If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.			
				
| John Adams, President (1735) | 
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) | 
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) | 
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) | 
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) | 
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) | 
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) | 
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) | 
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) | 
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) | 
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) | 
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) | 
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) | 

