Andrew Bergman is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist.

Born in 1945, Bergman graduated from Binghamton University. He wrote the original screenplay for Mel Brooks's classic Blazing Saddles, and was among the co-writers who adapted it into its final state. Since then, he has written or co-written the cult classics The In-Laws, Fletch, and Soapdish; written and directed The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas and It Could Happen To You; written and produced Striptease with Demi Moore; and directed the Jacqueline Susann biopic Isn't She Great.

Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) an English novelist and art historian was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.

Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner owing to anti-German sentiment in England. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution during the 1930s and World War II. Brookner, an only child, has never married and took care of her parents as they aged.

Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books.

She is perhaps best known for her novel The Red Tent which was a best-seller. She has also written several guides for Jewish people including The New Jewish Wedding and Living a Jewish Life

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is a prominent American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; it is perhaps his most popular work.

Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ella (née Slatkin), a personnel clerk, and Leroy Mosley, a school librarian. His father was African-American and his mother Jewish. He lives in New York City.

Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942 Buenos Aires) is a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.

Dorfman, who is Jewish, was born in Argentina but his family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, and then moved to Chile in 1954. He attended and was later a professor at the University of Chile and adopted Chilean Citizenship in 1967.

Ariel Segal, also known as Ariel Segal Freilich, is Latin American correspondent for the BBC in Israel. He also broacasts for the Voice of Israel in Spanish. He was born and raised in Venezeula. Segal's book "Jews of the Amazon" (1999) is a fascinating study of the Jewish community of the town of Iquitos, in the Peruvian part of the Amazon