Lijst van romanschrijvers uit de Verenigde Staten
Dit is een lijst van romanschrijvers van de Verenigde Staten, met telkens een titel van een belangrijk werk voor elke auteur.

De romanschrijvers in deze lijst hebben minstens één grote literaire prijs gewonnen en/of schreven een opvallend literair al dan niet eerste werk, en/of schreven een aanzienlijk en vaak besproken boek of oeuvre, en/of hadden minstens één bestseller:

A 
 Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang
 Walter Abish (geb. 1931), How German Is It
 Diana Abu-Jaber (geb. 1960), Arabian Jazz
 Kathy Acker (1947–1997), Blood and Guts in High School
 Alice Adams (1926–1999), Beautiful Girl
 Henry Adams (1838–1918), Democracy: An American Novel
 George Ade (1866–1944), The Slim Princess
 Renata Adler (geb. 1938), Speedboat
 Warren Adler (geb. 1927), The War of the Roses
 James Agee (1909–1955), A Death in the Family
 Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), Blue Voyage
 Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), Little Women
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), Prudence Palfrey
 Lloyd Alexander (geb. 1924), The Black Cauldron
 Sherman Alexie (geb. 1966), Reservation Blues
 Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899), Ragged Dick
 Nelson Algren (1909–1981), The Man with the Golden Arm
 Hervey Allen (1889–1949), Anthony Adverse
 Dorothy Allison (geb. 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina
 Lisa Alther (geb. 1944), Kinflicks
 Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919), The Young Trailers
 Julia Alvarez (geb. 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
 Rudolfo Anaya (geb. 1937), Bless Me, Ultima
 Laurie Halse Anderson (geb. 1961) Speak
 Poul Anderson (1926–2001), Tau Zero
 Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941), Winesburg, Ohio
 Virginia C. Andrews (1923–1986), Flowers in the Attic
 Tina McElroy Ansa (geb. 1949), Baby of the Family
 A. Manette Ansay (geb. 1964), Vinegar Hill
 Donald Antrim (geb. 1959), The Hundred Brothers
 Allen Appel (geb. 1945), Time After Time
 Benjamin Appel (1907–1979), Brain Guy
 Max Apple (geb. 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
 Harriette Arnow (1908–1986), The Dollmaker
 Timothy Shay Arthur (1809–1885), Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
 Sholem Asch (1880–1957), The Nazarene
 Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), The Gods Themselves
 Rilla Askew (geb. 1951), The mercy seat
 Robert Asprin (geb. 1946), Another Fine Myth
 Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), The Conqueror
 William Attaway (1911–1986), Blood on the Forge
 Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (geb. 1984), In the Forests of the Night
 Louis Auchincloss (geb. 1917), The Rector of Justin
 Jean Marie Auel (geb. 1936), The Clan of the Cave Bear
 Paul Auster (geb. 1947), New York Trilogy
 Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), Isidro

B 

 Richard Bach (geb. 1936), Jonathan Livingston Seagull
 Irving Bacheller (1859–1950), A Man for the Ages
 Dorothy Baker (1907–1968), Young Man with a Horn
 James Robert Baker (1947–1997), Fuel-Injected Dreams
 Nicholson Baker (geb. 1957), Vox
 Kirsten Bakis (geb. 1968), Lives of the Monster Dogs
 Faith Baldwin, (1893–1978), The Heart Has Wings
 James Baldwin (1924–1987), Go Tell It on the Mountain
 John Ball (1911–1988), In the Heat of the Night
 Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995), The Salt Eaters
 Russell Banks (geb. 1940), The Sweet Hereafter
 Margaret Culkin Banning (1891–1982), Country Club People
 Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (geb. 1934), The System of Dante's Hell
 Anna Maynard Barbour (died 1941), That Mainwaring Affair
 John Franklin Bardin (1916–1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
 Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), Nightwood
 Linda Barnes (geb. 1949), A Trouble of Fools
 Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967), Years of Grace
 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), Jan Vedder's Wife
 Nevada Barr (geb. 1952), Track of the Cat
 Andrea Barrett (geb. 1964), The Voyage of the Narwhal
 John Barth (geb. 1930), Giles Goat-Boy
 Donald Barthelme (1931–1989), Snow White
 Frederick Barthelme (geb. 1943), Chroma
 Rick Bass (geb. 1958), Where the Sea Used to Be
 Hamilton Basso (1904–1964), The View from Pompey's Head
 L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
 Richard Bausch (geb. 1945), The Last Good Time
 Robert Bausch (geb. 1945), Almighty Me
 Charles Baxter (geb. 1947), Shadow Play
 Peter S. Beagle (geb. 1939), The Last Unicorn
 Greg Bear, (geb. 1951), Darwin's Radio
 Ann Beattie, (geb. 1947), Chilly Scenes of Winter
 Louis Begley (geb. 1933), About Schmidt
 Madison Smartt Bell (geb. 1957), All Souls' Rising
 Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), Looking Backward: 2000–1887
 Saul Bellow (1915–2005), Henderson the Rain King
 Peter Benchley (1940–2006), Jaws
 Aimee Bender (geb. 19??), An Invisible Sign of My Own
 Pinckney Benedict (geb. 1964), Dogs of God
 Stephen Vincent Benet (1898–1943), Spanish Bayonet
 Gregory Benford (geb. 1941), Timescape
 Thomas Berger (geb. 1924), Little Big Man
 Gina Berriault (1926–1999), The Descent
 Don Berry (1931–2001), Trask
 Wendell Berry (geb. 1934), A Place on Earth
 Alfred Bester (1913–1987), The Demolished Man
 Doris Betts (geb. 1932), Souls Raised from the Dead
 Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933), The Chinese Parrot
 W. Watts Biggers (geb. 1927) The Man Inside
 Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), The Infidel
 Michael Bishop (geb. 1945), No Enemy But Time
 William Peter Blatty (geb. 1928), The Exorcist
 Robert Bloch (1917–1994), Psycho
 Lawrence Block (geb. 1938), Eight Million Ways to Die
 Amy Bloom (geb. 1953), Love Invents Us
 Judy Blume (geb. 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
 Chris Bohjalian (geb. 1960), The Law of Similars
 Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), God Sends Sunday
 Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), The Case of the Seven of Calvary
 Vance Bourjaily (geb. 1922), Brill Among the Ruins
 Ben Bova (geb. 1932), The Starcrossed
 Jane Bowles (1917–1973), Two Serious Ladies
 Paul Bowles (1910–1999), The Sheltering Sky
 Blanche McCrary Boyd (geb. 1945), The Revolution of Little Girls
 James Boyd (1888–1944), Drums
 Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (geb. 1958), The Planets
 Kay Boyle (1902–1992), Death of a Man
 T. Coraghessan Boyle (geb. 1948), The Road to Wellville
 Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978), The World of Carrick's Cove
 Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816), Modern Chivalry
 Leigh Brackett (1915–1978), The Secret of Sinharat
 Ray Bradbury (geb. 1920), Fahrenheit 451
 David Bradley (geb. 1950), The Chaneysville Incident
 Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), The Mists of Avalon
 Billy Lee Brammer (1929–1978), The Gay Place
 Max Brand (1892–1944), Destry Rides Again
 Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), Trout Fishing in America
 Kate Braverman (geb. 1950), Lithium for Medea
 Matt Briggs (geb. 1970), Shoot the Buffalo
 David Brin (geb. 1950), The Uplift War
 Poppy Z. Brite (geb. 1967), Exquisite Corpse
 Harold Brodkey (1930–1996), The Runaway Soul
 Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), The Rains Came
 Geraldine Brooks (geb. 1955), March
 Terry Brooks (geb. 1944), First King of Shannara
 Alice Brown (1857–1948), Fools of Nature
 Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), Wieland
 Dan Brown (geb. 1964), De Da Vinci Code
 Harry Brown (1917–1986), A Place in the Sun
 Larry Brown (1951–2004), Dirty Work
 Rita Mae Brown (geb. 1944), Rubyfruit Jungle
 Rosellen Brown (geb. 1939), Before and After
 William Hill Brown (1756–1793), The Power of Sympathy
 Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), The Good Earth
 Judy Budnitz (geb. 1973), If I Told You Once
 Frederick Buechner (geb. 1926), Godric
 Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), Factotum
 Edward Bunker (1933–2005), Little Boy Blue
 Eugene Burdick (1918–1965), The Ugly American (met William Lederer)
 James Lee Burke (geb. 1936), The Neon Rain
 Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), The secret garden
 William R. Burnett (1899–1982), Little Caesar
 Olive Ann Burns (1924–1990), Cold Sassy Tree
 Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), Tarzan of the Apes
 William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), Naked Lunch
 Frederick Busch (1941–2006), Harry and Catherine
 Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), Patternmaster
 Robert Olen Butler (geb. 1945), The Alleys of Eden

