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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.
- Kathy Acker, (died 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[?]
- Gertrude Atherton[?], author of The Conqueror[?]
- Paul Auster, (born 1947), postmodernist mystery writer extrordinaire, author of the City of Glass trilogy, Leviathan, Timbuktu
- 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[?]
- Russell Banks[?], (1940- ), author of The Sweet Hereafter
- John Franklin Bardin[?]
- Joel Barlow, (1754-1812)
- Charles Baxter
- 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
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842-c.1914)
- George Borrow[?]
- 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)
- Francis Hodgson Burnett[?], author of Little Lord Fauntleroy
- G. W. Cable[?]
- James M. Cain, (1892-1977), author of The Postman Always Rings Twice[?] and Mildred Pierce
- Erskin 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 and 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), 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, author of Leatherstocking Tales
- Charles Cotton[?]
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), The Red Badge of Courage
- Francis Marion Crawford[?]
- George William Curtis, (1824-1892)
- 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
- 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
- Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises[?]
- Robert Herrick, (1591-1674)
- Carl Hiaasen, (born 1953), author of environmental thrillers such as Sick Puppy
- Josiah Gilbert Holland[?]
- Mary Jane Holmes[?]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894)
- Anthony Hope, (1863-1933)
- Francis Hopkinson, (1737-1791)
- Blance Willis Howard[?]
- 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
- 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)
- Alfred Henry Lewis[?]
- Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951), author of Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Main Street[?]
- Jack London, (1876-1916), author of The Sea Wolf[?]
- Stephen King, (born 1947), horror novelist
- Robert Ludlum, (1927-2001)
- Carson McCullers[?]
- John D. MacDonald[?], detective fiction
- Larry McMurtry[?]
- 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[?]
- George Barr McCutcheon[?]
- 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[?], (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
- J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
- 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
- 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)
- Jacqueline Susann[?], author of Valley of the Dolls[?], the best selling novel of 1966.
- Alice Walker, (born 1944)
- David Foster Wallace, (born 1962)
- Lew Wallace, (1827-1905)
- William Ware[?]
- 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)
- John Williams, (1731-1799)
- Augusta Jane Evan Wilson[?]
- Theodore Winthrop[?]
- William Wirt[?]
- Owen Wister[?]
- Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), author of The Bonfire of Vanities[?]
- Thomas Wolfe, author of You Can't Go Home Again
- Samuel Woodworth[?]
- Constance Fenimore Woolson[?]
See also: list of novelists, list of people from the United States, list of people by occupation, list of people by nationality.
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