This is: a list of novelists from the: United States, listed with titles of a major work for each.
This is not intendedββto be, a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, "naturalized citizen." Or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For theββpurposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpretedββto include novellas, "novelettes," and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. The writers on the "current list fall into one." Or more of the following categories:
- All American novelists who have articles in XIV should be on this list. And even if they do not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed until the article itself is removed.
- Winner of a major literary prize, even if the winning work was a story collection rather than a novel: The Pulitzer Prize, The PEN American Center Book Awards, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Prize, and some others. (Note: The only Pulitzer winner for Fiction not on the list is James Alan McPherson, who has never published a novel.)
- Having a substantial body of work, widely respected. And reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated/a finalist for major awards.
- A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history.
- Had several massive bestsellers, or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example).
- A leading figureβespecially award-winning, and with crossover appeal to mainstream readers, reviewers, and scholarsβin a major genre or subcategory of fiction: Romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, young adult fiction, regional or "local color" fiction, proletarian fiction, etc.
Aβ»
- Patricia Aakhus (1952β2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh
- Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn
- Atia Abawi
- Edward Abbey (1927β1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon
- Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell
- Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842β1893), Leah Mordecai
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872β1958), poet, novelist and short story writer
- Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys
- Mary Abbott (golfer) (1857β1904), Alexia
- Megan Abbott (born 1971), Die A Little
- Shirley Abbott (author) (1934β2019), The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound
- Shana AbΓ©, A Rose in Winter
- Louise Abeita (1926β2014), Native American Isleta Pueblo writer, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl
- Robert H. Abel (1941β2017)
- Joan Abelove (born 1945), Go and Come Back
- Aberjhani
- Walter Abish (1931β2022), How German Is It
- Abiola Abrams (born 1976), TV host, art filmmaker and "author," Dare
- Stacey Abrams (born 1973), While Justice Sleeps
- Traci Hunter Abramson, Smokescreen
- Diana Abu-Jaber (born 1960), Arabian Jazz
- Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin
- Evelyne Accad (born 1943), The Excised
- Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
- Kathy Acker (1947β1997), Blood and Guts in High School
- Danielle Ackley-McPhail (born 1970), Tomorrow's Memories
- Marta Acosta, Happy Hour at Casa Dracula
- Cherry Adair, Black Magic
- Alice Adams (1926β1999), Beautiful Girl
- Deborah Adams, All the Great Pretenders
- Henry Adams (1838β1918), Democracy: An American Novel
- Kathryn Adams Doty (1920β2016), A Long Year of Silence
- Yda Addis (1857β1902), writer and translator
- Kim Addonizio (born 1954), poet, novelist
- George Ade (1866β1944), The Slim Princess
- Renata Adler (born 1938), Speedboat
- Warren Adler (1927β2019), The War of the Roses
- James Agee (1909β1955), A Death in the Family
- Charlotte Agell (born 1959), novelist and children's writer
- Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), poet, writer, and editor
- Conrad Aiken (1889β1973), Blue Voyage
- Hiag Akmakjian (1926β2017)
- Mitch Albom (born 1958), The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Kathleen AlcalΓ‘ (born 1954), Spirits of the Ordinary
- Louisa May Alcott (1832β1888), Little Women
- Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841β1930), children's writer
- Clifford Lindsey Alderman (1902β1988)
- Anne Reeve Aldrich (1866β1892)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836β1907), Prudence Palfrey
- Malin Alegria
- Grace Alexander (1872β1951), Judith
- Lloyd Alexander (1924β2007), The Black Cauldron
- Tasha Alexander (born 1969)
- Sherman Alexie (born 1966), Reservation Blues
- Horatio Alger Jr. (1832β1899), Ragged Dick
- Jo Ann Algermissen (1942β2009), I Do?
- Nelson Algren (1909β1981), The Man with the Golden Arm
- Hervey Allen (1889β1949), Anthony Adverse
- Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean/American novelist, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune
- Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina
- Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862β1919), The Young Trailers
- Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the GarcΓa Girls Lost Their Accents
- Rudolfo Anaya (1937β2020), Bless Me, Ultima
- Laurie Halse Anderson (born 1961), Speak
- Poul Anderson (1926β2001), Tau Zero
- Sherwood Anderson (1876β1941), Winesburg, Ohio
- Eliza Frances Andrews (1840β1931), novelist and Civil War writer
- V. C. Andrews (1923β1986), 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
- Gloria E. AnzaldΓΊa (1942β2004), author, poet and activist, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- Allen Appel (born 1945), Time After Time
- Benjamin Appel (1907β1979), Brain Guy
- Max Apple (born 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
- Harold Hunter Armstrong (1884β1979)
- Harriette Arnow (1908β1986), The Dollmaker
- Timothy Shay Arthur (1809β1885), Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There
- Sholem Asch (1880β1957), The Nazarene
- Inez Asher (1911β2006), television writer and novelist, Family Sins
- Kristen Ashley (born 1968)
- Anastasia Ashman (born 1964), author and cultural producer, Tales from the Expat Harem
- Isaac Asimov (1920β1992), The Gods Themselves
- Rilla Askew (born 1951), The Mercy Seat
- Robert Asprin (1946β2008), Another Fine Myth
- Gertrude Atherton (1857β1948), The Conqueror
- Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1863β1942), author, journalist and teacher
- William Attaway (1911β1986), Blood on the Forge
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (born 1984), In the Forests of the Night
- Louis Auchincloss (1917β2010), 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 (1868β1934), Isidro
- Victoria Aveyard (born 1990), Red Queen series
Bβ»
- James Baar (1929β2021)
- Sanora Babb (1907β2005)
- C. Morgan Babst (born 1980)
- Richard Bach (born 1936), Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Irving Bacheller (1859β1950), A Man for the Ages
- George Bagby (1906β1985), Murder at the Piano
- Dorothy Baker (1907β1968), Young Man with a Horn
- James Robert Baker (1947β1997), Fuel-Injected Dreams
- Nicholson Baker (born 1957), Vox
- Kirsten Bakis (born 1968), Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Faith Baldwin (1893β1978), The Heart Has Wings
- James Baldwin (1924β1987), Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Leigh Bale
- John Ball (1911β1988), In the Heat of the Night
- Toni Cade Bambara (1939β1995), The Salt Eaters
- Anna Banks
- Russell Banks (born 1940), The Sweet Hereafter
- Margaret Culkin Banning (1891β1982), Country Club People
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934β2014), The System of Dante's Hell
- Tom Barbash, The Last Good Chance
- Anna Maynard Barbour (died 1941), That Mainwaring Affair
- John Franklin Bardin (1916β1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
- Brad Barkley (born 1961), Money, Love
- Annie Maria Barnes (1857 β unknown), Some lowly lives and the heights they reached
- Djuna Barnes (1892β1982), Nightwood
- Linda Barnes (born 1949), A Trouble of Fools
- Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886β1967), Years of Grace
- Steven Barnes (born 1952), The Legacy of Heorot (co-author)
- Wilton Barnhardt (born 1960), Gospel
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831β1919), Jan Vedder's Wife
- Nevada Barr (born 1952), Track of the Cat
- Stringfellow Barr (1897β1982),
- Andrea Barrett (born 1964), The Voyage of the Narwhal
- John Barth (born 1930), Giles Goat-Boy
- Donald Barthelme (1931β1989), Snow White
- Frederick Barthelme (born 1943), Chroma
- Alice E. Bartlett (1848β1920), Until the Daybreak
- Nalbro Bartley (1888β1952), A Woman's Woman
- Fredrick Barton
- Rick Bass (born 1958), Where the Sea Used to Be
- Sara Ware Bassett (1872β1968)
- Hamilton Basso (1904β1964), The View from Pompey's Head
- Harriet Bates (1856β1886), wrote under the name Eleanor Putnam
- Margret Holmes Bates (1844β1927), Manitou
- Emma Pow Bauder (1848β1932), The Inhabitants of Two Worlds
- L. Frank Baum (1856β1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Beth Ann Bauman
- Richard Bausch (born 1945), The Last Good Time
- Robert Bausch (1945β2018), Almighty Me
- Charles Baxter (born 1947), Shadow Play
- Jonathan Bayliss (1926β2009), the fiction tetralogy Gloucesterman
- Peter S. Beagle (born 1939), The Last Unicorn
- Theodore Beale (born 1968), The War in Heaven, The Eternal Warriors
- Clare Beams (born 1980/81), The Illness Lesson
- Greg Bear (1951β2022), Darwin's Radio
- Ann Beattie (born 1947), Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Paul Beatty (born 1962), The Sellout (novel)
- Jessica Beck
- Louis Begley (born 1933), About Schmidt
- Madison Smartt Bell (born 1957), All Souls' Rising
- Edward Bellamy (1850β1898), Looking Backward: 2000β1887
- Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (1837β1900), Four Oaks
- Saul Bellow (1915β2005), Henderson the Rain King
- Peter Benchley (1940β2006), Jaws
- Aimee Bender (born 1969), An Invisible Sign of My Own
- Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), Dogs of God
- Stephen Vincent BenΓ©t (1898β1943), Spanish Bayonet
- Gregory Benford (born 1941), Timescape
- Gary L. Bennett (born 1940), The Star Sailors
- Jenn Bennett
- Marcia Joanne Bennett (born 1945)
- Thomas Berger (1924β2014), Little Big Man
- Gina Berriault (1926β1999), The Descent
- Don Berry (1931β2001), Trask
- Wendell Berry (born 1934), A Place on Earth
- Alfred Bester (1913β1987), The Demolished Man
- Doris Betts (1932β2012), Souls Raised from the Dead
- Kiran Bhat (born 1990)
- Earl Derr Biggers (1884β1933), The Chinese Parrot
- Jessica Bird (born 1969), Black Dagger Brotherhood series
- Robert Montgomery Bird (1803β1854), Nick of the Woods
- Michael Bishop (born 1945), No Enemy But Time
- Pam Blackwell (born 1942)
- William Peter Blatty (1928β2017), The Exorcist
- Winfred Blevins (born 1938), Stone Song, Story of the Life of Crazy Horse
- Robert Bloch (1917β1994), Psycho
- Francesca Lia Block (born 1962) Weetzie Bat
- Lawrence Block (born 1938), Eight Million Ways to Die
- Stefan Merrill Block (born 1982)
- Mabel Fuller Blodgett (1869β1959)
- Joan Blondell (1906β1979), Center Door Fancy
- Amy Bloom (born 1953), Love Invents Us
- V.O. Blum (born 1945), DownMind
- Judy Blume (born 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
- Tom Boggs (1905β1952)
- Chris Bohjalian (born 1960), The Law of Similars
- Arna Bontemps (1902β1973), God Sends Sunday
- Kola Boof
- Emma Scarr Booth (1835β1927), Karan Kringle's Journal
- Anthony Boucher (1911β1968), The Case of the Seven of Calvary
- Vance Bourjaily (1922β2010), Brill Among the Ruins
- Ben Bova (1932β2020), The Starcrossed
- Jane Bowles (1917β1973), Two Serious Ladies
- Paul Bowles (1910β1999), The Sheltering Sky
- Valerie Bowman
- Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945), The Revolution of Little Girls
- James Boyd (1888β1944), Drums
- Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (born 1958), The Planets
- Roger Boylan (born 1951), Killoyle
- Kay Boyle (1902β1992), Death of a Man
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (born 1948), The Road to Wellville
- Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863β1938)
- Gerald Warner Brace (1901β1978), The World of Carrick's Cove
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748β1816), Modern Chivalry
- Leigh Brackett (1915β1978), The Secret of Sinharat
- Ray Bradbury (1920β2012), The Illustrated Man
- David Bradley (born 1950), The Chaneysville Incident
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930β1999), The Mists of Avalon
- Billy Lee Brammer (1929β1978), The Gay Place
- Max Brand (1892β1944), Destry Rides Again
- Giannina Braschi (born 1954), Yo-Yo Boing!
