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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
	Esther	read the reviews	#	write a review
Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)
	The Man With the Golden Arm	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
	Winesburg, Ohio	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Triumph of the Egg	read the reviews	#	write a review
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
	The Complete Stories Vol. 1	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Complete Stories Vol. 2	read the reviews	#	write a review
Saul Bellow 1 (1915 - 2005) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976
	Ravelstein	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Humboldt's Gift	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Editors	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Adventures of Augie March	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mr. Sammler's Planet	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Henderson the Rain King	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Seize the Day	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	More Die of Heartbreak	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dean's December	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Him With His Foot in His Mouth: And Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Actual	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Victim	read the reviews	#	write a review
Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
	The Sheltering Sky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Without Stopping: An Autobiography	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Spider's House	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Stories, 1939-1976	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hundred Camels in the Courtyard	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Let It Come Down	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ray Bradbury (1920)
	Fahrenheit 451	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Martian Chronicles	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joseph Brodsky 2 (1940 - 1996) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987
	Watermark	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Part of Speech	read the reviews	#	write a review
	So Forth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Poems in English	read the reviews	#	write a review
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1938
	The Good Earth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sons	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A House Divided	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The House of Earth	read the reviews	#	write a review
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
	The Naked Lunch	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Junky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Speed / Kentucky Ham : Two Novels	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cities of the Red Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
	Other Voices, Other Rooms	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Muses Are Heard	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Tree of Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Breakfast at Tiffany's	read the reviews	#	write a review
	In Cold Blood	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Christmas Memory	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Thanksgiving Visitor	read the reviews	#	write a review
Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
	The Red Badge of Courage	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Open Boat	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Blue Hotel	read the reviews	#	write a review
Don DeLillo (1936)
	Players	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Running Dog	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Names	read the reviews	#	write a review
	White Noise	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Libra	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mao II	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Underworld	read the reviews	#	write a review
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
	Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson	read the reviews	#	write a review
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)
	HERmione	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Helen in Egypt	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)
	Sister Carrie	read the reviews	#	write a review
	An American Tragedy	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
	Invisible Man	read the reviews	#	write a review
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949
	Intruder in the Dust	read the reviews	#	write a review
	As I Lay Dying	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Absalom, Absalom!	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Sound and the Fury	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Stories of William Faulkner	read the reviews	#	write a review
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
	The Great Gatsby	read the reviews	#	write a review
	This Side of Paradise	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Beautiful and Damned	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Flappers and Philosophers	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Jazz Age	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tender is the Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Babylon Revisited	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Love of the Last Tycoon	read the reviews	#	write a review
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)
	The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald	read the reviews	#	write a review
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
	Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged	read the reviews	#	write a review
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
	The Scarlet Letter	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The House of the Seven Gables	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joseph Heller (1923)
	Catch-22	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954
	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	In Our Time (1925)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Torrents of Spring (1925 - 26)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Sun Also Rises (1926)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Men Without Women (1927)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Farewell to Arms (1929)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Death in the Afternoon (1932)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Winner Take Nothing (1933)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Green Hills of Africa (1935)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	To Have and Have Not (1937)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Fifth Column (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	First 49 Stories (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Men at War (edited by E. H.,1942)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Old Man and the Sea (1952)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Moveable Feast (ph. 1964)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	By-line: Ernest Hemingway (ph. 1967)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Islands in the Stream (ph. 1970)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	88 Poems (ph. 1979)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	E. H.: Selected Letters (ph. 1981)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dangerous Summer (ph. 1985)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Garden of Eden (ph. 1986)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Complete Short Stories of E. H. (ph. 1987)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	True at First Light (ph. 1999)	read the reviews	#	write a review
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)
	Whirligigs	read the reviews	#	write a review
Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)
	Strangers on a Train	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Those Who Walk Away	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Cry of the Owl	read the reviews	#	write a review
	This Sweet Sickness	read the reviews	#	write a review
John Irving (1942)
	The Cider House Rules	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The World According to Garp	read the reviews	#	write a review
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
	Rip Van Winkle	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	read the reviews	#	write a review
Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)
	The Haunting of the Hill House	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Lottery and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry James 3 (1843 - 1916)
	The Portrait of a Lady	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Ambassadors	read the reviews	#	write a review
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
	Tamar and Other Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cawdor	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Thurso's Landing	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Be Angry at the Sun	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Euripides' Medea (an adaptation by R. Jeffers)	read the reviews	#	write a review
James Jones (1921 - 1977)
	From Here To Eternity	read the reviews	#	write a review
Barbara Kingsolver (1955)
	Homeland and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bean Trees	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Prodigal Summer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Poisonwood Bible	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Animal Dreams	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pigs in Heaven	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Another America	read the reviews	#	write a review
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
	White Fang	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Call of the Wild	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Short Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
Harper Lee (1926)
	To Kill a Mockingbird	read the reviews	#	write a review
Jeffrey Lent
	In the Fall	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Lost Nation	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930
	Main Street	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Babbitt	read the reviews	#	write a review
Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)
	Spoon River Anthology	read the reviews	#	write a review
Cormac McCarthy (1933)
	The Orchard Keeper	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Outer Dark	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Child of God	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Suttree	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Blood Meridian	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Border Trilogy:		#
	All the Pretty Horses	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crossing	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cities of the Plain	read the reviews	#	write a review
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
	Moby Dick	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Billy Budd	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Benito Cereno	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Bartleby the Scrivener	read the reviews	#	write a review
Arthur Miller (1915)
