Authors from the United States.
See also American Literature.
Not to be confused with the band American Authors.
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A–D
- Daniel Abraham
- James Agee
- Ann Aguirre
- Maya Angelou
- K. A. Applegate
- Isaac Asimov
- Janet Asimov
- W. H. Audennote
- Paul Auster
- James Baldwin
- Leigh Bardugonote
- Sonny Barger
- Clive Barker
- Laird Barron
- Dave Barry
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- L. Frank Baum
- Elizabeth Bear
- Greg Bear
- Hilari Bell
- Saul Bellownote
- Ambrose Bierce
- Terry Bisson
- Holly Black
- James Blish
- Robert Bloch
- Francesca Lia Block
- Judy Blume
- Anthony Boucher
- Ben Bova
- Leigh Brackett
- Ray Bradbury
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Berkeley Breathed
- David Brin
- Pearl S. Buck
- Christopher Buckley
- Edward Bunker
- Alafair Burke
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Jim Butcher
- James M. Cain
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott Card
- Eric Carle
- John Dickson Carr
- Raymond Carver
- David Case
- Michael Chabon
- Soman Chainani
- Raymond Chandler
- John Cheever
- C. J. Cherryh
- Tom Clancy
- Mary Higgins Clark
- P. Djèlí Clark
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Beverly Cleary
- Ernest Cline
- Harlan Coben
- Rachel Cohn
- Suzanne Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Robin Cook
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Robert Coover
- James S. A. Corey
- Bruce Coville
- Michael Crichton
- E. E. Cummings
- Mark Z. Danielewski
- Paula Danziger
- Royce Day
- Ted Dekker
- Don DeLillo
- Susan Dennard
- Junot Diaz
- Philip K. Dick
- Emily Dickinson
- Matt Dinniman
- David Drake
E–K
- Ross Eberle
- David Eddings
- T. S. Eliot
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Harlan Ellison
- Ralph Ellison
- James Ellroy
- Allan Vaughan Elston
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Brian Evenson
- Nancy Farmer
- William Faulkner
- Gretchen Felker-Martin
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fannie Flagg
- Eric Flint
- Alan Dean Foster
- Jonathan Franzen
- Mark Frost
- Robert Frost
- William Gaddis
- Stefan Gagne
- Sarah Gailey
- Randall Garrett
- William H Gass
- Max Gladstone
- Shira Glassman
- Louise Glück
- William Goldman
- Michael Grant
- Claudia Gray
- John Green
- Martin H. Greenberg
- John Michael Greer
- Shannon Hale
- Dashiell Hammett
- Daniel Handler
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Thomas Harris
- Harry Harrison
- Rachel Hawkins
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Lillian Hellman
- Ernest Hemingway
- Zenna Henderson
- Kevin Henkes
- O. Henry
- Frank Herbert
- Tracy Hickman
- Patricia Highsmith
- Dietrich von Hildebrandnote
- Joe Hill
- Tony Hillerman
- S. E. Hinton
- Robin Hobb
- John Hodgman
- Holling C. Holling
- Lucy Hamilton Hooper
- Colleen Hoover
- James Byron Huggins
- Evan Hunter
- John Irving
- Washington Irving
- Shirley Jackson
- N. K. Jemisin
- Jerry B Jenkins
- James Jones
- William Joyce
- Julie Kagawa
- Charlie Kaufman
- Caroline Kepnes
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- Jack Ketchum
- Stephen King
- Jeff Kinney
- Russell Kirk
- Xalsier Kitsune
- Annette Curtis Klausenote
- TJ Klune
- Dean Koontz
- Cyril M. Kornbluth
- Henry Kuttner
L–R
- Mercedes Lackey
- Mur Lafferty
- Tim LaHaye
- Louis L'Amour
- Justine Larbalestiernote
- Victor LaValle
- Harper Lee
- Yoon Ha Lee
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Elmore Leonard
