Roy Andries de Groot
British-born American culinary writer and wine critic
20th-century american male writers
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic
Junot Diaz
Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
E. L. Doctorow
American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction
Ivan Doig
American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West
John Dos Passos
American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school
W. E. B. Du Bois
American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer