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Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948) is an American physicist, essayist, and novelist who spent thirteen years in astrophysics research at Harvard before becoming a writer, best known for Einstein's Dreams (1993).
Alexander Theroux
Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist, older brother of Paul Theroux, best known for the 704-page maximalist novel Darconville's Cat (1981), which Anthony Burgess named among the 99 best English novels since 1939.
Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold (born 1963), American novelist and memoirist, author of Lucky, The Lovely Bones, and The Almost Moon, all #1 New York Times bestsellers; known for the 2021 exoneration of Anthony Broadwater.
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Alicia Gaspar de Alba (born 1958) is an American Chicana novelist, poet, and scholar. A UCLA professor since 1994, she wrote Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders and Sor Juana's Second Dream.
Alison Espach
Alison Espach, American novelist and Providence College creative writing professor, author of The Adults (2011), Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (2022), and the New York Times bestseller The Wedding People (2024), a ReadwithJenna pick and Goodreads Choice Award winner.
Amor Towles
Amor Towles is an American novelist, born in Boston in 1964, known for Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway, bestsellers in over forty languages.
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born 1951) is an American short story writer known for compressed, emotionally charged fiction; her five collections include Reasons to Live (1985) and Sing to It (2019).
Amy Tan
Amy Tan (谭恩美; born 1952, Oakland, California) is an American novelist whose 1989 debut The Joy Luck Club, about Chinese immigrant mothers and American-born daughters, became an international best seller and National Book Award finalist; her 2024 book The Backyard Bird Chronicles is nature journaling.
André Aciman
André Aciman (born 1951, Alexandria) is an Egyptian-American novelist, memoirist, and CUNY comparative literature professor, author of Call Me by Your Name and Out of Egypt, known for themes of exile, memory, and desire.
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born 1963) is an American novelist and co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books, author of Bel Canto, The Dutch House, Tom Lake, and Whistler, winner of the Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award.
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx (Edna Annie Proulx, born 1935, Norwich, Connecticut) is an American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Shipping News, which won the 1993 National Book Award and 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and of "Brokeback Mountain", adapted into an Oscar-winning 2005 film. Also wrote Postcards, Close Range, Barkskins, and Fen, Bog & Swamp.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr (born 1973) is an American novelist and short story writer from Cleveland, Ohio, living in Boise, Idaho. Author of All the Light We Cannot See (2015 Pulitzer Prize, 15 million copies) and Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin, born 1944, is an American novelist best known for the Tales of the City series, which began as a San Francisco newspaper serial in the 1970s.
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet of socially engaged fiction. Author of The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead; only two-time Women's Prize winner and 2024 National Book Award lifetime achievement honoree.
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940) is an American novelist and short-story writer from Mayfield, Kentucky, known for Shiloh and Other Stories (1982) and the novel In Country (1985).
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis, American novelist of Less Than Zero (1985), American Psycho (1991), and The Shards (2023); deadpan satirist of privileged, disaffected Los Angeles and Wall Street.
Bruce Wagner
Bruce Wagner, American novelist and screenwriter of the Cellphone Trilogy (I'm Losing You, I'll Let You Go, Still Holding), Wild Palms, and Maps to the Stars, chronicling Hollywood and spiritual yearning in Los Angeles.
Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng, born 1980, is an American novelist and author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts; Harvard graduate and University of Michigan MFA, Pushcart Prize winner whose work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Chang-Rae Lee (이창래)
Chang-Rae Lee (이창래), Korean American novelist and Stanford English professor, born South Korea 1965; author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, The Surrendered (Pulitzer finalist), On Such a Full Sea, My Year Abroad, and A Tender Age.
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier (born 1950) is an American novelist from western North Carolina, author of Cold Mountain (1997), the National Book Award-winning Civil War novel of Inman's walk home to Ada, later filmed by Anthony Minghella; his other novels are Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods, Varina, and The Trackers.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born in Kolkata around 1956, is an Indian-American author and University of Houston professor known for The Mistress of Spices and The Palace of Illusions.
Christopher Buckley (novelist)
Christopher Buckley (b. 1952), American novelist and political satirist, son of William F. Buckley Jr.; author of Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Boomsday; distinct from the poet Christopher Buckley.
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk, born 1962 in Pasco, Washington, is the transgressive fiction author of Fight Club (1996) and Survivor, Choke, Haunted, Rant, and the Fight Club 2 and 3 graphic novels.
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born 1969) is an American novelist raised in Manhattan who won two consecutive Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, for The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019).
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born 1970) is an American author and publisher of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Circle, and Newbery winner The Eyes and the Impossible; founder of McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 Valencia.
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), American novelist and essayist, author of Infinite Jest (1996); known for maximalist, footnote-heavy prose, New Sincerity, essays, This Is Water, and posthumous The Pale King.
Delia Owens
Delia Owens (born 1949) is an American wildlife scientist and author of Where the Crawdads Sing (2018). She researched lions, hyenas, and elephants in Botswana and Zambia for 23 years, co-authored Cry of the Kalahari, and remains wanted for questioning in a 1995 Zambia killing.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born 1936) is an American novelist, author of White Noise, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Jerusalem Prize, and PEN/Saul Bellow Award; a major postmodern American fiction writer.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, American novelist born 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, author of The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; known for decade-long gaps between novels and writing by hand in pencil.
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat, born 1969 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-American novelist, memoirist, and short-story writer known for Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker; her memoir Brother, I'm Dying won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.