C 

 James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
 George Washington Cable (1844–1925), The Grandissimes
 Meg Cabot (geb. 1967), The Princess Diaries
 Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), The Rise of David Levinsky
 James M. Cain (1892–1977), The Postman Always Rings Twice
 Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987), God's Little Acre
 Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985), Answer as a Man
 Hortense Calisher (geb. 1911), False Entry
 Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006), Singing in the Comeback Choir
 John W. Campbell (1910–1971), The Mightiest Machine
 Ethan Canin (geb. 1960), For Kings and Planets
 Robert Cantwell (1908–1978), The Land of Plenty
 Kevin Canty (geb. 195?), Nine Below Zero
 Truman Capote (1924–1984), In Cold Blood
 Philip Caputo (geb. 1941), Delcorso's Gallery
 Orson Scott Card (geb. 1951), Ender's Game
 Ron Carlson (geb. 1947), Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Don Carpenter (geb. 1931), Hard Rain Falling
 Caleb Carr (geb. 1955), The Alienist
 John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), The Crooked Hinge
 Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904–1999), As the Earth Turns
 Jonathan Carroll (geb. 1949), The Land of Laughs
 Forrest Carter (1925–1979), The Education of Little Tree
 Lin Carter (1930–1988), Sky Pirates of Callisto
 John Casey (geb. 1939), Spartina
 R. V. Cassill (1919–2002), Dr. Cobb's Game
 Ana Castillo (geb. 1953), So Far From God
 Willa Cather (1873–1947), My Ántonia
 Michael Chabon (geb. 1964), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 Jack L. Chalker (1944–2005), Midnight at the Well of Souls
 Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933), In the Quarter
 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), The Big Sleep
 James Chapman, (geb. 1955), Stet
 Fred Chappell (geb. 1936), Dagon
 Jerome Charyn (geb. 1937), Blue Eyes
 Mary Ellen Chase (1887–1973), Mary Peters
 John Cheever (1912–1982), The Wapshot Chronicle
 Maxine Chernoff (geb. 1952), American Heaven
 C.J. Cherryh (geb. 1942), Cyteen
 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), The Marrow of Tradition
 Alan Cheuse (geb. 1940), The Grandmother's Club
 Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), Hobomok
 Mark Childress (geb. 1957), Crazy in Alabama
 Kate Chopin (1851–1904), The Awakening
 Winston Churchill (1871–1947), Richard Carvel
 Carolyn Chute (geb. 1947), The Beans of Egypt, Maine
 Sandra Cisneros (geb. 1954), The House on Mango Street
 Tom Clancy (geb. 1947), The Hunt for Red October
 Eleanor Clark (1913–1996), Baldur's Gate
 Mary Higgins Clark (geb. 1927), A Stranger is Watching
 Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971), The Ox-Bow Incident
 Beverly Cleary (geb. 1916), Ramona the Pest
 Jeremiah Clemens (1814–1865), Tobias Wilson
 Samuel Langhorne Clemens zie Mark Twain
 Hal Clement (1922–2003), Mission of Gravity
 Michelle Cliff (geb. 1946), Abeng
 Robert M. Coates (1897–1973), The Eater of Darkness
 Harlan Coben (geb. 1962), Deal Breaker
 Laurie Colwin (1944–1992), Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
 Richard Condon (1915–1996), The Manchurian Candidate
 Evan S. Connell (geb. 1924), Mrs. Bridge
 Michael Connelly (geb. 1956), Blood Work
 Frank Conroy (1936–2005), Body & Soul
 Pat Conroy (geb. 1945), The Prince of Tides
 K. C. Constantine (geb. 1934), Upon Some Midnights Clear
 Robin Cook (geb. 1940), Coma
 John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), The Virginia Comedians
 J. California Cooper (geb. 1966), Some People, Some Other Place
 James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), The Last of the Mohicans
 Robert Coover (geb. 1932), The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
 Edwin Corle (1906–1956), Fig Tree John
 Patricia Cornwell (geb. 1956), Postmortem
 James Gould Cozzens (1903–1978), Guard of Honor
 Robert Crais (geb. 1953?), Hostage
 Stephen Crane (1871–1900), The Red Badge of Courage
 Margaret Craven (1901–1980), I Heard the Owl Call My Name
 Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), Saracinesca
 Harry Crews (geb. 1935), Scar Lover
 Michael Crichton (1942–2008), Jurassic Park
 Robert Crichton (1925–1993), The Secret of Santa Vittoria
 Amanda Cross (1926–2003), The James Joyce Murder
 John Crowley (geb. 1942), Little, Big
 Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866), The Lamplighter
 Michael Cunningham (geb. 1952), The Hours
 James Oliver Curwood (1878–1927), The Grizzly King
 Clive Cussler (geb. 1931), Raise the Titanic!

D 

 H.D. (1886–1961), Palimpsest
 Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977), Bottom Dogs
 Mark Z. Danielewski (geb. 1966), House of Leaves
 Edwidge Danticat (geb. 1969), Breath, Eyes, Memory
 Guy Davenport (1927–2005), Da Vinci's Bicycle
 Marcia Davenport (1903–1994), East Side, West Side
 Avram Davidson (1923–1993), The Phoenix and the Mirror
 Clyde Brion Davis (1894–1962), Nebraska Coast
 Dorothy Salisbury Davis (geb. 1916), Death of an Old Sinner
 H.L. Davis (1896–1960), Honey in the Horn
 Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916), Soldiers of Fortune
 Terry Davis (geb. 1947), Vision Quest
 Jeffrey Deaver (geb. 1950), The Bone Collector
 Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907–2000), Lest Darkness Fall
 John William De Forest (1826–1926), Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
 Margaret Deland (1857–1945), John Ward, Preacher
 Samuel R. Delany (geb. 1942), Dhalgren
 Don DeLillo (geb. 1936), White Noise
 Viña Delmar (1903–1990), Bad Girl
 Lester del Rey (1915–1993), Attack From Atlantis
 Patrick Dennis (1921–1976), Auntie Mame
 August Derleth (1909–1971), The Memoirs of Solar Pons
 Peter De Vries (1910–1993), Reuben, Reuben
 Pete Dexter (geb. 1943), Paris Trout
 Philip K. Dick (1928–1982), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 James Dickey (1923–1997), Deliverance
 Charles Dickinson (geb. 1951), A Shortcut in Time
 Joan Didion (geb. 1934), Play It As It Lays
 Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), Camp Concentration
 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (geb. 1956), The Mistress of Spices
 Melvin Dixon (1950–1992), Trouble the Water
 Stephen Dixon (geb. 1936), Frog
 Thomas Dixon (1864–1946), The Clansman
 Stephen Dobyns (geb. 1941), The Wrestler's Cruel Study
 E.L. Doctorow (geb. 1931), Ragtime
 Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
 Harriet Doerr (1910–2002), Stones for Ibarra
 Ivan Doig (geb. 1939), Ride With Me, Mariah Montana
 Stephen R. Donaldson (geb. 1947), The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
 J.P. Donleavy (geb. 1926), The Ginger Man
 Richard Dooling (geb. 1954), White Man's Grave
 Michael Dorris (1945–1997), A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
 John Dos Passos (1896–1970), Manhattan Transfer
 Lloyd C. Douglas (1877–1951), Magnificent Obsession
 Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), An American Tragedy
 Allen Drury (1918–1998), Advise and Consent
 Tom Drury (geb. 1956), The End of Vandalism
 Andre Dubus III (geb. 1959), House of Sand and Fog
 Bruce Ducker (geb. 1938), Mooney in Flight
 John Dufresne (geb. 1948), Louisiana Power and Light
 David James Duncan (geb. 1952), The Brothers K
 Katherine Dunn (geb. 1945), Geek Love
 John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003), True Confessions
 John Dunning (geb. 1942), Booked to Die