- Richard Brautigan (1935β1984), Trout Fishing in America
- Kate Braverman (1949β2019), Lithium for Medea
- Anna de BrΓ©mont (c. 1856β1922)
- Sandra Bretting
- Matt Briggs (born 1970), Shoot the Buffalo
- David Brin (born 1950), The Uplift War
- Robert O'Neil Bristow (1926β2018)
- Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967), Exquisite Corpse
- Margueritte Harmon Bro (1894β1977), Sarah
- Amber Brock (born 1980)
- Harold Brodkey (1930β1996), The Runaway Soul
- Louis Bromfield (1896β1956), The Rains Came
- Geraldine Brooks (born 1955), March
- Terry Brooks (born 1944), The Sword of Shannara
- Alice Brown (1857β1948), Fools of Nature
- Annie Greene Brown (1855β1923), Fireside Battles
- Charles Brockden Brown (1771β1810), Wieland
- Dan Brown (born 1964), The Da Vinci Code
- Don Brown (born 1960), Treason
- Eleanor Brown (born 1969), The Weird Sisters
- Harry Brown (1917β1986), A Walk in the Sun
- Larry Brown (1951β2004), Dirty Work
- Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), Rubyfruit Jungle
- Rosellen Brown (born 1939), Before and After
- William Hill Brown (1756β1793), The Power of Sympathy
- Steven Brust (born 1955), the Dragaera series
- Pearl S. Buck (1892β1973), The Good Earth
- Michael Buckley (born 1969), The Sisters Grimm series
- Frederick Buechner (1926β2022), Godric
- Charles Bukowski (1920β1994), Factotum
- Emma Bull (born 1954), War for the Oaks
- Edward Bunker (1933β2005), Little Boy Blue
- Eugene Burdick (1918β1965), The Ugly American (with William Lederer)
- James Lee Burke (born 1936), The Neon Rain
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849β1924), Little Lord Fauntleroy
- William R. Burnett (1899β1982), Little Caesar
- Clara Louise Burnham (1854β1927), Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
- Olive Ann Burns (1924β1990), Cold Sassy Tree
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875β1950), Tarzan of the Apes
- William S. Burroughs (1914β1997), Naked Lunch
- Frederick Busch (1941β2006), Harry and Catherine
- Gary Buslik (born 1946)
- Octavia E. Butler (1947β2006), Patternmaster
- Robert Olen Butler (born 1945), The Alleys of Eden
- Martha Haines Butt (1833β1871), Antifanaticism
- Elizabeth Byrd (1912β1989)
Cβ»
- George Washington Cable (1844β1925), The Grandissimes
- Meg Cabot (born 1967), The Princess Diaries
- Abraham Cahan (1860β1951), The Rise of David Levinsky
- Chelsea Cain (born 1972), Heartsick
- James M. Cain (1892β1977), The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Erskine Caldwell (1903β1987), God's Little Acre
- Taylor Caldwell (1900β1985), Dynasty of Death
- Wayne Caldwell (born 1948)
- Hortense Calisher (1911β2009), False Entry
- Sophia Alice Callahan (1868β1894), Wynema, a Child of the Forest
- Bebe Moore Campbell (1950β2006), Singing in the Comeback Choir
- Helen Stuart Campbell (1839β1918), Ballantyne - a novel
- John W. Campbell (1910β1971), The Mightiest Machine
- Ethan Canin (born 1960), For Kings and Planets
- Robert Cantwell (1908β1978), The Land of Plenty
- Kevin Canty (born 1953), Nine Below Zero
- Truman Capote (1924β1984), Other Voices, Other Rooms
- Philip Caputo (born 1941), Delcorso's Gallery
- Orson Scott Card (born 1951), Ender's Game
- Ruth Cardello
- Ron Carlson (born 1947), Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Don Carpenter (1931β1995), Hard Rain Falling
- Caleb Carr (born 1955), The Alienist
- John Dickson Carr (1906β1977), The Crooked Hinge
- Gail Carriger (born 1976), Soulless
- H. G. Carrillo (1960β2020)
- Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904β1999), As the Earth Turns
- Jonathan Carroll (born 1949), The Land of Laughs
- Ella Kaiser Carruth (1882β1974)
- Aimee Carter (born 1986)
- Forrest Carter (1925β1979), The Education of Little Tree
- Lin Carter (1930β1988), Sky Pirates of Callisto
- Xam Wilson Cartier (born 1949)
- John Casey (born 1939), Spartina
- Wiley Cash (born 1977)
- Vera Caspary (1899β1987), Laura
- R. V. Cassill (1919β2002), Dr. Cobb's Game
- Ana Castillo (born 1953), So Far from God
- Willa Cather (1873β1947), My Γntonia
- Dominic Certo, The Valor of Francesco DβAmini
- Michael Chabon (born 1964), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Nathan Keonaona Chai
- Jack L. Chalker (1944β2005), Midnight at the Well of Souls
- Marisha Chamberlin (born 1952)
- Robert W. Chambers (1865β1933), In the Quarter
- Jessie Chandler (born 1968), Bingo Barge Murder
- Raymond Chandler (1888β1959), The Big Sleep
- Henry Chang
- James Chapman (born 1955), Stet
- Fred Chappell (born 1936), Dagon
- Jerome Charyn (born 1937), Blue Eyes
- Mary Ellen Chase (1887β1973), Mary Peters
- Loretta Chase (born 1949), Lord of Scoundrels
- Ruth Chatterton (1892β1961)
- Stephen Chbosky (born 1970), The Perks of Being Wallflower
- John Cheever (1912β1982), The Wapshot Chronicle
- Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American Heaven
- Kelly Cherry (1940β2022), We Can Still Be Friends (novel)
- C. J. Cherryh (born 1942), Cyteen
- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858β1932), The Marrow of Tradition
- Alan Cheuse (1940β2015), The Grandmothers' Club
- Tracy Chevalier (born 1962), Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Lydia Maria Child (1802β1880), Hobomok
- Mark Childress (born 1957), Crazy in Alabama
- Kate Chopin (1851β1904), The Awakening
- Autumn Christian, Girl Like a Bomb
- April Christofferson
- Edgar Earl Christopher, The Invisibles
- Winston Churchill (1871β1947), Richard Carvel
- Carolyn Chute (born 1947), The Beans of Egypt, Maine
- Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), The House on Mango Street
- Tom Clancy (1947β2013), The Hunt for Red October
- Eleanor Clark (1913β1996), Baldur's Gate
- Florence Anderson Clark (1835β1918), Zenaida, a Romance
- Mary Higgins Clark (1927β2020), A Stranger is Watching
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909β1971), The Ox-Bow Incident
- Isabel C. Clarke (died 1951)
- Jaime Clarke (born 1971), Garden Lakes
- Meg Waite Clayton (born 1959), The Wednesday Sisters
- Beverly Cleary (1916β2021), Ramona the Pest
- Jeremiah Clemens (1814β1865), Tobias Wilson
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (see: Mark Twain)
- Hal Clement (1922β2003), Mission of Gravity
- Michelle Cliff (1946β2016), Abeng
- Ernest Cline (born 1972)
- Deborah Coates
- Robert M. Coates (1897β1973), The Eater of Darkness
- Harlan Coben (born 1962), Deal Breaker
- Colleen Coble
- Sarah Johnson Cocke (1865β1944)
- Marvin Cohen (born 1931), Others, Including Morstive Sternbump
- Kresley Cole
- Teju Cole (born 1975), Open City (novel)
- Manda Collins
- Laurie Colwin (1944β1992), Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
- Richard Condon (1915β1996), The Manchurian Candidate
- Evan S. Connell (1924β2013), Mrs. Bridge
- Michael Connelly (born 1956), Blood Work
- Frank Conroy (1936β2005), Body and Soul
- Pat Conroy (1945β2016), The Prince of Tides
- K. C. Constantine (born 1934), Upon Some Midnights Clear
- Robin Cook (born 1940), Coma
- John Esten Cooke (1830β1886), The Virginia Comedians
- Caroline B. Cooney (born 1947) No Such Person
- Dennis Cooper (born 1953), Frisk
- Doug Cooper (born 1970)
- J. California Cooper (1931β2014), Some People, Some Other Place
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789β1851), The Last of the Mohicans
- Susan Rogers Cooper (born 1947)
- Robert Coover (born 1932), The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
- Lucy Corin (born 1970), Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls
- Edwin Corle (1906β1956), Fig Tree John
- Robert Cormier (1925β2000), The Chocolate War
- Mary A. Cornelius (1829β1918), Uncle Nathan's Farm
- Patricia Cornwell (born 1956), Postmortem
- Gay Courter (born 1944)
- James Gould Cozzens (1903β1978), Guard of Honor
- Cola Barr Craig (1861β1930), Was She: A Novel
- Robert Crais (born c. 1953), Hostage
- Stephen Crane (1871β1900), The Red Badge of Courage
- Bruce Harris Craven
- Margaret Craven (1901β1980), I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- Francis Marion Crawford (1854β1909), Saracinesca
- Harry Crews (1935β2012), Scar Lover
- Michael Crichton (1942β2008), Jurassic Park
- Robert Crichton (1925β1993), The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- Amanda Cross (1926β2003), The James Joyce Murder
- John Crowley (born 1942), Little, Big
- Mary Cruger (1834 β 1908), The Vanderheyde Manor House
- Jennifer Crusie (born 1949), Welcome to Temptation
- Chris Crutcher (born 1946), Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
- Maria Susanna Cummins (1827β1866), The Lamplighter
- Michael Cunningham (born 1952), The Hours
- Chris Culver
- Ann Cummins, Yellowcake
- James Oliver Curwood (1878β1927), The Grizzly King
- Clive Cussler (1931β2020), Raise the Titanic!
