Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer, dramatist and doctor.

Schnitzler, the son of a prominent Jewish laryngologist, was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked in Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.

Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England - November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey) was a British anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, of the UNESCO statement The Race Question.

Avery Corman is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known as author of the novel Kramer vs. Kramer, which was adapted into a 1979 movie starring Dustin Hoffman, and Oh God!, which became a 1977 movie starring George Burns.

Ayn Rand (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.

Barbara De Angelis, New York Times Bestselling author, televison personality and popular relationships expert. She is best known for her opus "Making Love Work" and frequent "infomercials". Once married to John "Men Are From Mars/Women Are From Venus" Gray but divorced in 1984.

Barbara Seaman (born September 11, 1935) is an American author, activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health feminism movement.

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) historian and author who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, her works include The Guns of August, The Zimmerman Telegram, and The Proud Tower. One of the few famous historians to be successful outside of academia.

Bel Kaufman (born May 10, 1911) is a Russian-American professor and author. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is best known for her 1965 best-seller, Up the Down Staircase. The semi-autobiographical novel is about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher, hoping to share her love of classic literature (especially Chaucer) and writing with her students. However, her idealism is quickly snuffed out by the gritty realities of her colleagues and students who populate the novel's fictional inner-city high school.

Belva Plain (born 1919 in New York City, New York) author of competent historical novels that have sold more than ten million copies. Born Belva Offenberg, her first novel, "Evergreen", was published when she was 59. She has said she is committed to writing Jewish female characters that are "stronger" than the usual characterizations

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 New York – April 18, 1964 New York) was a Broadway playwright and prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award, winning twice, in 1929 and in 1936.

Bette Greene (born in June 28, 1934 in Tennessee, U.S.) is the author of several books for children and young adults, including Summer of My German Soldier, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, and the Newbery Honor book Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, Julian Summer Greene, and their two children.

Bernard Bailyn (b. 1922, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1953, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987).

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received international acclaim for his novels and short stories. His 1952 baseball novel The Natural was adapted into a film starring Robert Redford.

Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006), born Betty Naomi Goldstein, was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique.

Betty Rollin (b. January 3, 1936, New York City) is a former NBC News correspondent who wrote about her struggle with cancer in her most famous book, First, You Cry.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) (February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1890 – May 30, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer, in the West best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago. The novel is a tragedy, whose events span through the last period of Tsarist Russia and early days of Soviet Union, and was first translated and published in Italy in 1957. In Russia, however, Boris Pasternak is most celebrated as a poet. My Sister Life, written in 1917, is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published in Russian language in the 20th century.

Brad Meltzer (b. 1970) is an American author of several New York Times best-selling books including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, and The Zero Game. He released his sixth novel titled The Book of Fate in September 2006. Meltzer is also a comic book writer, penning a six issue story arc for DC Comics' Green Arrow #16 - #21 (October 2002 - April 2003), and the controversial 2004 miniseries Identity Crisis. He took over the writing duties for a 12-issue stint on the new monthly Justice League of America series, which started with issue #0 on July 19th, with issue #1 following one month later. After he is finished with his brief run he will once again return to writing a novel with another possible comeback to comics when he has time.

Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish schoolteacher, writer, literary critic and graphic artist, who is widely considered to be one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia, to assimiliated Jewish parents.

Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914, in New York City, New York) is American. Novelist and screenwriter. Most famous as the author of "What Makes Sammy Run?". Oscar winning screenwriter of "On the Waterfront"; and the famous expose of boxing film "The Harder They Fall".