List of American novelists
Appearance
This is a list of novelists from the United States. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way (see Talk page), and ideally have a Wikipedia article.
A
- Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Walter Abish (born 1931), How German Is It
- Diana Abu-Jaber (born 1960), Arabian Jazz
- Kathy Acker (1947 – 1997), Blood and Guts in High School
- Alice Adams (1926 – 1999), Beautiful Girl
- Henry Adams (1838 – 1918), Democracy: An American Novel
- George Ade (1866 – 1944), The Slim Princess
- Renata Adler (born 1938), Speedboat
- Warren Adler (born 1927), The War of the Roses
- James Agee (1909 – 1955), A Death in the Family
- Jonis Agee (born 1943), Strange Angels
- Conrad Aiken (1889 – 1973), Blue Voyage
- Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888), Little Women
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 – 1907), Prudence Palfrey
- Lloyd Alexander (born 1924), The Black Cauldron
- Sherman Alexie (born 1966), Reservation Blues
- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899), Ragged Dick
- Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981), The Man With the Golden Arm
- Edward Allen (born 1948), Mustang Sally
- Hervey Allen (1889 – 1949), Anthony Adverse
- Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina
- Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 – 1919), The Young Trailers
- Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- Rudolfo Anaya (born 1937), Bless Me, Ultima
- Poul Anderson (1926 – 2001), Tau Zero
- Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941), Winesburg, Ohio
- V. C. Andrews (1923 – 1986), Flowers in the Attic
- Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), Baby of the Family
- A. Manette Ansay (born 1964), Vinegar Hill
- Donald Antrim (born 1959), The Hundred Brothers
- Allen Appel (born 1945), Time After Time
- Benjamin Appel (1907 – 1979), Brain Guy
- Max Apple (born 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
- Harriette Arnow (1908 – 1986), The Dollmaker
- Elizabeth Arthur (born 1953), Antarctic Navigation
- Timothy Shay Arthur (1809 – 1885), Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
- Sholem Asch (1880 – 1957), The Nazarene
- Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992), The Gods Themselves
- Rilla Askew (born 1951), The Mercy Seat
- Robert Asprin (born 1946), Another Fine Myth
- Gertrude Atherton (1857 – 1948), The Conqueror
- William Attaway (1911 – 1986), Blood on the Forge
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (born 1984), In the Forests of the Night
- Louis Auchincloss (born 1917), The Rector of Justin
- Jean M. Auel (born 1936), The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Paul Auster (born 1947), New York Trilogy
- Mary Hunter Austin (1868 – 1934), Isidro
B
- Richard Bach (born 1936), Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Irving Bacheller (1859 – 1950), A Man for the Ages
- Dorothy Baker (1907 – 1968), Young Man with a Horn
- Nicholson Baker (born 1957), Vox
- Kirsten Bakis (born 1968), Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Faith Baldwin, (1893 – 1978), The Heart Has Wings
- James Baldwin (1924 – 1987), Go Tell It on the Mountain
- John Ball (1911 – 1988), In the Heat of the Night
- Toni Cade Bambara (1939 – 1995), The Salt Eaters
- Russell Banks (born 1940), The Sweet Hereafter
- Margaret Culkin Banning (1891 – 1982), Country Club People
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (born 1934), The System of Dante's Hell
- John Franklin Bardin (1916 – 1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
- Djuna Barnes (1892 – 1982), Nightwood
- Linda Barnes (born 1949), A Trouble of Fools
- Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886 – 1967), Years of Grace
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831 – 1919), Jan Vedder's Wife
- Nevada Barr (born 1952), Track of the Cat
- Andrea Barrett (born 1964), The Voyage of the Narwhal
- John Barth (born 1930), Giles Goat-Boy
- Donald Barthelme (1931 – 1989), Snow White
- Frederick Barthelme (born 1943), Chroma
- Rick Bass (born 1958), Where the Sea Used to Be
- Hamilton Basso (1904 – 1964), The View from Pompey's Head
- Richard Bausch (born 1945), The Last Good Time
- Robert Bausch (born 1945), Almighty Me
- Charles Baxter (born 1947), Shadow Play
- Peter S. Beagle (born 1939), The Last Unicorn
- Greg Bear, (born 1951), Darwin's Radio
- Ann Beattie, (born 1947), Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Louis Begley (born 1933), About Schmidt
- Madison Smartt Bell (born 1957), All Souls' Rising
- Edward Bellamy (1850 – 1898), Looking Backward: 2000–1887
- Saul Bellow (1915 – 2005), Henderson the Rain King
- Peter Benchley (1940 – 2006), Jaws
- Aimee Bender (born 19??), An Invisible Sign of My Own
- Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), Dogs of God
- Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 – 1943), Spanish Bayonet
- Gregory Benford (born 1941), Timescape
- Sandra Benitez (born 1941), A Place Where the Sea Remembers
- Thomas Berger (born 1924), Little Big Man
- Gina Berriault (1926 – 1999), The Descent
- Don Berry (1931 – 2001), Trask
- R. M. Berry (born 19??), Leonardo's Horse
- Wendell Berry (born 1934), A Place on Earth
- Alfred Bester (1913 – 1987), The Demolished Man
- Dorris Betts (born 1932), Souls Raised from the Dead
- Earl Derr Biggers (1884 – 1933), The Chinese Parrot
- Robert Montgomery Bird (1803 – 1854), The Infidel
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
- Michael Bishop (born 1945), No Enemy But Time
- William Peter Blatty (born 1928), The Exorcist
- Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994), Psycho
- Lawrence Block (born 1938), Eight Million Ways to Die
- Amy Bloom (born 1953), Love Invents Us
- Judy Blume (born 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
- Chris Bohjalian (born 1960), The Law of Similars
- Arna Bontemps (1902 – 1973), God Sends Sunday
- Robert Boswell (born 1953), Mystery Ride
- Anthony Boucher (1911 – 1968), The Case of the Seven of Calvary
- Vance Bourjaily (born 1922), The Man Who Knew Kennedy
- Ben Bova (born 1932), The Starcrossed
- Jane Bowles (1917 – 1973), Two Serious Ladies
- Paul Bowles (1910 – 1999), The Sheltering Sky
- David Bowman (born 1957), Let the Dog Drive
- Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945), The Revolution of Little Girls
- Brendan Boyd (born 19??), Blue Ruin
- James Boyd (1888 – 1944), Drums
- Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (born 1958), The Planets
- Kay Boyle (1902 – 1992), Death of a Man
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (born 1948), The Road to Wellville
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – 1816), Modern Chivalry
- Leigh Brackett (1915 – 1978), The Secret of Sinharat
- Ray Bradbury (born 1920), The Illustrated Man
- David Bradley (born 1950), The Chaneysville Incident
- John Ed Bradley (born 1959), Tupelo Nights
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 – 1999), The Mists of Avalon
- Billy Lee Brammer (1929 – 1978), The Gay Place
- Max Brand (1892 – 1944), Destry Rides Again
- Richard Brautigan (1935 – 1984), Trout Fishing in America
- Kate Braverman (born 1950), Lithium for Medea
- David Brin (born 1950), The Uplift War
- Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967), Exquisite Corpse
- Harold Brodkey (1930 – 1996), The Runaway Soul
- Louis Bromfield (1896 – 1956), The Rains Came
- Geraldine Brooks (born 1955), March
- Terry Brooks (born 1944), The Sword of Shannara
- Alice Brown (1857 – 1948), Fools of Nature
- Charles Brockden Brown (1771 – 1810), Wieland
- Dan Brown (born 1964), The Da Vinci Code
- Harry Brown (1917 – 1986), A Place in the Sun
- Larry Brown (1951 – 2004), Dirty Work
- Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), Rubyfruit Jungle
- Rosellen Brown (born 1939), Before and After
- William Hill Brown (1756 – 1793), The Power of Sympathy
- Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973), The Good Earth
- Frederick Buechner (born 1926), Godric
- Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994), Factotum
- Edward Bunker (1933 – 2005), Little Boy Blue
- Eugene Burdick (1918 – 1965), The Ugly American (with William Lederer)
- James Lee Burke (born 1936), The Neon Rain
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924), Little Lord Fauntleroy
- William R. Burnett (1899 – 1982), Little Caesar
