List of Jewish American authors
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This is a list of notable Jewish American authors. See separate lists for playwrights and poets. For other notable Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.
Jewish American authors [edit]
- Warren Adler — novelist and short story writer, known for "The War of the Roses"[1], "Random Hearts", and "The Sunset Gang" [2]
- Aimee Bender — novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters[3]
- Saul Bellow, novelist that won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts[4]
- Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer[5]
- E.L. Doctorow, novelist[6]
- Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Barthold Fles,[7] literary agent and non-fiction writer
- Emma Goldman, anarchist writer[8]
- Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22[9]
- Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist[10][11]
- Irving Howe, literary critic[12]
- Roger Kahn. "The Boys of Summer" 1972
- Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird
- Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist[13]
- Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities[14]
- Norman Mailer, novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate.
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist [15]
- Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize
- Leonard Michaels, writer of short stories, novels, and essays.
- Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works[16]
- Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama[17]
- Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist[18][19]
- Jodi Picoult, novelist[20]
- Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism[21]
- Lea Bayers Rapp,[22] non-fiction and children's fiction writer
- Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity[23]
- Norman Rosten, novelist[24]
- J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye[25]
- Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) Russian-born writer[26]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize[27]
- George Steiner (born 1929) literary critic[28]
- Daniel Stern, novelist[29]
- Leopold Tyrmand, writer[30]
- Judith Viorst (born 1932) author, known for her children's literature[31]
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books[32]
See also [edit]
- Jewish American literature
- List of Jewish American poets
- List of Jewish American playwrights
- List of Jewish American journalists
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
References [edit]
- ^ "The Spoils of War" "New York Magazine" December 18, 1989 [1]
- ^ "Yiddish with Subtitles - A First on Television" "The Jewish Press" April 5, 1991 [2]
- ^ "other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker... Aimee Bender"
- ^ Mel Gussow and Charles McGrath, Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life Into American Novel, Dies at 89, The New York Times April 6, 2005.
- ^ Cooper — [3] "Plenty of Jewish authors will be in the mix, including... Bernard Cooper"
- ^ Intersections: E.L. Doctorow on Rhythm and Writing, June 28, 2004.
- ^ Love, Edmund (1988). Hanging on: or, How to get through a depression and enjoy life. Wayne State University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-8143-1931-4. "I finished the book in 1941 and sent it off to Barthold Fles, a New York literary agent who had been recommended to me. Mr. Fles was a Jew and in March, 1941, Jews were pretty sensitive about heroic German naval officers. To say that Mr. Fles was insulted was the understatement of the year."
- ^ Emma Goldman, Living, p. 24.
- ^ Loveday, Veronica. "Joseph Heller." Joseph Heller (9781429802864) (2005): 1–2. History Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. Dec 1, 2010
- ^ Look who's talking The Observer, 14 April 2002
- ^ Hitch-22, page 352.
- ^ Rodden, John and Goffman, Ethan (2010). "Chronology". Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations With Irving Howe. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557535511. Pg. xv.
- ^ "Jewish Women's Archive: Emma Lazarus". Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ Lebowitz — [4] "Jewish figures such as... author Fran Lebowitz"
- ^ The Economist, Jan 13, 2007, p.42: "a triple outsider — working-class, Jewish and left-wing"
- ^ "Stay cold-blooded in the sun". Jewish Chronicle (London). Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ "CNN.com Video". CNN. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
- ^ Articles about Cynthia Ozick, New York Times
- ^ Emma Brockes. "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick", The Guardian, 2 July 2011
- ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 27, 2007 p.50: "The Jodi Picoult mystery"
- ^ Heller 2009, pp. 3–5; Britting 2004, pp. 2–3; Burns 2009, pp. 9
- ^ "Lea Bayers Rapp". Kensington Books. "As a Jewish daughter, wife, and mother, she has both yeshiva and secular backgrounds and writes from vast personal experience that includes constant joyous rounds of bar and bat mitzvahs, engagement parties, bridal showers, and weddings."
- ^ U.S. Department of State, U.S. Life, "American Prose, 1945–1990: Realism and Experimentation"
- ^ Jewish American Writers, by Gerhard Falk
- ^ "J.D. Salinger". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. January 1, 1919. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ^ Shteyngart — [5] "Russian Jewish Author Gary Shteyngart"
- ^ Carr 1992.
- ^ http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm
- ^ Lanham, Fritz. "Fiction Writer was a Cullen Distinguished Professor at UH", Houston Chronicle, January 24, 2007.
- ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp
- ^ Viorst — [6] "Two Jewish children's authors have events of note going on this week. At Pepperdine's Smother's Theatre, see the staged musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's..."
- ^ "Elie Wiesel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
