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Alice Walker
Alice Walker (born 1944), American novelist, poet, and activist from Eatonton, Georgia; author of The Color Purple (1982), the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, also winner of the 1983 National Book Award.
Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus (1936–1999), American short story writer and essayist, Louisiana-born Marine captain turned Iowa MFA, author of The Lieutenant, "Killings," and Dancing After Hours; father of Andre Dubus III.
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie, born Charlotte Ann Beattie in 1947, is an American short-story writer and novelist whose New Yorker fiction about disaffected young people inspired talk of a "Beattie Generation."
Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born 1941, Minneapolis) is an American novelist of Baltimore-set domestic realist fiction, author of If Morning Ever Comes (1964), The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and the 1989 Pulitzer-winning Breathing Lessons; her 25th novel is Three Days in June (2025).
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) was an American novelist and short story writer of Jewish life who wrote The Natural, The Assistant, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fixer.
Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Bulosan (1913–1956) was a Filipino American migrant worker, labor organizer, and writer best known for America Is in the Heart (1946), chronicling Depression-era Filipino workers in the United States.
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith, 1917–1967), American Southern Renaissance novelist of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Café; themes of loneliness, misfits, and the grotesque.
Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Baxter (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer whose Midwest-set fiction includes The Feast of Love, a National Book Award finalist.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., American novelist of Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road; National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur Fellow.
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose work centers on Jewish identity; her best-known work is the novella The Shawl.
Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon (born Alfred Damon Runyan, Manhattan, Kansas; died 1946) was an American sportswriter, Hearst columnist, and short-story writer of Broadway gamblers and gangsters, creator of Guys and Dolls and the Runyonese dialect.
David Markson
David Markson (1927-2010), American experimental novelist from Albany, New York, author of Wittgenstein's Mistress and the Notecard Quartet (Reader's Block through The Last Novel), collage novels of fragments; also wrote the parodic Western The Ballad of Dingus Magee.
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright; author of Nightwood (1936), Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and The Antiphon; championed by T. S. Eliot; lived with Thelma Wood in Paris 1920–31.
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989), American postmodern short story writer and novelist, author of Snow White, The Dead Father, and Sixty Stories; a New Yorker regular whose collage-style fiction won the 1972 National Book Award.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) was an American author and educational reformer who popularized the Montessori method, helped choose books for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and wrote Understood Betsy.
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015), American novelist and editor, author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March; known for blending real historical figures with invented characters; three-time NBCC and two-time PEN/Faulkner winner.
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (1887–1968), American novelist and playwright, Pulitzer winner for So Big (1925); wrote Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant, and Broadway hits Dinner at Eight and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman.
Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey (1927–1989), American writer and self-described agrarian anarchist of the Southwest desert; author of Desert Solitaire (1968) and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), whose eco-sabotage novel inspired Earth First!.
Ella Cara Deloria
Ella Cara Deloria (Anpetu Wastéwin, "Beautiful Day Woman", 1889–1971) was a Yankton Dakota anthropologist and novelist, trained by Franz Boas at Columbia, known for Dakota Texts, Dakota Grammar, and Waterlily.
Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist whose 1973 debut Fear of Flying, featuring Isadora Wing and the 'zipless fuck,' made her a central figure of the 1970s sexual revolution.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and short story writer of the Lost Generation, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea; winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for spare, understated prose and the iceberg theory of omission.
Ernest Hemingway bibliography
Ernest Hemingway bibliography: reference works cataloging Hemingway's writings, from Louis Cohn's 1931 checklist and Audre Hanneman's Comprehensive Bibliography (1967/1975) to C. Edgar Grissom's 2011 Descriptive Bibliography and The Hemingway Review's running Current Bibliography.
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) was an American novelist whose fiction portrays the black communities of rural south Louisiana, best known for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Evan S. Connell
Evan S. Connell (1924–2013) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge and the Custer history Son of the Morning Star.
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), American Southern Gothic writer from Georgia; author of Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away and A Good Man Is Hard to Find; devout Catholic, died of lupus at 39; 32 short stories; posthumous 1972 National Book Award.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and political commentator; author of Burr, Myra Breckinridge, and United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993 National Book Award); also known for campaigns for Congress and Senate and his televised debates with William F. Buckley Jr.
Grace Paley
Grace Paley, née Goodside (1922–2007), was an American short story writer, poet, and peace activist whose three story collections made her a distinctive voice in twentieth-century American fiction.
Harper Lee
Harper Lee, born Nelle Harper Lee, was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, best known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which won the Pulitzer Prize and sold over 40 million copies.
Harry Crews
Harry Crews (1935-2012), American Southern Gothic novelist and memoirist, author of A Feast of Snakes and A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, longtime University of Florida writing professor.
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews (1930–2017) was an American novelist, poet, and translator known for experimental fiction built on formal constraints and as the first American member of the Oulipo, the Paris-based group of constrained writing.