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Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout, American novelist born in Portland, Maine, author of Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer Prize 2009) and the Lucy Barton books, including The Things We Never Say, her 11th novel and a 2026 Booker shortlistee.
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Fatima Farheen Mirza (born 1991) is an American novelist, Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, and author of A Place for Us (2018), the New York Times bestselling debut and first SJP for Hogarth book about a Shia Muslim Indian-American family.
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin (born 1977) is an American novelist and screenwriter, Harvard graduate, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry; her books are translated into over forty languages.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor (1950–2016) was an American novelist whose debut, The Women of Brewster Place, about seven Black women in a New York tenement, won the National Book Award for best first novel in 1983.
Ha Jin
Ha Jin (哈金), pen name of Jin Xuefei (born 1956, Liaoning), Chinese-American novelist and poet writing in English; National Book Award winner for Waiting (1999), exiled after Tiananmen, author of War Trash and A Map of Betrayal.
Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) is an American novelist and editor-in-chief of T Magazine, author of The People in the Trees, A Little Life (Booker-shortlisted, 1.5 million copies), and To Paradise.
Honor Levy
Honor Levy, American writer from California, Bennington College 2020, author of the Gen Z debut story collection My First Book (Penguin Press, May 14, 2024), New Yorker contributor, Dimes Square figure, Wet Brain podcast co-host.
James McBride (writer)
James McBride (born 1957) is an American author, musician, and screenwriter from Brooklyn, known for The Color of Water, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison (Jan Ellison Baszucki), American novelist, author of the debut novel A Small Indiscretion (Random House, 2014), a USA TODAY bestseller and O. Henry Prize-winning short story writer.
Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney, born John Barrett McInerney Jr. in 1955, is an American novelist known for Bright Lights, Big City (1984), the Brat Pack, and his wine column for Town & Country.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides, American novelist born in Detroit in 1960, author of The Virgin Suicides (1993), Pulitzer-winning Middlesex (2002), The Marriage Plot (2011), and Fresh Complaint (2017).
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan, American novelist and journalist born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco; author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011 Pulitzer Prize), Look at Me, Manhattan Beach, and The Candy House.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan (born 1958) is an American author of 19 books, formerly James Finney Boylan; her 2003 memoir She's Not There was the first bestselling work by a transgender American, and she is former PEN America president and GLAAD co-chair.
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977) is an American novelist from DeLisle, Mississippi, author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing, the only woman to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice, plus Men We Reaped, Let Us Descend, and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames (born 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and TV writer, author of The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!, and You Were Never Really Here, and creator of HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt Talk.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen, born 1959, American novelist and essayist; author of The Twenty-Seventh City, The Corrections (2001 National Book Award), Freedom, Purity, and Crossroads; known for the Oprah Book Club controversy and the 2010 Time 'Great American Novelist' cover.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), also known for Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, is an American-Jewish novelist; his experimental, typographically playful novels treat Holocaust and 9/11 trauma.
Joshua Braff
Joshua Braff (born 1967) is an American novelist, brother of actor Zach Braff, author of The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green (2004), Peep Show (2010), and the self-published The Daddy Diaries (2015).
JT LeRoy
JT LeRoy was a fictitious author persona created by Laura Albert, who wrote Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things; Savannah Knoop played LeRoy in public until the 2005-2006 New York magazine and Times exposés.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer best known for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn (1945–2016), American Portland novelist and boxing journalist, author of Geek Love (1989), a National Book Award finalist about a carnival family that engineers its own freak-show children; also wrote Attic, Truck, and posthumous Toad.
Kristin Gore
Kristin Gore (born 1977), American writer and daughter of Al Gore; comedy writer on Futurama and Saturday Night Live, author of Sammy's Hill, Sammy's House, and Sweet Jiminy, and co-director of The Beanie Bubble (2023).
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver, 1957) is an American novelist and Spectator columnist, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003), winner of the 2005 Orange Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2011 film starring Tilda Swinton.
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (Marie Lorena Moore, born 1957, Glens Falls, New York) is an American short-story writer and novelist, author of Self-Help, Birds of America, Bark, and the NBCC Award-winning novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home; known for second-person narration and deadpan wit.
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich, born 1954) is an Ojibwe American novelist of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, author of Love Medicine, The Round House (National Book Award), and The Night Watchman (Pulitzer), and owner of Birchbark Books.
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, born in 1947, is an American short-story writer and translator known for very short fiction and for translations of Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
MacKenzie Scott
MacKenzie Scott, American novelist and philanthropist, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, author of The Testing of Luther Albright, Traps, and the 2026 Substack serialization Last Days in Two Nations; has given $26.3 billion since 2019 through unrestricted grants via Yield Giving.
Madeline Cash
Madeline Cash, American writer, author of Earth Angel (2023) and the debut novel Lost Lambs (FSG, 2026), and co-founder of Forever Magazine; grew up in the San Fernando Valley and studied at Sarah Lawrence.
Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins (born 1947, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, author of John Dollar, Evidence of Things Unseen (National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Shadow Catcher, and Properties of Thirst; former wife of Salman Rushdie.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943, Sandpoint, Idaho) is an American novelist and essayist, author of Housekeeping (1980) and the Gilead trilogy: Gilead (2005 Pulitzer Prize), Home (2009 Orange Prize), and Lila (2014).