page_title: List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people
section_title: Literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people / Notable alumni / Literature
caption_attribution_description: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of the novel "The Yearling"
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the University of Wisconsin–Madison:
context_section_description: Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet
  Kevin J. Anderson, author
  Nuala Archer, poet
  Alice Elinor Bartlett, author
  Lynne Cheney, author, writer, and former Second Lady of the United States
  Donald Clarke, author on music
  Eleanor Clymer, children's author
  Betsy Colquitt, poet
  Jane Cooper, poet
  Richard Dauenhauer, poet
  August Derleth, writer, editor, anthologist of H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of Arkham House publishing
  Esther Forbes, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
  Genevieve Foster, author
  Zona Gale, author and playwright
  Robert Greene
  Sam Greenlee, author
  Horace Gregory, poet
  Frederick Gutheim, author
  Emily Hahn, author
  Lorraine Hansberry, author and playwright
  Eva Lund Haugen, author
  Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar
  David Henige, author
  Kevin Henkes, children's author
  Conrad Hilberry, poet
  Hjalmar Holand, author and historian
  bell hooks, author, writer, and activist
  Carolyn Hougan, writer
  Jim Hougan, writer
  Jens Joneleit, composer
  Lesley Kagen, author
  Jay Kennedy, editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate
  Herbert Kubly, author and playwright
  Margery Latimer, author and writer
  Ann Lauterbach, poet
  Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933), anthologist
  Gordon MacQuarrie, author, writer, and outdoorsman
  Lotte Motz, scholar of German mythology
  Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award-winning author and professor at Princeton University
  Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of Brittle Paper
  Ed Ochester, poet
  Lance Olsen, author and writer
  Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist
  Alicia Ostriker, poet
  Kenneth Patchen, poet
  Gerald Peary, film critic
  Robert Peters, poet, playwright, critic, and professor
  Richard Quinney, author
  Som Ranchan, scholar and author
  Ellen Raskin, author
  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), author, editor
  David Salo, linguist
  Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
  Pamela Redmond Satran, entrepreneur and author
  Mark Schorer, writer, critic, and professor
  Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer
  Barolong Seboni, poet
  Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author
  Tormod Skagestad, poet
  Raymond J. Smith, literary critic
  John Snead, writer and role player
  Midori Snyder, writer and author
  David Stephenson, poet
  Peter Straub, author, recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award
  Mark Tatge, journalist
  Steve Tittle, Canadian composer
  Danielle Trussoni, writer from La Crosse
  Francis Utley, folklorist and linguist
  James Valcq, composer and writer
  Stanley G. Weinbaum, science fiction author
  Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer
  Patricia Wells, author
  Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
  Viola S. Wendt, poet
  E.J. Westlake, playwright
  Frank Wu, science fiction artist
  Mark Wunderlich, poet
  Marya Zaturenska, poet
caption: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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