Walker Evans (1903–1975)

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1. Walker Evans

   Author of American Photographs, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 : A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available f, Many Are Called (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

2. John Szarkowski

   Author of The Photographer's Eye, William Eggleston's Guide, Atget

3. William Faulkner

   Author of Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, The Hamlet

4. Studs Terkel

   Author of Working, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

5. Thomas Wolfe

   Author of Look Homeward, Angel, You Can't Go Home Again

6. Robert Adams

   Author of Why People Photograph, The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, Summer Nights (New Images Book)

7. Eudora Welty

   Author of The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

8. Robert Frank

   Author of The Americans, Robert Frank: Moving Out, Robert Frank: London/Wales

9. Lee Friedlander

   Author of Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait, Nudes, Letters from the People

10. John Cheever

    Author of The Stories of John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

11. Saul Bellow

    Author of The Adventures of Augie March, Mr Sammler's Planet

12. James Agee

    Author of A Death in the Family

13. Cynthia Rylant

    Author of Night in the Country, Every Living Thing, An Angel for Solomon Singer

14. Martin Parr

    Author of The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1, The Photobook: A History - Volume 2, Common Sense

15. Peter Galassi

    Author of Andreas Gursky, Before Photography; Painting and the Invention of Photography (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), Philip-Lorca diCorcia

16. William Eggleston

    Author of The Democratic Forest, Los Alamos, William Eggleston, 2 1/4

17. Henry Adams

    Author of The Education of Henry Adams

18. Joan Didion

    Author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

19. Gilles Peress

    Author of Telex: Iran : In the Name of Revolution, Farewell to Bosnia

20. Walker Percy

    Author of The Moviegoer