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Novelists in Ideas & Media

46 people, across 4 fields.

Upton Sinclair 1878–1968Journalism & Mass MediaNovelist whose expose of Chicago meatpacking spurred federal food and drug inspection laws.Tom Wolfe 1930–2018Journalism & Mass MediaNew Journalism pioneer whose The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities chronicled American culture.L. Ron Hubbard 1911–1986Religion & Religious MovementsScience-fiction writer who founded Scientology, creating a controversial and internationally influential American religious movement.Joan Didion 1934–2021Journalism & Mass MediaEssayist and novelist whose precise prose captured the anxiety and disillusionment of American life.