E 

 Tony Earley (geb. 1961), Jim the Boy
 Mignon G. Eberhart (1899–1996), The Patient in Room 18
 David Eddings (geb. 1931), Pawn of Prophecy
 Clyde Edgerton (geb. 1944), Walking Across Egypt
 Walter D. Edmonds (1903–1998), Drums Along the Mohawk
 George Alec Effinger (1947–2002), When Gravity Fails
 Jennifer Egan (geb. 1962), Look at Me
 Dave Eggers (geb. 1970), You Shall Know Our Velocity
 Edward Eggleston (1837–1902), The Hoosier Schoolmaster
 John Ehle (geb. 1924), Last One Home
 Stanley Elkin (1930–1995), Mrs. Ted Bliss
 Aaron Elkins (geb. 1935), Old Bones
 Stanley Ellin (1916–1986), The Eighth Circle
 Bret Easton Ellis (geb. 1964), American Psycho
 Trey Ellis (geb. 1962), Right Here, Right Now
 Edward S. Ellis (1840–1916), Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier
 Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), Invisible Man
 James Ellroy (geb. 1948), L.A. Confidential
 Carol Emshwiller (geb. 1921), Carmen Dog
 Louise Erdrich (geb. 1954), Love Medicine
 Steve Erickson (geb. 1950), Arc d'X
 Loren D. Estleman (geb. 1952), Motor City Blue
 Jeffrey Eugenides (geb. 1960), The Virgin Suicides
 Janet Evanovich (geb. 1943), OOne For the Money
 Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909), St. Elmo
 Frederick Exley (1929–1992), A Fan's Notes

F 

 Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878/1879? – 1951), The Bright Land
 John Fante (1909–1983), Wait Until Spring, Bandini
 Richard Fariña (1937–1966), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
 Philip José Farmer (geb. 1918), To Your Scattered Bodies Go
 James T. Farrell (1904–1979), Studs Lonigan
 Howard Fast (1914–2003), April Morning
 William Faulkner (1897–1962), The Sound and the Fury
 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961), Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
 Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961), The Big Clock
 Raymond Federman (geb. 1928), The Twofold Vibration
 Raymond Feist (geb. 1945), Magician
 Edna Ferber (1885–1968), So Big
 Harvey Fergusson (1890–1971), The Conquest of Don Pedro
 Rachel Field (1894–1942), All This and Heaven Too
 Charles Finch (geb. 1980), A Beautiful Blue Death
 Martha Farquharson Finley (1828–1909), Elsie Dinsmore
 Jack Finney (1911–1995), Time and Again
 Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958), Understood Betsy
 Vardis Fisher (1895–1968), Children of God
 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), The Great Gatsby
 Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974), Harriet the Spy
 Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002), The Year of the French
 Martin Flavin (1883–1967), Journey in the Dark
 Jonathan Safran Foer (geb. 1977), Everything Is Illuminated
 Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), The Chosen Valley
 Shelby Foote (1916–2005), Shiloh
 Esther Forbes (1891–1967), Johnny Tremain
 Jesse Hill Ford (1928–1996), The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
 John M. Ford (1957–2006), The Dragon Waiting
 Paul Leicester Ford (1865–1902), The Honorable Peter Stirling
 Richard Ford (geb. 1944), Independence Day
 Leon Forrest (1937–1997), There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
 Robert Forward (1932–2002), Dragon's Egg
 Alan Dean Foster (geb. 1946), Midworld
 Hannah Webster Foster (1758/1759? – 1840), The Coquette
 Karen Joy Fowler (geb. 1950), The Jane Austen Book Club
 John Fox, Jr. (1862–1919), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 Paula Fox (geb. 1923), Desperate Characters
 William Price Fox (geb. 1926), Ruby Red
 Waldo Frank (1889–1967), Holiday
 Jonathan Franzen (geb. 1959), The Corrections
 Charles Frazier (geb. 1950), Cold Mountain
 Harold Frederic (1856–1898), The Damnation of Theron Ware
 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930), Pembroke
 Marilyn French (1929–2009), The Women's Room
 Bruce Jay Friedman (geb. 1930), Stern
 Kinky Friedman (geb. 1944), Greenwich Killing Time
 Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), Summer in Williamsburg
 Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929), The Cliff-Dwellers
 Alan Furst (geb. 1941), Night Soldiers

G 

 William Gaddis (1922–1998), The Recognitions
 Ernest Gaines (geb. 1933), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
 Mary Gaitskill (geb. 1954), Two Girls, Fat and Thin
 Zona Gale (1874–1938), Miss Lulu Bett
 Paul Gallico (1897–1976), The Poseidon Adventure
 Ernest K. Gann (1910–1991), The High and the Mighty
 Cristina Garcia (geb. 1958), Dreaming in Cuban
 John Reynolds Gardiner (1944–2006), Stone Fox
 Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970), The Case of the Velvet Claws
 John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (1933–1982), Grendel
 Leonard Gardner (geb. 1934), Fat City
 Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), A Daughter of the Middle Border
 George Garrett (geb. 1929), Death of the Fox
 William Gass (geb. 1924), Omensetter's Luck
 David Gates (geb. 1947), Jernigan
 Kaye Gibbons (geb. 1960), Ellen Foster
 William Gibson (geb. 1948), Neuromancer
 Barry Gifford (geb. 1946), Wild at Heart
 Ellen Gilchrist (geb. 1935), Starcarbon
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), Herland
 Fred Gipson (1908–1973), Old Yeller
 Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), Virginia
 Julia Glass (geb. 1956), Three Junes
 Christina Soccolich Godshalk (geb. 1942), Kalimantaan
 Gail Godwin (geb. 1937), A Mother and Two Daughters
 Herbert Gold (geb. 1924), The Man Who Was Not With It
 Myla Goldberg (geb. 1972), Bee Season
 Arthur Golden (geb. 1957), Memoirs of a Geisha
 Francisco Goldman (geb. 1954), The Long Night of White Chickens
 William Goldman (geb. 1931), The Princess Bride
 Rebecca Goldstein (geb. 1950), The Mind-Body Problem
 David Goodis (1917–1967), Down There
 Allegra Goodman (geb. 1967), The Family Markowitz
 Paul Goodman (1911–1972), Making Do
 Marcus Goodrich (1897–1991), Delilah
 Caroline Gordon (1895–1981), Aleck Maury, Sportsman
 Mary Gordon (geb. 1949), Final Payments
 Ron Goulart (geb. 1933), After Things Fell Apart
 William Goyen (1915–1983), The Fair Sister
 Sue Grafton (geb. 1940), "A" is for Alibi
 Robert Grant (1852–1940), Unleavened Bread
 Shirley Ann Grau (geb. 1929), The Keepers of the House
 Elizabeth Graver (geb. 1964), The Honey Thief
 Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935), The Leavenworth Case
 Julien Green (1900–1998), Léviathan (The Dark Journey)
 Tim Green (1963), A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search
 Sam Greenlee (geb. 1930), The Spook Who Sat By The Door
 Andrew Sean Greer (geb. 1970), The Confessions of Max Tivoli
 William Lindsay Gresham (1909–1962), Nightmare Alley
 Zane Grey (1872–1939), Riders of the Purple Sage
 Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), The Hindered Hand
 Martha Grimes (geb. 195?), The Old Contemptibles
 John Grisham (geb. 1955), The Firm
 Winston Groom (geb. 1944), Forrest Gump
 Davis Grubb (1919–1980), The Night of the Hunter
 Judith Guest (geb. 1936), Ordinary People (boek)
 Allan Gurganus (geb. 1947), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
 David Guterson (geb. 1956), Snow Falling on Cedars
 A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901–1991), The Big Sky
 Rene Gutteridge (1972), Ghostwriter

