List of American novelists

This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each.

This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. The writers on the current list fall into one or more of the following categories:

  1. All American novelists who have articles in Wikipedia should be on this list, and even if they do not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed until the article itself is removed.
  2. Winner of a major literary prize, even if the winning work was a story collection rather than a novel: The Pulitzer Prize, The PEN American Center Book Awards, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Prize, and some others. (Note: The only Pulitzer winner for Fiction not on the list is James Alan McPherson, who has never published a novel.)
  3. Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards.
  4. A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history.
  5. Had several massive bestsellers, or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example).
  6. A leading figure—especially award-winning, and with crossover appeal to mainstream readers, reviewers, and scholars—in a major genre or subcategory of fiction: Romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, young adult fiction, regional or "local color" fiction, proletarian fiction, etc.

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I
  • David Ignatius (born 1950),
  • Greg Iles (born 1960), The Quiet Game
  • Bravig Imbs (1904–1944), The Professor's Wife
  • Gary Indiana (born 1950), Resentment
  • Rachel Ingalls (1940–2019), Mrs. Caliban
  • William Inge (1913–1973), Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
  • Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809–1860), Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
  • Prentiss Ingraham (1843–1904), The Masked Spy
  • Robert Inman (1931–2006)
  • Lee Irby (born 1963), The Up and Up
  • Clifford Irving (1930–2017)
  • John Irving (born 1942), The World According to Garp
  • Susan Isaacs (born 1943), Compromising Positions
  • Lynn Isenberg, My Life Undercover
  • Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), Goodbye to Berlin
  • Arturo Islas (1938–1991), The Rain God
  • Alan Isler (1934–2010)

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  • Brady Udall (born c. 1971), The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
  • Dorothy Uhnak (1933–2006), The Bait
  • James Michael Ullman (1925–1997), The Neon Haystack
  • James Ramsey Ullman (1907–1971)
  • Douglas Unger (born 1952), Leaving the Land
  • John Updike (1932–2009), Rabbit, Run
  • Leon Uris (1924–2003), Exodus
  • Luís Alberto Urrea (born 1955), In Search of Snow
  • Lois Utz (1932–1986)

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X
  • Xu Xi (born 1954), The Unwalled City

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Z
  • Rafi Zabor (born 1946), The Bear Comes Home
  • Roger Zelazny (1937–1995), Lord of Light
  • Paul Zindel (1936–2003), The Pigman
  • Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper
  • Leane Zugsmith (1903–1969), All Victories Are Alike

See also

References
  • Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000)
Specific
  1. "Drawbridge Press: Publisher of Jonathan Bayliss". Drawbridge Press.
  2. "Ann Fairbairn, Author, Was 70". The New York Times. February 11, 1972. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
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