American Authors

Early Authors (ca. 1630s)

Native Americans - oral literary traditions

Colonial (ca. 1608)

Capt. John Smith (January 1580 June 1630) explorer who

founded Jamestown, Virginia

A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as

Hath Happened in Virginia (1608)

The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer

Isles (1624)

Daniel Denton (ca. 1626 1703) American colonist; wrote the

Figure 1 .1 Capt. John
first English-language description of Elizabeth, New Jersey Smith

A Brief Description of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands(1670)

William Penn (ca. October 1644 July 1718) founder of the

Province of Pennsylvania

Frame of Government - Pennsylvanias First Constitution(1681)

William Stratchey (ca. April 1572 June 1621) English writer; Early
History of the Colonization of North America

A True Repertory of the Wracke, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Figure 2.2
Knight (1610) William Penn

For The Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c.

The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia

A Dictionary of Powhatan

Daniel Coxe (ca. 1640 1730) Governor of West Jersey

A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards

called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane (1722)

John Lawson (ca. 1674 1711) British explorer, naturalist and

writer; played an important role in the history of colonial North
Carolina, publicizing his expeditions in a book, and founding two
settlements.
A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)

Figure 1.3 John

Winthrop
John Winthrop (ca. 1578 1649) one of the pioneers of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony; city upon a hill

The History of New England

Edward Winslow (ca. October 1595 May 1655)

English Pilgrim leader on the Mayflower; served as the governor Figure 1.4 Edward
of Plymouth Colony in 1633, 1636, and finally in 1644. Winslow
His testimony in Mourt's Relation is one of only two primary sources of the "first
thanksgiving" in existence.

Good Newes from New England, or a True Relation of Things very Remarkable at
the Plantation of Plimouth in New England (1624)

Hypocrisie Unmasked; by a True Relation of the Governor and Company of

Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton, a Notorious Disturber of the
Peace (1646), to which was added a chapter entitled "A Brief Narration of the
True Grounds or Cause of the First Plantation of New England"

New England's Salamander (1647)

The Glorious Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New

England (1649)

Increase Mather/William Bradford (ca. June 1639 August

1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts); a Puritan minister who was
involved with the government of the colony, the administration
of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials.

History of Plymouth Plantation (1620 -1647)

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612 September 1672) was America's Figure 1.5 Increase
Mather
first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old
World and the New World.
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 (poem)

The Prologue

The Author to Her Book

A Dialogue between Old England and New

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

Edward Taylor (ca. 1642 1729) colonial American poet, pastor

and physician

Preparatory Mediations
Figure 1.6 Anne
Bradstreet
Michael Wigglesworth (ca. 1631 1705) Puritan minister and Poet

The Day of Doom

Nicholas Noyes known for his doggerel verse

Cotton Mather (ca. 1663 1728) socially and politically influential New
England Minister; son of Increase Mather; played a part in the Salem Witch Trials;
Gods activity in histories of the colonies

Magnalia Christi Americana

The Wonders of the Invisible World

The Biblia Americana

William Byrd (ca. 1674 1744) considered founder of Richmond, Virginia;

mostly journal/diary entries

The History of the Dividing Line

William Bartram (ca. 1739 1823) American naturalist; made many

drawings and notes on the native flora, fauna and the Native American Indians

Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the
Cherokee Country, etc. Philadelphia, James & Johson, 1791

J. Hector St. John de Crvecur (ca. 1735 1813) French-American

writer; naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John

Letters from an American Farmer: Describing Certain Provincial Situations,

Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the
Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies of North America,
1782.

Letters From an American, written to A.W.S. Ecuyer since the year 1770 up 'til
1781.

Memoire sur le Commerce Entre la France et les Etats-Unis D'Amerique, 1784

(manuscript rests in the U.S. Embassy, Paris)

Sketches of the Eighteenth Century America: More "Letters From an American

Farmer, 1923."

Eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York, 1801.

African-American Writers

Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753 1784) first published African-American poet

and first African-American woman whose writings were published; slave

To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty (for George III; 1768)

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

Olaudah Equiano (ca. 1745 1797; revolution era) - prominent African

involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade; His
autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British
lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Samson Occom (ca. 1723 1792) an American Native Presbyterian

clergyman; member of the Mohegan nation; first Native American person to
publish documents and pamphlets in English

A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs

A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian Who Was
Executed at New Haven on the 2nd of September 1772 for the Murder of Mr.
Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December 1771

A Short Narrative of My Life

Journals

Herbs and Roots

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom

Revolutionary Writers

Samuel Adams (ca. 1722 1803) - an American statesman, political philosopher, and
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams
was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects
of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He
was a second cousin to President John Adams.

Massachusetts Circular Letter

Massachusetts Constitution

Declaration of Independence of America (signatory)

Josiah Quincy II (ca. 1744 1775) American lawyer and patriot. He was a principal
spokesman for the Sons of Liberty in Boston prior to the Revolution and was John Adams' co-counsel
during the trials of Captain Thomas Preston and the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.

Observations on the Act of Parliament, commonly called The Boston Port Bill, with Thoughts on Civil
Society and Standing Armies (1744)

John Dickson (ca. 1732 1808) - an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a
Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional
Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest
men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters
from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson
recognized him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed
by Great Britain" whose "name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the
revolution." He is the namesake of Dickinson College and Penn State University's Dickinson School
of Law.

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

Joseph Galloway (ca. 1731 1803) - American Loyalist during the American Revolution,
after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania.

Thomas Paine (ca. 1737 1809) - author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary,
and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a
journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination; emigrated to the British American colonies
in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the
powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that
advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American
Crisis (17761783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. His writing of "Common Sense" was so
influential that John Adams reportedly said, "Without the pen of the author of 'Common Sense,' the
sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.

Common Sense (1776)

The American Crisis (1776 1783)

Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) - one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A
noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster,
scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a
major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories
regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer,
and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire
department in Pennsylvania.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richards Almanac

Post-Independence
Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826) - was the principal author of the Declaration of
Independence (1776) and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom (1777), the third President of
the United States (18011809) and founder of the University of Virginia (1819). He was an
influential Founding Father and an exponent of Jeffersonian democracy.

United States Declaration of Independence

Part of the US Constitution

Notes on the State of Virginia

Alexander Hamilton (1755 1804) a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political

philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the
Treasury.

James Madison (1751 1836) - American statesman and political theorist. He was
the fourth President of the United States (18091817) and is hailed as the Father of the Constitution
for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and the author of the United
States Bill of Rights.

First American Novels/Poems

William Hill Brown The Power of Sympathy (1791) epistolary in form

Susanna Rowson Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (1791; 1794 American)

Washington Irving (1783 1859) - American

author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best
known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which
appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include
biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-
century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.
Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 1809 October 1849) - American author, poet, editor and literary critic,
considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and
the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered
the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging
genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through
writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Tales: (Famous)

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

Poems: (Famous)

Annabel Lee

The Bells

The Raven

Tamerlane

James Fenimore Cooper (September 1789 September 1851) - prolific and

popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote
numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring
frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the
Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

The Last of the Mohicans

Leatherstocking Tales

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 1811 July 1896) American abolitionist and author.
Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it
reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United
Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in
the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of
articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of
the day.

Uncle Toms Cabin

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1804 May 1864) - writing centers on New England,
many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part
of the Romantic Movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the
inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological
complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin
Pierce.

The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville (1819 1891) Moby Dick

Walt Whitman (May 1819 March 1862) Leaves of Grass

David Herbert Lawrence (September 1885 March 1930) Lady

Chatterleys Lover

Emily Dickinson (December 1830 May 1886) Much Madness is

Divinest Sense

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot, September 1888 January 1965) The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Robert Frost (March 1874 January 1963) The Road Not Taken

Edward Estlin Cummings (E.E. Cummings, October 1894 September

1962) The Enormous Room

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 1892 October 1950) - The Lamp and the
Bell (Play)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 1835- April 1910)
Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer

Henry Miller (1843 1916) The Turn of the Screw

20th Century

Edith Wharton (1862 1937) The Age of Innocence

Stephen Crane (1871 1900) The Red Badge of Courage

Gertrude Stein (1874 1946) Three Lives

Ernest Hemingway (1899 1961) The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to

