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1. 894 relations: A Canticle for Leibowitz, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Door into Ocean, A Farewell to Arms, A Game of Thrones, A River Runs Through It (novel), A Separate Peace, A Spy in the House of Love, A Summons to Memphis, A Time of Changes, A Trip to the Moon, A Wrinkle in Time, A. B. Guthrie Jr., About Schmidt, Abraham Cahan, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Advise and Consent, Aimee Bender, Alan Dean Foster, Alan Furst, Alan Lightman, Alex Haley, Alexei Panshin, Alfred Bester, Alice Hoffman, Alice McDermott, Alice Walker, Alison Lurie, All This, and Heaven Too, Allen Drury, American Civil War, American literature, American Psycho, Amy Tan, An American Tragedy, Anaïs Nin, Andre Norton, Andrew Vachss, Angle of Repose, Anita Loos, Ann Petry, Anna Katharine Green, Anna Quindlen, Anne Lamott, Anne McCaffrey, Anne Tyler, Annie Proulx, Anthony Adverse, Anthony Boucher, Anya Seton, ... Expand index (844 more) » « Shrink index

2. American novelists
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4. Lists of novelists by nationality

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.

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A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death.

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A Door into Ocean

A Door into Ocean is a 1986 feminist science fiction novel by Joan Slonczewski.

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A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.

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A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin.

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A River Runs Through It (novel)

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) published in 1976.

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A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1958.

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A Spy in the House of Love

A Spy in the House of Love is a 1954 novel by Anaïs Nin.

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A Summons to Memphis

A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987.

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A Time of Changes

A Time of Changes is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg.

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A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès.

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle.

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A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories.

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About Schmidt

About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson in the title role.

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Abraham Cahan

Abraham "Abe" Cahan (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם קאַהאַן; July 7, 1860 – August 31, 1951) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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Advise and Consent

Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence that the nominee had been a member of the Communist Party.

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Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters.

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Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction.

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Alan Furst

Alan Furst (born 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels.

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Alan Lightman

Alan Paige Lightman (born November 28, 1948) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur.

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.

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Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin (August 14, 1940 – August 21, 2022) was an American writer and science fiction critic.

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Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics.

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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name.

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Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor.

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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.

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Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic.

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All This, and Heaven Too

All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 American drama film released by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer.

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Allen Drury

Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it.

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American Psycho

American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.

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Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.

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An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser.

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Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.

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Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction.

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Andrew Vachss

Andrew Henry Vachss (October 19, 1942 – November 23, 2021) was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.

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Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents.

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Anita Loos

Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Ann Petry

Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism.

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Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist.

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Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

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Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.

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Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

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Annie Proulx

Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland.

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Anthony Boucher

William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dramas.

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Anya Seton

Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels".

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Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.

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Appointment in Samarra

Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by American writer John O'Hara (1905–1970).

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is a middle-grade novel by American writer Judy Blume, published in 1970.

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Armistead Maupin

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

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Arna Bontemps

Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Arthur B. Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 – August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer.

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At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931.

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August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist.

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Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade is a 1955 novel by American author Patrick Dennis chronicling the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his Aunt Mame Dennis, the sister of his dead father.

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Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche.

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Ayn Rand

Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American author and philosopher.

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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet.

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Barry Hannah

Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi.

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Barry Hughart

Barry Hughart (March 13, 1934 – August 1, 2019) was an American author of fantasy novels.

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Barry N. Malzberg

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (born July 24, 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.

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Bayard Taylor

Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.

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Ben Bova

Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor.

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Bentley Little

Bentley Little (born 1960 in Mesa, Arizona) is an American author of horror fiction.

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Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Beverly Cleary

Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.

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Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks.

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Bless Me, Ultima

Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya centering on Antonio Márez y Luna and his mentorship under his curandera and protector, Ultima.

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Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921).

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Boy's Life (novel)

Boy's Life is a 1991 novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert R. McCammon.

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter.

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Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977) is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer.

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Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions is a comedic novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves.

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Bridge of Birds

Bridge of Birds is a fantasy novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1984.

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Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology.

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Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg (born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer.

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Burr (novel)

Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U.S. in the early 19th century.

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By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama Janowitz about the Slivenowiczes, a trailer park trash family who are forced to leave their home in a polluted swamp area in upstate New York (as Maud claims on p. 194 of the hardcover version) and who beg, steal and borrow their way across the United States until they end up in Hollywood.

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C. J. Cherryh

Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.

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Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr (August 2, 1955 – May 23, 2024) was an American military historian and author.

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Calvin Trillin

Calvin Marshall Trillin (born 5 December 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.

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Camp Concentration

Camp Concentration is a 1968 science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch.

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Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.

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Carol Shields

Carol Ann Shields (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Caroline B. Cooney

Caroline B. Cooney (born May 10, 1947) is an American author of suspense, romance, horror, and mystery books for young adults.

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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun (Gold; January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies.

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Carrie (novel)

Carrie is a 1974 horror novel, the first by American author Stephen King.

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Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.

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Catch-22

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.

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Catharine Sedgwick

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867) was an American novelist of domestic fiction.

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Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi.

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Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University.

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Charles Baxter (author)

Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

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Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski,; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Charles Gilman Norris

Charles Gilman Norris (April 23, 1881 – July 25, 1945) was an American novelist.

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Charles R. Johnson

Charles Richard Johnson (born April 23, 1948) is an American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation.

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Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist.

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Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams.

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer.

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Chester Himes

Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer.

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Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

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Christopher Moore (author)

Christopher Moore (born January 1, 1957) is an American writer.

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Christopher Morley

Christopher Darlington Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.

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Christopher Paolini

Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983) is an American author.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction.

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City (novel)

City is a 1952 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak.

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Claude McKay

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890See Wayne F. Cooper, Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner In The Harlem Renaissance (New York, Schocken, 1987) p. 377 n. 19. As Cooper's authoritative biography explains, McKay's family predated his birth a year to make him eligible to be a student teaching assistant at his eldest brother's school, a fact McKay only learned from his sister Rachel in 1920 -- leading some sources to erroneously date his birth to 1889.

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Clifford Irving

Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017) was an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he published 20 novels, he is best known for an "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The fictional work was to have been published in 1972.

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Clive Cussler

Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer.

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Colson Whitehead

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.

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Coma (novel)

Coma is Robin Cook's first commercially successful novel, published by Signet Book in 1977.

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Concert pitch

Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance.

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Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952.

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Conrad Richter

Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres.

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Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Cyril M. Kornbluth

Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and ''Origin'' (2017).

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Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.

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Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American author, musician, screenwriter, television writer, and television producer.

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Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon.

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Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (born November 15, 1941) is an American author of children's books and young adult fiction.

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Daniel Quinn

Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.

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Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels.

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Darryl Ponicsan

Darryl Ponicsan (born May 26, 1938) is an American writer.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Brin

Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author.

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David Eddings

David Carroll Eddings (July 7, 1931 – June 2, 2009) was an American fantasy writer.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing.

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David Graham Phillips

David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.

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David Guterson

David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.

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David Manners

David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom; April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Tod Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula, which starred Bela Lugosi in the title role.

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Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author.

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Deliverance

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.

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Democracy: An American Novel

Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published anonymously in 1880.

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Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart.

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Dhalgren

Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany.

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Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 American comedy-drama film about a frustrated wife portrayed by Carrie Snodgress.

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Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.

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Don Berry (author)

Don George Berry (January 23, 1932 – February 20, 2001)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.

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Don Pendleton

Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 – October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction books, best known for his creation of the fictional character Mack Bolan, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide since the character's 1969 debut.

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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced BAR-thəl-mee or BAR-təl-mee; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.

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Donald E. Westlake

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit.

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Donna Tartt

Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century.

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Dow Mossman

Dow Mossman (born 1943 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American writer, known for his novel The Stones of Summer.

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Dragonflight (novel)

Dragonflight is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.

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Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 American historical drama western film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author Walter D. Edmonds.

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DuBose Heyward

Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy.

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Dune (novel)

Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine.

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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer.

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E. D. E. N. Southworth

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (December 26, 1819June 30, 1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century.

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E. E. Smith

Edward Elmer Smith (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series.

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E. L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.

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Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.

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Earth Abides

Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

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Edgar Saltus

Edgar Evertson Saltus (October 8, 1855 – July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer.

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Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.

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Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.

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Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward.

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Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 – February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.

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Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837 – September 3, 1902) was an American historian and novelist.

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Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Edward Stratemeyer

Edward L. Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862 – May 10, 1930) was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

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Edward Whittemore

Edward Payson Whittemore (May 26, 1933 – August 3, 1995) was an American novelist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987, including the highly praised series Jerusalem Quartet. He had started his career as a case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East and Europe) between 1958 and 1967.

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Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.

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Edwin O'Connor

Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator.

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Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916).

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Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (or;; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

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Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel ''In This Our Life''.

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Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971).

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Elliot Paul

Elliot Harold Paul (February 10, 1891 – April 7, 1958) was an American journalist and writer.

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Elmore Leonard

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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Emma Bull

Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Ender's Game

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese.

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Ernest Poole

Ernest Cook Poole (January 23, 1880 – January 10, 1950) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright.

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Ernest Tidyman

Ernest Ralph Tidyman (January 1, 1928 – July 14, 1984) was an American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft.

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Ernest Vincent Wright

Ernest Vincent Wright (1872October 7, 1939) was an American writer known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter "e".

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South.

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Eugene Burdick

Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918 – July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962), and author of The 480 (1965).

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Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction.

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Evan S. Connell

Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works.

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.

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Exodus (Uris novel)

Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship ''Exodus'' and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state.

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F. Van Wyck Mason

Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and novelist.

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Faye Kellerman

Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music, and Straight into Darkness.

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Fear of Flying (novel)

Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong.

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Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Fletcher Knebel

Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright.

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Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature.

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Francis Marion Crawford

Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastical stories.

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Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long Jr. (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction.

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Frank E. Peretti

Frank Edward Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural.

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Frank Herbert

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel ''Dune'' and its five sequels.

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Frank Norris

Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.

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Frank R. Stockton

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

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Frank Yerby

Frank Garvin Yerby (–) was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.

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Frederic Prokosch

Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1906 – June 2, 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism.

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Frederick Buechner

Carl Frederick Buechner (July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian.

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Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.

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Gadsby (novel)

Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written without words that contain the letter E, the most common letter in English.

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Gary Jennings (author)

Gary Jennings (September 20, 1928 – February 13, 1999) was an American author who wrote children's and adult novels.

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Gary Paulsen

Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories about the wilderness.

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Gary Soto

Gary Anthony Soto (born April 12, 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.

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Geek Love

Geek Love is a novel by American writer Katherine Dunn, published completely by Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989.

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Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana.

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Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title.

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George Ade

George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog.

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George Alec Effinger

George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio.

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George Plimpton

George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer.

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George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known by the initials G.R.R.M., is an American author, television writer, and television producer.

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George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.

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Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer.

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Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner (April 16, 1890 – August 30, 1979) was an American author, mainly of children's stories.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Get Shorty

Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard.

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Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.

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Giles Goat-Boy

Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is the fourth novel by American writer John Barth.

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Gish Jen

Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.

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Glamorama

Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin.

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Godric (novel)

Godric is the tenth novel by the American author and theologian, Frederick Buechner.

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Going After Cacciato

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Gone with the Wind (novel)

Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936.

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Gor

Gor is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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Grace Lumpkin

Grace Lumpkin (March 3, 1891 – March 23, 1980) was an American writer of proletarian literature who focused most of her works on the Depression era and the rise and fall of communism in the United States.

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Grace Metalious

Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing history.

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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon.

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Great American Novel

The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States.

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Green Darkness

Green Darkness is a 1972 novel by Anya Seton.

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Green Mountain Boys

The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants and later in 1777 as the Vermont Republic (which later became the state of Vermont).

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Greg Bear

Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.

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Greg Iles

Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi.

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Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

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Gregory Mcdonald

Gregory Mcdonald (February 15, 1937 – September 7, 2008) was an American writer best known for his mystery adventures featuring investigative reporter Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher.

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Guy Davenport

Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.

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H. Beam Piper

Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 –) was an American science fiction writer.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

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H.D.

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life.

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Ha Jin

Jin Xuefei (born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin.

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Hal Clement

Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.

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Hannah Webster Foster

Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist.

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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (full title: Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland) is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865.

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Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben (born c. 1962) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers.

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Harold Robbins

Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels.

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Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist.

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Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy is a children's novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964.

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Harry Crews

Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Harry Harrison (writer)

Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction.

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Hatchet (novel)

Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen.

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Haven Kimmel

Haven Kimmel (born 1965) is an American author, novelist, and poet.

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He, She and It

He, She, and It (retitled Body of Glass in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 cyberpunk novel by Marge Piercy.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.

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Henderson the Rain King

Henderson the Rain King is a 1959 novel by Saul Bellow.

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Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents.

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Henry Harland

Henry Harland (March 1, 1861 – December 20, 1905) was an American novelist and editor.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author who published fifteen novels, many being historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

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Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character.

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Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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House of Leaves

House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet.

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Hubert Selby Jr.

Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author.

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I Am Legend (novel)

I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green.

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I, the Jury

I, the Jury is the 1947 debut novel of American crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane, the first work to feature private investigator Mike Hammer.

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If He Hollers Let Him Go

If He Hollers Let Him Go is the first novel by American writer Chester Himes, published in 1945, about an African-American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II.

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Imitation of Life (novel)

Imitation of Life is a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst that was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a 1934 film, and a 1959 remake.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976.

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Invisible Man

Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, the only one published during his lifetime.

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Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

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Ironweed (novel)

Ironweed is a 1983 novel by American author William Kennedy.

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Irving Stone

Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals.

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Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer.

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Ishmael (Quinn novel)

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn.

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Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture.

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Islandia (novel)

Islandia is a classic novel of utopian fiction by Austin Tappan Wright, a University of California, Berkeley Law School Professor.

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Israel Joshua Singer

Israel Joshua Singer (Yiddish: ישראל יהושע זינגער; November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Congress Poland — February 10, 1944 New York) was a Polish-Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish.