Dβ»
- L. Sprague de Camp (1907β2000), Lest Darkness Fall
- Edward Dahlberg (1900β1977), Bottom Dogs
- Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825β1898), Democracy, an American novel
- Frances Brackett Damon (1857β1939), Idlewise
- Mark Z. Danielewski (born 1966), House of Leaves
- Edwidge Danticat (born 1969), Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook
- Guy Davenport (1927β2005), Da Vinci's Bicycle
- Marcia Davenport (1903β1994), East Side, West Side
- Iimani David (born 1969)
- Avram Davidson (1923β1993), The Phoenix and the Mirror
- Clyde Brion Davis (1894β1962), Nebraska Coast
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916β2014), Death of an Old Sinner
- Genese Davis (born 1984)
- H. L. Davis (1894β1960), Honey in the Horn
- L. J. Davis, A Meaningful Life
- Richard Harding Davis (1864β1916), Soldiers of Fortune
- Terry Davis (born 1947), Vision Quest
- Jeffery Deaver (born 1950), The Bone Collector
- Ted Dekker (born 1962), ADAM
- Darren DeFrain (born 1967)
- Margaret Deland (1857β1945), John Ward, Preacher
- Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), Dhalgren, Hogg
- Don DeLillo (born 1936), White Noise
- ViΓ±a Delmar (1903β1990), Bad Girl
- Patrick Dennis (1921β1976), Auntie Mame
- August Derleth (1909β1971), The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Amber Dermont
- Bree Despain (born 1979)
- Jude Deveraux (born 1947), A Knight in Shining Armor
- Pete Dexter (born 1943), Paris Trout
- Junot Diaz (born 1968), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Philip K. Dick (1928β1982), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- James Dickey (1923β1997), Deliverance
- Charles Dickinson (born 1951), A Shortcut in Time
- Joan Didion (1934β2021), Play It as It Lays
- Karen Dionne (born 1953)
- Thomas M. Disch (1940β2008), Camp Concentration
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), The Mistress of Spices
- Melvin Dixon (1950β1992), Trouble the Water
- Stephen Dixon (1936β2019), Frog
- Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864β1946), The Clansman
- Moshe Dluznowsky
- Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), The Wrestler's Cruel Study
- E. L. Doctorow (1931β2015), Ragtime
- Anna Bowman Dodd (1858β1929), The Republic of the Future
- Mary Mapes Dodge (1831β1905), Hans Brinker
- Harriet Doerr (1910β2002), Stones for Ibarra
- Ivan Doig (1939β2015), Ride With Me, Mariah Montana
- John Dolan (born 1955), Shantee'
- Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947), Lord Foul's Bane
- J. P. Donleavy (1926β2017), The Ginger Man
- Richard Dooling (born 1954), White Man's Grave
- Michael Dorris (1945β1997), A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
- Kathryn Adams Doty (1920β2016)
- Lloyd C. Douglas (1877β1951), Magnificent Obsession
- Christopher Dow (born 1950)
- Fanny Murdaugh Downing (1831β1894), Nameless, a novel
- J. Hyatt Downing (1888β1973)
- Theodore Dreiser (1871β1945), An American Tragedy
- Allen Drury (1918β1998), Advise and Consent
- Tom Drury (born 1956), The End of Vandalism
- Bruce Ducker (born 1938), Mooney in Flight
- John Dufresne (born 1948), Louisiana Power and Light
- David James Duncan (born 1952), The Brothers K
- Katherine Dunn (1945β2016), Geek Love
- John Gregory Dunne (1932β2003), True Confessions
- John Dunning (born 1942), Booked to Die
- John William De Forest (1826β1926),
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty - H.D. (1886β1961), Palimpsest
- John Dos Passos (1896β1970), U.S.A.
- Lester del Rey (1915β1993), Attack from Atlantis
- Peter De Vries (1910β1993), Reuben, Reuben
- Andre Dubus III (born 1959), House of Sand and Fog
Eβ»
- Mary Tracy Earle (1864β1955), The Wonderful Wheel
- Tony Earley (born 1961), Jim the Boy
- Mignon G. Eberhart (1899β1996), The Patient in Room 18
- David Eddings (1931β2008), Pawn of Prophecy
- Clyde Edgerton (born 1944), Walking Across Egypt
- Walter D. Edmonds (1903β1998), Drums Along the Mohawk
- George Alec Effinger (1947β2002), When Gravity Fails
- Jennifer Egan (born 1962), A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Dave Eggers (born 1970), You Shall Know Our Velocity
- Edward Eggleston (1837β1902), The Hoosier Schoolmaster
- John Ehle (1924β2018), Last One Home
- Jill Eisenstadt (born 1963), From Rockaway, Kiss Out, Swell
- Robert Elegant (born 1928), Dynasty
- Stanley Elkin (1930β1995), Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Aaron Elkins (born 1935), Old Bones
- Stanley Ellin (1916β1986), The Eighth Circle
- Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964), American Psycho, Glamorama
- Edward S. Ellis (1840β1916), Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier
- Trey Ellis (born 1962), Right Here, Right Now
- Ralph Ellison (1914β1994), Invisible Man
- James Ellroy (born 1948), L.A. Confidential
- Carol Emshwiller (1921β2019), Carmen Dog
- Susan Engberg
- Louise Erdrich (born 1954), Love Medicine
- Steve Erickson (born 1950), Arc d'X
- Payne Erskine (1854β1924)
- Andrew Ervin (born 1971), Burning Down George Orwell's House
- 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 Wilson (1835β1909), St. Elmo
- Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell (1836β1922), Aunt Nabby
- Richard Paul Evans (born 1962), The Christmas Box and Michael Vey series
- Frederick Exley (1929β1992), A Fan's Notes
Fβ»
- Ann Fairbairn (1901β1972), Five Smooth Stones
- Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878β1951), The Bright Land
- Amber Fallon, horror writer
- John Fante (1909β1983), Wait Until Spring, Bandini
- Richard FariΓ±a (1937β1966), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- Philip JosΓ© Farmer (1918β2009), To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- James T. Farrell (1904β1979), Young Lonigan
- Howard Fast (1914β2003), April Morning
- William Faulkner (1897β1962), Light in August
- Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882β1961), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
- JΓΌrgen Fauth (born 1969)
- Kenneth Fearing (1902β1961), The Big Clock
- Raymond Federman (1928β2009), The Twofold Vibration
- Raymond E. Feist (born 1945), Magician
- Edna Ferber (1885β1968), So Big
- Ira Lunan Ferguson (1904β1992)
- Harvey Fergusson (1890β1971), The Conquest of Don Pedro
- Rachel Field (1894β1942), All This, and Heaven Too
- Amanda Filipacchi (born 1967), Love Creeps
- Charles Finch (born 1980), A Beautiful Blue Death
- Martha Farquharson Finley (1828β1909), Elsie Dinsmore
- Jack Finney (1911β1995), Time and Again
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879β1958), Understood Betsy
- Rudolph Fisher (1897β1934), The Walls of Jericho
- Vardis Fisher (1895β1968), Children of God
- Janet Fitch (born 1955), White Oleander
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896β1940), The Great Gatsby
- Louise Fitzhugh (1928β1974), Harriet the Spy
- Ambrose Flack (1902β1980)
- Raymond Flanagan (1903β1990), Three Religious Rebels. The Forefathers of the Trappists
- Thomas Flanagan (1923β2002), The Year of the French
- Martin Flavin (1883β1967), Journey in the Dark
- Paul Fleischman (born 1952), Whirligig
- Sid Fleischman (1920β2010), The Whipping Boy
- Lynn Flewelling (born 1958), Nightrunner
- Eilis Flynn
- Vince Flynn (1966β2013), Pursuit of Honor
- Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), Everything Is Illuminated
- Mary Hallock Foote (1847β1938), The Chosen Valley
- Shelby Foote (1916β2005), Shiloh
- Esther Forbes (1891β1967), Johnny Tremain
- Jesse Hill Ford (1928β1996), The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
- John M. Ford (1957β2006), The Dragon Waiting
- Paul Leicester Ford (1865β1902), The Honorable Peter Stirling
- Richard Ford (born 1944), Independence Day
- Leon Forrest (1937β1997), There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
- Robert Forward (1932β2002), Dragon's Egg
- Alan Dean Foster (born 1946), Midworld
- Hannah Webster Foster (1758β1840), The Coquette
- Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), The Jane Austen Book Club
- John Fox Jr. (1862β1919), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Paula Fox (1923β2017), Desperate Characters
- William Price Fox (1926β2015), Ruby Red
- Sohrab Homi Fracis
- Jacquelyn Frank
- Suzanne Frank
- Waldo Frank (1889β1967), Holiday
- Jonathan Franzen (born 1959), The Corrections
- Rhiannon Frater
- Charles Frazier (born 1950), Cold Mountain
- Harold Frederic (1856β1898), The Damnation of Theron Ware
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852β1930), Pembroke
- Joseph Lewis French (1858β1936), Masterpieces of Mystery
- Marilyn French (1929β2009), The Women's Room
- William Aden French (1892β1980)
- Bruce Jay Friedman (1930β2020), Stern
- Kinky Friedman (born 1944), Greenwich Killing Time
- Daniel Fuchs (1909β1993), Summer in Williamsburg
- Andrew Fukuda
- Henry Blake Fuller (1857β1929), The Cliff-Dwellers
- David Fulmer (Born 1950), Chasing the Devil's Tail
- Alan Furst (born 1941), Night Soldiers
Gβ»
- Tom Gabbay (born 1953), The Berlin Conspiracy
- Ellen Gable (born 1959)
- William Gaddis (1922β1998), The Recognitions
- Ernest J. Gaines (1933β2019), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Mary Gaitskill (born 1954), Two Girls, Fat and Thin
- Zona Gale (1874β1938), Miss Lulu Bett
- Paul Gallico (1897β1976), The Poseidon Adventure
- Robert Gandt (born 1939)
- Ernest K. Gann (1910β1991), The High and the Mighty
- Cristina GarcΓa (born 1958), Dreaming in Cuban
- John Reynolds Gardiner (1944β2006), Stone Fox
- Erle Stanley Gardner (1889β1970), The Case of the Velvet Claws
- John Gardner (1933β1982), Grendel
- Leonard Gardner (born 1933), Fat City
- Hamlin Garland (1860β1940), A Daughter of the Middle Border
- George Garrett (1929β2008), Death of the Fox
- Chloe Gartner (1916β2003), The Infidels
- Haley Elizabeth Garwood (born 1940), The Forgotten Queen
- Julie Garwood (born 1944), Ransom
- William H. Gass (1924β2017), Omensetter's Luck
- David Gates (born 1947), Jernigan
- William Gay (1941β2012)
- Elizabeth George (born 1949), A Great Deliverance
- Sarah Gerard
- Christien Gholson (born 1964), A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
- Kaye Gibbons (born 1960), Ellen Foster
- William Gibson (born 1948), Neuromancer
- Scott G. Gier (born 1948)
- Barry Gifford (born 1946), Wild at Heart
- Annie Somers Gilchrist (1841β1912)
- Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), Starcarbon
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860β1935), Herland
- Florence Magruder Gilmore (1881β1945), The Parting of the Ways
- Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Mark Gilroy
- Fred Gipson (1908β1973), Old Yeller
- Ellen Glasgow (1873β1945), Virginia
- Julia Glass (born 1956), Three Junes
- Gail Godwin (born 1937), A Mother and Two Daughters
- Tom Godwin (1915β1980), ββThe Survivorsββ
- Herbert Gold (1924β2023), The Man Who Was Not With It
- Arthur Golden (born 1957), Memoirs of a Geisha
- Francisco Goldman (born 1954), The Long Night of White Chickens
- William Goldman (1931β2018), The Princess Bride
- Rebecca Goldstein (born 1950), The Mind-Body Problem
- David Goodis (1917β1967), Down There
- Terry Goodkind (1948β2020), Wizard's First Rule
- Allegra Goodman (born 1967), The Family Markowitz
