Bernard Bailyn
American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History
20th-century american male writers
Nicholson Baker
American novelist and essayist
James Baldwin
American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist
John Barth
American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
W. Jackson Bate
American literary critic and biographer
L. Frank Baum
American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels
Edward Albee
American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , A Delicate Balance , and Three Tall Women . Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd
Lloyd Alexander
American author of more than 40 books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults
Sherman Alexie
Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker
Isaac Asimov
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University