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J. P. Donleavy

James Patrick Donleavy (23 April 1926 – 11 September 2017) was an American-Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright.

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Jack Finney

Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer.

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Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

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Jack L. Chalker

Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author.

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Jack London

John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist.

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.

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Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction".

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Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American novelist and actress.

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (or; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer.

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James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.

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James Alan McPherson

James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

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James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.

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James Gould Cozzens

James Gould Cozzens (August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades.

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James Jones (author)

James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American novelist renowned for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.

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James K. Morrow

James Morrow (born March 17, 1947) is an American novelist and short-story writer known for filtering large philosophical and theological questions through his satiric sensibility.

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James Kirke Paulding

James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy.

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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.

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James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter.

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James Norman Hall

James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934).

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James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist.

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James Patterson

James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author.

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James Salter

James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright.

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist.

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Jan Karon

Jan Karon (born March 14, 1937) is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers.

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Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles (born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright.

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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

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Janet Ayer Fairbank

Janet Fairbank (Ayer; June 7, 1878 – December 28, 1951) was an American author and suffragette, socially and politically active in Chicago and a champion of progressive causes.

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Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer.

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Jasmine (novel)

Jasmine is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the 1980s about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times.

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Jay McInerney

John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. (born January 13, 1955) is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist.

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Jayne Ann Krentz

Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle (born March 28, 1948, in Cobb, California, United States), is an American writer of romance novels.

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Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress.

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Jean M. Auel

Jean Marie Auel (born February 18, 1936) is an American writer who wrote the Earth's Children books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores human activities during this time, and touches on the interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.

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Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author.

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Jeremiah Clemens

Jeremiah Clemens (December 28, 1814 – May 21, 1865) was a United States senator and novelist from Alabama.

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers.

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Jerzy Kosiński

Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English.

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Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (born May 29, 1949) is an American playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist.

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Jessie R. Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob.

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Jim Harrison

James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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Jim Thompson (writer)

James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.

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Joan Blondell

Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.

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Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist.

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Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.

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John Ball (novelist)

John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs.

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John Barth

John Simmons Barth (May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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John Crowley (author)

John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction.

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John D. MacDonald

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories.

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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.

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John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy.

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John Dufresne

John Dufresne (born January 30, 1948) is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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John Esten Cooke

John Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 – September 27, 1886) was an American novelist, writer and poet.

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John Fante

John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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John Gardner (American writer)

John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor.

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John Gregory Dunne

John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American writer.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, lawyer, and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best-selling legal thrillers.

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John Hersey

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Irving

John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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John Jakes

John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction.

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John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible.

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John Knowles

John Knowles (September 16, 1926November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

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John M. Ford

John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.

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John Neal (writer)

John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist.

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John Norman

John Frederick Lange Jr. (born June 3, 1931) is an American writer who, as John Norman, has authored the Gor series of science fantasy novels.

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John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style.

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John P. Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy (October 25, 1795 – August 18, 1870) was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph.

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John P. Marquand

John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer.

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John Rechy

John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist.

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John Saul

John Saul (born February 25, 1942) is an American author of suspense and horror novels.

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist.

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John Shaft

John Shaft is a fictional private investigator created by author/screenwriter Ernest Tidyman for the 1970 novel of the same name.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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John Varley (author)

John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer.

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John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.

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Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott.

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Johnny Tremain

Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction written in 1943 by Esther Forbes that is set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution. Intended for teen-aged readers, the novel's themes include apprenticeship, courtship, sacrifice, human rights, and the growing tension between Patriots and Loyalists as conflict nears.

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Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy.

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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Seth Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American novelist, psychologist, and Edgar- and Anthony Award–winning author best known for his popular mystery novels featuring the character Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is an allegorical fable in novella form written by American author Richard Bach and illustrated with black-and-white photographs shot by Russell Munson.

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist.

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Joseph Kirkland

Joseph Kirkland (January 7, 1830 - April 29, 1894) was an American novelist.

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Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States.

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Josiah Gilbert Holland

Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the Nation in the years following the Civil War.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American novelist and journalist.

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JT LeRoy

Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JT LeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert.

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Judas, My Brother

Judas, My Brother: The Story of the Thirteenth Disciple is a 1968 historical novel by Frank Yerby.

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Judy Blume

Judith Blume (née Sussman; born February 12, 1938) is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction.

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Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist.

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Julia Quinn

Julie Pottinger (née Cotler; born January 12, 1970), better known by her pen name, Julia Quinn, is an American author of historical romance fiction.

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K. C. Constantine

Carl Constantine Kosak (1934 – March 23, 2023), better known by the pen name K. C. Constantine, was an American mystery author.

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (also; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.

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Kate Douglas Wiggin

Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer.

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Kate Vaiden

Kate Vaiden (1986) is the 6th novel by American author Reynolds Price.

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Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm (June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018) was an American author.

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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist.

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Katherine Dunn

Katherine Karen Dunn (October 24, 1945 – May 11, 2016) was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon.

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion.

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Kathy Reichs

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Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist.

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Keith Laumer

John Keith Laumer (–) was an American science fiction author.

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Ken Kesey

Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.

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Kenneth Roberts (author)

Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957) was an American writer of historical novels.

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer.

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Kinky Friedman

Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.

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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 2002.

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Larry Brown (writer)

William Larry Brown (July 9, 1951 – November 24, 2004) was an American novelist, non-fiction, and short story writer.

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Larry Kramer

Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist.

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Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer.

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Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer.

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Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King (born September 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her detective fiction.

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Le Divorce

Le Divorce is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ivory, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Diane Johnson.

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Left Behind

Left Behind is a multimedia franchise of apocalyptic fiction written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, released by Tyndale House Publishers from 1995 to 2007.

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Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic Western drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

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Leigh Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).

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Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970).

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Leo Rosten

Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish:; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.

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Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).

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Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 – May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, and a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer.

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Lest Darkness Fall

Lest Darkness Fall is a 1939 alternate history science fiction novel by the American author L. Sprague de Camp.

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Lester del Rey

Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.

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Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, and author from Indiana.

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Light in August

Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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List of African-American writers

This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles. List of American novelists and list of African-American writers are lists of American writers.

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List of Indigenous writers of the Americas

This is a list of notable writers who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas. List of American novelists and list of Indigenous writers of the Americas are lists of American writers.

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List of novelists by nationality

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors.

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List of short-story authors

This is a partial list of published short-story authors.

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Lists of writers

The following are lists of writers.

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Little House on the Prairie

The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls).

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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Little Women

Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869.

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Little, Big

Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a contemporary fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981.

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Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than 40 books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults.

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Lloyd C. Douglas

Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 – February 13, 1951) was an American minister and author.

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Lois Lowry

Lois Ann Lowry (née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer.

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Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, 1961) is an American poet and novelist from Hawaiokinai.

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Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry.

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Looking Backward

Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888.

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Lord of Light

Lord of Light (1967) is a science fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny.

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Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist.

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Louis Auchincloss

Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath, The New York Times.

