There’s a lot more chick writers on the list than men. What happened to adventure writers like Jack London? Yeah, he was a communist but he could tell a ripping yarn.
How many "communists" took it upon themselves to trek to the Yukon seeking gold, with all the hard work and deprivation that entailed? I suspect he was intellectually interested in the "from each, to each" commie theory, and he died before communism proved itself to be an unworkable and murderous system.