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Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.

Cartoonist of Maus, the book that made a Holocaust story into literature and comics at once.

Playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.

Novelist who built a popular philosophy out of two long books.

Songwriter who stretched American music into literature.

Poet whose sonnet gave the Statue of Liberty its American voice.

Writer who remade English prose and kept a Paris salon that remade modern art.

Literary critic who treated reading as a contact sport with the dead.

Yiddish storyteller who carried a world of memory into English letters.

Novelist who told children and teenagers the truth about their own bodies and friendships.

Novelist and journalist who treated American public life as a prizefight.

Poet and cartoonist who made children’s verse sound like a dare.

Essayist who taught a generation how to look at photographs, illness, and taste.

Critic and philosopher whose essays on art, cities, and memory still travel.

Cartoonist who treated the comic page as literature and the city as a character.