- Olive Ann Burns (1924 – 1990), Cold Sassy Tree
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950), Tarzan of the Apes
- William S. Burroughs (1914 – 1997), Naked Lunch
- Janet Burroway (born 1936), The Buzzards
- Frederick Busch (1941 – 2006), Harry and Catherine
- Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006), Patternmaster
- Robert Olen Butler (born 1945), The Alleys of Eden
C
- James Branch Cabell (1879 – 1958), Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
- George Washington Cable (1844 – 1925), The Grandissimes
- Abraham Cahan (1860 – 1951), The Rise of David Levinsky
- James M. Cain (1892 – 1977), The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Erskine Caldwell (1903 – 1987), God's Little Acre
- Taylor Caldwell (1900 – 1985), Answer as a Man
- Hortense Calisher (born 1911), False Entry
- S. Alice Callahan (1868 – 1894), Wynema, a Child of the Forest
- Bebe Moore Campbell (born 1959), Singing in the Comeback Choir
- John W. Campbell (1910 – 1971), The Mightiest Machine
- Dorothy Canfield (1879 – 1958), Understood Betsy
- Ethan Canin (born 1960), For Kings and Planets
- Robert Cantwell (1908 – 1978), The Land of Plenty
- Kevin Canty (born 195?), Nine Below Zero
- Truman Capote (1924 – 1984), Other Voices, Other Rooms
- Philip Caputo (born 1941), Delcorso's Gallery
- Orson Scott Card (born 1951), Ender's Game
- David Carkeet (born 1946), Double Negative
- Ron Carlson (born 1947), Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Don Carpenter (born 1931), Hard Rain Falling
- Caleb Carr (born 1955), The Alienist
- John Dickson Carr (1906 – 1977), The Crooked Hinge
- Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904 – 1999), As the Earth Turns
- Jonathan Carroll (born 1949), The Land of Laughs
- Forrest Carter (1925 – 1979), The Education of Little Tree
- Lin Carter (1930 – 1988), Sky Pirates of Callisto
- William Alexander Caruthers (1802 – 1846), The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe
- John Casey (born 1939), Spartina
- R. V. Cassill (1919 – 2002), Dr. Cobb's Game
- Elena Castedo (born 1937), Paradise
- Ana Castillo (born 1953), So Far From God
- Willa Cather (1873 – 1947), My Ántonia
- Mary Catherwood (1847 – 1902), The Romance of Dollard
- Michael Chabon (born 1964), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Jack L. Chalker (1944 – 2005), Midnight at the Well of Souls
- Robert W. Chambers (1865 – 1933), In the Quarter
- Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959), The Big Sleep
- Fred Chappell (born 1936), Dagon
- Jerome Charyn (born 1937), Blue Eyes
- Mary Ellen Chase (1887 – 1973), Mary Peters
- John Cheever (1912 – 1982), The Wapshot Chronicle
- Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American Heaven
- Kelly Cherry (born 1940), My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers
- C. J. Cherryh (born 1942), Cyteen
- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 – 1932), The Marrow of Tradition
- Alan Cheuse (born 1940), The Grandmother's Club
- Lydia Maria Child (1802 – 1880), Hobomok
- Mark Childress (born 1957), Crazy in Alabama
- Kate Chopin (1851 – 1904), The Awakening
- Winston Churchill (1871 – 1947), Richard Carvel
- Carolyn Chute (born 1947), The Beans of Egypt, Maine
- Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), The House on Mango Street
- Maxine Clair (born 1939), October Suite
- Tom Clancy (born 1947), The Hunt for Red October
- Eleanor Clark (1913 – 1996), Baldur's Gate
- Mary Higgins Clark (born 1927), A Stranger is Watching
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909 – 1971), The Ox-Bow Incident
- Jeremiah Clemens (1814 – 1865), Tobias Wilson
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (See: Mark Twain)
- Hal Clement (1922 – 2003), Mission of Gravity
- Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Abeng
- Robert M. Coates (1897 – 1973), The Eater of Darkness
- Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (1823 – 1887), The Gunmaker of Moscow
- Harlan Coben (born 1962), Deal Breaker
- Laurie Colwin (1944 – 1992), Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
- Richard Condon (1915 – 1996), The Manchurian Candidate
- Evan S. Connell (born 1924), Mrs. Bridge
- Michael Connelly (born 1956), Blood Work
- Frank Conroy (1936 – 2005), Body & Soul
- Pat Conroy (born 1945), The Prince of Tides
- K. C. Constantine (born 1934), Upon Some Midnights Clear
- Robin Cook (born 1940), Coma
- John Esten Cooke (1830 – 1886), The Virginia Comedians
- Joe Coomer (born 1958), A Flatland Fable
- J. California Cooper (born 1966), Some People, Some Other Place
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851), The Last of the Mohicans
- Robert Coover (born 1932), The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
- Edwin Corle (1906 – 1956), Fig Tree John
- Patricia Cornwell (born 1956), Postmortem
- Thomas B. Costain (1885 – 1965), The Silver Chalice
- George Harmon Coxe (1901 – 1984), Silent Are the Dead
- James Gould Cozzens (1903 – 1978), Guard of Honor
- Robert Crais (born 1953?), Hostage
- Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900), The Red Badge of Courage
- Margaret Craven (1901 – 1980), I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- Francis Marion Crawford (1854 – 1909), Saracinesca
- Michael Crichton (born 1942), Jurassic Park
- Robert Crichton (1925 – 1993), The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- Harry Crews (born 1935), Scar Lover
- Amanda Cross (1926 – 2003), The James Joyce Murder
- John Crowley (born 1942), Little, Big
- Maria Susanna Cummins (1827 – 1866), The Lamplighter
- Michael Cunningham (born 1952), The Hours
- James Oliver Curwood (1878 – 1927), The Grizzly King
- Clive Cussler (born 1931), Raise the Titanic!
D
- Edward Dahlberg (1900 – 1977), Bottom Dogs
- Mark Z. Danielewski (born 1966), House of Leaves
- Edwidge Danticat (born 1969), Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Janice Daugharty (born 1944), Dark of the Moon
- Guy Davenport (1927 – 2005), Da Vinci's Bicycle
- Marcia Davenport (1903 – 1994), East Side, West Side
- Avram Davidson (1923 – 1993), The Phoenix and the Mirror
- Clyde Brion Davis (1894 – 1962), Nebraska Coast
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born 1916), Death of an Old Sinner
- H. L. Davis (1896 – 1960), Honey in the Horn
- Richard Harding Davis (1864 – 1916), Soldiers of Fortune
- Thulani Davis (born 1949), Maker of Saints
- Jeffrey Deaver (born 1950), The Bone Collector
- L. Sprague de Camp (1907 – 2000), Lest Darkness Fall
- John William De Forest (1826 – 1926), Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
- Margaret Deland (1857 – 1945), John Ward, Preacher
- Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), Dhalgren
- Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942), In the Middle Distance
- Don DeLillo (born 1936), White Noise
- Viña Delmar (1903 – 1990), Bad Girl
- Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993), Attack From Atlantis
- Rick DeMarinis (born 1934), The Year of the Zinc Penny
- William Demby (born 1922), Beetlecreek
- Patrick Dennis (1921 – 1976), Auntie Mame
- August Derleth (1909 – 1971), The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Peter De Vries (1910 – 1993), Reuben, Reuben
- Robb Forman Dew (born 1946), Dale Loves Sophie to Death
- Pete Dexter (born 1943), Paris Trout
- Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- James Dickey (1923 – 1997), Deliverance
- Charles Dickinson (born 1951), A Shortcut in Time
- Joan Didion (born 1934), Play It As It Lays
- Thomas M. Disch (born 1940), Camp Concentration
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), The Mistress of Spices
- Melvin Dixon (1950 – 1992), Trouble the Water
- Stephen Dixon (born 1936), Frog
- Thomas Dixon (1864 – 1946), The Clansman
- Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), The Wrestler's Cruel Study
- E. L. Doctorow (born 1931), Ragtime
- Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 – 1905), Hans Brinker
- Harriet Doerr (1910 – 2002), Stones for Ibarra
- Ivan Doig (born 1939), Ride With Me, Mariah Montana
- Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947), Lord Foul's Bane
- J. P. Donleavy (born 1926), The Ginger Man
- Richard Dooling (born 1954), White Man's Grave
- Hilda Doolittle (1886 – 1961), Palimpsest
- Michael Dorris (1945 – 1997), A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
- John Dos Passos (1896 – 1970), U.S.A.