- Helen Lester
- Jonathan Lethem
- Ira Levin
- David Levithan
- Sinclair Lewis
- Thomas Ligotti
- Jane Lindskold
- Malinda Lo
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Robert Ludlum
- Elizabeth A Lynn
- Sarah J. Maas
- D. J. MacHale
- Norman Mailer
- Barry N. Malzberg
- David Markson
- Ann M. Martin
- Gail Z. Martin
- George R. R. Martin
- A. Lee Martinez
- Richard Matheson
- Julian May
- Mercer Mayer
- Robert R. McCammon
- Cormac McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- Jennette McCurdy
- Lurlene McDaniel
- Jack McDevitt
- Michael McDowell
- Joseph Mc Elroy
- Seanan McGuire
- Karen M. McManus
- Patrick McManus
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Richelle Mead
- Carlton Mellick III
- Brad Meltzer
- Herman Melville
- H. L. Mencken
- Marissa Meyer
- Stephenie Meyer
- James Michener
- Arthur Miller
- Margaret Mitchell
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- Toni Morrison
- Zack Morrison
- Hannah Moskowitz
- Walter Mosley
- Solomon Northup
- Andre Norton
- Naomi Novik
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor
- Eugene O'Neill
- Patrick Ness
- Tommy Orange
- Mark Oshiro
- Thomas Paine
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Christopher Paolini
- Jason Pargin
- Francine Pascal
- Katherine Paterson
- James Patterson
- S. J. Perelman
- Steve Perry
- C.T. Phipps
- Tamora Pierce
- Christopher Pike
- Dav Pilkey
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Bill Pronzini
- Thomas Pynchon
- Julia Quinn
- AC Ragland
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Mike Resnick
- Michael Rex
- Anne Rice
- Rick Riordan
- Nora Roberts
- Marilynne Robinson
- Joel Rosenberg
- Philip Roth
- Veronica Roth
- Matt Ruff
- Damon Runyon
S–Z
- Fred Saberhagen
- Louis Sachar
- Carl Sagan
- Lilith Saintcrow
- J. D. Salinger
- R.A. Salvatore
- Carl Sandburg
- Brandon Sanderson
- Robert J. Sawyernote
- Richard Scarry
- John Scalzi
- V. E. Schwab
- David Sedaris
- Andrew Seiple
- Maurice Sendak
- Dr. Seuss
- Anne Sexton
- Richard Sharpe Shaver
- Robert Shea
- Sidney Sheldon
- Jean Shepherd
- Neal Shusterman
- Shel Silverstein
- Carly Simon
- Neil Simon
- Aza Smith
- E. E. "Doc" Smith
- Seth Grahame Smith
- L. J. Smith
- Michael A. Stackpole
- Rebecca Stead
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- R. L. Stine
- S. M. Stirlingnote
- Rex Stout
- Matt Stover
- Peter Straub
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Amy Tan
- Donna Tartt
- Laini Taylor
- William Tenn
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Jim Thompson
- Henry David Thoreau
- James Thurber
- Paul Tremblay
- Harry Turtledove
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Ursula Vernon
- Gore Vidal
- Nghi Vo
- William T. Vollmann
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- David Foster Wallace
- Robert James Waller
- Anne B. Walsh
- Jesmyn Ward
- Desmond Warzel
- Jude Watson
- David Weber
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
- Andy Weir
- Margaret Weis
- Rosemary Wells
- Chuck Wendig
- Scott Westerfeld
- Donald Westlake
- E. B. White
- Walt Whitman
- Thornton Wilder
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Charles Willeford
- Mo Willems
- Tennessee Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- Meryl Wilsner
- F. Paul Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Gary K. Wolf
- Gene Wolfe
- Thomas Wolfe
- Tom Wolfe
- Cornell Woolrich
- Patricia C. Wrede
- John C. Wright
- Richard Wright
- Marguerite Young
- Timothy Zahn