- Paul Goodman (1911β1972), Making Do
- Marcus Goodrich (1897β1991), Delilah
- H. B. Goodwin (1827β1893), The fortunes of Miss Follen
- Caroline Gordon (1895β1981), Aleck Maury, Sportsman
- Jennifer Anne Gordon, Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent
- Mary Gordon (born 1949), Final Payments
- Ron Goulart (1933β2022), After Things Fell Apart
- William Goyen (1915β1983), The Fair Sister
- Sue Grafton (1940β2017), "A" is for Alibi
- Robert Grant (1852β1940), Unleavened Bread
- Shirley Ann Grau (1929β2020), The Keepers of the House
- Charlotte E. Gray (1873β1926), Out of the Mire, The Jericho Road, The Inn by the Sea
- Anna Katharine Green (1846β1935), The Leavenworth Case
- John Green (born 1977), The Fault in Our Stars
- Julien Green (1900β1998), LΓ©viathan (The Dark Journey)
- Vincent S. Green (born 1953), The Price of Victory, Extreme Justice
- Joanne Greenberg (born 1932), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Amy Greene (born 1975)
- Frances Nimmo Greene (1867β1937), The Right of the Strongest
- Sam Greenlee (1930β2014), The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970), The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- William Lindsay Gresham (1909β1962), Nightmare Alley
- Zane Grey (1872β1939), Riders of the Purple Sage
- Eva Kinney Griffith (1852β1918), A Woman's Evangel
- Sutton E. Griggs (1872β1933), The Hindered Hand
- Martha Grimes (born 1931), The Old Contemptibles
- John Grisham (born 1955), The Firm
- Lauren Groff (born 1978), Fates and Furies
- Winston Groom (1943β2020), Forrest Gump
- Patricia Grossman (born 1951), Radiant Daughter
- Michael Grothaus (born 1977), Epiphany Jones
- Nikolai Grozni
- Davis Grubb (1919β1980), The Night of the Hunter
- Lisa Grunwald (born 1959), The Irresistible Henry House
- Lucrecia Guerrero, Chasing Shadows (linked short stories), Tree of Sighs
- Judith Guest (born 1936), Ordinary People
- Allan Gurganus (born 1947), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- Naomi Gurian (born 1933)
- David Guterson (born 1956), Snow Falling on Cedars
- A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901β1991), The Big Sky
Hβ»
- John Habberton (1842β1921)
- Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Dogeaters
- Jennifer Haigh (born 1968), Mrs. Kimble
- Charles Haldeman (1931β1983)
- Joe Haldeman (born 1943), The Forever War
- Alex Haley (1921β1992), Roots
- James Norman Hall (1887β1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (with Charles Nordhoff)
- Oakley Hall (1920β2008), Warlock
- Brett Halliday (1904β1977), Dividend on Death
- Julie Halpern
- Hilary Thayer Hamann (born 1962), Anthropology of an American Girl
- Jane Hamilton (born 1957), The Book of Ruth
- Laurell K. Hamilton (born 1963), Guilty Pleasures
- Dashiell Hammett (1894β1961), The Maltese Falcon
- Samuel J. Hamrick (1929β2008)
- Cathi Hanauer (born 1962)
- Elizabeth Hand (born 1957), Generation Loss
- Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (born 1970), Watch Your Mouth
- Barry Hannah (1942β2010), Geromino Rex
- Joseph Hansen (1923β2004), Fadeout
- Ron Hansen (born 1947), Mariette in Ecstasy
- Paul Harding (born 1967), Tinkers
- Elizabeth Hardwick (1916β2007), Sleepless Nights
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847β1930), The Wind of Destiny
- Donald Harington (1935β2009), The Cockroaches of Stay More
- Henry Harland (1861β1905), The Cardinal's Snuff-box
- Jean Harlow (1911β1937), Today is Tonight
- Charles L. Harness (1915β2005), The Paradox Men
- Kent Harrington
- Bertha Harris (1937β2005), Lover
- Charlaine Harris (born 1961), The Southern Vampire Mysteries
- Corra May Harris (1869β1935), The Circuit Rider's Wife
- MacDonald Harris (1921β1993), The Balloonist
- E. Lynn Harris (1955β2009), Invisible Life
- Mark Harris (1922β2007), Bang the Drum Slowly
- Thomas Harris (born 1940), The Silence of the Lambs
- Harry Harrison (1925β2012), Make Room! Make Room!
- Jim Harrison (1937β2016), Legends of the Fall
- Kathryn Harrison (born 1961), Exposure
- Kim Harrison (born 1966), Hollows
- Kent Haruf (1943β2014), Plainsong
- Adrienne Harun, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
- Jon Hassler (1933β2008), Staggerford
- Mary R. Platt Hatch (1848β1935), The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstocks
- Amanda Havard (born 1986)
- Allan Havis (born 1951),Clear Blue Silence
- John Hawkes (1925β1998), The Lime Twig
- Alexandra Hawkins
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804β1864), The Scarlet Letter
- Ernest Haycox (1899β1950), Bugles in the Afternoon
- Shirley Hazzard (1931β2016), The Great Fire
- Shelby Hearon (1931β2016), Owning Jolene
- Peter Hedges (born 1962), What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Rebecca Heflin (born 1963), Rescuing Lacey
- Ursula Hegi (born 1946), Stones from the River
- Scott Heim (born 1966), Mysterious Skin
- Larry Heinemann (1944β2019), Paco's Story
- Robert A. Heinlein (1907β1988), Stranger in a Strange Land
- Joseph Heller (1923β1999), Catch-22
- Mark Helprin (born 1947), Winter's Tale
- Ernest Hemingway (1899β1961), A Farewell to Arms
- Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964), Nowhere Man
- Helen Hemphill (born 1955)
- Dee Henderson (born ?), O'Malley Series
- James Hendryx, (1880β1963)
- Geoff Herbach
- Frank Herbert (1920β1986), Dune
- Joseph Hergesheimer (1880β1954), Linda Condon
- Nellie Hermann, The Season of Migration
- Robert Herrick (1868β1938), Web of Life
- John Hersey (1914β1993), A Bell for Adano
- Burton Hersh
- DuBose Heyward (1885β1940), Porgy
- Carl Hiaasen (born 1953), Sick Puppy
- George V. Higgins (1939β1999), The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- Wendy Higgins (born 1977)
- Patricia Highsmith (1921β1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Oscar Hijuelos (1951β2013), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Agnes Leonard Hill (1842β1917), Vanquished
- Tony Hillerman (1925β2008), The Blessing Way
- Joe Hilley (born 1956), Sober Justice, Double Take, Electric Beach, Night Rain, The Deposition, What the Red Moon Knows
- Chester Himes (1909β1984), If He Hollers Let Him Go
- S. E. Hinton (born 1948), The Outsiders
- Kathleen Hirsch (born 1953)
- Tami Hoag (born 1959), Ashes to Ashes
- Russell Hoban (1925β2011), Riddley Walker
- Laura Z. Hobson (1900β1986), Gentleman's Agreement
- Allen Hoey (1952β2010), Chasing the Dragon
- Alice Hoffman (born 1952), Practical Magic
- Cara Hoffman, So Much Pretty
- Linda Hogan (writer) (born 1947), People of the Whale
- Nancy Holder (born 1953)
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819β1881), The Bay-Path
- Jenny Hollowell
- Sheri Holman (born 1966), The Mammoth Cheese
- Mary Jane Holmes (1825β1907), Lena Rivers
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809β1894), Elsie Venner
- A. M. Homes (born 1961), The End of Alice
- Ann Hood (born 1956), Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
- David L. Hoof (born 1945)
- Khaled Hosseini (born 1965), The Kite Runner
- Silas House (born 1971), A Parchment of Leaves
- Blanche Willis Howard (1847β1898), Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast
- Linda Howard (born 1950)
- Maureen Howard (born 1930), Natural History
- E. W. Howe (1853β1937), The Story of a Country Town
- William Dean Howells (1837β1920), The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Elizabeth Hoyt (born 1970)
- George Hrab (born 1971), βSpiritual Healing & Balance Through Colonic Regularityβ
- Yang Huang (born 1971)
- David Huddle (born 1942), La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
- Barry Hughart (1934β2019), Bridge of Birds
- Langston Hughes (1902β1967), Not Without Laughter
- William Humphrey (1924β1997), Farther Off from Heaven
- Josephine Humphreys (born 1945), Rich in Love
- Samantha Hunt (born 1971), The Invention of Everything Else
- Evan Hunter (1926β2005), Blackboard Jungle
- Jessie Prichard Hunter
- Stephen Hunter (born 1946), Point of Impact
- Fannie Hurst (1885β1968), Imitation of Life
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891β1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Siri Hustvedt (born 1955), The Sorrows of an American
- James Hynes (born 1955), The Lecturer's Tale
Iβ»
- David Ignatius (born 1950),
- Greg Iles (born 1960), The Quiet Game
- Bravig Imbs (1904β1944), The Professor's Wife
- Gary Indiana (born 1950), Resentment
- Rachel Ingalls (1940β2019), Mrs. Caliban
- William Inge (1913β1973), Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
- Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809β1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
- Prentiss Ingraham (1843β1904), The Masked Spy
- Robert Inman (1931β2006)
- Lee Irby (born 1963), The Up and Up
- Clifford Irving (1930β2017)
- John Irving (born 1942), The World According to Garp
- Susan Isaacs (born 1943), Compromising Positions
- Lynn Isenberg, My Life Undercover
- Christopher Isherwood (1904β1986), Goodbye to Berlin
- Arturo Islas (1938β1991), The Rain God
- Alan Isler (1934β2010)
Jβ»
- Beverley Jackson
- Brenda Jackson
- Charles R. Jackson (1902β1968), The Lost Weekend
- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830β1885), Ramona
- Shirley Jackson (1916β1965), The Haunting of Hill House
- Rona Jaffe (1932β2005), Mazes and Monsters
- John Jakes (born 1932), North and South
- Henry James (1843β1916), Washington Square
- Will James (1892β1942), Smoky the Cow Horse
- Elizabeth Janeway (1913β2005), Daisy Kenyon
- Tama Janowitz (born 1957), By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
- Randall Jarrell (1914β1965), Pictures from an Institution
- Rosa Vertner Jeffrey (1828β1894), Woodburn
- Gish Jen (born 1956), Typical American
- Jerry B. Jenkins (born 1949), Left Behind (with Tim LaHaye)
- Gary Jennings (1928β1999), Aztec
- Caroline Howard Jervey (1823β1877), Helen Courtenay's Promise
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849β1909), 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 (1949β2017), Fiskadoro
- Diane Johnson (born 1934), Le Divorce
- James Weldon Johnson (1871β1938), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910β1990), Now in November
- Joyce Johnson (born 1935), In the Night CafΓ©
- Maud Johnson (died 1985)
- Owen Johnson (1878β1952), Stover at Yale
- RM Johnson (born 1968)
- Maria I. Johnston (1835β1921)
- Mary Johnston (1870β1936), To Have and to Hold
- LeRoi Jones (see: Amiri Baraka)
- Edward P. Jones (born 1951), The Known World
- Gayl Jones (born 1949), Corregidora
- James Jones (1921β1977), From Here to Eternity
- Matthew F. Jones (born 19??), A Single Shot
- Stephen Graham Jones (born 1972), The Only Good Indians
- Erica Jong (born 1942), Fear of Flying
- Robert Jordan (1948β2007), The Eye of the World
- Sylvester Judd (1813β1853), Margaret
- Heidi Julavits (born 1968), The Mineral Palace
- Ward Just (1935β2019), Jack Gance
Kβ»
- Cihan Kaan (born 1976)
- Stacey Kade, The Ghost and The Goth
- James Otis Kaler (1848β1912), Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
- Richard Kalich, The Nihilesthete
- Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934β2009), Cold Red Sunrise
- Joseph Kanon (born 1946), Los Alamos
- MacKinlay Kantor (1904β1977), Andersonville
- Vim KarΓ©nine (born 1935), O America!