H 

 Jessica Hagedorn (geb. 1949), Dogeaters
 Jennifer Haigh (geb. 1968), Mrs. Kimble
 Joe Haldeman (geb. 1943), The Forever War
 Alex Haley (1921–1992), Roots: The Saga of an American Family
 James Norman Hall (1887–1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (with Charles Nordhoff)
 Oakley Hall (geb. 1920), Warlock
 Brett Halliday (1904–1977), Dividend on Death
 Jane Hamilton (geb. 1957), The Book of Ruth
 Laurell K. Hamilton (geb. 1963), Guilty Pleasures
 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), The Maltese Falcon
 Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (geb. 1970), Watch Your Mouth
 Barry Hannah (geb. 1942), Geromino Rex
 Joseph Hansen (1923–2004), Fadeout
 Ron Hansen (geb. 1947), Mariette in Ecstasy
 Elizabeth Hardwick (geb. 1916), Sleepless Nights
 Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847–1930), The Wind of Destiny
 Donald Harington (geb. 1935), The Cockroaches of Stay More
 Henry Harland (1861–1905), The Cardinal's Snuff-box
 Charles L. Harness (1915–2005), The Paradox Men
 Bertha Harris (1937–2005), Lover
 E. Lynn Harris (geb. 1955), Invisible Life
 MacDonald Harris (1921–1993), The Balloonist
 Mark Harris (geb. 1922), Bang the Drum Slowly
 Thomas Harris (geb. 1940), The Silence of the Lambs
 Harry Harrison (geb. 1925), Make Room! Make Room!
 Jim Harrison (geb. 1937), Legends of the Fall
 Kent Haruf (geb. 1943), Plainsong
 Jon Hassler (1933–2008), Staggerford
 John Hawkes (1925–1998), The Lime Twig
 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), The Scarlet Letter
 Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), Bugles in the Afternoon
 Shirley Hazzard (geb. 1931), The Great Fire
 Shelby Hearon (geb. 1931), Owning Jolene
 Peter Hedges (geb. 1962), What's Eating Gilbert Grape
 Ursula Hegi (geb. 1946), Stones from the River
 Scott Heim (geb. 1966), Mysterious Skin
 Larry Heinemann (geb. 1944), Paco's Story
 Robert Heinlein (1907–1988), Stranger in a Strange Land
 Joseph Heller (1923–1999), Catch-22
 Mark Helprin (geb. 1947), Winter's Tale
 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), The Sun Also Rises
 Aleksandar Hemon (geb. 1964), Nowhere Man
 Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Dune
 Joseph Hergesheimer (1880–1954), Linda Condon
 Robert Herrick (1868–1938), Web of Life
 John Hersey (1914–1993), A Bell for Adano
 DuBose Heyward (1885–1940), Porgy
 Carl Hiaasen (geb. 1953), Sick Puppy
 George V. Higgins (1939–1999), The Friends of Eddie Coyle
 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley
 Oscar Hijuelos (geb. 1951), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
 Tony Hillerman (1925–2008), The Blessing Way
 Chester Himes (1909–1984), If He Hollers Let Him Go
 S. E. Hinton (geb. 1948), The Outsiders
 Russell Hoban (geb. 1925), Riddley Walker
 Laura Z. Hobson (1900–1986), Gentleman's Agreement
 Allen Hoey (geb. 1952), Voices Beyond the Dead
 Alice Hoffman (geb. 1952), Practical Magic
 Craig Holden (geb. 19??), Four Corners of Night
 Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881), The Bay-Path
 Sheri Holman (geb. 1966), The Mammoth Cheese
 Mary Jane Holmes (1825–1907), Lena Rivers
 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), Elsie Venner
 A. M. Homes (geb. 1961), The End of Alice
 Ann Hood (geb. 1956), Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
 Khaled Hosseini (geb. 1965), The Kite Runner
 Silas House (geb. 1971), A Parchment of Leaves
 Blanche Willis Howard (1847–1898), Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast
 Maureen Howard (geb. 1930), Natural History
 E. W. Howe (1853–1937), The Story of a Country Town
 William Dean Howells (1837–1920), The Rise of Silas Lapham
 David Huddle (geb. 1942), La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
 Barry Hughart (geb. 1934), Bridge of Birds
 Langston Hughes (1902–1967), Not Without Laughter
 William Humphrey (1924–1997), Farther Off from Heaven
 Josephine Humphreys (geb. 1945), Rich in Love
 Evan Hunter (1926–2005), Blackboard Jungle
 Stephen Hunter (geb. 1946), Point of Impact
 Fannie Hurst (1885–1968), Imitation of Life
 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God
 Siri Hustvedt (geb. 1955), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
 James Hynes (geb. 1955), The Lecturer's Tale

I 

 Greg Iles (geb. 1960), The Quiet Game
 Gary Indiana (geb. 1950), Resentment
 Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809–1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
 John Irving (geb. 1942), The World According to Garp
 Susan Isaacs (geb. 1943), Compromising Positions
 Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), A Meeting by the River

J 

 Charles R. Jackson (1902–1968), The Lost Weekend
 Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885), Ramona
 Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), The Haunting of Hill House
 Rona Jaffe (1932–2005), Mazes and Monsters
 John Jakes (geb. 1932), North and South
 Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), Pictures from an Institution
 Henry James (1843–1916), Washington Square
 Will James (1892–1942), Smoky the Cow Horse
 Elizabeth Janeway (1913–2005), Daisy Kenyon
 Tama Janowitz (geb. 1957), By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
 Gish Jen (geb. 1956), Typical American
 Jerry B. Jenkins (geb. 1949), Left Behind (met Tim LaHaye)
 Gary Jennings (1928–1999), Aztec
 Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs
 Ha Jin (geb. 1956), Waiting
 Adam Johnson (geb. 1967) Parasites Like Us
 Charles R. Johnson (geb. 1948), Middle Passage
 Denis Johnson (geb. 1949), Fiskadoro
 Diane Johnson (geb. 1934), Le Divorce
 James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910–1990), Now in November
 Joyce Johnson (geb. 1935), In the Night Café
 Owen Johnson (1878–1952), Stover at Yale
 Mary Johnston (1870–1936), To Have and to Hold
 Edward P. Jones (geb. 1951), The Known World
 Gayl Jones (geb. 1949), Corregidora
 James Jones (1921–1977), From Here to Eternity
 LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka))
 Matthew F. Jones (geb. 19??), A Single Shot
 Erica Jong (geb. 1942), Fear of Flying
 Robert Jordan (geb. 1948), The Eye of the World
 Sylvester Judd (1813–1853), Margaret
 Heidi Julavits (geb. 1968), The Mineral Palace
 Ward Just (geb. 1935), Jack Gance

K 

 James Otis Kaler (1848–1912), Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
 Stuart M. Kaminsky (geb. 1934), Cold Red Sunrise
 Garson Kanin (1912–1999), Moviola
 Joseph Kanon (geb. 1946), Los Alamos
 MacKinlay Kantor (1904–1977), Andersonville
 Jan Karon (geb. 1937), At Home in Mitford
 John Katzenbach (geb. 1950?), The Madman's Tale
 Janet Kauffman (geb. 1945), Collaborators
 Bel Kaufman (geb. 1911), Up the Down Staircase
 Sue Kaufman (1926–1977), Diary of a Mad Housewife
 Harry Stephen Keeler (1890–1967), The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
 Clarence Budington Kelland (1881–1964), Dangerous Angel
 Jonathan Kellerman (geb. 1949), Flesh and Blood
 Faye Kellerman (geb. 1952), The Ritual Bath
 William Melvin Kelley (geb. 1937), A Different Drummer
 Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
 Elmer Kelton (geb. 1926), Buffalo Wagons
 John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870), Horse-Shoe Robinson
 William Kennedy (geb. 1928), Ironweed
 Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), On the Road
 Ken Kesey (1935–2001), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 Jack Ketchum (geb. 1946), The Girl Next Door
 Daniel Keyes (geb. 1927), Flowers for Algernon
 Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970), Dinner at Antoine's
 Sue Monk Kidd (geb. 1948), The Secret Life of Bees
 Karen Kijewski (geb. 19??), Katwalk
 Haven Kimmel (geb. 1965), The Solace of Leaving Early
 Jamaica Kincaid (geb. 1949), Annie John
 Grace Elizabeth King (1852–1932), The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard
 Laurie R. King (geb. 1952), A Grave Talent
 Stephen King (geb. 1947), Carrie
 Barbara Kingsolver (geb. 1955), The Bean Trees
 Maxine Hong Kingston (geb. 1940), Tripmaster Monkey
 Caroline Kirkland (1801–1864), A New Home; Who'll Follow?
 Joseph Kirkland (1830–1894), Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
 Walter Kirn (geb. 1962), Thumbsucker
 Fletcher Knebel (1911–1993), Seven Days in May (with Charles Bailey II)
 John Knowles (1926–2001), A Separate Peace
 Manuel Komroff (1890–1974), Coronet
 Dean Koontz (geb. 1945), Whispers
 Jerzy Kosinski (1933–1991), Being There
 William Kotzwinkle (geb. 1943), The Fan Man
 Eric Kraft (geb. 1945), What a Piece of Work I Am
 Larry Kramer (geb. 1935), Faggots
 Gary Krist (geb. 1957), Extravagance
 Herbert Krause (1905–1976), The Thresher
 Tom Kromer (1906–1969), Waiting for Nothing
 Maxine Kumin (geb. 1925), Through Dooms of Love
 Allen Kurzweil (geb. 1960), A Case of Curiosities

