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Contents
A
- Kathy Acker, (1947-1997)
- Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel
- George Ade, author of The Slim Princess
- Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Nelson Algren, (1909-1981), author of The Man With the Golden Arm.
- Sherwood Anderson
- Christopher Anvil, (born 1922) (pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby)
- Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
- Gertrude Atherton, author of The Conqueror
- Louis Auchincloss (born 1917)
- Paul Auster, (born 1947), author of the City of Glass trilogy, Leviathan, Timbuktu
B
- Richard Bach, (born 1936)
- James Baldwin, (1924-1987), writer known for exploring race and sexuality, author of Another Country
- Irving Bacheller, author of A Man for the Ages
- Nicholson Baker, (born 1957) author of The Mezzanine and Vox
- Russell Banks, (1940- ), author of The Sweet Hereafter
- John Franklin Bardin
- Joel Barlow, (1754-1812)
- John Barth, (born 1930)
- Charles Baxter, (born 1947)
- Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble, (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others
- Edward Bellamy, author of Looking Backward, 2000-1887
- Hillaire Belloc
- Saul Bellow, (born 1915), author of Henderson the Rain King
- Robert Montgomery Bird, (1803-1854)
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842-c.1914)
- George Borrow
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
- T.C. Boyle, author of The Road to Wellville, The Tortilla Curtain and A Friend of the Earth
- Ray Bradbury, (born 1920), author of The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
- Charles Brockden Brown
- William Hill Brown
- Frederick Buechner, (born 1926)
- Pearl S. Buck, (1892-1973), The Good Earth
- Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet who also wrote novels about down-and-out life, including Post Office, Factotum, and Pulp.
- William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy
C
- G. W. Cable
- James M. Cain, (1892-1977), author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce
- Erskine Caldwell, author of God's Little Acre
- Truman Capote, (1924-1984)
- Orson Scott Card, (born 1951)
- Willa Cather, (1873 in-1947), modernist, author of The Professor's House, My Antonia
- Mary Hartwell Catherwood
- Michael Chabon, (born 1964), author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys
- Robert W. Chambers, (1865-1933)
- Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959)
- Lydia Maria Child
- Kate Chopin, (1850-1904)
- Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park.
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), the former British Prime Minister's American cousin
- Tom Clancy, (born 1947), author of The Hunt for Red October
- Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., author of The Gunmaker of Moscow
- John Esten Cooke, author of The Youth of Jefferson
- James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851), author of Leatherstocking Tales
- Robert Coover
- Charles Cotton
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), The Red Badge of Courage
- Francis Marion Crawford
- Harry Crews (born 1935)
- Lisa Crystal Carver
- Maria Susanna Cummins, (1827-1866)
- George William Curtis, (1824-1892)
D
- Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast
- Mark Z. Danielewski, (born 1966), author of House of Leaves
- John Davis
- Richard Harding Davis
- Thomas R. DeGregori
- Margaret Deland
- Don DeLillo, (born 1936), author of White Noise
- James Dickey, (1923-1997)
- Stephen Dobyns
- John Dos Passos
- Rita Dove, (born 1952)
- Theodore Dreiser, realist, author of Sister Carrie
- Gerina Dunwich, (born 1959), author of numerous occult books
- Timothy Dwight
E
- Dave Eggers
- Edward Eggleston
- Edward S. Ellie
- Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
- Ralph Ellison, (1914-1994), Invisible Man, Juneteenth
- Louise Erdrich
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Jeffrey Eugenides, (born 1960), author of The Virgin Suicides
F
- William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Southern Modernist, author of A Light in August
- Jessie Fauset, Harlem Renaissance writer; author of Plum Bun
- Eugene Field, author of Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
- John Filson, author of Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise
- Paul Leicester Ford, (1865-1902)
- Hannah Webster Foster
- John Fox
- Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections
- Harold Frederic
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
G
- William Gaddis, (1922-1998)
- Hamlin Garland
- William Gibson, (born 1948)
- Alexis A. Gilliland, (born 1931)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935), author of The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
- Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
- Ellen Glasgow, author of Virginia
- William Goodwin
- Natalie Goldberg
- Ben K. Green
- John Grisham, (born 1955), legal thrillers
H
- Alex Haley, (1921-1992), Roots
- Bayard Rush Hall
- James Hall
- Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961)
- Barry Hannah
- Arthur Sheburne Hardy
- J. C. Hart
- Bret Harte, (1839-1902)
- Kent Haruf, author of The Tie That Binds and Plainsong
- Alamgir Hashmi, (born 1951)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
- John Hay, (1838-1905)
- Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988)
- Joseph Heller, (1923-1999), Catch-22, Something Happened
- Mark Helprin, (born 1947), Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War
- Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
- Robert Herrick, (1868-1938)
- Carl Hiaasen, (born 1953), author of environmental thrillers such as Sick Puppy
- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), crime writer well-known for Strangers on a Train and the series of Ripley novels.
- Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953)
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- Mary Jane Holmes
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894)
- Anthony Hope, (1863-1933)
- Francis Hopkinson, (1737-1791)
- Blance Willis Howard
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson, (born 1939) literary fiction/women's fiction/historical fiction Award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered
- E. W. Howe
- William Dean Howells, (1837-1920)
- Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), Simple Comes to Harlem
- David Humphreys, author of Israel Putnam
- Zora Neale Hurston, (1891-1960), anthropologist and novelist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
I
- Joseph Holt Ingraham
- John Irving, (born 1942), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules
- Washington Irving, (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
J
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Thomas William Jackson
- Henry James, (1843-1916), author of The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors
- Sarah Orne Jewett, author of The Tory Lover
- Mary Johnston
- Eugene Jolas (1894-1945)
- James Jones, (1921-1977), author of From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line
- Sylvester Judd
- Donald Justice (1925-2004)
K
- Jan Karon, ( born 1937)
- John Pendleton Kennedy
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), beatnik author of On the Road (1952).