- Ellen Douglas (born 1921), Apostles of Light
- Lloyd C. Douglas (1877 – 1951), Magnificent Obsession
- Theodore Dreiser (1871 – 1945), Sister Carrie
- Allen Drury (1918 – 1998), Advise and Consent
- Tom Drury (born 1956), The End of Vandalism
- Andre Dubus III (born 1959), House of Sand and Fog
- John Dufresne (born 1948), Louisiana Power and Light
- David James Duncan (born 1952), The Brothers K
- Katherine Dunn (born 1945), Geek Love
- John Gregory Dunne (1932 – 2003), True Confessions
- John Dunning (born 1942), Booked to Die
- Pam Durban (born 1947), The Laughing Place
E
- Tony Earley (born 1961), Jim the Boy
- William Eastlake (1917 – 1997), The Bamboo Bed
- Mignon G. Eberhart (1899 –1996), The Patient in Room 18
- David Eddings (born 1931), Pawn of Prophecy
- Clyde Edgerton (born 1944), Walking Across Egypt
- Walter D. Edmonds (1903 – 1998), Drums Along the Mohawk
- George Alec Effinger (1947 – 2002), When Gravity Fails
- Jennifer Egan (born 1962), Look at Me
- Dave Eggers (born 1970), You Shall Know Our Velocity
- Edward Eggleston (1837 – 1902), The Hoosier Schoolmaster
- John Ehle (born 1924), Last One Home
- Stanley Elkin (1930 – 1995), Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Aaron Elkins (born 1935), Old Bones
- Stanley Ellin (1916 – 1986), The Eighth Circle
- George P. Elliott (1918 – 1980), Parktilden Village
- Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964), American Psycho
- Trey Ellis (born 1962), Right Here, Right Now
- Edward S. Ellis (1840 – 1916), Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier
- Ralph Ellison (1914 – 1994), Invisible Man
- James Ellroy (born 1948), L.A. Confidential
- Carol Emshwiller (born 1921), Carmen Dog
- Seymour Epstein (born 1917), Looking for Fred Schmidt
- Louise Erdrich (born 1954), Love Medicine
- Steve Erickson (born 1950), Arc d'X
- Loren D. Estleman (born 1952), Motor City Blue
- Jeffrey Eugenides (born 1960), The Virgin Suicides
- Janet Evanovich (born 1943), One For the Money
- Augusta Jane Evans (1835 – 1909), St. Elmo
- Frederick Exley (1929 – 1992), A Fan's Notes
F
- Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878/9? – 1951), The Bright Land
- John Fante (1909 – 1983), Wait Until Spring, Bandini
- Richard Fariña (1937 – 1966), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- Philip José Farmer (born 1918), To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- James T. Farrell (1904 – 1979), Young Lonigan
- Howard Fast (1914 – 2003), April Morning
- William Faulkner (1897 – 1962), Light in August
- Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 – 1961), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
- Kenneth Fearing (1902 – 1961), The Big Clock
- Raymond Federman (born 1928), The Twofold Vibration
- Peter S. Feibleman (born 1930), A Place Without Twilight
- Raymond E. Feist (born 1945), Magician
- Edna Ferber (1885 – 1968), So Big
- Harvey Fergusson (1890 – 1971), The Conquest of Don Pedro
- Lucy Ferriss (born 1954), The Misconceiver
- Rachel Field (1894 – 1942), All This, and Heaven Too
- Irving Fineman (1893 – 1976), Doctor Addams
- Martha Farquharson Finley (1828 – 1909), Elsie Dinsmore
- Jack Finney (1911 – 1995), Time and Again
- Vardis Fisher (1895 – 1968), Children of God
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940), The Great Gatsby
- Louise Fitzhugh (1928 – 1974), Harriet the Spy
- Thomas Flanagan (1923 – 2002), The Year of the French
- Martin Flavin (1883 – 1967), Journey in the Dark
- Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), Everything Is Illuminated
- Mary Hallock Foote (1847 – 1938), The Chosen Valley
- Shelby Foote (1916 – 2005), Shiloh
- Esther Forbes (1891 – 1967), Johnny Tremain
- Jesse Hill Ford (1928 – 1996), The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
- Paul Leicester Ford (1865 – 1902), The Honorable Peter Stirling
- Richard Ford (born 1944), Independence Day
- Leon Forrest (1937 – 1997), There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
- Robert Forward (1932 – 2002), Dragon's Egg
- Alan Dean Foster (born 1946), Midworld
- Hannah Webster Foster (1758/9? – 1840), The Coquette
- Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), The Jane Austen Book Club
- John Fox, Jr. (1862 – 1919), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Paula Fox (born 1923), Desperate Characters
- William Price Fox (born 1926), Ruby Red
- Waldo Frank (1889 – 1967), Holiday
- Jonathan Franzen (born 1959), The Corrections
- Charles Frazier (born 1950), Cold Mountain
- Harold Frederic (1856 – 1898), The Damnation of Theron Ware
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 – 1930), Pembroke
- Albert French (born 1943), Billy
- Marilyn French (born 1929), The Women's Room
- Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930), Stern
- Kinky Friedman (born 1944), Greenwich Killing Time
- Abby Frucht (born 1957), Polly's Ghost
- Daniel Fuchs (1909 – 1993), Summer in Williamsburg
- Henry Blake Fuller (1857 – 1929), The Cliff-Dwellers
- Alan Furst (born 1941), Night Soldiers
G
- William Gaddis (1922 – 1998), The Recognitions
- Ernest Gaines (born 1933), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Mary Gaitskill (born 1954), Two Girls, Fat and Thin
- Zona Gale (1874 – 1938), Miss Lulu Bett
- Paul Gallico (1897 – 1976), The Poseidon Adventure
- Ernest K. Gann (1910 – 1991), The High and the Mighty
- Cristina Garcia (born 1958), Dreaming in Cuban
- John Reynolds Gardiner (1944 – 2006), Stone Fox
- Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 – 1970), The Case of the Velvet Claws
- John Gardner (1933 – 1982), Grendel
- Leonard Gardner (born 1934), Fat City
- Hamlin Garland (1860 – 1940), A Daughter of the Middle Border
- George Garrett (born 1929), Death of the Fox
- William Gass (born 1924), Omensetter's Luck
- David Gates (born 1947), Jernigan
- Kaye Gibbons (born 1960), Ellen Foster
- William Gibson (born 1948), Neuromancer
- Barry Gifford (born 1946), Wild at Heart
- Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), Starcarbon
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935), Herland
- Fred Gipson (1908 – 1973), Old Yeller
- Ellen Glasgow (1873 – 1945), Virginia
- Julia Glass (born 1956), Three Junes
- Gail Godwin (born 1937), A Mother and Two Daughters
- Herbert Gold (born 1924), The Man Who Was Not With It
- Myla Goldberg (born 1972), Bee Season
- Arthur Golden (born 1957), Memoirs of a Geisha
- Marita Golden (born 1950), Long Distance Life
- Francisco Goldman (born 1954), The Long Night of White Chickens
- William Goldman (born 1931), The Princess Bride
- Rebecca Goldstein (born 1950), The Mind-Body Problem
- David Goodis (1917 – 1967), Down There
- Allegra Goodman (born 1967), The Family Markowitz
- Paul Goodman (1911 – 1972), Making Do
- Marcus Goodrich (1897 – 1991), Delilah
- Caroline Gordon (1895 – 1981), Aleck Maury, Sportsman
- Mary Gordon (born 1949), Final Payments
- Ron Goulart (born 1933), After Things Fell Apart
- William Goyen (1915 – 1983), The Fair Sister
- Sue Grafton (born 1940), "A" is for Alibi
- Robert Grant (1852 – 1940), Unleavened Bread
- Shirley Ann Grau (born 1929), The Keepers of the House
- Anna Katharine Green (1846 – 1935), The Leavenworth Case
- Anne Green (1899 – 1979), Reader, I Married Him
- Julien Green (1900 – 1998), Léviathan (The Dark Journey)
- Eric Rolfe Greenberg (born 1945), The Celebrant
- Sam Greenlee (born 1930), The Spook Who Sat By The Door
- Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970), The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- William Lindsay Gresham (1909 – 1962), Nightmare Alley
- Zane Grey (1872 – 1939), Riders of the Purple Sage
- Sutton E. Griggs (1872 – 1933), The Hindered Hand
- Martha Grimes (born 195?), The Old Contemptibles
- John Grisham (born 1955), The Firm
- Winston Groom (born 1944), Forrest Gump
- Davis Grubb (1919 – 1980), The Night of the Hunter
- Judith Guest (born 1936), Ordinary People
- Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847 – 1907), Mr. Barnes of New York
- Allan Gurganus (born 1947), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- David Guterson (born 1956), Snow Falling on Cedars
- A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901 – 1991), The Big Sky
H
- Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Dogeaters
- Jennifer Haigh (born 1968), Mrs. Kimble
- Joe Haldeman (born 1943), The Forever War
- Alex Haley (1921 – 1992), Roots
- Baynard Rush Hall (1798 – 1863), Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
- James Norman Hall (1887 – 1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (with Charles Nordhoff)
- James W. Hall (born 1947), Mean High Tide
- Oakley Hall (born 1920), Warlock
- Brett Halliday (1904 – 1977), Dividend on Death
- Jane Hamilton (born 1957), The Book of Ruth
- Laurell K. Hamilton (born 1963), Guilty Pleasures
- Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961), The Maltese Falcon
- Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (born 1970), Watch Your Mouth
- Barry Hannah (born 1942), Geromino Rex
- Joseph Hansen (1923 – 2004), Fadeout
- Ron Hansen (born 1947), Mariette in Ecstasy
- Elizabeth Hardwick (born 1916), Sleepless Nights
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847 – 1930), The Wind of Destiny
- Donald Harington (born 1935), The Cockroaches of Stay More
- Henry Harland (1861 – 1905), The Cardinal's Snuff-box
- Charles L. Harness (1915 – 2005), The Paradox Men
- E. Lynn Harris (born 1955), Invisible Life
- MacDonald Harris (1921 – 1993), The Baloonist
- Mark Harris (born 1922), Bang the Drum Slowly
- Thomas Harris (born 1940), The Silence of the Lambs
- Harry Harrison (born 1925), Make Room! Make Room!