- Jan Karon (born 1937), At Home in Mitford
- Alma Katsu (born 1959)
- Illana Katz (born 1948)
- John Katzenbach (born 1950), The Madman's Tale
- Janet Kauffman (born 1945), Collaborators
- Bel Kaufman (1911β2014), Up the Down Staircase
- Sue Kaufman (1926β1977), Diary of a Mad Housewife
- John Keeble (born 1944)
- Harry Stephen Keeler (1890β1967), The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
- Clarence Budington Kelland (1881β1964), Dangerous Angel
- Faye Kellerman (born 1952), The Ritual Bath
- Jesse Kellerman (born 1978), The Executor
- Jonathan Kellerman (born 1949), Flesh and Blood
- William Melvin Kelley (1937β2017), A Different Drummer
- Marjorie Kellogg (1922β2005), Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
- Nic Kelman
- Elmer Kelton (1926β2009), Buffalo Wagons
- Anna Kendrick (born 1985), Scrappy Little Nobody
- John P. Kennedy (1795β1870), Horse-Shoe Robinson
- William Kennedy (born 1928), Ironweed
- Camilla Kenyon (1876β1957), Spanish Doubloons
- Jack Kerouac (1922β1969), On the Road
- Ken Kesey (1935β2001), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Jack Ketchum (1946β2018), The Girl Next Door
- Daniel Keyes (1927β2014), Flowers for Algernon
- Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885β1970), Dinner at Antoine's
- Harriette A. Keyser (1841β1936)
- Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948), The Secret Life of Bees
- Kristy Kiernan
- Karen Kijewski (born 1943), Katwalk
- Haven Kimmel (born 1965), The Solace of Leaving Early
- Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Annie John
- Grace King (1852β1932), The Pleasant Ways of St. MΓ©dard
- 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
- Jeff Kinney (born 1971), Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Joseph Kirkland (1830β1894), Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
- Walter Kirn (born 1962), Thumbsucker
- James Kisner (1947β2008)
- Lisa Kleypas (born 1964), Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
- Fletcher Knebel (1911β1993), Seven Days in May (with Charles Bailey II)
- John Knowles (1926β2001), A Separate Peace
- Deborah Copaken Kogan (born 1966), The Red Book
- Manuel Komroff (1890β1974), Coronet
- Juliet Kono
- Dean Koontz (born 1945), Whispers
- Cyril Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl
- Jerzy Kosinski (1933β1991), Being There
- William Kotzwinkle (born 1943), The Fan Man
- Eric Kraft (born 1945), What a Piece of Work I Am
- Kieran Kramer
- Larry Kramer (1935β2020), Faggots
- William Krasner (1917β2003)
- Herbert Krause (1905β1976), The Thresher
- Jayne Ann Krentz (born 1948), Sharp Edges
- Gary Krist (born 1957), Extravagance
- Tom Kromer (1906β1969), Waiting for Nothing
- William Kent Krueger (born 1950), Ordinary Grace
- Jim Krusoe (born 1942), The Girl Factory
- R. F. Kuang (born 1996), Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
- Maxine Kumin (1925β2014), Through Dooms of Love
- Lynn Kurland
- Allen Kurzweil (born 1960), A Case of Curiosities
- Rachel Kushner (born 1968), The Flamethrowers
Lβ»
- Christopher La Farge (1897β1956), The Sudden Guest
- Oliver La Farge (1901β1963), Laughing Boy
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929β2018), The Left Hand of Darkness
- Mercedes Lackey (born 1950), Arrows of the Queen
- Ed Lacy (1911β1968), Room To Swing
- R. A. Lafferty (1914β2002), Past Master
- Tim LaHaye (1926β2016), Left Behind (with Jerry B. Jenkins)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), The Namesake
- Lori L. Lake (born 1960), Snow Moon Rising
- Harold Lamb (1892β1962), Marching Sands
- Wally Lamb (born 1950), She's Come Undone
- Anne Lamott (born 1954), Crooked Little Heart
- Louis L'Amour (1908β1988), Jubal Sackett
- Woodrow Landfair (born 1982), "Land Of The Free"
- Margaret Landon (1903β1993), Anna and the King of Siam
- W. Patrick Lang (born 1940), The Butcher's Cleaver
- Jane Langton (1922β2018), The Transcendental Murder
- Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951), The Bottoms
- Ring Lardner (1885β1933), You Know Me Al
- Jeremy Larner (born 1937), Drive, He Said
- Jeanne Larsen (born 1950), Silk Road
- Nella Larsen (1891β1964), Passing
- Robert Lasner
- Emma Lathen (Martha Hennissart (born 1929) and Mary Jane
Latsis (1927β1997)), Murder Against the Grain - Keith Laumer (1925β1993), The Infinite Cage
- Robert Lawson (1892β1957), Rabbit Hill
- David Leavitt (born 1961), The Lost Language of Cranes
- Lindsey Leavitt (born 1980)
- William Lederer (1912β2009), The Ugly American (with Eugene Burdick)
- Chang-Rae Lee (born 1965), Native Speaker
- Harper Lee (1926β2016), To Kill a Mockingbird
- Minnie Mary Lee (1825β1903)
- Peter Lefcourt (born 1941), The Dreyfus Affair
- Ella Leffland (born 1931), Rumors of Peace
- Dennis Lehane (born 1966), Mystic River
- Fritz Leiber (1910β1992), A Specter is Haunting Texas
- Murray Leinster (1896β1975), The Greks Bring Gifts
- Brad Leithauser (born 1953), Hence
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918β2007), A Wrinkle in Time
- F.J. Lennon (born 1964)
- J. Robert Lennon (born 1970), Mailman
- Elmore Leonard (1925β2013), Get Shorty
- JT LeRoy (Laura Albert) (born 1965), Sarah
- John Lescroart (born 1948), The Mercy Rule
- Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), Motherless Brooklyn
- Billie Letts (1938β2014), Where the Heart Is
- Jeremy Leven (born 1941), Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure
- Ira Levin (1929β2007), Rosemary's Baby
- Meyer Levin (1905β1981), Compulsion
- Paul Levine (born 1948), To Speak for the Dead
- Stacey Levine (born 19??), Frances Johnson
- Janet Lewis (1899β1998), The Wife of Martin Guerre
- Sinclair Lewis (1885β1951), Main Street
- Ludwig Lewisohn (1882β1955), The Case of Mr. Crump
- Patricia Lieb (born 1942)
- Alan Lightman (born 1948), Einstein's Dreams
- Doris Lilly (1926β1991)
- Sigrid de Lima (1921β1999), Carnival by the Sea
- Tao Lin (born 1983), Richard Yates
- Joseph C. Lincoln (1870β1944), Rugged Water
- Johanna Lindsey (1952β2019), Fires of Winter
- Elizabeth Linington (1921β1988), Knave of Hearts
- Elinor Lipman (born 1950), The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
- George Lippard (1822β1854), The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall
- Rosina Lippi (born 1956), Homestead
- Laura Lippman (born 1959), What the Dead Know
- Sam Lipsyte (born 1968), Home Land
- Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life
- David Liss (born 1966), A Conspiracy of Paper
- Robert Littell (born 1935), The Amateur
- Bentley Little (born 1960), The Revelation
- Liesel Litzenburger
- Harold Livingston (1924β2022), The Coasts of the Earth
- Ross Lockridge Jr. (1914β1948), Raintree County
- Patricia Lockwood (born 1982), No One Is Talking About This
- Saab Lofton
- Anne Logston (born 1962)
- Jack London (1876β1916), The Call of the Wild
- Frank Belknap Long (1901β1994), The Horror from the Hills
- Ki Longfellow (1944β2022), The Secret Magdalene
- Anita Loos (1893β1981), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Bret Lott (born 1958), Jewel
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890β1937), At the Mountains of Madness
- Maud Hart Lovelace (1892β1980) Early Candlelight
- Mrs. I. Lowenberg (1845β1924), The Voices
- Lois Lowry (born 1937), The Giver
- Robert Ludlum (1927β2001), The Bourne Identity
- Amy Lukavics Daughters Unto Devils
- Grace Lumpkin (1891β1980), To Make My Bread
- Alison Lurie (1926β2020), Foreign Affairs
- Anne Bozeman Lyon (1860β1936), No Saint
- Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902β1995), The Velvet Horn
Mβ»
- Sarah J. Maas (born 1986), A Court of Thorns and Roses
- John D. MacDonald (1916β1986), The Deep Blue Good-by
- Ross Macdonald (1915β1983), The Moving Target
- Bonnie MacDougal
- Harold MacGrath (1871β1932), The Man on the Box
- Joyce MacIver
- Pauline Bradford Mackie (1873-?)
