Book Critics Circle Award Edwin O'Connor – novelist, winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Edge of Sadness Flannery O'Connor – novelist and short story writer; notable author in the Southern Gothic style Frank O'Hara – poet, prominent member of the New York School John O'Hara – novelist; author of Appointment in Samarra, named one of the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 Charles Olson – poet and critic, associated with the second generation American Modernist poets; author of The Maximus Poems Eugene O'Neill – playwright; awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature; four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama J.F. Powers – novelist and short story writer; winner of the 1963 National Book Award for Morte d'Urban Anne Rice – horror novelist; author of bestselling Interview with a Vampire series Nora Roberts – romance novelist; first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame Kay Ryan – poet and academic; Poet Laureate of the United States Michael Ryan – poet; awarded the 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger John Patrick Shanley – playwright and screenwriter; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable Mickey Spillane – crime novelist; author of bestselling Mike Hammer detective novels John Kennedy Toole – novelist; posthumously awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Confederacy of Dunces Michael Walsh – novelist and screenwriter; awarded a 2004 American Book Award for And All The Saints John Wieners - poet, student of Charles Olson, associated with the Beats and the Boston School. Roger Zelazny – fantasy and science fiction author; winner of three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards Military John Barry – Irish-born Revolutionary War Navy Captain. Michael Corcoran – United States Army general James Hickey – leader of Operation Red Dawn; son of Irish immigrants Stephen W. Kearny – US Army officer, noted for action in the southwest during the Mexican–American War Andrew Lewis – Continental Army general Alfred Thayer Mahan – naval officer and author whose work, including Sea Power, inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy Dennis Hart Mahan – guiding light and head of faculty at West Point for decades prior to the Civil War; influential author whose published works were the keystone for spreading engineering knowledge throughout the antebellum US; his Napoleon seminar at West Point informed Civil War strategies, North and