	Death of a Salesman	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crucible	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
	Tropic of Cancer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tropic of Capricorn	read the reviews	#	write a review
Toni Morrison (1931) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
	The Bluest Eye	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sula	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Song of Solomon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tar Baby	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beloved	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Jazz	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Paradise	read the reviews	#	write a review
Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov 4 (1899 -1977)
	The Defense	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Despair	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Invitation to a Beheading	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pnin	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Lolita	read the reviews	#	write a review
	King, Queen, Knave	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Ada	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pale Fire	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Laughter in the Dark	read the reviews	#	write a review
Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
	McTeague: A Story of San Francisco	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Pit: A Story of Chicago	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Octopus: A Story of California	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joyce Carol Oates (1938)
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 -1953) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1936
	Long Day's Journey into Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Desire Under the Elms	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Strange Interlude	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mourning Becomes Electra	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beyond the Horizon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Anna Christie	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Hairy Ape	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Moon for the Misbegotten	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Iceman Cometh	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Emperor Jones	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Long Voyage Home	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
	The Collected Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bell Jar	read the reviews	#	write a review
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
	Dead Brides (Vampire Tales)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Best Known Works of Poe	read the reviews	#	write a review
Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)
	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Ship of Fools	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
	Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Exultations	read the reviews	#	write a review
	ABC of Reading	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Quia Pauper Amavi - Homage to Sextus Propertius	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Cantos	read the reviews	#	write a review
Thomas Pynchon (1937)
	Mason & Dixon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Gravity's Rainbow	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crying of Lot 49	read the reviews	#	write a review
	V	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)
	Call It Sleep	read the reviews	#	write a review
Philip Roth (1933)
	Goodbye Columbus	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Portnoy's Complaint	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Professor of Desire	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Ghost Writer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	American Pastoral	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Human Stain	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sabbath's Theatre	read the reviews	#	write a review
	I Married a Communist	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Patrimony: A True Story	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Great American Novel	read the reviews	#	write a review
J. D. Salinger (1919)
	Catcher in the Rye	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter / Seymour: an Introduction	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Nine Stories (including For Esmé - with Love and Squalor)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Franny and Zooey	read the reviews	#	write a review
Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)
	Two Weeks in Another Town	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Evening in Byzantium	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beggarman, Thief	read the reviews	#	write a review
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
	The Jungle	read the reviews	#	write a review
	I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Dragon Harvest	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mental Radio	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Wide Is the Gate	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Dragon's Teeth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Between Two Worlds	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A World to Win	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Presidential Mission	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Affectionately Eve	read the reviews	#	write a review
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962
	Cup of Gold (1929)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Pastures of Heaven (1932)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	To a God Unknown (1933)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Long Valley (?)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Tortilla Flat (1935)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dubious Battle (1936)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Of Mice and Men (1937)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Blood is Strong (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Red Pony (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Grapes of Wrath (1939)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Forgotten Village (1941)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Moon is Down (1942)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Cannery Row (1945)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Pearl (1947)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Wayward Bus (1947)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Burning Bright (1950)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Viva Zapata! (1952)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	East of Eden (1952)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sweet Thursday (1954)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Once There Was a War (1958)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Winter of Our Discontent (1961)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Travels With Charley (1962)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	America and Americans (1966)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (ph. 1976)	read the reviews	#	write a review
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
	Harmonium	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Stevens' Ideas of Order	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Man with the Blue Guitar	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Parts of a World	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Transport to Summer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Esthétique du mal {Aesthetic of Evil}	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Auroras of Autumn	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Opus Posthumous (edited by Samuel French Morse)	read the reviews	#	write a review
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
	Uncle Tom's Cabin	read the reviews	#	write a review
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	read the reviews	#	write a review
Gore Vidal 5 (1925)
	Myra Breckenridge / Myron	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Duluth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Live From Golgotha	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Kalki	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Visit to a Small Planet	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Best Man	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Julian	read the reviews	#	write a review
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922)
	Player Piano	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Slaughterhouse Five	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cat's Cradle	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Breakfast of Champions	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Slapstick	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hocus Pocus	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Sirens of Titan	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Welcome to the Monkey House	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Galapagos	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mother Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Timequake	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Bluebeard	read the reviews	#	write a review
Alice Walker (1944)
	The Color Purple	read the reviews	#	write a review
David Foster Wallace (1962)
	The Broom of the System	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Girl with Curious Hair	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Infinite Jest	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Oblivion: Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)
	All the King's Men	read the reviews	#	write a review
	World Enough and Time	read the reviews	#	write a review
Nathanael West (1903 - 1940)
	The Day of the Locust	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dream Life of Balso Snell	read the reviews	#	write a review
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
	Sanctuary (1903)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The House of Mirth (1905)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Ethan Frome (1911)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Reef (1912)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Custom of the Country (1913)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Summer (1917)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Age of Innocence (1920)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Old New York Tetralogy (1924)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Twilight Sleep (1927)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hudson River Bracketed (1929)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Gods Arrive (1932)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Buccaneers (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
	Leaves of Grass	read the reviews	#	write a review
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
	A Streetcar Named Desire	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Glass Menagerie	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Night of the Iguana	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Suddenly Last Summer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sweet Bird of Youth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams	read the reviews	#	write a review
Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)
	Native Son	read the reviews	#	write a review

