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* [[Shel Silverstein]] wrote children's poetry such as [[The Giving Tree]] and ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''. He also wrote novelty songs such as: "The Great Smoke Off", "The Cover of Rolling Stone", "A Boy Named Sue" and its sequel "The Father of a Boy Named Sue".
* In addition to writing ''[[The Jungle]]'', Upton Sinclair also wrote the Children's book ''The Gnome-Mobile''.
* [[Dr. Seuss]] used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924165439/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/seuss_fla.html a political cartoonist] during [[World War II]], creating many hilarious cartoons about the defeat of Hitler and more than a few [[Unfortunate Implications|horrifying caricatures of Japanese people]].
* Walter Tevis, author of ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' and ''[[The Color of Money]]'', also wrote ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] is most famous for his fantasy novels, but his day job was as a philologist, translator, and university professor; he wrote one of the seminal articles on the subject of the Old English poem ''[[Beowulf]]'', translated part of the Jerusalem Bible, did one of the best-known translations of ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', and contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary. On the side, he was also an amateur philosopher and Catholic apologist.
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