- Jim Harrison (born 1937), Legends of the Fall
- Joseph C. Hart (1798 – 1855), Miriam Coffin
- Kent Haruf (born 1943), Plainsong
- Jon Hassler (born 1933), Staggerford
- John Hawkes (1925 – 1998), The Lime Twig
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), The Scarlet Letter
- Ernest Haycox (1899 – 1950), Bugles in the Afternoon
- David Haynes (born 1955), Somebody Else's Mama
- Donald Hays (born 1947), The Dixie Association
- Shirley Hazzard (born 1931), The Great Fire
- Shelby Hearon (born 1931), Owning Jolene
- Peter Hedges (born 1962), What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Ursula Hegi (born 1946), Stones from the River
- Scott Heim (born 1966), Mysterious Skin
- Larry Heinemann (born 1944), Paco's Story
- Robert A. Heinlein (1907 – 1988), Stranger in a Strange Land
- Robert Hellenga (born 1941), The Sixteen Pleasures
- Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999), Catch-22
- Mark Helprin (born 1947), Winter's Tale
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), A Farewell to Arms
- Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964), Nowhere Man
- Paul Hemphill (born 1936), Long Gone
- Patricia Henley (born 1950), Hummingbird House
- Frank Herbert (1920 – 1986), Dune
- Joseph Hergesheimer (1880 – 1954), Linda Condon
- Robert Herrick (1868 – 1938), Web of Life
- John Hersey (1914 – 1993), A Bell for Adano
- DuBose Heyward (1885 – 1940), Porgy
- Carl Hiaasen (born 1953), Sick Puppy
- George V. Higgins (1939 – 1999), The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Oscar Hijuelos (born 1951), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Tony Hillerman (born 1925), The Blessing Way
- Chester Himes (1909 –1984), If He Hollers Let Him Go
- S. E. Hinton (born 1948), The Outsiders
- Russell Hoban (born 1925), Riddley Walker
- Laura Z. Hobson (1900 – 1986), Gentleman's Agreement
- Alice Hoffman (born 1952), Practical Magic
- Allen Hoffman (born 19??), Big League Dreams
- Craig Holden (born 19??), Four Corners of Night
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 – 1881), The Bay-Path
- Sheri Holman (born 1966), The Mammoth Cheese
- Mary Jane Holmes (1825 – 1907), Lena Rivers
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 – 1894), Elsie Venner
- A. M. Homes (born 1961), The End of Alice
- Ann Hood (born 1956), Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
- Khaled Hosseini (born 1965), The Kite Runner
- Silas House (born 1971), A Parchment of Leaves
- Blanche Willis Howard (1847 – 1898), Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast
- Maureen Howard (born 1930), Natural History
- E. W. Howe (1853 – 1937), The Story of a Country Town
- William Dean Howells (1837 – 1920), The Rise of Silas Lapham
- David Huddle (born 1942), La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
- Barry Hughart (born 1934), Bridge of Birds
- Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967), Not Without Laughter
- William Humphrey (1924 – 1997), Farther Off from Heaven
- Josephine Humphreys (born 1945), Rich in Love
- Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005), The Blackboard Jungle
- Stephen Hunter (born 1946), Point of Impact
- Fannie Hurst (1885 – 1968), Imitation of Life
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Siri Hustvedt (born 1955), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
- James Hynes (born 1955), The Lecturer's Tale
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- Greg Iles (born 1960), The Quiet Game
- Gary Indiana (born 1950), Resentment
- Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809 – 1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
- John Irving (born 1942), The World According to Garp
- Susan Isaacs (born 1943), Compromising Positions
- Christopher Isherwood (1904 – 1986) A Meeting by the River
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- Charles R. Jackson (1902 – 1968), The Lost Weekend
- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830 – 1885), Ramona
- Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965), The Haunting of Hill House
- Rona Jaffe (1932 – 2005), Mazes and Monsters
- John Jakes (born 1932), North and South
- Randall Jarrell (1914 – 1965), Pictures from an Institution
- Henry James (1843 – 1916), Washington Square
- Will James (1892 – 1942), Smoky the Cow Horse
- Elizabeth Janeway (1913 – 2005), Daisy Kenyon
- Tama Janowitz (born 1957), By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
- Gish Jen (born 1956), Typical American
- Jerry B. Jenkins (born 1949), Left Behind (with Tim LaHaye)
- Gary Jennings (1928 – 1999), Aztec
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 – 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Ha Jin (born 1956), Waiting
- Adam Johnson (born 1967) Parasites Like Us
- Charles R. Johnson (born 1948), Middle Passage
- Denis Johnson (born 1949), Fiskadoro
- Diane Johnson (born 1934), Le Divorce
- James Weldon Johnson (1871 – 1938), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910 – 1990), Now in November
- Joyce Johnson (born 1935), In the Night Café
- Owen Johnson (1878 – 1952), Stover at Yale
- Mary Johnston (1870 – 1936), To Have and to Hold
- Edward P. Jones (born 1951), The Known World
- Gayl Jones (born 1949), Corregidora
- James Jones (1921 – 1977), From Here to Eternity
- John Beauchamp Jones (1810 – 1866), Wild Western Scenes
- Louis B. Jones (born 19??), California's Over
- LeRoi Jones (See: Amiri Baraka)
- Matthew F. Jones (born 19??), A Single Shot
- Erica Jong (born 1942), Fear of Flying
- Robert Jordan (born 1948), The Eye of the World
- Sylvester Judd (1813 – 1853), Margaret
- Heidi Julavits (born 1968), The Mineral Palace
- Ward Just (born 1935), Jack Gance
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- James Otis Kaler (1848 – 1912), Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
- Stuart M. Kaminsky (born 1934), Cold Red Sunrise
- Garson Kanin (1912 – 1999), Moviola
- Joseph Kanon (born 1946), Los Alamos
- MacKinlay Kantor (1904 – 1977), Andersonville
- Jan Karon (born 1937), At Home in Mitford
- John Katzenbach (born 1950?), The Madman's Tale
- Janet Kauffman (born 1945), Collaborators
- Bel Kaufman (born 1911), Up the Down Staircase
- Sue Kaufman (1926 – 1977), Diary of a Mad Housewife
- Harry Stephen Keeler (1890 – 1967), The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
- Clarence Budington Kelland (1881 – 1964), Dangerous Angel
- Jonathan Kellerman (born 1949), Flesh and Blood
- Faye Kellerman (born 1952), The Ritual Bath
- Edith Summers Kelley (1884 – 1956), Weeds
- William Melvin Kelley (born 1937), A Different Drummer
- Marjorie Kellogg (1922 – 2005), Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
- Elmer Kelton (born 1926), Buffalo Wagons
- John Pendleton Kennedy (1795 – 1870), Horse-Shoe Robinson
- William Kennedy (born 1928), Ironweed
- Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), On the Road
- Ken Kesey (1935 – 2001), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Jack Ketchum (born 1946), The Girl Next Door
- Daniel Keyes (born 1927), Flowers for Algernon
- Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885 – 1970), Dinner at Antoine's
- Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948), The Secret Life of Bees
- Karen Kijewski (born 19??), Katwalk
- Richard Burleigh Kimball (1816 – 1892), Under-Currents of Wall-Street
- Haven Kimmel (born 1965), The Solace of Leaving Early
- Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Annie John
- Grace Elizabeth King (1852 – 1932), The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard
- Laurie R. King (born 1952), A Grave Talent
- Stephen King (born 1947), Carrie
- Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955), The Bean Trees
- Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Tripmaster Monkey
- Joseph Kirkland (1830 – 1894), Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
- Walter Kirn (born 1962), Thumbsucker
- Fletcher Knebel (1911 – 1993), Seven Days in May (with Charles Bailey II)
- John Knowles (1926 – 2001), A Separate Peace
- Manuel Komroff (1890 – 1974), Coronet
- Dean Koontz (born 1945), Whispers
- Jerzy Kosinski (1933 – 1991), Being There
- William Kotzwinkle (born 1943), The Fan Man
- Eric Kraft (born 1945), What a Piece of Work I Am
- Larry Kramer (born 1935), Faggots
- Herbert Krause (1905 – 1976), The Thresher
- Tom Kromer (1906 – 1969), Waiting for Nothing
- Maxine Kumin (born 1925), Through Dooms of Love
- Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), A Case of Curiosities
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- Mercedes Lackey (born 1950), Arrows of the Queen
- Ed Lacy (1911 – 1968), Room To Swing
- Oliver La Farge (1901 – 1963), Laughing Boy
- R. A. Lafferty (1914 – 2002), Past Master
- Tim LaHaye (born 1926), Left Behind (with Jerry B. Jenkins)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), The Namesake
- Laila Lalami (born 1968), Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
- Harold Lamb (1892 – 1962), Marching Sands
- Wally Lamb (born 1950), She's Come Undone
- Anne Lamott (born 1954), Crooked Little Heart
- Louis L'Amour (1908 – 1988), Jubal Sackett
- Margaret Landon (1903 – 1993), Anna and the King of Siam
- Jane Langton (born 1922), The Transcendental Murder
- Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951), The Bottoms
- Ring Lardner (1885 – 1933), You Know Me Al
- Nella Larsen (1891 – 1964), Passing
- Emma Lathen (Martha Hennissart (born 1929) and Mary Jane Lastis (1927 – 1997)), Murder Against the Grain
- Keith Laumer (1925 – 1993), A Plague of Demons
- Josephine Lawrence (1899 – 1978), If I Have Four Apples
- Robert Lawson (1892 – 1957), Rabbit Hill
- David Leavitt (born 1961), The Lost Language of Cranes
- William Lederer (born 1912), The Ugly American (with Eugene Burdick)
- Fred G. Leebron (born 1961), Six Figures
- Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929), The Left Hand of Darkness
- Chang-Rae Lee (born 1965), Native Speaker
- Harper Lee (born 1926), To Kill a Mockingbird
- Peter Lefcourt (born 1941), The Dreyfus Affair
- Ella Leffland (born 1931) Rumors of Peace
- Dennis Lehane (born 1966) Mystic River
- Fritz Leiber (1910 – 1992), A Specter is Haunting Texas
- Murray Leinster (1896 – 1975), The Greks Bring Gifts
- Brad Leithauser (born 1953), Hence
- Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918), A Wrinkle in Time
- J. Robert Lennon (born 1970), Mailman
- Elmore Leonard (born 1925), Get Shorty
- JT LeRoy (Laura Albert) (born 1965), Sarah
- John Lescroart (born 1948), The Mercy Rule
- Craig Lesley (born 1945), The Sky Fisherman
- Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), Motherless Brooklyn
- Jeremy Leven (born 1941), Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure
- Ira Levin (born 1929), Rosemary's Baby
- Meyer Levin (1905 – 1981), Compulsion
- Janet Lewis (1899 – 1998), The Wife of Martin Guerre
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951), Main Street
- Ludwig Lewisohn (1882 – 1955), The Case of Mr. Crump
- John L'Heureux (born 1934), An Honorable Profession
- Alan Lightman (born 1948), Einstein's Dreams
- Joseph C. Lincoln (1870 – 1944), Rugged Water
- Victoria Lincoln (1904 – 1981), February Hill
- Elizabeth Linington (1921 – 1988), Knave of Hearts
- Elinor Lipman (born 1950), The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
- George Lippard (1822 – 1854), The Monks of Monk Hall
- Sam Lipsyte (born 1968), Home Land
- David Liss (born 1966), A Conspiracy of Paper
- Robert Littell (born 1935), The Amateur
- Ross Lockridge, Jr. (1914 – 1948), Raintree County
- Jack London (1876 – 1916), The Call of the Wild
- Frank Belknap Long (1901 – 1994), The Horror from the Hills
- Anita Loos (1893 – 1981), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Bret Lott (born 1958), Jewel
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937), At the Mountains of Madness
- Beverly Lowry (born 1938), Daddy's Girl
- Lois Lowry (born 1937), The Giver
- Robert Ludlum (1927 – 2001), The Bourne Identity
- Grace Lumpkin (1892 – 1980), To Make My Bread
- Alison Lurie (born 1926), Foreign Affairs
- Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902 – 1995), The Velvet Horn
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- John D. MacDonald (1916 – 1986), The Deep Blue Good-by
- Ross Macdonald (1915 – 1983), The Moving Target
- Harold MacGrath (1871 – 1932), The Man on the Box
- Norman Maclean (1902 – 1990), A River Runs Through It
- Charlotte MacLeod (1922 – 2005), The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
- Gregory Maguire (born 1954), Wicked
- Norman Mailer (born 1923), The Naked and the Dead
- Charles Major (1856 – 1913), When Knighthood Was in Flower
- Clarence Major (born 1936), Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
- Bernard Malamud (1914 – 1986), The Natural
- Michael Malone (born 1942), Uncivil Seasons
- Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939), Beyond Apollo
- Frederick Manfred (1912 – 1994), Lord Grizzly
- William March (1893 – 1954), The Bad Seed
- Margaret Maron (born 19??), Bootlegger's Daughter
- John P. Marquand (1893 – 1960), The Late George Apley
- Paule Marshall (born 1929), Brown Girl, Brownstones
- George R. R. Martin (born 1948), A Game of Thrones
- Valerie Martin (born 1948), Mary Reilly
- Carole Maso (born 1955), Defiance
- Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940), In Country
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901 – 1978), Three Harbours
- Richard Matheson (born 1926), I Am Legend
- Harry Mathews (born 1930), The Conversions
- Jack Matthews (born 1925), Hanger Stout, Awake!
- Peter Matthiessen (born 1927), At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Alice Mattison (born 194?), The Book Borrower
- Armistead Maupin (born 1944), Tales of the City
- William Maxwell (1908 – 2000), Time Will Darken It
- Joyce Maynard (born 1953), To Die For
- William Starbuck Mayo (1811 – 1895), Kaloolah
- Anne McCaffrey (born 1926), Dragonflight
- Robert R. McCammon (born 1952), Boy's Life
- Cormac McCarthy (born 1933), All the Pretty Horses
- Mary McCarthy (1912 – 1989), The Group
- Ed McClanahan (born 1932), Natural Man
- Jill McCorkle (born 1958), Ferris Beach
- Horace McCoy (1897 – 1955), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966), The Giant's House
- Sharyn McCrumb (born 1948), The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
- Carson McCullers (1917 – 1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- George Barr McCutcheon (1866 – 1928), Brewster's Millions
- Alice McDermott (born 1953), Charming Billy
- Gregory Mcdonald (born 1937), Fletch
- Joseph McElroy (born 1930), A Smuggler’s Bible
- Dennis McFarland (born 1950), A Face at the Window
- William McFee (1881 – 1966), Casuals of the Sea
- William P. McGivern (1918 – 1982), Blondes Die Young
- Thomas McGuane (born 1939), Nothing But Blue Skies
- Jay McInerney (born 1955), Bright Lights, Big City
- Ralph McInerny (born 1929), Her Death of Cold
- John T. McIntyre (1871 – 1951), Steps Going Down
- Richard McKenna (1913 – 1964), The Sand Pebbles
- Reginald McKnight (born 1956), He Sleeps
- Sarah Pratt McLean (1856 – 1935), Cape Cod Folks
- James McManus (born 1951), Going to the Sun
- Terry McMillan (born 1951), Waiting to Exhale
- Larry McMurtry (born 1936), Lonesome Dove
- T. M. McNally (born 19??), Until Your Heart Stops
- Stephen W. Meader (1892 – 1977), Boy with a Pack
- Herman Melville (1819 – 1891), Moby-Dick
- Gordon Merrick (1916 – 1988), The Lord Won't Mind
- Claire Messud (born 1966), When the World Was Steady
- Grace Metalious (1924 – 1964), Peyton Place
- Leonard Michaels (1933 – 2003), The Men's Club
- James A. Michener (1907 – 1997), Tales of the South Pacific
- Caroline Miller (1903 – 1992), Lamb in His Bosom
- Henry Miller (1891 – 1980), Tropic of Cancer
- Sue Miller (born 1943), The Good Mother
- Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923 – 1996), A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Lydia Millet (born 1968), My Happy Life
- Steven Millhauser (born 1943), Martin Dressler
- Anchee Min (born 1957), Becoming Madame Mao
- Eliza Minot (born 1970), The Tiny One
- Stephen Minot (born 1927), Surviving the Flood
- Susan Minot (born 1956), Evening
- Jacquelyn Mitchard (born 1955), The Deep End of the Ocean
- Donald Grant Mitchell (1822 – 1908), Dr. Johns
- Isaac Mitchell (c.1759 – 1812), The Asylum
- Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949), Gone with the Wind
- S. Weir Mitchell (1829 – 1914), Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
- N. Scott Momaday (born 1934), House Made of Dawn
- Rick Moody (born 1961), The Ice Storm
- Christopher Moore (born 1957), Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- Lorrie Moore (born 1957), Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
