`` 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

Although their efforts were genuine for the most part and did bring benefits to Japanese women, the attitude of American women took roots into imperialist and orientalist perceptions of Japan.

* Wheeler Thackston ( born 1944 ), American orientalist

Edward Sylvester Morse ( June 18, 1838 – December 20, 1925 ) was an American zoologist and orientalist.

Paul Brunton, the British philosopher and orientalist ; John Gunther, the American author ; and the British statesman, Lord Samuel, were also among those who heaped praise on the king.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1981 – Ray William Johnson, American comedian

* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive ( d. 2003 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

* 1935 – William Friedkin, American director