William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008)

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1. William F. Buckley, Jr.

   Author of Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, Stained Glass, The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover

2. John D. MacDonald

   Author of Cinnamon Skin, Dress Her in Indigo, A Tan and Sandy Silence

3. Robert B. Parker

   Author of Early Autumn, Sudden Mischief, A Catskill Eagle

4. Dick Francis

   Author of Come to Grief, The Edge, Second Wind

5. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales, Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics

6. Robert Ludlum

   Author of The Matarese Circle, The Icarus Agenda, The Aquitaine Progression

7. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

8. Margaret Truman

   Author of Murder at the Kennedy Center, Murder in Foggy Bottom, Murder at the Watergate

9. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Art: A New History

10. Jack Higgins

    Author of The Presidents Daughter, Thunder Point, Angel of Death

11. George F. Will

    Author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994, Statecraft as Soulcraft

12. Stephen Coonts

    Author of Final Flight, Liars & Thieves, Cuba

13. John le Carré

    Author of The Russia House, A Perfect Spy, The Looking-Glass War

14. P. J. O'Rourke

    Author of Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, Give War a Chance, The CEO of the Sofa

15. Martin Cruz Smith

    Author of Polar Star, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs

16. Forrest McDonald

    Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, E Pluribus Unum, States' Rights and the Union : Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876

17. G. K. Chesterton

    Author of Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

18. Len Deighton

    Author of The Ipcress File, London Match, XPD

19. Tom Clancy

    Author of Clear and Present Danger, The Teeth of the Tiger, Shadow Warriors

20. Christopher Buckley

    Author of Little Green Men, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wry Martinis