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Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

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Louise Erdrich

Karen Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.

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Louise Fitzhugh

Louise Perkins Fitzhugh (October 5, 1928 – November 19, 1974) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Ludwig Lewisohn

Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor.

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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child (Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.

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Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist.

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Lynn Abbey

Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbey (born September 18, 1948) is an American fantasy author.

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Lynn Flewelling

Lynn Flewelling (born Lynn Elizabeth Beaulieu on October 20, 1958) is an American fantasy fiction author.

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MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

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Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist.

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Magician (Feist novel)

Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist.

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Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by American author Lloyd C. Douglas.

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Main Street (novel)

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.

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Manly Wade Wellman

Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer.

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Margaret Deland

Margaret Deland (born Margaretta Wade Campbell; February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.

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Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer.

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Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer.

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Maria Susanna Cummins

Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9, 1827 – October 1, 1866) was an American novelist.

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Mario Puzo

Mario Francis Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953); accessed December 8, 2014.

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Mark Childress

Mark Childress (born 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and Southern writer.

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Mark Harris (author)

Mark Harris (November 19, 1922 – May 30, 2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator, remembered for his baseball novels featuring Henry Wiggen, particularly Bang the Drum Slowly. Harris's obituary in The Denver Post calls him "one of that legion of under-the-radar writers who for decades consistently turned out excellent novels and went largely unsung as he did...Harris said of his books that 'they are about the one man against his society and trying to come to terms with his society, and trying to succeed within it without losing his own identity or integrity.' He might have said the same thing of himself.".

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Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author.

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Mars trilogy

The Mars trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries.

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Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930) was an American author.

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Mary Hallock Foote

Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938) was an American author and illustrator.

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Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins; December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels.

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Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer.

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Mary Noailles Murfree

Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24, 1850 – July 31, 1922) was an American author of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock.

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Max Brand

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand.

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston (born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; October 27, 1940) is an American novelist.

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Meg Tilly

Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan on February 14, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress and writer.

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997.

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Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels.

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Meyer Levin

Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist.

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Michael Bishop (author)

Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an American author.

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer.

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Michael Connelly

Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

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Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker.

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Michael Dorris

Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 – April 10, 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College.

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Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction.

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Mickey Spillane

Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction".

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Miss Lulu Bett (novel)

Miss Lulu Bett is a 1920 novel by American writer Zona Gale, later adapted for the stage.

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Mitch Albom

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and musician.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Molly Elliot Seawell

Molly Elliot Seawell (October 23, 1860 – November 15, 1916), an early American historian and writer, was a descendant of the Seawells of Virginia and a niece of President John Tyler.

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Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist.

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Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction.

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Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the ''Bounty'' in 1789.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.

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Mystic River (novel)

Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001.

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Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch (first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs.

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Nathanael West

Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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Native Son

Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright.

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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Nella Larsen

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen (born Nellie Walker; April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964) was an American novelist.

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Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.

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Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author of mystery fiction.

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Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 romance novels.

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Norman Maclean

Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902August 2, 1990) was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature.

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic.

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Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards.

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Old Yeller

Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston.

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On the Road

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.

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Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut.

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Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux ((January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century".

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Owen Johnson (writer)

Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878 – January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction.

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Pat Conroy

Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars.

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Patricia A. McKillip

Patricia Anne McKillip (February 29, 1948 – May 6, 2022) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction.

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer.

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Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

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Patrick Dennis

Edward Everett Tanner III (18 May 1921 – 6 November 1976), known by the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, was an American author.

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Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.

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Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.

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Paul Leicester Ford

Paul Leicester Ford (March 23, 1865 – May 8, 1902) was an American novelist and biographer, born in Brooklyn, the son of Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Fowler Ford (a granddaughter of Noah Webster and lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson).

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Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist.

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Peter S. Beagle

Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction.

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Peter Straub

Peter Francis Straub (March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) was an American novelist and poet.

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Peter Taylor (writer)

Matthew Hillsman Taylor Jr. (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

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Peyton Place (novel)

Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious.

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Philip Caputo

Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist.

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Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Phyllis A. Whitney

Phyllis Ayame Whitney (September 9, 1903 – February 8, 2008Leimbach, Dulcie.. The New York Times. 9 February 2008.) was an American mystery writer of more than 70 novels.

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Pollyanna

Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature.

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Poppy Z. Brite

William Joseph Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author.

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Porgy (novel)

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925.

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Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001.

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Practical Magic

Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film based on the 1995 novel Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman.

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Prague (novel)

Prague is a historical novel by Arthur Phillips about a group of North American expatriates in Budapest, Hungary.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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R. A. Lafferty

Raphael Aloysius "R.

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R. L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known by his pen name R.L. Stine, is an American novelist.

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Ragtime (novel)

Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975.

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Raintree County (novel)

Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. published in 1948.

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Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.

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Ramona

Ramona (1884) is an American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson.

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Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.

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Raymond E. Feist

Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; December 21, 1945) is an American fantasy fiction author who wrote The Riftwar Cycle, a series of novels and short stories.

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Relic (Preston and Child novel)

Relic is a 1995 novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and the first in the Special Agent Pendergast series.

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Reuben, Reuben

Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy-drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis (in her film debut), Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

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Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)

Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw.

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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer.

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Richard Brautigan

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer.

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Richard Condon

Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 – April 9, 1996) was an American political novelist.

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Richard Ford

Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.

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Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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Richard McKenna

Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist.

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.

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Richard Wright (author)

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.

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Richard Yates (novelist)

Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety." His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award, while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, brought comparisons to James Joyce.

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Rick Moody

Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film The Ice Storm.

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Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by American writer Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.

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Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912.

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Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson (born March 13, 1953, in Glen Cove, New York) is an American author of suspense, thriller and adventure books.

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Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.

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Ringworld

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.

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Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle.

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Rite of Passage (novel)

Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.

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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

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Robert Asprin

Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, known best for his humorous series MythAdventures and Phule's Company.

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Robert B. Parker

Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television.

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Robert Cantwell

Robert Emmett Cantwell (January 31, 1908 – December 8, 1978), known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic.

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Robert Coover

Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University.

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Robert Cormier

Robert Edmund Cormier (January 17, 1925 – November 2, 2000) was an American writer and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults.

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Robert Elegant

Robert Sampson Elegant (7 March 1928 – 20 June 2023) was an American-British author and journalist.

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Robert Herrick (novelist)

Robert Welch Herrick (April 21, 1868 – December 23, 1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists.

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Robert Jordan

James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan,"Robert Jordan" was the name of the protagonist in the 1940 Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, though this is not how the name was chosen according to a. was an American author of epic fantasy.

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Robert L. Forward

Robert Lull Forward (August 15, 1932 – September 21, 2002) was an American physicist and science fiction writer.

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Robert Lewis Taylor

Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series.

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Robert Montgomery Bird

Robert Montgomery Bird (February 5, 1806 – January 23, 1854) was an American novelist, playwright, and physician.

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Robert Newton Peck

Robert Newton Peck (February 17, 1928June 23, 2020) was an American author who specialized in children's and young adult literature.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

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Robert R. McCammon

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama.

