Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. 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, (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 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, 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 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 C 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) 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 Margaret Deland Don DeLillo, (born 1936), author of White Noise Stephen Dobyns Theodore Dreiser, realist, author of Sister Carrie John Dos Passos Timothy Dwight E Dave Eggers Edward Eggleston Edward S. Ellie Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho Ralph Ellison, (1914-1994), Invisible Man, Juneteenth Louise Erdrich Jeffrey Eugenides, (born 1960), author of The Virgin Suicides F William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Southern Modernist, author of A Light in August Jessie Fauset, Harlem Renaissance writer; author of Plum Bun Eugene Field, author of Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac John Filson, author of Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise Hannah Webster Foster John Fox Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections Harold Frederic Mary E. Wilkins Freeman G William Gaddis, (1922-1998) Hamlin Garland Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935), author of The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland Ellen Glasgow, author of Virginia William Goodwin Ben K. Green John Grisham, (born 1955), legal thrillers H Alex Haley, (1921-1992), Roots Bayard Rush Hall James Hall Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961) Barry Hannah Arthur Sheburne Hardy J. C. Hart Bret Harte, (1839-1902) Kent Haruf, author of The Tie That Binds and Plainsong 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 Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), crime writer well-known for Strangers on a Train and the series of Ripley novels. 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, (1939-) literary fiction/women's fiction/historical fiction Award-winning author of This is the Placeand Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered E. W. Howe William Dean Howells, (1837-1920) Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), Simple Comes to Harlem David Humphreys, author of Israel Putnam Zora Neale Hurston, (1891-1960), anthropologist and novelist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God I Joseph Holt Ingraham John Irving, (born 1942), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules Washington Irving, (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle J Helen Hunt Jackson Thomas William Jackson Henry James, (1843-1916), author of The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors Sarah Orne Jewett, author of The Tory Lover Mary Johnston Sylvester Judd James Jones Jan Karon, (1937- ) K John Pendleton Kennedy Jack Kerouac, beatnik, author of On the Road (1952). Stephen King, prolific horror author. Barbara Kingsolver author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, amongst others Joseph Kirkland Jerzy Kosinski, (1933-1991), of Jewish origins - his works are in English, accused of plagiarism and writing fictional obscenic autobiography 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) 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) M 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 N Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977), lepidopterist, author of Lolita John Neal, author of The Down-Easters Frank Norris, (1870-1902), author of McTeague O Joyce Carol Oates Flannery O'Connor, (1925-1964) P Thomas Nelson Page James Kirk Paulding Chuck Palahniuk (1962- ), author of Fight Club and Choke Walker Percy, (1916-1990) David Graham Phillips Marge Piercy Richard Powers Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937), author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and V among other works. Q Julia Quinn, (born 1969) R Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire Harold Robbins, (1916-1997) Tom Robbins Edward Payson Roe Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain Susan Rowson S J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye 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) Peter Straub Jacqueline Susann, author of Valley of the Dolls, the best selling novel of 1966. T Amy Tan, (born 1952) Booth Tarkington, (1869-1946) Tabitha Tenney Studs Terkel, (born 1912) Daniel Pierce Thompson Maurice Thompson Hunter S. Thompson, "gonzo journalist" John Kennedy Toole, (1937-1969) George Tucker Bayard Tuckerman Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent Harry Turtledove, (born 1949) Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn Royall Tyler U John Updike, (born 1932), author of Rabbit, Run and sequels. Leon Uris, (1924-2003), author of QB VII, Mila 18 and others. V Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle W Alice Walker, (born 1944) David Foster Wallace, (born 1962) Lew Wallace, (1827-1905) 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) 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 X Y Z See also: list of novelists, list of people from the United States, list of people by occupation, list of people by nationality, List of American authors References Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.