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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.
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (1909–2001), Jackson, Mississippi author and photographer, wrote The Optimist's Daughter (1973 Pulitzer Prize), Delta Wedding, and One Writer's Beginnings; first living writer in Library of America.
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896–1940), American novelist of the Jazz Age, author of This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night; married to Zelda Sayre; died obscure, canonized posthumously.
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.
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.
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.
George Saunders
George Saunders (born 1958) is an American satirical short-story writer and novelist, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Tenth of December, and the 2017 Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo; former geophysical engineer, Syracuse professor, MacArthur Fellow, and 2025 National Book Foundation medalist.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American modernist writer, poet, and art collector; Paris salon host at 27 rue de Fleurus with Alice B. Toklas; author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; patron of Picasso and Matisse; Vichy-era politics remain debated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), American abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the anti-slavery novel serialized in The National Era and best-selling after the Bible.
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.
Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916), American-born British novelist and realist, author of The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl; master of the international theme, limited point of view, and the New York Edition prefaces.
Henry Miller
Henry Miller (1891–1980), American writer of Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn; Paris-based autobiographical novelist banned for obscenity for decades, later Big Sur resident.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist of Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, and Billy Budd; whaling sailor turned author whose work sold poorly in life and was revived after 1919.
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.
Hubert Selby Jr.
Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) was an American writer whose cult classic Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) sold over 750,000 copies and was tried for obscenity in England and Italy.
Ingersoll Lockwood
Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918), American lawyer and author of the Baron Trump children's novels and the 1896 satire 1900: or, The Last President; also consul to Hanover under Lincoln, pseudonym Irwin Longman, later subject of Trump prophecy theories.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער), also Yitskhok Bashevis, Polish-born American Yiddish novelist and 1978 Nobel laureate; author of Satan in Goray, The Family Moskat, and "Gimpel the Fool," known for demon narrators and supervised English "second originals."
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed, born 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is an American novelist, poet, essayist, and cultural critic known for his satirical Neo-HooDoo aesthetic and the novel Mumbo Jumbo.