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Robert Shea

Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 – March 10, 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Robert Stone (novelist)

Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor.

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Robert W. Chambers

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.

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Robin Cook (American novelist)

Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940)Stookey, Lorena Laura (1996).

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Robin Hobb

Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952; née Lindholm), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction.

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Rodrigues Ottolengui

Rodrigues Ottolengui (March 15, 1861 – July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Romance novel

A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.

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Ron Goulart

Ronald Joseph Goulart ((January 13, 1933 - January 14, 2022) was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. He worked on novels and novelizations (and other works) being published under various pseudonyms such as: Kenneth Robeson, Con Steffanson, Chad Calhoun, R.

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Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005) was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003.

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley.

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Rosemary's Baby (novel)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin; it was his second published book.

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Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983).

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Rover Boys

The Rover Boys, or The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a popular juvenile series written by Arthur M. Winfield, a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer.

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel by Rita Mae Brown.

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Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya (October 30, 1937June 28, 2020) was an American author.

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Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams.

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Russell Banks

Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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Russell Hoban

Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American writer.

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Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist.

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S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school.

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S. S. Van Dine

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Saab Lofton

Saab Lofton is an author, cartoonist and radio personality.

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Samuel Shellabarger

Samuel Shellabarger (18 May 1888 – 21 March 1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels.

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Samuel Woodworth

Samuel Woodworth (January 13, 1784 – December 9, 1842) was an American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet.

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Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer.

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Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scott Turow

Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.

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Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May is a 1964 American political thriller film about a military-political cabal's planned takeover of the United States government in reaction to the president's negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

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Shelby Foote

Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker.

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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.

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Shirley Ann Grau

Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929August 3, 2020) was an American writer.

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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.

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Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch (שלום אַש, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

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Sick Puppy

Sick Puppy is a 2000 novel by Carl Hiaasen.

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Sidd Finch

Sidd Finch is a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated.

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Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer.

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Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)

Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.

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Silverlock

Silverlock is a novel by John Myers Myers published in 1949.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Snow Crash

Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.

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Speak (Anderson novel)

Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino.

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Stanley Elkin

Stanley Lawrence Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Stark Young

Stark Young (October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963) was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, translator, and essayist.

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Stella Dallas (novel)

Stella Dallas is a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and published by Houghton Mifflin, written in response to the death of her three-year-old daughter from encephalitis.

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Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Stephen Dobyns

Stephen J. Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey.

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Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series.

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Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.

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Steven Brust

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.

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Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.

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Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897 in Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

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Studs Lonigan

Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935).

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Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.

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Susan Shreve

Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Lee Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.

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Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore (born December 9, 1945) is an American writer and teacher.

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Sylvester Judd

Sylvester Judd (July 23, 1813 – January 26, 1853) was a Unitarian minister and an American novelist.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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T. C. Boyle

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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T. R. Pearson

Thomas Reid Pearson (born 1956) is an American writer.

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Tales of the City

Tales of the City is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBT.

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Tales of the South Pacific

Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II.

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Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1956) is an American novelist and a short story writer.

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Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series.

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Taylor Caldwell

Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner.

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Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker (born October 24, 1962) is an American author of Christian mystery, thriller, and fantasy novels including Thr3e, Obsessed, and the Circle Series.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Terry Brooks

Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction.

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Terry Goodkind

Terry Lee Goodkind (January 11, 1948September 17, 2020) was an American writer.

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Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist.

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Terry Southern

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s.

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The Accidental Tourist

The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986.

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton.

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933.

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The Awakening (Chopin novel)

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.

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The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed is a 1954 horror novel by American writer William March, the last of his major works published before his death.

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The Belgariad

The Belgariad is a five-book fantasy epic written by David Eddings, following the journey of protagonist Garion and his companions, first to recover a sacred stone, and later to use it against antagonist Torak.

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The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe.

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The Black Cauldron (novel)

The Black Cauldron (1965) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander, the second of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe.

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The Bourne Identity (novel)

The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity.

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The Boxcar Children

The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner and currently published by Penguin Random House.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel.

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The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County (also published as Love in Black and White) is a 1992 best-selling romance novel by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of an Italian-American World War II war bride living on a farm in 1960s Madison County, Iowa.

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The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand.

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The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers is a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title.

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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951.

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The Chinese Parrot

The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers and is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California.

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The Chocolate War

The Chocolate War is a 1974 young adult novel by American writer Robert Cormier.

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The Choirboys (novel)

The Choirboys, a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh.

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The Chosen (Potok novel)

The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok.

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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson.

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times.

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

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The Crooked Hinge

The Crooked Hinge is a mystery novel (1938) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr.

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The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California.

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The Exorcist (novel)

The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel written by American writer William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row.

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The Eye of the World

The Eye of the World is a high fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the first book of The Wheel of Time series.

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The Female Man

The Female Man is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ.

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The Firm (novel)

The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham.

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The Forever War

The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans.

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The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man is a novel, first published in Paris in 1955, by J. P. Donleavy.

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The Giver

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.

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The Godfather (novel)

The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo.

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The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov, and his first original work in the science fiction genre in fifteen years (not counting his 1966 novelization of Fantastic Voyage).

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The Good Earth

The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication.

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The Human Comedy (novel)

The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan.

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The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press.

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The Hustler (novel)

The Hustler is a 1959 debut novel by American writer Walter Tevis.

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The Ice Storm (novel)

The Ice Storm is a 1994 American novel by Rick Moody.

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.

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The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.

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The Intuitionist

The Intuitionist is a 1999 speculative fiction novel by American writer Colson Whitehead.

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The Joy Luck Club (novel)

The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan.

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The Jungle

The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.

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The Keepers of the House

The Keepers of the House is a 1964 novel by Shirley Ann Grau set in rural Alabama.

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The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.

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The Last Detail

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, from a screenplay by Robert Towne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan.

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The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor.

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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical romance novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.

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The Maltese Falcon (novel)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.

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The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 historical fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which the author relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.

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The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961.

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The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by Norman Mailer.

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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The Natural

The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Trilogy

The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster.

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The Outsiders (novel)

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.

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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell.

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The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain.

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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides is a 1991 American romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Barbra Streisand, from a screenplay written by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston, based on Conroy's 1986 novel of the same name.

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The Rains Came

The Rains Came is a 1939 20th Century Fox film based on an American novel by Louis Bromfield (published in June 1937 by Harper & Brothers).

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The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).

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The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville is a 1993 novel by American author T. C. Boyle.

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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.

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The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles.

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The Shipping News

The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993.

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The Sparrow (novel)

The Sparrow (1996) is the first novel by author Mary Doria Russell.

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The Sweet Hereafter (novel)

The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks.

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The Sword of Shannara

The Sword of Shannara is a 1977 epic fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks.

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The Ugly American

The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.

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The Uplift War

The Uplift War is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the third book of six set in his Uplift Universe.

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The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides is the debut novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993.

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The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by American author John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village.

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The Wind Done Gone

The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.