L 

 Mercedes Lackey (geb. 1950), Arrows of the Queen
 Ed Lacy (1911–1968), Room To Swing
 Oliver La Farge (1901–1963), Laughing Boy
 R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002), Past Master
 Tim LaHaye (geb. 1926), Left Behind (with Jerry B. Jenkins)
 Jhumpa Lahiri (geb. 1967), The Namesake
 Harold Lamb (1892–1962), Marching Sands
 Wally Lamb (geb. 1950), She's Come Undone
 Anne Lamott (geb. 1954), Crooked Little Heart
 Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), Jubal Sackett
 Margaret Landon (1903–1993), Anna and the King of Siam
 Jane Langton (geb. 1922), The Transcendental Murder
 Joe R. Lansdale (geb. 1951), The Bottoms
 Ring Lardner (1885–1933), You Know Me Al
 Nella Larsen (1891–1964), Passing
 William Lashner (1956), Past Due (in het Nederlands vertaald als: Gezworen vijanden)
 Emma Lathen (Martha Hennissart (geb. 1929) and Mary JaneLatsis (1927–1997)), Murder Against the Grain
 Keith Laumer (1925–1993), A Plague of Demons
 Robert Lawson (1892–1957), Rabbit Hill
 David Leavitt (geb. 1961), The Lost Language of Cranes
 William Lederer (geb. 1912), The Ugly American (with Eugene Burdick)
 Ursula Le Guin (geb. 1929), The Left Hand of Darkness
 Chang-Rae Lee (geb. 1965), Native Speaker
 Harper Lee (1926–2016), To Kill a Mockingbird
 Peter Lefcourt (geb. 1941), The Dreyfus Affair
 Ella Leffland (geb. 1931) Rumors of Peace
 Dennis Lehane (geb. 1966) Mystic River
 Fritz Leiber (1910–1992), A Specter is Haunting Texas
 Murray Leinster (1896–1975), The Greks Bring Gifts
 Brad Leithauser (geb. 1953), Hence
 Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), A Wrinkle in Time
 J. Robert Lennon (geb. 1970), Mailman
 Elmore Leonard (geb. 1925), Get Shorty
 JT LeRoy (Laura Albert) (geb. 1965), Sarah
 John Lescroart (geb. 1948), The Mercy Rule
 Jonathan Lethem (geb. 1964), Motherless Brooklyn
 Jeremy Leven (geb. 1941), Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure
 Ira Levin (geb. 1929), Rosemary's Baby
 Meyer Levin (1905–1981), Compulsion
 Stacey Levine (geb. 1960), My Horse and Other Stories
 Janet Lewis (1899–1998), The Wife of Martin Guerre
 Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), Main Street
 Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955), The Case of Mr. Crump
 John L'Heureux (geb. 1934), An Honorable Profession
 Alan Lightman (geb. 1948), Einstein's Dreams
 Joseph C. Lincoln (1870–1944), Rugged Water
 Elizabeth Linington (1921–1988), Knave of Hearts
 Elinor Lipman (geb. 1950), The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
 George Lippard (1822–1854), The Monks of Monk Hall
 Rosina Lippi (geb. 1956), Homestead
 Sam Lipsyte (geb. 1968), Home Land
 David Liss (geb. 1966), A Conspiracy of Paper
 Robert Littell (geb. 1935), The Amateur
 Ross Lockridge, Jr. (1914–1948), Raintree County
 Jack London (1876–1916), The Call of the Wild
 Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994), The Horror from the Hills
 Anita Loos (1893–1981), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
 Bret Lott (geb. 1958), Jewel
 Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937), At the Mountains of Madness
 Lois Lowry (geb. 1937), The Giver
 Robert Ludlum (1927–2001), The Bourne Identity
 Grace Lumpkin (1892–1980), To Make My Bread
 Alison Lurie (geb. 1926), Foreign Affairs
 Jay Lynch (geb. 1945), Otto's Orange Day
 Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902–1995), The Velvet Horn

M 

 John D. MacDonald (1916–1986), The Deep Blue Good-by
 Ross Macdonald (1915–1983), The Moving Target
 Harold MacGrath (1871–1932), The Man on the Box
 Norman Maclean (1902–1990), A River Runs Through It
 Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005), The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
 Gregory Maguire (geb. 1954), Wicked
 Norman Mailer (1923–2007), The Naked and the Dead
 Charles Major (1856–1913), When Knighthood Was in Flower
 Clarence Major (geb. 1936), Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
 Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), The Natural
 Michael Malone (geb. 1942), Uncivil Seasons
 Barry N. Malzberg (geb. 1939), Beyond Apollo
 Frederick Manfred (1912–1994), Lord Grizzly
 William March (1893–1954), The Bad Seed
 Margaret Maron (geb. 19??), Bootlegger's Daughter
 John P. Marquand (1893–1960), The Late George Apley
 Catherine Marshall (1914–1983), Christy
 Paule Marshall (geb. 1929), Brown Girl, Brownstones
 George R.R. Martin (geb. 1948), A Game of Thrones
 Valerie Martin (geb. 1948), Mary Reilly
 Carole Maso (geb. 1955), Defiance
 Bobbie Ann Mason (geb. 1940), In Country
 F. Van Wyck Mason (1901–1978), Three Harbours
 Richard Matheson (geb. 1926), I Am Legend
 Harry Mathews (geb. 1930), The Conversions
 Jack Matthews (geb. 1925), Hanger Stout, Awake!
 Peter Matthiessen (geb. 1927), At Play in the Fields of the Lord
 Armistead Maupin (geb. 1944), Tales of the City
 William Maxwell (1908–2000), Time Will Darken It
 Joyce Maynard (geb. 1953), To Die For
 Anne McCaffrey (geb. 1926), Dragonflight
 Robert R. McCammon (geb. 1952), Boy's Life
 Cormac McCarthy (geb. 1933), All the Pretty Horses
 Mary McCarthy (1912–1989), The Group
 Ed McClanahan (geb. 1932), Natural Man
 Horace McCoy (1897–1955), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 Elizabeth McCracken (geb. 1966), The Giant's House
 Sharyn McCrumb (geb. 1948), The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
 Carson McCullers (1917–1967), The heart is a lonely hunter
 George Barr McCutcheon (1866–1928), Brewster's Millions
 Alice McDermott (geb. 1953), Charming Billyca
 Gregory Mcdonald (geb. 1937), Fletch
 Joseph McElroy (geb. 1930), A Smuggler's Bible
 William McFee (1881–1966), Casuals of the Sea
 William P. McGivern (1918–1982), Blondes Die Young
 Thomas McGuane (geb. 1939), Nothing But Blue Skies
 Jay McInerney (geb. 1955), Bright Lights, Big City
 Richard McKenna (1913–1964), The Sand Pebbles
 Reginald McKnight (geb. 1956), He Sleeps
 James McManus (geb. 1951), Going to the Sun
 Terry McMillan (geb. 1951), Waiting to Exhale
 Larry McMurtry (geb. 1936), Lonesome Dove
 Stephen W. Meader (1892–1977), Boy with a Pack
 Herman Melville (1819–1891), Moby-Dick
 Gordon Merrick (1916–1988), The Lord Won't Mind
 Claire Messud (geb. 1966), When the World Was Steady
 Grace Metalious (1924–1964), Peyton Place
 Stephenie Meyer (geb. 1973), Twilight
 Leonard Michaels (1933–2003), The Men's Club
 James A. Michener (1907–1997), Tales of the South Pacific
 Caroline Miller (1903–1992), Lamb in His Bosom
 Henry Miller (1891–1980), Tropic of Cancer
 Rex Miller (1939–2004), Slob
 Sue Miller (geb. 1943), The Good Mother
 Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923–1996), A Canticle for Leibowitz
 Lydia Millet (geb. 1968), My Happy Life
 Steven Millhauser (geb. 1943), Martin Dressler
 Anchee Min (geb. 1957), Becoming Madame Mao
 Stephen Minot (geb. 1927), Surviving the Flood
 Susan Minot (geb. 1956), Evening
 Jacquelyn Mitchard (geb. 1955), The Deep End of the Ocean
 Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908), Dr. Johns
 Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), Gone with the Wind
 S. Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
 N. Scott Momaday (geb. 1934), House Made of Dawn
 Rick Moody (geb. 1961), The Ice Storm
 Christopher Moore (geb. 1957), Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
 Lorrie Moore (geb. 1957), Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
 Ruth Moore (1903–1989), Spoonhandle
 Susanna Moore (geb. 1947), In the Cut
 Ward Moore (1903–1978), Bring the Jubilee
 Robert Morgan (geb. 1944), Gap Creek
 Christopher Morley (1890–1957), Kitty Foyle
 Mary McGarry Morris (geb. 1943), Songs In Ordinary Time
 Wright Morris (1910–1998), Plains Song
 Toni Morrison (geb. 1931), Beloved
 Bradford Morrow (geb. 1951), Trinity Fields
 James Morrow (geb. 1947), Towing Jehovah
 Howard Frank Mosher (geb. 1943?), A Stranger in the Kingdom
 Walter Mosley (geb. 1952), Devil in a Blue Dress
 Dow Mossman (geb. 1944), The Stones of Summer
 Willard Motley (1912–1965), Knock on Any Door
 Bharati Mukherjee (geb. 1940), Jasmine
 Clarence E. Mulford (1883–1956), Hopalong Cassidy
 Marcia Muller (geb. 1944), Wolf in the Shadows
 Mary Noailles Murfree (1850–1922), The Amulet
 Sabina Murray (geb. 1968), A Carnivore's Inquiry
 John Myers Myers (1906–1988), Silverlock
 Anton Myrer (1922–1996), Once an Eagle

