Jack Vance
American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer
20th-century american male writers
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement
James Thurber
American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit
John Kennedy Toole
American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism
George W. S. Trow
American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic
William Styron
American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films