- Susanna Moore (born 1947), In the Cut
- Ward Moore (1903 – 1978), Bring the Jubilee
- Robert Morgan (born 1944), Gap Creek
- Speer Morgan (born 1946), The Freshour Cylinders
- Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957), Kitty Foyle
- Mary Morris (born 1947), The Waiting Room
- Mary McGarry Morris (born 1943), Songs In Ordinary Time
- Wright Morris (1910 – 1998), Plains Song
- Toni Morrison (born 1931), Beloved
- Bradford Morrow (born 1951), Trinity Fields
- Honoré Willsie Morrow (1880 – 1940), We Must March
- James Morrow (born 1947), Towing Jehovah
- Howard Frank Mosher (born 1943?), A Stranger in the Kingdom
- Walter Mosley (born 1952), Devil in a Blue Dress
- Dow Mossman (born 1944), The Stones of Summer
- Willard Motley (1912 – 1965), Knock on Any Door
- Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940), Jasmine
- Clarence E. Mulford (1883 – 1956), Hopalong Cassidy
- Marcia Muller (born 1944), Wolf in the Shadows
- Mary Noailles Murfree (1850 – 1922), The Amulet
- Sabina Murray (born 1968), A Carnivore's Inquiry
- John Myers Myers (1906 – 1988), Silverlock
- Peter Hamilton Myers (1812 – 1878), The First of the Knickerbockers
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- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977), Lolita
- Robert Nathan (1894 – 1985), Portrait of Jennie
- Edmund Naughton (born 1926), McCabe
- Gloria Naylor (born 1950), The Women of Brewster Place
- John Neal (1793 – 1876), The Down-Easters
- Antonya Nelson (born 1961), Talking in Bed
- Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991), The Homecoming Game
- Arthur Nersesian (born 1958), The Fuck-Up
- Katherine Neville (born 1945), The Eight
- Charles Newman (1938 – 2006), White Jazz
- Fae Myenne Ng (born 1956/7?), Bone
- John Nichols (born 1940), The Milagro Beanfield War
- Meredith Nicholson (1866 – 1947), A Hoosier Chronicle
- Anaïs Nin (1903 – 1977), A Spy in the House of Love
- Larry Niven (born 1938), Ringworld
- Lewis Nordan (born 1939), The Sharpshooter Blues
- Charles Nordhoff (1887 – 1947), Mutiny on the Bounty (with James Norman Hall)
- Gurney Norman (born 1937), Divine Right's Trip
- Howard Norman (born 1949), The Bird Artist
- John Norman (born 1931), Tarnsman of Gor
- Charles Gilman Norris (1881 – 1945), Bricks Without Straw
- Frank Norris (1870 – 1902), McTeague
- Kathleen Norris (1880 – 1966), Second Hand Wife
- Andre Norton (1912 – 2005), The Witch World
- Craig Nova (born 1945), The Good Son
- Josip Novakovich (born 1956), April Fool's Day
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- Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), them
- Tim O'Brien (born 1946), Going After Cacciato
- Edwin O'Connor (1918 – 1968), The Last Hurrah
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 – 1964), The Violent Bear It Away
- Philip F. O'Connor (born 1932), Stealing Home
- Robert O'Connor (born 1959), Buffalo Soldiers
- Chris Offutt (born 1958), The Good Brother
- John O'Hara (1905 – 1970), Appointment in Samarra
- Robert Olmstead (born 1954), A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go
- Stewart O'Nan (born 1961), The Speed Queen
- Martha Ostenso (1900 – 1963), Wild Geese
- Cynthia Ozick (born 1928), The Puttermesser Papers
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- Thomas Nelson Page (1853 – 1952), On Newfound River
- Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), Fight Club
- Edgar Pangborn (1909 – 1976), Davy
- Alexei Panshin (born 1940), Rite of Passage
- Sara Paretsky (born 1947), Indemnity Only
- Jay Parini (born 1948), The Last Station
- Robert B. Parker (born 1932), Crimson Joy
- Anne Parrish (1888 – 1957), The Perennial Bachelor
- Ann Patchett (born 1963), Bel Canto
- Elliot Paul (1891 – 1958), Concert Pitch
- Gary Paulsen (born 1939), Hatchet
- James Kirke Paulding (1778 – 1860), The Dutchman's Fireside
- Ridley Pearson (born 1953), Undercurrents
- T. R. Pearson (born 1956), Blue Ridge
- Dale Peck (born 1967), The Law of Enclosures
- Robert Newton Peck (born 1928), A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Janet Peery (born 195?), The River Beyond the World
- Don Pendleton (1927 – 1995), War Against The Mafia
- Hugh Pentecost (1903 – 1989), Cancelled in Red
- Walker Percy (1916 – 1990), The Moviegoer
- Frank E. Peretti (born 1951), This Present Darkness
- Richard Perry (born 1944), Montgomery's Children
- Bette Pesetsky (born 1932), Midnight Sweets
- Julia Peterkin (1880 – 1961), Scarlet Sister Mary
- Ann Petry (1931 – 1997), The Narrows
- Arthur Phillips (born 1969), Prague
- David Graham Phillips (1867 – 1911), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
- Jayne Anne Philips (born 1952), Machine Dreams
- Tom Piazza (born 1955), My Cold War
- Jodi Picoult (born 1966), The Pact
- Marge Piercy (born 1936), He, She And It
- Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824 – 1898), Ida May
- Darryl Pinckney (born 1953), High Cotton
- H. Beam Piper (1904 – 1964), Little Fuzzy
- Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963), The Bell Jar
- George Plimpton (1927 – 2003), The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- Frederik Pohl (born 1919), Gateway
- Darryl Ponicsan (born 1938), The Last Detail
- Ernest Poole (1880 – 1950), His Family
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868 – 1920), Pollyanna
- Katherine Anne Porter (1890 – 1980), Ship of Fools
- Charles Portis (born 1933), True Grit
- Melville Davisson Post (1871 – 1930), The Nameless Thing
- Chaim Potok (1929 – 2002), The Chosen
- Jerry Pournelle (born 1933), The Endless Frontier
- C. E. Poverman (born 1944), On the Edge
- Dawn Powell (1896 – 1965), The Wicked Pavilion
- Padgett Powell (born 1952), Edisto
- Richard P. Powell (1908 – 1999), The Philadelphian
- Nani Power (born 19??), Crawling at Night
- J. F. Powers (1917 – 1999), Morte d'Urban
- Richard Powers (born 1957), The Gold Bug Variations
- Emily Prager (born 1952), Clea & Zeus Divorce
- Theodore Pratt (1901 – 1969), Mr. Limpet
- Eugenia Price (1916 – 1996), The Beloved Invader
- Reynolds Price (born 1933), Kate Vaiden
- Richard Price (born 1949), Freedomland
- Frederic Prokosch (1908 – 1989), The Seven Who Fled
- Bill Pronzini (born 1943), Hoodwink
- Francine Prose (born 1947), Blue Angel
- E. Annie Proulx (born 1935), The Shipping News
- Olive Higgins Prouty (1882 – 1974), Stella Dallas
- James Purdy (born 1923), Cabot Wright Begins
- Mario Puzo (1920 – 1999), The Godfather
- Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), Gravity's Rainbow
Q
- Ellery Queen (Frederick Dannay (1905 – 1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905 – 1971)), The Greek Coffin Mystery
- John Herbert Quick (1861 – 1925), Vandemark's Folly
- Anna Quindlen (born 1953), Black and Blue
- Daniel Quinn (born 1935), Ishmael
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- Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Alice Randall (born 1959), The Wind Done Gone
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 – 1953), The Yearling
- Wilson Rawls (1913 – 1984), Where the Red Fern Grows
- Chet Raymo (born 19??), The Dork of Cork
- John Rechy (born 1934), City of Night
- Ishmael Reed (born 1938), Mumbo-Jumbo
- Arthur B. Reeve (1880 – 1936), Craig Kennedy Listens In
- Kathy Reichs (born 1950), Déjà Dead
- Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 – 1883), The Rifle Rangers
- Sheri Reynolds (born 1967), The Rapture of Canaan
- Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869 – 1934), Bransford in Arcadia
- Anne Rice (born 1941), Interview with the Vampire
- Craig Rice (1908 – 1957), The Corpse Steps Out
- Conrad Richter (1890 – 1968), The Town
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 – 1958), The Circular Staircase
- Amélie Rives (1863 – 1945), The Quick or the Dead?
- Harold Robbins (1916 – 1997), The Carpetbaggers
- Tom Robbins (born 1936), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881 – 1941), The Great Meadow
- Kenneth Roberts (1885 – 1957), Northwest Passage
- Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), Red Mars
- Marilynne Robinson (born 1947), Housekeeping
- Mary Robison (born 1949), Why Did I Ever
- Lucia St. Clair Robson (born 1942), Ride the Wind
- Edward Payson Roe (1838 – 1888), Barriers Burned Away
- O. E. Rølvaag (1876 – 1831), Giants in the Earth
- Judith Rossner (1935 – 2005), Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Leo Rosten (1908 – 1997), Captain Newman, M.D.