Arms

William Faulkner (1897 1962) Light in August

Great Depression Era

John Steinbeck (1902 1968) The Grapes of Wrath

Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the Locust

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer; Black Spring

Post- World War II

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch

John Updike Rabbit, Run

Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus

Nathan Zuckerman Portnoys Complaint

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man

Richard Wright The Man Who Was Almost A Man; Native Son

John Hawkes The Lime Twig

Contemporary American Literature

Tori Morrison The Bluest Eye

David Foster Wallace The Broom of the System

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke

Louise Erdrich Plague of Doves

Nicholas Sparks A Walk to Remember; Message in a Bottle; The Last

Song; Dear John; The Notebook; Nights in Rodanthe

Ben Sherwood Charlie St. Cloud

Edward Abbey (1927 1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang

Walter Abish (born 1931), How German Is It

Diana Abu-Jaber (born 1960), Arabian Jazz

Kathy Acker (1947 1997), Blood and Guts in High School

Alice Adams (1926 1999), Beautiful Girl

Henry Adams (1838 1918), Democracy: An American Novel

George Ade (1866 1944), The Slim Princess

Renata Adler (born 1938), Speedboat

Warren Adler (born 1927), The War of the Roses

James Agee (1909 1955), A Death in the Family

Conrad Aiken (1889 1973), Blue Voyage

Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888), Little Women

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 1907), Prudence Palfrey

Lloyd Alexander (1924 2007), The Black Cauldron

Sherman Alexie (born 1966), Reservation Blues

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 1899), Ragged Dick

Nelson Algren (1909 1981), The Man with the Golden Arm

Hervey Allen (1889 1949), Anthony Adverse

Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina

Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 1919), The Young Trailers

Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents

Rudolfo Anaya (born 1937), Bless Me, Ultima

Laurie Halse Anderson (born 1961) Speak

Poul Anderson (1926 2001), Tau Zero

Sherwood Anderson (1876 1941), Winesburg, Ohio

V. C. Andrews (1923 1986), Flowers in the Attic

Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), Baby of the Family

A. Manette Ansay (born 1964), Vinegar Hill

Donald Antrim (born 1959), The Hundred Brothers

Allen Appel (born 1945), Time After Time

Benjamin Appel (1907 1979), Brain Guy

Max Apple (born 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right

Harriette Arnow (1908 1986), The Dollmaker

Timothy Shay Arthur (1809 1885), Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There

Sholem Asch (1880 1957), The Nazarene

Isaac Asimov (1920 1992), The Gods Themselves

Rilla Askew (born 1951), The Mercy Seat

Robert Asprin (born 1946), Another Fine Myth

Gertrude Atherton (1857 1948), The Conqueror

William Attaway (1911 1986), Blood on the Forge

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (born 1984), In the Forests of the Night

Louis Auchincloss (1917 2010), The Rector of Justin

Jean M. Auel (born 1936), The Clan of the Cave Bear

Paul Auster (born 1947), New York Trilogy

Mary Hunter Austin (1868 1934), Isidro

Richard Bach (born 1936), Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Irving Bacheller (1859 1950), A Man for the Ages

George Bagby (1906 1985), Murder at the Piano

Dorothy Baker (1907 1968), Young Man with a Horn

James Robert Baker (1947 1997), Fuel-Injected Dreams

Nicholson Baker (born 1957), Vox

Kirsten Bakis (born 1968), Lives of the Monster Dogs

Faith Baldwin, (1893 1978), The Heart Has Wings

James Baldwin (1924 1987), Go Tell It on the Mountain

John Ball (1911 1988), In the Heat of the Night

Toni Cade Bambara (1939 1995), The Salt Eaters

Russell Banks (born 1940), The Sweet Hereafter

Margaret Culkin Banning (1891 1982), Country Club People

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (born 1934), The System of Dante's Hell

Anna Maynard Barbour (died 1941), That Mainwaring Affair

John Franklin Bardin (1916 1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly

Djuna Barnes (1892 1982), Nightwood

Linda Barnes (born 1949), A Trouble of Fools

Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886 1967), Years of Grace

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831 1919), Jan Vedder's Wife

Nevada Barr (born 1952), Track of the Cat

Andrea Barrett (born 1964), The Voyage of the Narwhal

John Barth (born 1930), Giles Goat-Boy

Donald Barthelme (1931 1989), Snow White

Frederick Barthelme (born 1943), Chroma

Rick Bass (born 1958), Where the Sea Used to Be

Hamilton Basso (1904 1964), The View from Pompey's Head

L. Frank Baum (1856 1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Richard Bausch (born 1945), The Last Good Time

Robert Bausch (born 1945), Almighty Me

Charles Baxter (born 1947), Shadow Play

Peter S. Beagle (born 1939), The Last Unicorn

Greg Bear, (born 1951), Darwin's Radio

Ann Beattie, (born 1947), Chilly Scenes of Winter

Louis Begley (born 1933), About Schmidt

Madison Smartt Bell (born 1957), All Souls' Rising

Edward Bellamy (1850 1898), Looking Backward: 2000 1887

Saul Bellow (1915 2005), Henderson the Rain King

Peter Benchley (1940 2006), Jaws

Aimee Bender (born 1969), An Invisible Sign of My Own

Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), Dogs of God

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 1943), Spanish Bayonet

Gregory Benford (born 1941), Timescape

Thomas Berger (born 1924), Little Big Man

Gina Berriault (1926 1999), The Descent

Don Berry (1931 2001), Trask

Wendell Berry (born 1934), A Place on Earth

Alfred Bester (1913 1987), The Demolished Man

Doris Betts (born 1932), Souls Raised from the Dead

Earl Derr Biggers (1884 1933), The Chinese Parrot

Robert Montgomery Bird (1803 1854), The Infidel

Michael Bishop (born 1945), No Enemy But Time

William Peter Blatty (born 1928), The Exorcist

Robert Bloch (1917 1994), Psycho

Lawrence Block (born 1938), Eight Million Ways to Die

Amy Bloom (born 1953), Love Invents Us

Judy Blume (born 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Chris Bohjalian (born 1960), The Law of Similars

Arna Bontemps (1902 1973), God Sends Sunday

Anthony Boucher (1911 1968), The Case of the Seven of Calvary

Vance Bourjaily (born 1922), Brill Among the Ruins

Ben Bova (born 1932), The Starcrossed

Jane Bowles (1917 1973), Two Serious Ladies

Paul Bowles (1910 1999), The Sheltering Sky

Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945), The Revolution of Little Girls

James Boyd (1888 1944), Drums

Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (born 1958), The Planets

Kay Boyle (1902 1992), Death of a Man

T. Coraghessan Boyle (born 1948), The Road to Wellville

Gerald Warner Brace (1901 1978), The World of Carrick's Cove

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 1816), Modern Chivalry

Leigh Brackett (1915 1978), The Secret of Sinharat

Ray Bradbury (born 1920), The Illustrated Man

David Bradley (born 1950), The Chaneysville Incident

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 1999), The Mists of Avalon

Billy Lee Brammer (1929 1978), The Gay Place

Max Brand (1892 1944), Destry Rides Again

Giannina Braschi (1954 -) "Yo-Yo Boing!"

Richard Brautigan (1935 1984), Trout Fishing in America

Kate Braverman (born 1950), Lithium for Medea

Matt Briggs (born 1970), Shoot the Buffalo

David Brin (born 1950), The Uplift War

Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967), Exquisite Corpse

Harold Brodkey (1930 1996), The Runaway Soul

Louis Bromfield (1896 1956), The Rains Came

Geraldine Brooks (born 1955), March

Terry Brooks (born 1944), The Sword of Shannara

Alice Brown (1857 1948), Fools of Nature

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 1810), Wieland

Dan Brown (born 1964), The Da Vinci Code

Harry Brown (1917 1986), A Walk in the Sun

Larry Brown (1951 2004), Dirty Work

Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), Rubyfruit Jungle

Rosellen Brown (born 1939), Before and After

William Hill Brown (1756 1793), The Power of Sympathy

Pearl S. Buck (1892 1973), The Good Earth

Frederick Buechner (born 1926), Godric

Charles Bukowski (1920 1994), Factotum

Edward Bunker (1933 2005), Little Boy Blue

Eugene Burdick (1918 1965), The Ugly American (with William Lederer)

James Lee Burke (born 1936), The Neon Rain

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 1924), Little Lord Fauntleroy

William R. Burnett (1899 1982), Little Caesar

Olive Ann Burns (1924 1990), Cold Sassy Tree

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 1950), Tarzan of the Apes

William S. Burroughs (1914 1997), Naked Lunch

Frederick Busch (1941 2006), Harry and Catherine

Octavia E. Butler (1947 2006), Patternmaster

Robert Olen Butler (born 1945), The Alleys of Eden

James Branch Cabell (1879 1958), Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice

George Washington Cable (1844 1925), The Grandissimes

Meg Cabot (born 1967), The Princess Diaries

Abraham Cahan (1860 1951), The Rise of David Levinsky

James M. Cain (1892 1977), The Postman Always Rings Twice

Erskine Caldwell (1903 1987), God's Little Acre

Taylor Caldwell (1900 1985), Dynasty of Death

Hortense Calisher (1911 2009), False Entry

Bebe Moore Campbell (1950 2006), Singing in the Comeback Choir

John W. Campbell (1910 1971), The Mightiest Machine

Ethan Canin (born 1960), For Kings and Planets

Robert Cantwell (1908 1978), The Land of Plenty

Kevin Canty (born 1953), Nine Below Zero

Truman Capote (1924 1984), Other Voices, Other Rooms

Philip Caputo (born 1941), Delcorso's Gallery

Orson Scott Card (born 1951), Ender's Game

Ron Carlson (born 1947), Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Don Carpenter (1931 1995), Hard Rain Falling

