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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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11 figures
Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964Silent Spring launched the environmental movement and got DDT banned.
John Rawls
1921 – 2002A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.
James Baldwin
1924 – 1987The Fire Next Time; the most precise prose on American race ever written.
Louise Hay
1926 – 2017You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.
Catherine Ponder
b. 1927Unity minister whose prosperity books shaped late-century abundance teaching.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.
Toni Morrison
1931 – 2019Wrote Black American interior life without explaining it to anyone.
Bob Dylan
b. 1941First songwriter awarded the literature Nobel.
Martha Nussbaum
b. 1947Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.
David Frawley
b. 1950Vedic scholar whose texts linked Ayurveda, yoga and jyotish for Western students.
Michael Beckwith
b. 1956Founded Agape International and carried New Thought to a global multiracial audience.