- Henry Roth (1906 – 1995), Call It Sleep
- Philip Roth (born 1933), Portnoy's Complaint
- Susanna Rowson (1762 – 1824), Charlotte Temple
- S. J. Rozan (born 19??), Winter and Night
- Robert Ruark (1915 – 1965), Uhuru
- Norman Rush (born 1933), Mating
- Rebecca Rush (1779 – 1850), Kelroy
- Joanna Russ (born 1937), The Female Man
- Mary Doria Russell (born 1950), The Sparrow
- Richard Russo (born 1949), Empire Falls
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- J. D. Salinger (born 1919), Catcher in the Rye
- James Sallis (born 1944), Long-Legged Fly
- James Salter (born 1925), A Sport and a Pastime
- Edgar Saltus (1855 – 1921), Mr.Incoul's Misadventure
- Thomas Sanchez (born 1944), Rabbit Boss
- John Sandford (born 1944), Rules of Prey
- Mari Sandoz (1896 – 1966), Slogum House
- William Saroyan (1908 – 1981), The Human Comedy
- May Sarton (1912 – 1995), Faithful are the Wounds
- Walter Satterthwait (born 1946), Accustomed To The Dark
- John Saul (born 1942), Suffer the Children
- George Saunders (born 1958), The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
- Thomas Savage (born 1915), The Power of the Dog
- John Sayles (born 1950), Pride of the Bimbos
- Jack Schaefer (1907 – 1991), Shane
- Cathleen Schine (born 1953), Rameau's Niece
- Gladys Schmitt (1909 – 1972), David the King
- Mark Schorer (1908 – 1977), A House Too Old
- Budd Schulberg (born 1914), What Makes Sammy Run?
- Julie Schumacher (born 1958), The Body is Water
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born 1939), Disturbances in the Field
- Sandra Scoppettone (born 1936), Suzuki Beane
- Evelyn Scott (1893 – 1963), A Calendar of Sin
- Joanna Scott (born 1960), The Manikin
- Allan Seager (1906 – 1968), Amos Berry
- Molly Elliot Seawell (1860 – 1916), The House of Egremont
- Alice Sebold (born 1963), The Lovely Bones
- Catharine Sedgwick (1789 – 1867), Hope Leslie
- Caroline See (born 1934), Making History
- Erich Segal (born 1937), Love Story
- Hubert Selby Jr. (1928 – 2004), Last Exit to Brooklyn
- Anya Seton (1904 – 1990), Green Darkness
- Mary Lee Settle (1918 – 2005), Blood Tie
- Michael Shaara (1928 – 1988), The Killer Angels
- Laurence Shames (born 1951), Florida Straits
- Ntozake Shange (born 1948), Betsey Brown
- Akhil Sharma (born 1971), An Obedient Father
- Paula Sharp (born 1957), Lost in Jersey City
- Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984), Rich Man, Poor Man
- Robert Shea (1933 – 1994), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Anton Wilson)
- Wilfrid Sheed (born 1930), Square's Progress
- Sidney Sheldon (born 1917), The Naked Face
- Samuel Shellabarger (1888 – 1954), Captain from Castile
- Jim Shepard (born 1956), Lights Out in the Reptile House
- Carol Shields (1935 – 2003), The Stone Diaries
- Anita Shreve (born 1946), The Weight of Water
- Susan Richards Shreve (born 1939), A Country of Strangers
- Lionel Shriver (born 1957), We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), The Russian Debutante's Handbook
- Anne Rivers Siddons (born 1936), Peachtree Road
- Clancy Sigal (born 1926), Going Away
- Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948), Ceremony
- Robert Silverberg (born 1935), A Time of Changes
- Clifford D. Simak (1904 – 1988), City
- Dan Simmons (born 1948), Hyperion
- William Gilmore Simms (1806 – 1870}, The Sword and the Distaff
- Mona Simpson (born 1957), Anywhere But Here
- Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968), The Jungle
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 or -04 – 1991), Enemies, a Love Story
- Israel Joshua Singer (1893 – 1944), The Brothers Ashkenazi
- Elsie Singmaster (1879 – 1958), Katy Gaumer
- Jane Smiley (born 1949), A Thousand Acres
- Betty Smith (1896 – 1972), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Charlie Smith (born 1947), Chimney Rock
- E. E. Smith (1890 – 1965), First Lensman
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806 – 1893), The Western Captive
- Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838 – 1915), Colonel Carter of Cartersville
- H. Allen Smith (1907 – 1976), Rhubarb
- Lee Smith (born 1944), Fair and Tender Ladies
- Lillian Smith (1897 – 1966), Strange Fruit
- Thorne Smith (1892 – 1934), Topper
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder (born 1927), The Headless Cupid
- Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004), In America
- Virginia Sorensen (1912 – 1991), On This Star
- Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 – 2006), Mulligan Stew
- Gary Soto (born 1952), Buried Onions
- Terry Southern (1924 – 1995), The Magic Christian
- E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819 – 1899), The Hidden Hand
- Frank H. Spearman (1859 – 1937), Whispering Smith
- Elizabeth Spencer (born 1921), The Salt Line
- Scott Spencer (born 1945), Endless Love
- Mickey Spillane (1918 – 2006), I, the Jury
- Norman Spinrad (born 1940), The Iron Dream
- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 – 1921), Sir Rohan's Ghost
- David Derek Stacton (1925 – 1968), On a Balcony
- Jean Stafford (1915 – 1979), Boston Adventure
- Danielle Steel (born 1947), Family Album
- Wallace Stegner (1909 – 1993), Angle of Repose
- Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968), The Grapes of Wrath
- Darcey Steinke (born 1964), Jesus Saves
- Ann Sophia Stephens (1810 – 1886), Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
- Neal Stephenson (born 1959), Snow Crash
- Bruce Sterling (born 1954), Islands in the Net
- Richard G. Stern (born 1928), Golk
- James Stevens (1892 – 1971), Mattock
- Charles D. Stewart (1868 – 1960), The Fugitive Blacksmith
- George R. Stewart (1895 – 1980), Earth Abides
- Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855 – 1943), The Crime of Henry Vane
- R. L. Stine (born 1943), Monster Blood
- Frank R. Stockton (1834 – 1902), Rudder Grange
- Mary Stolz (born 1920), The Edge of Next Year
- Grace Zaring Stone (1891 – 1991), The Bitter Tea of General Yen
- Irving Stone (1903 – 1989), The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Robert Stone (born 1937), Dog Soldiers
- Phil Stong (1899 – 1957), State Fair
- Rex Stout (1886 – 1975), Fer-de-Lance
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Edward Stratemeyer (1862 – 1930), The Rover Boys At School
- Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 – 1924), A Girl of the Limberlost
- Peter Straub (born 1943), Ghost Story
- Darin Strauss (born 1970), The Real McCoy
- Edward Streeter (1891 – 1976), Father of the Bride
- T. S. Stribling (1881 – 1965), The Store
- Elizabeth Strout (born 1956), Amy and Isabelle
- Jesse Stuart (1906 – 1984), Taps for Private Tussie
- Theodore Sturgeon (1918 – 1985), More Than Human
- William Styron (born 1925), The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Ruth Suckow (1892 – 1960), Country People
- Ronald Sukenick (1932 – 2004), Up
- Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890 – 1970), Quality
- Jacqueline Susann (1918 – 1974), Valley of the Dolls
- Harvey Swados (1920 – 1972), Out Went the Candle
- Glendon Swarthout (1918 – 1992), The Shootist
T
- Elizabeth Tallent (born 1954), Museum Pieces
- Amy Tan (born 1952), The Joy Luck Club
- Booth Tarkington (1869 – 1946), The Magnificent Ambersons
- Donna Tartt (born 1963), The Secret History
- Kathrine Taylor (1903 – 1996), Address Unknown
- Peter Taylor (1917 – 1994), A Summons to Memphis
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909 – 1976), The Cape Cod Mystery
- Robert Lewis Taylor (1912 – 1998), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- William Tenn (born 1920), Of Men and Monsters
- Tabitha Tenney (1762 – 1837), Female Quixotism
- Mary Virginia Terhune (1830 – 1922), Alone
- Walter Tevis (1928 – 1984), The Hustler
- Paul Theroux (born 1941), The Mosquito Coast
- Frederick W. Thomas (1806 – 1866), Howard Pinckney
- William Henry Thomes (1824 – 1895), The Gold Hunters' Adventures
- Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795 – 1868), The Green Mountain Boys
- Jim Thompson (1906 – 1977), The Killer Inside Me
- Maurice Thompson (1844 – 1901), Alice of Old Vincennes
- Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957), Meteors in August
- James Thurber (1894 – 1961), The 13 Clocks
- Wallace Thurman (1902 – 1934), The Blacker the Berry
- Ernest Tidyman (1928 – 1984), Shaft
- Christopher Tilghman (born 1948), Mason's Retreat
- John Kennedy Toole (1937 – 1969), A Confederacy of Dunces
- Jean Toomer (1894 – 1967), Cane
- Nick Tosches (born 1949), In the Hand of Dante
- Albion W. Tourgée (1838 – 1905), A Fool's Errand
