Liste amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Liste von in den USA geborenen bzw. zum größten Teil publizierten Schriftstellern.A
Edward Abbey (1927 ? 1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang
Walter Abish (* 1931) How German Is It
• Acker] (1947 ? 1997), Blood and Guts in High School
• Zeta Acosta] (1935 ? 1974)
• Adams] (1926 ? 1999), Beautiful Girl
Louis Adamic (1899-1951)
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
• Ade] (1866 ? 1944), The Slim Princess
• Adler] (* 1938), Speedboat
• Adler] (* 1927), The_War_of_the_Roses
James Agee (1909-1955)
• Agee] (* 1943), Strange Angels
• Aiken] (1889 ? 1973), Blue Voyage
Edward Albee (* 1928)
• May Alcott] (1832 ? 1888), Little Women
William Livingston Alden (1837-1908)
• Bailey Aldrich] (1836 ? 1907), Prudence Palfrey
Lloyd Alexander (* 1924)
• Alexie] (* 1966), Reservation Blues
• Alger], Jr. (1832 ? 1899), Ragged Dick
• Algren] (1909 ? 1981), The Man With the Golden Arm
• Allen] (* 1950)
• Allen] (* 1948), Mustang_Sally
• Allen] (1889 ? 1949), Anthony Adverse
• Gunn Allen] (1939
• Allison] (* 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina
William Allegrezza (* 1974)
• Alther] (* 1944), Kinflicks
• Alexander Altsheler] (1862 ? 1919), The Young Trailers
• Alvarez] (* 1950), David_Ambrose_(*_1945)
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David Ambrose (* 1945)
• R(andolph Ammons] (1926)
• Anaya] (born 1937), [[Bless Me, Ultima
• Anderson] (1926 ? 2001), Tau Zero
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Bruce Andrews (* 1948) (Englisch/'>:en:Bruce Andrews/'>Englisch)
• C. Andrews|V. C. Andrews] (1923 ? 1986), Appel] (1907 ? 1979), Brain Guy
• Apple] (* 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
• Simpson Arnow/'>Harriette Arnow] (1908 ? 1986), John Ashbery (* 1927) (Englisch)
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• Askew] (* 1951), The_Mercy_Seat
• Asprin] (* 1946), Another Fine Myth
• Atherton] (1857 ? 1948), The Conqueror
• Attaway] (1911 ? 1986), Blood on the Forge
• Atwater-Rhodes] (born 1984), In the Forests of the Night
• Auchincloss] (* 1917), The Rector of Justin
• M. Auel] (* 1936), The Clan of the Cave Bear
• Auster] (* 1947), The_New_York_Trilogy
• Austin] (1868 ? 1934), Isidro
B
David Baldacci (* 1960)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Amiri Baraka (* 1934)
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
Nevada Barr, Krimiautorin
John Barth
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
Frederick Barthelme (* 1943)
Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Peter Soyer Beagle
Greg Bear
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893-1973)
Julie Bell (* 1958)
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Peter Benchley (1940-2006)
William Rose Benét (1886-1950)
Charles Bernstein
John Berryman
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Michael Bishop (1945) SF
William Peter Blatty (1928)
Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919)
Nelson Slade Bond (1908-2006) SF- und Fantasy
James Bovard
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) NO/US
T. C. Boyle (* 1948)
Ray Bradbury (* 1920)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)
Lily Brett (* 1946)
Poppy Z. Brite (* 1967)
Gerald Brom (*1965)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Dan Brown (* 1964)
Harry Brown (1917-1986)
Charles Brockden Brown
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
Frederick Busch (1941-2006)
C
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Stephen L. Carter (* 1954)
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon (* 1963)
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981)
John Cheever (1912-1982)
Ted Chiang (* 1967) Science-Fiction
Christina Chiu, Troublemaker and Other Saints
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Lucille Clifton
Mark Clifton (1906-1963) SF
Richard Oliver Collin
Billy Collins
Larry Collins (1929-2005)
Michael Connelly (* 1956)
Stephen Coonts (* 1946)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Gregory Corso (1930-2001)
Jayne Cortez (* 1936)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
Deborah Crombie (* 1952), Krimiautorin
Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) Abenteuerschriftsteller,
Clive Cussler (* 1931)
D
Mark Z. Danielewski (* 1966)
Don DeLillo (* 1936)
Nelson DeMille (*1943-)
Jeffery Deaver (* 1950-)
Bradley Denton, (1958) (SF)
