Aaron Allston (Novelist)
Alex Haley (Novelist, 1921—1992)
Alison Lurie (Novelist, 1926)
Amelia Barr (Novelist)
Amy Tan (Novelist, 1952)
Ana Castillo (Novelist)
Anne Rice (Novelist, 1941)
Anne Tyler (Novelist, 1941)
Armistead Maupin (Novelist, 1944)
Arthur Herzog (Novelist)
Barbara Kingsolver (Novelist, 1955)
Barry Hannah (Novelist, 1942)
Bernard Malamud (Novelist, 1914—1986)
Betty Smith (Novelist, 1896—1972)
Booth Tarkington (Novelist, 1869—1946)
Bruce Jay Friedman (Novelist, 1930)
Caleb Carr (Novelist, 1955)
Carson McCullers (Novelist, 1917—1967)
Charles W. Chesnutt (Novelist, 1858—1932)
Chuck Palahniuk (Novelist, 1961)
Cynthia Ozick (Novelist, 1928)
Dalton Trumbo (Novelist, 1905—1976)
Daniel Mainwaring (Novelist, 1902—1977)
Danielle Steel (Novelist, 1947)
David Leavitt (Novelist, 1961)
Dee Brown (Novelist, 1908—2002)
Diane Johnson (Novelist, 1934)
Djuna Barnes (Novelist, 1892—1982)
Don DeLillo (Novelist, 1936)
Donna Tartt (Novelist, 1963)
Dorothy Gilman (Novelist, 1923)
Dorothy West (Novelist, 1907—1998)
Earl Derr Biggers (Novelist, 1884—1933)
Edmund White (Novelist, 1940)
Edna Ferber (Novelist, 1885—1968)
Edward Dahlberg (Novelist, 1900—1977)
Elaine Dundy (Novelist, 1921—2008)
Eleanor Porter (Novelist, 1868—1920)
Elie Wiesel (Novelist, 1928)
Ellen Glasgow (Novelist, 1874—1945)
Erica Jong (Novelist, 1942)
Erich Segal (Novelist, 1937)
Ernest Hemingway (Novelist, 1899—1961)
Ernest Poole (Novelist)
Faith Baldwin (Novelist, 1893)
Frank Norris (Novelist, 1870—1902)
Gail Godwin (Novelist, 1937)
George Barr McCutcheon (Novelist)
George V. Higgins (Novelist, 1939—1999)
George Washington Cable (Novelist, 1844—1925)

Gloria Naylor (Novelist, 1950)
Gore Vidal (Novelist, 1925)
Grace Metalious (Novelist, 1924—1964)
H. P. Lovecraft (Novelist, 1890—1937)
Hamlin Garland (Novelist, 1860—1940)
Harper Lee (Novelist, 1926)
Harry Crews (Novelist, 1935)
Henry Harland (Novelist, 1909—2005)
Herman Melville (Novelist, 1819—1891)
Herman Wouk (Novelist, 1915)
Ira Levin (Novelist, 1929)
Irwin Shaw (Novelist, 1913—1984)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Novelist, 1904—1991)
J. D. Salinger (Novelist, 1919)
J. F. Powers (Novelist, 1917—1999)
J. G. Holland (Novelist)
Jack Kerouac (Novelist, 1922—1969)
Jack London (Novelist, 1876—1916)
James A. Michener (Novelist, 1907—1997)
James Agee (Novelist, 1909—1955)
James Branch Cabell (Novelist, 1879—1958)
James Dickey (Novelist, 1923—1997)
James F. Cooper (Novelist, 1789)
James Gould Cozzens (Novelist, 1903)
James M. Cain (Novelist, 1892—1977)
James T. Farrell (Novelist, 1904—1979)
Jeffrey Eugenides (Novelist, 1960)
Jerry B. Jenkins (Novelist, 1949)
John Barth (Novelist, 1930)
John Dos Passos (Novelist, 1896—1970)
John Gardner (Novelist, 1933—1982)
John Hawkes (Novelist, 1925—1998)
John Irving (Novelist, 1942)
John Knowles (Novelist, 1926—2001)
John Phillips Marquand (Novelist, 1893—1960)
John Updike (Novelist, 1932—2009)
Jonathan Franzen (Novelist, 1959)
Joseph Heller (Novelist, 1923—1999)
Joseph Kirkland (Novelist)
Joyce Carol Oates (Novelist, 1938)
Judith Guest (Novelist, 1936)
Judith Krantz (Novelist, 1928)
Judith Rossner (Novelist, 1935—2005)
Julien Green (Novelist, 1900—1998)
Katherine Dunn (Novelist)
Leo Rosten (Novelist, 1908—1997)
Lillian Smith (Novelist)
Louis Auchincloss (Novelist, 1917)
Louisa May Alcott (Novelist, 1832—1888)
Madeleine L'Engle (Novelist, 1918—2007)