- Jay MacLarty (1943β2010)
- Norman Maclean (1902β1990), A River Runs Through It
- Sarah MacLean (born 1978), A Rogue By Any Other Name
- Charlotte MacLeod (1922β2005), The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
- Ruth MacLeod (1903β1990), Cheryl Downing: School Nurse
- Susan Elia MacNeal (born 1968)
- Gregory Maguire (born 1954), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- Norman Mailer (1923β2007), The Naked and the Dead
- Charles Major (1856β1913), When Knighthood Was in Flower
- Rebecca Makkai (born 1978), The Great Believers
- Clarence Major (born 1936), Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
- Bernard Malamud (1914β1986), The Natural
- Thomas Mallon (born 1951), Henry and Clara
- Anne Mallory
- Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939), Beyond Apollo
- Frederick Manfred (1912β1994), Lord Grizzly
- David Manners (1900β1998)
- Lindsay Maracotta (born 1948)
- William March (1893β1954), The Bad Seed
- Marshall Ryan Maresca (born 1973)
- Dee Marie (born 19??), Sons of Avalon, Merlinβs Prophecy
- Margaret Maron (1938β2021), Bootlegger's Daughter
- John P. Marquand (1893β1960), The Late George Apley
- Carolyn Marsden (born 1950)
- Catherine Marshall (1914β1983), Christy
- Paule Marshall (1929β2019), Brown Girl, Brownstones
- George Madden Martin (1866β1946)
- George R. R. Martin (born 1948), A Game of Thrones
- Steve Martin (born 1945), Shopgirl
- Valerie Martin (born 1948), Mary Reilly
- Carole Maso (born 1955), Defiance
- Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940), In Country
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901β1978), Three Harbours
- Richard Matheson (1926β2013), I Am Legend
- Harry Mathews (1930β2017), The Conversions
- Francine Matthews (born 1963)
- Frank C. Matthews (born 1972)
- Peter Matthiessen (1927β2014), At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Armistead Maupin (born 1944), Tales of the City
- Evan Maxwell
- William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (1908β2000), Time Will Darken It
- Joyce Maynard (born 1953), To Die For
- Anne McCaffrey (1926β2011), Dragonflight
- Robert R. McCammon (born 1952), Boy's Life
- Cormac McCarthy (born 1933), All the Pretty Horses
- Mary McCarthy (1912β1989), The Group
- Ed McClanahan (1932β2021), Natural Man
- Jill McCorkle (born 1958), novelist and short story writer
- Horace McCoy (1897β1955), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Sarah McCoy (born 1980)
- Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966), The Giant's House
- Sharyn McCrumb (born 1948), The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
- Carson McCullers (1917β1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- George Barr McCutcheon (1866β1928), Brewster's Millions
- Alice McDermott (born 1953), Charming Billy
- Gregory Mcdonald (1937β2008), Fletch
- Joseph McElroy (born 1930), A Smuggler's Bible
- William McFee (1881β1966), Casuals of the Sea
- William P. McGivern (1918β1982), Blondes Die Young
- Thomas McGuane (born 1939), Nothing But Blue Skies
- Jay McInerney (born 1955), Bright Lights, Big City
- Claude McKay (1890β1948), Romance in Marseille
- Richard McKenna (1913β1964), The Sand Pebbles
- Patricia McKillip (1948β2022), The Riddle-Master of Hed
- Reginald McKnight (born 1956), He Sleeps
- Georgie A. Hulse McLeod (1827β1890)
- Patricia McLinn
- Janna McMahan
- James McManus (born 1951), Going to the Sun
- Terry McMillan (born 1951), Waiting to Exhale
- Larry McMurtry (1936β2021), Lonesome Dove
- Stephen W. Meader (1892β1977), Boy with a Pack
- Herman Melville (1819β1891), Moby-Dick
- Charles Mergendahl (1919β1959), The Bramble Bush
- Gordon Merrick (1916β1988), The Lord Won't Mind
- Barbara Mertz (1927β2013), Crocodile on the Sandbank
- Lynn Messina
- Claire Messud (born 1966), When the World Was Steady
- Grace Metalious (1924β1964), Peyton Place
- Philipp Meyer (born 1974),
- Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), Twilight
- Leonard Michaels (1933β2003), The Men's Club
- Oscar Micheaux (1884β1951)
- DeLaunΓ© Michel
- James A. Michener (1907β1997), Tales of the South Pacific
- Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller (1850β1937)
- Caroline Miller (1903β1992), Lamb in His Bosom
- Henry Miller (1891β1980), Tropic of Cancer
- Mary Miller
- May Merrill Miller (1894β1975)
- Rex Miller (1939β2004), Slob
- Sue Miller (born 1943), The Good Mother
- Susan Cummins Miller
- Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923β1996), A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Lydia Millet (born 1968), My Happy Life
- Steven Millhauser (born 1943), Martin Dressler
- David Milofsky
- Anchee Min (born 1957), Becoming Madame Mao
- Stephen Minot (1927β2010), Surviving the Flood
- Susan Minot (born 1956), Evening
- Meilin Miranda
- Jacquelyn Mitchard (born 1955), The Deep End of the Ocean
- Donald Grant Mitchell (1822β1908), Dr. Johns
- Margaret Mitchell (1900β1949), Gone with the Wind
- S. Weir Mitchell (1829β1914), Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
- Sam Moffie (born 1960)
- Carol Moldaw (born 1956)
- N. Scott Momaday (born 1934), House Made of Dawn
- Anne Shannon Monroe, (1873β1942), Feelin' Fine
- Adrienne Monson (born 1983)
- Martha Moody (born 1955)
- 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?
- Ruth Moore (1903β1989), Spoonhandle
- Susanna Moore (born 1947), In the Cut
- Ward Moore (1903β1978), Bring the Jubilee
- A. R. Morlan (1958β2016)
- Christopher Morley (1890β1957), Kitty Foyle
- Mary McGarry Morris (born 1943), Songs In Ordinary Time
- Rooster Morris (born 1955), Axle Galench and the Gate of No Return, Axle Galench in Search of Barnsfoggon
- Wright Morris (1910β1998), Plains Song
- Toni Morrison (1931β2019), Beloved
- Bradford Morrow (born 1951), Trinity Fields
- HonorΓ© Willsie Morrow (1880β1940), The Great Captain trilogy
- James K. Morrow (born 1947), Towing Jehovah
- Howard Frank Mosher (1942β2017), A Stranger in the Kingdom
- Ottessa Moshfegh (born 1981), My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Hannah Moskowitz (born 1991)
- Stefan Mosley (born 1952)
- Walter Mosley (born 1952), Devil in a Blue Dress
- Dow Mossman (born 1944), The Stones of Summer
- Willard Motley (1912β1965), Knock on Any Door
- Bharati Mukherjee (1940β2017), Jasmine
- Clarence E. Mulford (1883β1956), Hopalong Cassidy
- Marcia Muller (born 1944), Wolf in the Shadows
- Mary Noailles Murfree (1850β1922), The Amulet
- Sabina Murray (born 1968), A Carnivore's Inquiry
- John Myers Myers (1906β1988), Silverlock
- Anton Myrer (1922β1996), Once an Eagle
Nβ»
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899β1977), Lolita
- Robert Nathan (1894β1985), Portrait of Jennie
- Gloria Naylor (1950β2016), The Women of Brewster Place
- Shira Nayman (born 1960)
- John Neal (1793β1876), Rachel Dyer: a North American Story
- Antonya Nelson (born 1961), Talking in Bed
- Howard Nemerov (1920β1991), The Homecoming Game
- Arthur Nersesian (born 1958), The Fuck-Up
- Katherine Neville (born 1945), The Eight
- Fae Myenne Ng (born 1957), Bone
- John Nichols (born 1940), The Milagro Beanfield War
- Kerry Nietz
- AnaΓ―s Nin (1903β1977), A Spy in the House of Love
- Larry Niven (born 1938), Ringworld
- Lewis Nordan (1939β2012), The Sharpshooter Blues
- Charles Nordhoff (1887β1947), 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 (1881β1945), Bricks Without Straw
- Frank Norris (1870β1902), McTeague
- Kathleen Norris (1880β1966), Second Hand Wife
- Harold Norse (1916β2009), Beat Hotel
- Andre Norton (1912β2005), The Witch World
- Craig Nova (born 1945), The Good Son
- Josip Novakovich (born 1956), April Fool's Day
- Mark Nykanen
Oβ»
- Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), them
- Tim O'Brien (born 1946), Going After Cacciato
- Edwin O'Connor (1918β1968), The Last Hurrah
- Flannery O'Connor (1925β1964), The Violent Bear It Away
- Varley O'Connor
- Shawn Thomas Odyssey
- Marie Conway Oemler (1879β1932)
- Chris Offutt (born 1958), The Good Brother
- Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952), writes as Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm
- John O'Hara (1905β1970), Appointment in Samarra
- Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971), Free Burning
- Daniel Olivas (born 1959), The Book of Want
- Lauren Oliver (born 1982), Delirium
- Robert Olmstead (born 1954), A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go
- Stewart O'Nan (born 1961), The Speed Queen
- Tommy Orange (born 1982), There There
- Terry Oroszi (born 1966)
- Julie Orringer (born 1973), The Invisible Bridge
- Martha Ostenso (1900β1963), Wild Geese
- Fannie Ostrander (1859β1921)
- Vincent O'Sullivan (1869β1940), The Green Window
- Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861β1937), An Artist in Crime
- Iris Owens (1929β2008), After Claude
- Janis Owens (born 1960)
- Ruth Ozeki (born 1956), A Tae for the Time Being
- Cynthia Ozick (born 1928), The Puttermesser Papers
Pβ»
- Alison Pace
- William C. Pack
- William Packard (1933β2002), Saturday Night at San Marcos
- Thomas Nelson Page (1853β1952), On Newfound River
- Michelle Paisley
- Bernadette Pajer, Professor Bradshaw Mysteries
- Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), Fight Club
- Allison Pang
- Edgar Pangborn (1909β1976), Davy
- Alexei Panshin (born 1940), Rite of Passage
- Christopher Paolini (born 1983), The Inheritance Cycle
- Sara Paretsky (born 1947), Indemnity Only
- Jay Parini (born 1948), The Last Station
- Jane Marsh Parker (1836β1913), The Midnight Cry
- Robert B. Parker (1932β2010), Crimson Joy
- T. Jefferson Parker (born 1953), Laguna Heat
- Anne Parrish (1888β1957), The Perennial Bachelor
- Ann Patchett (born 1963), Bel Canto
- James Patterson (born 1947), Along Came a Spider
- Lisa Patton (born 1958) Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
- Paul Jessup (born 1977),
- Elliot Paul (1891β1958), Concert Pitch
- James Kirke Paulding (1778β1860), The Dutchman's Fireside
- Gary Paulsen (1939β2021), Hatchet
- Bill Pearson (born 1938), Drifter's Detour
- Ridley Pearson (born 1953), Undercurrents
- T. R. Pearson (born 1956), Blue Ridge
- Howard Pease (1894β1974), The Tod Moran Mysteries
- Robert Newton Peck (1928β2020), A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Laura Pedersen (born 1965), Hallie Palmer
- Ern Pedler (1914β1989)
- Janet Peery (born 195?), The River Beyond the World
- Don Pendleton (1927β1995), War Against the Mafia
- Walker Percy (1916β1990), The Moviegoer
- Frank E. Peretti (born 1951), This Present Darkness
- Marisha Pessl (born 1977), Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Julia Peterkin (1880β1961), Scarlet Sister Mary
- Ann Petry (1931β1997), The Narrows
- Arthur Phillips (born 1969), Prague
- David Graham Phillips (1867β1911), Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
- Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952), Machine Dreams
- Hannah Maynard Pickard (1812β1844)
- Jodi Picoult (born 1966), The Pact
- Marge Piercy (born 1936), He, She And It
- Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824β1898), Ida May
- Darryl Pinckney (born 1953), High Cotton
- Josephine Pinckney (1895β1957), Three O'Clock Dinner
- Daniel Pinkwater (born 1941), The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- H. Beam Piper (1904β1964), Little Fuzzy
- Sylvia Plath (1932β1963), The Bell Jar
- George Plimpton (1927β2003), The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
- Michael Pocalyko (born 1954), The Navigator
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809β1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- Frederik Pohl (1919β2013), Gateway
- Donald Ray Pollock (born 1954), The Devil All the Time
- Darryl Ponicsan (born 1938), The Last Detail
- Ernest Poole (1880β1950), His Family
- William Lee Popham (1885β1953)
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868β1920), Pollyanna
- Katherine Anne Porter (1890β1980), Ship of Fools
- Rose Porter (1845β1906), Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire
- Charles Portis (1933β2020), True Grit
- Melville Davisson Post (1871β1930), The Nameless Thing
- Chaim Potok (1929β2002), The Chosen
- Jean Potts (1910β1999), Go, Lovely Rose
- Jerry Pournelle (1933β2017), The Endless Frontier
- Dawn Powell (1896β1965), The Wicked Pavilion
- Padgett Powell (born 1952), Edisto
- Richard P. Powell (1908β1999), The Philadelphian
- J. F. Powers (1917β1999), Morte d'Urban
- Richard Powers (born 1957), The Gold Bug Variations
- Emily Prager (born 1952), Clea & Zeus Divorce
- Theodore Pratt (1901β1969), Mr. Limpet
- Douglas Preston (born 1956), Relic
- Charles F. Price (born 1938)
- Eugenia Price (1916β1996), The Beloved Invader
- Nicholas A. Price (born 1962), Adventures in Trichology
- Reynolds Price (1933β2011), Kate Vaiden
- Richard Price (born 1949), Freedomland
- Joseph Di Prisco
- Frederic Prokosch (1908β1989), 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 (1882β1974), Stella Dallas
- James Purdy (1923β2009), Cabot Wright Begins
- Mario Puzo (1920β1999), The Godfather
- Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), Gravity's Rainbow
Qβ»
- Qiu Xiaolong (born 1953), Death of a Red Heroine
- Jamie Quatro
- Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay (1905β1982) and
Manfred B. Lee (1905β1971)), The Greek Coffin Mystery - John Herbert Quick (1861β1925), Vandemark's Folly
- Anna Quindlen (born 1952), Black and Blue
- Daniel Quinn (1935β2018), Ishmael
- Julia Quinn (born 1970), The Duke and I
- Kate Quinn, The Alice Network
- Sally Quinn (born 1941) "Regrets Only"
Rβ»
- Kris Radish (born 1953)
- Lulah Ragsdale (1861β1953), Miss Dulcie from Dixie
- Ayn Rand (1905β1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Alice Randall (born 1959), The Wind Done Gone
- Rebecca Rasmussen
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896β1953), The Yearling
- Wilson Rawls (1913β1984), Where the Red Fern Grows
- Chet Raymo (born 1936), The Dork of Cork
- John Rechy (born 1931), City of Night
- Jaclyn Reding (born 1966), The Secret Gift
- Ishmael Reed (born 1938), Mumbo Jumbo
- Arthur B. Reeve (1880β1936), Craig Kennedy Listens In
- Ben Rehder
- Kathy Reichs (born 1950), DΓ©jΓ Dead
- Thomas Mayne Reid (1818β1883), The Rifle Rangers
- Emma May Alexander Reinertsen (1853β1920), Five Cousins in California
- Amanda Renee
- Nina Revoyr (born 1969), Southland
- Sheri Reynolds (born 1967), The Rapture of Canaan
- Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869β1934), Bransford in Arcadia
- Anne Rice (1941β2021), Interview with the Vampire
- Craig Rice (1908β1957), The Corpse Steps Out
- E. J. Richmond (1825β1918), The Jewelled Serpent
- Conrad Richter (1890β1968), The Town
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876β1958), The Circular Staircase
- Caris Roane
- Ronald Clair Roat (1946β2013)
- Harold Robbins (1916β1997), The Carpetbaggers
- Tom Robbins (born 1936), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881β1941), The Great Meadow
- Kenneth Roberts (1885β1957), Northwest Passage
- Nora Roberts (born 1950), Irish Thoroughbred
- Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), Red Mars
- Marilynne Robinson (born 1943), Housekeeping
- Mary Robison (born 1949), Why Did I Ever
- Lucia St. Clair Robson (born 1942), Ride the Wind
- Tony R. Rodriguez
- Edward Payson Roe (1838β1888), Barriers Burned Away
- Lettie Hamlet Rogers (1917β1957)
- Joel Townsley Rogers (1896β1984), The Red Right Hand
- Sharon Carter Rogers
- Adelaide Day Rollston (1854β1941)
- O. E. RΓΈlvaag (1876β1931), Giants in the Earth
- Judith Rossner (1935β2005), Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Leo Rosten (1908β1997), Captain Newman, M.D.