N 

 Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Lolita
 Robert Nathan (1894–1985), Portrait of Jennie
 Gloria Naylor (geb. 1950), The Women of Brewster Place
 John Neal (1793–1876), The Down-Easters
 Antonya Nelson (geb. 1961), Talking in Bed
 Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), The Homecoming Game
 Arthur Nersesian (geb. 1958), The Fuck-Up
 Katherine Neville (geb. 1945), The Eight
 Fae Myenne Ng (geb. 1956/7?), Bone
 John Nichols (geb. 1940), The Milagro Beanfield War
 Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), A Spy in the House of Love
 Larry Niven (geb. 1938), Ringworld
 Lewis Nordan (geb. 1939), The Sharpshooter Blues
 Charles Nordhoff (1887–1947), Mutiny on the Bounty (with James Norman Hall)
 Gurney Norman (geb. 1937), Divine Right's Trip
 Howard Norman (geb. 1949), The Bird Artist
 John Norman (geb. 1931), Tarnsman of Gor
 Charles Gilman Norris (1881–1945), Bricks Without Straw
 Frank Norris (1870–1902), McTeague
 Kathleen Norris (1880–1966), Second Hand Wife
 Harold Norse (geb. 1916), Beat Hotel
 Andre Norton (1912–2005), The Witch World
 Craig Nova (geb. 1945), The Good Son
 Josip Novakovich (geb. 1956), April Fool's Day

O 

 Joyce Carol Oates (geb. 1938), them
 Tim O'Brien (geb. 1946), Going After Cacciato
 Edwin O'Connor (1918–1968), The Last Hurrah
 Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), The Violent Bear It Away
 Chris Offutt (geb. 1958), The Good Brother
 Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (geb. 1952), onder pseudoniem Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm
 John O'Hara (1905–1970), Appointment in Samarra
 Robert Olmstead (geb. 1954), A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go
 Stewart O'Nan (geb. 1961), The Speed Queen
 Martha Ostenso (1900–1963), Wild Geese
 Janis Owens (geb. 1960), My Brother, Michael, Myra Sims, The Schooling of Claybird Catts, The Cracker Kitchen
 Cynthia Ozick (geb. 1928), The Puttermesser Papers

P 

 Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1952), On Newfound River
 Chuck Palahniuk (geb. 1962), Fight Club
 Edgar Panggeb. (1909–1976), Davy
 Alexei Panshin (geb. 1940), Rite of Passage
 Sara Paretsky (geb. 1947), Indemnity Only
 Jay Parini (geb. 1948), The Last Station
 Robert B. Parker (geb. 1932), Crimson Joy
 T. Jefferson Parker (geb. 1953), Laguna Heat
 Anne Parrish (1888–1957), The Perennial Bachelor
 Ann Patchett (geb. 1963), Bel Canto
 Richard North Patterson (geb. 1947), Eyes of a Child
 Elliot Paul (1891–1958), Concert Pitch
 Gary Paulsen (geb. 1939), Hatchet
 James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860), The Dutchman's Fireside
 Bill Pearson (geb. 1938), Drifter's Detour
 Ridley Pearson (geb. 1953), Undercurrents
 T. R. Pearson (geb. 1956), Blue Ridge
 Robert Newton Peck (geb. 1928), A Day No Pigs Would Die
 Janet Peery (geb. 195?), The River Beyond the World
 Don Pendleton (1927–1995), War Against the Mafia
 Walker Percy (1916–1990), The Moviegoer
 Frank E. Peretti (geb. 1951), This Present Darkness
 Julia Peterkin (1880–1961), Scarlet Sister Mary
 Ann Petry (1931–1997), The Narrows
 Arthur Phillips (geb. 1969), Prague
 David Graham Phillips (1867–1911), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
 Jayne Anne Phillips (geb. 1952), Machine Dreams
 Jodi Picoult (geb. 1966), The Pact
 Marge Piercy (geb. 1936), He, She And It
 Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824–1898), Ida May
 Darryl Pinckney (geb. 1953), High Cotton
 Josephine Pinckney (1895–1957), Three O'Clock Dinner
 H. Beam Piper (1904–1964), Little Fuzzy
 Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), The Bell Jar
 George Plimpton (1927–2003), The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
 Frederik Pohl (geb. 1919), Gateway
 Darryl Ponicsan (geb. 1938), The Last Detail
 Ernest Poole (1880–1950), His Family
 Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920), Pollyanna
 Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), Ship of Fools
 Charles Portis (geb. 1933), True Grit
 Melville Davisson Post (1871–1930), The Nameless Thing
 Chaim Potok (1929–2002), The Chosen
 Jerry Pournelle (geb. 1933), The Endless Frontier
 Dawn Powell (1896–1965), The Wicked Pavilion
 Padgett Powell (geb. 1952), Edisto
 Richard P. Powell (1908–1999), The Philadelphian
 J. F. Powers (1917–1999), Morte d'Urban
 Richard Powers (geb. 1957), The Gold Bug Variations
 Emily Prager (geb. 1952), Clea & Zeus Divorce
 Theodore Pratt (1901–1969), Mr. Limpet
 Eugenia Price (1916–1996), The Beloved Invader
 Reynolds Price (geb. 1933), Kate Vaiden
 Richard Price (geb. 1949), Freedomland
 Frederic Prokosch (1908–1989), The Seven Who Fled
 Bill Pronzini (geb. 1943), Hoodwink
 Francine Prose (geb. 1947), Blue Angel
 Annie Proulx (geb. 1935), The Shipping News
 Olive Higgins Prouty (1882–1974), Stella Dallas
 James Purdy (geb. 1923), Cabot Wright Begins
 Mario Puzo (1920–1999), The Godfather
 Thomas Pynchon (geb. 1937), Gravity's Rainbow

Q 

 Qiu Xiaolong (geb. 1953), Death of a Red Heroine
 Ellery Queen (Frederick Dannay (1905–1982) en Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971), The Greek Coffin Mystery
 John Herbert Quick (1861–1925), Vandemark's Folly
 Anna Quindlen (geb. 1953), Black and Blue
 Daniel Quinn (geb. 1935), Ishmael