Caleb Carr (born 1955), The Alienist

John Dickson Carr (1906 1977), The Crooked Hinge

Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904 1999), As the Earth Turns

Jonathan Carroll (born 1949), The Land of Laughs

Forrest Carter (1925 1979), The Education of Little Tree

Lin Carter (1930 1988), Sky Pirates of Callisto

John Casey (born 1939), Spartina

R. V. Cassill (1919 2002), Dr. Cobb's Game

Ana Castillo (born 1953), So Far From God

Willa Cather (1873 1947), My ntonia

Michael Chabon (born 1964), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Jack L. Chalker (1944 2005), Midnight at the Well of Souls

Robert W. Chambers (1865 1933), In the Quarter

Raymond Chandler (1888 1959), The Big Sleep

James Chapman, (born 1955), Stet

Fred Chappell (born 1936), Dagon

Jerome Charyn (born 1937), Blue Eyes

Mary Ellen Chase (1887 1973), Mary Peters

John Cheever (1912 1982), The Wapshot Chronicle

Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American Heaven

C. J. Cherryh (born 1942), Cyteen

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 1932), The Marrow of Tradition

Alan Cheuse (born 1940), The Grandmother's Club

Lydia Maria Child (1802 1880), Hobomok

Mark Childress (born 1957), Crazy in Alabama

Kate Chopin (1851 1904), The Awakening

Winston Churchill (1871 1947), Richard Carvel

Carolyn Chute (born 1947), The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), The House on Mango Street

Tom Clancy (born 1947), The Hunt for Red October

Eleanor Clark (1913 1996), Baldur's Gate

Mary Higgins Clark (born 1927), A Stranger is Watching

Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909 1971), The Ox-Bow Incident

Beverly Cleary (born 1916), Ramona the Pest

Jeremiah Clemens (1814 1865), Tobias Wilson

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (See: Mark Twain)

Hal Clement (1922 2003), Mission of Gravity

Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Abeng

Robert M. Coates (1897 1973), The Eater of Darkness

Harlan Coben (born 1962), Deal Breaker

Laurie Colwin (1944 1992), Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

Richard Condon (1915 1996), The Manchurian Candidate

Evan S. Connell (born 1924), Mrs. Bridge

Michael Connelly (born 1956), Blood Work

Frank Conroy (1936 2005), Body and Soul

Pat Conroy (born 1945), The Prince of Tides

K. C. Constantine (born 1934), Upon Some Midnights Clear

Robin Cook (born 1940), Coma

John Esten Cooke (1830 1886), The Virginia Comedians

J. California Cooper (born 1966), Some People, Some Other Place

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 1851), The Last of the Mohicans

Robert Coover (born 1932), The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

Edwin Corle (1906 1956), Fig Tree John

Patricia Cornwell (born 1956), Postmortem

James Gould Cozzens (1903 1978), Guard of Honor

Robert Crais (born 1953?), Hostage

Stephen Crane (1871 1900), The Red Badge of Courage

Margaret Craven (1901 1980), I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Francis Marion Crawford (1854 1909), Saracinesca

Harry Crews (born 1935), Scar Lover

Michael Crichton (1942 2008), Jurassic Park

Robert Crichton (1925 1993), The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Amanda Cross (1926 2003), The James Joyce Murder

John Crowley (born 1942), Little, Big

Maria Susanna Cummins (1827 1866), The Lamplighter

Michael Cunningham (born 1952), The Hours

James Oliver Curwood (1878 1927), The Grizzly King

Clive Cussler (born 1931), Raise the Titanic!

D
H. D. (1886 1961), Palimpsest

Edward Dahlberg (1900 1977), Bottom Dogs

Mark Z. Danielewski (born 1966), House of Leaves

Edwidge Danticat (born 1969), Breath, Eyes, Memory

Guy Davenport (1927 2005), Da Vinci's Bicycle

Marcia Davenport (1903 1994), East Side, West Side

Avram Davidson (1923 1993), The Phoenix and the Mirror

Clyde Brion Davis (1894 1962), Nebraska Coast

Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born 1916), Death of an Old Sinner

H. L. Davis (1896 1960), Honey in the Horn

L. J. Davis, A Meaningful Life

Richard Harding Davis (1864 1916), Soldiers of Fortune

Terry Davis (born 1947), Vision Quest

Jeffrey Deaver (born 1950), The Bone Collector

L. Sprague de Camp (1907 2000), Lest Darkness Fall

John William De Forest (1826 1926),

Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty

Margaret Deland (1857 1945), John Ward, Preacher

Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), Dhalgren

Don DeLillo (born 1936), White Noise

Via Delmar (1903 1990), Bad Girl

Lester del Rey (1915 1993), Attack From Atlantis

Patrick Dennis (1921 1976), Auntie Mame

August Derleth (1909 1971), The Memoirs of Solar Pons

Peter De Vries (1910 1993), Reuben, Reuben

Pete Dexter (born 1943), Paris Trout

Philip K. Dick (1928 1982), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

James Dickey (1923 1997), Deliverance

Charles Dickinson (born 1951), A Shortcut in Time

Joan Didion (born 1934), Play It As It Lays

Thomas M. Disch (1940 2008), Camp Concentration

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), The Mistress of Spices

Melvin Dixon (1950 1992), Trouble the Water

Stephen Dixon (born 1936), Frog

Thomas Dixon (1864 1946), The Clansman

Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), The Wrestler's Cruel Study

E. L. Doctorow (born 1931), Ragtime

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 1905), Hans Brinker

Harriet Doerr (1910 2002), Stones for Ibarra

Ivan Doig (born 1939), Ride With Me, Mariah Montana

Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947), Lord Foul's Bane

J. P. Donleavy (born 1926), The Ginger Man

Richard Dooling (born 1954), White Man's Grave

Michael Dorris (1945 1997), A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

John Dos Passos (1896 1970), U.S.A.

Lloyd C. Douglas (1877 1951), Magnificent Obsession

Theodore Dreiser (1871 1945), An American Tragedy

Allen Drury (1918 1998), Advise and Consent

Tom Drury (born 1956), The End of Vandalism

Andre Dubus III (born 1959), House of Sand and Fog

Bruce Ducker (born 1938), Mooney in Flight

John Dufresne (born 1948), Louisiana Power and Light

David James Duncan (born 1952), The Brothers K

Katherine Dunn (born 1945), Geek Love

John Gregory Dunne (1932 2003), True Confessions

John Dunning (born 1942), Booked to Die

Tony Earley (born 1961), Jim the Boy

Mignon G. Eberhart (1899 1996), The Patient in Room 18

David Eddings (born 1931), Pawn of Prophecy

Clyde Edgerton (born 1944), Walking Across Egypt

Walter D. Edmonds (1903 1998), Drums Along the Mohawk

George Alec Effinger (1947 2002), When Gravity Fails

Jennifer Egan (born 1962), The Keep

Dave Eggers (born 1970), You Shall Know Our Velocity

Edward Eggleston (1837 1902), The Hoosier Schoolmaster

John Ehle (born 1924), Last One Home

Stanley Elkin (1930 1995), Mrs. Ted Bliss

Aaron Elkins (born 1935), Old Bones

Stanley Ellin (1916 1986), The Eighth Circle

Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964), American Psycho

Trey Ellis (born 1962), Right Here, Right Now

Edward S. Ellis (1840 1916), Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier

Ralph Ellison (1914 1994), Invisible Man

James Ellroy (born 1948), L.A. Confidential

Carol Emshwiller (born 1921), Carmen Dog

Louise Erdrich (born 1954), Love Medicine

Steve Erickson (born 1950), Arc d'X

Loren D. Estleman (born 1952), Motor City Blue

Jeffrey Eugenides (born 1960), The Virgin Suicides

Janet Evanovich (born 1943), One For the Money

Augusta Jane Evans (1835 1909), St. Elmo

Frederick Exley (1929 1992), A Fan's Notes

Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878 1951), The Bright Land

John Fante (1909 1983), Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Richard Faria (1937 1966), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Philip Jos Farmer (born 1918), To Your Scattered Bodies Go

James T. Farrell (1904 1979), Young Lonigan

Howard Fast (1914 2003), April Morning

William Faulkner (1897 1962), Light in August

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 1961), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

