`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author

* 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist ( d. 1964 )

* 1890 – Elizabeth Bolden, American super-centenarian ( d. 2006 )

* 1972 – Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer ( The Jets )

Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.

* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )

* 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

* 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator ( d. 1999 )

* 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist ( d. 1966 )

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

* 1822 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president ( d. 1907 )

* 1964 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author

Elizabeth Ward Gracen ( born Elizabeth Grace Ward ) is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

* 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

* 1949 – Elizabeth George, American novelist

* Brown, Elizabeth, ' The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe ', American Historical Review, 79 ( 1974 ), pp. 1063 – 8.

* 1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress

With his wife's consent, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.

* 1909 – Mike Todd, American film and theater producer, 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor ( d. 1958 )

* 1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American attorney, educator, and author

* 1993 – Elizabeth Gillies, American actress and singer

* 1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, American critic and novelist ( d. 2007 )