Hélène Cixous (born June 5, 1937) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.

Henry Roth (8 February 1906 - 13 October 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Herb Cohen wrote "You Can Negotiate Anything", which was on the NY Times best seller list for some time in the mid 80's. Is Larry King's best friend. King talks about Cohen extensively and how he wanted to be like him in a few of his books.

Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.

Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction".The annual Science Fiction Achievement awards were named the "Hugo" in his honor.

Isaac Leib Peretz (born May, 18th 1852 in Zamosc, died 3rd April 1915 in Warsaw) also known as Yitskhok Leybush Peretz יצחק־לייבוש פרץ and Izaak Lejb Perec (in Polish), best known as I.L. Peretz, was a modernist Yiddish language author and playwright. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the 3 great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz was the great awakener of Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and Sholom Aleichem its comforter... Peretz aroused in his readers the will for self-emancipation, the will for resistance..."

Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was American literary and social critic. He was born as Irving Horenstein in New York, as a son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression.

Irving Stone (July 14, 1903 San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities.

Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 - June 29, 1990) was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist who was also a highly regarded short story author.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize winning author who basically was Yiddish literature in the late 20th century. "Satan in Goray", "Yentl". Our favorite quote "I have to believe in free will, what choice do I have?"

Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoshua Zinger the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman.

Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as for his reclusive nature. He has not published a new work since 1965 and has not been interviewed since 1980.

Jack Lawrence Granatstein,, OC, PhD, LLD, FRSC (born 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history.

Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October 1937) is a British-born novelist. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins and the elder sister of real estate developer Bill Collins.

Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 21, 1974, New York City) was an American author known for her best selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 movie and a short lived TV series.

Jonathan Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American clinical psychologist and prolific writer. His writings on psychology (and specifically psychopathology) include Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children. He has also written articles, short stories, essays, and children's books, as well as his popular and numerous novels of mystery and suspense, many of which take place in a clinical setting. Most of these novels feature Alex Delaware, a child psychologist.