List of novelists from the United States This is a list of novelists from the United States. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have a Wikipedia article. __NOTOC__ A Kathy Acker, (1947-1997) Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel George Ade, author of The Slim Princess Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys Thomas Bailey Aldrich Nelson Algren, (1909-1981), author of The Man With the Golden Arm. Sherwood Anderson Christopher Anvil, (born 1922) (pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby) Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992) Gertrude Atherton, author of The Conqueror Louis Auchincloss (born 1917) Paul Auster, (born 1947), author of the City of Glass trilogy, Leviathan, Timbuktu B Richard Bach, (born 1936) James Baldwin, (1924-1987), writer known for exploring race and sexuality, author of Another Country Irving Bacheller, author of A Man for the Ages Nicholson Baker, (born 1957) author of The Mezzanine and Vox Russell Banks, (1940- ), author of The Sweet Hereafter John Franklin Bardin Joel Barlow, (1754-1812) John Barth, (born 1930) Charles Baxter, (born 1947) Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble, (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others Edward Bellamy, author of Looking Backward, 2000-1887 Hillaire Belloc Saul Bellow, (born 1915), author of Henderson the Rain King Robert Montgomery Bird, (1803-1854) Ambrose Bierce, (1842-c.1914) George Borrow Kay Boyle (1902-1992) T.C. Boyle, author of The Road to Wellville, The Tortilla Curtain and A Friend of the Earth Ray Bradbury, (born 1920), author of The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984) Charles Brockden Brown William Hill Brown Frederick Buechner, (born 1926) Pearl S. Buck, (1892-1973), The Good Earth Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet who also wrote novels about down-and-out life, including Post Office, Factotum, and Pulp. William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997) Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy C G. W. Cable James M. Cain, (1892-1977), author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce Erskine Caldwell, author of God's Little Acre Truman Capote, (1924-1984) Orson Scott Card, (born 1951) Willa Cather, (1873 in-1947), modernist, author of The Professor's House, My Antonia Mary Hartwell Catherwood Michael Chabon, (born 1964), author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys Robert W. Chambers, (1865-1933) Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959) Lydia Maria Child Kate Chopin, (1850-1904) Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), the former British Prime Minister's American cousin Tom Clancy, (born 1947), author of The Hunt for Red October Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., author of The Gunmaker of Moscow John Esten Cooke, author of The Youth of Jefferson James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851), author of Leatherstocking Tales Robert Coover Charles Cotton Douglas Coupland, (born 1961) Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), The Red Badge of Courage Francis Marion Crawford Harry Crews (born 1935) Lisa Crystal Carver Maria Susanna Cummins, (1827-1866) George William Curtis, (1824-1892) D Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast Mark Z. Danielewski, (born 1966), author of House of Leaves John Davis Richard Harding Davis Thomas R. DeGregori Margaret Deland Don DeLillo, (born 1936), author of White Noise James Dickey, (1923-1997) Stephen Dobyns John Dos Passos Rita Dove, (born 1952) Theodore Dreiser, realist, author of Sister Carrie Timothy Dwight E Dave Eggers Edward Eggleston Edward S. Ellie Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho Ralph Ellison, (1914-1994), Invisible Man, Juneteenth Louise Erdrich Bret Easton Ellis Jeffrey Eugenides, (born 1960), author of The Virgin Suicides F William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Southern Modernist, author of A Light in August Jessie Fauset, Harlem Renaissance writer; author of Plum Bun Eugene Field, author of Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac John Filson, author of Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise Paul Leicester Ford, (1865-1902) Hannah Webster Foster John Fox Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections Harold Frederic Mary E. Wilkins Freeman G William Gaddis, (1922-1998) Hamlin Garland William Gibson, (born 1948) Alexis A. Gilliland, (born 1931) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935), author of The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997) Ellen Glasgow, author of Virginia William Goodwin Ben K. Green John Grisham, (born 1955), legal thrillers H Alex Haley, (1921-1992), Roots Bayard Rush Hall James Hall Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961) Barry Hannah Arthur Sheburne Hardy J. C. Hart Bret Harte, (1839-1902) Kent Haruf, author of The Tie That Binds and Plainsong Alamgir Hashmi, (born 1951) Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables John Hay, (1838-1905) Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988) Joseph Heller, (1923-1999), Catch-22, Something Happened Mark Helprin, (born 1947), Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises Robert Herrick, (1868-1938) Carl Hiaasen, (born 1953), author of environmental thrillers such as Sick Puppy Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), crime writer well-known for Strangers on a Train and the series of Ripley novels. Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953) Josiah Gilbert Holland Mary Jane Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894) Anthony Hope, (1863-1933) Francis Hopkinson, (1737-1791) Blance Willis Howard Carolyn Howard-Johnson, (born 1939) literary fiction/women's fiction/historical fiction Award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered E. W. Howe William Dean Howells, (1837-1920) Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), Simple Comes to Harlem David Humphreys, author of Israel Putnam Zora Neale Hurston, (1891-1960), anthropologist and novelist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God I Joseph Holt Ingraham John Irving, (born 1942), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules Washington Irving, (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle J Helen Hunt Jackson Thomas William Jackson Henry James, (1843-1916), author of The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors Sarah Orne Jewett, author of The Tory Lover Mary Johnston Eugene Jolas (1894-1945) James Jones, (1921-1977), author of From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line Sylvester Judd Donald Justice (1925-2004) K Jan Karon, ( born 1937) John Pendleton Kennedy Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), beatnik author of On the Road (1952). Ken Kesey (1935-2001), author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). Haven Kimmel (born 1965), author of A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, and others Stephen King, prolific horror author. Barbara Kingsolver author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, amongst others Joseph Kirkland Jerzy Kosinski, (1933-1991), American writer of Polish-Jewish origins - his works are in English, accused of plagiarism and writing a fictional autobiography, The Painted Bird. L Anne Lamott Sidney Lanier, (1842-1881) Nella Larsen, (1891-1964), Harlem Renaissance writer; author of Quicksand and Passing. Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929), essayist, poet, novelist for children and adults Harper Lee, (born 1926), author of To Kill a Mockingbird Murray Leinster, (born 1896) Ira Levin, (born 1929) Steven Levy Alfred Henry Lewis Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951), author of Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Main Street Jack London, (1876-1916), author of The Sea Wolf H. P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937) Robert Ludlum, (1927-2001) M John D. MacDonald, detective fiction Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It Norman Mailer, journalist, author of The Naked and the Dead (1948). Charles Major Bernard Malamud, (1914-1986) Richard Malcolm Cotton Mather, (1664-1728), author of Magnalia Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City William Starbuck Mayo Carson McCullers George Barr McCutcheon Bill McKibben Larry McMurtry Herman Melville, (1819-1891), Moby-Dick Oscar Micheaux, (1884-1951) James A. Michener, (1907-1997), author of Tales of the South Pacific Henry Miller, (1891-1980), author of frequently banned Tropic of Cancer Steven Millhauser, (born 1943) Donald Grant Mitchell Isaac Mitchell S. Weir Mitchell Christopher Moore, author of Lamb and others. Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize for Literature, author of Beloved Bharati Mukherjee, author of Jasmine N Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977), lepidopterist, author of Lolita John Neal, author of The Down-Easters Frank Norris, (1870-1902), author of McTeague O Joyce Carol Oates Flannery O'Connor, (1925-1964) Eugene O'Neill, (1888-1953) P Thomas Nelson Page James Kirk Paulding Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), author of Fight Club and Choke Walker Percy, (1916-1990) Frank Peretti, (born 1951) David Graham Phillips (1867-1911) Marge Piercy Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849) Arthur Porges, (born 1915) Richard Powers Dawn Powell (1896-1965) Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937), author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and V. among other works. Q Julia Quinn, (born 1969) R Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire Harold Robbins, (1916-1997) Tom Robbins Edward Payson Roe Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain Susan Rowson S J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye Carl Sagan, (1934-1996) Budd Schulberg, author of What Makes Sammy Run? and On the Waterfront Sybil Scott Catharine Maria Sedgwick Sidney Sheldon William Gilmore Simms Upton Sinclair, socialist, author of The Jungle (1906) Francis Hopkinson Smith, author of Colonel Carter of Cartersville Terry Southern, author of The Magic Christian Emma D. E. N. Southworth Mickey Spillane, author of I, the Jury (1947), the first of the Mike Hammer books Elizabeth Spires, (born 1952) Danielle Steel Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, author of Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (See also France) John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Neal Stephenson, (born 1959), science fiction writer, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon Charles D. Stewart Frederick Jesup Stimson Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902) Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811-1896) Peter Straub Jacqueline Susann, author of Valley of the Dolls, the best selling novel of 1966. T Amy Tan, (born 1952) Booth Tarkington, (1869-1946) Tabitha Tenney Studs Terkel, (born 1912) Lucy Terry Piri Thomas Daniel Pierce Thompson Maurice Thompson Hunter S. Thompson, "gonzo journalist" John Kennedy Toole, (1937-1969) author of A Confederacy of Dunces Calvin Trillin (born 1935) George Tucker Bayard Tuckerman Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent Harry Turtledove, (born 1949) Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn Royall Tyler U John Updike, (born 1932), author of Rabbit, Run and sequels. Leon Uris, (1924-2003), author of QB VII, Mila 18 and others. V Gore Vidal, (born 1925) Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle William T. Vollman W Alice Walker, (born 1944) David Foster Wallace, (born 1962) Lew Wallace, (1827-1905), author of Ben-Hur William Ware Gertrude Chandler Warner, (1890-1979), author of the Boxcar Children books Susan Warner Justin Weaver, author of Vintage Pimp Mason Locke Weems Edward Noyes Westcott E. B. White, (1899-1985), author of Charlotte's Web, co-author of The Elements of Style. Stewart Edward White William Allen White Brad Whitlock Edith Wharton, (1862-1937) Tennessee Williams, (1911-1983) Augusta Jane Evan Wilson Theodore Winthrop William Wirt Owen Wister, (1860-1938), author of The Virginian Gene Wolfe (born 1931) Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), author of You Can't Go Home Again Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), author of The Bonfire of the Vanities Samuel Woodworth Constance Fenimore Woolson X Y Z See also list of novelists list of people from the United States list of people by occupation list of people by nationality References Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. 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