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1. Saul Bellow was born in Lachine near Montreal, Canada. His parents had emigrated in 1913 from Russia to Montreal. When Bellow was nine years old they moved to Chicago.

2. Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad (now Saint Peterburg). He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Thereafter, he lived in the United States and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1977.

3. Henry James was a naturalized English citizen in the last two years of his life. He died in London.

4. Vladimir Nabokov was born in Russia. He left Russia in 1919, when he was 20 years of age. In 1945, he became a US citizen.

5. Gore Vidal is most famous with his American Chronicle Series (Lincoln / Burr / 1876 / Washington D.C. / Empire / Hollywood / The Golden Age / The American Precidency) that are written in the form of historical fiction. Since readliterature.com focuses mostly on literary fiction, and some of these books read as political essays, I am going to keep them off the main list for now. However, if you care about these books enough to write reviews, then I will gladly move them up and place them with Vidal's other books. Write a review for a Vidal historical fiction!

American Literature

Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)

Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)

Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Saul Bellow 1 (1915 - 2005) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976

Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)

Ray Bradbury (1920)

Joseph Brodsky 2 (1940 - 1996) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987

Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1938

William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)

Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)

Don DeLillo (1936)

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)

Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)

Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Joseph Heller (1923)

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)

Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)

John Irving (1942)

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)

Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)

Henry James 3 (1843 - 1916)

Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)

James Jones (1921 - 1977)

Barbara Kingsolver (1955)

Jack London (1876 - 1916)

Harper Lee (1926)

Jeffrey Lent

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930

Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)

Cormac McCarthy (1933)

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Arthur Miller (1915)

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Toni Morrison (1931) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993

Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov 4 (1899 -1977)

Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)

Joyce Carol Oates (1938)

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 -1953) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1936

Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)

Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)

Thomas Pynchon (1937)

Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)

Philip Roth (1933)

J. D. Salinger (1919)

Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962

Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Gore Vidal 5 (1925)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922)

Alice Walker (1944)

David Foster Wallace (1962)

Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)

Nathanael West (1903 - 1940)

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)