Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist
Robert Frost
American poet
R. Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work and futurist
William Gaddis
American novelist
Ernest J. Gaines
American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ao] or Gabito [aito] throughout Latin America
Helen Garner
Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist
Elizabeth Gaskell
English novelist, biographer and short story writer
Amitav Ghosh
Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, Indias highest literary honor, best known for his work in English fiction