Kenneth Fearing (1902 1961), The Big Clock

Raymond Federman (born 1928), The Twofold Vibration

Raymond E. Feist (born 1945), Magician

Edna Ferber (1885 1968), So Big

Harvey Fergusson (1890 1971), The Conquest of Don Pedro

Rachel Field (1894 1942), All This, and Heaven Too

Charles Finch (born 1980), A Beautiful Blue Death

Martha Farquharson Finley (1828 1909), Elsie Dinsmore

Jack Finney (1911 1995), Time and Again

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 1958), Understood Betsy

Vardis Fisher (1895 1968), Children of God

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940), The Great Gatsby

Louise Fitzhugh (1928 1974), Harriet the Spy

Thomas Flanagan (1923 2002), The Year of the French

Martin Flavin (1883 1967), Journey in the Dark

Paul Fleischman (born 1952), Whirligig

Sid Fleischman (1920 2010), The Whipping Boy

Lynn Flewelling (born 1958), Nightrunner

Vince Flynn (born 1966), Pursuit of Honor

Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), Everything Is Illuminated

Mary Hallock Foote (1847 1938), The Chosen Valley

Shelby Foote (1916 2005), Shiloh

Esther Forbes (1891 1967), Johnny Tremain

Jesse Hill Ford (1928 1996), The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

John M. Ford (1957 2006), The Dragon Waiting

Paul Leicester Ford (1865 1902), The Honorable Peter Stirling

Richard Ford (born 1944), Independence Day

Leon Forrest (1937 1997), There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

Robert Forward (1932 2002), Dragon's Egg

Alan Dean Foster (born 1946), Midworld

Hannah Webster Foster (1758 1840), The Coquette

Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), The Jane Austen Book Club

John Fox, Jr. (1862 1919), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Paula Fox (born 1923), Desperate Characters

William Price Fox (born 1926), Ruby Red

Waldo Frank (1889 1967), Holiday

Jonathan Franzen (born 1959), The Corrections

Charles Frazier (born 1950), Cold Mountain

Harold Frederic (1856 1898), The Damnation of Theron Ware

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 1930), Pembroke

Marilyn French (1929 2009), The Women's Room

Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930), Stern

Kinky Friedman (born 1944), Greenwich Killing Time

Daniel Fuchs (1909 1993), Summer in Williamsburg

Henry Blake Fuller (1857 1929), The Cliff-Dwellers

Alan Furst (born 1941), Night Soldiers

William Gaddis (1922 1998), The Recognitions

Ernest Gaines (born 1933), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Mary Gaitskill (born 1954), Two Girls, Fat and Thin

Zona Gale (1874 1938), Miss Lulu Bett

Paul Gallico (1897 1976), The Poseidon Adventure

Ernest K. Gann (1910 1991), The High and the Mighty

Cristina Garcia (born 1958), Dreaming in Cuban

John Reynolds Gardiner (1944 2006), Stone Fox

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 1970), The Case of the Velvet Claws

John Gardner (1933 1982), Grendel

Leonard Gardner (born 1933), Fat City

Hamlin Garland (1860 1940), A Daughter of the Middle Border

George Garrett (born 1929), Death of the Fox

William Gass (born 1924), Omensetter's Luck

David Gates (born 1947), Jernigan

Kaye Gibbons (born 1960), Ellen Foster

William Gibson (born 1948), Neuromancer

Barry Gifford (born 1946), Wild at Heart

Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), Starcarbon

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 1935), Herland

Fred Gipson (1908 1973), Old Yeller

Ellen Glasgow (1873 1945), Virginia

Julia Glass (born 1956), Three Junes

Gail Godwin (born 1937), A Mother and Two Daughters

Herbert Gold (born 1924), The Man Who Was Not With It

Arthur Golden (born 1957), Memoirs of a Geisha

Francisco Goldman (born 1954), The Long Night of White Chickens

William Goldman (born 1931), The Princess Bride

Rebecca Goldstein (born 1950), The Mind-Body Problem

David Goodis (1917 1967), Down There

Allegra Goodman (born 1967), The Family Markowitz

Paul Goodman (1911 1972), Making Do

Marcus Goodrich (1897 1991), Delilah

Caroline Gordon (1895 1981), Aleck Maury, Sportsman

Mary Gordon (born 1949), Final Payments

Ron Goulart (born 1933), After Things Fell Apart

William Goyen (1915 1983), The Fair Sister

Sue Grafton (born 1940), "A" is for Alibi

Robert Grant (1852 1940), Unleavened Bread

Shirley Ann Grau (born 1929), The Keepers of the House

Anna Katharine Green (1846 1935), The Leavenworth Case

Julien Green (1900 1998), Lviathan (The Dark Journey)

Sam Greenlee (born 1930), The Spook Who Sat By The Door

Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970), The Confessions of Max Tivoli

William Lindsay Gresham (1909 1962), Nightmare Alley

Zane Grey (1872 1939), Riders of the Purple Sage

Sutton E. Griggs (1872 1933), The Hindered Hand

Martha Grimes (born 1931), The Old Contemptibles

John Grisham (born 1955), The Firm

Winston Groom (born 1944), Forrest Gump

Davis Grubb (1919 1980), The Night of the Hunter

Judith Guest (born 1936), Ordinary People

Allan Gurganus (born 1947), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

David Guterson (born 1956), Snow Falling on Cedars

A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901 1991), The Big Sky

Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Dogeaters

Jennifer Haigh (born 1968), Mrs. Kimble

Joe Haldeman (born 1943), The Forever War

Alex Haley (1921 1992), Roots

James Norman Hall (1887 1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (with Charles Nordhoff)

Oakley Hall (born 1920), Warlock

Brett Halliday (1904 1977), Dividend on Death

Hilary Thayer Hamann (born 1962), Anthropology of an American Girl

Jane Hamilton (born 1957), The Book of Ruth

Laurell K. Hamilton (born 1963), Guilty Pleasures

Dashiell Hammett (1894 1961), The Maltese Falcon

Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (born 1970), Watch Your Mouth

Barry Hannah (born 1942), Geromino Rex

Joseph Hansen (1923 2004), Fadeout

Ron Hansen (born 1947), Mariette in Ecstasy

Paul Harding (born 1967), Tinkers

Elizabeth Hardwick (born 1916), Sleepless Nights

Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847 1930), The Wind of Destiny

Donald Harington (1935 2009), The Cockroaches of Stay More

Henry Harland (1861 1905), The Cardinal's Snuff-box

Charles L. Harness (1915 2005), The Paradox Men

Bertha Harris (1937 2005), Lover

E. Lynn Harris (1955 2009), Invisible Life

MacDonald Harris (1921 1993), The Balloonist

Mark Harris (1922 2007), Bang the Drum Slowly

Thomas Harris (born 1940), The Silence of the Lambs

Harry Harrison (born 1925), Make Room! Make Room!

Jim Harrison (born 1937), Legends of the Fall

Kent Haruf (born 1943), Plainsong

Jon Hassler (1933 2008), Staggerford

John Hawkes (1925 1998), The Lime Twig

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864), The Scarlet Letter

Ernest Haycox (1899 1950), Bugles in the Afternoon

Shirley Hazzard (born 1931), The Great Fire

Shelby Hearon (born 1931), Owning Jolene

Peter Hedges (born 1962), What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Ursula Hegi (born 1946), Stones from the River

Scott Heim (born 1966), Mysterious Skin

Larry Heinemann (born 1944), Paco's Story

Robert A. Heinlein (1907 1988), Stranger in a Strange Land

Joseph Heller (1923 1999), Catch-22

Mark Helprin (born 1947), Winter's Tale

Ernest Hemingway (1899 1961), A Farewell to Arms

Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964), Nowhere Man

Frank Herbert (1920 1986), Dune

Joseph Hergesheimer (1880 1954), Linda Condon

Robert Herrick (1868 1938), Web of Life

John Hersey (1914 1993), A Bell for Adano

DuBose Heyward (1885 1940), Porgy

Carl Hiaasen (born 1953), Sick Puppy

George V. Higgins (1939 1999), The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Patricia Highsmith (1921 1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley

Oscar Hijuelos (born 1951), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Tony Hillerman (1925 2008), The Blessing Way

Chester Himes (1909 1984), If He Hollers Let Him Go

S. E. Hinton (born 1948), The Outsiders

Russell Hoban (born 1925), Riddley Walker

Laura Z. Hobson (1900 1986), Gentleman's Agreement

Alice Hoffman (born 1952), Practical Magic

Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 1881), The Bay-Path

Sheri Holman (born 1966), The Mammoth Cheese

Mary Jane Holmes (1825 1907), Lena Rivers

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 1894), Elsie Venner

A. M. Homes (born 1961), The End of Alice

Ann Hood (born 1956), Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine

Khaled Hosseini (born 1965), The Kite Runner

Silas House (born 1971), A Parchment of Leaves

Blanche Willis Howard (1847 1898), Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast

Maureen Howard (born 1930), Natural History

E. W. Howe (1853 1937), The Story of a Country Town

William Dean Howells (1837 1920), The Rise of Silas Lapham

David Huddle (born 1942), La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl

Barry Hughart (born 1934), Bridge of Birds

Langston Hughes (1902 1967), Not Without Laughter

William Humphrey (1924 1997), Farther Off from Heaven

Josephine Humphreys (born 1945), Rich in Love

Evan Hunter (1926 2005), Blackboard Jungle

Stephen Hunter (born 1946), Point of Impact

Fannie Hurst (1885 1968), Imitation of Life

Zora Neale Hurston (1891 1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God