- Henry Roth (1906β1995), Call It Sleep
- Philip Roth (1933β2018), Portnoy's Complaint
- Veronica Roth (born 1988), Divergent
- Susanna Rowson (1762β1824), Charlotte Temple
- S. J. Rozan (born 1950), Winter and Night
- Robert Ruark (1915β1965), Uhuru
- Jack Rudloe (born 1943), Potluck
- Rudy Ruiz, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez: A Novel
- Norman Rush (born 1933), Mating
- Rebecca Rush (1779β1850), Kelroy
- Joanna Russ (1937β2011), The Female Man
- Karen Russell (born 1981), Swamplandia!
- Gerri Russell (born 1962), The Warrior Trainer
- Mary Doria Russell (born 1950), The Sparrow
- Richard Russo (born 1949), Empire Falls
- Carl Hancock Rux, Asphalt
- Marah Ellis Ryan (1860β1934), Told in the Hills
Sβ»
- Seth Grahame-Smith (born 1976)
- Hubert Selby Jr. (1928β2004), Last Exit to Brooklyn
- Noel Everingham Sainsbury (1884β1955)
- J. D. Salinger (1919β2010), The Catcher in the Rye
- James Sallis (born 1944), Long-Legged Fly
- James Salter (1925β2015), A Sport and a Pastime
- Edgar Saltus (1855β1921), Mr. Incoul's Misadventure
- Lawrence Sanders (1920β1998), The Anderson Tapes
- Brandon Sanderson (born 1975), Mistborn
- John Sandford (born 1944), Rules of Prey
- Mari Sandoz (1896β1966), Slogum House
- William Saroyan (1908β1981), The Human Comedy
- May Sarton (1912β1995), Faithful are the Wounds
- Richard Satterlie
- John Saul (born 1942), Suffer the Children
- George Saunders (born 1958), The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
- Willard Savoy (1916β1976)
- John Sayles (born 1950), Pride of the Bimbos
- Jack Schaefer (1907β1991), Shane
- Rebecca Scherm
- Cathleen Schine (born 1953), Rameau's Niece
- Mark Schorer (1908β1977), A House Too Old
- Melissa Schroeder
- Budd Schulberg (1914β2009), What Makes Sammy Run?
- Christine Schutt (born 19??), All Souls
- Victoria Schwab (born 1987), Vicious
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born 1939), Disturbances in the Field
- Sandra Scofield (born 1943), Beyond Deserving
- Sandra Scoppettone (born 1936), Suzuki Beane
- Daniel Scott (born 1963), Valedictory
- Evelyn Scott (1893β1963), A Calendar of Sin
- Joanna Scott (born 1960), The Manikin
- Allan Seager (1906β1968), Amos Berry
- Molly Elliot Seawell (1860β1916), The House of Egremont
- Alice Sebold (born 1963), The Lovely Bones
- Catharine Sedgwick (1789β1867), Hope Leslie
- Carolyn See (1934β2016), Making History
- Erich Segal (1937β2010), Love Story
- Lore Segal (born 1928), Other People's Houses
- Danzy Senna (born 1970), Caucasia (novel)
- Richard Setlowe
- Anya Seton (1904β1990), Green Darkness
- Mary Lee Settle (1918β2005), Blood Tie
- Elizabeth Sewell (1919β2001)
- Michael Shaara (1928β1988), The Killer Angels
- Laurence Shames (born 1951), Florida Straits
- Ntozake Shange (1948β2018), Betsey Brown
- Emma Augusta Sharkey (1858β1902), The Richmond Secret
- Akhil Sharma (born 1971), An Obedient Father
- Irwin Shaw (1913β1984), Rich Man, Poor Man
- Robert Shea (1933β1994), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Anton Wilson)
- Amy Shearn (born 1979)
- Wilfrid Sheed (1930β2011), Square's Progress
- Anna Sheehan
- Sidney Sheldon (1917β2007), The Naked Face
- Samuel Shellabarger (1888β1954), Captain from Castile
- Jim Shepard (born 1956), Lights Out in the Reptile House
- Carol Shields (1935β2003), The Stone Diaries
- Anita Shreve (1946β2018), 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 (1936β2019), Peachtree Road
- Clancy Sigal (1926β2017), Going Away
- Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948), Ceremony
- Robert Silverberg (born 1935), A Time of Changes
- Clifford D. Simak (1904β1988), City
- Dan Simmons (born 1948), Hyperion
- William Gilmore Simms (1806β1870), The Sword and the Distaff
- Mona Simpson (born 1957), Anywhere But Here
- Elizabeth Sims (born 1957), Damn Straight
- Upton Sinclair (1878β1968), The Jungle
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902β1991), Enemies, a Love Story
- Israel Joshua Singer (1893β1944), The Brothers Ashkenazi
- Joan Slonczewski (born 1956), A Door into Ocean
- Jane Smiley (born 1949), A Thousand Acres
- Betty Smith (1896β1972), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- E. E. Smith (1890β1965), First Lensman
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806β1893), The Western Captive
- Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838β1915), Colonel Carter of Cartersville
- H. Allen Smith (1907β1976), Rhubarb
- Haywood Smith
- Katy Simpson Smith (born 1985)
- Lee Smith (born 1944), Fair and Tender Ladies
- Thorne Smith (1892β1934), Topper
- Charles A. Smythwick
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927β2014), The Headless Cupid
- Paul Spencer Sochaczewski (born 1947), Redheads
- Susan Sontag (1933β2004), In America
- Virginia Sorensen (1912β1991), On This Star
- Christopher Sorrentino (born 1963), Trance
- Gilbert Sorrentino (1929β2006), Mulligan Stew
- Gary Soto (born 1952), Buried Onions
- Terry Southern (1924β1995), The Magic Christian
- E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819β1899), The Hidden Hand
- W. M. Spackman (1905β1980), An Armful of Warm Girl
- Joshua Spanogle
- R. Clifton Spargo
- Frank H. Spearman (1859β1937), Whispering Smith
- Scott Spencer (born 1945), Endless Love
- Mickey Spillane (1918β2006), I, the Jury
- Norman Spinrad (born 1940), The Iron Dream
- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835β1921), Sir Rohan's Ghost
- David Derek Stacton (1925β1968), On a Balcony
- Jean Stafford (1915β1979), Boston Adventure
- Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth
- Clinton H. Stagg (1888β1916)
- Jason Starr (born 1966), The Follower
- Kai Starr
- Danielle Steel (born 1947), Family Album
- Wallace Stegner (1909β1993), Angle of Repose
- Gertrude Stein (1874β1946), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- John Steinbeck (1902β1968), The Grapes of Wrath
- Darcey Steinke (born 1964), Jesus Saves
- Ann Sophia Stephens (1810β1886), Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
- Harold Stephens (1926β2021), Who Needs A Road?