- Arthur Train (1875 – 1945), Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt
- Lawrence Treat (1903 – 1998), V as in Victim
- Trevanian (1931 – 2005), The Eiger Sanction
- Calvin Trillin (born 1935), Runestruck
- J. T. Trowbridge (1827 – 1916), Cudjo's Cave
- Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976), Johnny Got His Gun
- George Tucker (1775 – 1861), A Voyage to the Moon
- John R. Tunis (1889 – 1975), The Kid From Tomkinsville
- Scott Turow (born 1949), Presumed Innocent
- Harry Turtledove (born 1949), In the Balance
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), Huckleberry Finn
- Anne Tyler (born 1941), The Accidental Tourist
- Royall Tyler (1757 – 1826), The Algerine Captive
U
- Brady Udall (born 1971?), The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
- Dorothy Uhnak (1933 – 2006), The Bait
- Douglas Unger (born 1952), Leaving the Land
- John Updike (born 1932), Rabbit, Run
- Leon Uris (1924 – 2003), Exodus
V
- Andrew Vachss (born 1942), Flood
- Jack Vance (born 1916), The Killing Machine
- Louis Joseph Vance (1879 – 1933), The Lone Wolf
- S. S. Van Dine (1888 – 1939), The Benson Murder Case
- John Varley (born 1947), The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Gore Vidal (born 1925), Burr
- Gerald Vizenor (born 1934), The Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart
- Kurt Vonnegut (born 1922), Slaughterhouse-Five
- William T. Vollmann (born 1959), Europe Central
- Susan Vreeland (born 1946), Girl In Hyacinth Blue
W
- David Wagoner (born 1926), The Escape Artist
- Dan Wakefield (born 1932), Going All the Way
- Alice Walker (born 1944), The Color Purple
- Margaret Walker (1915 – 1998), Jubilee
- David Foster Wallace (born 1962), Infinite Jest
- Irving Wallace (1916 – 1990), The Fan Club
- Lew Wallace (1827 – 1905), Ben-Hur
- Edward Lewis Wallant (1926 – 1962), The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Robert James Waller (born 1939), The Bridges of Madison County
- Douglass Wallop (1920 – 1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
- Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937), The Choirboys
- Walter Wangerin, Jr. (born 1944), The Book of the Dun Cow
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844 – 1911), The Gates Ajar
- William Ware (1797 – 1852), Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra
- Catherine Anne Warfield (1816 – 1877), The Household of Bouverie
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 – 1900), The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)
- Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890 – 1979), The Boxcar Children
- Susan Warner (1819 – 1895), The Wide, Wide World
- Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989), All the King's Men
- Frank Waters (1902 – 1995), The Man Who Killed the Deer
- Larry Watson (born 1947), Montana 1948
- Hillary Waugh (born 1920), Last Seen Wearing...
- Will Weaver (born 1950), Red Earth, White Earth
- Charles Webb (born 1939), The Graduate
- Katharine Weber (born 1955), Triangle
- Jean Webster (1876 – 1916), Daddy-Long-Legs
- Theodore Weesner (born 1935), The Car Thief
- Jerome Weidman (1913 – 1998), I Can Get It for You Wholesale
- James Welch (1940 – 2003), Fools Crow
- Manley Wade Wellman (1903 – 1986), The Old Gods Waken
- Ken Wells (born 19??), Meely LaBauve
- Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Eudora Welty (1909 – 2001), The Optimist's Daughter
- Glenway Wescott (1901 – 1987), The Grandmothers
- Dorothy West (1907 – 1998), The Living Is Easy
- Jessamyn West (1902 – 1984), The Massacre at Fall Creek
- Nathanael West (1903 – 1940), The Day of the Locust
- Paul West (born 1930), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
- Edward Noyes Westcott (1846 – 1898), David Harum, a Story of American Life
- Donald E. Westlake (born 1933), God Save the Mark
- W. D. Wetherell (born 1948), Chekhov's Sister
- Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937), The Age of Innocence
- William Wharton (born 1925), Birdy
- Kate Wheeler (born 1955), When Mountains Walked
- E. B. White (1899 – 1985), Charlotte's Web
- Edmund White (born 1940), A Boy's Own Story
- Randy Wayne White (born 1950), Sanibel Flats
- Stewart Edward White (1873 – 1946), The Claim Jumpers
- Colson Whitehead (born 1969), The Intuitionist
- Brand Whitlock (1869 – 1934), The Turn of the Balance
- Phyllis A. Whitney (born 1903), The Mystery of the Haunted Pool
- Edward Whittemore (1933 – 1995), Sinai Tapestry
- John Edgar Wideman (born 1941), Philadelphia Fire
- Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Night
- Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 – 1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Marianne Wiggins (born 1947), Evidence of Things Unseen
- James Wilcox (born 1949), Modern Baptists
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 – 1957), Little House on the Prairie
- Thornton Wilder (1897 – 1975), The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Kate Wilhelm (born 1928), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Charles Willeford (1919 – 1988), Miami Blues
- Ben Ames Williams (1889 – 1953), House Divided
- John Williams (1922 – 1994), Stoner
- John A. Williams (born 1925), The Man Who Cried I Am
- Joy Williams (born 1944), State of Grace
- Tennessee Williams (1911 – 1983), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Thomas Williams (1926 – 1990), The Hair of Harold Roux
- Jack Williamson (born 1908), The Humanoid Touch
- Calder Willingham (1922 – 1995), End As a Man
- Connie Willis (born 1945), Doomsday Book
- Harriet E. Wilson (1825 – 1900), Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
- Harry Leon Wilson (1867 – 1919), Ruggles of Red Gap
- Margaret Wilson (1882 – 1973), The Able McLaughlins
- Robert Anton Wilson (born 1932), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
- Sloan Wilson (1920 – 2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Mark Winegardner (born 1961), Crooked River Burning
- Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861), John Brent
- Owen Wister (1860 – 1938), The Virginian
- Larry Woiwode (born 1941), Beyond the Bedroom Wall
- Gene Wolfe (born 1931), The Book of the New Sun
- Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938), Look Homeward, Angel
- Tom Wolfe (born 1931), The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937), Providence
- Tobias Wolff (born 1945), The Barracks Thief
- Hilma Wolitzer (born 1930), Silver
- Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), This Is Your Life
- Sarah Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (1759 – 1855), Julia and the Illuminated Baron
- Daniel Woodrell (born 1953), Give Us a Kiss
- Samuel Woodworth (1784 – 1842), The Champions of Freedom
- Cornell Woolrich (1903 – 1968), The Bride Wore Black
- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840 – 1894), For the Major
- Herman Wouk (born 1915), The Caine Mutiny
- Austin Tappan Wright (1883 – 1931), Islandia
- Ernest Vincent Wright (1873? – 1939), Gadsby
- Harold Bell Wright (1872 – 1944), The Shepherd of the Hills
- Richard Wright (1908 – 1960), Native Son
- Stephen Wright (born 1946), The Amalgamation Polka
X
- Xu Xi (born 1954), The Unwalled City
- Qiu Xiaolong (born 1953), Death of a Red Heroine
Y
- Irvin D. Yalom (born 1931), When Nietzsche Wept
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
- Karen Tei Yamashita (born 1951), Through the Arc of the Rainforest
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942), Hotel Transylvania
- Steve Yarbrough (born 1956), The Oxygen Man
- Richard Yates (1926 – 1992), Revolutionary Road
- Frank Yerby (1916 – 1991), Judas, My Brother
- Anzia Yezierska (c.1880 – 1970), Bread Givers
- Rafael Yglesias (born 1954), Fearless
- Al Young (born 1939), Ask Me Now
- Stark Young (1881 – 1963), So Red the Rose
Z
- Rafi Zabor (born 1946), The Bear Comes Home
- Lisa Zeidner (born 1955), Layover
- Roger Zelazny (1937 – 1995), Lord of Light
- Paul Zindel (1936 – 2003), The Pigman
- Leane Zugsmith (1903 – 1969), All Victories Are Alike
See also
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918 – 1947)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1948 to present)
- National Book Award
External links
- Award Annals Listings of winners/finalists for many literary, film, and music awards.
- Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers List, 1900 – 1995 Top ten fiction and nonfiction U.S. bestsellers for each year.
References
- Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000)