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Robert Stone
Robert Stone (born August 21, 1937) is an American novelist. His work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. His novels include the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers (1974), and the PEN...
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931) is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia to Thomas Kennerly Wolfe,...
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
Banks lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is presently also Artist-in-Residence at the University of...
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Peter Taylor
Peter Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist.
Born to a wealthy Nashville family in Trenton, Tennessee, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his...
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion (also known as...
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the...
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Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist.
Tyler is the eldest of four children. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of...
Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. His writing has been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, who also were identified...
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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.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an Italian-American author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives near New York City.
DeLillo grew up in an Italian-American...
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B....
Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott (born 1960) is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the...
E. Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced /ˈpruː/; born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a...
William Maxwell
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Grace Paley
Grace Paley (December 11 1922 – August 22 2007) was an American short story writer, poet, and political activist.
Grace Paley was born as Grace Goodside in the Bronx; her Jewish parents, Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, had anglicized the family...
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the...
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (born May 22, 1927, in New York City) is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer as well as an environmental activist. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and history, as in his...
Richard Russo
Richard Russo (born July 15 1949 in Johnstown, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a Bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy...
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent.
Eugenides was a descendant of Greek and Irish immigrants. He attended Grosse...
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel,...
Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.
Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood, where his father was...
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She lives in New York and is Program Coordinator of the graduate Fiction-Writing...
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid (born 1971) is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke (2000) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007).
Hamid spent part of his childhood in the United States, where he stayed from the age of 3 to 9 while his father, a...
