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  Their Academy is not intended to regulate English language or grammar, by what I can gather. 

  Naturally many influence might come from it, why? authors like the following have to somewhat influence the way people see the country and themselves; and  in the process many more have copied their styles.  But this doesn´t seem the Academy job.  Let´s show some of them, so the members of today are in good company... 

Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote,Winston Churchill,Samuel Langhorne Clemens, E. E. Cummings, William Faulkner,Edna Ferber, John Kenneth Galbraith,Thomas Mann,Anais Nin,Dorothy Parker,Ezra Pound,Theodore Roosevelt,Susan Sontag, John E. Steinbeck,John Charles Van Dyke,Paul Van Dyke,Henry Van Dyke, Kurt Vonnegut