is an Emmy Award–winning American comedian, actor, author, screenwriter, political commentator, radio host and, recently, politician. He is noted for his work on Saturday Night Live and his liberal political views. On February 14, 2007, Franken announced his candidacy for the 2008 United States Senate election in Minnesota as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The seat is currently held by Republican Norm Coleman, and was previously held by Franken's close friend Paul Wellstone.

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he is also provost. He is a progressive historian of the New Deal. Brinkley writes regularly in magazines such as Newsweek and The New Republic and is a strong advocate for progressive issues. He lives in New York City with his wife, Evangaline, daughter, Elly and dog, Jessie.

Albert Harry Goldman (April 15, 1927 – March 28, 1994) was an American professor and author.

Born in Dormont, Pennsylvania, Albert Goldman wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry both in books and as a contributor to magazines. However, he is best known for his controversial biographies of Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Lenny Bruce.

Albert Memmi (Arabic: ألبرت ميمي‎; born December 15, 1921) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist.

Born in colonial Tunisia from Tunisian Jewish origins, he spoke Arabic as his mother tongue. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.