Siri Hustvedt (born 1955), The Sorrows of an American

James Hynes (born 1955), The Lecturer's Tale

Greg Iles (born 1960), The Quiet Game

Gary Indiana (born 1950), Resentment

Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809 1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
John Irving (born 1942), The World According to Garp

Susan Isaacs (born 1943), Compromising Positions

Christopher Isherwood (1904 1986), Goodbye to Berlin

Charles R. Jackson (1902 1968), The Lost Weekend

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830 1885), Ramona

Shirley Jackson (1916 1965), The Haunting of Hill House

Rona Jaffe (1932 2005), Mazes and Monsters

John Jakes (born 1932), North and South

Randall Jarrell (1914 1965), Pictures from an Institution

Henry James (1843 1916), Washington Square

Sandy James (born 1963), Turning Thirty-Twelve

Will James (1892 1942), Smoky the Cow Horse

Elizabeth Janeway (1913 2005), Daisy Kenyon

Tama Janowitz (born 1957), By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

Gish Jen (born 1956), Typical American

Jerry B. Jenkins (born 1949), Left Behind (with Tim LaHaye)

Gary Jennings (1928 1999), Aztec

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs

Ha Jin (born 1956), Waiting

Adam Johnson (born 1967) Parasites Like Us

Charles R. Johnson (born 1948), Middle Passage

Denis Johnson (born 1949), Fiskadoro

Diane Johnson (born 1934), Le Divorce

James Weldon Johnson (1871 1938), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910 1990), Now in November

Joyce Johnson (born 1935), In the Night Caf

Owen Johnson (1878 1952), Stover at Yale

Mary Johnston (1870 1936), To Have and to Hold

Edward P. Jones (born 1951), The Known World

Gayl Jones (born 1949), Corregidora

James Jones (1921 1977), From Here to Eternity

LeRoi Jones (See: Amiri Baraka)

Matthew F. Jones (born 19??), A Single Shot

Erica Jong (born 1942), Fear of Flying

Robert Jordan (1948 2007), The Eye of the World

Sylvester Judd (1813 1853), Margaret

Heidi Julavits (born 1968), The Mineral Palace

Ward Just (born 1935), Jack Gance

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James Otis Kaler (1848 1912), Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus

Richard Kalich (1935-), The Nihilstete

Robert Kalich] (1935-), The Handicapper

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934 2009), Cold Red Sunrise

Joseph Kanon (born 1946), Los Alamos

MacKinlay Kantor (1904 1977), Andersonville

Jan Karon (born 1937), At Home in Mitford

John Katzenbach (born 1950?), The Madman's Tale

Janet Kauffman (born 1945), Collaborators

Bel Kaufman (born 1911), Up the Down Staircase

Sue Kaufman (1926 1977), Diary of a Mad Housewife

Harry Stephen Keeler (1890 1967), The Riddle of the Traveling Skull

Clarence Budington Kelland (1881 1964), Dangerous Angel

Jesse Kellerman (born 1978), The Executor

Jonathan Kellerman (born 1949), Flesh and Blood

Faye Kellerman (born 1952), The Ritual Bath

William Melvin Kelley (born 1937), A Different Drummer

Marjorie Kellogg (1922 2005), Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Elmer Kelton (1926 2009), Buffalo Wagons

John P. Kennedy (1795 1870), Horse-Shoe Robinson

William Kennedy (born 1928), Ironweed

Jack Kerouac (1922 1969), On the Road

Ken Kesey (1935 2001), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Ketchum (born 1946), The Girl Next Door

Daniel Keyes (born 1927), Flowers for Algernon

Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885 1970), Dinner at Antoine's

Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948), The Secret Life of Bees

Karen Kijewski (born 1943), Katwalk

Haven Kimmel (born 1965), The Solace of Leaving Early

Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Annie John

Grace King (1852 1932), The Pleasant Ways of St. Mdard

Laurie R. King (born 1952), A Grave Talent

Stephen King (born 1947), Carrie

Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955), The Bean Trees

Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Tripmaster Monkey

Joseph Kirkland (1830 1894), Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County

Walter Kirn (born 1962), Thumbsucker

Fletcher Knebel (1911 1993), Seven Days in May (with Charles Bailey II)

John Knowles (1926 2001), A Separate Peace

Manuel Komroff (1890 1974), Coronet

Dean Koontz (born 1945), Whispers

Jerzy Kosinski (1933 1991), Being There

William Kotzwinkle (born 1943), The Fan Man

Eric Kraft (born 1945), What a Piece of Work I Am

Larry Kramer (born 1935), Faggots

Gary Krist (born 1957), Extravagance

Herbert Krause (1905 1976), The Thresher

[[Jim Krusoe[] (1942-), The Girl Factory

Tom Kromer (1906 1969), Waiting for Nothing

Maxine Kumin (born 1925), Through Dooms of Love

Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), A Case of Curiosities

Mercedes Lackey (born 1950), Arrows of the Queen

Ed Lacy (1911 1968), Room To Swing

Oliver La Farge (1901 1963), Laughing Boy

R. A. Lafferty (1914 2002), Past Master

Tim LaHaye (born 1926), Left Behind (with Jerry B. Jenkins)

Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), The Namesake

Harold Lamb (1892 1962), Marching Sands

Wally Lamb (born 1950), She's Come Undone

Anne Lamott (born 1954), Crooked Little Heart

Louis L'Amour (1908 1988), Jubal Sackett

Margaret Landon (1903 1993), Anna and the King of Siam

Jane Langton (born 1922), The Transcendental Murder

Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951), The Bottoms

Ring Lardner (1885 1933), You Know Me Al

Nella Larsen (1891 1964), Passing

Emma Lathen (Martha Hennissart (born 1929) and Mary Jane

Latsis (1927 1997)), Murder Against the Grain

Keith Laumer (1925 1993), A Plague of Demons

Robert Lawson (1892 1957), Rabbit Hill

David Leavitt (born 1961), The Lost Language of Cranes

William Lederer (1912 2009), The Ugly American (with Eugene Burdick)

Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929), The Left Hand of Darkness

Chang-Rae Lee (born 1965), Native Speaker

Harper Lee (born 1926), To Kill a Mockingbird

Peter Lefcourt (born 1941), The Dreyfus Affair

Ella Leffland (born 1931) Rumors of Peace

Dennis Lehane (born 1966) Mystic River

Fritz Leiber (1910 1992), A Specter is Haunting Texas

Murray Leinster (1896 1975), The Greks Bring Gifts

Brad Leithauser (born 1953), Hence

Madeleine L'Engle (1918 2007), A Wrinkle in Time

J. Robert Lennon (born 1970), Mailman

Elmore Leonard (born 1925), Get Shorty

JT LeRoy (Laura Albert) (born 1965), Sarah

John Lescroart (born 1948), The Mercy Rule

Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), Motherless Brooklyn

Jeremy Leven (born 1941), Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure

Ira Levin (1929 2007), Rosemary's Baby

Meyer Levin (1905 1981), Compulsion

Stacey Levine (born 19??), Frances Johnson

Janet Lewis (1899 1998), The Wife of Martin Guerre

Sinclair Lewis (1885 1951), Main Street

Ludwig Lewisohn (1882 1955), The Case of Mr. Crump

John L'Heureux (born 1934), An Honorable Profession

Alan Lightman (born 1948), Einstein's Dreams

Tao Lin (born 1983), Richard Yates

Joseph C. Lincoln (1870 1944), Rugged Water

Johanna Lindsey (born 1952), Fires of Winter

Elizabeth Linington (1921 1988), Knave of Hearts

Elinor Lipman (born 1950), The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

George Lippard (1822 1854), The Monks of Monk Hall

Rosina Lippi (born 1956), Homestead

Sam Lipsyte (born 1968), Home Land

David Liss (born 1966), A Conspiracy of Paper

Bentley Little (born 1960), The Revelation

Robert Littell (born 1935), The Amateur

Ross Lockridge, Jr. (1914 1948), Raintree County

Jack London (1876 1916), The Call of the Wild

Frank Belknap Long (1901 1994), The Horror from the Hills

Anita Loos (1893 1981), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Bret Lott (born 1958), Jewel

H. P. Lovecraft (1890 1937), At the Mountains of Madness

Lois Lowry (born 1937), The Giver

Robert Ludlum (1927 2001), The Bourne Identity

Grace Lumpkin (1891 1980), To Make My Bread

Alison Lurie (born 1926), Foreign Affairs

Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902 1995), The Velvet Horn

John D. MacDonald (1916 1986), The Deep Blue Good-by

Ross Macdonald (1915 1983), The Moving Target

Harold MacGrath (1871 1932), The Man on the Box

Norman Maclean (1902 1990), A River Runs Through It

Charlotte MacLeod (1922 2005), The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

Gregory Maguire (born 1954), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Norman Mailer (1923 2007), The Naked and the Dead

Charles Major (1856 1913), When Knighthood Was in Flower

Clarence Major (born 1936), Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar

Bernard Malamud (1914 1986), The Natural

Thomas Mallon (born 1951), Henry and Clara

Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939), Beyond Apollo

Frederick Manfred (1912 1994), Lord Grizzly

William March (1893 1954), The Bad Seed

Dee Marie (born 19??), Sons of Avalon, Merlins Prophecy

Margaret Maron (born 19??), Bootlegger's Daughter

John P. Marquand (1893 1960), The Late George Apley

Catherine Marshall (1914 1983), Christy

Paule Marshall (born 1929), Brown Girl, Brownstones

George R. R. Martin (born 1948), A Game of Thrones

Valerie Martin (born 1948), Mary Reilly

Carole Maso (born 1955), Defiance

Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940), In Country

F. Van Wyck Mason (1901 1978), Three Harbours

Richard Matheson (born 1926), I Am Legend

Harry Mathews (born 1930), The Conversions

Jack Matthews (born 1925), Hanger Stout, Awake!