James Dickey (1923-1997)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Diane Di Prima
Irene Dische (* 1952)
E. L. Doctorow (* 1931)
J. P. Donleavy
Ed Dorn (1929-1999)
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Rita Dove (* 1952)
Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
Theodore Dreiser (1897-1945)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003)
Charles H. Dyer
E
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)
Tristan Egolf (1971-2005)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Bret Easton Ellis (* 1964)
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
James Ellroy (* 1948)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Jeffrey Eugenides (* 1960)
F
Richard Fariña (1937-1966)
Walter Farley (1915-1989)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (* 1919)
Vardis Fisher (1895-1968)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Jonathan Safran Foer (* 1977)
Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
Justus_Miles_Forman (1875-1915)
Paula Fox (* 1923)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Jonathan Franzen (* 1959)
Marilyn French (* 1929)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Jacques_Heath_Futrelle (1875-1912)
G
William Gaddis (1922-1998)
Paul Gallico (1897-1976)
Randall Garrett (1927-1987) SF- und Fantasy
Elizabeth George (*1949)
Tess Gerritsen
Ellen Gilchrist (*1935)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
Joey Goebel, (*1980)
John Grisham, (*1955)
Winston Groom, (* 1944)
Albert Ramsdell Gurney (1930) Dramatiker, Autor.
David Guterson (*1956)
Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
H
Jessica Hagedorn (*1949)
Kimiko Hahn (*1955)
Barbara Hambly (*1951)
Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002)
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
Susan Harris (* 1940)
Harry Harrison (*1925) Science-Fiction
Carla Harryman
Alamgir Hashmi
Ethan Hawke (* 1970)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Robert Hayden
Elizabeth Haydon (1965) Fantasy
H. D. (1886-1961)
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) Science-Fiction
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
O. Henry (1862-1910)
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) Science-Fiction + Fantasy
Christopher Heyn
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995)
Tami Hoag (* 1959), Liebesroman- und Kriminalautor
Edward D. Hoch (* 1930) Krimiautor
Sheri Holman (* 1966)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894)
Michael Hoeye (* 1947) Kinderbuchautor
Richard Hoyt (*1941)
Elbert_Green_Hubbard (1856-1915)
L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Richard Hugo
David Henry Hwang (*1957)
I
John Irving (* 1942)
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Greg Iles (* 1960)
J
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889-1967) USA, D
Henry James (1843-1916)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
Robinson Jeffers (? 1962)
Gish Jen (*1956)
Ha Jin (* 1956)
Charles Richard Johnson (* 1948)
Denis Johnson (* 1949)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Edward P. Jones (* 1950)
James Jones (1921-1977)
Erica Jong (* 1942)
K
Brian Keene (* 1967) Horror
George F. Kennan (1904-2005)
Ken Kesey (* 1935)
Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) (1946). Horror
Yusef Komunyakaa (* 1948)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Stephen King (1947)
Etheridge Knight
Dean Koontz (* 1945)
William Kotzwinkle (* 1943)
Paul Krugman (* 1953)
Benjamin Kunkel (* 1973)
Michael Kurland (* 1938) SF, Fantasy und Detektivgeschichten
Joanne Kyger (* 1934)
L
Margaret Landon (1903-1993)
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964 Nellie Walker, Nellye Larson, Nellie Larsen)
Robert Lax (1915-2000)
Munro Leaf (1905-1976)
Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
Chang-Rae Lee (* 1965)
Donna Leon (* 1942)
JT LeRoy (* 1980 laut erfundener Vita) alias Savannah Knoop bzw. Laura Albert
John T. Lescroart
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Philip Levine
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Jonathan Littell (1967)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944)
Audre Lorde (* 1934)
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Ron Loewinsohn
Alison Lurie (* 1926)
M
Norman Mailer (* 1923)
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
Barry N. Malzberg (*1939) SF/Fantasy
David Markson (* 1927)
Sujata Massey (1964) Krimiautorin.