R 

 Ayn Rand (1905–1982), The Fountainhead
 Alice Randall (geb. 1959), The Wind Done Gone
 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), The Yearling
 Wilson Rawls (1913–1984), Where the Red Fern Grows
 Chet Raymo (geb. 19??), The Dork of Cork
 John Rechy (geb. 1934), City of Night
 Jaclyn Reding (geb. 1966), The Secret Gift
 Ishmael Reed (geb. 1938), Mumbo Jumbo
 Arthur B. Reeve (1880–1936), Craig Kennedy Listens In
 Kathy Reichs (geb. 1950), Déjà Dead
 Thomas Mayne Reid (1818–1883), The Rifle Rangers
 Sheri Reynolds (geb. 1967), The Rapture of Canaan
 Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869–1934), Bransford in Arcadia
 Anne Rice (geb. 1941), Interview with the Vampire
 Craig Rice (1908–1957), The Corpse Steps Out
 Michelle Richmond, Het huwelijkspact
 Conrad Richter (1890–1968), The Town
 Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958), The Circular Staircase
 Harold Robbins (1916–1997), The Carpetbaggers
 Tom Robbins (geb. 1936), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
 Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881–1941), The Great Meadow
 Kenneth Roberts (1885–1957), Northwest Passage
 Nora Roberts (geb. 1950), Irish Thoroughbred
 Kim Stanley Robinson (geb. 1952), Red Mars
 Marilynne Robinson (geb. 1943), Housekeeping
 Mary Robison (geb. 1949), Why Did I Ever
 Lucia St. Clair Robson (geb. 1942), Ride the Wind
 Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888), Barriers Burned Away
 O. E. Rølvaag (1876–1931), Giants in the Earth
 Judith Rossner (1935–2005), Looking for Mr. Goodbar
 Leo Rosten (1908–1997), Captain Newman, M.D.
 Henry Roth (1906–1995), Call It Sleep
 Philip Roth (geb. 1933), Indignation
 Susanna Rowson (1762–1824), Charlotte Temple
 Robert Ruark (1915–1965), Uhuru
 Norman Rush (geb. 1933), Mating
 Rebecca Rush (1779–1850), Kelroy
 Joanna Russ (geb. 1937), The Female Man
 Mary Doria Russell (geb. 1950), The Sparrow
 Richard Russo (geb. 1949), Empire Falls
 Marah Ellis Ryan (1860–1934), Told in the Hills

S 

 J.D. Salinger (geb. 1919), The Catcher in the Rye
 James Sallis (geb. 1944), Long-Legged Fly
 James Salter (geb. 1925), A Sport and a Pastime
 Edgar Saltus (1855–1921), Mr.Incoul's Misadventure
 Lawrence Sanders (1920–1998), The Anderson Tapes
 John Sandford (geb. 1944), Rules of Prey
 Mari Sandoz (1896–1966), Slogum House
 George Santayana (1863–1952), The Last Puritan
 William Saroyan (1908–1981), The Human Comedy
 May Sarton (1912–1995), Faithful are the Wounds
 John Saul (geb. 1942), Suffer the Children
 George Saunders (geb. 1958), The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
 John Sayles (geb. 1950), Pride of the Bimbos
 Jack Schaefer (1907–1991), Shane
 Cathleen Schine (geb. 1953), Rameau's Niece
 Mark Schorer (1908–1977), A House Too Old
 Budd Schulberg (geb. 1914), What Makes Sammy Run?
 Lynne Sharon Schwartz (geb. 1939), Disturbances in the Field
 Sandra Scoppettone (geb. 1936), Suzuki Beane
 Evelyn Scott (1893–1963), A Calendar of Sin
 Joanna Scott (geb. 1960), The Manikin
 Allan Seager (1906–1968), Amos Berry
 Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916), The House of Egremont
 Alice Sebold (geb. 1963), The Lovely Bones
 Catharine Sedgwick (1789–1867), Hope Leslie
 Carolyn See (geb. 1934), Making History
 Erich Segal (geb. 1937), Love Story
 Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004), Last Exit to Brooklyn
 Anya Seton (1904–1990), Green Darkness
 Mary Lee Settle (1918–2005), Blood Tie
 Michael Shaara (1928–1988), The Killer Angels
 Laurence Shames (geb. 1951), Florida Straits
 Ntozake Shange (geb. 1948), Betsey Brown
 Akhil Sharma (geb. 1971), An Obedient Father
 Irwin Shaw (1913–1984), Rich Man, Poor Man
 Robert Shea (1933–1994), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (met Robert Anton Wilson)
 Wilfrid Sheed (geb. 1930), Square's Progress
 Sidney Sheldon (geb. 1917), The Naked Face
 Samuel Shellabarger (1888–1954), Captain from Castile
 Jim Shepard (geb. 1956), Lights Out in the Reptile House
 Carol Shields (1935–2003), The Stone Diaries
 Anita Shreve (geb. 1946), The Weight of Water
 Susan Richards Shreve (geb. 1939), A Country of Strangers
 Lionel Shriver (geb. 1957), We Need to Talk About Kevin
 Gary Shteyngart (geb. 1972), The Russian Debutante's Handbook
 Anne Rivers Siddons (geb. 1936), Peachtree Road
 Clancy Sigal (geb. 1926), Going Away
 Leslie Marmon Silko (geb. 1948), Ceremony
 Robert Silverberg (geb. 1935), A Time of Changes
 Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988), City
 Dan Simmons (geb. 1948), Hyperion
 William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), The Sword and the Distaff
 Mona Simpson (geb. 1957), Anywhere But Here
 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), The Jungle
 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902/1904 – 1991), Enemies, A Love Story
 Israel Joshua Singer (1893–1944), The Brothers Ashkenazi
 Jane Smiley (geb. 1949), A Thousand Acres
 Betty Smith (1896–1972), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
 E. E. Smith (1890–1965), First Lensman
 Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893), The Western Captive
 Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915), Colonel Carter of Cartersville
 H. Allen Smith (1907–1976), Rhubarb
 Lee Smith (geb. 1944), Fair and Tender Ladies
 Thorne Smith (1892–1934), Topper
 Zilpha Keatley Snyder (geb. 1927), The Headless Cupid
 Susan Sontag (1933–2004), In America
 Virginia Sorensen (1912–1991), On This Star
 Christopher Sorrentino (geb. 1963), Trance
 Gilbert Sorrentino (1929–2006), Mulligan Stew
 Gary Soto (geb. 1952), Buried Onions
 Terry Southern (1924–1995), The Magic Christian
 E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819–1899), The Hidden Hand
 W. M. Spackman (1905–1980), An Armful of Warm Girl
 Frank H. Spearman (1859–1937), Whispering Smith
 Scott Spencer (geb. 1945), Endless Love
 Mickey Spillane (1918–2006), I, the Jury
 Norman Spinrad (geb. 1940), The Iron Dream
 Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), Sir Rohan's Ghost
 David Derek Stacton (1925–1968), On a Balcony
 Jean Stafford (1915–1979), Boston Adventure
 Danielle Steel (geb. 1947), Family Album
 Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), Angle of Repose
 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
 John Steinbeck (1902–1968), The Grapes of Wrath
 Darcey Steinke (geb. 1964), Jesus Saves
 Ann Sophia Stephens (1810–1886), Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
 Neal Stephenson (geb. 1959), Snow Crash
 Bruce Sterling (geb. 1954), Islands in the Net
 Richard G. Stern (geb. 1928), Golk
 Steve Stern, The Angel of Forgetfulness
 George R. Stewart (1895–1980), Earth Abides
 Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943), The Crime of Henry Vane
 R.L. Stine (geb. 1943), Goosebumps
 Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902), Rudder Grange
 Mary Stolz (geb. 1920), The Edge of Next Year
 Grace Zaring Stone (1891–1991), The Bitter Tea of General Yen
 Irving Stone (1903–1989), The Agony and the Ecstasy
 Robert Stone (geb. 1937), Dog Soldiers
 Phil Stong (1899–1957), State Fair
 Rex Stout (1886–1975), Fer-de-Lance
 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin
 Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930), The Rover Boys At School
 Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924), A Girl of the Limberlost
 Peter Straub (geb. 1943), Ghost Story
 Darin Strauss (geb. 1970), The Real McCoy
 Edward Streeter (1891–1976), Father of the Bride
 T. S. Stribling (1881–1965), The Store
 Elizabeth Strout (geb. 1956), Amy and Isabelle
 Jesse Stuart (1906–1984), Taps for Private Tussie
 Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985), More Than Human
 William Styron (1925–2006), The Confessions of Nat Turner
 Ronald Sukenick (1932–2004), Up
 Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890–1970), Quality
 Jacqueline Susann (1918–1974), Valley of the Dolls
 Harvey Swados (1920–1972), Out Went the Candle
 Glendon Swarthout (1918–1992), The Shootist