Peter Matthiessen (born 1927), At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Armistead Maupin (born 1944), Tales of the City

William Maxwell (1908 2000), Time Will Darken It

Joyce Maynard (born 1953), To Die For

Anne McCaffrey (born 1926), Dragonflight

Robert R. McCammon (born 1952), Boy's Life

Cormac McCarthy (born 1933), All the Pretty Horses

Mary McCarthy (1912 1989), The Group

Ed McClanahan (born 1932), Natural Man

Horace McCoy (1897 1955), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966), The Giant's House

Sharyn McCrumb (born 1948), The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Carson McCullers (1917 1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

George Barr McCutcheon (1866 1928), Brewster's Millions

Alice McDermott (born 1953), Charming Billy

Gregory Mcdonald (born 1937), Fletch

Joseph McElroy (born 1930), A Smuggler's Bible

William McFee (1881 1966), Casuals of the Sea

William P. McGivern (1918 1982), Blondes Die Young

Thomas McGuane (born 1939), Nothing But Blue Skies

Jay McInerney (born 1955), Bright Lights, Big City

Richard McKenna (1913 1964), The Sand Pebbles

Reginald McKnight (born 1956), He Sleeps

James McManus (born 1951), Going to the Sun

Terry McMillan (born 1951), Waiting to Exhale

Larry McMurtry (born 1936), Lonesome Dove

Stephen W. Meader (1892 1977), Boy with a Pack

Herman Melville (1819 1891), Moby-Dick

Gordon Merrick (1916 1988), The Lord Won't Mind

Claire Messud (born 1966), When the World Was Steady

Grace Metalious (1924 1964), Peyton Place

Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), Twilight

Leonard Michaels (1933 2003), The Men's Club

James A. Michener (1907 1997), Tales of the South Pacific

Caroline Miller (1903 1992), Lamb in His Bosom

Henry Miller (1891 1980), Tropic of Cancer

Rex Miller (1939 2004), Slob

Sue Miller (born 1943), The Good Mother

Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923 1996), A Canticle for Leibowitz

Lydia Millet (born 1968), My Happy Life

Steven Millhauser (born 1943), Martin Dressler

Anchee Min (born 1957), Becoming Madame Mao

Stephen Minot (born 1927), Surviving the Flood

Susan Minot (born 1956), Evening

Jacquelyn Mitchard (born 1955), The Deep End of the Ocean

Donald Grant Mitchell (1822 1908), Dr. Johns

Margaret Mitchell (1900 1949), Gone with the Wind

S. Weir Mitchell (1829 1914), Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker

N. Scott Momaday (born 1934), House Made of Dawn

Rick Moody (born 1961), The Ice Storm

Christopher Moore (born 1957),

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Lorrie Moore (born 1957), Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Ruth Moore (1903 1989), Spoonhandle

Susanna Moore (born 1947), In the Cut

Ward Moore (1903 1978), Bring the Jubilee

Robert Morgan (born 1944), Gap Creek

Christopher Morley (1890 1957), Kitty Foyle

Mary McGarry Morris (born 1943), Songs In Ordinary Time

Wright Morris (1910 1998), Plains Song

Toni Morrison (born 1931), Beloved

Bradford Morrow (born 1951), Trinity Fields

James Morrow (born 1947), Towing Jehovah

Howard Frank Mosher (born 1943?), A Stranger in the Kingdom

Walter Mosley (born 1952), Devil in a Blue Dress

Dow Mossman (born 1944), The Stones of Summer

Willard Motley (1912 1965), Knock on Any Door

Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940), Jasmine

Clarence E. Mulford (1883 1956), Hopalong Cassidy

Marcia Muller (born 1944), Wolf in the Shadows

Mary Noailles Murfree (1850 1922), The Amulet

Sabina Murray (born 1968), A Carnivore's Inquiry

John Myers Myers (1906 1988), Silverlock

Anton Myrer (1922 1996), Once an Eagle

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 1977), Lolita

Robert Nathan (1894 1985), Portrait of Jennie

Gloria Naylor (born 1950), The Women of Brewster Place

John Neal (1793 1876), The Down-Easters

Antonya Nelson (born 1961), Talking in Bed

Howard Nemerov (1920 1991), The Homecoming Game

Arthur Nersesian (born 1958), The Fuck-Up

Katherine Neville (born 1945), The Eight

Fae Myenne Ng (born 1956/7?), Bone

John Nichols (born 1940), The Milagro Beanfield War

Anas Nin (1903 1977), A Spy in the House of Love

Larry Niven (born 1938), Ringworld

Lewis Nordan (born 1939), The Sharpshooter Blues

Charles Nordhoff (1887 1947), Mutiny on the Bounty (with James Norman Hall)

Gurney Norman (born 1937), Divine Right's Trip

Howard Norman (born 1949), The Bird Artist

John Norman (born 1931), Tarnsman of Gor

Charles Gilman Norris (1881 1945), Bricks Without Straw

Frank Norris (1870 1902), McTeague

Kathleen Norris (1880 1966), Second Hand Wife

Harold Norse (born 1916), Beat Hotel

Andre Norton (1912 2005), The Witch World

Craig Nova (born 1945), The Good Son

Josip Novakovich (born 1956), April Fool's Day

Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), them

Tim O'Brien (born 1946), Going After Cacciato

Edwin O'Connor (1918 1968), The Last Hurrah

Flannery O'Connor (1925 1964), The Violent Bear It Away

Chris Offutt (born 1958), The Good Brother

Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952), writes as Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm

John O'Hara (1905 1970), Appointment in Samarra

Robert Olmstead (born 1954), A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go

Stewart O'Nan (born 1961), The Speed Queen

Martha Ostenso (1900 1963), Wild Geese

Cynthia Ozick (born 1928), The Puttermesser Papers

Thomas Nelson Page (1853 1952), On Newfound River

Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), Fight Club

Edgar Pangborn (1909 1976), Davy

Alexei Panshin (born 1940), Rite of Passage

Sara Paretsky (born 1947), Indemnity Only

Jay Parini (born 1948), The Last Station

Robert B. Parker (born 1932), Crimson Joy

T. Jefferson Parker (born 1953), Laguna Heat

Anne Parrish (1888 1957), The Perennial Bachelor

Ann Patchett (born 1963), Bel Canto

Elliot Paul (1891 1958), Concert Pitch

Gary Paulsen (born 1939), Hatchet

James Kirke Paulding (1778 1860), The Dutchman's Fireside

Bill Pearson (born 1938), Drifter's Detour

Ridley Pearson (born 1953), Undercurrents

T. R. Pearson (born 1956), Blue Ridge

Robert Newton Peck (born 1928), A Day No Pigs Would Die

Janet Peery (born 195?), The River Beyond the World

Don Pendleton (1927 1995), War Against the Mafia

Walker Percy (1916 1990), The Moviegoer

Frank E. Peretti (born 1951), This Present Darkness

Julia Peterkin (1880 1961), Scarlet Sister Mary

Ann Petry (1931 1997), The Narrows

Arthur Phillips (born 1969), Prague

David Graham Phillips (1867 1911), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952), Machine Dreams

Jodi Picoult (born 1966), The Pact

Marge Piercy (born 1936), He, She And It

Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824 1898), Ida May

Darryl Pinckney (born 1953), High Cotton

Josephine Pinckney (1895 1957), Three O'Clock Dinner

H. Beam Piper (1904 1964), Little Fuzzy

Sylvia Plath (1932 1963), The Bell Jar

George Plimpton (1927 2003), The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Frederik Pohl (born 1919), Gateway