- Neal Stephenson (born 1959), Snow Crash
- Bruce Sterling (born 1954), Islands in the Net
- Richard G. Stern (1928β2013), Golk
- Steve Stern, The Angel of Forgetfulness
- Brooke Stevens, Tattoo Girl
- George R. Stewart (1895β1980), Earth Abides
- Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855β1943), The Crime of Henry Vane
- R. L. Stine (born 1943), Monster Blood
- Frank R. Stockton (1834β1902), Rudder Grange
- Mary Stolz (1920β2006), The Edge of Next Year
- Grace Zaring Stone (1891β1991), The Bitter Tea of General Yen
- Irving Stone (1903β1989), The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Robert Stone (1937β2015), Dog Soldiers
- Phil Stong (1899β1957), State Fair
- Hans Otto Storm (1895β1941), Pity the Tyrant
- Rex Stout (1886β1975), Fer-de-Lance
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811β1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Edward Stratemeyer (1862β1930), The Rover Boys At School
- Gene Stratton-Porter (1863β1924), A Girl of the Limberlost
- Peter Straub (born 1943), Ghost Story
- Darin Strauss (born 1970), The Real McCoy
- Edward Streeter (1891β1976), Father of the Bride
- John Strelecky (born 1969), The Big Five For Life - Leadership's Greatest Secret
- T. S. Stribling (1881β1965), The Store
- Elizabeth Strout (born 1956), Amy and Isabelle
- Jesse Stuart (1906β1984), Taps for Private Tussie
- Theodore Sturgeon (1918β1985), More Than Human
- William Styron (1925β2006), The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Ronald Sukenick (1932β2004), Up
- Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890β1970), Quality
- Jacqueline Susann (1918β1974), Valley of the Dolls
- Van Tassel Sutphen (1861β1945)
- Harvey Swados (1920β1972), Out Went the Candle
- Glendon Swarthout (1918β1992), The Shootist
Tβ»
- Gladys Taber (1899β1980), Stillmeadow books
- Karin Tabke
- Michael Talbot (1953β1992), The Bog
- Elizabeth Tallent (born 1954), Museum Pieces
- Amy Tan (born 1952), The Joy Luck Club
- Booth Tarkington (1869β1946), The Magnificent Ambersons
- Donna Tartt (born 1963), The Secret History
- Bayard Taylor (1825β1878), Hanna Thurston
- Kathrine Taylor (1903β1996), Address Unknown
- Peter Taylor (1917β1994), A Summons to Memphis
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909β1976), The Cape Cod Mystery
- Robert Lewis Taylor (1912β1998), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- William Tenn (1920β2010), Of Men and Monsters
- Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762β1837),
- Mary Virginia Terhune (1830β1922), Alone
- Kathleen Tessaro (born 1965), Rare Objects
- Walter Tevis (1928β1984), The Hustler
- Steve Thayer (born 1953)
- Paul Theroux (born 1941), The Mosquito Coast
- Alexander Tetelbaum (born 1948), Omerta Operations
- Angie Thomas (born 1988), The Hate U Give
- Clara M. Thompson (1830s - unknown)
- Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795β1868), The Green Mountain Boys
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937β2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Jim Thompson (1906β1977), The Killer Inside Me
- Maurice Thompson (1844β1901), Alice of Old Vincennes
- Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957), Meteors in August
- James Thurber (1894β1961), The 13 Clocks
- Marian Thurm (born 1952)
- Wallace Thurman (1902β1934), The Blacker the Berry
- Ernest Tidyman (1928β1984), Shaft
- Ronald Tierney (1944β2017)
- Meg Tilly
- Ada Josephine Todd (1858β1904), The Vacation Club
- Caroline and Charles Todd
- John Kennedy Toole (1937β1969), A Confederacy of Dunces
- Jane Toombs (died 2014)
- Jean Toomer (1894β1967), Cane
- Joseph Torchia (1948β1996)
- Aaron Louis Tordini
- Alessandra Torre
- Nick Tosches (1949β2019), In the Hand of Dante
- Paul A. Toth
- Albion W. TourgΓ©e (1838β1905), A Fool's Errand
- Arthur Train (1875β1945), Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt
- Clara Augusta Jones Trask (1839β1905) Patience Pettigrew's perplexities
- Lawrence Treat (1903β1998), V as in Victim
- Trevanian (1931β2005), The Eiger Sanction
- Emma Trevayne
- Calvin Trillin (born 1935), Runestruck
- Dalton Trumbo (1905β1976), Johnny Got His Gun
- Danielle Trussoni (1973), "Angelology"
- George Tucker (1775β1861), A Voyage to the Moon
- John R. Tunis (1889β1975), The Kid From Tomkinsville
- Scott Turow (born 1949), Presumed Innocent
- Harry Turtledove (born 1949), In the Balance
- Mark Twain (1835β1910), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Anne Tyler (born 1941), The Accidental Tourist
- Royall Tyler (1757β1826), The Algerine Captive
- Temra Costa
Uβ»
- Brady Udall (born c. 1971), The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
- Dorothy Uhnak (1933β2006), The Bait
- James Michael Ullman (1925β1997), The Neon Haystack
- James Ramsey Ullman (1907β1971)
- Douglas Unger (born 1952), Leaving the Land
- John Updike (1932β2009), Rabbit, Run
- Leon Uris (1924β2003), Exodus
- LuΓs Alberto Urrea (born 1955), In Search of Snow
- Lois Utz (1932β1986)
Vβ»
- S. S. Van Dine (1888β1939), The Benson Murder Case
- Andrew Vachss (1942β2021), Flood
- Roberto Valero (1955β1994)
- Jack Vance (1916β2013), The Killing Machine
- Louis Joseph Vance (1879β1933), The Lone Wolf
- John Varley (born 1947), The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Michael Vatikiotis (born 1957)
- Gore Vidal (1925β2012), Burr
- Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked
- Gerald Vizenor (born 1934), Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart
- William T. Vollmann (born 1959), Europe Central
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922β2007), Slaughterhouse-Five
Wβ»
- David Wagoner (1926β2021), The Escape Artist
- Alice Walker (born 1944), The Color Purple
- Margaret Walker (1915β1998), Jubilee
- David Foster Wallace (1962β2008), Infinite Jest
- Irving Wallace (1916β1990), The Fan Club
- Lew Wallace (1827β1905), Ben-Hur
- Edward Lewis Wallant (1926β1962), The Tenants of Moonbloom
- Robert James Waller (1939β2017), The Bridges of Madison County
- Douglass Wallop (1920β1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
- Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937), The Choirboys
- Walter Wangerin Jr. (1944β2017), The Book of the Dun Cow
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844β1911), The Gates Ajar
- Jesmyn Ward (born 1977), Salvage the Bones
- William Ware (1797β1852), Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra
- Catherine Anne Warfield (1816β1877), The Household of Bouverie
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829β1900), The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)
- Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890β1979), The Boxcar Children
- Susan Warner (1819β1895), The Wide, Wide World
- Kimberly Warner-Cohen (born 1978)
- Robert Penn Warren (1905β1989), All the King's Men
- Larry Watson (born 1947), Montana 1948
- Kate Watterson
- Hillary Waugh (1920β2008), Last Seen Wearing...
- John Van Alstyne Weaver (1893β1938)
- Will Weaver (born 1950), Red Earth, White Earth
- Charles Webb (1939β2020), The Graduate
- Katharine Weber (born 1955), Triangle
- Jean Webster (1876β1916), Daddy-Long-Legs
- Theodore Weesner (1935β2015), The Car Thief
- Jerome Weidman (1913β1998), I Can Get It for You Wholesale
- James Welch (1940β2003), Fools Crow
- Manly Wade Wellman (1903β1986), The Old Gods Waken
- Rebecca Wells (born 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Eudora Welty (1909β2001), The Optimist's Daughter
- Glenway Wescott (1901β1987), The Grandmothers
- Debbie Lee Wesselmann
- Dorothy West (1907β1998), The Living Is Easy
- Jessamyn West (1902β1984), The Massacre at Fall Creek
- Nathanael West (1903β1940), The Day of the Locust
- Paul West (1930β2015), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
- Donald E. Westlake (1933β2008), God Save the Mark
- Edith Wharton (1862β1937), The Age of Innocence
- William Wharton (1925β2008), Birdy
- E. B. White (1899β1985), Charlotte's Web
- Edmund White (born 1940), A Boy's Own Story
- Randy Wayne White (born 1950), Sanibel Flats
- Stewart Edward White (1873β1946), The Claim Jumpers
- Colson Whitehead (born 1969), The Intuitionist
- Brand Whitlock (1869β1934), The Turn of the Balance
- Phyllis A. Whitney (1903β2008), The Mystery of the Haunted Pool
- Edward Whittemore (1933β1995), Sinai Tapestry
- John Edgar Wideman (born 1941), Philadelphia Fire
- Elie Wiesel (1928β2016), Twilight
- Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856β1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Marianne Wiggins (born 1947), Evidence of Things Unseen
- James Wilcox (born 1949), Modern Baptists
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867β1957), Little House on the Prairie
- Thornton Wilder (1897β1975), The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Kate Wilhelm (1928β2018), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Christopher Willard (born 1960), Garbage Head
- Charles Willeford (1919β1988), Miami Blues
- Alicia D. Williams (born 1970), Genesis Begins Again
- Ben Ames Williams (1889β1953), House Divided
- John A. Williams (1925β2015), The Man Who Cried I Am
- John Williams (1922β1994), Stoner
- Joy Williams (born 1944), State of Grace
- Philip Lee Williams (born 1950), Elegies for the Water
- Tennessee Williams (1911β1983), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Thomas Williams (1926β1990), The Hair of Harold Roux
- Jack Williamson (1908β2006), The Humanoid Touch
- Calder Willingham (1922β1995), End As a Man
- Connie Willis (born 1945), Doomsday Book
- Harriet E. Wilson (1825β1900), Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
- Harry Leon Wilson (1867β1919), Ruggles of Red Gap
- Margaret Wilson (1882β1973), The Able McLaughlins
- Robert Anton Wilson (1932β2007), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
- Sloan Wilson (1920β2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Mark Winegardner (born 1961), Crooked River Burning
- Crystal Lacey Winslow
- Don Winslow (born 1953), The Power of the Dog
- Theodore Winthrop (1828β1861), John Brent
- Owen Wister (1860β1938), The Virginian
- Larry Woiwode (1941β2022), Beyond the Bedroom Wall
- Emma Wolf (1865β1932), A Prodigal in Love
- Gene Wolfe (1931β2019), The Book of the New Sun
- Thomas Wolfe (1900β1938), Look Homeward, Angel
- Tom Wolfe (1931β2018), 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
- Ramsay Wood (born 1943), Kalila and Dimna
- Daniel Woodrell (born 1953), Give Us a Kiss
- Samuel Woodworth (1784β1842), The Champions of Freedom
- Cornell Woolrich (1903β1968), The Bride Wore Black
- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840β1894), For the Major
- Herman Wouk (1915β2019), The Caine Mutiny
- Austin Tappan Wright (1883β1931), Islandia
- Ernest Vincent Wright (c. 1873β1939), Gadsby
- Harold Bell Wright (1872β1944), The Shepherd of the Hills
- Kirby Wright (born 1955), Punahou Blues
- Mary Tappan Wright (1851β1917), Aliens
- Richard Wright (1908β1960), Native Son
- Stephen Wright (born 1946), The Amalgamation Polka
Xβ»
- Xu Xi (born 1954), The Unwalled City
Yβ»
- 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 Rain Forest
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942), Hotel Transylvania
- Steve Yarbrough (born 1956), The Oxygen Man
- Richard Yates (1926β1992), Revolutionary Road
- Frank Yerby (1916β1991), Judas, My Brother
- Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880β1970), Bread Givers
- Rafael Yglesias (born 1954), Fearless
- Mako Yoshikawa (born 1966), One Hundred and One Ways
- Al Young (1939β2021), Ask Me Now
- Stark Young (1881β1963), So Red the Rose
- Michele Young-Stone
Zβ»
- Rafi Zabor (born 1946), The Bear Comes Home
- Roger Zelazny (1937β1995), Lord of Light
- Paul Zindel (1936β2003), The Pigman
- Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper
- Leane Zugsmith (1903β1969), All Victories Are Alike
See alsoβ»
- "The Great American Novel"
- American literature
- Lists of writers
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918β1947)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1948 to present)
- National Book Award
- Bestsellers
- Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States (The top ten each year from 1900 to 2008)
Referencesβ»
- Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000)
- Specific
- ^ "Drawbridge Press: Publisher of Jonathan Bayliss". Drawbridge Press.
- ^ "Ann Fairbairn, Author, Was 70". The New York Times. February 11, 1972. Retrieved March 18, 2018.