T 

 Elizabeth Tallent (geb. 1954), Museum Pieces
 Amy Tan (geb. 1952), The Joy Luck Club
 Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), The Magnificent Ambersons
 Donna Tartt (geb. 1963), The Secret History
 Kathrine Taylor (1903–1996), Address Unknown
 Peter Taylor (1917–1994), A Summons to Memphis
 Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976), The Cape Cod Mystery
 Robert Lewis Taylor (1912–1998), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
 William Tenn (geb. 1920), Of Men and Monsters
 Mary Virginia Terhune (1830–1922), Alone
 Walter Tevis (1928–1984), The Hustler
 Paul Theroux (geb. 1941), The Mosquito Coast
 Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795–1868), The Green Mountain Boys
 Jim Thompson (1906–1977), The Killer Inside Me
 Maurice Thompson (1844–1901), Alice of Old Vincennes
 Melanie Rae Thon (geb. 1957), Meteors in August
 James Thurber (1894–1961), The 13 Clocks
 Wallace Thurman (1902–1934), The Blacker the Berry
 Ernest Tidyman (1928–1984), Shaft
 John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), A Confederacy of Dunces
 Jean Toomer (1894–1967), Cane
 Nick Tosches (geb. 1949), In the Hand of Dante
 Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905), A Fool's Errand
 Arthur Train (1875–1945), Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt
 Lawrence Treat (1903–1998), V as in Victim
 Trevanian (1931–2005), The Eiger Sanction
 Calvin Trillin (geb. 1935), Runestruck
 Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976), Johnny Got His Gun
 George Tucker (1775–1861), A Voyage to the Moon
 John R. Tunis (1889–1975), The Kid From Tomkinsville
 Scott Turow (geb. 1949), Presumed Innocent
 Harry Turtledove (geb. 1949), How Few Remain
 Mark Twain (1835–1910), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Anne Tyler (geb. 1941), The Accidental Tourist
 Royall Tyler (1757–1826), The Algerine Captive

U 

 Brady Udall (geb. 1971?), The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
 Dorothy Uhnak (1933–2006), The Bait
 Douglas Unger (geb. 1952), Leaving the Land
 John Updike (1932–2009), Rabbit, Run
 Leon Uris (1924–2003), Exodus

V 

 Andrew Vachss (geb. 1942), Flood
 Jack Vance (geb. 1916), Demon princes
 David Vann (geb. 1966), Legend of a suicide
 Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933), The Lone Wolf
 S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939), The Benson Murder Case
 John Varley (geb. 1947), The Ophiuchi Hotline
 Gore Vidal (geb. 1925), Burr
 Gerald Vizenor (geb. 1934), The Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart
 William T. Vollmann (geb. 1959), Europe Central
 Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), Slaughterhouse-Five

W 

 David Wagoner (geb. 1926), The Escape Artist
 Alice Walker (geb. 1944), The Color Purple
 Margaret Walker (1915–1998), Jubilee
 David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), Infinite Jest
 Irving Wallace (1916–1990), The Fan Club
 Lew Wallace (1827–1905), Ben-Hur
 Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962), The Tenants of Moonbloom
 Robert James Waller (geb. 1939), The Bridges of Madison County
 Douglass Wallop (1920–1985), The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
 Joseph Wambaugh (geb. 1937), The Choirboys
 Walter Wangerin, Jr. (geb. 1944), The Book of the Dun Cow
 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911), The Gates Ajar
 William Ware (1797–1852), Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra
 Catherine Anne Warfield (1816–1877), The Household of Bouverie
 Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900), The Gilded Age (met Mark Twain)
 Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), The Boxcar Children
 Susan Warner (1819–1895), The Wide, Wide World
 Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), All the King's Men
 Larry Watson (geb. 1947), Montana 1948
 Hillary Waugh (geb. 1920), Last Seen Wearing...
 Will Weaver (geb. 1950), Red Earth, White Earth
 Charles Webb (geb. 1939), The Graduate
 Katharine Weber (geb. 1955), Triangle
 Jean Webster (1876–1916), Daddy-Long-Legs
 Jerome Weidman (1913–1998), I Can Get It for You Wholesale
 James Welch (1940–2003), Fools Crow
 Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986), The Old Gods Waken
 Rebecca Wells (geb. 1952), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
 Eudora Welty (1909–2001), The Optimist's Daughter
 Glenway Wescott (1901–1987), The Grandmothers
 Dorothy West (1907–1998), The Living Is Easy
 Jessamyn West (1902–1984), The Massacre at Fall Creek
 Nathanael West (1903–1940), The Day of the Locust
 Paul West (geb. 1930), The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
 Donald E. Westlake (geb. 1933), God Save the Mark
 Edith Wharton (1862–1937), The Age of Innocence
 William Wharton (geb. 1925), Birdy
 E.B. White (1899–1985), Charlotte's Web
 Edmund White (geb. 1940), A Boy's Own Story
 Randy Wayne White (geb. 1950), Sanibel Flats
 Stewart Edward White (1873–1946), The Claim Jumpers
 Colson Whitehead (geb. 1969), The Intuitionist
 Brand Whitlock (1869–1934), The Turn of the Balance
 Phyllis A. Whitney (geb. 1903), The Mystery of the Haunted Pool
 Edward Whittemore (1933–1995), Sinai Tapestry
 John Edgar Wideman (geb. 1941), Philadelphia Fire
 Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Night
 Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
 Marianne Wiggins (geb. 1947), Evidence of Things Unseen
 Susan Wiggs (geb. 1958), Home Before Dark (boek)
 James Wilcox (geb. 1949), Modern Baptists
 Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), Little House on the Prairie
 Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), The Bridge of San Luis Rey
 Kate Wilhelm (geb. 1928), Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
 Christopher Willard (geb. 1960), Garbage Head
 Charles Willeford (1919–1988), Miami Blues
 Ben Ames Williams (1889–1953), House Divided
 John Williams (1922–1994), Stoner
 John A. Williams (geb. 1925), The Man Who Cried I Am
 Joy Williams (geb. 1944), State of Grace
 Philip Lee Williams (geb. 1950), "Elegies for the Water"
 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), A Streetcar Named Desire
 Thomas Williams (1926–1990), The Hair of Harold Roux
 Jack Williamson (geb. 1908), The Humanoid Touch
 Calder Willingham (1922–1995), End As a Man
 Connie Willis (geb. 1945), Doomsday Book
 Donald Windham (1920–2010), The Dog Star
 Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
 Harry Leon Wilson (1867–1919), Ruggles of Red Gap
 Margaret Wilson (1882–1973), The Able McLaughlins
 Robert Anton Wilson (geb. 1932), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (met Robert Shea)
 Sloan Wilson (1920–2003), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
 Mark Winegardner (geb. 1961), Crooked River Burning
 Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861), John Brent
 Owen Wister (1860–1938), The Virginian
 Larry Woiwode (geb. 1941), Beyond the Bedroom Wall
 Gene Wolfe (1931-2019), The Book of the New Sun
 Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), Look Homeward, Angel
 Tom Wolfe (1931-2018), The Bonfire of the Vanities
 Geoffrey Wolff (geb. 1937), Providence
 Tobias Wolff (geb. 1945), The Barracks Thief
 Hilma Wolitzer (geb. 1930), Silver
 Meg Wolitzer (geb. 1959), This Is Your Life
 Daniel Woodrell (geb. 1953), Give Us a Kiss
 Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842), The Champions of Freedom
 Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968), The Bride Wore Black
 Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), For the Major
 Herman Wouk (1915-2019), The Caine Mutiny
 Austin Tappan Wright (1883–1931), Islandia
 Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1917), Aliens
 Ernest Vincent Wright (1873? – 1939), Gadsby
 Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944), The Shepherd of the Hills
 Richard Wright (1908–1960), Native Son
 Stephen Wright (geb. 1946), The Amalgamation Polka

X 

 Xu Xi (geb. 1954), The Unwalled City

Y 

 Irvin D. Yalom (geb. 1931), When Nietzsche Wept
 Lois-Ann Yamanaka (geb. 1961), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
 Karen Tei Yamashita (geb. 1951), Through the Arc of the Rainforest
 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (geb. 1942), Hotel Transylvania
 Steve Yarbrough (geb. 1956), The Oxygen Man
 Richard Yates (1926–1992), Revolutionary Road
 Frank Yerby (1916–1991), Judas, My Brother
 Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880 – 1970), Bread Givers
 Rafael Yglesias (geb. 1954), Fearless
 Al Young (geb. 1939), Ask Me Now
 Stark Young (1881–1963), So Red the Rose

Z 

 Rafi Zabor (geb. 1946), The Bear Comes Home
 Roger Zelazny (1937–1995), Lord of Light
 Paul Edwin Zimmer (1943–1997), Dark Border series
 Paul Zindel (1936–2003), The Pigman
 Leane Zugsmith (1903–1969), All Victories Are Alike

Referenties 
 Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000)

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