Darryl Ponicsan (born 1938), The Last Detail

Ernest Poole (1880 1950), His Family

Eleanor H. Porter (1868 1920), Pollyanna

Katherine Anne Porter (1890 1980), Ship of Fools

Charles Portis (born 1933), True Grit

Melville Davisson Post (1871 1930), The Nameless Thing

Chaim Potok (1929 2002), The Chosen

Jerry Pournelle (born 1933), The Endless Frontier

Dawn Powell (1896 1965), The Wicked Pavilion

Padgett Powell (born 1952), Edisto

Richard P. Powell (1908 1999), The Philadelphian

J. F. Powers (1917 1999), Morte d'Urban

Richard Powers (born 1957), The Gold Bug Variations

Emily Prager (born 1952), Clea & Zeus Divorce

Theodore Pratt (1901 1969), Mr. Limpet

Eugenia Price (1916 1996), The Beloved Invader

Reynolds Price (born 1933), Kate Vaiden

Richard Price (born 1949), Freedomland

Frederic Prokosch (1908 1989), The Seven Who Fled

Bill Pronzini (born 1943), Hoodwink

Francine Prose (born 1947), Blue Angel

E. Annie Proulx (born 1935), The Shipping News

Olive Higgins Prouty (1882 1974), Stella Dallas

James Purdy (born 1923), Cabot Wright Begins

Mario Puzo (1920 1999), The Godfather

Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), Gravity's Rainbow

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Qiu Xiaolong (born 1953), Death of a Red Heroine

Ellery Queen (Frederick Dannay (1905 1982) and

Manfred B. Lee (1905 1971), The Greek Coffin Mystery

John Herbert Quick (1861 1925), Vandemark's Folly

Anna Quindlen (born 1953), Black and Blue

Daniel Quinn (born 1935), Ishmael

Ayn Rand (1905 1982), Atlas Shrugged

Alice Randall (born 1959), The Wind Done Gone

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 1953), The Yearling

Wilson Rawls (1913 1984), Where the Red Fern Grows

Chet Raymo (born 19??), The Dork of Cork

John Rechy (born 1934), City of Night

Jaclyn Reding (born 1966), The Secret Gift

Ishmael Reed (born 1938), Mumbo Jumbo

Arthur B. Reeve (1880 1936), Craig Kennedy Listens In

Kathy Reichs (born 1950), Dj Dead

Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 1883), The Rifle Rangers

Sheri Reynolds (born 1967), The Rapture of Canaan

Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869 1934), Bransford in Arcadia

Anne Rice (born 1941), Interview with the Vampire

Craig Rice (1908 1957), The Corpse Steps Out

Conrad Richter (1890 1968), The Town

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 1958), The Circular Staircase

Harold Robbins (1916 1997), The Carpetbaggers

Tom Robbins (born 1936), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881 1941), The Great Meadow

Kenneth Roberts (1885 1957), Northwest Passage

Nora Roberts (born 1950), Irish Thoroughbred

Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), Red Mars

Marilynne Robinson (born 1943), Housekeeping

Mary Robison (born 1949), Why Did I Ever

Lucia St. Clair Robson (born 1942), Ride the Wind

Edward Payson Roe (1838 1888), Barriers Burned Away

O. E. Rlvaag (1876 1931), Giants in the Earth

Judith Rossner (1935 2005), Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Leo Rosten (1908 1997), Captain Newman, M.D.

Henry Roth (1906 1995), Call It Sleep

Philip Roth (born 1933), Portnoy's Complaint

Susanna Rowson (1762 1824), Charlotte Temple

Robert Ruark (1915 1965), Uhuru

Norman Rush (born 1933), Mating

Rebecca Rush (1779 1850), Kelroy

Joanna Russ (born 1937), The Female Man

Mary Doria Russell (born 1950), The Sparrow

Richard Russo (born 1949), Empire Falls

Marah Ellis Ryan (1860 1934), Told in the Hills

J. D. Salinger (1919 2010), The Catcher in the Rye

James Sallis (born 1944), Long-Legged Fly

James Salter (born 1925), A Sport and a Pastime

Edgar Saltus (1855 1921), Mr.Incoul's Misadventure

Lawrence Sanders (1920 1998), The Anderson Tapes

John Sandford (born 1944), Rules of Prey

Mari Sandoz (1896 1966), Slogum House

William Saroyan (1908 1981), The Human Comedy

May Sarton (1912 1995), Faithful are the Wounds

John Saul (born 1942), Suffer the Children

George Saunders (born 1958), The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

John Sayles (born 1950), Pride of the Bimbos

Jack Schaefer (1907 1991), Shane

Cathleen Schine (born 1953), Rameau's Niece

Mark Schorer (1908 1977), A House Too Old

Budd Schulberg (born 1914), What Makes Sammy Run?

Christine Schutt (born 19??), All Souls

Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born 1939), Disturbances in the Field

Sandra Scoppettone (born 1936), Suzuki Beane

Evelyn Scott (1893 1963), A Calendar of Sin

Joanna Scott (born 1960), The Manikin

Allan Seager (1906 1968), Amos Berry

Molly Elliot Seawell (1860 1916), The House of Egremont

Alice Sebold (born 1963), The Lovely Bones

Catharine Sedgwick (1789 1867), Hope Leslie

Carolyn See (born 1934), Making History

Erich Segal (born 1937), Love Story

Lore Segal (born 1928), Other People's Houses

Hubert Selby Jr. (1928 2004), Last Exit to Brooklyn

Anya Seton (1904 1990), Green Darkness

Mary Lee Settle (1918 2005), Blood Tie

Michael Shaara (1928 1988), The Killer Angels

Laurence Shames (born 1951), Florida Straits

Ntozake Shange (born 1948), Betsey Brown

Akhil Sharma (born 1971), An Obedient Father

Irwin Shaw (1913 1984), Rich Man, Poor Man

Robert Shea (1933 1994), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Anton Wilson)

Wilfrid Sheed (born 1930), Square's Progress

Sidney Sheldon (born 1917), The Naked Face

Samuel Shellabarger (1888 1954), Captain from Castile

Jim Shepard (born 1956), Lights Out in the Reptile House

Carol Shields (1935 2003), The Stone Diaries

Anita Shreve (born 1946), The Weight of Water

Susan Richards Shreve (born 1939), A Country of Strangers

Lionel Shriver (born 1957), We Need to Talk About Kevin

Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Anne Rivers Siddons (born 1936), Peachtree Road

Clancy Sigal (born 1926), Going Away

Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948), Ceremony

Robert Silverberg (born 1935), A Time of Changes

Clifford D. Simak (1904 1988), City

Dan Simmons (born 1948), Hyperion

William Gilmore Simms (1806 1870}, The Sword and the Distaff
Mona Simpson (born 1957), Anywhere But Here

Upton Sinclair (1878 1968), The Jungle

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 1991), Enemies, a Love Story

Israel Joshua Singer (1893 1944), The Brothers Ashkenazi

Jane Smiley (born 1949), A Thousand Acres

Betty Smith (1896 1972), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

E. E. Smith (1890 1965), First Lensman

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806 1893), The Western Captive

Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838 1915), Colonel Carter of Cartersville

H. Allen Smith (1907 1976), Rhubarb

Lee Smith (born 1944), Fair and Tender Ladies

Thorne Smith (1892 1934), Topper

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (born 1927), The Headless Cupid

Susan Sontag (1933 2004), In America

Virginia Sorensen (1912 1991), On This Star

Christopher Sorrentino (born 1963), Trance

Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 2006), Mulligan Stew

Gary Soto (born 1952), Buried Onions

Terry Southern (1924 1995), The Magic Christian

E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819 1899), The Hidden Hand

W. M. Spackman (1905 1980), An Armful of Warm Girl

Frank H. Spearman (1859 1937), Whispering Smith

Scott Spencer (born 1945), Endless Love

Mickey Spillane (1918 2006), I, the Jury

Norman Spinrad (born 1940), The Iron Dream

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 1921), Sir Rohan's Ghost

David Derek Stacton (1925 1968), On a Balcony

Jean Stafford (1915 1979), Boston Adventure

Jason Starr (born 1966), The Follower

Danielle Steel (born 1947), Family Album

Wallace Stegner (1909 1993), Angle of Repose

Gertrude Stein (1874 1946), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

John Steinbeck (1902 1968), The Grapes of Wrath

Darcey Steinke (born 1964), Jesus Saves

Ann Sophia Stephens (1810 1886), Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter

Neal Stephenson (born 1959), Snow Crash

Bruce Sterling (born 1954), Islands in the Net

Richard G. Stern (born 1928), Golk

Steve Stern, The Angel of Forgetfulness

Brooke Stevens, Tattoo Girl

George R. Stewart (1895 1980), Earth Abides

Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855 1943), The Crime of Henry Vane

R. L. Stine (born 1943), Monster Blood

Frank R. Stockton (1834 1902), Rudder Grange

Mary Stolz (born 1920), The Edge of Next Year

Grace Zaring Stone (1891 1991), The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Irving Stone (1903 1989), The Agony and the Ecstasy

Robert Stone (born 1937), Dog Soldiers

Phil Stong (1899 1957), State Fair

Hans Otto Storm (1895 - 1941), Pity the Tyrant

Rex Stout (1886 1975), Fer-de-Lance

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin

Edward Stratemeyer (1862 1930), The Rover Boys At School

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 1924), A Girl of the Limberlost

