List of American authors
This is a list of novelists from the United States. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have a BambooWeb
article.
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
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
- Gerina Dunwich, (born 1959),
author of numerous occult books
- Timothy Dwight
E
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
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
J
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
O
P
Q
R
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
U
V
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
References
-This article has been brought to you by BambooWeb and Wikipedia-
