Torrance Journal for Applied Creativity

William Faulkner. Nobel Prize winner
in literature. Major works were The
Sound and the Fury (1929), Absalom,
Absalom! (1936), and The Reivers
(1962).
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Author whose writings
reflected the Jazz Age. Outstanding
books were This Side of Paradise
(1920), The Beautiful and Damned
(1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and
Tender Is the Night (1934).
Ernest Hemingway. Nobel Prize winner
in literature. The Sun Also Rises
(1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For
Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The
Old Man and the Sea (1951).
Khaled Hosseini. Author of novels
about Afghanistan; medical doctor.
Gabriel García Márquez. Nobel Prize
winner in literature. South American
author, famous for his magic realism
as shown in One Hundred Years of
Solitude (1967).
Larry McMurtry. Pulitzer Prize winner.
Author of novels about cowboys and
the American West; bookseller.
N. Scott Momaday. Pulitzer Prize winner
in 1969. Native American author
who received the National Medal of
Arts in 2007.
Czesław Miłosz. Polish poet and prose
writer as well as Nobel Prize winner
in literature, known for political
and anti-communist poems. Used a
lyrical-dramatic style to make readers
aware of repressive governments;
member of the Polish underground
during World War II where he helped
many Jewish people escape from the
Nazis. The Captive Mind (1953) is his
most famous book.
Pablo Neruda. Nobel Prize winner
in literature. Great lyrical poet from
Chile known for his historical, nature,
and love poems. Many of his odes are
highly imaginative and humorous.
Mary Oliver. Pulitzer Prize winner,
nature poet and poetry teacher
John Updike. Pulitzer Prize winner,
whose novels concentrated on the
lives and loves of middle class Americans.
His popular Rabbit series included
five novels (1960-2000); essayist
and poet well known for his superb
writing style.
Robert Penn Warren. Pulitzer Prize
winner for his book, All the King’s Men
(1946); also received the Pulitzer for
poetry in 1958 and 1979.
Medicine and Biology
Ben Carson, MD. Director of pediatric
neurosurgery (retired) at The Johns
Hopkins University Medical Center;
author.
Charles Darwin. Originator of the
theory of evolution
Jane Goodall. Primatologist noted for
her studies of chimpanzees in the wild
Sherwin Nuland. Surgeon, medical
historian; author of Doctors: The Biography
of Medicine (1988), How We
Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
(1994), Maimonides (2005), and The
Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription
for Well-Being (2007).
Louis Pasteur. French scientist who
developed vaccines for rabies and
anthrax, conducted research that
supported the germ theory of disease,
and invented a method for killing
bacteria in milk and wine—pasteurization.
V.S. Ramachandran. Neuroscientist
and brain researcher; best-selling author
of Phantoms in the Brain: Probing
the Mysteries of the Human Mind
(1999), A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:
From Impostor Poodles to
Purple Numbers (2005), and The Tell-
Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for
What Makes Us Human (2012).
Oliver Sacks, MD. Neurologist and
best-selling author of The Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other
Clinical Tales (1998), Awakenings
(1999), Musicophilia: Tales of Music
and the Brain (2008), and Hallucinations
(2013).
Jonas Salk. Medical researcher who
developed the first effective polio
vaccine, founded the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies in 1960.
James Watson and Francis Crick.
Nobel Prize winners in physiology or
medicine in 1962; discoverers of the
DNA molecule.
Edward O. Wilson. Harvard University
biologist, founder of sociobiology, and
world renowned entomologist and
expert on ants. Pulitzer Prize winner
two times; has written many fascinating
books including Consilience: The
Unity of Knowledge (1998), The Social
Conquest of Earth (2013), Letters to a
Young Scientist (2014), and The Meaning
of Human Existence (2014).
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