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Pearl S. Buck
American writer (1892–1973)
Margaret Mitchell
American author and journalist (1900–1949)
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
James Fenimore Cooper
American writer (1789–1851)
Gore Vidal
American writer (1925–2012)
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Robert E. Howard
American author (1906–1936)
Richard Matheson
American fiction writer (1926–2013)
James A. Michener
American author (1907-1997)
Lew Wallace
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)
Irving Stone
American writer (1903–1989)
Louis L'Amour
American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
novelist, short story writer, academic
Howard Fast
American novelist (1914–2003)
Leon Uris
American author (1924–2003)
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
Diana Gabaldon
American author (born 1952)
Jean M. Auel
American novelist of Finnish descent
Tracy Chevalier
American writer
John Dickson Carr
American writer (1906–1977)
Bernard Cornwell
British writer
Naomi Novik
American writer
Edwidge Danticat
Novelist, short story writer, memoirist
L. Sprague de Camp
American non- and speculative fiction writer
Harry Turtledove
American author (born 1949)
Robert W. Chambers
American artist, novelist, short story writer (1865–1933)
Sarah Orne Jewett
American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849–1909)
Elizabeth Kostova
American writer
Steven Pressfield
American screenwriter and novelist (1943-)
Gertrude Atherton
American author (1857–1948)
Scott O'Dell
American children's writer (1898–1989)
Norman Spinrad
American science fiction writer and critic (born 1940)
Laurie Halse Anderson
American children's writer
Winston Churchill
American novelist (1871–1947)
Taylor Caldwell
American novelist (1900–1985)
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter (1904-1977)
John Jakes
American historical novelist and fantasy writer (1932–2023)
William Gilmore Simms
American writer (1806–1870)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
American novelist and short story writer (born 1948)
Lloyd C. Douglas
American novelist (1877–1951)
Francis Marion Crawford
Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
American novelist, short story writer, poet, children's author (1852-1930)
Gary Jennings
American novelist (1928–1999)
Frederick Schiller Faust
American novelist, and short story writer (1892–1944)
Hervey Allen
American novelist, biographer (1889–1949)
Conrad Richter
American novelist (1890–1968)
Harold Lamb
American historian and novelist (1892–1962)
Thomas Dixon Jr.
American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and white supremacist writer (1864–1946)
Charles Frazier
American novelist
Barbara Mertz
American novelist and Egyptologist (1927–2013)
Julie Otsuka
American writer
Mary Doria Russell
American novelist
Michael Shaara
American writer (1928–1988)
Barbara Hambly
American fiction writer
John Neal
American writer (1793–1876)
Robert Shea
American novelist and journalist (1933–1994)
Chris Stewart
author, politician
Barbara Chase-Riboud
African American artist (born 1939)