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The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel, about a man born out of wedlock to a feminist leader who grows up to be a writer.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

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Them (novel)

Them (stylized in all lowercase) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in her "Wonderland Quartet" following A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) and Expensive People (1968) and preceding Wonderland (1971).

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Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

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Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic.

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This Present Darkness

This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by suspense, horror, and fantasy author Frank E. Peretti.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor.

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Thomas Berger (novelist)

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist.

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Thomas Harris

William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer.

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Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction writer and poet.

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Thomas Mayne Reid

Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

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Thomas Nelson Page

Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922) was an American lawyer, politician, and writer.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.

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Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American writer.

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Thorne Smith

James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 – June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tim LaHaye

Timothy Francis LaHaye (April 27, 1926 – July 25, 2016) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins.

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Tim O'Brien (author)

Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War.

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Timescape

Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript").

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To Die For

To Die For is a 1995 satirical black comedy film directed by Gus Van Sant, and written by Buck Henry based on Joyce Maynard‘s novel of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the story of Pamela Smart.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee.

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To Your Scattered Bodies Go

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the first book in the Riverworld series.

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Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist.

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Tom Godwin

Tom Godwin (June 6, 1915 – August 31, 1980) was an American science fiction author active throughout the 1950s into the 1970s.

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Tom Robbins

Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; The New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930.

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Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

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Toni Morrison

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor.

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Tony Earley

Tony Earley (born 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Tony Hillerman

Anthony Grove Hillerman (May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.

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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist.

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Trevanian

Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 – December 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian.

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Tropic of Cancer (novel)

Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States.

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Trout Fishing in America

Trout Fishing in America (1967) is a novella written by Richard Brautigan.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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U.S.A. (trilogy)

The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932) and The Big Money (1936).

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published on January 27, 1965, which spent 64 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.

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Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.

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V. C. Andrews

Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.

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Valedictorian

Valedictorian (VD) is an academic title for the highest-performing student of a graduating class of an academic institution.

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Valley of the Dolls (novel)

Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann.

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Virginia (novel)

Virginia (1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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W. R. Burnett

William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 April 25, 1982) was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Waiting to Exhale

Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 American romance film directed by Forest Whitaker (in his feature film directorial debut) and starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett.

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Walker Percy

Walker Percy, OblSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian.

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Walter D. Edmonds

Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels.

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Walter M. Miller Jr.

Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer.

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Walter Mosley

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.

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Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis Jr. (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Ward Moore

Joseph Ward Moore (August 10, 1903 – January 29, 1978) was an American science fiction writer.

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Wendell Berry

Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.

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Western fiction

Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.

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What Makes Sammy Run?

What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) is a novel by Budd Schulberg inspired by the life of his father, early Hollywood mogul B. P. Schulberg.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio and John C. Reilly.

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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a science fiction novel by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in 1976.

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White Noise (novel)

White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985.

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White Oleander

White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch.

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Wicked (Maguire novel)

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written by Gregory Maguire with illustrations by Douglas Smith.

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Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.

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William Gaddis

William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist, politician and historian from the American South.

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William Goldman

William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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William H. Gass

William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor.

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William Inge

William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.

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William Kennedy (author)

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed.

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William Peter Blatty

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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William Styron

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

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William T. Vollmann

William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist.

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Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.

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Winston Churchill (novelist)

Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century.

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Wizard's First Rule

Wizard's First Rule, written by Terry Goodkind, is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth.

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You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity! is a 2002 novel by Dave Eggers.

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Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.

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Zane Grey

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist.

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Zona Gale

Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.

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See also

American novelists

• List of American novelists

Lists of American writers

• List of 20th-century American writers by birth year
• List of African American journalists
• List of African American poets
• List of African-American non-fiction writers
• List of African-American writers
• List of American expatriate writers
• List of American non-fiction environmental writers
• List of American novelists
• List of American print journalists
• List of American sportswriters
• List of American writers of Korean descent
• List of Arab-American writers
• List of Asian-American writers
• List of Cuban-American writers
• List of Egyptian-American writers
• List of Indigenous writers of the Americas
• List of Italian-American women writers
• List of Jewish American authors
• List of Jewish American journalists
• List of Jewish American playwrights
• List of Jewish American poets
• List of Mexican-American writers
• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of San Francisco Bay Area writers
• List of Utah writers
• List of authors of Macmillan Publishing (United States)
• List of investigative journalists
• List of members of the League of American Writers
• List of playwrights from the United States
• List of poets from the United States
• List of winners of the National Book Award
• Lists of American writers

Lists of novelists by nationality

• List of African novelists
• List of American novelists
• List of Australian novelists
• List of English novelists
• List of French novelists
• List of Ghanaian novelists
• List of Irish novelists
• List of Korean novelists
• List of Nigerian novelists
• List of Polish novelists
• List of Portuguese novelists
• List of Russian-language novelists
• List of Scottish novelists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_novelists

