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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, and war correspondent; author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat, and The Black Riders; pioneer of American literary naturalism who died of tuberculosis at 28.
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore, American novelist and memoirist born 1945/1946 in Hawaii, author of My Old Sweetheart, the 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut (filmed by Jane Campion), and the 2020 memoir Miss Aluminum.
Tabitha King
Tabitha King (born 1949), also Tabby King, is an American novelist from Old Town, Maine, wife of Stephen King, author of Small World, the Nodd's Ridge novels, One on One, and Candles Burning, and co-runner of the King Foundation.
Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz, born 1957 in San Francisco, is an American novelist and short-story writer whose 1986 bestseller Slaves of New York satirized downtown Manhattan's art scene.
Teju Cole
Teju Cole, pen name of Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa, is a Nigerian American writer and photographer best known for his award-winning 2011 novel Open City.
Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born 1951, Port Huron, Michigan) is the American novelist of Mama, Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, whose 1990s bestsellers and film hits opened publishing to Black women's contemporary fiction.
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist born in Terre Haute, Indiana; founder of American literary naturalism, author of Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), censorship battles, late Communist Party membership.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon, American novelist of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow (1974 National Book Award), Vineland, and Shadow Ticket (2025); reclusive, MacArthur Fellow, counterrealist postmodern fiction.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938), Asheville, North Carolina novelist, author of Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935), edited by Maxwell Perkins; distinct from Tom Wolfe the New Journalist.
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen, born Tillie Lerner, was an American writer and activist known for Tell Me a Riddle (1961) and Silences (1978), a study of why women and working-class writers go unheard.
Tim O'Brien (author)
Tim O'Brien (William Timothy O'Brien, born 1946) is the American author of Going After Cacciato (1979 National Book Award) and The Things They Carried (1990), Vietnam War fiction blending memory, metafiction, and truth.
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff (born 1945, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American short-story writer, memoirist, and novelist, author of This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, The Barracks Thief (PEN/Faulkner), and Old School; Stanford professor, National Medal of Arts 2015. Not the philosopher Christian Wolff or economist Richard Wolff.
Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta, born Thomas R. Perrotta in 1961, is an American novelist and screenwriter whose comic satires of suburban life include Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers.
Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene Robbins, 1932 to 2025) was an American novelist whose comic countercultural novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, drew a cult following from the 1970s.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford (1931–2019), American novelist and editor; wrote 11 novels including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved; Pulitzer Prize 1988; first African American woman Nobel Literature laureate, 1993.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons, 1924-1984), American author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, pioneer of the nonfiction novel, socially ruined by his Answered Prayers excerpts.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Việt, born 1971) is a Vietnamese American novelist and USC professor whose debut novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he later wrote The Committed, The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, and the memoir A Man of Two Faces.
Walker Percy
Walker Percy (1916–1990) was an American novelist, essayist, and trained physician from the Deep South whose debut novel The Moviegoer won the National Book Award in 1961.
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was an American novelist, historian, and environmentalist who wrote about the American West and won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose.
Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn (born 1962, Akron, Ohio) is the American novelist and critic of Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Lost in the Meritocracy, and Blood Will Out; two novels became films, and he edits County Highway.
Walter Tevis
Walter Stone Tevis (1928–1984), American novelist and short story writer, author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mockingbird, and The Queen's Gambit; three novels became major films and the chess novel a Netflix Emmy-winning miniseries.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author and diplomat, pseudonyms Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon; author of The Sketch Book, 'Rip Van Winkle,' 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' and the 175-edition Columbus biography; first American to live by authorship.
Willa Cather
Willa Cather (Wilella Sibert Cather, 1873–1947), American novelist and McClure's editor from Red Cloud, Nebraska; wrote O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop; won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American novelist, critic, and editor of the Atlantic Monthly who championed literary realism; his major novels include The Rise of Silas Lapham.
William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897–1962), American novelist of Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel laureate in Literature 1949, creator of Yoknapatawpha County and stream-of-consciousness works such as The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis (1922–1998) was an American novelist whose long, dialogue-driven satires of fraud, money, and language include The Recognitions, J R, and A Frolic of His Own; he won the National Book Award twice.
William Gilmore Simms
William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) was an American poet, novelist, historian, and editor from Charleston, South Carolina, regarded as the leading man of letters of the antebellum South.
William H. Gass
William H. Gass, born William Howard Gass (1924–2017), was an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher who coined the word metafiction and won the American Book Award for The Tunnel.
William Kennedy (author)
William Joseph Kennedy (born 1928) is an American novelist and journalist from Albany, New York, creator of the eight-novel Albany Cycle; his Ironweed (1983) won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and he founded the New York State Writers Institute.
William Maxwell (editor)
William Maxwell, born William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (1908–2000), was an American novelist and longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, where he edited Cheever, Welty, and Salinger.