Peter Straub (born 1943), Ghost Story

Darin Strauss (born 1970), The Real McCoy

Edward Streeter (1891 1976), Father of the Bride

T. S. Stribling (1881 1965), The Store

Elizabeth Strout (born 1956), Amy and Isabelle

Jesse Stuart (1906 1984), Taps for Private Tussie

Theodore Sturgeon (1918 1985), More Than Human

William Styron (1925 2006), The Confessions of Nat Turner

Ronald Sukenick (1932 2004), Up

Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890 1970), Quality

Jacqueline Susann (1918 1974), Valley of the Dolls

Harvey Swados (1920 1972), Out Went the Candle

Glendon Swarthout (1918 1992), The Shootist

Elizabeth Tallent (born 1954), Museum Pieces

Amy Tan (born 1952), The Joy Luck Club

Booth Tarkington (1869 1946), The Magnificent Ambersons

Donna Tartt (born 1963), The Secret History

Kathrine Taylor (1903 1996), Address Unknown

Peter Taylor (1917 1994), A Summons to Memphis

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909 1976), The Cape Cod Mystery

Robert Lewis Taylor (1912 1998), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

William Tenn (born 1920), Of Men and Monsters

Mary Virginia Terhune (1830 1922), Alone

Walter Tevis (1928 1984), The Hustler

Paul Theroux (born 1941), The Mosquito Coast

Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795 1868), The Green Mountain Boys

Hunter S. Thompson (1937 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Jim Thompson (1906 1977), The Killer Inside Me

Maurice Thompson (1844 1901), Alice of Old Vincennes

Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957), Meteors in August

James Thurber (1894 1961), The 13 Clocks

Wallace Thurman (1902 1934), The Blacker the Berry

Ernest Tidyman (1928 1984), Shaft

John Kennedy Toole (1937 1969), A Confederacy of Dunces

Jean Toomer (1894 1967), Cane

Nick Tosches (born 1949), In the Hand of Dante

Albion W. Tourge (1838 1905), A Fool's Errand

Arthur Train (1875 1945), Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt

Lawrence Treat (1903 1998), V as in Victim

Trevanian (1931 2005), The Eiger Sanction

Calvin Trillin (born 1935), Runestruck

Dalton Trumbo (1905 1976), Johnny Got His Gun

George Tucker (1775 1861), A Voyage to the Moon

John R. Tunis (1889 1975), The Kid From Tomkinsville

Scott Turow (born 1949), Presumed Innocent

Harry Turtledove (born 1949), In the Balance

Mark Twain (1835 1910), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anne Tyler (born 1941), The Accidental Tourist

Royall Tyler (1757 1826), The Algerine Captive

Brady Udall (born 1971?), The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Dorothy Uhnak (1933 2006), The Bait

Douglas Unger (born 1952), Leaving the Land

John Updike (1932 2009), Rabbit, Run

Leon Uris (1924 2003), Exodus

Andrew Vachss (born 1942), Flood

Jack Vance (born 1916), The Killing Machine

Louis Joseph Vance (1879 1933), The Lone Wolf

S. S. Van Dine (1888 1939), The Benson Murder Case

John Varley (born 1947), The Ophiuchi Hotline

Gore Vidal (born 1925), Burr

Gerald Vizenor (born 1934), Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart

William T. Vollmann (born 1959), Europe Central

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 2007), Slaughterhouse-Five

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David Wagoner (born 1926), The Escape Artist

Alice Walker (born 1944), The Color Purple

Margaret Walker (1915 1998), Jubilee

David Foster Wallace (1962 2008), Infinite Jest

Irving Wallace (1916 1990), The Fan Club

Lew Wallace (1827 1905), Ben-Hur

Edward Lewis Wallant (1926 1962), The Tenants of Moonbloom

Robert James Waller (born 1939), The Bridges of Madison County

Douglass Wallop (1920 1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937), The Choirboys

Walter Wangerin, Jr. (born 1944), The Book of the Dun Cow

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844 1911), The Gates Ajar

William Ware (1797 1852), Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra

Catherine Anne Warfield (1816 1877), The Household of Bouverie

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 1900), The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)

Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890 1979), The Boxcar Children

Susan Warner (1819 1895), The Wide, Wide World

Robert Penn Warren (1905 1989), All the King's Men

Larry Watson (born 1947), Montana 1948

Hillary Waugh (born 1920), Last Seen Wearing...

Will Weaver (born 1950), Red Earth, White Earth

Charles Webb (born 1939), The Graduate

Katharine Weber (born 1955), Triangle

Jean Webster (1876 1916), Daddy-Long-Legs

Jerome Weidman (1913 1998), I Can Get It for You Wholesale

James Welch (1940 2003), Fools Crow

Manly Wade Wellman (1903 1986), The Old Gods Waken

Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Eudora Welty (1909 2001), The Optimist's Daughter

Glenway Wescott (1901 1987), The Grandmothers

Dorothy West (1907 1998), The Living Is Easy

Jessamyn West (1902 1984), The Massacre at Fall Creek

Nathanael West (1903 1940), The Day of the Locust

Paul West (born 1930), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper

Donald E. Westlake (born 1933), God Save the Mark

Edith Wharton (1862 1937), The Age of Innocence

William Wharton (1925 - 2008), Birdy

E. B. White (1899 1985), Charlotte's Web

Edmund White (born 1940), A Boy's Own Story

Randy Wayne White (born 1950), Sanibel Flats

Stewart Edward White (1873 1946), The Claim Jumpers

Colson Whitehead (born 1969), The Intuitionist

Brand Whitlock (1869 1934), The Turn of the Balance

Phyllis A. Whitney (born 1903), The Mystery of the Haunted Pool

Edward Whittemore (1933 1995), Sinai Tapestry

John Edgar Wideman (born 1941), Philadelphia Fire

Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Twilight

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Marianne Wiggins (born 1947), Evidence of Things Unseen

James Wilcox (born 1949), Modern Baptists

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 1957), Little House on the Prairie

Thornton Wilder (1897 1975), The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Christopher Willard (born 1960), Garbage Head

Charles Willeford (1919 1988), Miami Blues

Ben Ames Williams (1889 1953), House Divided

John Williams (1922 1994), Stoner

John A. Williams (born 1925), The Man Who Cried I Am

Joy Williams (born 1944), State of Grace

Philip Lee Williams (born 1950), "Elegies for the Water"

Tennessee Williams (1911 1983), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Thomas Williams (1926 1990), The Hair of Harold Roux

Jack Williamson (born 1908), The Humanoid Touch

Calder Willingham (1922 1995), End As a Man

Connie Willis (born 1945), Doomsday Book

Harriet E. Wilson (1825 1900), Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Harry Leon Wilson (1867 1919), Ruggles of Red Gap

Margaret Wilson (1882 1973), The Able McLaughlins

Robert Anton Wilson (born 1932), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)

Sloan Wilson (1920 2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Mark Winegardner (born 1961), Crooked River Burning

Theodore Winthrop (1828 1861), John Brent

Owen Wister (1860 1938), The Virginian

Larry Woiwode (born 1941), Beyond the Bedroom Wall

Gene Wolfe (born 1931), The Book of the New Sun

Thomas Wolfe (1900 1938), Look Homeward, Angel

Tom Wolfe (born 1931), The Bonfire of the Vanities

Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937), Providence

Tobias Wolff (born 1945), The Barracks Thief

Hilma Wolitzer (born 1930), Silver

Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), This Is Your Life

Daniel Woodrell (born 1953), Give Us a Kiss

Samuel Woodworth (1784 1842), The Champions of Freedom

Cornell Woolrich (1903 1968), The Bride Wore Black

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840 1894), For the Major

Herman Wouk (born 1915), The Caine Mutiny

Austin Tappan Wright (1883 1931), Islandia

Mary Tappan Wright (1851 1917), Aliens

Ernest Vincent Wright (1873? 1939), Gadsby

Harold Bell Wright (1872 1944), The Shepherd of the Hills

Kirby Wright (born 1955), Punahou Blues

Richard Wright (1908 1960), Native Son

Stephen Wright (born 1946), The Amalgamation Polka

Xu Xi (born 1954), The Unwalled City

Irvin D. Yalom (born 1931), When Nietzsche Wept

Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Karen Tei Yamashita (born 1951), Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942), Hotel Transylvania

Steve Yarbrough (born 1956), The Oxygen Man

Richard Yates (1926 1992), Revolutionary Road

Frank Yerby (1916 1991), Judas, My Brother

Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880 1970), Bread Givers

Rafael Yglesias (born 1954), Fearless

Al Young (born 1939), Ask Me Now

Stark Young (1881 1963), So Red the Rose

Rafi Zabor (born 1946), The Bear Comes Home

Roger Zelazny (1937 1995), Lord of Light

Paul Zindel (1936 2003), The Pigman

Leane Zugsmith (1903 1969), All Victories Are Alike