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, Anzia Yezierska, Appointment in Samarra, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Armistead Maupin, Arna Bontemps, Arthur B. Reeve, At the Mountains of Madness, August Derleth, Auntie Mame, Avram Davidson, Ayn Rand, Barbara Kingsolver, Barry Hannah, Barry Hughart, Barry N. Malzberg, Bayard Taylor, Ben Bova, Bentley Little, Bernard Malamud, Beverly Cleary, Bharati Mukherjee, Blackboard Jungle, Bless Me, Ultima, Booth Tarkington, Boy's Life (novel), Bret Easton Ellis, Brett Halliday, Brewster's Millions, Bridge of Birds, Bruce Sterling, Budd Schulberg, Burr (novel), By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee, C. J. Cherryh, Caleb Carr, Calvin Trillin, Camp Concentration, Carl Hiaasen, Carol Shields, Caroline B. Cooney, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Carrie (novel), Carson McCullers, Catch-22, Catharine Sedgwick, Chaim Potok, Chang-Rae Lee, Charles Baxter (author), Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Bukowski, Charles Frazier, Charles Gilman Norris, Charles R. Johnson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte's Web, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Chester Himes, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher Moore (author), Christopher Morley, Christopher Paolini, Chuck Palahniuk, City (novel), Claude McKay, Clifford Irving, Clive Cussler, Colson Whitehead, Coma (novel), Concert pitch, Connie Willis, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Richter, Cormac McCarthy, Cornell Woolrich, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Dalton Trumbo, Dan Brown, Dan Simmons, Daniel Handler, Daniel Keyes, Daniel Pinkwater, Daniel Quinn, Danielle Steel, Darryl Ponicsan, Dashiell Hammett, Dave Eggers, David Brin, David Eddings, David Foster Wallace, David Graham Phillips, David Guterson, David Manners, Dean Koontz, Deliverance, Democracy: An American Novel, Destry Rides Again, Dhalgren, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Djuna Barnes, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Don Berry (author), Don DeLillo, Don Pendleton, Donald Barthelme, Donald E. Westlake, Donna Tartt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Dow Mossman, Dragonflight (novel), Drums Along the Mohawk, DuBose Heyward, Dune (novel), E. B. White, E. D. E. N. Southworth, E. E. Smith, E. L. Doctorow, Earl Derr Biggers, Earth Abides, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Saltus, Edith Wharton, Edna Ferber, Edward Abbey, Edward Bellamy, Edward Dahlberg, Edward Eggleston, Edward P. Jones, Edward Stratemeyer, Edward Whittemore, Edwidge Danticat, Edwin O'Connor, Eleanor H. Porter, Elie Wiesel, Elizabeth George, Ellen Glasgow, Ellery Queen, Elliot Paul, Elmore Leonard, Emma Bull, Ender's Game, Erica Jong, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest J. Gaines, Ernest Poole, Ernest Tidyman, Ernest Vincent Wright, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Eugene Burdick, Evan Hunter, Evan S. Connell, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel), Exodus (Uris novel), F. Van Wyck Mason, Faye Kellerman, Fear of Flying (novel), Flannery O'Connor, Fletcher Knebel, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Francesca Lia Block, Francis Marion Crawford, Frank Belknap Long, Frank E. Peretti, Frank Herbert, Frank Norris, Frank R. Stockton, Frank Yerby, Frederic Prokosch, Frederick Buechner, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, From Here to Eternity, Gadsby (novel), Gary Jennings (author), Gary Paulsen, Gary Soto, Geek Love, Gene Stratton-Porter, Gene Wolfe, Gentleman's Agreement, George Ade, George Alec Effinger, George Plimpton, George R. R. Martin, George R. Stewart, Gerald Vizenor, Geraldine Brooks (writer), Gertrude Atherton, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Gertrude Stein, Get Shorty, Gilbert Sorrentino, Giles Goat-Boy, Gish Jen, Glamorama, Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel), Godric (novel), Going After Cacciato, Gone with the Wind (novel), Gor, Gore Vidal, Grace Lumpkin, Grace Metalious, Gravity's Rainbow, Great American Novel, Green Darkness, Green Mountain Boys, Greg Bear, Greg Iles, Gregory Benford, Gregory Mcdonald, Guy Davenport, H. Beam Piper, H. P. Lovecraft, H.D., Ha Jin, Hal Clement, Hannah Webster Foster, Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, Harlan Coben, Harold Robbins, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet the Spy, Harry Crews, Harry Harrison (writer), Harry Turtledove, Hatchet (novel), Haven Kimmel, He, She and It, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henderson the Rain King, Henry Adams, Henry Harland, Henry James, Henry Miller, Herman Melville, Herman Wouk, Hopalong Cassidy, Horatio Alger, Horror fiction, House of Leaves, Howard Fast, Howard Nemerov, Hubert Selby Jr., Hunter S. Thompson, I Am Legend (novel), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel), I, the Jury, If He Hollers Let Him Go, Imitation of Life (novel), Infinite Jest, Interview with the Vampire, Invisible Man, Ira Levin, Ironweed (novel), Irving Stone, Irving Wallace, Irwin Shaw, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isabel Allende, Ishmael (Quinn novel), Ishmael Reed, Islandia (novel), Israel Joshua Singer, J. P. Donleavy, Jack Finney, Jack Kerouac, Jack L. Chalker, Jack London, Jack Vance, Jack Williamson, Jacqueline Susann, Jamaica Kincaid, James A. Michener, James Agee, James Alan McPherson, James Baldwin, James Dickey, James Ellroy, James Fenimore Cooper, James Gould Cozzens, James Jones (author), James K. Morrow, James Kirke Paulding, James Lee Burke, James M. Cain, James Norman Hall, James Oliver Curwood, James Patterson, James Salter, James Thurber, James Weldon Johnson, Jan Karon, Jane Bowles, Jane Smiley, Janet Ayer Fairbank, Janet Evanovich, Jasmine (novel), Jay McInerney, Jayne Ann Krentz, Jean Harlow, Jean M. Auel, Jean Stafford, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeremiah Clemens, Jerry Pournelle, Jerzy Kosiński, Jessica Hagedorn, Jessie R. Fauset, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jim Harrison, Jim Thompson (writer), Joan Blondell, Joan Didion, Joanna Russ, Joe Haldeman, John Ball (novelist), John Barth, John Cheever, John Crowley (author), John D. MacDonald, John Dickson Carr, John Dos Passos, John Dufresne, John Esten Cooke, John Fante, John Gardner (American writer), John Gregory Dunne, John Grisham, John Hersey, John Irving, John Jakes, John Kennedy Toole, John Knowles, John M. Ford, John Neal (writer), John Norman, John O'Hara, John P. Kennedy, John P. Marquand, John Rechy, John Saul, John Sayles, John Shaft, John Steinbeck, John Updike, John Varley (author), John W. Campbell, Johnny Got His Gun, Johnny Tremain, Jonathan Carroll, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Kellerman, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Safran Foer, Joseph Kirkland, Joseph Wambaugh, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Maynard, JT LeRoy, Judas, My Brother, Judy Blume, Julia Alvarez, Julia Quinn, K. C. Constantine, Kate Chopin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Vaiden, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Dunn, Kathy Acker, Kathy Reichs, Kay Boyle, Keith Laumer, Ken Kesey, Kenneth Roberts (author), Kim Stanley Robinson, Kinky Friedman, Kurt Vonnegut, L. Frank Baum, L. Sprague de Camp, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Larry Brown (writer), Larry Kramer, Larry McMurtry, Larry Niven, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laurell K. Hamilton, Laurie R. King, Le Divorce, Left Behind, Legends of the Fall, Leigh Brackett, Lemony Snicket, Leo Rosten, Leon Uris, Leonard Michaels, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lest Darkness Fall, Lester del Rey, Lew Wallace, Light in August, Lin Carter, List of African-American writers, List of Indigenous writers of the Americas, List of novelists by nationality, List of short-story authors, Lists of writers, Little House on the Prairie, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Women, Little, Big, Lloyd Alexander, Lloyd C. Douglas, Lois Lowry, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Lonesome Dove, Looking Backward, Lord of