* 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American Journalist, South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.

Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

In Michel & Jules Verne's The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 ( 1889 ) submarine tubes carry people faster than aero-trains and the Society for Supplying Food to the Home allows subscribers to receive meals pneumatically.

** Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years ' captivity as a hostage in Beirut ( the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon ).

** Christopher Hayes, American Journalist

In an indepth interview with American Songwriter, Simon discusses the craft of songwriting with music Journalist, Tom Moon.

All three men on board were killed: Mattei, his pilot Irnerio Bertuzzi, and the American Time – Life Journalist William McHale.

* Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire, Democracy Now !, 7 August 2007.

Journalist John Chamberlain, for example, credits these works with his final " conversion " from socialism to what he called " an older American philosophy " of libertarian and conservative ideas.

* Journalist deaths by U. S. fire: Two of American air to surface missiles hit Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad and kill a reporter and wound a cameraman.

" Journalist John Chamberlain credits Rand, Paterson and Lane with his final " conversion " from socialism to what he called " an older American philosophy " of libertarian and conservative ideas.

Journalist Michelangelo Signorile, who describes Spellman as " one of the most notorious, powerful and sexually voracious homosexuals in the American Catholic Church's history ", reported that Cooney's manuscript, The American Pope, initially contained interviews with several people with personal knowledge of Spellman's homosexuality, including researcher and historian C. A. Tripp.

* Robert C. Maynard ( 1937 – 1993 ), co-founder of the Maynard Institute ; American Journalist and Newspaper Editor

" Journalist Heywood Broun pretended to investigate: " We assumed, of course, from the tone of Mr. Palmer's manifesto that his opponents for the nomination were Rumanians, Greeks and Icelanders, and weak-kneed ones at that .... We happened into Cox's headquarters wholly by accident and were astounded to discover that he, too, is an American .... Thus encouraged we went to all camps and found that the candidates are all Americans.

Journalist Robert Scheer, in his book The Great American Stickup, claims the repeal of the Glass – Steagall Act was a key factor in the 2008 financial crisis.

She also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists ; the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award ; the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award ; the American Women in Radio and Television Award ; and two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming.

Journalist Joseph Roddy alleged — in a 1966 Look Magazine article about the debate on the Jewish question during the Second Vatican Council — that one and the same person under three different pseudonyms had written or acted on behalf of Jewish interest groups, such as the American Jewish Committee, to influence the outcome of the debates.

Journalist Jeremy Parish agreed that the character was racist, although he argued that cultural gaps between Japan and the United States, plus the lack of American translators for Final Fantasy VII may have been contributing factors, arguing that the likeness between Barret and Mr. T was possibly an attempt to make a character that appealed to Americans, as the actor did.

Journalist Matt Taibbi wrote: " the trial featured perhaps the most compromised collection of prosecution witnesses ever assembled in an American criminal case ... the chief drama of the trial quickly turned into a race to see if the DA could manage to put all of his witnesses on the stand without getting any of them removed from the courthouse in manacles.

Journalist Laurent Saulnier stated that Piché was the missing link between Bruce Springsteen and Jacques Brel, " an original mixture of French song, American rock, and Quebec folklore ".

In 2004, SNA and the American Press Institute named Anderson Journalist of the Year for his articles, written while embedded with the California National Guard in Iraq, about local citizen soldiers.

`` 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