- Ken Kesey (1935-2001), author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962).
- Haven Kimmel (born 1965), author of A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, and others
- Stephen King, prolific horror author.
- Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, amongst others
- Joseph Kirkland
- Jerzy Kosinski, (1933-1991), American writer of Polish-Jewish origins - his works are in English, accused of plagiarism and writing a fictional autobiography, The Painted Bird.
L
- Anne Lamott
- Sidney Lanier, (1842-1881)
- Nella Larsen, (1891-1964), Harlem Renaissance writer; author of Quicksand and Passing.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929), essayist, poet, novelist for children and adults
- Harper Lee, (born 1926), author of To Kill a Mockingbird
- Murray Leinster, (born 1896)
- Ira Levin, (born 1929)
- Steven Levy
- Alfred Henry Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951), author of Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Main Street
- Jack London, (1876-1916), author of The Sea Wolf
- H. P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937)
- Robert Ludlum, (1927-2001)
M
- John D. MacDonald, detective fiction
- Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It
- Norman Mailer, journalist, author of The Naked and the Dead (1948).
- Charles Major
- Bernard Malamud, (1914-1986)
- Richard Malcolm
- Cotton Mather, (1664-1728), author of Magnalia
- Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City
- William Starbuck Mayo
- Carson McCullers
- George Barr McCutcheon
- Bill McKibben
- Larry McMurtry
- Herman Melville, (1819-1891), Moby-Dick
- Oscar Micheaux, (1884-1951)
- James A. Michener, (1907-1997), author of Tales of the South Pacific
- Henry Miller, (1891-1980), author of frequently banned Tropic of Cancer
- Steven Millhauser, (born 1943)
- Donald Grant Mitchell
- Isaac Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell
- Christopher Moore, author of Lamb and others.
- Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize for Literature, author of Beloved
- Bharati Mukherjee, author of Jasmine
N
- Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977), lepidopterist, author of Lolita
- John Neal, author of The Down-Easters
- Frank Norris, (1870-1902), author of McTeague
O
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor, (1925-1964)
- Eugene O'Neill, (1888-1953)
P
- Thomas Nelson Page
- James Kirk Paulding
- Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), author of Fight Club and Choke
- Walker Percy, (1916-1990)
- Frank Peretti, (born 1951)
- David Graham Phillips (1867-1911)
- Marge Piercy
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)
- Arthur Porges, (born 1915)
- Richard Powers
- Dawn Powell (1896-1965)
- Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937), author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and V. among other works.
Q
- Julia Quinn, (born 1969)
R
- Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
- Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire
- Harold Robbins, (1916-1997)
- Tom Robbins
- Edward Payson Roe
- Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain
- Susan Rowson
S
- J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
- Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)
- Budd Schulberg, author of What Makes Sammy Run? and On the Waterfront
- Sybil Scott
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- Sidney Sheldon
- William Gilmore Simms
- Upton Sinclair, socialist, author of The Jungle (1906)
- Francis Hopkinson Smith, author of Colonel Carter of Cartersville
- Terry Southern, author of The Magic Christian
- Emma D. E. N. Southworth
- Mickey Spillane, author of I, the Jury (1947), the first of the Mike Hammer books
- Elizabeth Spires, (born 1952)
- Danielle Steel
- Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, author of Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (See also France)
- John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
- Neal Stephenson, (born 1959), science fiction writer, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon
- Charles D. Stewart
- Frederick Jesup Stimson
- Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811-1896)
- Peter Straub
- Jacqueline Susann, author of Valley of the Dolls, the best selling novel of 1966.
T
- Amy Tan, (born 1952)
- Booth Tarkington, (1869-1946)
- Tabitha Tenney
- Studs Terkel, (born 1912)
- Lucy Terry
- Piri Thomas
- Daniel Pierce Thompson
- Maurice Thompson
- Hunter S. Thompson, "gonzo journalist"
- John Kennedy Toole, (1937-1969) author of A Confederacy of Dunces
- Calvin Trillin (born 1935)
- George Tucker
- Bayard Tuckerman
- Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
- Harry Turtledove, (born 1949)
- Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn
- Royall Tyler
U
- John Updike, (born 1932), author of Rabbit, Run and sequels.
- Leon Uris, (1924-2003), author of QB VII, Mila 18 and others.
V
- Gore Vidal, (born 1925)
- Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle
- William T. Vollman
W
- Alice Walker, (born 1944)
- David Foster Wallace, (born 1962)
- Lew Wallace, (1827-1905), author of Ben-Hur
- William Ware
- Gertrude Chandler Warner, (1890-1979), author of the Boxcar Children books
- Susan Warner
- Justin Weaver, author of Vintage Pimp
- Mason Locke Weems
- Edward Noyes Westcott
- E. B. White, (1899-1985), author of Charlotte's Web, co-author of The Elements of Style.
- Stewart Edward White
- William Allen White
- Brad Whitlock
- Edith Wharton, (1862-1937)
- Tennessee Williams, (1911-1983)
- Augusta Jane Evan Wilson
- Theodore Winthrop
- William Wirt
- Owen Wister, (1860-1938), author of The Virginian
- Gene Wolfe (born 1931)
- Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), author of You Can't Go Home Again
- Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Samuel Woodworth
- Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Z
See also
- list of novelists
- list of people from the United States
- list of people by occupation
- list of people by nationality
References
- Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000)