Light, Lorrie Moore, Louis Auchincloss, Louis L'Amour, Louisa May Alcott, Louise Erdrich, Louise Fitzhugh, Ludwig Lewisohn, Lydia Maria Child, Lydia Millet, Lynn Abbey, Lynn Flewelling, MacKinlay Kantor, Madeleine L'Engle, Madison Smartt Bell, Magician (Feist novel), Magnificent Obsession, Main Street (novel), Manly Wade Wellman, Margaret Deland, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Walker, Marge Piercy, Maria Susanna Cummins, Mario Puzo, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Mark Childress, Mark Harris (author), Mark Helprin, Mark Twain, Mark Z. Danielewski, Mars trilogy, Mary Doria Russell, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Mary Hallock Foote, Mary Higgins Clark, Mary Hunter Austin, Mary Noailles Murfree, Max Brand, Maxine Hong Kingston, Meg Tilly, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mercedes Lackey, Meyer Levin, Michael Bishop (author), Michael Chabon, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dorris, Michael Shaara, Mickey Spillane, Miss Lulu Bett (novel), Mitch Albom, Moby-Dick, Molly Elliot Seawell, Mona Simpson, Murray Leinster, Mutiny on the Bounty (novel), Mystery fiction, Mystic River (novel), Naked Lunch, Nathanael West, Nathaniel Hawthorne, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Native Son, Neal Stephenson, Nella Larsen, Nelson Algren, Neuromancer, Nevada Barr, Nicholson Baker, Nora Roberts, Norman Maclean, Norman Mailer, Norman Spinrad, Octavia E. Butler, Old Yeller, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., On the Road, Ordinary People, Oscar Micheaux, Owen Johnson (writer), Owen Wister, Pat Conroy, Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick Dennis, Paul Auster, Paul Bowles, Paul Gallico, Paul Leicester Ford, Paul Theroux, Paul Zindel, Pearl S. Buck, Peter S. Beagle, Peter Straub, Peter Taylor (writer), Peyton Place (novel), Philip Caputo, Philip José Farmer, Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pollyanna, Poppy Z. Brite, Porgy (novel), Portnoy's Complaint, Poul Anderson, Practical Magic, Prague (novel), Puebloans, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, R. A. Lafferty, R. L. Stine, Ragtime (novel), Raintree County (novel), Ralph Ellison, Ramona, Randall Jarrell, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Raymond E. Feist, Relic (Preston and Child novel), Reuben, Reuben, Rex Stout, Reynolds Price, Rich Man, Poor Man (novel), Richard Bach, Richard Brautigan, Richard Condon, Richard Ford, Richard Harding Davis, Richard Matheson, Richard McKenna, Richard Powers, Richard Wright (author), Richard Yates (novelist), Rick Moody, Riddley Walker, Riders of the Purple Sage, Ridley Pearson, Ring Lardner, Ringworld, Rita Mae Brown, Rite of Passage (novel), Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Asprin, Robert B. Parker, Robert Bloch, Robert Cantwell, Robert Coover, Robert Cormier, Robert Elegant, Robert Herrick (novelist), Robert Jordan, Robert L. Forward, Robert Lewis Taylor, Robert Ludlum, Robert Montgomery Bird, Robert Newton Peck, Robert Penn Warren, Robert R. McCammon, Robert Shea, Robert Silverberg, Robert Stone (novelist), Robert W. Chambers, Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Hobb, Rodrigues Ottolengui, Roger Zelazny, Romance novel, Ron Goulart, Rona Jaffe, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Rosemary's Baby (novel), Ross Macdonald, Rover Boys, Rubyfruit Jungle, Rudolfo Anaya, Ruggles of Red Gap, Russell Banks, Russell Hoban, Ruth Chatterton, S. E. Hinton, S. S. Van Dine, Saab Lofton, Samuel Shellabarger, Samuel Woodworth, Sandra Cisneros, Sara Paretsky, Sarah Orne Jewett, Saul Bellow, Science fiction, Scott Turow, Seven Days in May, Shelby Foote, Sherman Alexie, Sherwood Anderson, Shirley Ann Grau, Shirley Jackson, Sholem Asch, Sick Puppy, Sidd Finch, Sidney Sheldon, Silas Weir Mitchell (physician), Silk Road, Silverlock, Sinclair Lewis, Siri Hustvedt, Slaughterhouse-Five, Snow Crash, Speak (Anderson novel), Stanley Elkin, Stark Young, Stella Dallas (novel), Stephen Crane, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Hunter, Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Steve Martin, Steven Barnes, Steven Brust, Stranger in a Strange Land, Stringfellow Barr, Studs Lonigan, Sue Grafton, Susan Shreve, Susan Sontag, Susanna Moore, Sylvester Judd, Sylvia Plath, T. C. Boyle, T. R. Pearson, Tales of the City, Tales of the South Pacific, Tama Janowitz, Tarzan of the Apes, Taylor Caldwell, Ted Dekker, Tennessee Williams, Terry Brooks, Terry Goodkind, Terry McMillan, Terry Southern, The Accidental Tourist, The Age of Innocence, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The Awakening (Chopin novel), The Bad Seed, The Belgariad, The Bell Jar, The Big Sleep, The Black Cauldron (novel), The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Bourne Identity (novel), The Boxcar Children, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Bridges of Madison County, The Call of the Wild, The Carpetbaggers, The Catcher in the Rye, The Chinese Parrot, The Chocolate War, The Choirboys (novel), The Chosen (Potok novel), The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Color Purple, The Crooked Hinge, The Day of the Locust, The Exorcist (novel), The Eye of the World, The Female Man, The Firm (novel), The Forever War, The Ginger Man, The Giver, The Godfather (novel), The Gods Themselves, The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Human Comedy (novel), The Hunt for Red October, The Hustler (novel), The Ice Storm (novel), The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Illustrated Man, The Intuitionist, The Joy Luck Club (novel), The Jungle, The Keepers of the House, The Killer Angels, The Last Detail, The Last Hurrah, The Last of the Mohicans, The Maltese Falcon (novel), The Mists of Avalon, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Moviegoer, The Naked and the Dead, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Natural, The New York Times, The New York Trilogy, The Outsiders (novel), The Ox-Bow Incident, The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel), The Prince of Tides, The Rains Came, The Red Badge of Courage, The Road to Wellville, The Scarlet Letter, The Sheltering Sky, The Shipping News, The Sparrow (novel), The Sweet Hereafter (novel), The Sword of Shannara, The Ugly American, The Uplift War, The Virgin Suicides, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wind Done Gone, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The World According to Garp, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Them (novel), Theodore Dreiser, Theodore Sturgeon, This Present Darkness, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Harris, Thomas M. Disch, Thomas Mayne Reid, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Wolfe, Thorne Smith, Thornton Wilder, Tim LaHaye, Tim O'Brien (author), Timescape, To Die For, To Kill a Mockingbird, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Tom Clancy, Tom Godwin, Tom Robbins, Tom Wolfe, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Tony Earley, Tony Hillerman, Tracy Chevalier, Trevanian, Tropic of Cancer (novel), Trout Fishing in America, Truman Capote, U.S.A. (trilogy), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Up the Down Staircase, Upton Sinclair, Ursula K. Le Guin, V. C. Andrews, Valedictorian, Valley of the Dolls (novel), Virginia (novel), Vladimir Nabokov, W. R. Burnett, Waiting to Exhale, Walker Percy, Wallace Stegner, Walter D. Edmonds, Walter M. Miller Jr., Walter Mosley, Walter Tevis, Ward Moore, Wendell Berry, Western fiction, What Makes Sammy Run?, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, White Noise (novel), White Oleander, Wicked (Maguire novel), Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, William Faulkner, William Gaddis, William Gibson, William Gilmore Simms, William Goldman, William H. Gass, William Inge, William Kennedy (author), William Peter Blatty, William S. Burroughs, William Saroyan, William Styron, William T. Vollmann, Winesburg, Ohio, Winston Churchill (novelist), Wizard's First Rule, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Young adult literature, Zane Grey, Zona Gale, Zora Neale Hurston.

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