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French-language American writers

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Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
Julien Green
American author (1900–1998)
Ève Curie
writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)
Jonathan Littell
American-French writer
Lhasa de Sela
Mexican-American singer who gained fame in Montreal, Canada
Etel Adnan
Lebanese-American writer and artist (1925-2021)
Susan George
American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer (1934-2026)
Stuart Merrill
American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language (1863-1915)
Nathalie Handal
American writer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
French writer (1735-1813)
Trinh Xuan Thuan
Vietnamese-American astrophysicist
Harry Mathews
American author (1930 – 2017)
Charles Chaillé-Long
American explorer (1842–1917)
Francis Vielé-Griffin
French symbolist poet (1864-1937)
Josaphat-Robert Large
Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic (1942-2017)
Sidonie de la Houssaye
American writer (1820–1894)
Victor Séjour
French writer (1817–1874)
Raymond Federman
Novelist, poet, critic, translator, academic (1928–2009)
Beverly Matherne
American writer
James Harden-Hickey
Franco-American author, newspaper editor, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince
André Schiffrin
American book publisher (1935–2013)
Charles Gayarré
American politician (1805-1895)
Louis Wolfson
American writer
Howard Buten
American psychologist and clown (1950-2025)
Pierre Joris
Luxembourg-American poet, translator, anthologist and essayist
Édouard Dessommes
American French language writer
Georges Dessommes
American writer
Alcée Fortier
American philologist and folklorist (1856–1914)
Judith Cabaud
American-born French writer and musicologist
Francis Xavier Weninger
Austrian jesuit (1805–1888)