Armistead Maupin (* 1944)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
Cormac McCarthy
Claude McKay
Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
Patricia A. McKillip (* 1948)
Larry McMurtry (* 1936)
Charles L. Mee (* 1938
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Stuart Merrill (1863-1915)
Abraham Merritt (1884-1943)
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
W._S._Merwin (1927)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)
Steven Millhauser (* 1943)
Andrea Mitchell (* 1946)
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
N. Scott Momaday (* 1934)
Rick Moody (* 1961)
Michael Moore (* 1954)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Toni Morrison (* 1931)
James Morrow (* 1947) SF
Marcia Muller (* 1944) Krimiautorin
Pat Murphy (* 1955) SF/Fantasy
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
John J. Nance
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Lorine Niedecker (1903[?]-1970)
Howard Nemerov
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Naomi Shihab Nye (* 1952)
O
Joyce Carol Oates (* 1938)
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
Andrew J. Offutt (* 1934)
Scott O'Dell (1902-1989)
John O'Hara (1905-1970)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
George Oppen (1908-1984)
P
Chuck Palahniuk (* 1962)
Christopher Paolini, (* 1983)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Robert B. Parker (* 1932)
Katherine Paterson (* 1932)
Walker Percy (1916-1990)
Frank Peretti (* 1951)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Tamora Pierce
Marge Piercy (* 1936)
Kathrene Pinkerton (1887-1967)
Robert Pinsky
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Richard Powers (* 1957)
James Purdy
Mario Puzo (1920-1999)
Thomas Pynchon (* 1937)
Q
David Quammen (*1948)
R
Carl Rakosi (* 1903)
Melanie Rawn (* 1954)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Tom Reamy, (1935-1977), SF
John Rechy
Henry Reed (1914-1986)
Ishmael Reed
John Reed (1887-1920)
Kenneth Rexroth
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
Adrienne Rich
Lola Ridge (1873-1941)
Frank Riley (1915-1996) SF, Frank Rhylick.
Harold Robbins (1916-1997)
Tom Robbins (* 1936)
Jennifer Roberson (*1953)
Nora Roberts
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
James Rollins
Franklin Rosemont
Henry Roth
Philip Roth (* 1933)
Matt Ruff (* 1966)
Michael Ruppert (1951)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (*1960)
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926)
Richard Russo (* 1949)
S
Jerome David Salinger (* 1919)
James Salter (* 1926)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
William Saroyan (1908-1981)
Murray Schisgal (1926), Drehbuchautor und Dramatiker.
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
Carolyn See
Hubert Selby (1928-2004)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Ntozake Shange (* 1948)
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)
Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)
Lucius Shepard (* 1947) SF
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
Myra Sklarew
Henry Slesar (1927-2002)
Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), Reiseschriftsteller
Vern Sneider (1916-1981)
Gary Snyder
Marc Spitz (* 1969)
William Stafford
Jason Starr (* 1968)
Danielle Steel (1947)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Gerald Stern
Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
R. L. Stine (* 1943) Kinder- und Jugendbuchautor.
Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) Humorist
Mark Strand
Craig Strete (* 1950)
Manil Suri (* 1959)
May Swenson
T
Donna Tartt
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Dichterin
Walter Stone Tevis (1928-1984)
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
Paul Theroux (* 1941)
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975)
Monique Truong (* 1968)
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871)
Scott Turow (* 1949)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
U
John Updike (* 1932)
V
Jack Vance (* 1916)
Janine Pommy Vega
Gore Vidal (* 1925)
Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
Cynthia Voigt (* 1942), Jugendbuchautorin
Kurt Vonnegut (* 1922)
W
Diane Wakoski
Alice Walker (* 1944)
David Foster Wallace (* 1962)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Jean Webster (Alice Jane Chandler Webster; 1876-1916)
Stanley G. Weinbaum, (1902-1935)Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller.
Eudora Welty
K. D. Wentworth (*1951), SF-Autorin.
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Ruth_Weiss, (1928)
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886)
Edmund White (* 1940)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
Richard Wilbur
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
Kate Wilhelm (1928) (SF)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Owen Wister (1860-1938)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
Tom Wolfe (* 1931)
Ira Wolfert (1908-1997)
Jack Womack (1956)
Herman Wouk (* 1915)
Ernest Vincent Wright (ca. 1873-1939)
Richard Wright (Schriftsteller) (1908-1960)
Y
John Yau (* 1950)
Jerry Yulsman
Z
Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
Siehe auch
Schriftsteller (international)
*Liste englischsprachiger Schriftsteller
*Liste kanadischer Schriftsteller
Liste von Dichtern (international)
Liste der Biographien (international)
